Month: April 2018

Books Received March 2018

Persianism in Antiquity. Oriens et Occidens, 25

Rolf Strootman, Miguel John Versluys  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017

Reviewed by Jan P. Stronk, 

Pompeii: A Different Perspective: Via dell’Abbondanza, A Long Road, Well-Traveled

Jennifer F. Stephens, Arthur E. Stephens  / Lockwood Press, 2017

Reviewed by Matthew Selheimer, 

Public and Private in the Roman House and Society. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary series, 102

Kaius Tuori, Laura Nissin  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2015

Reviewed by Anna Lucille Boozer, 

Ländliche Siedlungstrukturen im Römischen Spanien: das Becken von Vera und das Camp de Tarragona – zwei Mikroregionen im vergleich. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 22

Jan Schneider  / Archaeopress, 2017

Reviewed by Anouk Vermeulen, 

Katalog der Skulpturen in der Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Band I: Griechische und römische Bildnisse

Andreas Scholl  / Antikensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin; Michael Imhof Verlag, 2016

Reviewed by Sinclair W. Bell, 

The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World

Daniel Ogden  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Marijn Visscher, 

Das Meer als Versprechen: Bedeutung und Funktion von Seeherrschaft bei Thukydides. Thoukydideia, 1

Hans Kopp  / Ruprecht, 2017

Reviewed by Tobias Joho, 

A History of Syria in One Hundred Sites

Youssef Kanjou, Akira Tsuneki  / Archaeopress, 2016

Reviewed by Augusta McMahon, 

Der ägyptische Tempel als ritueller Raum

Stefan Baumann, Holger Kockelmann  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017

Reviewed by Andreas Henning Pries, 

Pax and the Politics of Peace: Republic to Principate. Oxford classical monographs

Hannah Cornwell  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Carsten Hjort Lange, 

The Unbound God: Slavery and the Formation of Early Christian Thought. Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World

Chris L. De Wet  / Routledge, 2017

Reviewed by Ronald Charles, 

The Poetics of Late Latin Literature. Oxford studies in late antiquity

Jaś Elsner, Jesús​ Hernández Lobato​  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Gaëlle​ Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard​, 

Byzantine Culture in Translation. Byzantina Australiensia 21

Amelia Brown, Bronwen Neil  / Brill, 2017

Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Fisher, 

Women’s Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean. Routledge monographs in classical studies

Matthew Dillon, Esther Eidinow, Lisa Maurizio  / Routledge, 2016

Reviewed by Jennifer Martinez Morales, 

Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy

A. Edward Siecienski  / Routledge, 2017

Reviewed by Eric Fournier, 

The Art of History: Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography. Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes, 41

Vasileios Liotsakis, Scott Farrington  / De Gruyter, 2016

Reviewed by Christina S. Kraus, 

The Art of Reading: From Homer to Paul Celan. Hellenic studies series, 73

Jean Bollack, Translated by Catherine Porter and Susan Tarrow, with Bruce King; edited by Christoph Koenig, Leonard Muellner, Gregory Nagy, and Sheldon Pollock.  / Center for Hellenic Studies, trustees for Harvard University, 2016

Reviewed by Bruce Krajewski, 

The Irish Classical Self: Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Classical presences

Laurie O’Higgins  / Oxford University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Fiachra Mac Góráin, 

Ptolemy I: King and Pharaoh of Egypt

Ian Worthington  / Oxford University Press, 2016

Reviewed by Charlotte Van Regenmortel,