LIBRI AD MNEMOSYNEN MISSI

J.P. ANTON & A. PREUS, Plato (Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, III). Albany, State Univ. Press of New York, 1989. VI, 358 p. Pr. hb $ 54,50.

Introduction.-D.J. ZEYL,Socrates and Hedonism: Protagoras351b-358d.-G. RUDEBUSCH,Plato, Hedonism, and Ethical Protagoreanism.-Cynthia HAMPTON, Plato's Later Analysis of Pleasure.- Jane S. ZEMBATY,Socrates' Perplexity in Plato's Hippias Minor.-Elinor J.M. WEST, Socrates in the Crito: Patriot or Friend?-L.P. GERSON, Plato on Virtue, Knowledge, and the Unity of Goodness.-E. WARREN,The Craft Argument: An Analogy.-E.N. LEE, Plato's Theory of Social Justice in RepublicII-IV.-Ch. L. GRISWOLD,Politike Episteme in Plato's Statesman.-M.L. MORGAN,How Does Plato Solve the Paradox of Inquiry in the Meno?-K. DORTER,The Theory of Forms and ParmenidesI.-R.G. TURNBULL,The Third Man Argument and the Text of Parmenides.-M.L. MCPHERRAN,Plato's Reply to the 'Worst Difficulty' Argument of the Parmenides: Sophist 248a-249d.-Veda COBB-STEVENS,Perception, Appearance and Kinesis: The Secret Doctrine in Plato's Theaetetus.-A. NEHAMAS,Episteme and Logos in Plato's Later Thought.-R.D. MOHR, Plato's Theology Reconsidered: What the Demiurge Does.-Joan KUNG, Mathematics and Virtue in Plato's Timaeus.- C;ontributors.-Indexes.

RICHARD STONEMAN, with the assistance of RICHARD WALLACE, Ancient Greece and the Aegean & Roman Italy. Lon- don, Routledge, 1989. Each map 975 x 1375 mm, each map Pr. £ 17,25. Among the printed materials which reach Mnemosyne maps are very rare items. As most of the maps available now, have been produced many decades ago there is little expertise for reviewing these special articles, which are so important for the teaching of the Classics. So solely trusting my own educational experience I scrutinized both maps, having hung them on the wall of my study. As maps and posters decorate classrooms for ages they etch themselves into the retina of the stu- dent's eyes. So it must be a pleasure to look at them. Well, both maps offer an attractive look: they are in soft colours with blue for the sea and a fresh green for the land. Where there would be too much open sea, some nice photos have been printed. Compared to the common German maps of Haack, Van Kampen and Wester- mann Stoneman's maps distinguish themselves by not giving political information of the kind "Greece on the eve of the Peloponnesian War" with different colours for the coalitions. They are a welcome innovation in a genre still reflecting a one- sidedness which is out of date. In this respect they are in line with the publishing policy of Routledge and its editor, the same Richard Stoneman. Stress has been 284 laid on the geographical elements: the mountains are indicated in dramatic lines and different shades. Maybe the green in which the rest of the land is coloured, suggests too much an overall fertility. An ingenuous system of symbols accom- panies the many sites indicated on the maps, e.g. places mentioned by Homer, battlefields, temples. Recent archaeological discoveries have been processed in the data which the maps contain. It is evident that the compiler wished to include as much information as was viable. But this laudable endeavour runs counter to the pedagogical usefulness for which maps are designed in the first place. In Britain there is a stronger tradition to use the Latinized forms of Greek names. So one is not too astonished to read Sunium and Aegina, but as modern names are also mentioned one gets anomalies like Naxos as island and Naxus as place. I had hoped that the compiler would have shown his love for things Greek by Hellenizing the whole name system on the map of Greece. But, I realize that this is a matter of taste and tradition. More serious are my doubts on the readability of the data, for on them the utility of the maps depends. Already on a distance of one metre one cannot discern the names of the sites. On two metres eagle's eyes are needed to guess the names of seas and regions. A radical decision ought to have been made, namely to use really BIG letters and huge symbols for the main bits of information which should reach a class or group during an instruc- tion. The small print is o.k. for all the things which need an individual and closer look. I hope that the publisher will solve the problem of letter sizes in a second edition. It has not been overlooked that the price makes AncientGreece and the Aegeanand RomanItaly good value for money compared with the existing German maps. Even an individual scholar can afford to decorate his study with these nice wall-charts. In their present form Stoneman's maps are a welcome enrichment for any teaching environment in which pupils and students are expected to consult infor- mation materials on an individual basis. They have visibly been made with an affection for the ancient world which will not fail to stimulate teachers and learners.

University of NIJMEGEN ANTON J.L. VAN HOOFF

Cabinet of the Muses. Essays on Classical and Com- parative Literature in Honor of Thomas G. ROSENMEYER, edited by Mark Griffith and Donald J. Mastronarde. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1990. XIII, 402 p. Pr. $ 40,-.

E. DOWNING,Apatê, Agôn, and Literary Self-Reflexivity in Euripides' Helen.- M. MCCALL, The Chorus of Aeschylus' Choephoroi.-J.I. PORTER,Patterns of Perception in Aeschylus.-S.L. SCHEIN, Philia in Euripides' Medea-Ruth SCODEL,Euripides and Apati. -B. SEIDENSTICKER,Euripides, Medea 1056-1080, an Interpolation?-Froma I. ZEITLIN,Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Sevenagainst Thebesand the Danaid Trilogy.-R. ALTER,Putting Together Biblical Narrative.-W.S. ANDERSON,The Example of Procris in the Ars Amatoria-Helen H. BACON,The Poetry of Phaedo-Ch. W. FORNARA,The Prefaces of Ammianus Marcellinus.-M. GAGARIN,The Ambiguity of Eris in the Worksand Days.-M. GRIFFITH,Contest and Contradiction in Early Greek Poetry.-Th. N. HABINEK,