This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in November 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.
Jean Alvares, Ideal themes in the Greek and Roman novel. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 330. ISBN 9780367472108. $160.00.
Emily Katz Anhalt, Embattled: how ancient Greek myths empower us to resist tyranny. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781503628564. $30.00.
Philip Aubreville, Der Hass im antiken Rom. Studien zur Emotionalität in der späten Republik und frühen Kaiserzeit. Historia, 266. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 356. ISBN 9783515130486. €70,00.
Laura M. Banducci, Anna Gallone, A cemetery and quarry from imperial Gabii. Gabii Project reports series, 2. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Pp. 299. ISBN 9780472999064. Open Access.
Giacomo Bardelli, Raimon Graells, Ancient weapons: new research perspectives on weapons and warfare. Proceedings of the International Conference – Mainz, September 20th-21st 2019. Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum – Tagungen, 44. Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 2021. Pp. 213. ISBN 9783884673430. €45,00.
Agnès Bastit, Irénée entre Asie et Occident: actes de la journée du 30 juin 2014 à Lyon. Collection des études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 210. Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2021. Pp. 310. ISBN 9782851213143. €42,00.
Reine-Marie Bérard, Il diritto alla sepoltura nel Mediterraneo antico. Collection de l’École française de Rome, 582. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2021. Pp. 366. ISBN 9782728314416.
Anton Bierl, Joachim Latacz. English edition translated by Benjamin W. Millis and Sara Strack. Edited by S. Douglas Olsen, Homer’s Iliad: the Basel commentary, book IV. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xiv, 266. ISBN 9783110608298. $126.99.
Tomislav Bilić, Land of the solstices: myth, geography and astronomy in ancient Greece. BAR International series, 3039. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. Pp. xiii, 198. ISBN 9781407358628. £49.00.
Sandra Boehringer, Female homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. Pp. xliv, 380. ISBN 9780367744786. $160.00.
Didier Boisseuil, Christian Rico, Sauro Gelichi, Le marché des matières premières dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge. Collection de l’Ecole française de Rome (EFR), 563. Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 2021. Pp. 559. ISBN 9782728314065. €40.00 / Open Access.
Kim Bowes, The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014: excavating the Roman rural poor. University Museum monograph, 154. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2020. Pp. xxvi, 753. ISBN 9781949057072. $120.00
Shane Brennan, David Thomas, The Landmark Xenophon’s ‘Anabasis’. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2021. Pp. 672. ISBN 978030790685. $50.00.
Francesco Buè, Angelo Vannini, Sonus in metaphora: la rhétorique sonore et musicale dans l’Antiquité. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1528. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021. Pp. 250. ISBN 9782848678498. €25.00.
Christopher Burden-Strevens, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Antonio Pistellato, Cassius Dio and the Principate. Lexis supplementi, 2. Venezia: Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2021. Pp. 186. ISBN 9788869694738. €30,00.
Kolawole Chabi, Augustin prédicateur de la Trinité: la Trinité dans l’historie du salut et dans la vie du chrétien selon ses Sermones ad populum. Studia ephemeridis Augustinianum, 159. Roma; Firenze: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum; Nerbini International, 2021. Pp. 554. ISBN 9788864347042. €75,00.
Christopher Chinn, Visualizing the poetry of Statius: an intertextual approach. Mnemosyne Supplements, 449. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. 360. ISBN 9789004498853. €119.00 / $143.00.
Victor Cojocaru, Annamária-Izabella Pázsint, Migration and identity in Eurasia: from ancient times to the Middle Ages. Pontica et Mediterranea, 10. Cluj-Napoca: Editura MEGA, 2021. Pp. 300. ISBN 9786060203223. €49,80.
Hélène Cuvigny, Roger S. Bagnall, Rome in Egypt’s eastern desert. ISAW monographs. New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University Press, 2021. Pp. 346. ISBN 9781479810642. $75.00.
Kimberley Czajkowski, Benedikt Eckhardt, Herod in history: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan context. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780192845214. £65.00.
Matteo d’Acunto, Ialiso I: la necropoli. Gli scavi italiani (1916-1934), i periodi protogeometrico e geometrico (950-690 A.C.). Tomo I e Tomo II. Monografie della Scuola archeologica di Atene e delle missioni italiane in Oriente, XXXI. Athens: Scuola archeologica italiana di Atene, 2020. Pp. 1060. ISBN 9789609559256. €180,00.
Erin D. Darby, Izaak J. de Hulster, Iron age terracotta figurines in the southern Levant in context. Culture and history of the ancient Near East, 125. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xviii, 434. ISBN 9789004436763. €200.00 / $240.00.
Julien Demaille, Guy Labarre, Les associations cultuelles en Grèce et en Asie Mineure aux époques hellénistique et impériale: compositions sociales, fonctions civiques et manifestations identitaires (époques hellénistique et romaine). Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1523. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021. Pp. 203. ISBN 9782848678665. €21,00.
David C. DeMarco, Augustine and Porphyry: a commentary on De ciuitate Dei 10. Augustinus – Werk und Wirkung, 12. Paderborn, Germany; Boston, MA: Brill/Ferdinand Schöningh, 2021. Pp. xii, 379. ISBN 9783506760555. €99,00.
Marcel Detienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant, La notion de daïmôn dans le pythagorisme ancien: de la pensée religieuse à la pensée philosophique. Anagôgé, 14. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021. Pp. 204. ISBN 9782251451305. €29,00.
Chiara Faraggiana di Sarzana, Maria Paola Funaioli, La battaglia della gatta e dei topi (Katomyomachia). Testi e studi bizantino-neoellenici, 22. Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2021. Pp. 216. ISBN 9788833653570. €25.00.
Alejandro Díaz Fernández, Provinces and provincial command in Republican Rome: genesis, development and governance. Libera res publica, 4. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2021. Pp. 226. ISBN 9788447230891. €15,99.
Birgitta Eder, Michaela Zavadil, (Social) place and space in early Mycenaean Greece: international discussions in Mycenaean archaeology, October 5-8, 2016, Athens. Mykenische Studien, 35. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Science Press, 2021. Pp. 626. ISBN 9783700188544. €249,00.
M. Carmen Encinas Reguero, Javier Bilbao Ruiz, ΘΕΑΤΡΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΖΩΗ: estudios de teatro griego en honor de la profesora Milagros Quijada Sagredo. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2021. Pp. 395. ISBN 9788478828678.
Riemer A. Faber, Celebrity, fame, and infamy in the Hellenistic world. Phoenix. Supplementary volume, LVIII. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 263 pages. ISBN 9781487505226. $85.00.
Christopher A. Faraone, Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780197552971. £64.00.
Barbara Feichtinger, Marie Revellio, Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften. Von erzählten Reisen und reisenden Erzählungen. IPHIS – Beiträge zur altertumswissenschaftlichen Genderforschung, 10. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2021. Pp. 252. ISBN 9783868219159. €32,50.
Greg Fisher, The Roman world from Romulus to Muhammad: a new history. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xxiii, 704. ISBN 9780415842860. $160.00.
Alison Futrell, Thomas F. Scanlon, The Oxford handbook of sport and spectacle in the ancient world. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxx, 738. ISBN 9780199592081. $145.00.
Leone Gazziero, Le langage: lectures d’Aristote. Aristote: traductions et études. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. Pp. 469. ISBN 9789042946460. €82,00.
Anne Gangloff, Valérie Huet, Christophe Vendries, La notion de caricature dans l’Antiquité: textes et images. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021. Pp. 232. ISBN 9782753580435. €24,00.
Eleni Gkasti, Αισχύλου Χοηφόροι: πρόταση ανάγνωσης. Athens: Kardamitsa, 2021. Pp. 286. ISBN 9789603545293. €26,50.
Allison Glazebrook, Sexual labor in the Athenian courts. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781477324400. $55.00.
C.T. Hadavas, Statius, ‘Achilleid’: an intermediate Latin reader. C.T. Hadavas, 2021. Pp. 200. ISBN 9798456911025. $17.95.
Jonathan M. Hall, Reclaiming the past: Argos and its archaeological heritage in the modern era. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. Pp. 261. ISBN 9781501760532. $49.95.
Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 237. ISBN 9780198832553. £75.00.
Simon Kramis, Tote in der Stadt. Anthropologische Untersuchungen von menschlichen Überresten aus dem Siedlungsareal der römischen Koloniestadt Augusta Raurica. Forschungen in Augst, 53. Augst: Augusta Raurica, 2020. Pp. 387. ISBN 9783715100531.
Ilse Hilbold, Écrire Juliette Ernst: Bibliographie et sciences de l’Antiquité au XXe siècle. Antike nach der Antike. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2021. Pp. 373. ISBN 9783796544774. 68.00 CHF.
Michael Leese, Making money in ancient Athens. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. Pp. xi, 266. ISBN 9780472132768. $85.00.
Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja, Glass, lamps, and Jerash bowls. Final publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project III. Jerash Papers, 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 380. ISBN 9782503589374. €85,00.
Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja, The archaeology of seasonality. Studies in Classical Archaeology, 11. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 420. ISBN 9782503593951. €120,00.
Undine Lieberwirth, 3D and 4D cartography of archaeological stratigraphy: a case study at the Western Forum in Ostia Antica. BAR international series, 3040. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. Pp. xv, 97. ISBN 9781407357867. £29.00.
Konstantin Liebrand, Der Fastenhymnus des Prudentius (Cath. 7). Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Chrêsis, XI. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2021. Pp. 288. ISBN 9783796543494. €58,00.
Valentina Limina, Poteri e strategie familiari di Volterra: il caso di una comunità etrusca nel mondo romano. BAR international series, 3041. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. Pp. xiii, 194. ISBN 9781407357881. £48.00.
Robert Maltby, Book three of the corpus Tibullianum: introduction, text, translation and commentary. Pierides Studes in Greek and Latin Literature, 10. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2021. Pp. x, 701. ISBN 1527568237. £80.99.
Constantinos Macris, Tiziano Dorandi, Luc Brisson, Pythagoras redivivus: studies on the texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. Academia Philosophical Studies, 74. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2021. Pp. 509. ISBN 9783896659583. €109,00.
Daniel Markovich, Promoting a new kind of education: Greek and Roman philosophical protreptic. International studies in the history of rhetoric, volume 16. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xvi, 328. ISBN 9789004467231. €119.00 / $143.00.
Hilary Marlow, Karla Pollmann, Helen Van Noorden, Eschatology in antiquity: forms and functions. Rewriting antiquity. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. Pp. xxiv, 629 pages. ISBN 9781138208315. $200.00.
Marina Marren, Plato and Aristophanes: comedy, politics, and the pursuit of a just life. Rereading ancient philosophy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021. Pp. 144. ISBN 9780810144194. $99.95.
Catherine Marro, Thomas Stöllner, On salt, copper and gold: the origins of early mining and metallurgy in the Caucasus. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2021. Pp. 476. ISBN 9782356680747. €65,00.
Francesco Massa, Nicole Belayche, Les philosophes et les mystères dans l’empire romain. Collection Religions, Comparatisme, Histoire, Anthropologie, 11. Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2021. Pp. 250. ISBN 9782875622686. €16,00.
Dionysios Mourelatos, Art and archaeology in Byzantium and beyond: essays in honour of Sophia Kalopissi-Verti and Maria Panayotidi-Kesisoglou. BAR international series, 3046. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. Pp. vii, 255. ISBN 9781407356488. £59.00.
Kiersten Neumann, Allison Thomason, The Routledge handbook of the senses in the ancient Near East. Routledge handbooks. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xxix, 739. ISBN 9780367235284. $200.00.
Daniel Ogden, The dragon in the West: from ancient myth to modern legend. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 480. ISBN 9780198830184. £30.00.
Michel Patillon, Syrianus: sur les états de cause. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 555. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021. Pp. xxviii, 580. ISBN 9782251006413. €75,00.
Matteo Pellegrino, Introduzione all’oratoria greca: autori e testi di età classica. Studi superiori. Civiltà classiche, 1282. Rome: Carocci editore, 2021. Pp. 134. ISBN 9788829011230. $15.00.
Daniele Pellacani, Cicerone. In difesa di Archia. Collana “Classici greci e latini”. Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna, Italy: Rusconi Libri, 2020. Pp. xci, 76 pages. ISBN 9788818036343. €10,00.
Rubina Raja, Julia Steding, Production economy in greater Roman Syria: trade networks and production processes. Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History (SPAH), 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. xxx, 201. ISBN 9782503591254. €85,00.
Karl Reichl, The oral epic from performance to interpretation. Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture. Abington, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 282. ISBN 9780367761318. $170.00.
Emilio Rodríguez-Álvarez, Forming identities: technological experimentation in Archaic Corinthian workshops and the origins of the Black Figure pottery style. BAR International Series, 3044. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. Pp. xvi, 133. ISBN 9781407358185. £38.00.
Vincent Rondot, Élisabeth David, Marcel Kurz, Pascale Linant de Bellefonds, Marie Millet, Les voyages en Nubie et au Soudan de Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds: 1818-1827. Paris: Mare & Martin: Louvre éditions, 2021. Pp. 535. ISBN 9782362220371. €85,00.
Dimitra P. Rousioti, Ιερά και θρησκευτικές τελετουργίες στην ανακτορική και μετανακτορική Μυκηναική περίοδο. Ερευνα και θεωρία ανθρωπιστικών επιστημών. Athens: Maistros, 2018. Pp. xxvi, 490. ISBN 9789606846281. €38,00.
Alessandro Sebastiani, Carolina Megale, Archaeological landscapes of Roman Etruria: research and field papers. MediTo: archeological and historical landscapes of Mediterranean central Italy, 1. Turnout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 295. ISBN 9782503591391. €115,00.
Eivind Heldaas Seland, A global history of the ancient world: Asia, Europe, and Africa before Islam. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 168. ISBN 9780367695552. $160.00.
Elena Miramontes Seijas, Latin lexicon of textiles: clothes, adornments, materials and techniques of ancient Rome. BAR international series, 3051. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. Pp. 254. ISBN 9781407358444. £58.00.
Valeria Selke, Ein Hortfund spätantiker Bronzemünzen aus Meckel, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm. 7486 Prägungen vom 3. Jahrhundert bis zur tetrarchisch-konstantinischen Zeit, verborgen 312/13 n. Chr. Trierer Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, 38. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021. Pp. 450, p. 294. ISBN 9783752000030. €78,00.
Helaine L. Smith, Mirth and laughter. Aristophanes: seven comic scripts. Helaine L. Smith, 2021. Pp. 170. ISBN 9780578702919. $16.95.
Markus Stachon, Sueton, ‘De poetis’. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar zu den erhaltenen Viten nebst begründeten Mutmaßungen zu den verlorenen Kapiteln. Wissenschaftliche Kommentare zu griechischen und lateinischen Schriftstellern. Heidelberg, Neckar: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, 2021. Pp. 580. ISBN 9783825348526. €98,00.
Christopher Star, Apocalypse and golden age: the end of the world in Greek and Roman thought. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781421441634. $54.95.
Diana L. Stein, Sarah Kielt Costello, Karen Polinger Foster, The Routledge companion to ecstatic experience in the ancient world. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 560. ISBN 9780367480325. $250.00.
Terje Stordalen, Øystein S. LaBianca, Levantine entanglements: cultural productions, long-term changes and globalizations in the eastern Mediterranean. Sheffield, South Yorkshire; Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2021. Pp. 668. ISBN 9781800500365. £165.00 / $225.00.
Fabio Stella, Noos e noein da Omero a Platone. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1518. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021. Pp. 808. ISBN 9782848678542. €45,00.
Simon Swain, Themistius and Valens: orations 6-13. Translated texts for historians, 78. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781800856776. £110.00.
Mark R. Thatcher, The politics of identity in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy. Greeks Overseas Series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 337. ISBN 9780197586440. $99.00.
Karel Thein, Ecphrastic shields in Graeco-Roman literature: the world’s forge. Image, text, and culture in classical antiquity. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. Pp. vi, 402. ISBN 9780367722548. $160.00.
R.K.R. Thornton, The collected works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Volume VI: sketches and scholarly studies. Part 1: academic, classical, and lectures on poetry. Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. ISBN 9780199534012. $165.00.
Piero Treves, Anna Magnetto, Davide Amendola, Piero Treves: tra storia ellenistica e storia della cultura. Studi, 50. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2021. Pp. x, 361. ISBN 9788876426964. €30,00.
Jonathan Valk, Irene Soto Marín, Ancient taxation: the mechanics of extraction in comparative perspective. ISAW monographs. New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University Press, 2021. Pp. 392. ISBN 9781479806195. $75.00.
Anca Vasiliu, Montrer l’âme: lecture du “Phèdre” de Platon. Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses, 2021. Pp. 486. ISBN 9791023106695. €18,00.
Robin Waterfield, The making of a king: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198853015. £21.99.
Micah Young Myers, Erika Zimmermann Damer, Travel, geography, and empire in Latin poetry. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780367638047. $160.00.
Pietro Zaccaria, Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker IV: biography and antiquarian literature A. Biography. Fascicle 5. The first century BC and Hellenistic authors of uncertain date [nos. 1035-1045]. Die Fragments der griechischen Historiker. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. xiv, 906. ISBN 9789004209138. €199.00 / $229.00.