Month: December 2024

Books received November 2024

Brill’s companion to classical reception and modern world poetry

Polina Tambakaki  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Holly Ranger, 

The dangerous life and ideas of Diogenes the Cynic

Jean-Manuel Roubineau, Malcolm DeBevoise, Philip Mitsis  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Mario Andreassi, 

The Manichaeans of the Roman east: Manichaeism in Greek anti-Manichaica and Roman imperial legislation

Rea Matsangou  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Martin Devecka, 

Parole et geste dans la tragédie grecque: à la lumière des trois ‘Électre’

Matteo Capponi  / Éditions Alphil-presses universitaires suisses, 2021

Reviewed by Anne Morvan, 

Sophonisba in Early Modern literature

Anastasia Ladefoged Larn, David Hasberg Zirak-Schmidt  / Forum for Renaissance Studies, 2023

Reviewed by Arne Jönsson, 

Legion: life in the Roman army

Richard Abdy  / Getty Publications, 2024

Reviewed by Brian Turner, 

Plutarque. Oeuvres morales. Tome XV, 3e partie: traités 73-75. Trois traités contre Épicure

Jacques Boulogne  / Les Belles Lettres, 2024

Reviewed by Jeffery Aubin, 

Forgery beyond deceit: fabrication, value, and the desire for ancient Rome

John North Hopkins, Scott McGill  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Rebecca Menmuir, 

Plotinus. Ennead I.5: On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time

Danielle A. Layne  / Parmenides Publishing, 2024

Reviewed by Martin Baudroux, 

From photography to 3D models and beyond: visualizations in archaeology

Donald H. Sanders  / Archaeopress, 2023

Reviewed by Alessandro Di Ludovico, 

Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity

Kim Bowes, Miko Flohr  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Jane Sancinito, 

Facing down the furies: suicide, the ancient Greeks, and me

Edith Hall  / Yale University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Lidia Gambon, 

Capua. Tombe orientalizzanti. Necropoli Fornaci

Elena Marazzi, Mattia Maturo  / Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022

Reviewed by Ulla Rajala, 

Representing the dynasty in Flavian Rome: the case of Josephus’ Jewish War

Jonathan Davies  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten, 

Soutènements et périboles de Delphes: construits en pierres travaillées

Évangélia Trouki  / École française d’Athènes, 2023

Reviewed by Eric W. Driscoll, 

Turpitudinum notae: la caratterizzazione dell’usurpatore nei Panegyrici Latini tardoantichi

Massimo Lolli  / Schwabe Verlag, 2023

Reviewed by Sergio Audano, 

Statues and busts

Amanda Claridge, Eloisa Dodero  / Brepols, 2023

Reviewed by Julia Lenaghan, 

Térence. Comédies. Tome I: Andrienne, Hécyre

Benjamin Victor, Jules Marouzeau  / Les Belles Lettres, 2023

Reviewed by Giuseppe Pezzini, 

The new documents in Mycenaean Greek

John Killen  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Anna P. Judson,