This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in November 2020 by BMCR; some books listed here may already have been assigned to reviewers. To volunteer to review a book, please visit this page, where you will find a complete list of books available for review, including those still available from previous months.
Clifford Ando, William P. Sullivan, The discovery of the fact. Law and society in the ancient world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. Pp. 214. ISBN 9780472131884. $75.00.
Yelena Baraz, Reading Roman pride. Emotions of the past. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 325. ISBN 9780197531594. $74.00.
Alexander Bätz, Seelen der Stadt: Bibliotheken im kaiserzeitlichen Rom. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. vi, 108. ISBN 9783447115056. €19,90.
Cinzia Bearzot, Studi Su Isocrate (1980-2000). Studi e Ricerche. Milan: Led Edizioni, 2020. Pp. 314. ISBN 9788879169448. €37,00.
Ian Begg, Lost worlds of ancient and modern Greece. Gilbert Bagnani: the adventures of a young Italian archaeologist in Greece, 1921-1924. Archaeological lives. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. Pp. 380. ISBN 9781789694529. £25.00.
Nicole Belayche, Francesco Massa, Mystery cults in visual representation in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, volume 194. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xiv, 238. ISBN 9789004439320. €93,00.
Alastair Blanshard, Emma Stafford, The modern Hercules: images of the hero from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity, volume 21. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xxvi, 672. ISBN 9789004440005. €159,00.
Guy Bradley, Early Roman Italy to 290 BC: the origins of Rome and the rise of the Republic. The Edinburgh history of ancient Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780748621095. $160.00.
Urs Breitenstein, Wahrheit und Wissen: Interdisziplinäre Veranstaltungen der Aeneas-Silvius-Stiftung. Vorträge der Aeneas-Silvius-Stiftung an der Universität Basel, 52. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2020. Pp. 180. ISBN 9783796541056. €34,00.
Sergio Brillante, Il “Periplo” di Pseudo-Scilace: l’oggettività del potere. Spudasmata, Band 189. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2020. Pp. xv, 289. ISBN 9783487159430. €88,00.
Kai Brodersen, Gut beschaffbare Heilmittel (Euporista). Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur, 91. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann Verlag, 2020. Pp. 464. ISBN 9783777220383. €98,00.
Lucia Carbone, Hidden power: late cistophoric production and the organization of Provincia Asia (128-89 BC). Numismatic studies, 42. New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2020. Pp. vii, 266 ISBN 9780897223638. $100.00.
Julieta Cardigni, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii o la farsa del discurso: Una lectura literaria de Marciano Capela. Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2018. Pp. 186. ISBN 9789874923493. $260.00.
Maria Celentano, Marie-Pierre Noël, Images et voix du silence dans le monde gréco-romain. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2020. Pp. 547. ISBN 9782848677262.
Aistė Čelkytė, The Stoic theory of beauty. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781474461610. $105.00.
Frederic Clark, The first pagan historian: the fortunes of a fraud from antiquity to the Enlightenment. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 366. ISBN 9780190492304. $74.00.
Timothy Clarke, Aristotle and the Eleatic one. Oxford Aristotle studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198719700. $72.00.
David Clint Burnett, Studying the New Testament through inscriptions: an introduction. Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781683071372. $39.95.
Kate Cooper, Jamie Wood, Social control in late antiquity: the violence of small worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 380. ISBN 9781108479394. $120.00.
Joseph Dalbera, Apulei Metamorphoseon: index verborum, liste de fréquence. Alpha-Omega, Reihe A, 266. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2020. Pp. xii, 451. ISBN 9783487159447. €198,00.
María-Paz de Hoz, Juan Luis García Alonso, Luis Arturo Guichard Romero, Greek “paideia” and local tradition in the Graeco-Roman East. Colloquia antiqua, 29. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. Pp. xxi, 270. ISBN 9789042940048. €87,00.
Koen De Temmerman, The Oxford handbook of ancient biography. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 800. ISBN 9780198703013. $145.00.
Jitse Dijkstra, Christian Raschle, Religious violence in the ancient world: from classical Athens to late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 432. ISBN 9781108494908. $120.00.
Matthew Duncombe, Relative change. Elements in ancient philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 9781108713429. $20.00.
Jaś Elsner, Figurines: figuration and the sense of scale. Visual conversations in art and archaeology. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780198861096. $40.00.
Nadezda Fichtner, Der Althistoriker Michail Rostovtzeff: Wissenschaft und Politik im vorrevolutionären und bolschewistischen Russland (1890-1918). Philippika, 142. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. viii, 367. ISBN 9783447114509. €84,00.
Filippo Forcignanò, Platone: Settima lettera. Classici, 39. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2020. Pp. 190. ISBN 9788843099023. €15,00.
Robin Lane Fox, The invention of medicine: a history from Homer to Hippocrates. New York: Basic Books, 2020. Pp. 432 ISBN 9780465093441. $35.00.
Julia Gaisser, Giovanni Gioviano Pontano. Dialogues, volume II: Actius. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 91. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 480. ISBN 9780674237186. $29.95.
Julia Gaisser, Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, volume III: Aegidius and Asinus. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 92. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780674248465. $29.95.
Chrysanthi Gallou, Death in Mycenaean Lakonia: a silent place. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2019. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781789252422. £48.00.
Beatrice Girotti, Christian R. Raschle, Città e Capitali nella Tarda Antichità. Studi e Ricerche. Milan: Led Edizioni, 2020. Pp. 260. ISBN 9788879169455. €32,50.
Robert Gnuse, Hellenism and the primary history: the imprint of Greek sources in Genesis – 2 Kings. Copenhagen international seminar. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 9780367462468. $128.00.
Gilles Gorre, Stéphanie Wackenier, Quand la fortune du royaume ne dépend pas de la vertu du prince: Un renforcement de la monarchie lagide de Ptolémée VI à Ptolémée X (169-88 av. J.-C.)? Studia Hellenistica, 59. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. Pp. 192. ISBN 9789042941694. €68,00.
Joachim Gruber, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Philosophiae Consolatio – Trost der Philosophie. Mittellateinische Bibliothek. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann Verlag, 2020. Pp. 282. ISBN 9783777220277. €49,00.
Ute Günkel-Maschek, Minoische Bild-Räume Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2020. Pp. 656. ISBN 9783947732913. €75,90.
Jeffrey Henderson, Richard F. Thomas, The Loeb Classical Library and its progeny: proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau, 18–20 May 2017. Loeb classical monographs. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 456. ISBN 9780674248717. $30.00.
Tonio Hölscher, Krieg und Kunst im antiken Griechenland und Rom: vier Triebkräfte kriegerischer Gewalt: Heldentum, Identität, Herrschaft, Ideologie. Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten, Band 4. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. 384. ISBN 9783110549508. €99,95.
Neil Hopkinson, A Hellenistic anthology. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 360. ISBN 9781108472401. $105.00.
Nicholas Horsfall, Fifty years at the Sibyl’s heels: selected papers on Virgil and Rome. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 544. ISBN 9780198863861. $110.00.
Marek Jan Olbrycht, Jeffrey Lerner, Michal Podrazik, Macedones, Persia et Ultima Orientis: Alexander’s anabasis from the Danube to the Syr Darya. Anabasis, studia classica et orientalia, 9. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018. Pp. 295. ISBN 9788379967278.
Ian Johnston, Galen. On Temperaments. On Non-Uniform Distemperment. The Soul’s Traits Depend on Bodily Temperament. Loeb classical library, 546. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 592. ISBN 9780674997387. $28.00.
Dominique Kassab Tezgör, Corpus des amphores romaines produites dans les centres de Mer Noire: Collections des musées de la côte turque de la Mer Noire (Ereğli, Amasra, Sinop, Samsun, Giresun, Ordu, Trabzon et Amasya). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 74. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. Pp. 194. ISBN 9781789696974.
Tae-Yeoun Keum, Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780674984646. $39.95.
Irene Lemos, Athéna Tsingarida, Beyond the polis: rituals, rites and cults in early and archaic Greece (12th-6th centuries BC). Études d’archéologie, 15. Bruxelles: CReA-Patrimoine, 2019. Pp. 302. ISBN 9782960202922. €80,00.
Rosario López Gregoris, Drama y dramaturgia en la escena romana: III Encuentro Internacional de Teatro Latino. Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico, 2019. Pp. 384. ISBN 9788479561888.
Carlo Lucarini, La genesi dei poemi omerici. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 376. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xi, 434. ISBN 9783110650044. $149.99.
Angelo Luceri, Claudiano tra scienza e “mirabilia”: “Hystrix”, “Nilus”, “Torpedo” (carm. min. 9, 28, 49). Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento. Spudasmata, Band 190. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2020. Pp. lv, 302. ISBN 9783487159485. €84,00.
Caroline Mackenzie, A Latin lexicon: an illustrated compendium of Latin words and English derivatives. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. Pp. 142. ISBN 9781789697629. £24,99.
Hallie Marshall, C. W. Marshall, Greek drama V: studies in the theatre of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781350142350. $115.00.
Marisa Marthari, Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd, Beyond the Cyclades: early Cycladic sculpture in context from mainland Greece, the north and east Aegean. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2019. Pp. 326. ISBN 9781789250602. £40.00.
Alexander Mazur, Dylan Burns, Kevin Corrigan, Ivan Miroshnikov, Toumas Rasimus, John Turner, The Platonizing Sethian background of Plotinus’s mysticism. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, volume 89. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xviii, 337. ISBN 9789004441675. €129,00.
Sean McAleer, Plato’s “Republic”: an introduction. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2020. Pp. xxvi, 316. ISBN 9781800640559.
Colin McAllister, The Cambridge Gloss on the Apocalypse. Cambridge University Library Dd.X.16. Corpus Christianorum in translation, 36. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. 167. ISBN 9782503582405. €35,00.
Michiel Meeusen, Ancient Greek medicine in questions and answers: diagnostics, didactics, dialectics. Studies in ancient medicine, volume 54. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xi, 242. ISBN 9789004437654. €106,00.
Cosima Möller, Martin Avenarius, Rudolf Meyer-Pritzl, Das Römische Recht: eine sinnvolle, in Auguralreligion und hellenistischen Philosophien wurzelnde Rechtswissenschaft? Forschungen von Okko Behrends revisited. Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Neue Folge, 53. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xi, 214. ISBN 9783110716450. $103.99.
Dominic Moreau, Salinero González, “Academica Libertas”: essais en l’honneur du professeur Javier Arce = Ensayos en honor del profesor Javier Arce. Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité tardive, 39. Brepols: Turnhout, 2020. Pp. 383. ISBN 9782503584492. €80,00.
Markus Mülke, Chrésima: exemplarische Studien zur frühchristlichen Chrêsis. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Band 138. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. vii, 367. ISBN 9783110646412 $126.99.
David Mulroy, Aristophanes. Lysistrata: a new verse translation. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. Pp. 176. ISBN 9780299329846. $12.95.
Eleutheria Papagiannē, Spyros Trōianos, Ludwig Burgmann, Alexios Aristenos: Kommentar zur “Synopsis Canonum.” Forschungen zur byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte. Neue Folge, Band 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xlvi, 272. ISBN 9783110586794. $114.99.
Helen Patterson, Robert Witcher, Giuseppe Di, Martin Millett, The changing landscapes of Rome’s northern hinterland: the British School at Rome’s Tiber Valley Project. Archaeopress Roman archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. Pp. xiv, 370. ISBN 9781789696158. £55.00.
Alessandro Poggio, Dynastic deeds: hunt scenes in the funerary imagery of the Achaemenid Eastern Mediterranean. BAR international series, 2974. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020. Pp. xii, 160. ISBN 9781407356389. £44.00.
Marina Poveda-Escolano, The Egyptian priests of the Graeco-Roman period: an analysis on the basis of the Egyptian and Graeco-Roman literary and paraliterary sources. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, Band 29. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. xiii, 395. ISBN 9783447114257. €98,00.
Jonathan Price, Katell Berthelot, The future of Rome: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian visions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. ix, 315. ISBN 9781108494816. $99.99.
Éric Rebillard, The early martyr narratives: neither authentic accounts nor forgeries. Divinations: rereading late ancient religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 192. ISBN 9780812252606. $59.95.
Cristina Rosillo-López, Public opinion and politics in the late Roman Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 270. ISBN 9781316508442. $32.99.
Aslak Rostad, Human transgression – divine retribution: a study of religious transgressions and punishments in Greek cultic regulation and Lydian-Phrygian propitiatory inscriptions (confession inscriptions). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781789695250. £39.00.
Vicky Roupa, Articulations of nature and politics in Plato and Hegel. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xi, 190. ISBN 9783030521264. £63.99.
Ester Salgarella, Aegean linear script(s): rethinking the relationship between Linear A and Linear B. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 436. ISBN 9781108479387. $120.00.
Benoît Sans, Charlotte Vanhalme, À l’école de l’Antiquité: hommages à Ghislaine Viré. Collection Latomus, 361. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2020. Pp. 262. ISBN 9789042941502. €55,00.
Gareth Schmeling, Petronius. Satyricon. Seneca. Apocolocyntosis. Loeb classical library, 15. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 544. ISBN 9780674997370. $28.00.
Tino Shahin, Fragmente eines Lebenswerks: historischer Kommentar zur Universalgeschichte des Nikolaos von Damaskus. Collection Latomus, volume 362. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2020. Pp. 268. ISBN 9789042941830. €60,00.
Tania Smith, Classical rhetoric in English, 1650-1800: a critical anthology. International studies in the history of rhetoric, volume 14. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xii, 686. ISBN 9789004442283. €159,00.
Heikki Solin, Studi storico-epigrafici sul Lazio antico II. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, 137. Helsinki: Societas Scieniarum Fennica, 2019. Pp. viii, 168. ISBN 9789516534346.
Richard Tarrant, Horace’s “Odes.” Oxford approaches to classical literature. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxii, 239. ISBN 9780195156751. $99.00.
Matteo Taufer, La montagna nell’antichità. Rombach-Wissenschaften: Reihe Paradeigmata, Band 56. Freiburg: Rombach Verlag, 2019. Pp. 426. ISBN 9783793099550. €48,00.
Stephen Charles Todd, A commentary on Lysias, speeches 12-16. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 754. ISBN 9780198851493 $195.00.
Isabelle Torrance, Donncha O’Rourke, Classics and Irish politics, 1916-2016. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780198864486. $115.00.
Franco V. Trivigno, Plato’s Ion: poetry, expertise and inspiration. Elements in ancient philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 9781108713450. $20.00.
Christoph Ulf, Erich Kistler, Die Entstehung Griechenlands. Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte, Band 46. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xiv, 314. ISBN 9783486529913. $28.99.
Mark David Usher, Plato’s pigs and other ruminations: ancient guides to living with nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 282. ISBN 9781108839587. $39.99.
Martin Winkler, Ovid on screen: a montage of attractions. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxi, 444, [24 p. of plates]. ISBN 9781108485401. $135.00.
John C. Yardley, Livy. History of Rome, volume VII. Books 26-27. Loeb classical library, 367. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780674997356. $28.00.
Fikret Yegül, The temple of Artemis at Sardis. Archaeological exploration of Sardis report, 7. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 336, 24 p. of plates. ISBN 9780674248564. $150.00.
Marte Zepernick, “Heilige Bäume” in der antiken griechischen Religion. Antike Kultur und Geschichte, Band 21. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2020. Pp. 232. ISBN 9783643146977. €34,90.