BMCR 2024.01.01

Books received December 2023

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Catherine Abadie-Reynal, Les espaces funéraires autour d’Apamée de l’Euphrate (IIIe siècle avant-VIIIe siècle après J.-C.). Archéologie(s), 10. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2023. Pp. 580. ISBN 9782356680822.

Luciana Aigner-Foresti, Geschichte und Erbe der Etrusker. Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Forschung. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2023. Pp. 308. ISBN 9783170425170.

Filippo Battistoni, Polibio e Roma, l’alba di un impero. I tempi e le forme, 15. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2022. Pp. 212. ISBN 9788829016983.

Angela Bellia, Dance, space, ritual. Material evidence of dance performance in the ancient world. Telestes, 7. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023. Pp. 232. ISBN 9788881475414.

Federica Benuzzi, Didymus Alexandrinus. The fragments of the commentaries on comedy. Supplementum grammaticum graecum, 8. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 375. ISBN 9789004684577.

Gregor Bitto, Anna Ginestí Rosell, Jonas Ludäscher, Römische Rezeptionen der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike: Festschrift für Bardo M. Gauly. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 412. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. ix, 798. ISBN 9783111238494.

Jessica Blum-Sorensen, Epic ambition: Hercules and the politics of emulation in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. 338. ISBN 9780299344603.

Jean-François Bommelaer, Le secteur sud du sanctuaire d’Apollon. 1. Zone est. Fouilles de Delphes II. Topographie et architecture, 17. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9782869585942.

Eltje Böttcher, Ovids Weltgedicht der Metamorphosen: zur Intertextualität als Multiplikationsfaktor. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft. Beihefte N.F., 14. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. ix, 334. ISBN 9783110784152.

José Luís Brandão, Cláudia Afonso Teixeira, Ália Rosa Rodrigues, Confronting identities in the Roman empire: assumptions about the other in literary evidence. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781350353985.

Luigi Bravi, Umberto Bultrighini, Carmine Catenacci, Marialuigia Di Marzio, Elisabetta Dimauro, Marco Recchia, Il teatro greco. Strutture, società, eredità. Atti del convegno, Chieti, 15-18 marzo 2022. Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica, 16. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023. Pp. 436. ISBN 9788833154930.

Iris Brecke, Ovid’s Terence: tradition and allusion in the love elegies and beyond. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 156. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xxiii, 158. ISBN 9783111307039.

Christian Brockmann, Daniel Deckers, Stefano Valente, Aristoteles-Kommentare und ihre Überlieferung. Wichtige Etappen von der Antike bis in die frühe Neuzeit. Philosophie der Antike, 44. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 424. ISBN 9783111244372.

Philipp Brüllmann, Jörn Müller, Cicero: De Officiis. Klassiker Auslegen, 78. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. ix, 248. ISBN 9783110760149.

Stefano G. Caneva, The power of naming: studies in the epicletic language of Hellenistic honours. Kernos suppléments, 41. Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2023. Pp. 404. ISBN 9782875623584.

José Luis Cañizar Palacios, Gadibus orta. Mujeres romanas en la provincia de Cádiz: ignoradas y desconocidas. Monografías. Historia y arte, 59. Cádiz: Universidad de Cádiz, 2022. Pp. 249. ISBN 9788498288643.

Albio Cesare Cassio, Sara Kaczko, Alloglоssoi: multilingualism and minority languages in ancient Europe. Trends in classics – Greek and Latin linguistics, 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiii, 319. ISBN 9783110779523.

Emma Cole, Punchdrunk on the classics: experiencing immersion in The Burnt City and beyond. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xvi, 233. ISBN 9783031430664.

Anthony Corbeill, Cicero, De Haruspicum Responsis: introduction, text, translation, and commentary. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780192868954.

Kevin Corrigan, A less familiar Plato: from Phaedo to Philebus. Cambridge studies in religion and Platonism. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009324854.

Michael Crawford, Diocletian’s edict of maximum prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias. Aphrodisias, 13. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2023. Pp. 260. ISBN 9783752006858.

Paolo Cugusi, Maria Teresa Sblendorio, Carmina Latina epigraphica IV. Volumen 1. Carmina in provinciis reperta. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2041. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. lxvi, 948. ISBN 9783110636109.

Michael Davis, Electras: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2023. Pp. 172. ISBN 9781587312083.

Martine Diepenbroek, The Spartan scytale and developments in ancient and modern cryptography. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350281325.

Eric Dieu, Traité d’accentuation grecque. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 168. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 2022. Pp. xviii, 696. ISBN 9783851247559.

Olivier D’Jeranian, L’apprentissage de la responsabilité: essai sur le stoïcisme d’Epictète. Histoire des doctrines de l’Antiquité classique. Paris: Vrin, 2023. Pp. 384. ISBN 9782711631186.

Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Paul and philosophy. Selected essays. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 509. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. Pp. xii, 437. ISBN 9783161618895.

Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Marco Formisano, Stavros Frangoulidis, Labor imperfectus: unfinished, incomplete, partial texts in classical antiquity. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 157. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xi, 432. ISBN 9783111340791.

Michael P. Ferguson, Ian Worthington, H.R. McMaster, The military legacy of Alexander the Great: lessons for the information age. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 370. ISBN 9780367482435.

Georgios K. Giannakis, Panagiotis Filos, Emilio Crespo, Jesús de la Villa, Classical philology and linguistics: old themes and new perspectives. Trends in classics – Greek and Latin linguistics, 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xviii, 692. ISBN 9783111272740.

Kate Gilhuly, Jeffrey P. Ulrich, Making time for Greek and Roman literature. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781032472782.

Wolfgang Günther, Rudolf Haensch, Inschriften von Didyma Supplement. Didyma, III.7. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2023. Pp. 308. ISBN 9783752007237.

Maximilian Höhl, Literarische Triumphe. Der römische Triumph als konzeptuelle Metapher in der Literatur der späten Republik und der frühen Kaiserzeit. Millennium-Studien, 103. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. ix, 330. ISBN 9783111080895.

Frédéric Hurlet, Honores et officia. Reconfiguration du cursus sénatorial aux époques triumvirale et augustéenne. Libera res publica. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2023. Pp. 498. ISBN 9788413407517.

Ian Hugh Johnston, Niki Papavramidou, Galen on the pulses: medico-historical analysis, textual tradition, translation. Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean, 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xi, 555. ISBN 9783110611618.

Russell E. Jones, Ravi Sharma, Nicholas D. Smith, The Bloomsbury handbook of Socrates. 2nd edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 424. ISBN 9781350185678.

Lawrence Keppie, Slingers and sling bullets in the Roman civil wars of the late Republic, 90-31 BC. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 108. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 110. ISBN 9781803276403.

Stefan Kipf, Markus Schauer, Fachlexikon zum Latein- und Griechischunterricht. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2023. Pp. 942. ISBN 9783825258191.

Michael Koortbojian, The representation of space in Graeco-Roman art: relief sculpture, problems of form, and modern historiography. Image and context, 24. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 360. ISBN 9783111037400.

Jens A. Krasilnikoff, Benedict Lowe, The Greeks in Iberia and their Mediterranean context. Routledge monographs in classical studies. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 276. ISBN 9781032470900.

Jessica L. Lamont, In blood and ashes: curse tablets and binding spells in ancient Greece. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 440. ISBN 9780197517789.

Nathan Leach, Daniel Charles Smith, Tony Keddie, Revelation and material religion in the Roman East: essays in honor of Steven J. Friesen. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 344. ISBN 9781032382678.

Johan Leemans, Geert Roskam, Peter Van Deun, Longing for perfection in late antiquity: studies on journeys between ideal and reality in pagan and Christian literature. Ancient philosophy and religion, 11. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 531. ISBN 9789004681125.

Antonio Lopez Garcia, Running Rome and its empire: the places of Roman governance. Studies in Roman space and urbanism. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 330. ISBN 9781032341774.

Daniele Malfitana, Un secolo di archeologia: 1923-2023. Ricerca, tutela, valorizzazione, gestione. Bibliotheca archaeologica, 77. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 210. ISBN 9788891332752.

Jaap Mansfeld, David T. Runia, Aëtius. Placita. Loeb classical library, 555. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2023. Pp. 624. ISBN 9780674997592.

Ségolène Maudet, Le scarabée et l’amphore: histoire des échanges en Campanie du milieu du IXe siècle au début du VIe siècle av. n.è. Bibliothèque des Ecoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 405. Rome: École française de Rome, 2023. Pp. 684. ISBN 9782728315758.

Bernd Manuwald, Euripides: Medea. Griechische Dramen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. ix, 486. ISBN 9783110188233.

Moysés Marcos, Emperors and rhetoricians: panegyric, communication, and power in the fourth-century Roman empire. Transformation of the classical heritage, 65. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780520394971.

Tabea L. Meurer, Veronika Egetenmeyr, Gallia docta? Education and in-/exclusion in late antique Gaul. Studies in education and religion in ancient and pre-modern history in the Mediterranean and its environs, 19. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. Pp. xviii, 429. ISBN 9783161624377.

Kassandra J. Miller, Time and ancient medicine: how sundials and water clocks changed medical science. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198885177.

Giorgos Mitropoulos, Το πρότυπο του ηγεμόνα και η imitatio imperatoris: Διαλεκτικές επιρροής μεταξύ αυτοκρατόρων και υπηκόων στην ελληνορωμαϊκή Ανατολή (31 π.Χ. – 235 μ.Χ.). Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2023. Pp. 524. ISBN 9789605260484.

Heike Möller, Die östliche Marmarica als archäologisches Problem. Band 2: Keramik von ptolemäischer bis in die spätrömische Zeit – Nordwestägyptens Randgebiet als Produzent und Mittler. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. x, 377. ISBN 9783110668742.

John Nash, Rulers of the sea: maritime strategy and sea power in ancient Greece, 550-321 BCE. De Gruyter studies in military history, 8. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xii, 270. ISBN 9783111342856.

Stanimir Panayotov, Andra Jugănaru, Anastasia Theologou, István Perczel, Soul, body, and gender in late antiquity. Essays on embodiment and disembodiment. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xvi, 421. ISBN 9780367744274.

Claudio Parisi Presicce, Nadia Agnoli, Alessandra Avagliano, Francesca de Tomasi, Fidia. Roma, Musei Capitolini, Villa Caffarelli 24 novembre 2023 – 5 maggio 2024. Cataloghi Mostre, 73. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 294. ISBN 9788891332660.

Andrea Pellettieri, Pherekrates: Doulodidaskalos – Korianno. Fragmenta comica, 5.2. Göttingen: Verlag Antike, 2023. Pp. 209. ISBN 9783949189876.

Paul Potter, Hippocrates. Volume II. Loeb classical library, 148. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2023. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780674997585.

Angiolo Querci, “In fretta le navi correvano i sentieri pescosi”: Un’ipotesi di ricostruzione delle rotte di collegamento fra area egea e Mediterraneo Orientale (1700 – 1200 a.C.). Access archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 274. ISBN 9781803276465.

William H. Race, Maximus of Tyre. Philosophical orations. Loeb classical library, 553-554. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 960. ISBN 9780674997561.

Antonios Rengakos, In the company of many good poets. Collected papers of Franco Montanari. Vol. I: ancient scholarship. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xxi, 919. ISBN 9783110772180.

Antonios Rengakos, In the company of many good poets. Collected papers of Franco Montanari. Vol. II: ancient authors. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiii, 574. ISBN 9783110772197.

Michael Robertson, Reading the letter to Titus in light of Crete: dynamics of early Christian identity construction. Critical approaches to early Christianity, 3. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xii, 187. ISBN 9789004685703.

Stefano Rocchi, Stefano Andronio, Mariangelo Accursio tra l’Italia e l’Europa: poeta, filologo, epigrafista e diplomatico. The seeds of Triptolemus, 4. Rome: Deinotera Editrice, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9788889951439.

Duane W. Roller, The geographical guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria: an analysis. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 242. ISBN 9781032164410.

Clare Rowan, Tokens and social life in Roman imperial Italy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781316516539.

Alfonsina Russo, Massimo Osanna, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Roberta Alteri, Depositi in-visibili. Dalla catalogazione alla fruizione. Atti del convegno. Foro Romano – Palatino. Scavi e ricerche, 1. Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 476. ISBN 9788891332400.

Joyce E. Salisbury, The first Christian communities, 32-380 CE: quiet Christians, visible martyrs, and compelling texts. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 204. ISBN 9781032357553.

Jonas Scherr, Die Zivilisierung der Barbaren. Eine Diskursgeschichte von Cicero bis Cassius Dio. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 156. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiv, 680. ISBN 9783111331461.

Christoph Schwameis, Bernhard Söllradl, Gattungstheorie und Dichtungspraxis in neronisch-flavischer Epik. Millennium-Studien, 102. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vii, 276. ISBN 9783110783988.

Marco Settecase, La tradizione testuale dei Discorsi sacri di Elio Aristide. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 414. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiv, 410. ISBN 9783111240930.

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti, Claire Hall, Divination and revelation in later antiquity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781009328784.

Lukas Spielhofer, Babrios. Ein Interpretationskommentar zu den Prologen und Fabeln 1 bis 17. Hermes, 125. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 335. ISBN 9783515135153.

Timo Stickler, Umberto Roberto, Das Weströmische Reich und seine Erforschung. Neue Perspektiven. Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Forschung. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 2023. Pp. 391. ISBN 9783170420861.

Peter Swallow, Aristophanes in Britain: old comedy in the nineteenth century. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780192868565.

Klaus Tausend, Frühe Kulturen der Ägäis. Band. 2: Das Zeitalter der homerischen Helden. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2023. Pp. 178. ISBN 9783170409507.

Chiara Thumiger, Phrenitis and the pathology of the mind in western medical thought (fifth century BCE to twentieth century CE). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. PP. 448. ISBN 9781009241328.

Christopher W. Tindale, Plato’s reasons: logician, rhetorician, dialectician. SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023. Pp. 330. ISBN 9781438495538.

Cristian Tolsa, The Orphic astrologer Critodemus: fragments with annotated translation and commentary. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 155. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xvii, 251. ISBN 9783111328768.

Vincent Tomasso, Nostalgias for Homer in Greek literature of the Roman empire. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. ix, 142. ISBN 9781032456560.

Jerry Toner, Risk in the Roman world. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 160. ISBN 9781108481748.

Évangélia Trouki, Soutènements et périboles de Delphes: construits en pierres travaillées. Fouilles de Delphes II. Topographie et architecture, 16. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2023. Pp. 516. ISBN 9782869585553.

Antonio Varone, Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Inscriptiones parietariae Pompeianae, Herculanenses, Stabianae. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum IV, 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xviii, 626. ISBN 9783111324883.

Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Reform, revolution, reaction. A short history of Rome from the origins of the Social War to the dictatorship of Sulla. Libera res publica. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2023. Pp. 292. ISBN 9788413407074.

Meinolf Vielberg, Ciceros römische Philosophie: Werk und Wirkung eines akademischen Philosophen in Rom. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 411. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xi, 302. ISBN 9783111154336.

Eleni Volonaki, Michael Edwards, A commentary on Apollodorus’ Against Evergus and Mnesibulus: a case of false witness. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. Pp. 358. ISBN 9781527550902.

Peter von Möllendorff, Lukian, Die Götter. Griechisch – deutsch. Sämtliche Werke 3. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. 482. ISBN 9783110704105.

Sitta von Reden, Kai Ruffing, Handbuch antike Wirtschaft. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiii, 1834. ISBN 9783110567571.

James Whitley, Knossos: myth, history and archaeology. Archaeological histories. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781472527257.

Manuela Wunderl, Das Symposion bei Herodot. Classica Monacensia, 60. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2023. Pp. 530. ISBN 9783381101115.