BMCR 2021.08.01

Books Received July 2021

This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in July 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.

 

James Noel Adams, Asyndeton and its interpretation in Latin literature: history, patterns, textual criticism. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 841. ISBN 9781108837859. $170.00.

Clifford Ando, Marco Formisano, The new late antiquity. A gallery of intellectual portraits. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, 162. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021. Pp. 760. ISBN 9783825347215. €78,00.

Sophie Aubert-Baillot, Le grec et la philosophie dans la correspondance de Cicéron. Philosophie hellénistique et romaine, 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 696. ISBN 9782503591551. €120,00.

Jean-Pierre Aygon, Jean-Christophe Courtil, François Ripoll, “Seneca saepe noster”: articles de Mireille Armisen-Marchetti sur l’œuvre de Sénèque (1981-2013) réunis en son honneur. Scripta antiqua, 138. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2020. Pp. 390. ISBN 9782356133526. €25,00.

Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard, Athènes 403: une histoire chorale. Au fil de l’histoire. Paris: Flammarion, 2020. Pp. 454. ISBN 9782081334724. €25,00.

Robert J. Ball, The classical legacy of Gilbert Highet: an in-depth retrospect. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2021. Pp. xvi, 104. ISBN 9781948488501. $34.95.

Lorenz E. Baumer, Damien Nelis, Manuel Royo, Lire la Ville 2. Fragments d’une archéologie littéraire de Rome à l’époque flavienne. Scripta antiqua, 135. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2020. Pp. 244. ISBN 9782356133489. €19,00.

Nicole Belayche, Francesco Massa, Philippe Hoffmann, Les mystères au IIe siècle de notre ère: un tournant. Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, 187. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 592. ISBN 9782503594590. €80,00.

Yann Berthelet, Françoise Van Haeperen, Dieux de Rome et du monde romain en réseaux. Scripta antiqua, 141. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021. Pp. 179. ISBN 9782356133540. €19,00.

Mary T. Boatwright, The imperial women of Rome: power, gender, context. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 404. ISBN 9780190455897. $99.00.

Giorgio Bonamente, Roberto Cristofoli, Carlo Santini, I generi letterari in Properzio: modelli e fortuna. Proceedings of the twenty-second International Conference on Propertius. Assisi-Spello, 24-27 May 2018. Studi di poesia latina, 22. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. Pp. 408. ISBN 9782503589268. €95,00.

Peder Borgen, Torrey Seland, Illuminations by Philo of Alexandria: selected studies on interpretation in Philo, Paul and the Revelation of John. Studies in Philo of Alexandria, 12. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xviii, 334. ISBN 9789004452763. €138,00.

René Brouwer, Law and philosophy in the late Roman Republic. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 190. ISBN 9781108491488. $39.99.

Patrice Brun, Laurent Capdetrey, Pierre Fröhlich, L’Asie mineure occidentale au IIIe siècle a.C. Mémoires, 60. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021. Pp. 434. ISBN 9782356133724. €50,00.

Giorgia Cafici, The Egyptian elite as Roman citizens. Harvard Egyptological studies, 14. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xxiv, 530. ISBN 9789004432635. €220,00.

Daniel Caner, The rich and the pure: philanthropy and the making of Christian society in early Byzantium. Transformation of the classical heritage, LXII. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 440 ISBN 9780520381582 $34.95.

Paul Cartledge, A cultural history of democracy. Volume 1: a cultural history of democracy in antiquity. The cultural histories series. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. xiv, 252. ISBN 9781350042933.

Kimberly Cassibry, Destinations in mind: portraying places on the Roman Empire’s souvenirs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii, 278. ISBN 9780190921897. $99.00.

Angelos Chaniotis, Thomas Corsten, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, volume LXVI. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 9789004463196. €189,00.

Maria Chiara Bettini, Chiusi Villanoviana. Monumenti etruschi, 14. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2021. Pp. xii, 293. ISBN 9788876893285. €180,00.

Manfred Clauss, Les Mystères de Mithras. Pietas, 12. Gutenberg: Computus Druck, 2021. Pp. 240. ISBN 9783940598486. €68,00.

Salvatore Cosentino, A companion to Byzantine Italy. Brill’s companions to the Byzantine world, 8. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xviii, 829. ISBN 9788004307698. €249,00.

Şirin Dadaş, Christian Vogel, Dynamiken der Negation: (Nicht)Wissen und negativer Transfer in vormodernen Kulturen. Episteme in Bewegung. Beiträge zu einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte, 20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. viii, 450. ISBN 9783447116251. €89,00.

Jean-Michel David, Frédéric Hurlet, L’auctoritas à Rome: une notion constitutive de la culture politique: actes du colloque de Nanterre (10-12 septembre 2018). Scripta antiqua, 136. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2020. Pp. 400. ISBN 9782356133533. €25,00.

Charles Davoine, La ville défigurée: gestion et perception des ruines dans le monde romain (Ier siècle a.C. – IVe siècle p.C.). Scripta antiqua, 144. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021. Pp. 430. ISBN 9782356133663. €25,00.

Miriam DeCock, Interpreting the gospel of John in Antioch and Alexandria. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplement series, 17. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020. Pp. x, 255. ISBN 9781628372786. $40.00.

Jean-Claude Decourt, Gérard Lucas, Lyon dans les textes grecs et latins. La géographie et l’histoire de Lugdunum, de la fondation de la colonie à l’occupation burgonde (43 avant - 460 après J.-C.). Histoire et Épigraphie, 2. Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2021. Pp. 360. ISBN 9782356680723. €50,00.

Sylvain Delcomminette, Raphaël Van Daele, La méthode de division de Platon à Érigène. Annales de l’Institut de philosophie de l’Université de Bruxelles. Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2021. Pp. 192. ISBN 9782711629695. €18,00.

Fabio Della Schiava, Blondus Flavius. Roma instaurata. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Biondo Flavio, 7. Roma: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, 2020. ISBN 9788898079995.

Olivier Devillers, Breno Battistin Sebastiani, Sources et modèles des historiens anciens. Scripta antiqua, 145. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021. Pp. 584. ISBN 9782356133700. €25,00.

Julien Devinant, Les troubles psychiques selon Galien: étude d’un système de pensée. Collection d’études anciennes. Série grecque, 159. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020. Pp. 435. ISBN 9782251451220. €55,00.

Mia Donato, Carolyn Engargiola, Eli Gendreau-Distler, Elizabeth Hasapis, Thomas Hendrickson, Jacob Thomas Nguyen, Siddharth Pant, Shamika Podila, Anna Riordan, Oliver Thompson, The passion of Perpetua. Williamsburg: Pixelia Publishing, 2021. Pp. 93. ISBN 9781737033004. $8.99.

Pauline Duchêne, Comment écrire sur les empereurs? Les procédés historiographiques de Tacite et Suétone. Scripta antiqua, 137. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2020. Pp. 215. ISBN 9782356133496. €25,00.

Frédérique Duyrat, Sylvia Nieto-Pelletier, Le luxe en Gaule: Actes du colloque “Le luxe en Gaule”, Musée départemental Arles antique 16-17 octobre 2017. Mémoires, 61. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021. Pp. 228. ISBN 9782356133953. €29,00.

Daniel Emmelius, Das Pomerium Geschriebene Grenze des antiken Rom. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 30. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. Pp. 411. ISBN 9783949189067. €70,00.

Andrea Falcon, Stasinos Stavrianeas, Pantelis Golitsis, Aristotle on how animals move: the De incessu animalium – text, translation, and interpretative essays. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 333. ISBN 9781108491334. $120.00.

Gordon Fee, Bodmer Papyri, scribal culture, and textual transmission: collected works on New Testament textual criticism. New Testament tools, studies and documents. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. ISBN 9789004311411. €154,00.

Marta Fernández Corral, La epigrafía funeraria de época romana del área autrigona: conmemoración, relaciones familiares y sociedad. Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología, LXXXIX. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2020. Pp. 184. ISBN 9788400106522.

Sylvain Forichon, Les spectateurs des jeux du cirque à Rome (du Ier siècle a.C. au VIe siècle p.C.): passion, émotions et manifestations. Scripta antiqua, 133. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021. Pp. 385. ISBN 9782356133458. €25,00.

Stefan Freund, Nina Mindt, Antike Konzepte für ein modernes Europa: Die klassische Philologie und die Zukunft eines Jahrhundertprojekts. Studia Montana. Wuppertal: Polyphem Verlag, 2020. Pp. 278. ISBN 9783969540008. €17,99.

Bruce W. Frier, A casebook on the Roman law of contracts. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi, 538. ISBN 9780197573228. $45.00.

Gabrielle Frija, Être citoyen romain dans le monde grec au IIe siècle de notre ère. Scripta antiqua, 139. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2020. Pp. 270. ISBN 9782356133472. €19,00.

Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo, Manuel Sanchez Ortiz De Landaluce, De Calímaco a Nono de Panópolis: estudios de crítica textual y exégesis literaria. Studia Hellenistica Gaditana, 2. Lecce: Pensa Multimedia, 2021. Pp. 388. ISBN 9788867608072. €38,00.

Luisa Lesage Gárriga, Plutarch: on the face which appears in the orb of the moon. Brill’s Plutarch studies, 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. ix, 230. ISBN 9789004458079. €123,00.

Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, Karin Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: dancing stories in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond. Mnemosyne supplements, 439. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. x, 369. ISBN 9789004462472. €119,00.

Jean-Philippe Guez, Liza Méry, Jocelyne Peigney, Dépenser dévorer dans le monde gréco-romain. Scripta antiqua, 143. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2020. Pp. 264. ISBN 9782356133656. €19,00.

Marek Jan Olbrycht, Early Arsakid Parthia (ca. 250-165 B.C.): at the crossroads of Iranian, Hellenistic, and central Asian history. Mnemosyne supplements, 440. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xvi, 377. ISBN 9789004460751. €120,00.

Erik Jensen, The Greco-Persian wars: a short history with documents. Passages: key moments in history. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2021. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781624669545. $49.99.

Albert Joosse, Olympiodorus of Alexandria: exegete, teacher, platonic philosopher. Philosophia antiqua, 159. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xii, 270. ISBN 9789004466692. €132,00.

Jacques Jouanna, Hippocrate. Introduction Générale: Vie Selon Soranos, Presbeutikos ou discours d’Ambassade, Épibômios ou discours à l’Autel, Décret des Athéniens, Lettres I and II. Collection des universités de France, 552. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020. Pp. cccxxiv, 378. ISBN 9782251006390. €89,00.

Pavlos Kontos, Aristotle on the scope of practical reason: spectators, legislators, hopes, and evils. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 216. ISBN 9780367756970. $128.00.

Matthias Lange, Feuer und Stein: Gräber und Totenmonumente im eisenzeitlichen Nordsyrien und Südostanatolien in ihren regionalen Kontexten. Philippika, 145. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. xii, 658. ISBN 9783447114837. €98,00.

Tim J. Leary, The wooden horse: an English version of Virgil, Aeneid Book II. T.J. Leary, 2021. Pp. 46. ISBN 9798507380282. £3.99.

Christian Leitz, Chronokraten und Ritualszenen: Untersuchungen zu Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Kalenderdaten, Anbringungsorten und Opfergaben. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, 32. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. xiv, 250. ISBN 9783447115728. €98,00.

Martti Leiwo, Marja Vierros, Sonja Dahlgren, Papers on ancient Greek linguistics: Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL 9), 30 August-1 September 2018, Helsinki. Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 139. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2020. Pp. ii, 578. ISBN 9789516534438. €25,00.

François Lerouxel, Julien Zurbach, Le changement dans les économies antiques. Scripta antiqua, 140. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2020. Pp. 390. ISBN 9782356133465. €25,00.

Gauthier Liberman, Cynthia: monobiblos de Sextus Properce. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2020. Pp. 402. ISBN 9788418280412. €25,00.

Hans Lohmann, Teichos: Vom endneolithischen Wehrdorf zum spätosmanischen Tambouri. 5000 Jahre Festungswesen in Attika. Philippika, 151. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. x, 496. ISBN 9783447116145. €128,00.

Alex G. Long, Immortality in ancient philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 241. ISBN 9781108832281. $99.99.

Caroline Macé, Jost Gippert, The multilingual Physiologus: studies in the oldest Greek recension and its translations. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, 84. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 661. ISBN 9782503589749. €140,00.

Jorge Martínez-Pinna, El nacimiento de la república romana (ca 509-486 A.C.). Libera Res Publica, 3. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2020. Pp. 474. ISBN 9788413401775. €34,00.

András Márton, Les pratiques funéraires en Gaule lyonnaise de l’époque augustéenne à la fin du 3e siècle. Archaeopress Roman archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021. Pp. 482. ISBN 9781789698077. £60.00.

Heidi Marx, Sosipatra of Pergamum: philosopher and oracle. Women in antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 152. ISBN 9780197571231. $24.95.

Krešimir Matijević, Miscellanea historica et archaeologica Festschrift zu Ehren von Rainer Wiegels anlässlich seines 80 Geburtstages. Gutenberg: Computus Druck, 2021. Pp. 313. ISBN 9783940598493. €68,00.

Henry C. Matthews, Greek cities of Sicily: history, archaeology, architecture. London: Scala Publishers, 2020. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781734903706. $26.00.

Giuditta Mirizio, Amministrare e comunicare nell’Egitto tolemaico: La funzione delle copie (antigrapha) nella documentazione papirologica. Philippika, 149. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. x, 432. ISBN 9783447116152. €89,00.

Marcello Mogetta, The origins of concrete construction in Roman architecture: technology and society in Republican Italy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 311. ISBN 9781108845687. $99.99.

Sébastien Morlet, Jewish-Christian disputations in antiquity and the Middle Ages: fictions and realities. Late antique history and religion, 21. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. Pp. x, 275. ISBN 9789042938571. €93,00.

Karol Myśliwiec, Agnieszka Rys, Crossing time and space: to commemorate Hanna Szymańska. Travaux de l’Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences, 7. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. 204. ISBN 9783447115759. €74,00.

Milagros Navarro Caballero, Jean-Pierre Bost, Laurent Brassous, De Jules César à César Auguste: cinquante ans de Révolution romaine: Recueil d’articles de Jean-Michel Roddaz. Scripta antiqua, 134. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021. Pp. 600. ISBN 9782356133625. €25,00.

Ioannis Papachristou, John Philoponus on physical place. Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1, 60. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 174. ISBN 9789462702745. €69,50.

Emma M. Payne, Casting the Parthenon sculptures: from the eighteenth century to the digital age. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. xii, 212. ISBN 9781350120341. £85.00.

Lee T. Pearcy, Aeneas. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Pp. 236. ISBN 9780472074907. $85.00.

Christopher Planeaux, The Athenian year primer: Attic time-reckoning and the Julian calendar. Washington, DC: Westphalia Press, 2021. Pp. 428. ISBN 9781637237069. $19.99.

Barry B. Powell, Greek poems to the gods: hymns from Homer to Proclus. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 296. ISBN 9780520302877. $24.95.

Tristan Power, Collected papers on Suetonius. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 306. ISBN 9780367555658. $128.00.

Ivana Puljiz, Gold von Königen und Göttern: Zur Bedeutung von Goldobjekten in den syrisch-nordlevantinischen Königtümern der Mittleren und Späten Bronzezeit. Qatna-Studien. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. xlvii, 610. ISBN 9783447115964. €178,00.

Alexander Riehle, A companion to Byzantine epistolography. Brill’s companions to the Byzantine world, 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xii, 529. ISBN 9789004413696. €238,00.

Vilma Ruppienė, Stone and splendor. Interior decorations in late-antique palaces and villas: proceedings of a workshop, Trier, 25-26 April 2019. Forschungen zu spätrömischen Residenzen, 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. viii, 246. ISBN 9783447116626. €78,00.

Ricardo Salles, Cosmology and biology in ancient philosophy: from Thales to Avicenna. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xi, 311. ISBN 9781108836579. $99.99.

Konstantinos Sarantidis, Milesian islands: the fortified installations in the insular environment of Miletus in the Aegean in context. Thiasos monografie, 15. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2020. Pp. xx, 366. ISBN 9788854910737. €36,00.

Gerald P. Schaus, Funde aus Milet. Teil 4: Laconian and Chian fine ware pottery at Miletus. Milet, 5/4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. x, 322. ISBN 9783447114288. €78,00.

Andreas Schwab, Fremde Religion in Herodots “Historien”: Religiöse Mehrdimensionalität bei Persern und Ägyptern. Hermes – Eizelschrift, 118. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 307. ISBN 9783515127202. €46,00.

Rachel Hall Sternberg, The ancient Greek roots of human rights. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. Pp. 184. ISBN 9781477322918. $45.00.

Rabun M. Taylor, Ancient Naples: a documentary history, origins to c. 350 CE. A documentary history of Naples. New York: Italica Press, 2021. Pp. 470. ISBN 9781599102214. $55.00.

Emma Vanderpool, Avēs. Explore Latin. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2020. Pp. vii, 72. ISBN 9780865168749. $21.00.

Emma Vanderpool, Robert Patrick, Augury is for the birds: Mārcus dē avibus discit. Encounter Latin. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2020. Pp. xii, 57. ISBN 9780865168756. $15.00.

Georgios Vassiliades, La “res publica” et sa décadence: de Salluste à Tite-Live. Scripta antiqua, 142. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021. Pp. 700. ISBN 9782356133649. €30,00.

Stefan Weise, Litterae recentissimae: Formen und Funktionen neulateinischer Literatur vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Beiträge vom internationalen Symposium am 9. und 10. November 2017 an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal. Comparanda, 18. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2020. Pp. 325. ISBN 9783991060222.

Stephen White, Diogenes Laertius. Lives of eminent philosophers: an edited translation. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 524. ISBN 9780521883351.

Gilbert Wiplinger, De aquaeductu urbis Romae: Sextus Iulius Frontinus and the water of Rome. Proceedings of the international Frontinus congress on the history of water management and hydraulic engineering in the Mediterranean region, Rome, November 10 – 18, 2018. BABESCH. Supplement, 40. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. Pp. xxxiii, 403. ISBN 9789042943117.

Sophia Xenophontos, Anna Marmodoro, The reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity and Byzantium. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 289. ISBN 9781108833691. $99.99.

Emilio Zucchetti, Antonio Gramsci and the ancient world. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 402. ISBN 9780367193140. $128.00.