Month: January 2023

Books received December 2022

On Reviewing Books in Classical Antiquity

Arrian the historian: writing the Greek past in the Roman Empire

Daniel W. Leon  / University of Texas Press, 2021

Reviewed by Christian Thrue Djurslev, 

Sosipatra of Pergamum: philosopher and oracle

Heidi Marx  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer, 

The wine-dark sea within: a turbulent history of blood

Dhun H. Sethna  / Basic Books, 2022

Reviewed by Nadya Williams, 

Gods, spirits, and worship in the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity

Craig A. Evans, Adam Z. Wright  / T & T Clark, 2022

Reviewed by Fritz Naerebout, 

The Mithraic prophecy

Attilio Mastrocinque  / BAR Publishing, 2022

Reviewed by Gustavo Vivas García, 

Belief and cult: rethinking Roman religion

Jacob L. Mackey  / Princeton University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Craige Champion, 

The idea of Marathon: battle and culture

Sonya Nevin  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Reviewed by Manolis Petrakis, 

That tyrant, persuasion: how rhetoric shaped the Roman world

J. E. Lendon  / Princeton University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Aaltje Hidding, 

Galen’s epistemology: experience, reason, and method in ancient medicine

R.J. Hankinson, Matyáš Havrda  / Cambridge University Press, 2022

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

Acheruntica: la discesa agli Inferi dall’antichità classica alla cultura contemporanea

Roberto M. Danese, Anna Santucci, Alessio Torino  / Argalía editore, 2020

Reviewed by Francesco Montone, 

Purpur in Byzanz: Privileg und Würdeformel

Chryssa Ranoutsaki  / Reichert Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Sarah Bond, 

Flavius Philostratus. Vita Apollonii Tyanei

Gerard Boter  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Tomás Fernández, 

Roman and local citizenship in the long second century CE

Myles Lavan, Clifford Ando  / Oxford University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Stuart McCunn, 

The destruction of cities in the ancient Greek world: integrating the archaeological and literary evidence

Sylvian Fachard, Edward M. Harris  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Alaya Palamidis, 

Monsters and monarchs: serial killers in classical myth and history

Debbie Felton  / University of Texas Press, 2021

Reviewed by Jane Draycott, 

Script switching in Roman Egypt

Edward O.D. Love  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Jennifer Cromwell, 

Das 12. Buch der Dionysiaka des Nonnos aus Panopolis: ein literarischer Kommentar

Simon Zuenelli  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022

Reviewed by Domenico Accorinti, 

M. Plotii Sacerdotis. Artium grammaticarum libri I-II: [Probi] De Catholicis

Andrea Bramanti  / Weidmann, 2022

Reviewed by James E.G. Zetzel,