Books Received March 2020 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in March 2020 by BMCR; some books listed here may already have been assigned to reviewers. A complete list of books available for review, including those still available from previous months, can be found here.

Adrastos Omissi, Alan J. Ross, Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius. Translated texts for historians, contexts, 3. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. 312 p. ISBN 9781789621105. £80.00.

Anna K. Hodgkinson, Cecilie Lelek Tvetmarken, Approaches to the analysis of production activity at archaeological sites. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. 206 p. ISBN 9781789695571. £35.00.

Bridget Martin, Harmful interaction between the living and the dead in Greek tragedy. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. 208 p. ISBN 9781789621501. £75.00.

Christine Plastow, Homicide in the attic orators: rhetoric, ideology, and context. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020. 177 p. ISBN 9780367135409. £120.00.

Cora E. Lutz, Gretchen J. Reydams-Schil , Musonius Rufus. That one should disdain hardships: the teachings of a Roman Stoic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. xxix, 124 p. ISBN 9780300226034. $22.00.

Dimitrios Kanellakis, Aristophanes and the poetics of surprise. Trends in classics, supplementary volumes, 96. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xv, 247 p. ISBN 9783110676983. €99,95.

Emma Griffiths, Children in Greek tragedy: pathos and potential. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. viii, 328 p. ISBN 9780198826071 $99.00.

Eva Elm, Nicole Hartmann, Demons in late antiquity: their perception and transformation in different literary genres. Transformationen der Antike, Band 54. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 176 p. ISBN 9783110626728. €79,95.

Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, Performing epic or telling tales. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 176 p. ISBN 9780198846581. $70.00.

Francesco Adorno, Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Parte II: Frammenti Adespoti e sentenze, vol. 1: Frammenti Adespoti. Firenze: Olschki Editore, 2019. xxix, 268 p. ISBN 9788822266897. €60,00.

Gabriela Ryser, Education, religion, and literary culture in the 4th century CE. A study of the underworld topos in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae. Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte (BERG), 7. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH, 2020. 440 p. ISBN 9783525573211.

Germaine Aujac, Hipparque de Nicée et l’astronomie en Grèce ancienne. Biblioteca di Geographia antiqua, 6. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2020. xiv, 122 p. ISBN 9788822266873. €30,00.

Gernot Müller, Sabine Retsch, Johanna Schenk, Adressat und Adressant in antiken Briefen: Rollenkonfigurationen und kommunikative Strategien in griechischer und römischer Epistolographie. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 382. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. viii, 558 p. ISBN 9783110676204. €109,95.

Gianluigi Tomassi, Luciano di Samosata, La nave o le preghiere. Texte und Kommentare, Band 61. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 366 p. ISBN 9783110653144. €129,95.

Fiachra Mac Góráin, Dionysus and Rome: religion and literature. Trends in classics, supplementary volumes, volume 93. Berlin; Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2020. 238 p. ISBN 9783110671568. €99,95.

James Wright, Mary Dabney, The Mycenaean settlement on Tsoungiza Hill. Nemea Valley archaeological project; Volume III. Princeton: ASCSA, 2020. 1240 p. ISBN 9780876619247. $150.00.

Janett Schröder, Die Polis als Sieger: Kriegsdenkmäler im archaisch-klassischen Griechenland. Klio. Beihefte, Neue Folge, Band 32. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. x, 342 p. ISBN 9783110626049. €99,95.

Jason Schlude, Rome, Parthia, and the politics of peace: the origins of war in the ancient Middle East. Routledge studies in ancient history, 12. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020. xvi, 221 p. ISBN 9780815353706. £120.00.

Jeremy Armstrong, Matthew Trundle, Brill’s companion to sieges in the ancient Mediterranean. Brill’s companions in classical studies. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. xvii, 353 p. ISBN 9789004373617. €129,00.

Johannes Helmrath, Fernández Ocón, Stefan Schlelein, Roberto Sanchin̋o Martínez, Figuren des Transformativen: Rezeption, Transfer, Austausch in den spanisch-deutschen kulturellen Beziehungen vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Transformationen der Antike, Band 63. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. viii, 273 p. ISBN 9783110648829. €79,95.

Ken Dark, Roman-period and Byzantine Nazareth and its hinterland. The Palestine Exploration Fund annual, vol. XV. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020. 188 p. ISBN 9780367408237 £115.00.

Mark Smith, Between temple and tomb: the demotic ritual texts of Bodl. MS. Egypt. a. 3(P). Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, Band 30. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. 205 p., 14 p. of plates. ISBN 9783447113311. €98,00.

Markus Asper, Thinking in cases: ancient Greek and imperial Chinese case narratives. Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures, volume 11. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. vi, 186 p. ISBN 9783110640700. €79,95.

Martin Auer, Roman settlements along the Drava River. Ager Aguntinus, Band 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. ix, 148 p. ISBN 9783447112888. €59,00.

Matthias Perkams, Alexander M. Schilling, Griechische Philosophie und Wissenschaft bei den Ostsyrern: Zum Gedenken an Mār Addai Scher (1867–1915). Transmissions, 3. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. ix, 214 p. ISBN 9783110658903. €79,95.

Monica De Cesare, Elisa Chiara Portale, Natascha Sojc, Akragas dialogue: new investigations on sanctuaries in Sicily. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. viii, 422 p. ISBN 9783110500271. €119,95.

Neil Coffee, Christopher Forstall, Damien Nelis, Milić Galli, Intertextuality in Flavian epic poetry: contemporary approaches. Trends in classics, supplementary volumes, volume 64. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. vii, 476 p. ISBN 9783110597684. €109,95.

Paul Erdkamp, Koenraad Verboven, Arjan Zuiderhoek, Capital, investment, and innovation in the Roman world. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xx, 487 p. ISBN 9780198841845. $130.00.

Philipp Weiß, Claudia Wiener, Claudius Claudianus. Politische Gedichte Carmina Maiora: Lateinisch-deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. 934 p. ISBN 9783110607505. €79,95.

Raimondo Zucca, Il tempoi del Sardus pater ad antas: Fluminimaggiore, sud Sardegna. Monumenti Antichi, 79 – serie misc., 24. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2019. viii, 335 p. ISBN 9788876893186. $122.10.

Reinhard Achenbach, Persische Reichspolitik und lokale Heiligtümer: Beiträge einer Tagung des Exzellenzclusters ‘Religion und Politik in den Kulturen der Vormoderne und Moderne’ vom 24.-26. Februar 2016 in Münster. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte (BZAR), Band 25. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. viii, 294 p. ISBN 9783447113199. € 68,00.

Robert Kaster, Cicero: Brutus and Orator. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xi, 311 p. ISBN 9780190857851. $24.95 (pb).

Roland Oetjen, New perspectives in Seleucid history, archaeology and numismatics: studies in honor of Getzel M. Cohen. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 355. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. xvii, 814 p. ISBN 9783110283785. €129,95.

Ross Shepard Kraemer, The Mediterranean diaspora in late antiquity: what Christianity cost the Jews. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 520 p. ISBN 9780190222277. $99.00.

Steffi Grundmann, Haut und Haar: politische und soziale Bedeutungen des Körpers im klassischen Griechenland. Philippika, 133. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. xiv, 594 p. ISBN 9783447112857. € 118,00.

Sylvie Dumont, Vrysaki: a neighborhood lost in search of the Athenian agora. Princeton: ASCSA, 2020. 276 p. ISBN 9780876619698. $80.00.

Tejedor Cabrera, From Hispalis to Ishbiliyya: the ancient port of Seville, from the Roman empire to the end of the Islamic period (45 BC-AD 1248). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 54. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019. xx, 215 p. ISBN 9781789690583. £45.00.

Waldemar Heckel, In the path of the conqueror: resistance to Alexander the Great. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 368 p. ISBN 9780190076689. $34.95.