Month: October 2024

Books received September 2024

A Jew in the Roman bathhouse: cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean

Yaron Z. Eliav  / Princeton University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Eleanor J. F. Martin, 

Erschütterte Welt: Soziale Bewältigung von Erdbeben im östlichen Mittelmeerraum der Antike

Jonas Borsch  / Mohr Siebeck, 2019

Reviewed by Francesca Diosono, 

Collocations in theoretical and applied linguistics: from Classical to Romance languages

José Miguel Baños, María Dolores Jiménez López, María Isabel Jiménez Martínez, Cristina Tur  / Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2023

Reviewed by Wolfgang D. C. De Melo, 

The literature of the sages: a re-visioning

Christine Hayes  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Ishay Rosen-Zvi, 

Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica book 8

Cristiano Castelletti, Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi, Gesine Manuwald  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Boris Kayachev, 

In the footsteps of the Etruscans: changing landscapes around Tuscania from prehistory to modernity

Graeme Barker, Tom Rasmussen  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Elena Pontelli, 

The Routledge handbook of classics and queer theory

Ella Haselswerdt, Sara H. Lindheim, Kirk Ormand  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Michel Briand, 

Latin military papyri of Dura-Europos (P.Dura 55-145): a new edition of the texts, with introduction and notes

Giulio Iovine  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Rudolf Haensch, 

Intertextuality in Pliny’s Epistles

Margot Neger, Spyridon Tzounakas  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by George Pliotis, 

Warriors’ wives: ancient Greek myth and modern experience

Emma Bridges  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Jenn Finn, 

Il mundus muliebris a Pompei: specchi e oggetti da toletta in contesti domestici

Ria Berg  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2023

Reviewed by Tim Penn, 

Mes vœux les meilleurs et santé continuelle: réponses aux épidémies dans le monde gréco-romain

Nathan Carlig  / Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2023

Reviewed by Maryline Parca, 

Numismatic antiquarianism through correspondence (16th-18th c.)

François de Callataÿ  / Brepols, 2023

Reviewed by Antonino Crisà, 

The Iliad: honour and glory in Wilios

Georgios Kouroupis, Ioannis Tsiplakos  / Akritas, 2022

Reviewed by Françoise Létoublon, 

Innerlichkeit und Gefühl in der Ilias

Janina Stahl  / Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2023

Reviewed by Gregory Crane, 

Confronting identities in the Roman empire: assumptions about the other in literary evidence

José Luís Brandão, Cláudia Afonso Teixeira, Ália Rosa Rodrigues  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Veronika Egetenmeyr, 

Spaliere für Silvinus: Charakterschulung in Columellas Werk über die Landwirtschaft

Lars Mielke  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024

Reviewed by James L. Zainaldin, 

Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. Consolidated concordances for volumes XLVI – LX (1996-2010)

Georgios Tsolakis, Elias Sverkos  / Brill, 2021

Reviewed by Juan Rodríguez Somolinos, 

Knossos: myth, history and archaeology

James Whitley  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Laura E. Alvarez,