Month: November 2023

Books received October 2023

La justice du dialogue et ses limites: étude de Gorgias de Platon

François Renaud  / Les Belles Lettres, 2022

Reviewed by Bernhard Kaiser, 

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, 

Greek poetry in the age of ephemerality

Sarah Nooter  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Michael R. Halleran, 

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, 

The origins of concrete construction in Roman architecture: technology and society in Republican Italy

Marcello Mogetta  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Sarah Vyverman, 

Birds in Roman life and myth

Ashleigh Green  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Alison L. Beringer, 

Ciceros emanzipatorische Leserführung: Studien zum Verhältnis von dialogisch-rhetorischer Inszenierung und skeptischer Philosophie in “De natura deorum”

Christopher Diez  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck, 

Missing mothers: maternal absence in antiquity

Sabine R. Huebner, David M. Ratzan  / Peeters, 2021

Reviewed by Sophie Laribi Glaudel, 

Kampf um Mittelitalien: Roms ungerader Weg zur Großmacht

Marian Helm  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by Roman Roth, 

Bruderzwist. Strukturen und Methoden der Diplomatie zwischen Rom und Iran von der Teilung Armeniens bis zum Fünfzigjährigen Frieden

Hansjoachim Andres  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Marco Ferrario, 

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, 

Scholarship and controversy: centenary essays on the life and work of Sir Kenneth Dover

Stephen Halliwell, Christopher Stray  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Ruth Scodel, 

Silius Italicus: Punica, book 9

Neil W. Bernstein  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Clayton A. Schroer, 

The iconography of magic

Raquel Martín Hernández  / Peeters, 2022

Reviewed by Thomas Galoppin, 

The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman mythography

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

Reviewed by Ronald Blankenborg, 

Dynamics of marginality: liminal characters and marginal groups in Neronian and Flavian literature

Konstantinos Arampapaslis, Antony Augoustakis, Stephen Froedge, Clayton Schroer  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by William J. Dominik,