BMCR 2022.09.01

Books Received August 2022

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

Vitruvius: rivista del Centro Studi Vitruviani. Vitruvius, 1. Rome; Bristol: L’Erma, 2022. Pp. 208. ISSN 2785-6682.

Dalida Agri, Reading fear in Flavian epic: emotion, power, and Stoicism. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780192859303. $85.00.

Jeffrey C. Anderson, The creation of the illustrated Octateuch. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2022. Pp. 80. ISBN 9783752006162. €110,00.

J.A. Baird, April Pudsey, Housing in the ancient Mediterranean world: material and textual approaches. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvii, 499. ISBN 9781108845267. £105.00.

Andrea Balbo, Jaewon Ahn, Kihoon Kim, Empire and politics in the Eastern and Western civilizations: searching for a ‘respublica romanosinica’. Roma Sinica, 2. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. vi, 289. ISBN 9783110735338. $83.99.

Karl Baughman, Brook Poston, Parallel lives: Romans and the American founders. London; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781032030746. $160.00.

Torben Behm, Städte in Ovids Metamorphosen: Darstellung und Funktion einer literarischen Landschaft. Hypomnemata Band. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. Pp. 408. ISBN 9783525311394. €100,00.

Neil W. Bernstein, Silius Italicus: Punica, book 9. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780198838166. $155.00.

Ellen Birnbaum, John Dillon, Philo of Alexandria: On the life of Abraham. Philo of Alexandria commentary series, 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xxiii, 492. ISBN 9789004423633. $234.00.

Ronald J.J. Blankenborg, Audible punctuation: performative pause in Homeric prosody. Hellenic studies, 87. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2022. Pp. 350. ISBN 9780674237957. $27.95.

Thomas R. Blanton IV, Agnes Choi, Jinyu Liu, Taxation, economy, and revolt in ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xiv, 186. ISBN 9780367472207. $160.00.

Marco Bleistein, Alia ex alia nexa: Untersuchungen zur Struktur von Ciceros Philosophieren. Philosophia Romana, 3. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2022. Pp. 412. ISBN 9783825347918. £52.00.

Michael Blömer, Engelbert Winter, Exploring urbanism in ancient North Syria: fieldwork in Doliche 2015-2020. Doliche urban excavations, 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. v, 411. ISBN 9783110744057. $149.99.

Sandra Boehringer, Daniele Lorenzini, Foucault, sexuality, antiquity. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. ix, 143. ISBN 9781032014524. $160.00.

Andrea Bramanti, M. Plotii Sacerdotis Artium grammaticarum libri I-II: [Probi] De Catholicis. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, 6.17. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2022. 2 vols. Pp. cclxxiii, 988. ISBN 9783615004489. €196.00.

Cédric Brélaz, Els Rose, Civic identity and civic participation in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Cultural encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 37. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. Pp. 447. ISBN 9782503590103. €120,00.

Shane Brennan, Xenophon’s Anabasis: a Socratic history. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 287. ISBN 9781474489881. $120.00.

Luc Brisson, Arnaud Macé, Olivier Renaut, Plato’s Parmenides: selected papers of the Twelfth Symposium Platonicum. International Plato studies, 41. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2022. Pp. 568. ISBN 9783985720200. €119,00.

Quentin J. Broughall, Gore Vidal and antiquity: sex, politics and religion. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 198. ISBN 9781032285337. $160.00.

Stanley M. Burstein, The essential Greek historians. Cambridge: Hackett, 2022. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781647920500. $62.00.

Slobodan Cace, Alan Johnston, Branko Kirigin, Lucijana Šešelj, Corpus of Greek graffiti from Dalmatia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. 370. ISBN 9781905670987. $85.00.

Stephen R.L. Clark, Cities and thrones and powers: towards a Plotinian politics. Brooklyn: Angelico Press, 2022. Pp. xi, 328. ISBN 1621388557. $32.00.

Camilla Colombi, Valeria Parisi, Ortwin Dally, Martin Guggisberg, Giorgio Piras, Comparing Greek colonies: mobility and settlement consolidation from Southern Italy to the Black Sea (8th – 6th Century BC). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvii, 596. ISBN 9783110682328. $195.99.

Giulio Di Basilio, Investigating the relationship between Aristotle’s Eudemian and Nicomachean ethics. Issues in ancient philosophy. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 218. ISBN 9780367344986. $160.00.

Dominick Delp, Zwischen Ansässigkeit und Mobilität: die sogenannte grosse Kolonisation der Griechen aus migrationstheoretischer Perspektive. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. Pp. 385. ISBN 9783949189364. €90,00.

Megan O. Drinkwater, Ovid’s Heroides and the Augustan principate. Wisconsin studies in Classics. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Pp. 192. ISBN 9780299337803. $79.95.

Antonio Duplá-Ansuategui, Amalia Emborujo Salgado, Oskar Aguado-Cantabrana, Del clasicismo de élite al clasicismo de masas. Madrid: Polifemo, 2022. Pp. 322. ISBN 9788416335770. €25,00.

Edward Einhorn, Eric Shanower, Euripides. Iphigenia in Aulis. Age of bronze. Portland: Image Comics, Inc., 2022. Pp. 131. ISBN 9781534322158. $16.99.

Chris Emlyn-Jones, William Preddy, Plato: Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus. Loeb Classical Library, 166. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. xl, 540. ISBN 9780674997431. $28.00.

Andrew Fear, Mithras. London; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781138499799. $160.00.

Jens Fischer, Folia ventis turbata: sibyllinische Orakel und der Gott Apollon zwischen später Republik und augusteischem Principat. Studien zur Alten Geschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. Pp. 460. ISBN 9783949189241. €80.00.

Ricarda Gäbel, Aetius of Amida on diseases of the brain: translation and commentary of ‘libri medicinales’ 6.1-10 with introduction. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xiii, 608. ISBN 9783110794366. $137.99.

Anne Gangloff, The emperor’s qualities and virtues in the inscriptions from Augustus to the beginning of Constantine’s reign: “mirrors for prince”? Impact of empire, 42. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii, 429. ISBN 9789004515086. €124.00.

Florence Garambois, Daniel Vallat, Stylistique et poétique de l’épigramme latine. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2022. Pp. 240. ISBN 9782356680778. €35,00.

Giuseppe Germano, Porcelio de’Pandoni. De sestertio et talento. Naples: Paolo Loffredo, 2022. Pp. 204. ISBN 9788832193916. €23,00.

Donatien Grau, Pietro Pucci, La Parole au miroir: dans la poésie grecque archaïque et classique. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2022. Pp. 264. ISBN 9782251453156. €29,00.

Stephen Halliwell, Pseudo-Longinus: On the sublime. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 592. ISBN 9780192894205. $230.00.

Martin Henig, Jason Lundock, Water in the Roman world: engineering, trade, religion and daily life. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022. Pp. 210. ISBN 9781803273006. £38.00.

Adrian Hielscher, “Instrumenta domestica” aus Pompeji und ihr Design: Eine Untersuchung zur decorativen Gestaltung der Kleinfunde aus Insula I 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. x, 375. ISBN 9783110785388. $160.99.

Thea Kraus, Prudentius’ Contra Symmachum, Vergil und Rom: ein historisch-philologischer Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen Christen und Heiden am Ende des 4. Jh. n. Chr. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2022. Pp. 379. ISBN 9783752006308. €110,00.

Paul J. Kosmin, Ian S. Moyer, Cultures of resistance in the Hellenistic East. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780192863478. $100.00.

Karin Krause, Divine inspiration in Byzantium: notions of authenticity in art and theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 492. ISBN 9781108830997. £90.00.

William Levitan, Stanley Lombardo, Tales of Dionysus: the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 792. ISBN 9780472133116. $90.00.

Flavia Licciardello, Deixis and frames of reference in Hellenistic dedicatory epigrams. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. pp. 450. ISBN 9783110681598. $154.99.

Giovanni Ligabue, Falerii Veteres. Il sepolcreto di Montarano: scavi, materiali e contesti. Monumenti Antichi, 83. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022. Pp. 800. ISBN 9788876893377. €180,00.

David Litwa, Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes: three early Christian teachers of Alexandria and Rome. Routledge studies in the early Christian world. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781032285351. $160.00.

David Magie, David Rohrbacher, Historia Augusta, volumes 1-3. Loeb classical library, 139-140, 263. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2022. 3 vols., Pp. 1586. ISBN 9780674997448. $28.00 ea.

Virginia Mastellari, Massimiliano Ornaghi, Bernhard Zimmermann, Chorodidaskalia: studi di poesia e performance in onore di Angela Andrisano. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022. Pp. x, 406. ISBN 9783949189425. €90,00.

Mark Masterson, Between Byzantine men: desire, homosociality, and brotherhood in the medieval empire. Routledge research in Byzantine studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. viii, 220. ISBN 9781351135238. $160.00.

Stephanie McCarter, Ovid: ‘Metamorphoses’. New York: Penguin, 2022. Pp. 608. ISBN 9780525505990. $38.00.

Federico Morelli, Documenti del primo periodo arabo dall’archivio di Senouthios “anystes” e testi connessi. Corpus papyrorum Raineri, 36. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xiv, 356. ISBN 9783110691313. $149.99.

Christian Mueller-Goldingen, Die Philosophie der Griechen zur Zeit der Klassik. Kalliope, 22. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2022. Pp. 158. ISBN 9783825349509. £54.00.

Daniel Muhsal, Der Homerische Mythos und die Grundlagen neuplatonischer Theologie: Proklos’ Traktat über die Dichtung Homers [in R. I 69-205]. Übersetzung und Kommentar. Berlin: De Gryter, 2022. Pp. xiv, 363. ISBN 9783110787283. $114.99.

Bartolo A. Natoli, Angela Pitts, Judith P. Hallett, Ancient women writers of Greece and Rome. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xiv, 408. ISBN 9780367462529. $160.00.

Smaro Nikolaidou-Arampatzi, Euripides’ Ino: commentary, reconstruction, text, and translation. Hellenic studies, 90. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2022. Pp. xii, 106. ISBN 9780674272552. $24.95.

Alison Noble, Alexander Alexakis, Richard H. Greenfield, Animal fables of the courtly Mediterranean: the Eugenian recension of Stephanites and Ichnelates. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 73. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. xxvi, 497. ISBN 9780674271272. $35.00.

Leyla Ozbek, Filottete in Quinto di Smirne, Posthomerica 9.333-546. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2022. ISBN 9788876427268. €28,00.

Alexa Piqueux, The comic body in ancient Greek theatre and art, 440-320 BCE. Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvii, 363. ISBN 9780192845542. $115.00.

Paul Potter, Hippocrates, volume 1: Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, The Oath, Precepts, Nutriment. Loeb classical library, 147. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. xcii, 348. ISBN 9780674997479. $28.00.

Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, D.T. Potts, The Oxford history of the ancient Near East. Volume II: from the end of the third millennium BC to the fall of Babylon. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 976. ISBN 9780190687571. $150.00.

Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, D. T. Potts, The Oxford history of the ancient Near East. Volume III: from the Hyksos to the late second millennium BC. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 1000. ISBN 9780190687601. $150.00.

Mareile Rassiller, Kaiserliche Autorität in Kult- und Gottermotiven: eine Analyse der Münzen von Augustus bis Trajan. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2022. Pp. 260. ISBN 9783170420496. €58,00.

Eyal Regev, The social archaeology of late Second Temple Judaea from purity, burial, and art, to Qumran, Herod, and Masada. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 286. ISBN 9781138358881. $160.00.

Duane W. Roller, A guide to the geography of Pliny the Elder. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 500. ISBN 9781108481809. £99.99.

Robert Rollinger, Kai Ruffing, Josef Wiesehöfer, Iran – Zentralasien – Mittelmeer. Gesammelte Schriften Teil I: Studien zur Geschichte der Achaimeniden. Philippika, 159. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. viii, 246. ISBN 9783447118255. €68,00.

Livio Rossetti, Thales the measurer. Issues in ancient philosophy. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 226. ISBN 9780367687090. $160.00.

Fabian Ruge, The Stoic theory of sign and proof. Philosophical studies in ancient thoughts, 2. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2022. Pp. 166. ISBN 9783796545559. €48.00.

Alfonsina Russo, Patrizia Fortini, Carcer Tullianum: il Mamertino al Foro Romano. Bibliotheca archaeologica, 74. Roma; Bristol: L’Erma, 2022. Pp. xxxiii, 206. ISBN 9788891322401.

Anton Sadovskyy, Manuscript transmission of Plato’s Laws: books 1 and 5. Serta Graeca, 35. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2022. Pp. 260. ISBN 9783752006070. €98,00.

Giampiero Scafoglio, Etienne Wolff, Ausone. Épigrammes, Bissula, Spectacle des sept sages. Saint-Étienne: Presses universitaires de Saint-Étienne, 2022. Pp. 242. ISBN 9782862727653. €21,00.

Seth L. Schein, Homer. Iliad book I. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781108412964. £19.99.

Stefan Schorn, Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker part 4. Biography and antiquarian literature, E. Paradoxography and antiquities. Fasc. 2: paradoxographers of the imperial period and undated authors [Nos. 1667-1693]. Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xx, 1072. ISBN 9789004472679. €255.00.

Samuli Simelius, Pompeian peristyle gardens. Studies in Roman space and urbanism. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 268. ISBN 9780367649951. $160.00.

Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Lovers of the soul, lovers of the body: philosophical and religious perspectives in Late Antiquity. Hellenic studies, 88. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2022. Pp. xxxi, 473. ISBN 9780674241329. $32.95.

Foteini Spingou, Sources for Byzantine art history, volume 3: the visual culture of later Byzantium (1081-c.1350). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. lxxv, 1597. ISBN 9781108483056. $260.00.

Julia Steding, Carvers and customers in Roman Palmyra: the production economy of limestone loculus reliefs. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. xiv, 294. ISBN 9782503597850. €105,00.

Daniela Patrizia Taormina, Plotinus IV 7 (2): On the Immortality of the Soul. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2022. Pp. 292. ISBN 9783896659989. €64,00.

Michael J. Taylor, Soldiers and silver: mobilizing resources in the age of Roman conquest. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. Pp. 257. ISBN 9781477321683. $55.00.

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist, Juhana Toivanen, Forms of representation in the Aristotelian tradition: volume 2, dreaming. Philosophia antiqua, 162. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. xiv, 273. ISBN 9789004506084. $113.00.

Ute Tischer, Ursula Gärtner, Alexandra Forst, Ut pictura poeta: author images and the reading of ancient literature. Giornale Italiano di Filologia – Bibliotheca, 29. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 378. ISBN 9782503598666. €75,00.

Thomas Tschögele, Die Erzählungen des Valerius Maximus. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, 165. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2022. Pp. 502. ISBN 9783825349196. £66.00.

Anne Tuttle Mackay, Animal encounters in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Mnemosyne supplements, 460. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. vii, 280. ISBN 9789004519602. €114.00.

Berenice Verhelst, Tine Scheijnen, Greek and Latin poetry of Late Antiquity: form, tradition, and context. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xi, 302. ISBN 9781316516058. £75.00.

Matt Waters, King of the world: the life of Cyrus the Great. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 255. ISBN 9780190927172. $27.95.

Shanshan Wen, Communal dining in the Roman West: private munificence towards cities and associations in the first three centuries AD. Mnemosyne supplements, 457. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii, 321. ISBN 9789004516861. €114.00.

Bobby Xinyue, Politics and divinization in Augustan poetry. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780192855978. $85.00.