Month: November 2023

Christian emperors and Roman elites in Late Antiquity

Rita Lizzi Testa  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Marzia Fiorentini, 

Books received October 2023

A global crisis? The Mediterranean world between the 3rd and the 5th century CE

Paolo Cimadomo, Dario Nappo  / "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2022

Reviewed by Rocco Palermo, 

Flying snakes and griffin claws: and other classical myths, historical oddities, and scientific curiosities

Adrienne Mayor  / Princeton University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Miguel Cisneros Perales,  Alberto Marina Castillo, 

City of Caesar, city of God: Constantinople and Jerusalem in late antiquity

Konstantin M. Klein, Johannes Wienand  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Euan Croman, 

Birds in Roman life and myth

Ashleigh Green  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Alison L. Beringer, 

Work and labour in the cities of Roman Italy

Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga  / Liverpool University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Lauren Hackworth Petersen, 

Proclus: commentary on Timaeus, books 1-5 (Procli diadochi, in Platonis Timaeum commentaria)

Gerd Van Riel  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Robbert M. van den Berg, 

Cilicia as sacred landscape in late antiquity: a journey on the trail of apostles, martyrs and local saints

Arabella Cortese  / Reichert Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Troels Myrup Kristensen, 

The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman mythography

R. Scott Smith, Stephen M. Trzaskoma  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Ronald Blankenborg, 

Cicero’s Academici Libri and Lucullus: a commentary with introduction and translations

Tobias Reinhardt  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Michael Vazquez, 

The lives of ancient villages: rural society in Roman Anatolia

Peter Thonemann  / Cambridge University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Christof Schuler, 

Writing and orthography in non-literary texts from Roman Britain: a sociolinguistic approach

Francesca Cotugno  / Reichert Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, 

Woolf on Fott on Gilbert, Graver and McConnell, Power and persuasion in Cicero’s philosophy

Response by Raphael Woolf | Original Review by David Fott, 

Christianity and the contest for manhood in late antiquity: the Cappadocian Fathers and the rhetoric of masculinity

Nathan D. Howard  / Cambridge University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Elizabeth Mattingly Conner, 

Catullus 64

Jane Goldman  / Main Point Books, 2023

Reviewed by John Godwin, 

Riggsby on Dolganov on Riggsby, Mosaics of knowledge: representing information in the Roman world

Response by Andrew M. Riggsby | Original Review by Anna Dolganov, 

Le mythe de fondation de Lugdunum

Marco Virgilio García Quintela  / Classiques Garnier, 2022

Reviewed by Daniel J. Martin-Arroyo Sánchez, 

De Cadmos à Créon: de la Thèbes mythique à la Thèbes tragique

Sylvie David  / Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023

Reviewed by Angela Ganter, 

Greek comedy and embodied scholarly discourse

Anna A. Novokhatko  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Jenni Glaser,