BMCR 2023.04.01

Books received March 2023

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Simon Allcock, Tacitus, Annals XII: a selection. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 136. ISBN 9781350156388.

Jaime Alvar, Los cultos de Mater Magna y Artis en Hispania. Madrid: Dykinson Editorial, 2022. Pp. 280. ISBN 9788411228855.

Walter Ameling, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Avner Ecker, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Jonathan Price, Peter Weiß, Ada Yardeni, Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume 5: Galilaea and northern regions. Part 1: 5876-6924. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. l, 1041. ISBN 9783110713565.

Roberto Antonelli, Paolo Orsi: I Taccuini, II. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 5-16. Monumenti antichi – Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 84; serie miscellanea, 29. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022. Pp. 709. ISBN 9788876893407.

Bülent Arikan, Linda Olsvig-Whittaker, Landscape archaeology in the Near East: approaches, methods and case studies. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 160. ISBN 9781803273563.

Victoria Austen, Analysing the boundaries of the ancient Roman garden: (re)framing the hortus. Ancient environments. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781350265189.

Ulrike Babusiaux, Christian Baldus, Wolfgang Ernst, Franz-Stefan Meissel, Johannes Platschek, Thomas Rüfner, Handbuch des römischen Privatrechts. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. xcvi, 3707. ISBN 9783161523595.

Marie-Hélène Barrière, Apollonia d’Illyrie 2. La céramique romaine: les ensembles du secteur G (2009-2016). RAFAL, 4. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2023. Pp. 384. ISBN 9782869585867.

Juliana Bastos Marques, Federico Santangelo, Authority and history: ancient models, modern questions. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781350269446.

Alexandre Bertaud, Des guerriers au contact: de la place du fait militaire aux interactions guerrières dans les sociétés d’Europe occidentale du IIIe au Ier s. a.C. Scripta antiqua, 161. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 407. ISBN 9782356134844.

François Bertrandy, Études sur la “Confédération cirtéenne”, entité singulière de l’Afrique romaine (IIe s. a.C.-IIIe s. p.C.). Scripta antiqua, 159. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 355. ISBN 9782356134790.

Richard A. Billows, The spear, the scroll, and the pebble: how the Greek city-state developed as a male warrior-citizen collective. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350289208.

Michael F. Bird, Jesus among the gods: early Christology in the Greco-Roman world. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2022. Pp. xi, 480. ISBN 9781481316750.

René Bloch, Ancient Jewish diaspora: essays on Hellenism. Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 206. Boston; Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii, 373. ISBN 9789004521889.

Susanne Borowski, Penthesilea und ihre Schwestern: Amazonenepisoden als Bauform des Heldenepos. The language of classical literature, 35. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. Pp. x, 174. ISBN 9789004472723.

Lorenzo Braccesi, Potere e follia: gli eredi di Augusto, le loro madri, sorelle e consorti. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 162. ISBN 9788891328250.

Cilliers Breytenbach, Elissavet Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and adjacent areas: from Paul to Justinian I (1st-6th cent. AD). Early Christianity in Greece, 1. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xxv, 564. ISBN 9789004509603.

Andrea Capra, Lucia Floridi, Intervisuality: new approaches to Greek literature. MythosEikonPoiesis, 16. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vi, 347. ISBN 9783110795240.

Angelo Castrorao Barba, Davide Tanasi, Roberto Miccichè, Archaeology of the Mediterranean during late antiquity and the middle ages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2023. Pp. ix, 330. ISBN 9780813069692.

François Chausson, Antony Hostein, Benoît Rossignol, Pratiques du grec dans l’épigraphie de l’Occident: contextes, origines et pratiques culturelles. Scripta antiqua, 153. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 401. ISBN 9782356134394.

Marco Cilione, Pythagorica medica: scienza e sapienza nella tradizione preippocratica. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 172. ISBN 9788891320230.

Anthony Comfort, The Roman frontier with Persia in north-eastern Mesopotamia: fortresses and roads around Singara. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 96. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 148. ISBN 9781803273426.

Alison E. Cooley, The senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre: text, translation, and commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 250. ISBN 9781108494458.

Dominique Côté, Pseudo-Clément et vrai prophète. Itinéraire de Rome à Jérusalem. Judaïsme ancien et origines du christianisme, 26. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 420. ISBN 9782503599205.

Robert Cromarty, Ovid, Fasti: a selection. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 128. ISBN 9781350156555.

Howard J. Curzer, Virtue ethics for the real world: improving character without idealization. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781032424873.

Nancy T. De Grummond, Etruscan mirrors: collections in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 220. ISBN 9788891326768.

Giuseppe Dimatteo, Rita Cuccioli Melloni, Giovenale: Satire. Testo latino a fronte. Classici greci e latini. Santarcangelo di Romagna: Rusconi libri, 2023. Pp. 816. ISBN 9788818038385.

Pauline Duchêne, Charles Guittard, Marine Miquel, Mathilde Simon, Étienne Wolff, Relire Tite-Live, 2000 ans après: actes du colloque tenu à l’Université Paris Nanterre et à l’École Normale Supérieure de Paris, 5 et 6 octobre 2017. Scripta antiqua, 154. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 307. ISBN 9782356134738.

David Ebrey, Plato’s Phaedo: forms, death, and the philosophical life. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781108479943.

Claire Fauchon-Claudon, Marie-Adeline Le Guennec, Hospitalité et régulation de l’altérité dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne. Scripta antiqua, 156. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 377. ISBN 9782356134769.

Bram Fauconnier, Athletes and artists in the Roman Empire: the history and organisation of the ecumenical synods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 380. ISBN 9781009202831.

Audrey Ferlut, Le culte des divinités féminines en Gaule Belgique et dans les Germanies sous le Haut-Empire romain. Scripta antiqua, 162. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. 2 vols. Pp. 915. ISBN 9782356134851.

Georgia Frank, Unfinished Christians: ritual objects and silent subjects in Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Pp. x, 193. ISBN 9781512823950.

Kirk Freudenburg, Virgil’s cinematic art: vision as narrative in the Aeneid. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv, 182. ISBN 9780197643242.

Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita, Conexiones culturales y patrimonio prehistórico. Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 290. ISBN 9781803273587.

Maria Gerolemou, Technical automation in Classical Antiquity. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 200. ISBN 9781350077591.

John Godwin, Juvenal, Satires: a selection. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 184. ISBN 9781350156524.

Laetitia Graslin-Thomé, Philippe Clancier, Julien Monerie, La Babylonie hellénistique. La roue à livres, 98. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. 336. ISBN 9782251454139.

François Guillaumont, Yves Lehmann, Cicéron: De la divination. Tome II, livre II. Collection Budé, 438. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. xxxvi, 236. ISBN 9782251014982.

Michael Hanaghan, David Woods, Ammianus Marcellinus from soldier to author. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 16. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii, 420. ISBN 9789004525290.

Rosie Harman, The politics of viewing in Xenophon’s historical narratives. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350159020.

Martin Henig, Grahame Soffe, Kate Adcock, Anthony King, Villas, sanctuaries and settlement in the Romano-British countryside: new perspectives and controversies. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 95. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781803273808.

Eneko Hiriart, Aux premiers temps de la monnaie en Occident: pratiques économiques et monétaires entre l’Èbre et la Charente (Ve-Ier s. a.C.). Scripta antiqua, 157. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 434. ISBN 9782356134776.

Christine Hoët-Van Cauwenberghe, Au service de l’épigraphie romaine: SFER, 1995-2020. Vingt-cinq années d’engagement de la Société française d’épigraphie sur Rome et le monde romain. Scripta antiqua, 160. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 321. ISBN 9782356134820.

Carl Hope, Letters of Pliny: a selection. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 120. ISBN 9781350156593.

Seth A. Jeppesen, Plautus: Trinummus. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781350126763.

Dominic Jones, Virgil, Aeneid book II: a selection. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 168. ISBN 9781350156470.

Maria Kanellou, Chris Carey, Palladas and the Yale Papyrus Codex (P. CTYBR inv. 4000). Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, 39. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii, 108. ISBN 9789004521346.

Hilmar Klinkott, Xerxes: der Großkönig in Griechenland. Forum historische Forschung: Antike. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2022. Pp. 250. ISBN 9783170401143.

Fiona Leigh, Margaret Hampson, Psychology and value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 223. ISBN 9780192858108.

Isabelle Lemelin, À l’origine des femmes martyres: la mère de 2 Maccabées 7. Judaïsme ancien et origines du christianisme, 24. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 308. ISBN 9782503594804.

Alain Lernould, Simplicius. Commentaire sur la Physique d’Aristote: livre II, ch. 4-6. Cahiers de philologie. Série les textes, 38. Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2022. Pp. 138. ISBN 9782757437643.

Georgina Longley, Cicero, Pro Caelio: a selection. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 184. ISBN 9781350156432.

Alessio Mancini, Domenico di Bandino: recollecte Lucani. Il ritorno dei classici nell’umanesimo, 1.6; commenti ai testi latini, 6. Firenze: SISMEL, 2022. Pp. xiii, 188. ISBN 9788892901384.

Mirella Marini Calvani, Lo scavo a Parma sotto Palazzo Sanvitale. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 97. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781803274072.

Anne Martineau, Présence du fantastique dans les tragédies de Sénèque: aspects génériques, esthétiques et sémantiques. Scripta antiqua, 158. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 350. ISBN 9782356134783.

Christine Mauduit, Rossella Saetta Cottone, L’Électre d’Euripide et ses personnages: les nouvelles voies de la tragédie. Cahiers du théâtre antique, 5; cahiers du GITA nouvelle série, 23. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023. Pp. 302. ISBN 9782848679549.

Guy D. Middleton, Women in the ancient Mediterranean world: from the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 314. ISBN 9781108481137.

Ruth Monreal, Aeneas als Held und Erzähler: zur narrativen Gestaltung von Vergils Aeneis. Hypomnemata, 214. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 424. ISBN 9783525311479.

Anna A. Novokhatko, Greek comedy and embodied scholarly discourse. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 278. ISBN 9783111080932.

Joshua P. Nudell, Accustomed to obedience? Classical Ionia and the Aegean world, 480-294 BCE. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780472133376.

Michel Patillon, Marcellinus: sur Les États de Cause d’Hermogène. Collection Budé, 569. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. xxxii, 702. ISBN 9782251006543.

Dean Peeters, Shaping regionality in socio-economic systems: late Hellenistic-late Roman ceramic production, circulation, and consumption in Boeotia, central Greece (c. 150 BC-AD 700). Roman and late antique Mediterranean pottery. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 394. ISBN 9781803272191.

Beatrice Pestarino, Kypriōn politeia, the political and administrative systems of the classical Cypriot city-kingdoms. Mnemosyne supplements, 459. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xiii, 301. ISBN 9789004520332.

Annalisa Phillips Wilson, Paul and the Jewish law: a Stoic ethical perspective on his inconsistency. Ancient philosophy and religion, 8. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. vii, 251. ISBN 9789004518285.

Gerald A. Press, Mateo Duque, The Bloomsbury handbook of Plato. 2nd edition. Bloomsbury handbooks. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. xxii, 521. ISBN 9781350227231.

Vincent Puech, Les élites de cour de Constantinople, 450-610: une approche prosopographique des relations de pouvoir. Scripta antiqua, 155. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 367. ISBN 9782356134752.

Michael Rathmann, Tabula Peutingeriana: die bedeutendste Weltkarte aus der Antike. Darmstadt: WBG, 2022. Pp. 128. ISBN 9783805353502.

C. D. C. Reeve, Aristotle’s theology: the primary texts. The new Hackett Aristotle. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2022. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781647920920.

Patrick Reinard, Werkzeuge der Historiker:innen – Antike. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2023. Pp. 244. ISBN 9783170401020.

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, José Luís Brandão, Cláudia Teixeira, Ália Rodrigues, Roman identity: between ideal and performance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 402. ISBN 9782503599229.

Caroline Sauvage, Christine Lorre, À la découverte du royaume d’Ougarit (Syrie du IIe millénaire): les fouilles de C.F.A. Schaeffer à Minet el-Beida et Ras Shamra (1929-1937). Contributions to the archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant, 7; Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie, 89. Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023. Pp. 472. ISBN 9783700179986.

Jana Schultz, James Wilberding, Women and the female in Neoplatonism. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 30. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xiv, 312. ISBN 9789004510463.

Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Jinyu Liu, Ovid in China: reception, translation, and comparison. Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity, 22. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xx, 370. ISBN 9789004467279.

David Michael Smith, William G. Cavanagh, Angelos Papadopoulos, The wider island of Pelops: studies on prehistoric Aegean pottery in honour of Professor Christopher Mee. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 278. ISBN 9781803273280.

Maria Sokolskaya, Die griechische Bibel in Alexandrien: ihre Legende und die exegetische Praxis im hellenistischen Judentum. Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 207. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. vii, 262. ISBN 9789004523173.

Jennifer M. S. Stager, Seeing color in classical art: theory, practice, and reception from antiquity to the present. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 342. ISBN 9781316516454.

Julie Van Voorhis, Mark Abbe, Juliet Graver Istrabadi, Imperial colors: the Roman portrait busts of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna. Lewes, UK; Bloomington, IN: Giles Ltd, in association with the Eskenazi Museum of Art, 2023. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781913875275.

Lukas M. Verburgt, Matteo Cosci, Aristotle’s syllogism and the creation of modern logic: between tradition and innovation, 1820s-1930s. Bloomsbury studies in the Aristotelian tradition. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781350228849.

Robert Wood, Benjamin Anderson, The ruins of Palmyra and Baalbek. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. 2 vols. Pp. 276. ISBN 9780755617265.

Paul Woodruff, Living toward virtue: practical ethics in the spirit of Socrates. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 9780197672129.

Johannes Zachhuber, Ana Schiavoni-Palanciuc, Platonism and Christianity in late ancient cosmology: God, soul, matter. Ancient philosophy and religion, 9. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xii, 264. ISBN 9789004518308.