New Books 2011-13

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New Books and Journals 2011-2013

Gourevitch, D., Pour une archéologie de la médecine romaine. Collection Pathographie, 8. Paris: De Boccard, 2011. Pp. 251. ISBN 9782701803029. Reviewed in BMCR 2013.06.07

d’Alessandro, P., Varrone e la tradizione metrica antica. Spudasmata, Bd. 143. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012. Pp. 299. ISBN 9783487147901. Reviewed in BMCR 2013.05.27

Jouanna, J., Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers. Studies in ancient medicine, 40. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. Pp. xix, 403. ISBN 9789004208599. Reviewed in BMCR 2013.04.34 

Claudio De Stefani (ed.), Galeni, De differentiis febrium libri duo arabice conversi. Altera, 1. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2011. Pp. 103. ISBN 9788862273787. Reviewed in BMCR 2012.09.60

Imre Tóth, Fragmente und Spuren nichteuklidischer Geometrie bei Aristoteles. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Bd. 280. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. Pp. xxiv, 425. ISBN 9783110224153. $154.00.  Reviewed in BMCR 2012.08.03

Franco Montanari, Lara Pagani (ed.), From Scholars to Scholia: Chapters in the History of Ancient Greek Scholarship. Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 9. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2011. Pp. xi, 205. ISBN 9783110251623. $112.00.

Fillipo, Manuela. Dionisio Trace e la tradizione grammaticale. Multa paucis, 9. Acireale; Roma: Bonanno editore, 2011. Pp. 219. ISBN 9788877966223. Reviewed in BMCR 2012.04.02

Matthaios, Matthaios and Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos (ed.), Ancient Scholarship and Grammar: Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts. Trends in classics - supplementary volumes, 8. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 2011. Pp. viii, 592. ISBN 9783110254037. $182.00. Reviewed in BMCR 2012.03.30 

Mazzini, Innocenzo, Letteratura e medicina nel mondo antico, qu’on peut commander à : Casa Editrice Università Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma ( Italy), € 32. “Letteratura e medicina nel mondo antico aims to be provide a synthesis and a method for students and scholars in the field of literature and ancient medicine. The author wants to achieve two objectives: a) demonstrate the importance of the knowledge of medical 'Realien' in classical philological research (textual criticism, exegesis, style, etc.); b) highlight the contribution from the non medical literature to the history of ancient medicine.”

Gibson, R. K.; Morello, R. (ed.), Pliny the Elder: Themes and Contexts. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Roman Language and Literature, 329. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011.  Review: BMCR 2012.01.39

Delvigo, Maria Luisa, Servio e la poesia della scienza. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2011. Review: BMCR 2011.12.21

Books published before 2011 

Hübner, Wolfgang (ed.), Manilius, Astronomica, Buch V (2 vols.). Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2010. Reviewed in BMCR 2011.08.05

Paola Radici Colace, Silvio M. Medaglia, Livio Rossetti, Sergio Sconocchia (ed.), Dizionario delle scienze e delle tecniche di Grecia e Roma (2 vols.). Biblioteca di Technai 1. Pisa/Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2010. Reviewed in BMCR 2011.06.18

Charles Guiraud, René Martin (ed.), Palladius, Traité d’agriculture. Tome II. livres III à V. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 398. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010 review BMCR 2011.06.22

Jean-Yves Guillaumin (ed.), Les arpenteurs romains. Tome II, Hygin; Siculus Flaccus. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 397. Paris: Belles lettres, 2010; review BMCR 2011.05,14

Duane W. Roller (ed.), Eratosthenes' Geography (fragments collected and translated, with commentary and additional material). Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780691142678. Review: BMCR 2011.01.27

Thorsten Fögen, Wissen, Kommunikation und Selbstdarstellung: zur Struktur und Charakteristik römischer Fachtexte der frühen Kaiserzeit. Zetemata 134. München: C. H. Beck, 2009. Review: BMCR 2010.12.72

Suzanne Amigues, Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. À l'origine de la botanique. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2010. Pp. xiii, 414. ISBN 9782701149967. €40.00 (pb). Review: BMCR 2010.12.58  

Liba Chaia Taub, Aude Doody (ed.), Authorial Voices in Greco-Roman Technical Writing.   Trier:  WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009.  Pp. 170.  ISBN 9783868211818.  €19.50.

Giuseppe Agpsta Ricerche sui Cynegetica di Oppiano.

Supplementi di Lexis 41.   Amsterdam:  Adolf M. Hakkert Editore, 2009.  Pp. 166.  ISBN 9789025612498. reviewed BMCR 2010.08.70

Barbara Zipser, John the Physician's Therapeutics: A Medical Handbook in Vernacular Greek. Studies in Ancient Medicine 37. Leiden/Boston 2009, reviewed in BCMR 2010.08.52

Isabelle Boehm, Pascal Luccioni (ed.), Le médecin initié par l'animal: animaux et médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et latine. Actes du colloque international tenu à la Maison de l'Orient de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux les 26 et 27 octobre 2006. Collection de la maison de l'orient et de la Méditerranée 39.  Lyon 2008. ISBN 9782356680020.  €29.00 (pb).  Reviewed in: BMCR 2010.03.23

Journal: Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici 1, 2007
first issue reviewed http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2009/2009-03-03.html

Asper, Markus, Griechische Wissenschaftstexte. Formen, Funktionen , Differenzierungsgeschichten, Stuttgart 2007 (ISBN 978-3-515-08959-3)Automata 2, 2007 (Rivista di Natura, Scienza e Tecnica del mondo antico - Journal of Nature, Sciences and Technics in the Ancient World).

Beck, Roger, A Brief History of Ancient Astrology, Malden (MA), 2007 reviewed by J. Komorowska: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-04-63.hmtl

Brockmann, Chr., W. Brunschön, O. Overwien (edd.), Antike Medizin im Schnittpunkt von Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften, Berlin 2009 

Craik, Elizabeth M. (ed.), The Hippocratic Treatise On Glands. Studies in Ancient Medicine v. 36.   Leiden:  Brill, 2009 reviewed by Robert Mayhew: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-11-04.html 

Hankinson, R.J. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Galenos. Cambridge / New York 2008

Heilmeyer, Marina, Ancient Herbs. Translated by David J. Baker. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-09-63.html

Keyser, Paul T. and Georgia L. Irby-Massie, The Encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists: the Greek tradition and its many heirs, London/New York 2008 http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-08-25.html

King, H., Dasen, V., La médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine.  Lausanne 2008. Reviewed by Lydie Bodiou, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-04-68.html

Lehoux, Daryn, Astronomy, Weather, and Calendars in the Ancient World, Cambridge/New York 2007
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2009-12-28.html

Lo Presti, Roberto, In forma di senso: l'encecaflocentrismo del trttato ippocratico. Studi malattia sacra nel suo contesto epistemologico. Roma 2008

Mattern, Susan P. , Galen and the rhetoric of healing, Baltimore 2008 reviewed by Shelley Reid http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-04-36.html

Nicastro, Nicholas, Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe.  New York:  St. Martin's Press, 2008. 
Reviewed by T.E. Rihll, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-07-14.html

Pàmias, J., Geus, K., Eratosthenes, Sternsagen, Oberhaid 2007 reviewed by Markus Apser http:// ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-16.html

Petter, C., Mitchell, L.C., Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present, Columbia 2007 reviewed by Ioana Costa: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-02-07.html

Popovic, Mladen, Reading the Human Body: physiognomics and astrology in the Dead Sea scrolls and Hellenistic-early Roman period Judaism, Leiden/Boston 2007 

Saliou, Catherine (ed., transl., comment.), Vitruve: De l'architecture. Livre V, Paris 2009

Schneider, Helmut, Geschichte der antiken Technik, München 2007, reviewed by Edith Foster with translated table of contents http://ccas.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-03-46.html

Talbert, Richard J.A.; Unger, Richard W. (edd.), Cartography in antiquity and the Middle Ages: fresh perspectives, new methods. Leiden/Boston 2008

Totelin, Laurence M.V., Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece. Studies in Ancient Medicine 34.   Leiden/Boston:  Brill, 2009, Reviewed by Magali de Haro Sanchez,http://ccas.upenn.edu/2009/2009-10-42.html

Volk, Katharina. Manilius and his intellectual background. Oxford/New York 2009