Month: December 2018

Books Received November 2018

The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World From the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome

J. G. Manning  / Princeton University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Eric Wesley Driscoll, 

Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla

Matthew B. Roller  / Cambridge University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Robert E. Hedrick III, 

Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy

Daniele Miano  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Jacqueline Klooster, 

Ancient Corinth: Site Guide (7th ed.)

Guy D. R. Sanders, Jennifer Palinkas, Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst, James Herbst  / ASCSA Publications, 2017

Reviewed by David Gill, 

Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer

Christopher S. Celenza  / Reaktion Books, 2017

Reviewed by Vibeke Roggen, 

Iscrizioni greche: un’antologia. Studi superiori, 1092

Claudia Antonetti, Stefania De Vido  / Carocci, 2017

Reviewed by Clément Sarrazanas, 

Reading Roman Declamation – Calpurnius Flaccus. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 348​

Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin​, Marcos Martinho  / De Gruyter, 2017

Reviewed by Luciano Traversa, 

Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being: Experiencing ‘Penia’ in Democratic Athens

Claire Taylor  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Gabriella Vanotti, 

New religious texts from Lydia. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 497; Ergänzungsbände zu den Tituli Asiae Minoris, 28

Hasan Malay, Georg Petzl  / Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017

Reviewed by Gil Renberg, 

Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World: Aspects of Citizenship from the Archaic Period to AD 212. Mnemosyne Supplements, 407

Lucia Cecchet, Anna Busetto  / Brill, 2017

Reviewed by Andrea Raggi, 

Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry: Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE

Zoe Stamatopoulou  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Oliver Passmore, 

Returns to Pompeii: Interior Space and Decoration Documented and Revived 18th-20th Century. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom. Serie in 4°, 62

Shelley Hales, Anne-Marie Leander Touati  / Svenska institutet i Rom, 2016

Reviewed by John R. Clarke, 

The Chora of Metaponto 7: The Greek Sanctuary at Pantanello, (3 vols.). Institute of Classical Archaeology Series on the Rural Settlements in the Chora of Metaponto, 7

Joseph Coleman Carter, Keith Swift  / University of Texas Press, 2018

Reviewed by John K. Papadopoulos, 

TYPOI. Greek and Roman Coins Seen through their Images: Noble Issuers, Humble Users? Série histoire, 3​

P. P. Iossif, Fr. de Callataÿ​, R. Veymiers  / Presses Universitaires de Liège​, 2018

Reviewed by Christian Niederhuber, 

Between Jews and Heretics: Refiguring Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho

Matthijs Den Dulk  / Routledge, 2018

Reviewed by Judith M. Lieu, 

Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety. Mnemosyne. Supplements, 387

Saskia Peels  / Brill, 2016

Reviewed by Irene Salvo, 

The Hellenistic Harbour of Amathus: Underwater Excavations, 1984-1986. Volume 1, Architecture and History. Études Chypriotes, 19

Jean-Yves Empereur, Tony Koželj, Olivier Picard, Manuela Wurch-Koželj  / École Française d'Athènes, 2018

Reviewed by Alkiviadis Ginalis, 

Supplément au Répertoire des bibliothèques et des catalogues de manuscrits grecs (2 vols.). Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca

Jean-Marie Olivier  / Brepols, 2018

Reviewed by Davide Muratore, 

Inscriptions latines d’Aquitaine (ILA): Auscii. Inscriptions latines d’Aquitaine, 9

Georges Fabre, Jacques Lapart  / Ausonius Publications, 2017

Reviewed by David A. Wallace-Hare,