Month: October 2023

The value of making: theory and practice in ancient craft production

Helle Hochscheid, Ben Russell  / Brepols, 2021

Reviewed by Simona Perna, 

Books received September 2023

Mosaics of knowledge: representing information in the Roman world

Andrew M. Riggsby  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Anna Dolganov, 

Melanippidis Melii Testimonia et Fragmenta

Marco Ercoles  / Fabrizio Serra, 2021

Reviewed by Adelaide Fongoni, 

Gendering Roman imperialism

Hannah Cornwell, Greg Woolf  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Gaia Gianni, 

Penthesilea und ihre Schwestern: Amazonenepisoden als Bauform des Heldenepos

Susanne Borowski  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono, 

Monastic communities in context: monasteries, economy, and society in late antique Egypt

Joanna Wegner  / Peeters, 2021

Reviewed by Jennifer Cromwell, 

Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker. Part 4: biography and antiquarian literature. E: Paradoxography and antiquities

Stefan Schorn  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Tommaso Braccini, 

Pseudo-Longinus, On the Sublime

Stephen Halliwell  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Casper C. de Jonge, 

La traduzione latina del Nicocles isocrateo di Guarino Veronese: introduzione, edizione critica e commento

Alessia Grillone  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Margherita Filippozzi, 

Virgil, Aeneid book II: a selection

Dominic Jones  / Bloomsbury, 2023

Reviewed by Micah Y. Myers, 

Restraint, conflict, and the fall of the Roman Republic

Paul Belonick  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Andrew Gallia, 

Ancient Jewish diaspora: essays on Hellenism

René Bloch  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Jocelyn Burney, 

Resetting the origins of Christianity: a new theory of sources and beginnings

Markus Vinzent  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Peter Gemeinhardt, 

Essence, puissance, activité dans la philosophie et les savoirs grecs

Adrien Lecerf, Ghislain Casas, Philippe Hoffmann  / Classiques Garnier, 2022

Reviewed by Anna Marmodoro, 

Bramiana: salvaging information from a destroyed Minoan settlement in southeast Crete

Vili Apostolakou, Philip P. Betancourt, Thomas M. Brogan  / INSTAP Academic Press, 2021

Reviewed by Roxane Dubois, 

Natur und Kunst bei Claudian: poetische “concordia discors”

Wiebke Nierste  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Vicente Flores Militello, 

Lesen in Antike und frühem Christentum

Jan Heilmann  / Narr Francke Attempto, 2020

Reviewed by Bart Koet, 

Writing history in late antique Iberia: historiography in theory and practice from the 4th to the 7th century

Purificación Ubric Rabaneda  / Amsterdam University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Sabine Panzram, 

Dissection in classical antiquity: a social and medical history

Claire Bubb  / Cambridge University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Chiara Cecconi,