Books received February 2023 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Touatia Amraoui, Alejandro Quevedo, D’une rive à l’autre: circulations et échanges entre la Maurétanie césarienne et le sud-est de l’Hispanie (Antiquité-Moyen-âge). Archaeology of the Maghreb. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022. Pp. 236. ISBN 9781803274140.

Stephen Anderson, Keith Maclennan, Naoko Yamagata, Reading Homer: Iliad books 16 and 18. Reading Greek. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 206. ISBN 9781107000933.

Anna Angelini, L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante: une analyse comparée de la notion de “démon” dans la Septante et dans la Bible hébraïque. Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 197. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. xiv, 392. ISBN 9789004468467.

Irini Apostolou, Alessia Zambon, Du pillage à la conscience patrimoniale en Grèce et dans l’Empire ottoman: le rôle des Français et des autres Occidentaux (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles). Scripta receptoria, 23. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 301. ISBN 9782356134813.

Carolina Araj́o, Cooperative flourishing in Plato’s Republic: a theory of justice. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350257030.

Alexander Avram, Inscriptiones Graecae X: inscriptiones Epiri, Macedoniae, Thraciae, Scythiae. Pars 3: inscriptiones Thraciae. Fasciculus 3: inscriptiones Scythiae minores. Sectio 1: Callatis et ager Callatianus. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. x, 249. ISBN 9783110798746.

Valeria Bacigalupo, Supplementum grammaticum Graecum 7: Pius. Boston; Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. viii, 212. ISBN 9789004533103.

Mattia Balbo, Federico Santangelo, A community in transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 392. ISBN 9780197655245.

Roland Barthes, Christophe Corbier, Claude Coste, Evocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque. Etudes de littérature des XXe et XXIe siècles, 114. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 171. ISBN 9782406141679.

Shadi Bartsch, Plato goes to China: the Greek classics and Chinese nationalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780691229591.

Eftychia Bathrellou, Kostas Vlassopoulos, Greek and Roman slaveries. Blackwell sourcebooks in ancient history. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2022. Pp. xvii, 381. ISBN 9781118969298.

Richard C. Beacham, Hugh Denard, Living theatre in the ancient Roman house: theatricalism in the domestic sphere. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 552. ISBN 9781316510940.

Martin Beckmann, Faustina the Younger: coinage, portraits, and public image. Numismatic studies, 43. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2022. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780897223669.

Paul Belonick, Restraint, conflict, and the fall of the Roman Republic. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780197662663.

Klaas Bentein, Yasmine Amory, Novel perspectives on communication practices in antiquity: towards a historical social-semiotic approach. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, 41. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. 198. ISBN 9789004526518.

Olympia Bobou, Amy C. Miranda, Rubina Raja, Jean-Baptiste Yon, The Ingholt archive: the Palmyrene material, transcribed with commentary and bibliography. Archive archaeology, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. 4 vols. Pp. 1954. ISBN 9782503598222.

Dorian Borbonus, Elisha Ann Dumser, Building the classical world: Bauforschung as a contemporary approach. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xxi, 280. ISBN 9780190690526.

Anne-Isabelle Bouton-Touboulic, Augustin d’Hippone: Contre les académiciens. Bibliothèque Augustienne, 4.3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 660. ISBN 9782851213167.

Frank Braemer, Pascal Darcque, Bassit 2 (Syrie) – Fouilles Paul Courbin (1971-1984). Le tell du XVIe siècle av. J.- C. au VIe siècle ap. J.-C. LEMA 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. xii, 394. ISBN 9782503593227.

Pierre-Luc Brisson, Le moment unipolaire: Rome et la Méditerranée hellénistique (188-146 a.C.). Suppléments francophones de la Revue Phoenix, 2. Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2023. Pp. 498. ISBN 9782763743325.

Kai Brodersen, Theophrast: Wind und Wetter (Griechisch – Deutsch). Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. 240. ISBN 9783110744033.

Claire Bubb, Dissection in classical antiquity: a social and medical history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 412. ISBN 9781009159470.

Friedemann Buddensiek, Sebastian Odzuck, Praxis – Handeln und Handelnde in antiker Philosophie. Akten des 6. Kongresses der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie 2019. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 397. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. viii, 496. ISBN 9783110738674.

Ahmed Buzaian, Ancient olive presses and oil production in Cyrenaica (North-East Libya). London: British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies, 2022. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781915808004.

Mario Capasso, Scholars and scholarship in papyrology. Hermae, 5. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra, 2023. Pp. 156. ISBN 9788833154541.

Luca Cappuccini, Andrea Gaucci, Officine e artigianato ceramico nei siti dell’Appennino tosco-emiliano tra VII e IV secolo a.C. Atti del I Convegno internazionale di studi sulla cultura materiale etrusca dell’Appennino (Arezzo 18 ottobre 2019 – Dicomano 19 ottobre 2019). Biblioteca di “Studi etruschi,” 66. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022. Pp. xxxiv, 572. ISBN 9788876893391.

Jacopo Cavarzeran, Scholia in Euripidis Andromacham: edizione critica, introduzione, indici. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker, 21. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. 301. ISBN 9783110796940.

Francesco Citti, Alessandro Iannucci, Antonio Ziosi, Agamennone classico e contemporaneo. Lexis supplementi, 10. Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2022. Pp. 312. ISBN 9788869696336.

Corrado Confalonieri, Torquato Tasso e il desiderio di unità: la Gerusalemme liberata e una nuova teoria dell’epica. Lingue e letterature Carocci, 374. Rome: Carocci editore, 2022. Pp. 250. ISBN 9788829016747.

Corrado Confalonieri, “Queste spaziose loggie”: architettura e poetica nella tragedia italiana del Cinquecento. Le ricerche di Critica letteraria, nuova serie, 37. Naples: Paolo Loffredo, 2022. Pp. 255. ISBN 9788832193855.

Hannah Cornwell, Greg Woolf, Gendering Roman imperialism. Impact of empire, 43. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. x, 271. ISBN 9789004524767.

Ernesto De Miro, Storia e arte della Sicilia greca. Studia erudita, 23. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9788881475377.

Morgan Dickson, Véronique Dominguez-Guillaume, Marie-Laurence Haack, Dominique Paris-Poulain, Philippe Sénéchal, L’œuvre en mouvement de l’Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle. Scripta receptoria, 24. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 391. ISBN 9782356135254.

A. C. Dionisotti, Expositio notarum. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 64. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 642. ISBN 9781316514795.

Leila Easa, Jennifer Stager, Public feminism in times of crisis: from Sappho’s fragments to viral hashtags. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. Pp. 302. ISBN 9781793648105.

Fernando Echeverría, Adolfo J. Domínguez Monedero, César Fornis, José Pascual, Laura Sancho Rocher, Jerjes contra Grecia: la Segunda Guerra Médica, 2500 años después. Instrumenta, 82. Barcelona: Edicions Universitat de Barcelona, 2022. Pp. 344. ISBN 9788491689089.

Ulrike Ehmig, Heinrich Dressels Edition der Amphoren-Aufschriften aus Rom in CIL XV. Wie Wissen entsteht: von der Gelatine ins Buch. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Auctarium, series nova, 6. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. viii, 180. ISBN 9783111038872.

Enrica Fantino, “Je näher ihm, desto vortrefflicher”: eine Studie zur Übersetzungssprache und -konzeption von Johann Heinrich Voß anhand seiner frühen Werke. Transformationen der Antike, 42. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. x, 324. ISBN 9783110473469.

Ivan Foletti, Marie Okáčová, Adrien Palladino, A radical turn? Reappropriation, fragmentation, and variety in the postclassical world (3rd-8th c.). Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 157. ISBN 9788028001889.

Björn Forsén, MAINALIA. The forgotten history of an Arcadian tribe (ΜΑΙΝΑΛΙΑ. Η ξεχασμένη ιστορία ενός αρκαδικού έθνους). Athens: Melissa, 2023. Pp. 136. ISBN 9789602044391.

Jane Francis, Michael J. Curtis, Change and transition on Crete: interpreting the evidence from the Hellenistic through to the early Byzantine period. Papers Presented in honour of G. W. M. Harrison. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 226. ISBN 9781803270562.

Thomas Galoppin, Elodie Guillon, Max Luaces, Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Sylvain Lebreton, Fabio Porzia, Jörg Rüpke, Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli, Corinne Bonnet, Naming and mapping the gods in the ancient Mediterranean: spaces, mobilities, imaginaries. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 2 vols. Pp. xx, 1069. ISBN 9783110796490.

Benjamin Garstad, Bouttios and late antique Antioch: reconstructing a lost historian. Dumbarton Oaks studies, 48. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. 456. ISBN 9780884024934.

Nathan Gilbert, Margaret Graver, Sean McConnell, Power and persuasion in Cicero’s philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781009170338.

Gorre Gilles, Anne Gangloff, Le corps des souverains dans les mondes hellénistique et romain. Histoire. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2022. Pp. 424. ISBN 9782753586482.

Sander M. Goldberg, Terence: Andria. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781009200653.

Stefano Grazzini, Antonio Stramaglia, Giovenale nella letteratura europea: percorsi di ricerca. Due punti, 77. Bari: Edizioni di Pagina, 2022. Pp. 372. ISBN 9788874709144.

Geoffrey Greatrex, Procopius of Caesarea: the Persian Wars. Translation, with introduction and notes. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781107165700.

Geoffrey Greatrex, Procopius of Caesarea: the Persian Wars. A historical commentary. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 800. ISBN 9781107053229.

Vasco Hachtmann, Mensch und Landschaft im frühen Griechenland: die Siedlungsdynamik der Mittel- und Spätbronzezeit im Becken von Phlious (Korinthia, Nordostpeloponnes). Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie, 370. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 2022. Pp. 440. ISBN 9783774943032.

Dean Hammer, Rome and America: communities of strangers, spectacles of belonging. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xi, 252. ISBN 9781009249607.

Olivier Hekster, Caesar rules: the emperor in the changing Roman world (c. 50 BC – AD 565). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 414. ISBN 9781009226790.

André Heller, Kommentar zur Vita Alexandri Severi der Historia Augusta. Antiquitas IV, 6. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 2022. Pp. lxiv, 568. ISBN 9783774942332.

Anne Herzberg-Beiersdorf, Prosopographia Memphitica: individuelle Identitäten und kollektive Biographien einer königlichen Residenzstadt des Neuen Reiches. Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde – Beiheft, 15. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xi, 638. ISBN 9783110783360.

Stephen Hodkinson, Chrysanthi Gallou, Luxury and wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781910589830.

Daniela Hofmann, Frank Nikulka, Robert Schumann, The Baltic in the Bronze Age: regional patterns, interactions and boundaries. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022. Pp. 388. ISBN 9789464270198.

Daniel Jolowicz, Jaś Elsner, Articulating resistance under the Roman empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. x, 303. ISBN 9781108484909.

Reinhard Jung, Eleftheria Kardamaki, Synchronizing the destructions of the Mycenaean palaces. Mykenische Studien, 36; Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 546. Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2022. Pp. 324. ISBN 9783700188773.

Paul Kalligas, Nickolaos Koutras, The Enneads of Plotinus: a commentary, volume 2. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 424. ISBN 9780691158266.

Susan W. Katsev, Laina W. Swiney, The Kyrenia ship final excavation report, volume I: history of the excavation, amphoras, ceramics, coins and evidence for dating. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022. Pp. 464. ISBN 9781785707520.

Dorothea Keller, Gattung und Stil in der Vulgata des Hieronymus: Untersuchungen zur hieronymianischen Bibelübersetzung am Beispiel hebräischer Wiederholungsfiguren. Vertumnus: Berliner Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie und ihren Nachbargebieten, 14. Göttingen: Edition Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 256. ISBN 9783846903827.

Sam Kennerley, The reception of John Chrysostom in early modern Europe: translating and reading a Greek Church Father from 1417 to 1624. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 157. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xi, 334. ISBN 9783110708844.

Tobias L. Kienlin, Richard Bußmann, Sociality – materiality – practice | Sozialität – Materialität – Praxis. Kölner Beiträge zu Archäologie und Kulturwissenschaften, 3; Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie, 377. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 2022. Pp. 432. ISBN 9783774943445.

K. Scarlett Kingsley, Giustina Monti, Tim Rood, The authoritative historian: tradition and innovation in ancient historiography. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 475. ISBN 9781009159456.

Anne Kolb, Tituli Helvetici: die römischen Inschriften der West- und Ostschweiz. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 2022. Pp. 552. ISBN 9783774943476.

Jutta Kollesch, [Galeni] Definitiones medicae / [Galen] Medizinische Definitionen. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 5.13.2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xlii, 268. ISBN 9783110790870.

James Koranyi, Emily Hanscam, Digging politics: the ancient past and contested present in East-Central Europe. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xi, 356. ISBN 9783110697339.

Dominique Krüger, Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach, Rene Pfeilschifter, Local self-governance in antiquity and in the Global South: theoretical and empirical insights from an interdisciplinary perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. vi, 674. ISBN 9783110796247.

Adrien Lecerf, Ghislain Casas, Philippe Hoffmann, Essence, puissance, activité dans la philosophie et les savoirs grecs. Kaïnon – anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 21. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. Pp. 378. ISBN 9782406131298.

Leslie Lockett, Augustine’s soliloquies in Old English and in Latin. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 76. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780674278417.

David Lunt, The crown games of ancient Greece: archaeology, athletes, and heroes. Sport, culture & society. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2022. Pp. 184. ISBN 9781682262009.

Byron MacDougall, Philosophy at the festival: the festal orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the classical tradition. Mnemosyne supplements, 461. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. x, 194. ISBN 9789004521391.

Anna Maganuco, Andrea Rodighiero, Giacomo Scavello, METra 1. Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura. Lexis supplementi, 11. Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2022. Pp. 232. ISBN 9788869696558.

Robert Maltby, Niall W. Slater, Fragmentary Republican Latin, volume VI: Livius Andronicus. Naevius. Caecilius. Loeb classical library, 314. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. 736. ISBN 9780674997486.

Chiara Mannoni, Art in early modern law: evolving procedures for heritage protection in 15th- to 18th-century Europe. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022. Pp. 264. ISBN 9789464261325.

Marie-Hélène Marganne, Gabriel Nocchi Macedo, Pratiques et stratégies alimentaires dans l’Antiquité tardive. Cahiers du CEDOPAL, 11. Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2022. Pp. 170. ISBN 9782875623331.

Marie-Hélène Marganne, Gabriel Nocchi Macedo, Musique et danse dans le monde gréco-romain: l’apport des papyrus. Cahiers du CEDOPAL, 10. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2022. Pp. 121. ISBN 9782875623317.

Susan B. Matheson, J.J. Pollitt, Old age in Greek and Roman art. New Haven; London: Yale University Art Gallery, 2022. Pp. 295. ISBN 9780300266566.

Juan Carlos Moreno García, From house societies to states: early political organisation, from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Multidisciplinary approaches to ancient societies, 3. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781789258622.

Wiebke Nierste, Natur und Kunst bei Claudian: poetische “concordia discors”. Millennium-Studien, 99. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. viii, 339. ISBN 9783110994889.

Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, Jordi Principal, Mike Dobson, Rome and the north-western Mediterranean: integration and connectivity c.150-70 BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781789257175.

Egida Occhipinti, Elleniche di Ossirinco. Frammenti degli storici greci. Rome: Tored, 2023. Pp. 416. ISBN 9788899846695.

Vasileios Pappas, Maximianus’ Elegies: love elegy grew old. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 406. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. viii, 246. ISBN 9783110770377.

Pascale Paré-Rey, Histoire culturelle des éditions latines des tragédies de Sénèque (1478-1878). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 635. ISBN 9782406142508.

Guido Petruccioli, Ancient art and its commerce in early twentieth-century Europe: a collection of essays written by the participants of the John Marshall Archive Project. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022. Pp. 312. ISBN 9781803272566.

Jessica Powers, Roman landscapes: visions of nature and myth from Rome and Pompeii. San Antonio: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781883502256.

Lucie Pultrová, The category of comparison in Latin. The language of classical literature, 36. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xvi, 340. ISBN 9789004523463.

Laura Puritani, Nina Zimmermann-Elseify, Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Deutschland, 110. Berlin, Antikensammlung ehemals Antiquarium, 20: attisch schwarzfigurige Halsamphoren und Hydrien. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2022. Pp. 82. ISBN 9783769637885.

Jean-Michel Ropars, Ulysse dans le monde d’Hermès. Vérité des mythes, 56. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 9782251453859.

Geert Roskam, Plutarch. New surveys in the classics, 47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. vi, 211. ISBN 9781009108225.

Leon Schmieder, Deskription und Metapoetik in der spätantiken lateinischen Dichtung: Untersuchungen zur literarischen Beschreibung bei Claudian, Prudenz und Ausonius. Millennium-Studien, 100. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. viii, 296. ISBN 9783111007106.

Pierre Schneider, Jean Trinquier, Ex Oriente luxuria: l’ivoire d’éléphant (actes de la quatrième rencontre, Lille, 15-16 septembre 2020). Topoi orient-occident. Supplement, 18. Lyon; Athens: Société des Amis de la Bibliothèque Salomon Reinach; École française d’Athènes, 2022. Pp. 287. ISBN 9782869585706.

Philippa M. Steele, Philip J. Boyes, Writing around the ancient Mediterranean: practices and adaptations. Contexts of and relations between early writing systems (CREWS). Oxford: Oxbow, 2022. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781789258509.

Alexander Phillip Thompson, Recognition and the resurrection appearances of Luke 24. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 255. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. viii, 226. ISBN 9783110773200.

Peter Thonemann, The lives of ancient villages: rural society in Roman Anatolia. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 396. ISBN 9781009123211.

Anna Tiziana Drago, Owen Hodkinson, Ancient love letters: form, themes, approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vii, 331. ISBN 9783110999693.

Spyridon Tzounakas, Stella Alekou, Stephen J. Harrison, The reception of ancient Cyprus in Western culture. Trends in classics, supplementary volumes, 139. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. viii, 314. ISBN 9783110996654.

Soultana Maria Valamoti, Anastasia Dimoula, Maria Ntinou, Cooking with plants in ancient Europe and beyond: interdisciplinary approaches to the archaeology of plant foods. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022. Pp. 530. ISBN 9789464270341.

Markus Vinzent, Resetting the origins of Christianity: a new theory of sources and beginnings. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009290487.

Roger D. Woodard, Divination and prophecy in the ancient Greek world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009221610.