Month: December 2023

Books received November 2023

Change and transition on Crete: interpreting the evidence from the Hellenistic through to the early Byzantine period

Jane Francis, Michael J. Curtis  / Archaeopress, 2023

Reviewed by François Chevrollier, 

Plautus: Curculio

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Reviewed by William M. Owens, 

The friar and the philosopher: William of Moerbeke and the rise of Aristotle’s science in medieval Europe

Pieter Beullens  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Christian Høgel, 

The ‘cursus laborum’ of Roman women: social and medical aspects of the transition from puberty to motherhood

Anna Tatarkiewicz  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Sheena Finnigan, 

The second Alcibiades: a Platonist dialogue on prayer and on ignorance

Harold Tarrant  / Parmenides Publishing, 2023

Reviewed by J. J. Mulhern, 

Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

Basil DuFallo, Riemer A. Faber  / University of Michigan Press, 2023

Reviewed by Carolyn MacDonald, 

Lucian’s laughing gods: religion, philosophy, and popular culture in the Roman East

Inger N.I. Kuin  / University of Michigan Press, 2023

Reviewed by Anna Peterson, 

The Roman elite and the end of the Republic: the boni, the nobles and Cicero

Henrik Mouritsen  / Cambridge University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Trevor Luke, 

Robert Kilwardby’s commentary on the Ethics of Aristotle

Anthony J. Celano  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by José Filipe Silva, 

Isis in a global empire: Greek identity through Egyptian religion in Roman Greece

Lindsey A. Mazurek  / Cambridge University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Vassiliki Panoussi, 

Ronald Knox’s lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid. With introduction and critical essays

Francesca Bugliani Knox  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by James E. G. Zetzel, 

City gates in the Roman West: forms and functions

Cornelis van Tilburg  / Sidestone Press, 2022

Reviewed by Ivo van der Graaff, 

Taxation, economy, and revolt in ancient Rome, Galilee, and Egypt

Thomas R. Blanton IV, Agnes Choi, Jinyu Liu  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Irene Soto Marín, 

Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Deutschland, 110. Berlin, Antikensammlung ehemals Antiquarium, 20: attisch schwarzfigurige Halsamphoren und Hydrien

Laura Puritani, Nina Zimmermann-Elseify  / Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2022

Reviewed by Anne Mackay, 

Public feminism in times of crisis: from Sappho’s fragments to viral hashtags

Leila Easa, Jennifer Stager  / Lexington Books, 2022

Reviewed by Agnès Garcia-Ventura, 

METra 1. Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura

Andrea Rodighiero, Giacomo Scavello, Anna Maganuco  / Edizioni Ca'Foscari, 2022

Reviewed by Lucía P. Romero Mariscal, 

The challenge to the auspices: studies on magisterial power in the middle Roman Republic

C. F. Konrad  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Florian Rudolf Forster, 

Imperial colors: the Roman portrait busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna

Julie Van Voorhis, Mark Abbe, Juliet Graver Istrabadi  / Giles Ltd, in association with the Eskenazi Museum of Art, 2023

Reviewed by Rachel Catherine Patt, 

Aristophanes: Lysistrata

James Robson  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Carl A. Anderson,