BMCR 2021.07.01

Books Received June 2021

This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in June 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. Please allow at least a couple of weeks for us to reply to your request.

 

Peter Adamson, Christof Rapp, State and nature: studies in ancient and medieval philosophy. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. xi, 424. ISBN 9783110735437. $129.99.

Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Greg Woolf, SENSORIVM: the senses in Roman polytheism. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 195. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xv, 458. ISBN 9789004459731. €124,00.

Bassir Amiri, Migrations et mobilité religieuse: espaces, contacts, dynamiques et interférences. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1505. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2020. Pp. 307. ISBN 9782848678344. €25,00.

Ronnie Ancona, Georgia Tsouvala, New directions in the study of women in the Greco-Roman world. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 300. ISBN 9780190937638. $85.00.

Lucia Arcifa, Pietro Militello, Vincenzo la Rosa (1941- 2014): un archeologo tra Sicilia e Egeo. Praehistorica Mediterranea. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021. Pp. 172. ISBN 9781789698176. £30.00.

Giulia Beghini, Il latino colloquiale nell’Eneide: approfondimenti sull’arte poetica di Virgilio. Testi e manuali per l’insegnamento universitario del latino, 149. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2020. Pp. 390. ISBN 9788855534680. €38,00.

Theodore A. Bergren, 1 Clement : a reader’s edition. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2020. Pp. ix, 193. ISBN 9780813232362. $22.95.

Katell Berthelot, Reconsidering Roman power: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2020. Pp. 530. ISBN 9782728314089. €41,00.

Claus-Friedrich Bieritz, Die lateinische Poesie des Louis Petremol: Manierismus und Diodor-Rezeption im französischen Humanismus. Quellen und Untersuchungen zur lateinischen Philologie des Mittelalters, 25. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2021. Pp. viii, 697. ISBN 9783777221182. €196,00.

Gregor Bitto, Bardo Maria Gauly, Auf der Suche nach Autofiktion in der antiken Literatur. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. x, 246. ISBN 9783110739039. $126.99.

Sophia Bönisch-Meyer, Dialogangebote: die Anrede des Kaisers jenseits der offiziellen Titulatur. Impact of empire, 39. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. x, 625. ISBN 9789004443730. €125,00.

Alan K. Bowman, Charles V. Crowther, Simon Hornblower, Rachel Mairs, Kyriakos Savvopoulos, Corpus of Ptolemaic inscriptions. Volume 1, Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1-206). Part I: Greek, bilingual, and trilingual inscriptions from Egypt. Oxford studies in ancient documents. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 576. ISBN 9780198860495. $155.00.

David Braund, Vladimir Stolba, Ulrike Peter, Environment and habitation around the ancient Black Sea. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 340. ISBN 9783110715705. $137.99.

Bé Breij, Quintilian. The poor man’s torture (Major declamations, 7). Cassino: Edizioni Università di Cassino, 2020. Pp. 281. ISBN 9788883171109. €35,00.

Stefano Briguglio, La notte di Argo: saggio di commento a Stazio, Tebaide 1, 390-720. Millennium, 11. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2020. Pp. viii, 352. ISBN 9788836130702. €28,50.

Sarah Broadie, Mathematics in Plato’s Republic. The Aquinas lectures, 83. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2020. Pp. 57. ISBN 9780874621952. $15.00.

Kai Brodersen, Nikomachus. Einführung in die Arithmetik: Griechisch – Deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 240. ISBN 9783110735260. $45.99.

Catharine Bry, Libanios. Discours, XXXIV, XXXV, and XXXVI. Collection des universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020. Pp. 278. ISBN 9782251006383. €53,00.

Elizabeth A. Clark, Melania the Younger: from Rome to Jerusalem. Women in antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780190888237. $29.95.

Stephen Clarke, Greek orators VII. Demosthenes 8: ‘On the Chersonese’. Aris and Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781789628159. £22.99.

Gian Biagio Conte, Virgilian Parerga: textual criticism and stylistic analysis. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. vii, 128. ISBN 9783110703955. $91.99.

Martin J. Cropp, Minor Greek tragedians, volume 2. Fourth-century and Hellenistic poets. Aris and Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. 476. ISBN 9781800348721. £90.00.

Nicolas D’Andrès, Socrate néoplatonicien: une science de l’amour dans le commentaire de Proclus sur Le premier Alcibiade. Textes et traditions, 31. Paris: J. Vrin, 2020. Pp. 303. ISBN 9782711629558. €35,00.

Cécile Daude, Sylvie David, Michel Fartzoff, Claire Muckensturm-Poulle, Scholies à Pindare. Volume II: Scholies à la deuxième Olympique. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de France-Comté, 2020. Pp. 310. ISBN 9782848677712. €38,00.

Stephen J. Davis, Catalogue of Coptic and Arabic manuscripts in Dayr al-Suryān. Volume 1. Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 677. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. Pp. xxxvi, 427. ISBN 9789042940147. €130,00.

Stephen J. Davis, Catalogue of Coptic and Arabic manuscripts in Dayr al-Suryān. Volume 2. Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 678. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. Pp. xxxvi, 313. ISBN 9789042940154. €105,00.

Charalambos Dendrinos, Ilias Giarenis, Bibliophilos: books and learning in the Byzantine world. Byzantinisches Archiv, 39. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 430. ISBN 9783110717099. $206.99.

Lorenzo di Maggio, Virgilius redivivus: Einführung, Kommentar und Übersetzung zu Virgilius Maro Grammaticus. Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 107. Trier: WVT, 2021. Pp. 556. ISBN 9783868218817. €63,50.

Alessia Di Marco, Per la nuova edizione del “De verborum significatione” di Festo: studi sulla tradizione e “specimen” di testo critico (lettera O). Spudasmata, 191. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2021. Pp. 254. ISBN 9783487159706. €78,00.

Silvia Di Vincenzo, Avicenna. ‘The Healing, Logic: Isagoge’: a new edition, English translation and commentary of the Kitāb al-Madḫal of Avicenna’s Kitāb al-Šifāʾ. Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 31. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp, clxxviii, 420. ISBN 9783110726688. $137.99.

Hans Diller, Karl-Heinz Leven, Hippokrates: Die Heilkunst. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2021. Pp. 138. ISBN 9783150196946. €6,00.

Friedemann Drews, Teilhabe-Ontologie und interreligiöser Dialog im Platonismus und Christentum. Collegium Metaphysicum, 19. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Pp. xvi, 558. ISBN 9783161560514. €120,00.

Murray Eiland, The archaeology of Nineveh: unveiling the nomadic Parthian Empire. London: Woolridge Press, 2021. Pp. 329. ISBN 9781838031633.

R. Malcom Errington, Die Verträge der griechisch-römischen Welt von ca. 200 v.Chr. bis zum Beginn der Kaiserzeit. Die Staatsverträge des Altertums, 4. München: C.H. Beck, 2020. Pp. xiii, 664. ISBN 9783406026966.

Marco Fantuzzi, Helen Morales, Tim Whitmarsh, Reception in the Greco-Roman world: literary studies in theory and practice. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 478. ISBN 9781316518588. £90.00.

Michel Fauquier, Rome et Carthage: 509-29 av. J.-C. Cursus. Malakoff: Armand Colin, 2020. Pp. 240. ISBN 9782200630133. $44.00.

Éric Foulon, Michel Molin, Dion Cassius. Histoire romaine: livres 78, 79, et 80. Collection des universités de France, Série grecque, 551. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020. Pp. clxxxviii, 340. ISBN 9782251006369. £65,00.

Jérôme France, Tribut: une histoire fiscale de la conquête romaine. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021. Pp. 530. ISBN 9782251451787.

Mariavittoria Antico Gallina, Dall’immagine cartografica alla ricostruzione storica. Manuali. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2021. Pp. 238. ISBN 9788855130363. €16,99.

Clive Gamble, Making deep history: zeal, perseverance, and the time revolution of 1859. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198870692. $32.95.

Laurentino García y García, Ludus gladiatorius: la caserma dei gladiatori a Pompei: notizie archeologiche, storiche e iconografiche. Collana “Militaria”, 9. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 114. ISBN 9788831341103. €28,00.

Dario Garribba, La Giudea di Gesù: dalla morte di Erode il Grande alla fine del Regno di Agrippa I (4 a.C.-44 d.C.). Oí chrístíanoí. Sezione antica, 29. Trapani: Il pozzo di Giacobbe, 2020. Pp. 206. ISBN 9788861248427. €22,00.

María Pilar García Ruiz, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, Emperors and emperorship in late antiquity: images and narratives. Impact of empire, 40. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xii, 248. ISBN 9789004446908. €105,00.

Marc Gasser-Wingate, Aristotle’s empiricism. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780197567456. $74.00.

Ulrich Gebhardt, Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus. Von den Ereignissen der geistlichen Geschichte: Lateinisch – Deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 328. ISBN 9783110727579. $57.99.

Philipp Geitner, Anachronismus und Aktualisierung in Ovids ‘Metamorphosen’: eine Ästhetik uneigentlicher Zeitlichkeit. Millennium-Studien, 94. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. x, 398. ISBN 9783110739022. Open Access.

Bill Gladhill, Micah Young Myers, Walking through Elysium: Vergil’s underworld and the poetics of tradition. Phoenix supplementary volumes, 59. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. vi, 302. ISBN 9781487505776. $75.00.

Tommaso Gnoli, Valerio Neri, Le identità regionali nell’impero tardoantico. Antiquitas. Classici della storiografia, 2. Milano: Jouvence, 2019. Pp. 411. ISBN 9788878016781. €28,00.

Tommaso Gnoli, Aspetti di tarda antichità: storici, storia e documenti del IV secolo d.C. Collana studi di storia della Rivista storica dell’antichità, 18. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2019. Pp. 325. ISBN 9788855534543. €35,00.

Luis Unceta Gómez, Carmen González Vázquez, Rosario López Gregoris, Antonio M. Martín Rodríguez, Estudios lingüísticos en homenaje al profesor Benjamín García-Hernández. Amice benigneque honorem nostrum habes. Madrid: UAM Ediciones, 2021. Pp. 877. ISBN 9788483447772.

Matthew M. Gorey, Atomism in the Aeneid: physics, politics, and cosmological disorder. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 184. ISBN 9780197518748. $74.00.

Brian Gronewoller, Rhetorical economy in Augustine’s theology. Oxford studies in historical theology. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780197566558. $99.00.

Peter Habermehl, Bellum civile (Sat. 119-124). Texte und Kommentare, 27/3. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. lxxxiv, 570. ISBN 9783110582741. $172.99.

Annette Haug, Principles of decoration in the Roman world. Decorative principles in late Republican and early Imperial Italy, 2. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. vii, 192. ISBN 9783110729061. $137.99. Open Access.

Justin A. Haynes, The medieval classic: twelfth-century Latin epic and the Virgilian commentary tradition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780190091361. $99.00.

Guy Hedreen, Material world: the intersection of art, science, and nature in ancient literature and its Renaissance reception. NIKI studies in Netherlandish-Italian art history, 15. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xviii, 308. ISBN 9789004423763. €125,00.

Ingrid Hesekamp, Das Bild von ‘Africa’ in der augusteischen Dichtung. Poetische Konstruktionen eines geographischen Raumes (Vergil, ‘Aeneis’ – Horaz – Properz). Göttinger Forum für AltertumswissenschaftBeihefte Neue Folge, 11. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. x, 263. ISBN 9783110736090. $126.99.

Anthony Hooper, George Alexander Gazis, Aspects of death and the afterlife in Greek literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781789621495. £90.00.

James Howard-Johnston, The last great war of antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xix, 446, [8 p. of plates]. ISBN 9780198830191. £35.00.

Daniel Jolowicz, Latin poetry in the ancient Greek novels. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780192894823. £90.00.

Mika Kajava, Tua Korhonen, Jamie Vesterinen, Meilicha dôra: poems and prose in Greek from Renaissance and early modern Europe. Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 138. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2020. Pp. viii, 356. ISBN 9789516534414. €30,00.

Eleni Kaklamanou, Maria Pavlou, Antonis Tsakmakis, Framing the dialogues: how to read openings and closures in Plato. Brill’s Plato studies series, 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xii, 318. ISBN 9789004443983. €120,00.

Deborah Kamen, C.W. Marshall, Slavery and sexuality in classical antiquity. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780299331900. $99.95.

Georgios Kazantzidis, Lucretius on disease: the poetics of morbidity in ‘De rerum natura’. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 117. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 211. ISBN 9783110722659. $114.99.

Thomas J. Keeline, Cicero. Pro Milone. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781107179738. £79.99.

Adrian Kelly, Christopher Metcalf, Gods and mortals in early Greek and Near Eastern mythology. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 341. ISBN 9781108480246. £90.00.

Michael Kochenash, Roman self-representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xvi, 223. ISBN 9781978707368. $100.00.

Chara Kokkiou, Erôs, song, and philosophy in Plato: towards a synthesis of a cultural ideal. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 188. ISBN 9781498595827. $95.00.

Corrado la Martire, Ibn Bāğğa. Commentary on Aristotle’s ‘On Generation and Corruption’: critical edition and translation with an introduction and glossaries. Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 29. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 149. ISBN 9783110705928. $114.99.

Antonio La Penna, Giovanni Niccoli, Stefano Grazzini. La favola antica. Esopo e la sapienza degli schiavi. Pisa: Della Porta Editori, 2021. Pp. 420. ISBN 9788896209424. €25,00.

Valéry Laurand, Ermanno Malaspina, François Prost, Lectures plurielles du ‘De ira’ de Sénèque. Interprétations, contextes, enjeux. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 399. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 430. ISBN 9783110711431. $137.99.

James G. Lennox, Aristotle on inquiry: erotetic frameworks and domain-specific norms. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi, 320. ISBN 9780521193979. £75.00.

Gabriel Macedo, Ancient Latin manuscripts: materiality and context. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Pp. 386, 5 p. of plates. ISBN 9780472132393. $80.00.

Tommaso Mari, Consentius’ ‘De barbarismis et metaplasmis’: critical edition, translation, and commentary. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 384. ISBN 9780198870302. $115.00.

Marian Nebelin, Claudia Tiersch, Semantische Kämpfe zwischen Republik und Prinzipat? Kontinuität und Transformation der politischen Sprache in Rom. Historische Semantik, 30. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. Pp. 513. ISBN 9783525367605. €80,00.

Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and religion in Plato’s Dialogues. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 308. ISBN 9781108837309. £29.99.

Andy Orchard, A commentary on the Old English and Anglo-Latin riddle tradition. Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 69. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2021. Pp. xxviii, 712. ISBN 9780884024774. $65.00.

Seraina Plotke, Petra Schierl, De mulieribus claris. Gebildete Frauen – bedeutende Frauen – vergessene Frauen. Beiträge zur altertumswissenschaftlichen Genderforschung, 9. Trier: WVT, 2021. Pp. 230. ISBN 9783868218718. €28,50.

Rémy Poignault, Hélène Vial, Présences Ovidiennes. Collection Caesarodunum, 52-53. Clermont-Ferrand: Centre de Recherches A. Piganiol, 2020. Pp. 545. ISBN 9782900479230. €70,00.

Danny Praet, Ted Kaizer, Annelies Lannoy, Franz Cumont. Doura-Europos. Bibliotheca Cumontiana – Scripta Minora, 7. Brepols: Turnhout, 2020. Pp. xcviii, 470. ISBN 9789492771384. €75,00.

Antonio Ramírez de Verger, Book VI of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”: a textual commentary. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. viii, 415. ISBN 9783110730821. $172.99.

Stefan Riedel, Die Basileia von Alexandria: Topographisch-urbanistische Untersuchungen zum ptolemäischen Königsviertel. Studies in classical archaeology, 9. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. xx, 454. ISBN 9782503587424. €130,00.

Kathleen Riley, Imagining Ithaca: nostos and nostalgia since the Great War. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780198852971. $40.00.

Elizabeth C. Robinson, Urban transformation in ancient Molise: the integration of Larinum into the Roman state. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xi, 347. ISBN 9780190641436. £64.00.

Duane W. Roller, New directions in the study of ancient geography. Publications of the association of ancient historians, 12. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781734003109. $99.95.

Silvia Ronchey, Hypatia: the true story. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. xv, 268. ISBN 9783110717570. $91.99.

Paola Santorelli, Venanzio Fortunato. Vita di Germano vescovo di Parigi. Studi latini, 96. Napoli: Paolo Loffredo, 2020. Pp. 218. ISBN 9788832193398. €24,50.

Alain Schnapp, Une histoire universelle des ruines: des origines aux Lumières. La Librairie du XXIe siècle. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2020. Pp. 722. ISBN 9782021282504. €49,00.

Carey Seal, Philosophy and community in Seneca’s prose. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780190493219. $74.00.

Rebecca M. Seifried, Deborah E. Brown Stewart, Deserted villages: perspectives from the eastern Mediterranean. Grand Forks: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2021. Pp. iii, 424. ISBN 9781736498682. Open Access.

Alison Sharrock, Alison Keith, Maternal conceptions in classical literature and philosophy. Phoenix. Supplementary volume, LVII. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. vi, 388. ISBN 9781487532017. $75.00.

Angela Standhartinger, Der Philipperbrief. Handbuch zum Neuen Testament, 11/1. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. Pp. 310. ISBN 9783161601026. €120,00.

Florian Steger, Antike Medizin: Einführung und Quellensammlung. BGL-Studium, 6. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2021. Pp. 543. ISBN 9783777221205. €39,00.

Håkon Fiane Teigen, A Manichaean church at Kellis. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 100. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xx, 345. ISBN 9789004459762. €125,00.

Karel Thein, L’âme comme livre. Étude sur une image platonicienne. Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2021. Pp. 174. ISBN 9782406101314. €26,00.

Michael Trapp, Aelius Aristides. Orations, volume II. Loeb classical library, 545. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780674997363. $28.00.

Claudia Uccello, Paradeigma: l’esempio per l’argomentazione. Hellenica, 88. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2021. Pp. €viii, 156. ISBN 9788836130580. €20,00.

Cornelia Wilde, Wolfram R. Keller, Perfect harmony and melting strains: transformations of music in early modern culture between sensibility and abstraction. Transformationen der Antike, 34. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. vi, 156. ISBN 9783110426373. $91.99.

Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou, Style, performance and beyond: collected papers in classical scholarship. Athens: Papazissis, 2020. Pp. 438. ISBN 9789600235876. €42,00.

John C. Yardley, Livy. History of Rome, volume VIII: books 28-30. Loeb classical library, 381. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780674997394. $28.00.