Recent Library Acquisitions: New is the John Miller Burnam Classics Library

Alexander the Great. Keyne Cheshire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
A series of texts in Classical Civilisation, encompassing literary, historical and philosophical subjects.
DF234 .C47 2009. Classics Stacks

Socrates: 2400 Years Since His Death (399 B.C.-2001 A.D.). Vassilis Karasmanis, editor. Athena: Europaiko Politistiko Kentro Delphon, 2004
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Socrates, held July 13-21, 2001, by the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Hellenic Ministry of Culture at Athens and Delphi. Contents include “Xenophon’s Socrates,” “Socrates: Ethics and Politics,” “Socrates and the Later Philosophy,” and “Socrates in the Arts.”
B317 .S595 2004. Classics Modern Greek

Materializing Memory: Archaeological Material Culture and the Semantics of the Past. Irene Barbieta, Alice M. Choyke, and Judith A. Rasson, editors. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009. BAR international series; 1977.
Subjects covered in this volume include: social aspects of memory, social archaeology, and ancient civilation.
CC75 .M38 2009. Classics Oversize

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians. Andrew Feldherr, editor. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works of less familiar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. A final section focuses on the rich reception history of Roman historiography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to the twentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of the ancient historians of Rome.
Part of the “Cambridge companions to literature” series.
DG205 .C35 2009. Classics Stacks

Greek Literature in the Roman Empire. Jason Konig. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2009.
Offers a comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. This title covers in turn the Greek novels of this period, the satirical writing of Lucian, rhetoric, philosophy, scientific writing, geography and history, biography, and poetry.
PA3086 .K66 2009. Classics Stacks

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. Alexandre G. Mitchell. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
This book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in Athens and Boeotia. Alexandre Mitchell brings an interdisciplinary approach to this topic, combining theories and methods of art history, archaeology, and classics with the anthropology of humour, and thereby establishing new ways of looking at art and visual humour in particular.
NK4645 .M62 2009. Classics Stacks

Pindar’s Metaphors: A Study in Rhetoric and Meaning. Glenn Patten. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009.
Part of the series, “Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften.”
PA4276 .P38 2009. Classics Stacks

Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia. Giovanni Casadio and Patricia A. Johnston, editors.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Implementing a variety of methodologies, the contributors to Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia examine an array of features associated with such "mystery religions" that were concerned with individual salvation through initiation and hidden knowledge rather than civic cults directed toward Olympian deities usually associated with Greek religion.
BL793.M34 M97 2009. Classics Stacks

Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C. Nancy A. Winter. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Published for the American Academy in Rome by the University of Michigan Press, 2009.  
(Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Supplementary volume)
Although initially intended for the innovative, if prosaic, purpose of providing waterproof and fireproof cover for earlier thatch-roofed homes, fired clay tiles, in seventh- and sixth-century Etruria and Central Italy, combined with Etruscan love of adornment to create exceptional domestic and religious building decoration. Featuring statues and figured friezes of humans, animals, and mythological figures intended to convey the status of the owner or dedicator, the surviving terracotta roofs provide important insights into the architectural history of Etruria.
NA3552.A3 E879 2009. Classics Stacks

Reading Roman comedy: poetics and playfulness in Plautus and Terence. Alison Sharrock.
Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
W.B. Stanford memorial lectures.
PA6602 .S53 2009. Classics Stacks

The Roman army: the civil wars, 88-31 BC. Nic Fields.
Oxford; New York: Osprey; Westminster, MD: [Distributed by] Random House Distribution Center, 2008.
U35 .F49 2008. Classics Stacks

The John Miller Burnam Classical Library is named after a former classics faculty member whose excellent private library was willed to the university in 1921 and became the nucleus of the present library. With over 240,000 items today, collection efforts focus comprehensively on all aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman world, including the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Library materials cover history, archaeology, language and literature, art, numismatics, science and technology, papyrology, epigraphy and patristics. The Classics Library offers extensive coverage in materials on Byzantine and Modern Greece and strong coverage in titles on Egypt and the Ancient Near East and on paleography.

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