Year: 2022

Books received December 2021

Warfare in the Roman world

Doug Lee  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Jonathan Roth, 

L’Adriatico medio-occidentale: coste, approdi e luoghi di culto nell’antichità

Tiziana Capriotti  / Arbor Sapientiae editore, 2020

Reviewed by Eleonora Bedin, 

Diogenes Laertius. Lives of eminent philosophers: an edited translation

Stephen White  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Christopher Moore, 

The Oxford handbook of ancient Nubia

Geoff Emberling, Bruce Williams  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Alexandros Tsakos, 

Seelenreise und Katabasis: Einblicke ins Jenseits in antiker philosophischer Literatur

Irmgard Männlein-Robert  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Nicholas Banner, 

Confucius and Cicero: old ideas for a new world, new ideas for an old world

Andrea Balbo, Jaewon Ahn  / De Gruyter, 2019

Reviewed by Dan Zhao, 

Mémoires de Trajan, mémoires d’Hadrien

Stéphane Benoist, Alban Gautier, Christine Hoët-van Cauwenberghe, Rémy Poignault  / Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2020

Reviewed by Nicole Méthy, 

The archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron age: a globalising world, c. 1100-600 BCE

Tamar Hodos  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Arianna Esposito, 

Object biographies: collaborative approaches to ancient Mediterranean art

John North Hopkins, Sarah Kielt Costello, Paul R. Davis  / The Menil Collection, 2021

Reviewed by Nehemie Strupler, 

Vrysaki: a neighborhood lost in search of the Athenian agora

Sylvie Dumont  / ASCSA, 2020

Reviewed by Dimitris Plantzos, 

The aesthetics of hope in late Greek imperial literature: Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium and the crisis of the third century

Dawn LaValle Norman  / Cambridge University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Alberto Rigolio, 

Dieux de Rome et du monde romain en réseaux

Yann Berthelet, Françoise Van Haeperen  / Ausonius éditions, 2021

Reviewed by Elizabeth Buchet, 

Bridging center and periphery: administrative communication from Constantine to Justinian

Lukas Lemcke  / Mohr Siebeck, 2020

Reviewed by Andrew Pottenger, 

The early Seleukids, their gods and their coins

Kyle Erickson  / Routledge, 2018

Reviewed by Oliver Hoover, 

Women and war in Roman epic

Elina Pyy  / Brill, 2020

Reviewed by Alice Hu, 

Aulus Gellius und die Noctes Atticae: die literarische Konstruktion einer Sammlung

Beate Beer  / De Gruyter, 2020

Reviewed by Simone Mollea, 

Nachhaltigkeit in der Antike: Diskurse, Praktiken, Perspektiven

Christopher Schliephake, Natascha Sojc, Gregor Weber  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020

Reviewed by Frederick Naerebout, 

“Neither letters nor swimming”: the rebirth of swimming and free-diving

John M. McManamon  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Alexander Nice, 

Continuity and rupture in Roman Mediterranean Gaul: an archaeology of colonial transformations at ancient Lattara

Benjamin P. Luley  / Oxbow Books, 2020

Reviewed by Catherine Steidl,