BMCR 2022.01.01

Books received December 2021

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

Pauline Allen, John Chrysostom, Homilies on Colossians. Writings from the Greco-Roman World, 46. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021. Pp. 325. ISBN 9781628374070. $50.00.

Melih Arslan, Ulrike Peter, Vladimir F. Stolba, Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien: aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei. Griechisches Münzwerk. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. xiv, 185. ISBN 9783110755589. $114.99.

Rafael Arnold, Christiane Reitz, Gianfrancesco Pico Della Mirandola, Pietro Bembo. De Imitatione: Briefe uber die Nachahmungt. Bibliotheca neolatina, 14. Heidelberg: Manutius Verlag, 2021. Pp. 211. ISBN 9783944512303. €38,00.

Hélène Aurigny, Cécile Durvye, Artémis près d’Apollon: culte et représentation d’Artémis à Délos, Delphes, Claros et Didymes. Kernos, supplément 37. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, Presses universitaires de Liège, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 9782875622723. €30,00.

Balbina Bäbler, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Delphi: Apollons Orakel in der Welt der Antike. Civitatum Orbis Mediterranei Studia. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. Pp. 610. ISBN 9783161575709. €154,00.

Susanna Bertone, Dispositio carminum Catulli: i carmi di Catullo nella tradizione manoscritta e a stampa dal tardo Trecento al 1535. Transmissions, 7. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. vi, 354. ISBN 9783110738131. $114.99.

Anton Bierl, Joachim Latacz, Homers Ilias: Gesamtkommentar (Basler Kommentar / BK). Band XIII: 4 Gesang. Faszikel 1, Text und Übersetzung. Sammlung Wissenschaftlicher Commentare (SWC), 13.1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 50. ISBN 9783110466393. $47.99.

Marisa Bonamici, Elena Sorge, Velathri Volaterrae: la città etrusca e il municipio romano. Atti del convegno di studi (Volterra, 21-22 settembre 2017). Biblioteca di “Studi etruschi,” 64. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2021. Pp. xviii, 463. ISBN 9788876893292. €110,00.

Ewen Bowie, Essays on ancient Greek literature and culture. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 650. ISBN 9781107058088. £135.00.

Katharina Bracht, Jan Dirk Harke, Matthias Perkams, Meinolf Vielberg, Heteronome Texte: kommentierende und tradierende Literatur in Antike und Mittelalter. Transmissions, 6. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. viii, 269. ISBN 9783110738162. $103.99.

Alan Bowman, Alex Mullen, Manual of Roman everyday writing: vol. I. Scripts and texts. Nottingham: LatinNow ePubs, 2021. Pp. 99. ISBN 9780853583462. Open Access.

Anna Willi, Manual of Roman everyday writing: vol. 2. Writing equipment. Nottingham: LatinNow ePubs, 2021. Pp. 145. ISBN 9780853583424. Open Access.

Maurizio Buora, Stefano Magnani, Lodovico Nevio Puntin, Archeologia, politica, societa: gli scavi per le fognature di Aquileia 1968-1972. Trieste: Editreg di Fabio Prenc, 2021. Pp. 349. ISBN 9788833490408. €30,00.

Adolfo Egea Carrasco, Horacio y la poesía gastronómica antigua. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 2019. Pp. 284. ISBN 8417776559. €22.50.

Michele R. Cataudella, Ritorno alla Flat Tax: un itinerario di Atene antica fra VII e IV secolo? Giornale Italiano di Filologia – Bibliotheca, 25. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 350. ISBN 9782503592770. €70,00.

Alessandra Coen, Etruscum aurum: le bulle auree in Etruria tra età tardo classica ed ellenistica. Biblioteca di “Studi etruschi”, 65. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2021. Pp. x, 166. ISBN 9788876893346. €122,00.

Rossella Saetta Cottone, Penser les dieux avec les présocratiques. Etudes de littérature ancienne, 28. Paris: Rue d’Ulm, 2021. Pp. 249. ISBN 9782728807475. €23.00.

Zenon Culverhouse, Plato’s Hippias minor: the play of ambiguity. Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. ix, 131. ISBN 9781793611215. $108.00.

Ashk P. Dahlén, Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian presence and impact in the Western Satrapies 546-330 BC. Proceedings of an international symposium at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 7-8 September 2017. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Boreas, 37. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2020. Pp. 267. ISBN 9789151307947. SEK 368.00.

Pierre Destrée, Aristote: Poétique. GF, 1637. Paris: Flammarion, 2021. Pp. 272. ISBN 9782080712295.

Andrew C. Dinan, Americana latine: Latin moments in the history of the United States. Rome: Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, 2020. Pp. xviii, 477. ISBN 9781734018981. $25.00.

Antonio Duplá, Christian Núñez, Grégory Reimond, Pasión por la historia antigua: de Gibbon a nuestros días. Monografías, 5. Pamplona: Urgoiti Editores, 2021. Pp. 415. ISBN 9788412103663. €18,00.

Werner Eck, Gesellschaft und Administration im Römischen Reich: Aktualisierte Schriften in Auswahl. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. 540. ISBN 9783110746655. $114.99.

Francesca Econimo, La parola e gli occhi: l’ekphrasis nella Tebaide di Stazio. Studi, 51. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2021. Pp. 413. ISBN 9788876426957. €30,00.

Jeanne Fahnestock, Philip Melanchthon: The dialectical questions. International studies in the history of rhetoric, 15. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. x, 549. ISBN 9789004466388. €135.00 / $162.00.

Maria Jennifer Falcone, Christoph Schubert, Ilias Latina: text, interpretation, and reception. Mnemosyne supplements, 443. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. 430. ISBN 9789004469495. €110,00 / $133.00.

Karin Margareta Fredborg, “Lucca” Summa on rhetoric: the earliest Italian Ciceronian treatise in the Middle Ages. Edizione nazionale dei testi mediolatini d’Italia, serie I, 58.29. Firenze: SISMEL. Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2021. Pp. xiii, 129. ISBN 9788892900684. €42,00.

Anne-Catherine Gillis, Des dieux dans le four: enquete archeologique sur les pratiques religieuses du monde artisanal en Grece ancienne. Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2021. Pp. 342. ISBN 9782858433645. €31,00.

Pantelis Golitsis, Alexander of Aphrodisias. Commentary on Aristotle, ‘Metaphysics’ (books I-III): critical edition with introduction and notes. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, 3/1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. clvi, 302. ISBN 9783110732443. $126.99.

Ricardo González Villaescusa, Raimon Graells i Fabregat, El retorno de los cascos celtibéricos de Aratis: un relato inacabado. Zaragoza: Gobierno de Aragón, 2021. Pp. 315. ISBN 9788483804377.

Patrick T.R. Gray, Claiming the mantle of Cyril: Cyril of Alexandria and the road to Chalcedon. Late Antique history and religion, 24. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. Pp. xi, 306. ISBN 9789042942578. $119.00.

Friedhelm Hoffmann, Stefan Pfeiffer, Der Stein von Rosetta. Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, 14200. Ditzingen: Reclam, 2021. Pp. 199. ISBN 9783150142004. €7,00.

Niklas Holzberg, Carmina Priapea: griechisch – lateinisch – deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. 230. ISBN 9783110751369. $45.99.

Andreas Karkavitsas, Johanna Hanink, The archeologist and selected sea stories. New York: Penguin, 2021. Pp. 220. ISBN 9780143136248. $17.00.

Elif Keser Kayaalp, Church architecture of Late Antique northern Mesopotamia. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 290. ISBN 9780198864936. £75.00.

Anthony Keddie, Michael Flexsenhar III, Steven J. Friesen, The struggle over class: socioeconomic analysis of ancient Christian texts. Writings from the Greco-Roman World, supplement 19. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2021. Pp. 472. ISBN 9781628374155. $69.00.

Dimosthenis Kosmopoulos, Architettura templare italica in epoca ellenistica. Studia Archaeologica, 250. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2021. Pp. 550. ISBN 9788891322760. €385,00.

Frédéric Lambert, Guillaume Bonnet, Apollonius Dyscole et Priscien: transmettre, traduire, interpréter. Éléments d’une histoire problématique. Corpus Christianorum Lingua Patrum, 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 324. ISBN 9782503596082. €135,00.

Dominique Lenfant, Les aventures d’un pamphlet antidémocratique: transmission et réception de la Constitution des Athéniens du Pseudo-Xénophon (Ve siècle avant J.-C.-XXIe siècle). Actes du colloque de Strasbourg (15-16 novembre 2018). Études d’archéologie et d’histoire ancienne. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020. Pp. 290. ISBN 9782701805979. €42,00.

Michael Lipka, Epiphanies and dreams in Greek polytheism: textual genres and ‘reality’ from Homer to Heliodorus. MythosEikonPoiesis. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. ix, 319. ISBN 9783110636369. $126.99.

Carolina López-Ruiz, Phoenicians and the making of the Mediterranean. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. $45.00. ISBN 9780674988187. $45.00.

Rafał Matuszewski, Being alone in antiquity: Greco-Roman ideas and experiences of misanthropy, isolation and solitude. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. ix, 470. ISBN 9783110757934. $114.99.

Jenifer Neils, Olga Palagia, From Kallias to Kritias: art in Athens in the second half of the fifth century B.C. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. ix, 380. ISBN 9783110680928. $137.99.

S. Douglas Olson, Athenaeus Naucratites, Deipnosophistae. Volumen II A: Libri III.74-VII. B: Epitome. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2033. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. xiv, 749. ISBN 9783110558517. $91.99.

Rachele Pierini, Alberto Bernabé, Marco Ercoles, Thronos: historical grammar of furniture in Mycenaean and beyond. Eikasmos, 32. Bologna: Pàtron editore, 2021. Pp. 264. ISBN 9788855534673. €32.00.

Stephen J. Rojcewicz, Jr., Thornton Wilder, classical reception, and American literature. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781032014654. $160.00.

Duane W. Roller, Three ancient geographical treatises in translation: Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus. Routledge classical translations. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 212. ISBN 9780367462543. $160.00.

Seraina Ruprecht, Unter Freunden: Nähe und Distanz in sozialen Netzwerken der Spätantike. Vestigia, 74. München: C.H. Beck, 2021. Pp. viii, 360. ISBN 9783406773990. €59,90.

Chris Scarre, Tammy Stone, The Human Past Essentials. London; New York: Thames & Hudson, 2021. Pp. 464. ISBN 9780500843864. $81.25.

Lionel Scott, Pytheas of Massalia: texts, translation, and commentary. Routledge classical translations. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781032019987. $160.00.

Alexander Sideras, Gregorios Antiochos: Reden und Briefe. Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae, 54. Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2021. Pp. 1204, 2 volumes. ISBN 9783700183655. €240,00.

Martin Andreas Stadler, Das Soknopaiosritual: texte zum ‘Täglichen Ritual’ im Tempel des Soknopaios zu Dimê (‘SPR’). Ägyptische und Orientalische Papyri und Handschriften des Ägyptischen Museums und Papyrussammlung Berlin. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. xxii, 461. ISBN 9783110470550. $172.99.

Stefanie Stürner, Die Argonauten in Afrika: Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar zur Libyenepisode der “Argonautika” des Apollonios von Rhodos (A.R. 4,1223-1781). Texte und Kommentare, 69. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. ix, 473. ISBN 9783110686357. $149.99.

Michel Tarpin, Colonies, territoires et statuts: nouvelles approches. Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne supplément 23. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021. Pp. 282. ISBN 2848677732. €29,00.

Catherine Tracy, Epidicus by Plautus: an annotated Latin text, with a prose translation. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2021. Pp. 196. ISBN 9781800642850. £22.95.

Laura Viidebaum, Creating the ancient rhetorical tradition. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781108836562. $99.00.

Sitta von Reden, Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 2: local, regional, and imperial economies. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021. Pp. xv, 843. ISBN 9783110604528. Open Access.

Rodney A. Whitacre, A grammar of New Testament Greek. Eerdmans language resources. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021. Pp. 522. ISBN 9780802879271. $49.99.

Eva Hofstetter, Der Fischteller-Code: marine und maritime Bilder auf Gefässen aus der Antike im Museum Florence Gottet. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2021. Pp. 207. ISBN 9783796540677. €38,00.

Ruobing Xian, Raum und Erzählung in der Odyssee. Mnemosyne supplements, 444. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xii, 185. ISBN 9789004379466. €89.00 / $107.00.

Johannes Zenk, Die Anfänge Roms erzählen: zur literarischen Technik in der ersten Pentade von Livius’ ‘ab urbe condita’. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft, 12. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Pp. viii, 356. ISBN 9783110758030. $126.99.