Month: September 2022

Books Received August 2022

Hellenistic and Roman terracottas

Giorgos Papantoniou, Demetres Michaelides, Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Lâtife Summerer, 

Producing Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ in the early modern Low Countries: paratexts, publishers, editors, readers

John Tholen  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Pere Fàbregas Salis, 

Group survival in the ancient Mediterranean

Richard Last, Philip Harland  / Bloosmbury Academic, 2020

Reviewed by Ross Kraemer, 

L’âme comme livre. Étude sur une image platonicienne

Karel Thein  / Éditions Classiques Garnier, 2021

Reviewed by Octavian Gabor, 

The struggle over class: socioeconomic analysis of ancient Christian texts

G. Anthony Keddie, Michael Flexsenhar III, Steven J. Friesen  / SBL Press, 2021

Reviewed by Alexander Perkins, 

Euripide, Ifigenia in Aulide: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento

Valeria Andò  / Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2021

Reviewed by Sandra Rodríguez Piedrabuena, 

Private associations in the ancient Greek world: regulations and the creation of group identity

Vincent Gabrielsen, Mario C.D. Paganini  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by John Kloppenborg, 

The archaeology of seasonality

Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja  / Brepols, 2021

Reviewed by Michael Loy, 

Provinces and provincial command in Republican Rome: genesis, development and governance

Alejandro Díaz Fernández  / Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2021

Reviewed by Raimund Schulz, 

Ptolemaic tradition and Islamic innovation: the astronomical tables of Kūshyār ibn Labbān

Benno van Dalen  / Brepols, 2021

Reviewed by Olivier Defaux, 

Sleep and dreams in early Greek thought: Presocratic and Hippocratic approaches

Stephanie Holton  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Lee Pearcy, 

Jews and their Roman rivals: pagan Rome’s challenge to Israel

Katell Berthelot  / Princeton University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Amit Gvaryahu, 

Brill’s companion to the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris, Aurélien Robert  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Theofanis Tsiampokalos, 

Individuals and institutions in the ancient Near East: a tribute to Ran Zadok

Uri Gabbay, Shai Gordin  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Michaela Weszeli, 

Commentary on Aristotle, ‘Prior Analytics’ (book II): critical edition with introduction and translation

Nikos Agiotis  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Michele Trizio, 

Monsters in Greek literature: aberrant bodies in ancient Greek cosmogony, ethnography, and biology

Fiona Mitchell  / Routledge, 2021

Reviewed by Allan Georgia, 

Late Antique responses to the Arab conquests

Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde, Johan Weststeijn  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by David Woods, 

Empire and religion in the Roman world

Harriet I. Flower  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by David Woods, 

The Fayum survey project: the Themistou Meris; volume A: the archaeological and papyrological survey

C. Römer  / Peeters, 2019

Reviewed by Andrew Connor,