Month: August 2023

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

Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Sarah T. Wilker, 

Petras, Siteia II: a Minoan palatial settlement in eastern Crete. Late Bronze Age pottery from houses I.1 and I.2

Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Eleni Nodarou  / INSTAP Academic Press, 2021

Reviewed by R. Angus K. Smith, 

Rethinking the Roman city: the spatial turn and the archaeology of Roman Italy

Dunia Filippi  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Andrea U. De Giorgi, 

Städte in Ovids Metamorphosen: Darstellung und Funktion einer literarischen Landschaft

Torben Behm  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022

Reviewed by Maximiliane Gindele, 

Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as philosopher

Katharina Volk, Gareth D. Williams  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Jeffrey P. Ulrich, 

Homer the rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessalonike on the composition of the Iliad

Baukje van den Berg  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Monica Negri, 

Tragic papyri: Aeschylus’ Theoroi, Hypsipyle, Laios, Prometheus Pyrkaeus, and Sophocles’ Inachos

Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Felice Stama, 

Tracing gestures: the art and archaeology of bodily communication

Amy J. Maitland Gardner, Carl Walsh  / Bloomsbury, 2022

Reviewed by Sarah Beckmann, 

Religion and Apuleius’ Golden Ass: the sacred ass

Warren S. Smith  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Regine May, 

Au-delà de l’épithalame: le mariage dans la littérature latine (IIIe s. av. – VIe s. ap. J.-C.)

Lavinia Galli Milić, Annick Stoehr-Monjou  / Brepols, 2022

Reviewed by Fernando Gorab Leme, 

Zwischen Ansässigkeit und Mobilität: die sogenannte Grosse Kolonisation der Griechen aus migrationstheoretischer Perspektive

Dominick Delp  / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022

Reviewed by Stefanos Gimatzidis, 

Cléopâtre l’Egyptienne

Bernard Legras  / Les Belles Lettres, 2021

Reviewed by Helena Lopez Gomez, 

Caton l’Ancien et l’hellénisme: images, traditions et réception

Clément Bur, Michel Humm  / De Boccard, 2021

Reviewed by Friedrich Meins, 

The care of the brain in early Christianity

Jessica L. Wright  / University of California Press, 2022

Reviewed by Kyriakoula Tzortzopoulou, 

A Medieval Latin reader: an intermediate Latin commentary

C.T. Hadavas  / C.T. Hadavas, 2022

Reviewed by Joseph Rudolph, 

Jerjes contra Grecia: la Segunda Guerra Médica, 2500 años después

Fernando Echeverría, Adolfo J. Domínguez Monedero, César Fornis, José Pascual, Laura Sancho Rocher  / Edicions Universitat de Barcelona, 2022

Reviewed by Chiara Maria Mauro, 

Fragmentary Republican Latin, volume VI: Livius Andronicus. Naevius. Caecilius

Robert Maltby, Niall W. Slater  / Harvard University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Jesse Hill, 

Thunder and lament: Lucan on the beginnings and ends of epic

Timothy A. Joseph  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Thomas Biggs, 

Dee di maggio: introduzione e commento a Ovidio, Fasti 5, 1-378

Luca Basso  / Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022

Reviewed by Fabio Nolfo, 

Honores inauditi: Ehrenstatuen in öffentlichen Räumen Siziliens vom Hellenismus bis in die Spätantike

Rebecca J. Henzel  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Aura Piccioni,