370 CLASSICAL WORLD chronologically and the alphabetically; there are also lists of text editions and related scholarly literature. The translation is carefully done, although a few minor corrections seem appropriate. Wöhrle renders !"#$!"%&’( in a scholium to Aristophanes’ Clouds as “Naturwissenschaft” (Th[ales fr.] 589, p. 485), but the context of Aristophanes’ passage clearly invites “Mathematik.” According to Augustine, Thales won admiration quod astrologiae numeris conprehensis defectus solis et lunae etiam praedicere potuit . Wöhrle translates: “weil er astronomische Berechnungen anstellte und sogar Sonnen- und Mondfinsternisse vorhersagen konnte” (Th 311, p. 261), which somewhat obscures the curious fact that Augustine makes Thales predict eclipses by means of astrologiae numeris whether it refers to astronomical calculations or eclipse cycles. In Th 52, l. 10, p. 60, Wöhrle forgets to mention the manuscript reading )*%"!+’$ he brackets. On 204 Wöhrle gives without comment 546 BC for Croesus’ crossing of the Halys, but this date is antiquated and 547 BC is now almost universally accepted. Wöhrle rarely offers comments on testimonia, but he regularly provides the reader with references to scholarly literature. In most cases, they are well chosen and up to date. Of the two recent books on Thales, however, he never mentions one published in Greek (Athens, 2005). I assume I am justified in regretting this not merely because the book is mine. I am not competent to comment on the part done by Gotthard Stroh- maier, yet the general impression is certainly positive. Yet to my surprise, no really new information on Thales has emerged in a volume so rich in material. All essential aspects of doxography seem to have already become available through the work by Hermann Diels, with important additions by Walter Kranz, and more recent scholarship. This is not a fault of the editor, however, and it is important to know that recent discussions of Thales and his legacy have not seriously been affected by the incompleteness of the evidence involved. For subsequent work on Thales, Georg Wöhrle’s volume will be indispensable. This is a good start for the whole series. Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana, St. Petersburg State University, Russia DMITRI PANCHENKO Classical World 104.3 (2011) Susanna Braund (ed.). Seneca: De Clementia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xiii, 456. $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-924036-4. This major edition and commentary of De Clementia is the fruit of over two decades’ labor; the arrival during that time of Malaspina’s large Turin edition (2001, 2nd ed. 2005) must have been a mixed blessing. Braund’s broader cultural approach nicely complements his textual focus, although the reader who has invested $150 may be disappointed to be referred so often to Malaspina “for full discussion” and bibliography. An elegant 91-page introduction develops the customary contexts. Building on the work of Grif- fin, Leach, and Braund herself, it draws a convincing picture of a pragmatic engagement with autocracy, staged for the benefit of Nero and senate both. What survives of De Clementia is badly mauled in transmission. In prepar- ing her text Braund relies on Malaspina but regularly intervenes, weighing emendations scrupulously and often convincingly. Her own suggestions will offer food for debate; one to be rejected immediately, however, is 1.9.3, where iam <se> unum hominem occidere non posse (for poterat ) would have a self-reflexive Augustus losing sleep at the thought “that he was now unable to kill a single individual,” as if his anxiety were about weakness of will or power. The paradosis, in good declamatory style, needs no interfer-