BMCR 2023.08.01

Books received July 2023

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Gautier Amiel, Adeline Lionetto, Dimitri Mézière, Les Remèdes à l’amour de l’Antiquité au xviiie siècle. Rencontres, 584; Lectures de la Renaissance latine, 19. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 353. ISBN 9782406147411.

Edward M. Anson, Ptolemy Soter I: themes and issues. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. xxiv, 221. ISBN 9781350260818.

Clément Bady, Olga Boubounelle, Alexandre Vlamos, Les cités grecques face à l’imperium Romanum: résilience, participation et adhésion des communautés grecques à la construction d’un empire (IIe siècle avant-Ier siècle de notre ère). Dialogues d’histoire ancienne, 26. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023. Pp. 328. ISBN 9782848679648.

José Miguel Baños, María Dolores Jiménez López, María Isabel Jiménez Martínez, Cristina Tur, Las colocaciones en la lingüística teórica y aplicada: de las lenguas clásicas a las lenguas romances. Estudios clásicos, 3. Madrid: Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2023. Pp. 408. ISBN 9788418981876.

Lajos Berkes, W. Graham Claytor, Maria Nowak, Papyrologische und althistorische Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Andrea Jördens. Philippika, 167. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. xx, 592. ISBN 9783447119917.

Ruth Bielfeldt, Johannes Eber, Susanne Bosche, Florian Knauß, Amelie Lutz, Neues Licht aus Pompeji. München; Oppenheim am Rhein: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Staatliche Antikensammlung; Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag & Media, 2022. Pp. 511. ISBN 9783961762071.

Lorenzo Braccesi, Ulisse: rifrangenze poetiche. L’Eredità dell’antico, 19. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 210. ISBN 9788891328489.

Giovanni Brandi Cordasco Salmena, Nossalità, falsa nossalità e magia: negli illeciti agricoli e pastorali della codificazione decemvirale al primo principato. Studia juridica, 90. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 260. ISBN 9788891328465.

Stephanie Lynn Budin, Gender in the ancient Near East. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiv, 309. ISBN 9780367331542.

Lorenzo Calafiore, Lucia Pallaracci, Giulia Vitali, Cassandra: immaginari letterari e figurativi. Quaderni di Otium, 5. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2023. Pp. 296. ISBN 9788876893421.

Mathilde Cambron-Goulet, Partager les savoirs: pratiques orales et écrites de la philosophie dans l’Antiquité. Kaïnon, 23. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 269. ISBN 9782406144304.

David H. Camden, The cosmological doctors of classical Greece: first principles in early Greek medicine. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 348. ISBN 9781009202992.

Christián C. Carman, Rodolfo P. Buzón, Aristarchus of Samos: on the sizes and distances of the sun and moon. Greek text, translation, analysis, and relevant scholia. Scientific writings from the ancient and medieval world. London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 326. ISBN 9781032026732.

Jo Ann Cavallo, Teaching world epics. Options for teaching, 62. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781603296175.

Michela Costanzi, Halaesa: du site à la cité, de la cité au site. Supplementi a Kōkalos, 24. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9788833154879.

Susan Deacy, José Malheiro Magalhães, Jean Zacharski Menzies, Revisiting rape in antiquity: sexualised violence in Greek and Roman worlds. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781350099203.

Andrea Debiasi, ΒΟΥΓΟΝΙΑ. Un enigma rapsodico. Hesperìa, 41. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 100. ISBN 9788891328502.

Prunelle Deleville, La Version Z de l’Ovide moralisé. Textes littéraires du Moyen Âge, 73. Ovidiana textes, 5. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 2103. ISBN 9782406149095.

Salvatore Di Liello, Metaponto e l’Europa tra settecento e ottocento: l’architettura antica nella terra incognita. HeRMeS, 3. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 182. ISBN 9788891327956.

Martin T. Dinter, Charles Guérin, Cultural memory in Republican and Augustan Rome. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781009327756.

Veronika Egetenmeyr, Die Konstruktion der ‘Anderen’: Barbarenbilder in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris. Philippika, 165. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. xiv, 452. ISBN 9783447119061.

Jakub Filonik, Christine Plastow, Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Citizenship in antiquity: civic communities in the ancient Mediterranean. Rewriting antiquity. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 750. ISBN 9780367687113.

Kristopher F.B. Fletcher, The ass of the gods: Apuleius’ Golden Ass, the Onos attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman metamorphosis literature. Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 472. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 238. ISBN 9789004537163.

Moira Fradinger, Antígonas: writing from Latin America. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xxv, 453. ISBN 9780192897091.

Courtney J. P. Friesen, Acting gods, playing heroes, and the interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek drama in the early common era. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 180. ISBN 9781032491028.

Giulia Frigerio, A cognitive analysis of the main Apolline divinatory practices: decoding divination. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xii, 198. ISBN 9781032411521.

Vincent Gabrielsen, Mario C.D. Paganini, Private associations in the ancient Greek world: regulations and the creation of group identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 316. ISBN 9781009281300.

Daniela Gallo, Ars Riuipullensis. Commentum anonymum in Artem Donati. OPA. Opere perdute e anonime (secoli III-XV), 4. Firenze: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2023. Pp. xi, 300. ISBN 9788892902275.

Paul Goukowsky, Arrien. Anabase d’Alexandre. Tome II: livres III-V. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 571. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. xxxii, 576. ISBN 9782251006567.

Jonas Grethlein, Ancient Greek texts and modern narrative theory: towards a critical dialogue. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781009339599.

Markus Hafner, Funktion, Stimme, Fiktion: Studien zu Konzeptionen kooperativer Autorschaft in fruhgriechischer und klassischer Literatur. Zetemata, 158. München: C.H. Beck, 2023. Pp. 319. ISBN 9783406801334.

Martin Hammond, Carol Atack, Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology. Oxford world’s classics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xlvii, 241. ISBN 9780198856092.

Joshua Hartman, Helen Kaufmann, A late antique poetics?: the jeweled style revisited. Sera tela: studies in late antique literature and its reception. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 328. ISBN 9781350346406.

Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Expanding classics: practitioner perspectives from museums and schools. Classics in and out of the academy: classical pedagogy in the twenty-first century. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 148. ISBN 9781032021140.

Angela Hug, Fertility, ideology, and the cultural politics of reproduction at Rome. Impact of empire, 45. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiv, 314. ISBN 9789004540774.

Albert Joosse, Angela Ulacco, Dealing with disagreement. The construction of traditions in later ancient philosophy. Monothéismes et philosophie, 33. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 234. ISBN 9782503602844.

Anthony Kaldellis, Marion Kruse, The field armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781009296946.

Mark Eli Kalderon, Cosmos and perception in Plato’s Timaeus: in the eye of the cognitive storm. Issues in ancient philosophy. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xvii, 330. ISBN 9781032274706.

Bayla Kamens, David Driscoll, The Battle of Frogs and Mice / ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΜΥΟΜΑΧΙΑ: Greek text with facing vocabulary, commentary, and illustrations. Bayla Kamens and David Driscoll, 2023. Pp. 57. ISBN 9798372300538.

Benjamin Kantor, The pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek phonology and orthography from Alexander to Islam. Eerdmans language resources. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023. Pp. liv, 841. ISBN 9780802878311.

Benjamin Kantor, A short guide to the pronunciation of New Testament Greek. Eerdmans language resources. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023. Pp. 148. ISBN 9780802878328.

Georgios Kouroupis, Ioannis Tsiplakos, The Iliad: honour and glory in Wilios. Athens: Akritas, 2022. Pp. 112. ISBN 9786188420298.

Olga Kubica, Greco-Buddhist relations in the Hellenistic Far East: sources and contexts. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. x, 232. ISBN 9781032193007.

Ray Laurence, Francesco Trifilò, Mediterranean timescapes: chronological age and cultural practice in the Roman empire. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xv, 253. ISBN 9781138288751.

Luisa Lesage Gárriga, Plutarch’s moon: a new approach to De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet. Brill’s Plutarch studies, 12. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 142. ISBN 9789004544161.

Daniel Libatique, Fiona McHardy, Diversity and the study of antiquity in higher education: perspectives from North America and Europe. Classics in and out of the academy: classical pedagogy in the twenty-first century. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. vi, 144. ISBN 9781032235127.

Massimo Lolli, Turpitudinum notae: la caratterizzazione dell’usurpatore nei Panegyrici Latini tardoantichi. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 57. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 188. ISBN 9783796546952.

Mark F. McClay, The Bacchic gold tablets and poetic tradition: memory and performance. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 230. ISBN 9781108833783.

Volker L. Menze, Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: the last pharaoh and ecclesiastical politics in the later Roman empire. Oxford early Christian studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780192871336.

Sophie Minon, Gérard Genevrois, Enrique Nieto Izquierdo, Florian Réveilhac, Jean-Claude Chuat, Lexonyme: dictionnaire etymologique et semantique des anthroponymes grecs antiques, vol. 1 (A-E). Hautes etudes du monde gréco-romain, 63. Genève: Librairie Droz, 2023. Pp. 496. ISBN 9782600057547.

Lynette Mitchell, Cyrus the Great: a biography of kingship. Routledge ancient biographies. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 206. ISBN 9781138024106.

Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo, Alberto del Campo Tejedor, Processions and the construction of communities in antiquity: history and comparative perspectives. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 268. ISBN 9781032294490.

Valérie Naas, Anecdotes artistiques chez Pline l’Ancien: la constitution d’un discours romain sur l’art. Rome et ses renaissances. Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9791023107432.

Thomas J. Nelson, Markers of allusion in archaic Greek poetry. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 480. ISBN 9781316514375.

Lisa C. Nevett, Ancient Greek housing. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 370. ISBN 9780521198721.

Lea Niccolai, Christianity, philosophy, and Roman power: Constantine, Julian, and the bishops on exegesis and empire. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xix, 359. ISBN 9781009299299.

András Patay-Horváth, Transformations of Pelops: myths, monuments and cult reconsidered. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xxi, 286. ISBN 9780367766986.

Daphne Penna, Roos Meijering, A sourcebook on Byzantine law: illustrating Byzantine law through the sources. Medieval law and its practice, 34. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xviii, 224. ISBN 9789004514706.

Lisa Pieraccini, Laurel Taylor, Consumption, ritual, art, and society: interpretive approaches and recent discoveries of food and drink in Etruria. New approaches in archaeology, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 132. ISBN 9782503602158.

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Marek Węcowski, Politeia and koinonia: studies in ancient Greek history in honour of Josine Blok. Mnemosyne supplements, 471. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xii, 315. ISBN 9789004537194.

Adam Ployd, Augustine, martyrdom, and classical rhetoric. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 165. ISBN 9780190914141.

Michael Pope, Lucretius and the end of masculinity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781009242318.

Melanie Racette-Campbell, The crisis of masculinity in the age of Augustus. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. 274. ISBN 9780299343507.

K.A. Rask, Personal experience and material devotion in ancient Greek religion. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 226. ISBN 9781032357485.

Jacobo Rodríguez Garrido, Emperadores y esclavos: algunos aspectos de la legislación imperial sobre esclavitud entre Trajano y los Severos. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité (ISTA). Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023. Pp. 404. ISBN 9782848679617.

Michele Valerie Ronnick, Gabriella Shypula, Emma Amos: classical legacies. Edited by Ethel Renia. New York: RYAN LEE Gallery, 2023.

Joe Sachs, Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2023. Pp. 194. ISBN 9781589881778.

Jacques Schamp, Thémistios. Tome II. Discours V-XIII: les Empereurs illyrien et pannonien. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 567. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. 880. ISBN 9782251006550.

Annemarie Schantor, Kultpraxis und Distinktion: Bildnisse von Kultpersonal der römischen Kaiserzeit aus Rom und Italien. Philippika, 163. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. x, 368. ISBN 9783447118910.

Oliver Schipp, Den Kolonat neu denken. Zur Aktualität eines Forschungsproblems. Mainzer althistorische Studien, 11. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2023. Pp. 214. ISBN 9783969292150.

Arbogast Schmitt, Ontologie der Antike 1. Die Frage nach dem Sein bei Parmenides. Hannover: Der blaue Reiter, 2023. Pp. 230. ISBN 9783933722850.

Andreas Schwab, Alexander Schütze, Herodotean soundings: the Cambyses logos. Classica Monacensia, 55. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2023. Pp. 430. ISBN 9783823383291.

Benedetta Sciaramenti, Metamorfosi e corpo: poesia ovidiana e arti figurative. Quaderni di Otium, 6. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9788876893438.

Andrew G. Scott, An age of iron and rust: Cassius Dio and the history of his time. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 18. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. viii, 258. ISBN 9789004541115.

Alexander Sigl, Die Modellierung epikureischer personae in der römischen Literatur. Classica Monacensia, 57. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2023. Pp. 511. ISBN 9783823385035.

Bernhard Söllradl, Valerius Flaccus, Vespasian und die Argo: zur zeithistorischen Perspektivierung des Mythos in den Argonautica. Mnemosyne supplements, 470. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiv, 444. ISBN 9789004526143.

Nathanael Stein, Causality and causal explanation in Aristotle. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xi, 287. ISBN 9780197660867.

Justin Stover, George Woudhuysen, The lost history of Sextus Aurelius Victor. Edinburgh studies in later Latin literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 552. ISBN 9781474492874.

Ute Tischer, Thomas Kuhn-Treichel, Stefano Poletti, Sicut commentatores loquuntur. Authorship and commentaries on poetry / Autorproblematik und antike Dichterexegese. Studi e testi tardoantichi, 21. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 480. ISBN 9782503605340.

Monika Trümper, Thomas Lappi, The House of the Two Skeletons at Morgantina. Palilia, 35. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. x, 504. ISBN 9783447118460.

Kristi Upson-Saia, Heidi Marx, Jared John Secord, Medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE): a sourcebook. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 487. ISBN 9780520299702.

Jasmin Welte, Helmut Berve und die Alte Geschichte. Eine deutsche Biographie. Antike nach der Antike, 3. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 391. ISBN 9783796548505.

Jessica A. Westerhold, Ovid’s tragic heroines: gender abjection and generic code-switching. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. xi, 213. ISBN 9781501770357.

Paul White, Early Modern Latin love poetry. Brill research perspectives in humanities and social sciences; Brill research perspectives in Latinity and classical reception in the Early Modern period. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. vi, 124. ISBN 9789004548039.

Raphael Woolf, Cicero’s De Officiis: a critical guide. Cambridge critical guides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781316518014.

Julian Wünsch, Grossmacht gegen lokale Machthaber: die Herrschaftspraxis der Seleukiden an den Rändern ihres Reiches. Philippika, 164. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. x, 430. ISBN 9783447119054.

Liv Mariah Yarrow, The Roman Republic to 49 BCE: using coins as sources. Guides to the coinage of the ancient world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xxxvii, 273. ISBN 9781107013735.

Gabriel Zuchtriegel, The making of the Doric temple: architecture, religion, and social change in archaic Greece. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009260107.