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Volume 47 - October 1997

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Polymorphous Homer - G. Nagy: Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond. Pp. x + 254. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. £35; $54.95 (Paper, £12.95; $18.95). ISBN: 0-521-55135-8 (0-521-55848-4).

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Signs and Wonders - A. S. Becker: The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis. Pp. xii + 191. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. Cased, $52.50. Paper, $21.95. ISBN: 0-8476-7997-7 (0-8476-7998-5).

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The Rhetoric of the Odyssey - F. Ahl, H. M. Roisman: The Odyssey Re-Formed. Pp. x + 341. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1996. £39 (Paper, £15.50). ISBN: 0-8014-3221-9 (0-8014-83352 pbk).

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Iliad 9 - J. Griffin: Homer. Iliad Book Nine. Pp. vii+152. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Cased, £25. Paper, £8.99. ISBN: 0-19-814078-9.

The Ages of Homer - J. B. Carter, S. P. Morris (edd.): The Ages of Homer. A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule. Pp. xx + 542; 210 plates, 64 drawings, 1 map. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. $40. ISBN: 0-292-71169-7.

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Women and the Odyssey - L. E. Doherty: Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey. Pp. ix + 220. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995. $37.50. ISBN: 0-472-10597-3.

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Odyssean Essays - S. L. Schein (ed.): Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays. Pp. xii + 278. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. $49; £37.50 (Paper: $17.95; £13.95). ISBN: 0-691-04440-6 (0-691-04439-2 pbk).

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Supplication - K. Crotty: The Poetics of Supplication: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. (Myth and Poetics.) Pp. xiii + 240. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Cased, £29.95.

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Sophocles' Electra - F. M. Dunn (ed.): Sophocles' “Electra” in Performance. (Drama: Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, 4.) Pp. 170. Stuttgart: M & P Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1996. Paper, DM 45. ISBN: 3-476-45146-1.

Segal's Sophocles - C. Segal: Sophocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society. Pp. xii + 276. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. £25. ISBN: 0-674-82100-9.

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Novissima Verba - A. B. Lord, M. L. Lord (ed.): The Singer Resumes the Tale. (Myth and Poetics.) Pp. xiii + 258. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Cased, £31.50. ISBN: 0-8014-3103-4.

Lovesickness - M. S. Cyrino: In Pandora's Jar Lovesickness in Early Greek Poetry. Pp. ix + 197. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995. Cased, $39.50. ISBN: 0-8191-9752-1.

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The Bacchae - R. Seaford: Euripides: Bacchae: with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary (Classical Texts). Pp. xii + 270. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996. £35; $49.95 (Paper, £14.95; $24.95). ISBN: 0-85668-608-5 (0-85668-609-3 pbk).

Aristophanic Allegory - M. Vickers: Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays. Pp. xxxiv + 255. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Cased. ISBN: 0-292-78727-8.

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The Pythian Odes - B. Gentili, P. A. Bernardini, E. Cingano, P. Giannini (edd.): Pindaro: Le Pitiche. (Scrittori Greci e Latini.) Pp. cxx + 714, ills. Verona: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, 1995. L. 48,000. ISBN: 88-04-39143-X.

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Beyond Old Comedy - G. W. Dobrov (ed.): Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy. (American Philological Association: American Classical Studies, 38.) Pp. xvi + 209. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1995. ISBN: 0-7885-0139-9 (0-7885-0140-2 pbk).

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The City in Tragedy - W. F. Zak: The Polis and the Divine Order. The Oresteia, Sophocles and the Defense of Democracy. Pp. 320. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press (London: Associated University Presses), 1995. £34.50. ISBN: 0-8387-5275-6.

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The Ancient Theatre - E. Pöhlmann (ed.): Studien zur Bühnendichtung undzum Theaterbau der Antike. (Studien zur klassischen Philologie, 93.) Pp. 264, ills. New York etc.: Peter Lang, 1995. Paper, £40. ISBN: 3-631-48577-8.

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The Date of the PV - R. Bees: Zur Datierung des Prometheus Desmotes. (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 38.) Pp. xii + 315. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner, 1993. Cased, DM 98. ISBN: 3-519-07487-7.

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