BMCR 2022.02.01

Books received January 2022

This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in January 2022 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.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Parte II: Frammenti Adespoti e sentenze, vol. 1: Frammenti Adespoti. Firenze: Olschki Editore, 2021. Pp. 240. ISBN 9788822268105. €70,00.

Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier, Funde und Ausgrabungen im Bezirk Trier 52/2020: aus der Arbeit des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021. Pp. 136. ISBN 9783752006032. €12,80.

Mikhail G. Abramzon, Vladmir D. Kuznetsov, Beginning of coinage in the Cimmerian Bosporus (a hoard from Phanagoria). Colloquia antiqua, 34. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. Pp. xvi-146. ISBN 9789042946170. €108,00.

Mikhail G. Abramzon, Vladimir D. Kuznetsov, Coin hoards, volume XI. Greek hoards: the Cimmerian Bosporus. Colloquia Antiqua, 32. Leuven: Peeters. Pp. 409. ISBN 9789042944695. €128,00.

Lisa Agaiby, Tim Vivian, Door of the wilderness: the Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic sayings of St. Antony of Egypt. An English translation, with introductions and notes. Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity, volume 23. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xlviii, 225. ISBN 9789004471863. €129.00 / $155.00.

Peter Baldwin, Command and persuade: crime, law, and the state across history. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2021. Pp. 480. ISBN 9780262045629. $34.95.

Sebastian Bauer, Philipp Brockkötter, Exemplarität und Exzeptionalität in der griechisch-römischen Antike. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. Pp. 308. ISBN 9783949189104. €80,00.

Michael Baumann, Cornelia Alder, David Brönnimann, Thomas Doppler, Die Bestattung einer wohlhabenden Frau aus Augusta Raurica interdisziplinäre Auswertung eines Bleisargs aus dem Nordwestgräberfeld. Forschungen in Augst, 54. Augst: Augusta Raurica, 2021. Pp. 184. ISBN 9783715100548.

Gregor Berghammer, Caracalla: die Militärautokratie des Severus Antoninus. Gutenberg: Computus, 2022. Pp. 852. ISBN 9783940598516. €109,00.

André Binggeli, Stéphanos Efthymiadis, Sophie Métivier, Les nouveaux martyrs à Byzance. Byzantina Sorbonensia, 31. Paris: Editions de la Sorbonne, 2021. Pp. xi, 404. ISBN 9791035106164. €35.00.

Sophie Marianne Bocksberger, Telamonian Ajax: the myth in Archaic and Classical Greece. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198864769. $100.00.

Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris, Aurélien Robert, Brill’s companion to the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Brill’s companions to classical reception, volume 24. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xvi, 496. ISBN 9789004373624. €179.00 / $215.00.

Annaclara Cataldi Palau, The Angela Burdett-Coutts collection of Greek manuscripts. Bibliologia, 62. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 469. ISBN 9782503593760. €90,00.

Jaqueline Champeaux, Arnobe: contre les Gentils (contre les Paiens). Livres IV-V. Collection des universités de France. Série latine. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021. Pp. 416. ISBN 9782251014906. $113.00.

Nichola Chiarenza, Bruno D’Andrea, Adriano Orsingher, LRBT: dall’archeologia all’epigrafia studie in onore di Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo. Semitica et classica, supplementa 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 367. ISBN 9782503596679. €80,00.

Zuzana Chovanec, Walter Crist, All things Cypriot: studies on ancient environment, technology, and society in honor of Stuart Swiny. ASOR archaeological reports, 28. Alexandria: American Society of Overseas Research, 2021. Pp. xx, 272. ISBN 9780897571166. $79.95.

Federica Ciccolella, When Greece flew across the Alps: the study of Greek in early modern Europe. Brill’s studies in intellectual history, 336. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xviii, 376. ISBN 9789004179424. $155.00 / €129,00.

Danièle Conso, Forma: étude sémantique et étymologique. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1531. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021. Pp. 842. ISBN 9782848678597. €42,00.

Arabelle Cortese, Giulia Fioratto, Urban space between the Roman age and Late Antiquity: continuity, discontinuity and changes. Acts of the international workshop, University of Regensburg, 13-14 February 2020. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2022. Pp. 176. ISBN 9783795436605. €40,00.

Ghazzal Dabiri, Narrating power and authority in Late Antique and Medieval hagiography across East and West. Fabulae, 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 217. ISBN 9782503590653. €75,00.

Mathieu P. de Bakker, Irene J.F. de Jong, Speech in ancient Greek literature. Mnemosyne supplements, 448. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xii, 762. ISBN 9789004498808. €174.00 / $209.00.

Jeanine de Landtsheer, Fabio della Schiava, Toon van Houdt, Dulces ante omnia Musae: essays on Neo-Latin poetry in honour of Dirk Sacré. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 724. ISBN 9782503590776. €120,00.

Sylvain Delcomminette, L’éristique: définitions, caractérisations et historicité. Cahiers de philosophie ancienne, 27. Brussells: Ousia, 2021. Pp. 390. ISBN 9782870601938. €20,00.

Gina Derhard, Dynamiken der Briefform bei Hieronymus. Orbis antiquus, 56. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2021. Pp. x, 375. ISBN 9783402144671. €54,00.

Martine Dulaey, Augustin d’Hippone. Les commentaires des Psaumes, Ps. 53-60. Bibliothèque Augustinienne, 60. Paris: Institut d’études Augustiniennes, 2021. Pp. 735. ISBN 9782851213129. €74,00.

Fabio Fabiani, Gabriele Gattiglia, Paesaggi urbani e rurali in trasformazione: contesti e dinamiche dell’insediamento letti alla luce della fonte archeologica. Atti della giornata di studi dei dottorandi in archeologia (Pisa, 22 Novembre 2019), XXXIV ciclo di dottorato in scienze dell’antichita e archeologia consorzio delle Università di Firenze, Pisa e Siena. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021. Pp. 122. ISBN 9781803270968. £32.00.

Alan Taylor Farnes, Scott D. Mackie, David Runia, Ancient texts, papyri, and manuscripts: studies in honor of James R. Royse. New Testament tools, studies and documents, 64. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. xiv, 440. ISBN 9789004465572. €139.00 / $167.00.

Anna Flückiger, Kaiseraugst zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter: eine siedlungsarchäologische Studie. Forschungen in Augst, 55. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2021. Pp. 365. ISBN 9783796545290. 80.00 CHF.

Alessandro Galimberti, Herodian’s World: empire and emperors in the III century. Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, 12. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. 330. ISBN 9789004500235. €109.00 / $131.00.

Marco Virgilio García Quintela, El sacrificio animal galaico-lusitano: estudio comparativo de Historia de las Religiones. Seville: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2021. Pp. 256. ISBN 9788447230976. €12,00.

Francesco Ginelli, Cornelius Nepos: the commanders of the fifth century BCE. Introduction, text, and commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 368. ISBN 9780198836131. $190.00.

Bertrand Ham, Pierre Hadot, Plotin. Traité 30, III, 8: sur la nature, la contemplation et l’Un. Bibliothèque des textes philosophiques. Paris: Vrin, 2021. Pp. 216. ISBN 9782711629930. €25,00.

Annette Harder, Jacqueline Klooster, Remco Regtuit, Gerry Wakker, Women and power in Hellenistic poetry. Hellenistica Groningana, 26. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. Pp. vi, 390. ISBN 9789042945791. €79,00.

Ferdinand Heimerl, Das römische Beda/Bitburg: Kaiserzeitlicher vicus, spätantike Befestigung und Bestattungen. Beihefte zur Trierer Zeitschrift, 39. Weisbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021. Pp. 480. ISBN 9783954905119. €78,00.

Maura K. Heyn, Rubina Raja, Individualizing the dead: attributes in Palmyrene funerary sculpture. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. xiii, 139. ISBN 9782503591261. €65,00.

Todd M. Hickey, James G. Keenan, Edgar J. Goodspeed: America’s first papyrologist. California Classical Studies, 8. Berkeley: California Classical Studies, 2021. Pp. 178. ISBN 9781939926142. $34.95.

Ilse Hilbold, Habiter dans des jardins: les aristocrates et leurs horti dans la Rome tardo-républicaine. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2022. Pp. 276. ISBN 9782701806303. €59,00.

Julia Hoffmann-Salz, The Middle East as Middle Ground? Cultural interaction in the ancient Middle East revisited. Wien: Holzhausen Verlag, 2021. Pp. 280. ISBN 9783903207561. $134.00.

Marietta Horster, Nikolas Hächler, The impact of the Roman Empire on landscapes: proceedings of the fourteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Mainz, June 12-15, 2019). Impact of Empire, 41. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. 400. ISBN 9789004411432. €125.00 / $150.00.

Sabine R. Huebner, David M. Ratzan, Missing mothers: maternal absence in antiquity. Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion, 22. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. Pp. viii, 347. ISBN 9789042943131. €75,00.

Noreen Humble, Xenophon of Athens: a Socratic on Sparta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 380. ISBN 9781108479974. £90,00.

Suzanne Husson, Juliette Lemaire, Les trois Républiques: Platon, Diogène de Sinope, et Zénon de Citium. Bibliothèque d’Histoire de la Philosophie. Paris: Vrin, 2022. Pp. 294. ISBN 9782711629923.

Jawdath Jabbour, De la matière à l’intellect: l’âme et la substance de l’homme dans l’œuvre d’al-Farabi. Études musulmanes, 53. Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2021. Pp. 466 pages. ISBN 9782711629701. €45,00.

Robert H. Jordan, Rosemary Morris, The life and death of Theodore of Stoudios. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 70. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. xxiv, 382. ISBN 9780674261198. $35.00.

Richard Jasnow, Karl-Theodor Zauzich, The ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: revised transliteration and translation, new fragments, and material for future study. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. 720. ISBN 9783447117173. €198,00.

Sean Kelsey, Mind and world in Aristotle’s ‘De Anima’. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781108832915. $99.99.

Patrick Kragelund, The Latin inscriptions of Medici Florence: piety and propaganda, civic pride and the Classical past. Texts, translations and commentaries. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementum, LV. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2021. Pp. 362. ISBN 9788854911154. €32,00.

Christina-Panagiota Manolea, Brill’s companion to the reception of Homer from the Hellenistic age to Late Antiquity. Brill’s companions to Classical reception, 22. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xiv, 443. ISBN 9789004243439. €194.00 / $233.00.

Gesine Manuwald, Cicero: post reditum speeches. Introduction, text, translation, and commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780198850755. $145.00.

Claudia Marsico, Socrates and the Socratic philosophies selected papers from Socratica IV. International Socrates Studies, 2. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2022. Pp. 427. ISBN 9783985720040. €98,00.

Michael McOsker, The good poem according to Philodemus. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780190912819. $99.00.

Lucretiu Mihailescu-Birliba, Iulia Dumitrache, Persevera lucere: studia in memoriam Octaviani Bounegru. Philippika, 155. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. xxii, 360. ISBN 9783447116879. €98,00.

Yuliya Minets, The slow fall of Babel: languages and identities in Late Antique Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781108980821. $120.00.

Gianfranco Mosconi, Democrazia e buon governo. Cinque tesi democratiche nella Grecia del V secolo A.C. Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2021. Pp. 232. ISBN 9788879169851. €32,50.

Lynda Mulvin, Nigel Westbrook, Late Antique Palatine architecture: palaces and palace culture. Patterns of transculturation. Architectural crossroads: studies in the history of architecture, 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. Pp. 213. ISBN 9782503574721. €90,00.

Alicia D. Myers, An introduction to the Gospels and Acts. Essentials of biblical studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xv, 210. ISBN 9780190926816. $24.95.

Steven M. Oberhelman, Giancarlo Abbamonte, Patrick Baker, Habent sua fata libelli: studies in book history, the classical tradition, and humanism in honor of Craig Kallendorf. Brill’s studies in intellectual history, 328. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xxii, 528. ISBN 9789004461888. €157.00 / $188.00.

Artur Obłuski, Henryk Paner, Mirosław Masojć, Bayuda and its neighbours. Nubia 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 200. ISBN 9782503599069. €70,00.

Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Michael Edwards, Brill’s companion to the reception of ancient rhetoric. Brill’s companions to classical reception, 23. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii, 686. ISBN 9789004373655. €199.00 / $239.00.

Laurent Pernot, W. E. Higgins, The subtle subtext: hidden meanings in literature and life. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. Pp. x, 170. ISBN 9780271091976. $99.95.

Sofia Piacentin, Financial penalties in the Roman Republic: a study of confiscations of individual property, public sales, and fines (509-58 BC). Mnemosyne Supplement, 447. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xv, 234. ISBN 9789004498662. $120.00 / €99,00.

Matthieu Pignot, Latin anonymous sermons from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (AD 300-800): classification, transmission, dating. Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia, 86. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 288. ISBN 9782503591223. €75,00.

Samuel Pomeroy, Chrysostom as Exegete: scholarly traditions and rhetorical aims in the Homilies on Genesis. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 171. Leiden: Brill, 2021. Pp. xx, 378. ISBN 9789004469228. €127.00 / $153.00.

Joanna Porucznik, Cultural identity within the northern Black Sea region in antiquity: (de)constructing past identities. Colloquia Antiqua, 31. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. Pp. xvi, 227. ISBN 9789042944237. €81,00.

Thea Potter, Horos: ancient boundaries and the ecology of stone. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2022. Pp. 348. ISBN 9781800642676. £34.95 / Open Access.

Steve Renette, Lagash I: the ceramic corpus from al-Hiba, 1968-1990. A chrono-typology of the pottery tradition in southern Mesopotamia during the third and early second millennium BCE. ARATTA: studies in archaeology & history, from Mesopotamia to the Indus Valley, 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. xxiv, 447. ISBN 9782503590202. €95,00.

Martin Revermann, Brecht and tragedy: radicalism, traditionalism, eristics. Classics after antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvii, 474. ISBN 9781108489683. $120.00.

Mickaël Ribreau, Augustin d’Hippone. Contre Julien, livre I-III. Bibliothèque Augustinienne, 25A. Paris: Institut d’études Augustiniennes, 2021. Pp. 691. ISBN 9782851213136. €70,00.

Dylan Rogers, Claire Weiss, A quaint & curious volume: essays in honor of John J. Dobbins. Abingdon: Archaeopress, 2021. Pp. 204. ISBN 9781789692181. £49.00.

Cristina Rosillo-López, Political conversations in late Republican Rome. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780192856265. $100.00.

Nicola Scaldaferri, Victor A. Friedman, Zymer U. Neziri, Wild songs, Sweet Songs: the Albanian epic in the collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord. Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, 5. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 419. ISBN 9780674271333. $29.50.

Ryan S. Schellenberg, Abject joy: Paul, prison, and the art of making do. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xiii, 231. ISBN 9780190065515. $74.00.

Marie-Odile Rousset, Chalcis/Qinnasrin (Syrie): de l’âge du Bronze à l’époque mamelouke Qinnasrin II. Archéologie(s) 6. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2021. Pp. 508. ISBN 9782356681676. €65,00.

Ingo Schaaf, Emanuela Prinzivalli, Barbara Feichtinger, Giuseppe Caruso, Hieronymus Romanus: studies on Jerome and Rome on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of his death. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia (IPM), 87. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 609. ISBN 9782503592596. €150,00.

Jonas Scherr, Martin Gronau, Stefano Saracino, Polybios von Megalopolis: Staatsdenken zwischen griechischer Poliswelt und römischer Res Publica. Staatsverständnisse, 159. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2021. Pp. 310. ISBN 9783848751013. €64,00.

Barbara A. Shailor, Consuelo W. Dutschke, Scribes and the presentation of texts (from Antiquity to c. 1550). Proceedings of the 20th Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie Latine: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University (New Haven, September 6-8, 2017). Bibliologia, 65. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 602. ISBN 9782503595160. €90,00.

Edwin Shaw, Sallust and the fall of the Republic: historiography and intellectual life at Rome. Historiography of Rome and its Empire, 13. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. 506. ISBN 9789004501713. €132.00 / $159.00.

Robert Sing, Tazuko van Berkel, Robin Osborne, Numbers and numeracy in the Greek polis. Mnemosyne. Supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 446. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xiv, 297. ISBN 9789004467217. €104.00 / $125.00.

Paul Stephenson, New Rome: the empire in the east. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. xii, 432. ISBN 9780674659629. $35.00.

Jenny Strauss Clay, Athanassios Vergados, Teaching through images: imagery in Greco-Roman didactic poetry. Mnemosyne supplements, volume 450. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xiv, 388. ISBN 9789004373488. €118.00 / $142.00.

Benno van Dalen, Ptolemaic tradition and Islamic innovation: the astronomical tables of Kūshyār ibn Labbān al-Jīlī. Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus – Texts, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. xviii, 614, + 159 tbls. ISBN 9782503593418. €120,00.

Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde, Johan Weststeijn, Late Antique responses to the Arab conquests. Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean, 5. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xiv, 274. ISBN 9789004500617. €110.00 / $133.00.

Julie K. Ward, Searching for the divine in Plato and Aristotle: philosophical theoria and traditional practice. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 230. ISBN 9781316519417. £75,00.

Antje Wessels, Jacqueline Klooster, Inventing origins? Aetiological thinking in Greek and Roman antiquity / edited by A.B. Wessels, J.J.H. Klooster. Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 2. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. 222. ISBN 9789004500143. €99.00 / $119.00.

Martijn A. Wijnhoven, European mail armour: ringed battle shirts from the Iron Age, Roman Period and Early Middle Ages. Amsterdam Archaeological Studies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. Pp. 520. ISBN 9789463721264. €161,00.

Alexandra Wilding, Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos. Mnemosyne supplements, 445. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xvi, 324. ISBN 9789004404991. €120.00 / $144.00.

Catherine Wolff, Patrice Faure, Corps du chef et gardes du corps dans l’armée romaine: actes du septième Congrès de Lyon, 25-27 octobre 2018. Collection Études et recherches sur l’Occident romain, 53. Paris: CEROR, 2021. Pp. 823. ISBN 9782364420922.