This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in March 2021 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.
Luca Arcari, Vedere Dio: le apocalissi giudaiche e protocristiane (IV sec. a.C.-II sec. d.C.). Frecce, 291. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2020. Pp. 442. ISBN 9788843098507. €39,00.
Stefan Ardeleanu, Numidia Romana? die Auswirkungen der römischen Präsenz in Numidien (2. Jh. v. Chr. – 1. Jh. n. Chr.). Archäologische Forschungen, 38. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021. Pp. xii, 575. ISBN 9783954905096. €98,00.
Peter A.J. Attema, Arend Jaco Bronkhorst, The people and the state: material culture, social structure, and political centralisation in central Italy (800-450 BC) from the perspective of ancient Crustumerium (Rome, Italy). Corollaria Crustumina, 4. Eelde: Barkhuis, 2020. Pp. 210. ISBN 9789493194236. €50,00.
Emily P. Austin, Grief and the hero: the futility of longing in the Iliad. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Pp. 203. ISBN 9780472132324. $54.95.
Laura Banducci, Foodways in Roman Republican Italy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Pp. xvi, 349. ISBN 9780472132300. $85.00.
Alicia J. Batten, Kelly Olson, Dress in Mediterranean antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. London; New York: T&T Clark, 2021. Pp, 424. ISBN 9780567684653. $175.00.
Manuel Baumbach, Morales Sanz, Chariton von Aphrodisias: ‘Kallirhoe’ Kommentar zu den Büchern I-IV. Wissenschaftliche Kommentare zu griechischen und lateinischen Schriftstellern. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021. Pp. 332. ISBN 9783825350383. €65,00.
Ashley Beck, Lucifer of Cagliari, Concerning Athanasius. Why no one must judge or condemn a man in his absence. Brepols Library of Christian Sources (BLCS), 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. 232. ISBN 9782503592831. €50,00.
Hans Beck, Griet Vankeerberghen, Rulers and ruled in ancient Greece, Rome, and China. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 448. ISBN 9781108485777. $120.00.
Alberto Bertozzi, Plotinus on love: an introduction to his metaphysics through the concept of “Eros”. Philosophia antiqua: a series of studies on ancient philosophy, 155. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xv, 438. ISBN 9789004441002. €143,00.
Anne Bielman Sanchez, Isabelle Cogitore, Anne Kolb, Femmes influentes dans le monde hellénistique et à Rome: IIIe siècle avant J.C. – Ier siècle après J.C. Des princes. Grenoble: UGA Éditions, 2021. Pp. 262. ISBN 9782377472420. €25,00.
Fritz Blakolmer, Current approaches and new perspectives in Aegean iconography. AEGIS, 18. Louvain-la-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2020. Pp. 411. ISBN 9782875589682. €58,50.
Olivier Blamangin, Angélique Demon, Cauwenberghe Hoët-Van, Boulogne-sur-Mer antique, entre terre et mer: Gesoriacum-Bononia, le port et son arrière-pays. Actes de la table ronde du Projet collectif de recherche, PCR, Atlas topographique de la ville antique de Boulogne-sur-Mer, Boulogne-sur-mer, 24-25 septembre 2015. Archaiologia. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2020. Pp. 446. ISBN 9782757430255. €33,00.
Luka Borsic, Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs: Iron Age ships of the eastern Adriatic. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021. Pp. 226. ISBN 9781789699159. £34,00.
Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic, Magna voce. Effets et pouvoirs de la voix dans la philosophie et la littérature antiques. Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2021. Pp. 473. ISBN 9782406106609. €49,00.
Paul Bradshaw, Egeria, journey to the Holy Land. Brepols Library of Christian Sources (BLCS), 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. 124. ISBN 9782503592817. €45,00.
David Clint Burnett, Christ’s enthronement at God’s right hand and its Greco-Roman cultural context. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 242. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 226. ISBN 9783110691535. $99.99.
Laura Carotti, Astri, fortuna, libero arbitrio: discussioni fra 400 e 600. Quaderni di Rinascimento, 54. Firenze: Olschki Editore, 2020. Pp. xiv, 114. ISBN 9788822267412. €19,00.
Reyes Bertolín Cebrián, The athlete in the ancient Greek world. Oklahoma series in classical culture, 61. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 234. ISBN 9780806166261. $29.95.
Diego Chapinal-Heras, Experiencing Dodona: the development of the Epirote sanctuary from Archaic to Hellenistic times. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. xii, 264. ISBN 9783110727517. $126.99.
Benoît Chazal, La Rhétorique du blâme dans l’Histoire Auguste. POLEN: Pouvoirs, lettres, normes, 20. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. Pp. 445. ISBN 9782406106104. €34,00.
Elena Chepel, Laughter for the gods: ritual in old comedy. Kernos. Supplement, 35. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2020. Pp. 230. ISBN 9782875622365. €31,65.
Catherine Collobert, Territoire philosophique, territoire poétique: l’annexion platonicienne. Horos. Grenoble: Millon, 2020. Pp. 307. ISBN 9782841373543. €31,00.
Christophe Cusset, Pierre Belanfont, Claire-Emmanouelle Nardone, Féminités hellénistiques: voix, genre, représentations. Hellenistica Groningana, 25. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. Pp. vii, 630. ISBN 9789042940697. €98,00.
Malcolm Davies, Lesser and anonymous fragments of Greek lyric poetry: a commentary. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780198860501. £120.00.
Christopher de Lisle, Agathokles of Syracuse: Sicilian tyrant and Hellenistic king. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 384. ISBN 9780198861720. £90.00.
Alejandro Cantarero de Salazar, Alicia Esteban Santos, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado, Greek lyric poetry and its influence: texts, iconography, music and cinema. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. Pp, xxxvi, 355. ISBN 9781527559868. £67.99.
Lutz Doering, Andrew R. Krause, Synagogues in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Archaeological finds, new methods, new theories. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. Pp. 432. ISBN 9783525522158. €99,00.
Óscar Prieto Domínguez, Literary circles in Byzantine iconoclasm: patrons, politics, and saints. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 542. ISBN 9781108491303. $120.00.
Filip Doroszewski, Katarzyna Jazdzewska, Nonnus of Panopolis in context III: old questions and new perspectives. Mnemosyne supplements, 438. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. 552. ISBN 9789004443235. €135,00.
Geoff Emberling, Bruce Williams, The Oxford handbook of ancient Nubia. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 1200. ISBN 9780190496272. £150.00.
Étienne Évrard, Etudes philoponiennes: philosopher à l’École d’Alexandrie. Philosophie, 8. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2021. Pp. 436. ISBN 9782875622563. €20,00.
Jennifer Eyl, Signs, wonders, and gifts: divination in the letters of Paul. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780190924652. $105.00.
Christopher Francese, Core Latin and ancient Greek vocabularies. Carlisle: Dickinson College Commentaries, 2020. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781947822061. $15.00.
Ursula Gärtner, Phaedrus. Ein Interpretationskommentar zum zweiten und dritten Buch der Fabeln. Zetemata, 157. München: C.H. Beck, 2021. Pp. 280. ISBN 9783406766695. €88,00.
Vitas Gavrilovic, Ex Asia et Syria: oriental religions in the Roman central Balkans. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021. Pp. 226. ISBN 9781789699135. £42.00.
Allan T. Georgia, Gaming Greekness: cultural agonism among Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire. Gorgias studies in early Christianity and patristics, 76. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 358. ISBN 9781463241230. $158.00.
Ayelet Gilboa, Assaf Yasur-Landau, Nomads of the Mediterranean: trade and contact in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Studies in honor of Michal Artzy. Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 112. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xii, 352. ISBN 9789004430105. €182,00.
Matthias Grawehr, Christina Leypold, Martin Mohr, Ellen Thiermann, Klassik – Kunst der Könige: kings and Greek art in the 4th Century BC. Zürcher archäologische Forschungen, 7. Rahden, Westfalen: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2020. Pp. 224. ISBN 9783867576673. €54,00.
Fabio Guidetti, Leontius Mechanicus. Trattato della sfera celeste: sulla costruzione di una sfera aratea. Il mito, 8. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2020. Pp. 262, [16 p. of plates]. ISBN 9788846753915. €22,00.
Marc Domingo Gygax, Arjan Zuiderhoek, Benefactors and the polis: the public gift in the Greek cities from the Homeric world to late antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 359. ISBN 9781108842051. $99.99.
Anna Heller, L’âge d’or des bienfaiteurs: titres honorifiques et sociétés civiques dans l’Asie Mineure d’époque romaine, Ier s. av. J.-C.- IIIe s. apr. J.-C. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain, 58. Genève: Droz, 2020. Pp. 307. ISBN 9782600057462. $58.80.
Sylvie Honigman, Christophe Nihan, Oded Lipschitz, Times of transition: Judea in the early Hellenistic period. Mosaics: studies on ancient Israel, 1. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781646021147. $129.95.
Alessandro Iannucci, Luciano di Samosata. Filosofi in vendita: introduzione, traduzione e commento. Edizioni e saggi universitari di filologia classica, 71. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2020. Pp. 193. ISBN 9788855534895. €27,00.
Joachim Jacob, Johannes Süssmann, The reception of antiquity in the Age of Enlightenment. Brill’s New Pauly – supplements, 12. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. 566. ISBN 9789004339354. €299,00.
Brita Jansen, Die hellenistische Befestigung von Seleukeia Gadara (Umm Qays). Gadara III. Orient-Archäologie, 42. Rahden, Westfalen: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH, 2020. Pp. xviii, 196. ISBN 9783896466723. €74,80.
Thomas Kjeller Johansen, Productive knowledge in ancient philosophy: the concept of “technê”. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 316 ISBN 9781108485845 $99.99.
Chad Jorgenson, Filip Karfík, Štěpán Špinka, Plato’s “Timaeus”: proceedings of the tenth Symposium Platonicum Pragense. Brill’s Plato studies series, 5. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. x, 293. ISBN 9789004436060. €94,00.
Konstantinos Kapparis, Women in the law courts of classical Athens. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2021. Pp, 288. ISBN 9781474446723. $105.00.
Young Richard Kim, A.E.T. McLaughlin, Leadership and community in late antiquity: essays in honour of Raymond Van Dam. Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, 26. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. xii, 337. ISBN 9782503583235. €90,00.
Lukas Lemcke, Bridging center and periphery: administrative communication from Constantine to Justinian. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. Pp. xii, 342. ISBN 9783161589447. €80,00.
Cesare Letta, “Tra umano e divino”. Forme e limiti del culto degli imperatori nel mondo romano. La Casa dei Sapienti, 3. Sarzana: Agorà & Co., 2021. Pp. 224. ISBN 9788889526736. €30,00.
Gloria London, Wine jars and jar makers of Cyprus: the ethnoarchaeology of pitharia. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, pocket book, 188. Nicosia: Astrom Editions, 2020. Pp. xxii, 218. ISBN 9789925745555.
Vivien Longhi, Krisis ou la décision génératrice: épopée, médecine hippocratique, Platon. Cahiers de philologie, 36. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2020. Pp. 322. ISBN 9782757431443. €26,00.
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Antiquity in Gotham: the ancient architecture of New York City. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780823293841. $39.95.
Stephanie McCarter, Horace: Epodes, Odes, and Carmen saeculare. Oklahoma series in classical culture, 60. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 581. ISBN 9780806164878. $39.45.
John M. McManamon, “Neither letters nor swimming”: the rebirth of swimming and free-diving. Brill’s studies in maritime history, 9. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xvi, 467. ISBN 9789004446205. €129,00.
Jessica Moss, Plato’s epistemology: being and seeming. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780198867401. £65.00.
Margot Neger, Epistolare Narrationen: Studien zur Erzähltechnik des jüngeren Plinius. Classica Monacensia, 56. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2021. Pp. 444. ISBN 9783823383451. €88,00.
Su Fang Ng, Alexander the Great from Britain to southeast Asia: peripheral empires in the global renaissance. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780198777687. $125.00.
Nina Nikki, Kirsi M.J. Valkama, Magic in the ancient eastern Mediterranean: cognitive, historical, and material perspectives on the Bible and its contexts. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. Pp. 331. ISBN 9783525522189. €50,00.
Vivian Nutton, Laurence Totelin, Ancient medicine, behind and beyond Hippocrates: essays in honour of Elizabeth Craik. Technai, 11. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 9788833152882. €125,00.
Juan Manuel Abascal Palazón, Gezá Alföldy, Conventus Carthaginiensis: Fasc. 1; Pars Septentrionalis Conventus Carthaginiensis (Titulcia, Toletum, Consabura, Segobriga). Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. 400. ISBN 9783110671636. $250.00.
Wojciech Pietruszka, The municipal elites of Campania during the Antonine-Severan period. Philippika, 140. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. x, 487. ISBN 9783447114523. €98,00.
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Le polythéisme grec à l’épreuve d’Hérodote. Docet omnia, 30. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020. Pp. 256. ISBN 9782251451459. €21,50.
Nikolas Pissis, Nora Schmidt, Gyburg Uhlmann, Wissensoikonomien Ordnung und Transgression vormoderner Kulturen. Episteme in Bewegung, 18. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. xviii, 350. ISBN 9783447115100. €68,00.
Philomen Probert, Latin grammarians on the Latin accent: the transformation of Greek grammatical thought. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xxiii, 321. ISBN 9780198841609. £84.00.
Syrithe Pugh, Conversations: classical and Renaissance intertextuality. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781526152671. £80.00.
Antonio Ricciardetto, Danielle Gourevitch, Théon, l’enfant grec d’Oxyrhynque. La vie quotidienne en Égypte au IIIe siècle. Cahiers du CEDOPAL, 9. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2020. Pp. 111. ISBN 9782875622419. €24,00.
Jean-Noel Robert, Michel Zink, Les petites phrases. Puissance de la brièveté dans les littératures d’Orient et d’Occident. Actes du 30e colloque de la Villa Kérylos à Beaulieu-sur-Mer les 11 et 12 octobre 2019. Cahiers de la Villa “Kérylos”, 31. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. Pp. xiv, 386. ISBN 9782877543941. €50,00.
Livio Rossetti, Nicola S. Galgano, Stefania Giombini, Flavia Marcacci, Verso la filosofia: Nuove prospettive su Parmenide, Zenone e Melisso. Eleatica, 8. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2020. Pp. 305. ISBN 9783896659262. €59,00.
Antonella Ruberto, Serse: tradizioni sul Re di Persia in età classica. Documenti e studi, 72. Bari: Edipuglia, 2020. Pp. 142. ISBN 9788872289433. €30,00.
Ornella Salati, Scrivere documenti nell’esercito romano L’evidenza dei papiri latini d’Egitto tra I e III d.C. Philippika, 139. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. 244. ISBN 9783447114516. €64,00.
Carlo Scardino, Mehran Nickbakht, Aurelius Victor: Historiae Abbreviatae. Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike (KFHist), 2. Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2021. Pp. xxx, 379. ISBN 9783506702753. €124,00.
Paul Scarron, Le Virgile travesti. Classiques Jaunes, 580. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. Pp. 685, 8 p. of plates. ISBN 9782812413063. €18.00.
Malcolm Schofield, Cicero: political philosophy. Founders of modern political and social thought. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780199684922. £19.99.
Eugen Schweitzer, Was ist so wichtig an Platons Atlantis-Bericht? Geschichte, 179. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2020. Pp. 224. ISBN 9783643148148. €39,90.
Jorn Seubers, Scratching through the surface: revisiting the archaeology of city and country in Crustumerium and north Latium Vetus between 850 and 300 BC. Corollaria Crustumina, 3. Eelde: Barkhuis, 2020. Pp. 262. ISBN 9789493194212. €55,00.
Kenneth A. Sheedy, Gillian Davis, Mines, metals, and money: ancient world studies in science, archaeology and history. Metallurgy in numismatics, 6. London: The Royal Numismatic Society, 2020. Pp. 326. £50.00.
Bethany Somma, Models of desire in Graeco-Arabic philosophy: from Plotinus to Ibn Tufayl. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 27. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xii, 271. ISBN 9789004460836. €120,00.
Brian P. Sowers, In her own words: the life and poetry of Aelia Eudocia. Hellenic studies, 80. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780674987371. $24.95.
Suzanne Stern-Gillet, Kevin Corrigan, José C. Baracat Jr., A text worthy of Plotinus: the lives and correspondence of P. Henry S.J., H.-R. Schwyzer, A.H. Armstrong, J. Trouillard and J. Igal S.J. Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1, 59. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2021. Pp. 428. ISBN 9789462702592. €98,00.
Joanne Vera Stolk, Guus A.J.C. van Loon, Text editions of (abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin and Coptic papyri and ostraca: some people love their friends also when they are far away: Festschrift in honour of Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, 37. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xxiii, 277. ISBN 9789004438644. €149,00.
Jean Straus, L’esclave dans l’Égypte romaine: choix de documents traduits et commentés. Cahiers du CEDOPAL, 8. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2020. Pp. 150. ISBN 9782875622402. €14,00.
Gaëlle Tallet, La splendeur des dieux: quatre études iconographiques sur l’hellénisme égyptien. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 193. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. 1341 (2 vols.). ISBN 9789004428911. €275,00.
Ansgar Teichgräber, Was ist also unser Lohn?: die Finanzen der nordafrikanischen Kirchen im 4. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert. Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum. Ergänzungsband. Kleine Reihe, 16. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2020. Pp. vii, 244. ISBN 9783402109250. €39,00.
Mario Telò, Archive feelings: a theory of Greek tragedy. Classical memories/modern identities. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020. Pp. 322. ISBN 9780814214558. $99.95.
Chiara Thumiger, Holism in ancient medicine and its reception. Studies in ancient medicine, 53. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xiii, 447. ISBN 9789004443082. €125,00.
Marc Van de Mieroop, A history of ancient Egypt, (Second edition). Blackwell history of the ancient world. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781119620877. £37.95.
Hendrikus A.M. van Wijlick, Rome and the Near Eastern kingdoms and principalities, 44-31 BC: a study of political relations during civil war. Impact of empire: Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476, 38. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. 321. ISBN 9789004441743. €119,00.
Aäron Vanspauwen, In defence of faith, against the Manichaeans: critical edition and historical, literary and theological study of the treatise “Aduersus Manichaeos”, attributed to Evodius of Uzalis. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, 79. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. 520. ISBN 9782503589954. €120,00.
Daniel Wendt, Abjekte Antike: Die Obszönität antiker Literatur im Frankreich der Frühen Neuzeit. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, 163. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. Pp. 334. ISBN 9783825347246. €52,00.
Michelle Zerba, Modern odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a poetics of indirection. Classical memories/modern identities. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021. Pp. 250. ISBN 9780814214640. $99.95.