Month: November 2020

Books Received October 2020

The kingdom of Priam: Lesbos and the Troad between Anatolia and the Aegean

Aneurin Ellis-Evans  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Massimiliano Lanzillo, 

Borderline virginities: sacred and secular virgins in late antiquity

Sissel Undheim  / Routledge, 2018

Reviewed by Ingo Schaaf, 

Cicero and Roman religion: eight studies

Claudia Beltrão da Rosa, Federico Santangelo  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020

Reviewed by Celia Schultz, 

Lectures de Lucrèce

Sylvie Ballestra-Puech  / Librairie Droz, 2019

Reviewed by Martin Devecka, 

Helden müssen sterben. Von Sinn und Fragwürdigkeit des heroischen Todes

Cornelia Brink, Nicole Falkenhayner, Ralf von den Hoff  / Ergon Verlag, 2019

Reviewed by Armin Unfricht, 

The Roman villa in the Mediterranean basin: late Republic to late Antiquity

Annalisa Marzano, Guy P. R. Métraux  / Cambridge University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Sarah Beckmann, 

The Masons’ Marks of Minoan Knossos

Sinclair Hood, Lisa Maria Bendall  / British School at Athens, 2020

Reviewed by Maud Devolder, 

Rhetoric and innovation in Hellenistic art

Kristen Seaman  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Joshua J. Thomas, 

Valerius Maximus ‘Facta et dicta memorabilia’, book 8

John Briscoe  / De Gruyter, 2019

Reviewed by Heiko Westphal, 

Liddell and Scott: the history, methodology, and languages of the world’s leading lexicon of Ancient Greek

Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, Joshua Timothy Katz  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Simon Goldhill, 

Rethinking Athens before the Persian wars

Constanze Graml, Annarita Doronzio, Vincenzo Capozzoli  / Utzverlag, 2019

Reviewed by Nathan Arrington, 

Animal kingdom of heaven: anthropozoological aspects in the late antique world

Ingo Schaaf  / De Gruyter, 2019

Reviewed by Leire Morrás Aranoa, 

Adressat und Adressant in antiken Briefen

Gernot Michael Müller, Sabine Retsch, Johanna Schenk  / De Gruyter, 2019

Reviewed by Bianca-Jeanette Schröder, 

Italy’s economic revolution: integration and economy in Republican Italy

Saskia T. Roselaar  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Paul Pasieka, 

Claudius Aelianus. Vom Wesen der Tiere

Philipp Stahlhut, Paul-Gerhard Veh  / Anton Hiersemann, 2020

Reviewed by Horst Schneider, 

The discourse of kingship in classical Greece

Carol Atack  / Routledge, 2019

Reviewed by Christopher Smith, 

Ps. Aurelius Victor. De viris illustribus urbis Romae lateinisch und deutsch = Die berühmten Männer der Stadt Rom

Joachim Fugmann  / WBG Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2016

Reviewed by Alexander Rubel, 

En los márgenes de Roma: la Antigüedad romana en la cultura de masas contemporánea

Carlos Sánchez Pérez, Luis Unceta Gómez  / Catarata, 2019

Reviewed by Domingo Fernandez Sanz, 

The Athenian ephebeia in the fourth century BCE

John L. Friend  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Nicholas Sekunda,