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, 

Poverty in ancient Greece and Rome: realities and discourses

Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Lucia Cecchet, Carlos Machado  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Matthew Hewitt, 

Gesellschaft im Brief: Ciceros Korrespondenz und die Sozialgeschichte

Thomas Späth  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by Laura Losito, 

Shipwrecks, legal landscapes, and Mediterranean paradigms: gone under sea

Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Sarah T. Wilker, 

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, 

Simulating Roman economies

Tom Brughmans, Andrew Wilson  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Walter Scheidel, 

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,