BMCR 2023.01.01

Books received December 2022

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Justin Arft, Arete and the Odyssey’s poetics of interrogation: the queen and her question. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 384. ISBN 9780192847805.

David Armstrong, Michael McOsker, Philodemus, On anger. Writings from the Greco-Roman world, 45. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2020. Pp. 374. ISBN 9780884144281.

Carson Bay, Biblical heroes and classical culture in Christian late antiquity: the historiography, exemplarity, and anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 452. ISBN 9781009268561.

Kim Beerden, Timo Epping, Classical controversies: reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity in the twenty-first century. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022. Pp. 234. ISBN 9789464270372.

Olympia Bobou, Amy C. Miranda, Rubina Raja, Archival historiographies: the impact of twentieth-century legacy data on archaeological investigations. Archive archaeology, 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. xii, 180. ISBN 9782503600185.

Guillaume Bonnet, Varron. La langue latine. Tome V: livre IX. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 437. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2022. Pp. xl, 136. ISBN 9782251014975.

Martina Bono, Alla ricerca della civilitas: le relazioni tra princeps e aristocrazia nella Storia Romana di Cassio Dione. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2022. Pp. 450. ISBN 9782848679228.

Dariusz Brodka, Prokop von Caesarea. Studienbücher Antike, 19. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2022. Pp. 200. ISBN 9783487162706.

Ann Brysbaert, Irene Vikatou, Jari Pakkanen, Shaping cultural landscapes: connecting agriculture, crafts, construction. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022. Pp. 298. ISBN 9789464260960.

Nicoletta Bruno, Giulia Dovico, Olivia Montepaone, Marco Pelucchi, The limits of exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine literature and textual transmission. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 137. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. ix, 457. ISBN 9783110796513.

Enrico Butini, Flavio Butini, Prasio: lo smeraldo degli imperatori. Bibliotheca archaeologica, 75. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 9788891327772.

Börje Bydén, Theodoros Metochites: Paraphrase of Aristotle, De anima. Critical edition with introduction and translation. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina. Series academica, 8. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. cxc, 379. ISBN 9783110786026.

Katerina Carvounis, Sophia Papaioannou, Giampiero Scafoglio, Later Greek epic and the Latin literary tradition: further explorations. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 136. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. vii, 216. ISBN 9783110791792.

Cristiano Castelletti, Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi, Gesine Manuwald, Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica book 8. Oxford commentaries on Flavian poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780192865892.

Jeremiah Coogan, Eusebius the evangelist: rewriting the fourfold gospel in late antiquity. Cultures of reading in the ancient Mediterranean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780197580042.

Valentina Copat, Il sito della Rocca di Oratino: dieci anni di ricerche. Un’area funzionale all’aperto nell’età del Bronzo. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781803272955.

Arabella Cortese, Cilicia as sacred landscape in late antiquity: a journey on the trail of apostles, martyrs and local saints. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2022. Pp. 480. ISBN 9783752006377.

Francesca Cotugno, Writing and orthography in non-literary texts from Roman Britain: a sociolinguistic approach. LautSchriftSprache, 4. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2022. Pp. 172. ISBN 9783752006810.

Claudia Daniotti, Reinventing Alexander: myth, legend, history in Renaissance Italian art. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 348. ISBN 9782503597430.

Renato de Filippis, Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi, La triade dell’essere: essenza – potenza – atto nel pensiero tardo-antico, medievale e rinascimentale. Nutrix, 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 652. ISBN 9782503588643.

Kurt Derungs, Mondhörner: rätselhafte Kultobjekte der Bronzezeit. Basel: Librum, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 9783906897684.

Carolyn Dewald, Rosaria Vignolo Munson, Herodotus: Histories, book I. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xix, 536. ISBN 9780521871730.

Kaiti Diamantakou, Θεατρικές ιστορίες του παππού Αριστοφάνη: σκηνές πρόσληψης. Athens: Gutenberg, 2021. Pp. 819. ISBN 9789600122671.

Panos Dimas, Andrea Falcon, Sean Kelsey, Aristotle: On generation and corruption, book ii. Introduction, translation, and interpretive essays. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 298. ISBN 9781009239981.

Hanne Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek religion: theologies of mortality in the Victory Odes. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xv, 277. ISBN 9781108831192.

Richard A. Etlin, The Cambridge guide to the architecture of Christianity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 2 vols. Pp. 1056. ISBN 9781108471510.

Radka Fialovà, Jirí Hoblik, Petr Kitzler, Hellenism, early Judaism, and early Christianity: transmission and transformation of ideas. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 155. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. vii, 243. ISBN 9783110795073.

Raquel Fornieles, The concept of news in ancient Greek literature. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 141. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xxii, 270. ISBN 9783111021669.

V. Fromentin, P. Derron, Écrire l’histoire de son temps, de Thucydide à Ammien Marcellin: neuf exposés suivis de discussions. Entretiens sur l’antiquite classique, 67. Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 2022. Pp. x, 423. ISBN 9782600007672.

William Furley, Menander ‘Misoumenos’ or ‘The hated man’: introduction, translation, and commentary. Bulletin of the institute of classical studies, 143. London: University of London Press, 2021. Pp. xiii, 249. ISBN 9781905670970.

Iulon Gagoshidze, Michael Vickers, Darejan Kacharava, David Gagoshidze, Two cemeteries at Takhtidziri (Georgia): late Achaemenid-early Hellenistic and late Hellenistic-early Roman. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022. Pp. 302. ISBN 9781803272436.

Alessandro Garcea, Daniel Vallat, Ars et commentarius: la grammaire dans le commentaire de Servius à Virgile. Corpus Christianorum. Lingua patrum, 14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 324. ISBN 9782503593753.

Marco Virgilio García Quintela, Le mythe de fondation de Lugdunum. Kaïnon – anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 22. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. Pp. 367. ISBN 9782406133377.

Fabio Gatti, Ovidio, Tristia 4: introduzione, testo e commenti. Millennium, 13. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022. Pp. vi, 586. ISBN 9788836133031.

Jonas Grethlein, Antike und Identität: die Herausforderungen der Altertumswissenschaften. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. Pp. vii, 94. ISBN 9783161618529.

Elisabeth Günther, Sven Günther, Frames and framing in antiquity I. Selected papers from the first frames and framing in antiquity conference, 16–18 October 2020. Supplements to the Journal of Ancient Civilizations, 9. Changchun: The Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations, 2022. Pp. 256. ISSN 10049371.

Julia Hillner, Helena Augusta: mother of the empire. Women in antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780190875299.

Nick Hodgson, Bill Griffiths, Roman frontier archaeology in Britain and beyond: papers in honour of Paul Bidwell presented on the occasion of the 30th annual conference of the Arbeia Society. Roman archaeology, 92. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781803273440.

Martin Hose, Aristoteles, Poetik: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Mit einem Anhang: Texte zur aristotelischen Literaturtheorie. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvi, 812. ISBN 9783110703191.

Nathan D. Howard, Christianity and the contest for manhood in late antiquity: the Cappadocian Fathers and the rhetoric of masculinity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781316514764.

Lee M. Jefferson, Death and rebirth in late antiquity: essays in honor of Robin M. Jensen. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. Pp. xiv, 346. ISBN 9781978701595.

Jay Johnston, Iain Gardner, Drawing spirit: the role of images and design in the magical practice of late antiquity. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xii, 269. ISBN 9783110477283.

Tobias Joho, Style and necessity in Thucydides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. ISBN 9780198812043.

Theofili Kampianaki, John Zonaras’ Epitome of histories: a compendium of Jewish-Roman history and its reception. Oxford studies in Byzantium. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780192865106.

Aggelos Kapellos, The orators and their treatment of the recent past. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 133. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. x, 531. ISBN 9783110791815.

Robert A. Kaster, Seneca: De beneficiis (L. Annaei Senecae De beneficiis, libri vii; De clementia, libri ii; Apocolocyntosis). Oxford classical texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780198850731.

Julia Kelto Lillis, Virgin territory: configuring female virginity in early Christianity. Christianity in late antiquity, 13. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 290. ISBN 9780520389014.

Alexander Kirichenko, Greek literature and the ideal: the pragmatics of space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic age. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780192866707.

Konstantin M. Klein, Johannes Wienand, City of Caesar, city of God: Constantinople and Jerusalem in late antiquity. Millennium studies, 97. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvi, 349. ISBN 9783110717204.

Mustafa Koçak, Detlev Kreikenbom, Sculptures from Roman Syria II: the marble statuary. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 2 vols. Pp. xxiii, 1093. ISBN 9783110711493.

C. F. Konrad, The challenge to the auspices: studies on magisterial power in the middle Roman Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. ISBN 9780192855527.

Jack J. Lennon, Dirt and denigration: stigma and marginalisation in ancient Rome. Approaches to ancient history, 1. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. Pp. viii, 250. ISBN 9783161617072.

Rachel H. Lesser, Desire in the Iliad: the force that moves the epic and its audience. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780192866516.

Mike Lippman, Wilfred E. Major, Aristophanes: Men and their horses. Fargo: Theran, 2022. Pp. 97. ISBN 9781944296223.

A. A. Long, Selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy from Heraclitus to Plotinus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780198803393.

Miroslaw Lopuch, Beten bei Jesus Sirach: Exegese, Theologie, Intertextualität und Hermeneutik der antiken Sprachversionen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xi, 317. ISBN 9783110784886.

Patricia A. Marx, Acropolis 625: the Endoios Athena. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022. Pp. 200. ISBN 9781803272535.

Maria Chiara Mazzotta, Marco Atilio Regolo: un condottiero romano tra storia e mito. Monografie del centro ricerche di documentazione sull’antichità classica, 54. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2022. Pp. xii, 220. ISBN 9788891326935.

Daniela Mendel, Die Geographie des Himmels: eine Untersuchung zu den Deckendekorationen in ägyptischen Tempeln der griechisch-römischen Zeit und zeitgleichen Darstellungen auf Särgen und in Gräbern. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, 37. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. 2 vols. Pp. xii, 664. ISBN 9783447117951.

Henryk Meyza, Decoration of Hellenistic and Roman buildings in Cyprus. Travaux de l’institut des cultures méditerranéennes et orientales de l’académie polonaise des sciences, 4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. 250. ISBN 9783447115889.

Johanna Astrid Michels, Agenorid myth in the Biblotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus: a philological commentary of Bibl. III.1-56 and a study into the composition and organization of the handbook. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 402. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xii, 897. ISBN 9783110602791.

Ilaria Morresi, Cassiodorus: Institutiones humanarum litterarum. Textus Phi Delta. Corpus Christianorum series Latina, 99. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 512. ISBN 9782503595894.

Glenn W. Most, Studies on the Derveni papyrus, volume II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780192855954.

Jörg Mull, Towards the borders of the Bronze Age and beyond: Mycenaean long distance travel and its reflection in myth. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022. Pp. 162. ISBN 9789464260786.

Josiah Osgood, Uncommon wrath: Caesar, Cato, and the quarrel that ended the Roman republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780192859563.

Yakir Paz, From scribes to scholars: Rabbinic Biblical exegesis in light of the Homeric commentaries. Culture, religion, and politics in the Greco-Roman world, 6. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. Pp. 400. ISBN 9783161616303.

Marco Pelucchi, Cherilo di Iaso: testimonianze, frammenti, fortuna. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 407. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xix, 251. ISBN 9783110746600.

Francesca Rosa Pesce, Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Italia, 87. Museo archeologico nazionale di Altamura. Fasc. I. Ceramica italiota a figure rosse, sovraddipinta monocroma e policroma, lekythoi a reticolo. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2022. Pp. 236. ISBN 9788891327567.

Selene E. Psoma, Corcyra: a city at the edge of two Greek worlds. Meletemata, 83. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 2 vols. Pp. 747. ISBN 9789607905970.

Jan Radicke, Roman women’s dress: literary sources, terminology, and historical development. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xx, 785. ISBN 9783110710922.

Tobias Reinhardt, Cicero’s Academici libri and Lucullus: a commentary with introduction and translations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 1120. ISBN 9780199277148.

Tobias Reinhardt, Cicero: Academica (Academicus primus, fragmenta et testimonia academicorum librorum, Lucullus). Oxford classical texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780199249572.

Tobias Riedl, Argument und Dichtung: Dichterzitate bei Chrysipp von Soloi. Philosophie und Literatur, 2. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2022. Pp. 406. ISBN 9783985720422.

Vibeke Roggen, Latinsk grammatikk. Oslo: Cappelen Damm, 2022. Pp. xxvii, 872. ISBN 9788202473259.

Markus Sachs, Betriebswirtschaftliches Denken und Handeln im antiken Rom. Philippika, 161. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. xii, 344. ISBN 9783447118705.

Thomas E. Strunk, On the fall of the Roman republic: lessons for the American people. London; New York: Anthem Press, 2022. Pp. 150. ISBN 9781839980541.

Alejandro G. Sinner, Victor Revilla Calvo, Religious dynamics in Hispania: cult places, identities, and cultural change in a microcontinent. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 247. ISBN 9782503595450.

R. Scott Smith, Stephen M. Trzaskoma, The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman mythography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 648. ISBN 9780190648312.

Thomas Späth, Gesellschaft im Brief: Ciceros Korrespondenz und die Sozialgeschichte. Collegium Beatus Rhenanus, 9. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 430. ISBN 9783515130950.

Christos Tsagalis, Early Greek epic: language, interpretation, performance. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 138. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xxix, 637. ISBN 9783110993721.

Purificación Ubric Rabaneda, Writing history in late antique Iberia: historiography in theory and practice from the 4th to the 7th century. Late antique and early medieval Iberia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. Pp. 312. ISBN 9789463729413.

Uwe Vagelpohl, Galen: Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics, book VI, parts I-VIII. Corpus medicorum Graecorum. Supplementum orientale 5, 3, 1-3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 3 vols. Pp. 1834. ISBN 9783110772098.

Marc Van De Mieroop, Before and after Babel: writing as resistance in ancient Near Eastern empires. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 360. ISBN 9780197634660.

Gerd Van Riel, Proclus: commentary on Timaeus, books 1-5 (Procli diadochi, in Platonis Timaeum commentaria). Oxford classical texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 5 vols. Pp. 2048. ISBN 9780192856036.

Cornelis van Tilburg, City gates in the Roman West: forms and functions. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022. Pp. 273. ISBN 9789464261080.

Hendrik L.E. Verhagen, Security and credit in Roman law: the historical evolution of pignus and hypotheca. Oxford studies in Roman society and law. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780199695836.

Peter von Möllendorff, Lukian. Sämtliche Werke II: philosophische Schriften. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. 550. ISBN 9783110704099.

Krešimir Vuković, Wolves of Rome: the Lupercalia from Roman and comparative perspectives. Transregional practices of power, 2. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvi, 320. ISBN 9783110689341.

Marek Węcowski, Athenian ostracism and its original purpose: a prisoner’s dilemma. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780198848202.

John Weisweiler, Debt in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East: credit, money, and social obligation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 296. ISBN 9780197647172.

Walter T. Wilson, Ancient wisdom: an introduction to sayings collections. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2022. Pp. 335. ISBN 9780802875433.

Jessica L. Wright, The care of the brain in early Christianity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 310. ISBN 9780520387676.