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Among the New Books

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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Pascal, Vernus & Jean, Yoyotte. The book of the pharaohs (tr. David Lorton). xi+244 pages, 13 figures, 1 table. 2003. Ithaca (NY): Cornell University Press; 0-8014-4050-5 hardback $35 & £21.95.Google Scholar
The book of the pharaohs is a comprehensive and sober encyclopedia with substantial entries on persons and peoples, sites and places, institutions, chronology, methodology, etc.Google Scholar
Darvill, Timothy. The concise Oxford dictionary of archaeology. xi+506 pages, 8 figures. 2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19280005-1 paperback £9.99.Google Scholar
The hardback edition of The concise Oxford was reviewed in Antiquity Vol. 76, pp. 574–5.Google Scholar

Also received: Classics

Powell, Barry B.. Homer. xvi+176 pages, 2 maps. 2003. Malden (MA) & Oxford: Blackwell; 0–631-23385-7 hardback $59.95 & £50, 0-631-23386-5 paperback $24.95 & £15.99.Google Scholar
Mikalson, Jon D.. Herodotus and religion in the Persian Wars. xiv+269 pages, 5 maps. 2003. Chapel Hill (NC): University of North Carolina Press; 0-8078-2798-3 hardback £3.50.Google Scholar
Simon, Price & Kearns, Emily (ed.). The Oxford dictionary of Classical myth and religion. xl+599 pages, 3 maps, 6 charts. 2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 0-19-280288-7 hardback £25 & US$39.95.Google Scholar