Month: April 2020

Books Received March 2020

Decoration and display in Rome’s imperial thermae: messages of power and their popular reception at the Baths of Caracalla

Maryl B. Gensheimer  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Susann Lusnia, 

L’art du sous-entendu: histoire – théorie – mode d’emploi

Laurent Pernot  / Fayard, 2018

Reviewed by Stefano Grazzini, 

Plato’s forms, mathematics and astronomy

Theokritos Kouremenos  / De Gruyter, 2018

Reviewed by Joanna Komorowska, 

Porphyry’s On the cave of the nymphs in its intellectual context

K. Nilüfer Akçay  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Giannis Stamatellos, 

Daily Life in Ancient Rome. A Sourcebook

Brian K. Harvey  / Focus, 2016

Reviewed by Mark Thorne, 

Galien de Pergame ou la rhétorique de la Providence: médecine, littérature et pouvoir à Rome

Caroline Petit  / Brill, 2018

Reviewed by Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen, 

Mortal and divine in early Greek epistemology: a study of Hesiod, Xenophanes, and Parmenides

Shaul Tor  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Hilary Bouxsein, 

Terence: the girl from Andros

Peter Brown  / Liverpool University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Sander Goldberg, 

Women, children and the family in Palmyra

Signe Krag, Rubina Raja  / The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2019

Reviewed by Leonardo Gregoratti, 

Galen’s treatise ‘De indolentia’ in context. A tale of resilience

Caroline Petit  / Brill, 2018

Reviewed by Mónica Durán Mañas, 

George Herbert’s Latin verse: Musae Responsoriae, Passio Discerpta, Lucus, and Alia Poemata Latina

Catherine Freis, Richard Freis, Greg Miller  / George Herbert Journal, 2017

Reviewed by Geoffrey Harrison, 

Language and authority in De lingua Latina: Varro’s guide to being Roman

Diana Spencer  / University of Wisconsin Press, 2019

Reviewed by Noah A.S. Segal, 

Cicero, Greek learning, and the making of a Roman classic

Caroline Bishop  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Christopher van der Berg, 

Joining the Dots. Plato’s Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean

Tony O'Connell  / Tony O'Connell (Kindle e-book B07K8S11ZR), 2018

Reviewed by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, 

Antiques uchronies: quand les Grecs et Romains imaginent des histoires alternatives

Alexandre Grandazzi, Anne Queyrel-Bottineau  / Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2018

Reviewed by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, 

Critics, compilers, and commentators: an introduction to Roman philology, 200 BCE-800 CE

James E. G. Zetzel  / Oxford University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Catherine Conybeare, 

Material approaches to Roman magic: occult objects and supernatural substances

Adam Parker, Stuart McKie  / Oxbow, 2018

Reviewed by Frances McIntosh, 

A student commentary on Pausanias book 2

Patrick Paul Hogan  / University of Michigan Press, 2018

Reviewed by John Gruber-Miller, 

The narrative self in early Christianity: essays in honor of Judith Perkins

Judith Perkins, Janet E. Spittler  / Society of Biblical Literature, 2019

Reviewed by David Brakke,