Month: July 2023

Books received June 2023

Down to the hour: short time in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East

Kassandra J. Miller, Sarah L. Symons  / Brill, 2019

Reviewed by Simeon Ehrlich, 

Chalcis/Qinnasrin (Syrie): de l’âge du Bronze à l’époque mamelouke Qinnasrin II

Marie-Odile Rousset  / MOM Éditions, 2021

Reviewed by Matthias Grawehr, 

Emotions and narrative in ancient literature and beyond

Mathieu de Bakker, Baukje van den Berg, Jacqueline Klooster  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Giulia Maria Paoletti, 

Gesellschaft im Brief: Ciceros Korrespondenz und die Sozialgeschichte

Thomas Späth  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by Laura Losito, 

Selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy from Heraclitus to Plotinus

A. A. Long  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by John Dillon, 

Roman landscapes: visions of nature and myth from Rome and Pompeii

Jessica Powers  / San Antonio Museum of Art, 2023

Reviewed by Eric M. Moormann, 

Death and rebirth in late antiquity: essays in honor of Robin M. Jensen

Lee M. Jefferson  / Rowman and Littlefield, 2022

Reviewed by Eric Rebillard, 

Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine

Céline Urlacher-Becht  / Brepols, 2022

Reviewed by Bret Mulligan, 

Water in the Roman world: engineering, trade, religion and daily life

Martin Henig, Jason Lundock  / Archaeopress, 2022

Reviewed by Helmuth Schneider, 

Books received July 2023

Cyrus the Great: a biography of kingship

Lynette Mitchell  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Bodil Due, 

Lucretius and the end of masculinity

Michael Pope  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by John Godwin, 

Valerius Flaccus, Vespasian und die Argo: zur zeithistorischen Perspektivierung des Mythos in den Argonautica

Bernhard Söllradl  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Melissande Tomcik, 

Transformations of Pelops: myths, monuments and cult reconsidered

András Patay-Horváth  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Graeme Bourke, 

The crisis of masculinity in the age of Augustus

Melanie Racette-Campbell  / The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023

Reviewed by Mike Pope, 

Cassandra: immaginari letterari e figurativi

Lorenzo Calafiore, Lucia Pallaracci, Giulia Vitali  / Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2023

Reviewed by Manos Tsakiris, 

Plato’s Symposium and Phaedrus

Joe Sachs  / Paul Dry Books, 2023

Reviewed by Ryan M. Brown, 

Ovid’s tragic heroines: gender abjection and generic code-switching

Jessica A. Westerhold  / Cornell University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Simona Martorana, 

Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: the last pharaoh and ecclesiastical politics in the later Roman empire

Volker L. Menze  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Colin Behrens,