Wheeler, Everett L. (ed.) (2007) The armies of classical Greece. Aldershot etc: Ashgate. (International library of essays on military history.) LXIV, 528 p. ISBN 978-0-7546-2684-8. Price: £120.

See a review by Mart LÄTTE in SHT 8.R.5 (2007), available online at http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2007/8.R.5.html

Walsh, Thomas R. (2005) Fighting words and feuding words: anger and the Homeric poems. Lanham etc: Lexington Books. (Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches.) XIV, 301 p. ISBN 0-7391-1264-3 (pb). Price: £17.99.

Tischer, Ute (2006) Die zeitgeschichtliche Anspielung in der antiken Literaturerklärung. Tübingen: Narr. (Leipziger Studien zur klassischen Philologie; 3.) 332 p. ISBN 3-8233-6207-0. Price: €68.

Spisak, Art L. (2007) Martial: a social guide. London: Duckworth. VI, 151 p. ISBN 97807156 36206. Price: £14.99.

See a review by Liis RAAMAT in SHT 10.R.2 (2009), available online at http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2009/10.R.2.html

Späth, Thomas; Wagner-Hasel, Beate (Hrsg.) (2006) Frauenwelten in der Antike: Geschlechterordnung und weibliche Lebenspraxis. Sonderausgabe. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler. XXVI, 494 p. ISBN-13 978-3-476-02175-5, ISBN-10 3-476-02175-0. Price not stated.

Sonnabend, Holger (Hrsg.) (2006) Mensch und Landschaft in der Antike: Lexikon der historischen Geographie. Sonderausgabe. Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler. XII, 660 p. ISBN-13 978-3-476-02179-3, ISBN-10 3-476-02179-3. Price not stated.

Sider, David; Brunschön, Carl Wolfram (eds.) (2007) Theophrastus of Eresus On weather signs. Leiden; Boston: Brill. (Philosophia antiqua; 104.) X, 263 p. ISBN-10 90-04-15593-7, ISBN-13 978-90-04-15593-0. Price: €99 (US$134).

Shemunkasho, Aho (2004) Healing in the theology of Saint Ephrem the Syrian. Piscataway: Gorgias Press. (Gorgias dissertations; 1. Near Eastern studies; 1.) XXII, 480 p. ISBN 1-59333-156-8. Price not stated.

See a review by Amar ANNUS in SHT 8.R.2 (2007), available online at http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2007/8.R.2.html

Searby, Denis M. (ed.) (2007) The Corpus Parisinum: a critical edition of the Greek text with commentary and English translation. (A Medieval anthology of Greek texts from the Pre-Socratics to the church fathers, 600 B.C.-700 A.D.) Translated, with commentary and introduction by Denis M. Searby; with a commendatory foreword by Dimitri Gutas. Books 1-2. Lewiston etc.: Mellen. XIII, 1000 p. ISBN-13 978-0-7734-5300-5 (set), ISBN-10 0-7734-5300-8 (set). Price not stated.

See a review by Maris VALTIN in SHT 9.R.7 (2008), available online at http://www.ut.ee/klassik/sht/2008/9.R.7.html

Rüpke, Jörg (Hrsg.) (2007) Gruppenreligionen im römischen Reich: Sozialformen, Grenzziehungen und Leistungen. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum; 43.) VII, 212 p. ISBN 978-3-16-149128-3 (pb). Price: €49.

Robson, James (2006) Humour, obscenity and Aristophanes. Tübingen: Narr. (Drama: Studien zum antiken Drama und zu seiner Rezeption. Neue Serie; 1.) VI, 215 p. ISBN 3-8233-6220-8. Price: €54.

Olson, S. Douglas (ed.) (2007) Broken laughter: select fragments of Greek comedy. Edited with introduction, commentary, and translation. Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press. XVIII, 476 p. ISBN 978-0-19-928785-7 (hb). Price not stated.

Moreno Soldevila, Rosario (2006) Martial, Book IV: a commentary. Leiden; Boston: Brill. (Mnemosyne supplementum; 278.) X, 618 p. ISBN 978-90-04-15192-5. Price: €139.

Morello, Ruth; Morrison, A. D. (eds.) (2007) Ancient letters: classical and late antique epistolography. Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press. XVII, 373 p. ISBN 978-0-19-920395-6 (hb). Price not stated.

This is another welcome contribution to the study of ancient epistolography, which has become more and more popular in recent years. The volume, which has developed from the Ancient Letters Conference in 2004 (Manchester), focuses on the purpose of epistolary form: what epistolary features make the letter form especially attractive wherever another form might be available to the writer? A concise editors' preface is followed by an "Introduction: what is a letter?" (Roy K. Gibson and A. D. Morrison) and 14 essays exploring the varieties and rhetorical advantages of the letter form. These include "Down among the documents: criticism and papyrus letters" (G. O. Hutchinson), "'... when who should walk into the room but ...': epistolarity in Cicero, Ad Qfr 3.1" (John Henderson), "Cicero's 'stomach': political indignation and the use of repeated allusive expressions in Cicero's correspondence" (Stanley E. Hoffer), "Didacticism and epistolarity in Horace's Epistles 1" (A. D. Morrison), "The importance of form in Seneca's philosophical letters" (Brad Inwood), "Letters of recommendation and the rhetoric of praise" (Roger Rees), "Confidence, inuidia, and Pliny's epistolary curriculum" (Ruth Morello), "The letter's the thing (in Pliny, Book 7)" (William Fitzgerald), "The epistula in ancient scientific and technical literature, with special reference to medicine" (D. R. Langslow), "Back to Fronto: doctor and patient in his correspondence with an Emperor" (Annelise Freisenbruch), "Alciphron's epistolarity" (Jason König), "Better than speech: some advantages of the letter in the Second Sophistic" (Owen Hodkinson), "Mixed messages: the play of epistolary codes in two Late Antique Latin correspondences" (Jennifer Ebbeler) and "St Patrick and the art of allusion" (Andrew Fear, together with an appendix containing the Latin text of Patrick's "Epistola ad milites Corotici" and the English translation of it by David Howlett). The volume ends with joint bibliography, an index locorum and a general index.

Mirhady, David C. (ed.) (2007) Influences on Peripatetic rhetoric: essays in honor of William W. Fortenbaugh. Leiden; Boston: Brill. (Philosophia antiqua; 105.) VIII, 282 p. ISBN 978-90-04-15668-5. Price: €99.

McNamee, Kathleen (2007) Annotations in Greek and Latin texts from Egypt. [Oakville, Conn.]: American Society of Papyrologists. (American studies in papyrology; 45.) XVII, 577 p., XXXIII plates. ISBN-13 978-0-9700591-7-8, ISBN-10 0-9700591-7-5. Price: £80.

Matthews, John (2006) The journey of Theophanes: travel, business, and daily life in the Roman East. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. XVII, 244 p. ISBN-10 0-300-10898-2, ISBN-13 978-0-300-10898-9. Price: $60.

Theophanes was a lawyer and public figure from the Nile valley city of Hermopolis. In the early fourth century A.D. he made a six-month business-related journey to Antioch. The day-to-day details of this journey are preserved on papyrus documents covering everything from distances travelled to daily food purchases, medicinal supplies and fees paid for various services. This book contains translations of these documents and, even more importantly, places them in the wider context of the social history of the Graeco-Roman world. The author has also added translations of some papyrus letters involving Theophanes or written to him. This marvellously produced book makes it clear that Theophanes' memoranda are especially important for information on places outside the borders of Egypt, thus overcoming the limitation often felt of papyrological evidence. The book is amply illustrated with maps, plans, photos of papyri and art works.

Luck, Georg (ed.) (2006) Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds. A collection of ancient texts. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Georg Luck. 2. ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. XVII, 544 p. ISBN 0-8018-8345-8 (hb), 0-8018-8346-6 (pb). Price: $65.00 (hb) / $24.95 (pb).

Louden, Bruce (2006) The Iliad: structure, myth, and meaning. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. VIII, 337 p. ISBN 0-8018-8280-X (hb). Price: $55.00.

Lewis, Sian (ed.) (2006) Ancient tyranny. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. XIV, 282 p. ISBN 0-7486-2125-3 (hb). Price: £60.00.