Month: August 2021

Books Received July 2021

Roman frugality: modes of moderation from the archaic age to the early empire and beyond

Ingo Gildenhard, Cristiano Viglietti  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Grant Nelsestuen, 

Trésors de monnaies antiques trouvés en Albanie (Ve-Ier siècle av. J.-C.)

Shpresa Gjongecaj-Vangjeli  / Ecole française d'Athènes, 2019

Reviewed by Andrew Meadows, 

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano. Dialogues, volume II: Actius

Julia Haig Gaisser  / Harvard University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Brian Maxson, 

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, Dialogues, volume III: Aegidius and Asinus

Julia Gaisser  / Harvard University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Florence Bistagne, 

Leadership and community in late antiquity: essays in honour of Raymond Van Dam

Young Richard Kim, A.E.T. McLaughlin  / Brepols, 2020

Reviewed by Jan Willem Drijvers, 

The cultural history of Augustan Rome: texts, monuments, and topography

Matthew Loar, Sarah Murray, Stefano Rebeggiani  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Evan Jewell, 

Studying the New Testament through inscriptions: an introduction

David Clint Burnett  / Hendrickson Publishers, 2020

Reviewed by W. Andrew Smith, 

Greek lyric poetry and its influence: texts, iconography, music and cinema

Alejandro Cantarero de Salazar, Alicia Esteban Santos, Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020

Reviewed by Elsa García Novo, 

Plato and the mythic tradition in political thought

Tae-Yeoun Keum  / Harvard University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Carol Atack, 

Solo dance in archaic and classical Greek literature: representing the unruly body

Sarah Olsen  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Michel Briand, 

The discovery of the fact

Clifford Ando, William P. Sullivan  / University of Michigan Press, 2020

Reviewed by Andrew Riggsby, 

Les Progymnasmata en pratique, de l’Antiquité à nos jours

Pierre Chiron, Benoît Sans  / Rue d'Ulm, 2020

Reviewed by Nephele Papakonstantinou, 

Plato’s pigs and other ruminations: ancient guides to living with nature

M. D. Usher  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Will Brockliss, 

Screditare per valorizzare: Giovanni Tzetze, le sue fonti, i committenti e la concorrenza

Martina Savio  / Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2020

Reviewed by Valeria Flavia Lovato, 

Plutarch’s three treatises on animals

Stephen T. Newmyer  / Routledge, 2020

Reviewed by Horst Schneider, 

Die vermeintlich pergamenische Importkeramik in Ephesos

Asuman Lätzer-Lasar  / Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020

Reviewed by Kathleen Slane, 

Un-Roman sex: gender, sexuality, and lovemaking in the Roman provinces and frontiers

Tatiana Ivleva, Rob Collins  / Routledge, 2020

Reviewed by Katherine Iselin, 

Saving one another: Philodemus and Paul on moral formation in community

Justin Allison  / Brill, 2020

Reviewed by David Douglas, 

The Poetics in its Aristotelian context

Pierre Destrée, Malcolm Heath, Dana Munteanu  / Routledge, 2020

Reviewed by Rebecca Bensen Cain,