Month: March 2023

Books received February 2023

The Routledge handbook of the senses in the ancient Near East

Kiersten Neumann, Allison Thomason  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Nassos Papalexandrou, 

Cicero’s political personae

Joanna Kenty  / Cambridge University Press, 2020

Reviewed by Fabio Avesani, 

Falerii Veteres. Il sepolcreto di Montarano: scavi, materiali e contesti

Giovanni Ligabue  / Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022

Reviewed by Seth Bernard, 

Lemaire, Panckoucke, Nisard: trois collections d’auteurs latins sous la Restauration et la monarchie de Juillet

Guillaume Flamerie de Lachapelle  / Éditions Ausonius, 2021

Reviewed by Pascale Paré-Rey, 

Visualizing the poetry of Statius: an intertextual approach

Christopher Chinn  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Samuel Douglas, 

The invention of Byzantium in early modern Europe

Nathanael Aschenbrenner, Jake Ransohoff  / Dumbarton Oaks, 2021

Reviewed by Stephanos Efthymiadis, 

Tragic heroines in ancient Greek drama

Hanna M. Roisman  / Bloomsbury, 2021

Reviewed by Laura McClure, 

Silius Italicus and the tradition of the Roman historical epos

Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Vicente Flores Militello, 

Kant et Platon: lectures, confrontations, héritages

Elena Partene, Dimitri El Murr  / Vrin, 2022

Reviewed by John V. Garner, 

Griechische Papyri aus der Sammlung des Louvre (P. Louvre III)

Andrea Jördens  / Habelt Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey, 

Cicero’s Rede pro L. Cornelio Balbo: Einleitung und Kommentar

Malte Helfberend  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck, 

From Homer to Solon: continuity and change in archaic Greece

Johannes C. Bernhardt, Mirko Canevaro  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Evan Vance, 

Tacitean visual narrative

Philip Waddell  / Bloomsbury, 2020

Reviewed by Gerjanne van den Berg, 

Between Byzantine men: desire, homosociality, and brotherhood in the Medieval empire

Mark Masterson  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Charis Messis, 

Gendered politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae

Gesthimani Seferiadi  / Bloomsbury, 2022

Reviewed by Marina Galetaki, 

King of the world: the life of Cyrus the Great

Matt Waters  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Paul Brazinski, 

Trajan: Rome’s last conqueror

Nicholas Jackson  / Greenhill Books, 2022

Reviewed by Anna Kouremenos, 

South by southeast: the history and archaeology of southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros

Emilia Oddo, Konstantinos Chalikias  / Archaeopress, 2022

Reviewed by Luca Girella, 

Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 2: local, regional, and imperial economies

Sitta von Reden  / De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021

Reviewed by Jordon Houston,