BMCR 2023.11.01

Books received October 2023

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Sébastien Barbara, Diomède outre-mer. sur les traces d’un héros grec en Occident. Études anciennes, 88. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. 904. ISBN 9782251454375.

Simon J. Barker, Christopher Courault, Javier Á. Domingo, Dominik Maschek, From concept to monument: time and costs of construction in the ancient world. Papers in honour of Janet DeLaine. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 450. ISBN 9781789694222.

Bruno Bleckmann, Barbara Court, Antonia Knöpges, Profane Zeitgeschichtsschreibung des ausgehenden 4. und frühen 5. Jahrhunderts. Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike, D1-5. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xlvi, 526. ISBN 9783506792921.

Daniela Bonanno, Nemesis. Rappresentazioni e pratiche cultuali nella Grecia antica. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 85. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 319. ISBN 9783515134927.

Henning Börm, Ulrich Gotter, Wolfgang Havener, A culture of civil war? Bellum civile and political communication in late republican Rome. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, 65. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 370. ISBN 9783515134019.

Igor Borzić, Enrico Cirelli, Kristina Jelinčić Vučković, Ana Konestra, Ivana Ožanic Roguljić, TRADE: transformations of Adriatic Europe (2nd-9th centuries AD): proceedings of the conference in Zadar, 11th-13th February 2016. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781803271729.

A.J. Boyle, Seneca: Hercules. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 816. ISBN 9780198856948.

Yannick Brandenburg, Aulularia sive Querolus. Bibliotheca scriptorum graecorum et romanorum Teubneriana, 2045. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xxiv, 64. ISBN 9783111000336.

David J. Breeze, Hadrian’s wall. Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 96. ISBN 9781803274164.

David J. Breeze, The hinterland of Hadrian’s wall. Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 96. ISBN 9781803275475.

David J. Breeze, Andreas Schwarcz, René Ployer, The Danube limes in Austria. Frontiers of the Roman Empire. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 96. ISBN 9781803276083.

Nicole Brisch, Fumi Karahashi, Women and religion in the ancient Near East and Asia. Studies in ancient Near Eastern records, 30. Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781501518614.

Neil Brodie, Morag M. Kersel, Josephine Munch Rasmussen, Variant scholarship: ancient texts in modern contexts. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 9789464270464.

Carlos Bruquetas-Galán, En tierras de Hércules. Torregorda – Camposoto – Sancti Petri: una revisión del patrimonio. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 160. ISBN 9781803275994.

Bruno Callegher, Coins and economy in Magdala/Taricheae from the Hasmoneans to the Umayyad Period. Novum Testamentum et orbis antiquus. Series archaeologica, 9. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 405. ISBN 9783525501931.

Valentina Caminneci, Enrico Giannitrapani, Maria Concetta Parello, Maria Serena Rizzo, LRCW 6: late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry. Land and sea: pottery routes. Roman and late antique Mediterranean pottery, 19. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 974. ISBN 9781803271484.

Nathan Carlig, Mes vœux les meilleurs et santé continuelle: réponses aux épidémies dans le monde gréco-romain. Cahiers du CEDOPAL, 12. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2023. Pp. 124. ISBN 9782875623539.

Charalampos I. Chrysafis, Andreas Hartmann, Christopher Schliephake, Gregor Weber, Basileus eirenophylax: Friedenskultur(en) und monarchische Repräsentation in der Antike. Studies in ancient monarchies, 9. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 550. ISBN 9783515134774.

Francesca D’Andrea, Storie intorno agli Scipioni. Immagini e voci da un’area archeologica: monumenti, epigrafi, archivi. Archeologia e arte antica, 6. Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 9788855131100.

Olivier Defaux, La Table des rois: contribution à l’histoire textuelle des Tables Faciles de Ptolémée. Chronoi, 8. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xii, 367. ISBN 9783111303956.

Jeroen De Keyser, Louis Verreth, Francesco Filelfo: Rhetorica ad Alexandrum. Hellenica, 103. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022. Pp. iv, 196. ISBN 9788836132713.

Elisa Della Calce, Stephen Oakley, “Mos uetustissimus” – Tito Livio e la percezione della clemenza. CICERO, 7. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xxiii, 431. ISBN 9783111212371.

Louis-André Dorion, Études socratiques. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. 352. ISBN 9782251454818.

Julien Fournier, Corpus des inscriptions de Thasos V. Documents publics d’époque romaine. Études thasiennes, 28. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2023. Pp. 351. ISBN 9782869585874.

Robin Lane Fox, Homer and his Iliad. New York: Basic Books, 2023. Pp. 464. ISBN 9781541600447.

Chantal Gabrielli, Res publica servanda est. La svolta dei Gracchi tra prassi politica e violenza nella riflessione storiografica. Libera res publica, 7. Sevilla; Zaragoza: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2022. Pp. 230. ISBN 9788413404714.

Raffaele Gentile, I maestri delle stele Daunie: ricerche di archeologia sperimentale. Hesperìa, 42. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 9788891330550.

Federico Giusfredi, Valerio Pisaniello, Alvise Matessi, Contacts of languages and peoples in the Hittite and post-Hittite world. Volume I: The Bronze Age and Hatti. Ancient languages and civilizations, 4. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xviii, 520. ISBN 9789004548602.

Mairi E. Gkikaki, Tokens in classical Athens and beyond: politics, communities, contexts. Liverpool studies in ancient history. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781837643899.

Donald Gordon, Fraser Hunter, Phil Freeman, Revealing Trimontium: the correspondence of James Curle of Melrose, excavator of Newstead Roman fort. Archaeological lives. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 270. ISBN 9781803275154.

Niklas Gutt, Johannes Freinsheims Supplemente zur zweiten Dekade des Livius (1649): Untersuchung, Kritische Edition, Übersetzung. Band I: Untersuchung. BAC – Bochumer altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 113. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2023. Pp. 404. ISBN 9783868219982.

Emily Hauser, How women became poets: a gender history of Greek literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 9780691201078.

Christine Hayes, The literature of the sages: a re-visioning. Compendia rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, 16. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xi, 660. ISBN 9789004515420.

Ian P. Haynes, Thea Ravasi, Stephen Kay, Salvatore Piro, Paolo Liverani, Non-intrusive methodologies for large area urban research. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 130. ISBN 9781803274461.

Mark Healy, The ancient Assyrians: empire and army, 883-612 BC. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781472848093.

Oliver Hellmann, Arnaud Zucker, On the diffusion of zoological knowledge in late antiquity and the Byzantine period. AKAN-Einzelschriften, 14. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2023. Pp. 198. ISBN 9783868219821.

Marian Helm, Saskia T. Roselaar, Spoils in the Roman Republic: boon and bane. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 467. ISBN 9783515133692.

Felix Herkert, Körperlichkeit im theurgischen Neuplatonismus. Immanente Pforten zur Transzendenz. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 413. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 270. ISBN 9783111246017.

Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Catábasis: el viaje infernal en la Antigüedad. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2023. Pp. 504. ISBN 9788411482080.

Tom Holland, Pax: war and peace in Rome’s golden age. New York: Basic Books, 2023. Pp. 480. ISBN 9780465093533.

Victoria Houseman, American classicist: the life and loves of Edith Hamilton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 528. ISBN 9780691236186.

Justin Humphreys, The invention of imagination: Aristotle, geometry, and the theory of the psyche. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2023. Pp. 176. ISBN 9780822947400.

Emanuele E. Intagliata, Paul Everill, On the shoulders of Prometheus: international collaboration and the archaeology of Georgia. Georgian archaeological monographs. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 164. ISBN 9781803275314.

Dimitrios Kanellakis, Mimnermus: elegies. Aris & Philips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 200. ISBN 9781837642601.

Alan Kaiser, Zofia F. Archibald, Archaeology, sexism, and scandal: the long-suppressed story of one woman’s discoveries and the man who stole credit for them. 2nd edition. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. Pp. 302. ISBN 9781538174968.

Paul V. Kelly, The financial markets of Roman Egypt: risk and return. Liverpool studies in ancient history. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781802078336.

Andrea Kouklanakis, Blemished kings: suitors in the Odyssey, blame poetics, and Irish satire. Hellenic studies, 98. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2023. Pp. viii, 104. ISBN 9780674278486.

Anais Lamesa, Katy Whitaker, Gabriele Gattiglia, Claudia Sciuto, Marie-Elise Porqueddu, From quarries to rock-cut sites: echoes of stone crafting. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2023. Pp. 276. ISBN 9789464261653.

Annelies Lannoy, Danny Praet, The Christian mystery: early Christianity and the ancient mystery cults in the work of Franz Cumont and in the history of scholarship. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 81. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 335. ISBN 9783515131971.

Arnau Lario Devesa, Joan Campmany Jiménez, Marc Marzo Pallàs, Oriol Morillas Samaniego, (Not) all roads lead to Rome: interdisciplinary approaches to mobility in the ancient world. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 266. ISBN 9781803275178.

Alessandro Launaro, Martin Millett, Interamna Lirenas: a Roman town in central Italy revealed. McDonald Institute monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2023. Pp. xi, 157. ISBN 9781913344108.

Vasileios Liotsakis, Plato’s proto-narratology: metanarrative reflections and narrative paradigms. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 153. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xxviii, 237. ISBN 9783111307107.

Michael Loy, Connecting communities in archaic Greece: exploring economic and political networks through data modelling. British School at Athens studies in Greek antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781009343817.

Randolf Lukas, Josephus Latinus, Antiquitates Judaicae Buch 6 und 7: Einleitung, Edition und Kommentar zur Übersetzungstechnik. BAC – Bochumer altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 112. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022. Pp. 296. ISBN 9783868219692.

Susanne Luther, Pieter B. Hartog, Clare E. Wilde, Jewish, Christian and Muslim travel experiences: 3rd century BCE-8th century CE. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – tension, transmission, transformation, 16. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vii, 356. ISBN 9783110717419.

Dominic M. Machado, Voluntas militum: community, collective action, and popular power in the armies of the middle Republic (300-100 BCE). Libera res publica, 9. Sevilla; Zaragoza: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2023. Pp. 346. ISBN 9788413406381.

Christian Marek, Rom und der Orient Reiche. Götter, Könige. München: C.H.Beck, 2023. Pp. 720. ISBN 9783406806889.

Giustina Monti, Alexander the Great. Letters: a selection. Aris & Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781800348622.

Eileen Murphy, Mélie Le Roy, Normative, atypical or deviant? Interpreting prehistoric and protohistoric child burial practices. Childhood in the past, 10. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 268. ISBN 9781803275116.

Alexander Nagel, Color and meaning in the art of Achaemenid Persia. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 325. ISBN 9781009361293.

Margot Neger, Spyridon Tzounakas, Intertextuality in Pliny’s Epistles. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 348. ISBN 9781009294768.

Henning Ohst, Die Epistulae ad Familiares des Kaisers Augustus: Studien zur Textgeschichte in der Antike, Edition und Kommentar. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 152. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xii, 322. ISBN 9783111191515.

Nicolette A. Pavlides, The hero cults of Sparta: local religion in a Greek city. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781788313001.

Darryl A. Phillips, Suetonius’ Life of Augustus. Oxford Greek and Latin college commentaries. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780197676080.

Ioannis Polemis, Sophia Xenophontos, Galen: On Avoiding Distress and On My Own Opinions. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 151. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiv, 168. ISBN 9783111320410.

Nicolas Quérini, De la connaissance de soi au devenir soi: Platon, Pindare et Nietzsche. Kaïnon – Anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 24. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 333. ISBN 9782406149422.

Francesca Rohr Vio, Powerful matrons: new political actors in the late Roman Republic. Libera res publica, 6. Sevilla; Zaragoza: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2022. Pp. 236. ISBN 9788413404523.

Gabriel Rosselló Calafell, Relaciones exteriores y praxis diplomática cartaginesa. El período de las guerras púnicas. Libera res publica, 8. Sevilla; Zaragoza: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2022. Pp. 240. ISBN 9788413405513.

Jean-Manuel Roubineau, Malcolm DeBevoise, Philip Mitsis, The dangerous life and ideas of Diogenes the Cynic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780197666357.

Sofie Schiødt, Amber Jacob, Kim Ryholt, Scientific traditions in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East: joint proceedings of the 1st and 2nd Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt international conferences, May 2018, Copenhagen, and September 2019 New York. ISAW monographs. New York: New York University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 450. ISBN 9781479823130.

Winfried Schmitz, Leges Draconis et Solonis (LegDrSol). Eine neue Edition der Gesetze Drakons und Solons mit Übersetzung und historischer Einordnung. Historia. Einzelschriften, 270. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. xviii, 943. ISBN 9783515133616.

Amit Shadman, The rural hinterland of Antipatris from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 137. ISBN 9781803275277.

Tatiana Shevchenko, Greek religion in Tauric Chersonesos. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 226. ISBN 9781803275628.

Janja Soldo, Claire Rachel Jackson, “Res vera, res ficta”: fictionality in ancient epistolography. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 149. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 272. ISBN 9783111306995.

Manolis I. Stefanakis, Georgios Mavroudis, Fani K. Seroglou, Maria Achiola, Religion and cult in the Dodecanese during the first millennium BC: proceedings of the international archaeological conference. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 338. ISBN 9781803274515.

Richard Talbert, Lindsay Holman, Benet Salway, Atlas of classical history. 2nd edition. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781138785823.

Joseph Torchia, Plotinus and Augustine on the mid-rank of soul: navigating two worlds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. Pp. xiv, 237. ISBN 9781666928341.

Jacques Tréheux, Pierre Charneux, Christophe Feyel, Marie Feyel, Études critiques sur les inventaires de l’indépendance délienne. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique supplément, 65. Athens: Ecole française d’Athènes, 2023. Pp. 402. ISBN 9782869585669.

Daniel Unruh, Talking to tyrants in classical Greek thought. Liverpool studies in ancient history. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781789621235.

Daniel Vallat, Michèle Béjuis-Vallat, Servius. Commentaire sur l’Énéide de Virgile: Livre I. Donat, Vie de Virgile, Introduction aux Bucoliques. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 439. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. clv, 965. ISBN 9782251014999.

Sofie Vanhoutte, Change and continuity at the Roman coastal fort at Oudenburg from the late 2nd until the early 5th century AD. Relicta Monografieën, 19. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2023. 3 vols. Pp. 1424. ISBN 9789464260847.

Anca Vasiliu, Elsa Grasso, Platon et la pensée de l’image. Bibliothèque d’histoire de la philosophie. Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2023. Pp. 378. ISBN 9782711631063.

Benjamin Victor, Jules Marouzeau, Térence. Comédies. Tome I: Andrienne, Hécyre. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 440. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. clxii, 544. ISBN 9782251015002.

Alessandro Viscogliosi, The temple of Apollo “in circo” and the creation of an Augustan architectural language. Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Supplementi. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 9788891324221.

Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers, Barbara Maurina, La villa imperiale di Punta Eolo: rivestimenti pavimentali e parietali del settore residenziale. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 102. Ricerche archeologiche nell’isola di Ventotene, 3. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 462. ISBN 9781803275215.

Judith Weingarten, Colin F. Macdonald, Joan Aruz, Lara Fabian, Nisha Kumar, Processions: studies of Bronze Age ritual and ceremony presented to Robert B. Koehl. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 372. ISBN 9781803275338.

Johannes Wienand, Der politische Tod: Gefallenenbestattung und “Epitaphios Logos” im demokratischen Athen. Historia. Einzelschriften, 272. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 473. ISBN 9783515133890.

Andrew Wilson, Nick Ray, Angela Trentacoste, The economy of Roman religion. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 384. ISBN 9780192883537.