Front matter, SCI 31 (2012)

Critias in Xenophon’s Hellenica

1-17

Alexander the Great and the Double Nemesis: The Construction of a Foundation Myth

19-34

Lost Geography: The Geographical Fragments of Daës of Colonae, Democles of Phygela and Dionysius of Chalcis

35-51

Ein Diplom für die Truppen Judäas aus dem Jahr 87 und die Frage nach der Gleichförmigkeit römischer Militäradministration

53-64

Tyre and Berytus in the Mid-Fifth Century: Metropolitan Status and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy

65-84

Dodds and the Irrational: Papers in Memory of Martin Ostwald

Introduction, Martin Ostwald biography, bibliography

85-100

E.R. Dodds and the Irrational: “Agamemnon’s Apology” Revisited

101-108

Madness into Memory: Mania and Mnēmē in Greek Culture

109-131

Herodotos the Pathographer: Persian and Hellenic Grief Displays

133-150

Alcibiades and the Irrational

151-160

Diagnostics of Altered Mental States: From Euripides’ Bacchae to Medieval Arabic Texts

161-183

Ptolemy of Ascalon, Historian of Herod

185-190

Margalit Finkelberg (ed.), The Homer Encyclopedia, 3 vols. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2011. 1160 pp. ISBN 978-1-4051-7768-9.

191-193

Paul Curtis, Stesichoros’s Geryoneis (Mnemosyne Supplement 333), Leiden: Brill, 2011. 201 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-20767-7.

193-194

Robin J. Lane Fox (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC-300 AD, Leiden: Brill, 2011. xiii + 642 pp. ISBN 978-90-04- 20650-2.

194-196

Vivienne J. Gray, Xenophon’s Mirror of Princes. Reading the Reflections, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. vii + 406 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-956381-4.

196-199

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus, Susan Stephens (eds.), Brill’s Companion to Callimachus, Leiden: Brill, 2011. Xviii + 708 pp. ISBN 13: 978-90-04-15673-9.

201-203

William W. Fortenbaugh, with contributions on the Arabic material by Dimitri Gutas, Theophrastus of Eresus Commentary Volume 6.1: Sources on Ethics, Leiden: Brill, 2011. 879 pp. ISBN: 978-90-40-19422-9.

203-205

Stephen Lambert. Inscribed Athenian Laws and Decrees 352/1-322/1 B.C.: Epigraphical Essays (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy), Leiden: Brill, 2012. xii + 433 pp. ISBN: 978-90- 04-20931-2 (and e-book 978-90-04-22852-8).

206-207

Iris Sulimani, Diodorus’ Mythistory and the Pagan Mission: Historiography and Culture-Heroes in the First Pentad of the Bibliotheke (Mnemosyne Supplements 331), Leiden: Brill, 2011. 409 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-19406-9.

207-209

Francesco de Angelis (ed.), Spaces of Justice in the Roman World (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 35), Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. 434 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-18925-6.

209-212

M. A. Robb, Beyond Populares and Optimates: Political Language in the Late Republic (Historia Einzelschriften 213), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 225 pp. ISBN 978-3-515-09643-0.

212-214

Marina Prusac, From Face to Face: Recarving of Roman Portraits and the Late-Antique Portrait Arts (Monumenta Graeca et Romana, Volume 18), Leiden: Brill, 2011. xxii + 202 pp. + 155 plates. ISBN 978-90-04-18271-4.

214-217

Blömer Michael, Margherita Facella, Engelbert Winter (eds.), Lokale Identität im Römischen Nahen Osten: Kontexte und Perspektiven. Erträge der Tagung “Lokale Identität im Römischen Nahen Osten”, Münster 19. - 21. April 2007.

Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2009. 350 pp. ISBN 978-3-515-09377-4.

217-221

Armin Eich (ed.), Die Verwaltung der kaiserzeitlichen römischen Armee. Studien für Hartmut Wolff. Historia Einzelschriften 211. Sttutgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. 210 pp. ISBN 978-3- 515-09420-7.

222-224

D. Jacobson and N. Kokkinos (eds.), Herod and Augustus: Papers Presented at the IJS Conference, 21st-23rd June 2005, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2009. 506 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-16546-5.

224-227

Ryan S. Olson, Tragedy, Authority and Trickery: The Poetics of Embedded Letters in Josephus, Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2010. xiv + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-05337-3.

227-228

H. M. Cotton, R. G. Hoyland, J.J. Price, D.J. Wasserstein (eds.), From Hellenism to Islam: Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 512 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-87581-3.

228-232

Hannah M. Cotton, Leah Di Segni, Werner Eck, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, Israel Roll, Ada Yardeni (eds.), Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae Volume I: Jerusalem Part 1:1-704, Berlin-New York: De Gruyter, 2010.

xxvi + 694 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-022219-7.

232-233

Peter Riedlberger (ed.), Philologischer, historischer und liturgischer Kommentar zum 8. Buch der Johannis des Goripp [sic] nebst kritischer Edition und Übersetzung, Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2010. 503 pp. ISBN 978-90-6980-157-5.

233-237

Andrew Erskine (ed.), A Companion to Ancient History: Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2009. xxxiv + 693 pp. including 5 maps and 27 blackand- white illustrations. ISBN: 978-1-4051-3150-6.

237-238

David Sohlberg

1924-2012

239-240

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of The Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies

15-16 June 2011, University of Bar-Ilan

245-247