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, 

Daily Life in Ancient Rome. A Sourcebook

Brian K. Harvey  / Focus, 2016

Reviewed by Mark Thorne, 

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

Shaul Tor  / Cambridge University Press, 2017

Reviewed by Hilary Bouxsein, 

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, 

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, 

Studies in the reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic poetry

Alexandros Kampakoglou  / De Gruyter, 2019

Reviewed by Susan A. Stephens, 

Antioch II: the many faces of Antioch: intellectual exchange and religious diversity, CE 350-450

Silke-Petra Bergjan, Susanna Elm  / Mohr Siebeck, 2018

Reviewed by Joost Snaterse, 

Einführung in die Klassische Archäologie

Ralf von den Hoff  / C.H. Beck, 2019

Reviewed by Aura Piccioni, 

Agrippa II: the last of the Herods

David M. Jacobson  / Routledge, 2019

Reviewed by Michael Girardin, 

Athénée de Naucratis. Le banquet des savants, livre XIV: Spectacles, chansons, danses, musiques et desserts

Sylvie Rougier-Blanc  / Ausonius Éditions, 2018

Reviewed by Federick Naerebout, 

Postoral Homer: orality and literacy in the Homer epic

Rainer Friedrich  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019

Reviewed by Tyler Creer, 

The Iberian Peninsula between 300 and 850 : an archaeological perspective

Javier Martínez Jiménez, Isaac Sastre de Diego, Carlos Tejerizo García  / Amsterdam University Press, 2018

Reviewed by Jan Schneider, 

Cities and the meanings of late antiquity

Mark Humphries  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Anthony Kaldellis,