Month: November 2024

Books received October 2024

Power and rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical correspondence of Constantine the Great

Andrew J. Pottenger  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by John Noël Dillon, 

L’enchiridion di Sesto Pomponio: una ricostruzione

Fara Nasti  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2023

Reviewed by Zachary Herz, 

Reconstructing Empedocles’ thought

Chiara Ferella  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Tom Mackenzie, 

Mariangelo Accursio tra l’Italia e l’Europa: poeta, filologo, epigrafista e diplomatico

Stefano Rocchi, Stefano Andronio  / Deinotera Editrice, 2023

Reviewed by William Stenhouse, 

Niobes. Antiquity, modernity, critical theory

Mario Telò, Andrew Benjamin  / The Ohio State University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Cecilia Perczyk, 

Risk in the Roman world

Jerry Toner  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Kevin Uhalde, 

Philosophia translata: the development of Latin philosophical vocabulary through translation from Greek. A case study approach

Christopher J. Dowson  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Carl O'Brien, 

Medicine and the law under the Roman Empire

Claire Bubb, Michael Peachin  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Lauren Caldwell, 

Lucretius

Claudia Schindler  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Andrés Vázquez, 

The Yehud coinage: a study and die classification of the provincial silver coinage of Judah

Haim Gitler, Catharine Lorber, Jean-Philippe Fontanille  / The Israel Numismatic Society, 2023

Reviewed by David Hendin, 

The Aristotelian Mirabilia and early peripatetic natural science

Arnaud Zucker, Robert Mayhew, Oliver Hellmann  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by Kosta Gligorijevic, 

Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire

Kristin Kleber  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021

Reviewed by William S. Bubelis, 

The new Roman empire: a history of Byzantium

Anthony Kaldellis  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Leonora Neville, 

How to care about animals: an ancient guide to creatures great and small. Porphyry and friends

M.D. Usher  / Princeton University Press, 2023

Reviewed by William O. Stephens, 

The Roman lower Danube frontier: innovations in theory and practice

Emily Hanscam, John Karavas  / Archaeopress, 2023

Reviewed by Timothy C. Hart, 

Women, pilgrimage, and rituals of healing in modern and ancient Greece: a comparison

Evy Johanne Håland  / Cambridge Scholars, 2023

Reviewed by Christina Aamodt, 

The Bacchic gold tablets and poetic tradition: memory and performance

Mark F. McClay  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Marco Antonio Santamaría, 

The ancient theatre at Kalydon in Aitolia

Rune Frederiksen, Olympia Vikatou  / Aarhus University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Nicolò Masturzo, 

Ovid’s Terence: tradition and allusion in the love elegies and beyond

Iris Brecke  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Sebastian Hyams,