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Volume 47 - Issue 2 - October 1997

Book Review

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).

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

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.

The Aetia I & II - G. Massimilla: Callimaco: Aitia: Libri Primo e Secondo: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. (Biblioteca di Studi Antichi, 77.) Pp. 502. Pisa: Giardini, 1996. Paper. ISBN: 88-427-0013-4.

On Greeks on their Poetry - G. Arrighetti (ed.): Poesia greca. (Ricerche di Filologia Classica, 4.) Pp. 279. Pisa: Giardini, 1995. Paper. ISBN: 88-427-0255-2.

The Loeb Hippocrates - P. Potter (ed., tr.): Hippocrates: Volume VIII. (Loeb Classical Library 482.) Pp. 418. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1995. Cased, £11.95. ISBN: 0-674-99531-7.

Greek Medical Texts - A. Garzya, J. Jouanna (edd.): Storia e ecdotica dei testi medici greci. Atti del II Convegno Internazionale, Parigi 24–26 maggio 1994. (Collectanea. Collana di Atti e Miscellanee, 10.) Pp. 467. Naples: M. D'Auria, 1996. Cased. ISBN: 88-7092-122-0.

In and out of Thucydides - G. Crane: The Blinded Eye: Thucydides and the New Written Word (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches). Pp. xiv + 289. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. $57.50 (Paper, $22.95). ISBN: 0-8476-8129-7 (0-8476-8130-0 pbk).

The Text of Thucydides - K. Maurer: Interpolation in Thucydides. (Mnemosyne Supplement 150.) Pp. xxiv + 243. Leiden, New York, and Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1995. Ngl. 130, $74.50. ISBN: 90-04-10300-7.

Odium Thucydideum - W. Kendrick Pritchett: Thucydides' Pentekontaetia and Other Essays. (Archaia Hellas: Monographs on Ancient Greek History and Archaeology, 1.) Pp. vii + 279. Amsterdam: Gieben, 1995. Hfl. 90. ISBN: 90-5063-487-7.

Politicus - J. Annas, R. Waterfield (edd., tr.): Plato, Statesman (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought). Pp. xxix + 89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Cased, Paper. ISBN: 0-521-44262-1 (0-521-4478-X pbk).

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