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Volume 59 - Issue 2 - October 2009

Book Reviews

Apollo - (F.) Graf Apollo. Pp. xviii + 190, ills. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2009. Paper, £16.99 (Cased, £65). ISBN: 978-0-415-31711-5 (978-0-415-31710-8 hbk).

Aphrodite - (G.) Pironti Entre ciel et guerre. Figures d'Aphrodite en Grèce ancienne. (Kernos Supplément 18.) Pp. 336. Liège: Centre International d'Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique, 2007. Paper, €40. ISBN: 978-2-9600717-1-9.

Bremmer's Selected Essays - (J.N.) Bremmer Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East. (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 8.) Pp. xviii + 424. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. Cased, €99, US$148. ISBN: 978-90-04-16473-4.

Myths of Lemnos - (V.) Masciadri Eine Insel im Meer der Geschichten. Untersuchungen zu Mythen aus Lemnos. (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 18.) Pp. 412, maps. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. Paper, €68. ISBN: 978-3-515-08818-3.

The Polis - (K.) Vlassopoulos Unthinking the Greek Polis. Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism. Pp. xiv + 288. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Cased, £55, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-521-87744-2.

The ‘Boeotian League’ - (S.L.) Larson Tales of Epic Ancestry. Boiotian Collective Identity in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Periods. (Historia Einzelschriften 197.) Pp. 238. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Paper, €54. ISBN: 978-3-515-09028-5.

Demagogues - (C.) Mann Die Demagogen und das Volk. Zur politischen Kommunikation im Athen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Klio Beihefte, Neue Folge, 13.) Pp. 347. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2007. Cased, €59.80. ISBN: 978-3-05-004351-7.

The Long Walls of Athens - (D.H.) Conwell Connecting a City to the Sea. The History of the Athenian Long Walls. (Mnemosyne Supplementum 293.) Pp. xiv + 267, ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. Cased, €99, US$148. ISBN: 978-90-04-16232-7.

Democracy and Knowledge - (J.) Ober Democracy and Knowledge. Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens. Pp. xx + 342. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Paper, £17.95, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-13347-8.

Interstate Relations - (A.) Giovannini Les Relations entre États dans la Grèce antique du temps d'Homère à l'intervention romaine (ca. 700–200 av. J.-C.) (Historia Einzelschriften 193.) Pp. 445. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Paper, €74. ISBN: 978-3-515-08953-1.

Some Ideologies - (N.) Morley Antiquity and Modernity. Pp. xvi + 182. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2009. Cased, £40, €54. ISBN: 978-1-4051-3139-1.

Greek Medicine - (J.) Pigeaud Poétiques du corps. Aux origines de la médecine. (L'Âne d'or 28.) Pp. xii + 704. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008. Paper, €40. ISBN: 978-2-251-42032-5.

Religion in the Household - (J.) Bodel, (S.M.) Olyan (edd.) Household and Family Religion in Antiquity. Pp. xviii + 324, ills, map. Malden, MA, Oxford and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Cased, £55, €74.30. ISBN: 978-1-4051-7579-1.

Greek Divination - (S.I.) Johnston Ancient Greek Divination. Pp. xiv + 193, ills, map. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. Paper, £16.99, €23 (Cased, £50, €67.50). ISBN: 978-1-4051-1573-5 (978-1-4051-1572-8 hbk).

Seers - (M.A.) Flower The Seer in Ancient Greece. Pp. xviii + 306, ills. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2008. Cased, £23.95, US$39.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-25229-5.

The Hellenistic World - (R.M.) Errington A History of the Hellenistic World 323–30 BC. Pp. xx + 348, ills, maps. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Paper, £19.99, €27 (Cased, £55, €74.30). ISBN: 978-0-631-23388-6 (978-0-631-23387-9 hbk).

Judaism and Hellenism - (T.) Rajak, (S.) Pearce, (J.) Aitken, (J.) Dines (edd.) Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers. (Hellenistic Culture and Society 50.) Pp. xiv + 363. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2007. Cased, £29.95, US$49.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-25084-0.

Black Sea Studies - (V.) Gabrielsen, (J.) Lund (edd.) The Black Sea in Antiquity. Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges. (Black Sea Studies 6.) Pp. 396, ills, maps. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2007. Cased, £24.90, €53.95. ISBN: 978-87-7934-266-8.

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