Year: 2024

Books received December 2023

Dolganov on Riggsby on Dolganov on Riggsby, Mosaics of knowledge: representing information in the Roman world

Response by Anna Dolganov | Original Response by Andrew M. Riggsby, 

Ancient olive presses and oil production in Cyrenaica (North-East Libya)

Ahmed Buzaian  / British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies, 2022

Reviewed by Emlyn Dodd, 

Aristotele. La politica, Libro VII-VIII

Lucio Bertelli, Mirko Canevaro, Michele Curnis  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2022

Reviewed by Giovanni Giorgini, 

Gela. Il Thesmophorion di Bitalemi: la fase arcaica, scavi P. Orlandini 1963-1967

Marina Albertocchi, Maddalena Pizzo  / Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022

Reviewed by Vladimir Stissi, 

Housing in the ancient Mediterranean world: material and textual approaches

J.A. Baird, April Pudsey  / Cambridge University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Ruth Westgate, 

Like a captive bird: gender and virtue in Plutarch

Lunette Warren  / Lever Press, 2022

Reviewed by Lien Van Geel, 

The connected Iron Age: interregional networks in the eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE

Jonathan M. Hall, James F. Osborne  / The University of Chicago Press, 2022

Reviewed by Grace Erny, 

The lost republic: Cicero’s De oratore and De re publica

James E. G. Zetzel  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Jakob Wisse, 

The Greek imaginary: from Homer to Heraclitus, seminars 1982-1983

Cornelius Castoriadis  / Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Joseph Gerbasi, 

The seven wonders of the ancient world: science, engineering and technology

Michael Denis Higgins  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by J. Z. van Rookhuijzen, 

Cyrus the Great: a biography of kingship

Lynette Mitchell  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Bodil Due, 

Ambiguity and religion in Ovid’s Fasti: religious innovation and the imperial family

Darja Šterbenc Erker  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Gwynaeth McIntyre, 

A cultural history of objects in antiquity

Robin Osborne  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Reviewed by Donald Lateiner, 

Lucretius and the end of masculinity

Michael Pope  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by John Godwin, 

Psychomachia: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar

Magnus Frisch  / De Gruyter, 2020

Reviewed by Michael Fontaine, 

Representations: material and immaterial modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean

John Bennet  / Oxbow Books, 2021

Reviewed by Ann Brysbaert, 

Die Figurenkonzeption in den Dialogen Ciceros. Zwischen Vergangenheitskonstruktion und Gegenwartskommunikation

Johannes Sedlmeyr  / Universitätsverlag Winter, 2021

Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck, 

Clearchus of Soli: the sources, text, and translation

Robert Mayhew, David C. Mirhady, Tiziano Dorandi, Stephen White  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Leonardo Fiorentini, 

The Kyrenia ship final excavation report, volume I: history of the excavation, amphoras, ceramics, coins and evidence for dating

Susan Womer Katzev, Helena Wylde Swiney  / Oxbow Books, 2022

Reviewed by Anja Slawisch,