Month: May 2023

Books received April 2023

Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsanlagen römischer Villen im republikanischen und kaiserzeitlichen Italien

Michael Feige  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Ulrike Roth, 

Der bunte Roman: Der Farbgebrauch im antiken und christlichen Roman unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Petrons Satyrica, den Metamorphosen des Apuleius und den pseudoklementinischen Rekognitionen

Beate Klein  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Denise Reitzenstein, 

Roman rule and Jewish life: collected papers

Hannah M. Cotton, Ofer Pogorelsky  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Shoni Lavie-Driver, 

Invitation to Syriac Christianity: an anthology

Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, Charles M. Stang  / University of California Press, 2022

Reviewed by Walter Beers, 

Peripatetic philosophy in context: knowledge, time, and soul from Theophrastus to Cratippus

Francesco Verde  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Peter Lautner, 

Dirt and denigration: stigma and marginalisation in ancient Rome

Jack J. Lennon  / Mohr Siebeck, 2022

Reviewed by Jane Sancinito, 

Stadttor und Stadteingang: zur Alltags- und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt in der römischen Kaiserzeit

Susanne Froehlich  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022

Reviewed by Ivo van der Graaff, 

When art isn’t real: the world’s most controversial objects under investigation

Andrew Shortland, Patrick Degryse  / Leuven University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Kate Harrell, 

Tacitus’ wonders: empire and paradox in ancient Rome

James McNamara, Victoria Emma Pagán  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Reviewed by David Woods, 

Eurasian localisms: towards a translocal approach to Hellenism and inbetweenness in central Eurasia, third to first centuries BCE

Milinda Hoo  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Edward A. S. Ross, 

A landscape of conflict? Rural fortifications in the Argolid (400–146 BC)

Anna Magdalena Blomley  / Archaeopress, 2022

Reviewed by Dimitri Nakassis, 

Parallel lives: Romans and the American founders

Karl Baughman, Brook Poston  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Christopher Francese, 

The reception of Thucydides in the theory and practice of Hellenistic historiography

Marcin Kurpios  / Verlag Holzhausen, 2021

Reviewed by Ivan Matijašić, 

Tracking Hermes, pursuing Mercury

John F. Miller, Jenny Strauss Clay  / Oxford University Press, 2019

Reviewed by Maciej Paprocki, 

Im Land der räuberischen Nomaden? Die Eigenherrschaften der Ituraier und Emesener zwischen Seleukiden und Römern

Julia Hoffmann-Salz  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022

Reviewed by Julian Gieseke, 

Carmina Priapea: griechisch – lateinisch – deutsch

Niklas Holzberg  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Irma Scaletti, 

Lucretius on disease: the poetics of morbidity in De Rerum Natura

Georgios Kazantzidis  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Pamela Zinn, 

The Oxford handbook of Roman imagery and iconography

Lea K. Cline, Nathan T. Elkins  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann, 

Ayia Irini: area B

Natalie Abell  / Lockwood Press, 2021

Reviewed by Walter Gauß,