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Volume 87 - November 1997

III. The Empire

Reviews

Suetonius, De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus. ed., trans and comm. R. A. Kaster. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. lx + 370. ISBN 0-19-814091-6. £45.00.

N. Shumate, Crisis and Conversion in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. 357. ISBN 0-472-10599-X. £31.50/US$42.50.

R. P. Symonds, Rhenish Wares: Fine Dark Coloured Pottery from Gaul and Germany (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 23). Oxford: Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1992. Pp. 121, 52 pls, 53 figs, ISBN 0-947816-23-2. £28.00.

IV. The Late Empire

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H.-U. Wiemer, Libanios und Julian: Studien zum Verhältnis von Rhetorik und Politik im vierten Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Vestigia 46). Munich: Beck, 1995. Pp. xii + 408. ISBN 3-406-39335-7. DM 168.

F. J. Wiebe, Kaiser Valens und die heidnische Opposition (Antiquitas, Abhandlungen zur alten Geschichte 44). Bonn: Habelt, 1995. Pp. xii + 407. ISBN 3-7749-2678-6. DM 130.

J. A. S. Evans, The Age of Justinian: the Circumstances of Imperial Power. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp. x + 345, 2 maps, ISBN 0-4150-2209-6. £45.00. - B. Rubin, Das Zeitalter Iustinians. Zweiter Band. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1995. Pp. x + 315, 12 pls, illus. ISBN 3-1100-3411-5. DM 198.

R. W. Burgess (ed. and trans.), The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana: two Contemporary Accounts of the Final Years of the Roman Empire. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 270, 2 illus. ISBN 0-19-814787-2. £45.00/US$65.00.

N. Christie and S. T. Loseby (eds), Towns in Transition. Urban Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 318, numerous illus. ISBN 1-85928-107-9. £45.00.

P. Reynolds, Trade in the Western Mediterranean, AD 400–700: The Ceramic Evidence (British Archaeological Reports Int. Ser. 604). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1995. Pp. 452, 174 figs, ISBN 0-86054-782-5. £45.00.

A. Poulter, Nicopolis ad Istrum: a Roman, Late Roman and Early Byzantine City. Excavations 1985–1992 (Journal of Roman Studies Monograph 8). London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1995. Pp. xxvii + 331, 45 pls, 118 figs, ISBN 0-907764-20-7. £42.00.

S. Mitchell, Cremna in Pisidia, an Ancient City in Peace and in War. London: Duckworth, 1995. Pp. xv + 239, 124 pls, 59 figs, ISBN 0-7156-2696-5. £48.00.

A. Arjava, Women and Law in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xi + 304. ISBN 0-1981-5033-4. £35.00.

W. H. C. Frend, The Archaeology of Early Christianity: a History. London: Chapman, 1996. Pp. xix + 412, 26 pls, 8 maps, 3 plans, ISBN 0-8006-2811-X. £39.50.

J. N. D. Kelly, Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom—Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop. London: Duckworth, 1995. Pp. x + 310. ISBN 0-7156-2643-4. £35.00.

I. Shahîd, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1995. 2 vols. Pp. xxx + 1,049, numerous illus. ISBN 0-8840-2214-5. US$75.00.

G. Ausenda (ed.), After Empire. Towards an Ethnology of Europe's Barbarians. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1995. Pp. vi + 317, illus. ISBN 0-8511-5634-7. £39.50.

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Volume 87 - November 1997

III. The Empire

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IV. The Late Empire

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Proceedings of the Society

Index of Reviewers