Month: May 2022

Books received April 2022

The rhetoric of unity and division in ancient literature

Andreas N. Michalopoulos, Andreas Serafim, Flaminia Beneventano della Corte, Alessandro Vatri  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Andreas Avgousti, 

Clash of cultures: a psychodynamic analysis of Homer and the Iliad

Vincenzo Sanguineti, Donatella Marazziti  / Lexington Books, 2021

Reviewed by Fabian Horn, 

Atomism in the Aeneid: physics, politics, and cosmological disorder

Matthew M. Gorey  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Alessandro Schiesaro, 

Julian and Christianity: revisiting the Constantinian revolution

David Neal Greenwood  / Cornell University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Gianluca Piscini, 

Being alone in antiquity: Greco-Roman ideas and experiences of misanthropy, isolation and solitude

Rafał Matuszewski  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Justine Diemke, 

Amministrare e comunicare nell’Egitto tolemaico: La funzione delle copie (antigrapha) nella documentazione papirologica

Giuditta Mirizio  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by Nicola Reggiani, 

Lucian: Alexander or the false prophet

Peter Thonemann  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Jan Bremmer, 

More texts from the Archive of Socrates

Mohamed Gaber el-Maghrabi, Cornelia Römer  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Mike Sampson, 

Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium: texts, manuscripts, and their readers

Barbara Crostini, Reinhart Ceulemans  / Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021

Reviewed by William Adler, 

Petronio: ricostruzioni e interpretazioni

Mario Labate, Giulio Vannini, Giovanni Zago  / Edizioni della Normale, 2020

Reviewed by Bruno Rochette, 

Iron age terracotta figurines in the southern Levant in context

Erin D. Darby, Izaak J. de Hulster  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Estelle Galbois, 

The springtime of the people: the Athenian Ephebeia and citizen training from Lykourgos to Augustus

Thomas R. Henderson  / Brill, 2020

Reviewed by Andrzej Chankowski, 

Die lateinische Deklamation

Stefan Knoch  / Georg Olms Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by Nephele Papakonstantinou, 

The imperial women of Rome: power, gender, context

Mary T. Boatwright  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Helena Lopez Gomez, 

Oikonomia: philosophie grecque de l’économie

Etienne Helmer  / Classiques Garnier, 2021

Reviewed by Aiste Čelkytė, 

“Parva naturalia” with “On the motion of animals”

David Bolotin  / Mercer University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Andrea Falcon, 

La notion de daïmôn dans le pythagorisme ancien: de la pensée religieuse à la pensée philosophique

Marcel Detienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant  / Les Belles Lettres, 2021

Reviewed by Maria Cristina Mennuti, 

Greek writers and philosophers in Philo and Josephus: a study of their secular education and educational ideals

Erkki Koskenniemi  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Maren Niehoff, 

Antiochenische Kosmographie?: Zur Begründung und Verbreitung nichtsphärischer Weltkonzeptionen in der antiken Christenheit

Benjamin Gleede  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Daniel Schumann,