BMCR 2024.03.01

Books received February 2024

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Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin, Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, Phiroze Vasunia. Hellenistic literature and culture: studies in honor of Susan A. Stephens. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781350286016.

Ager, Sheila, Hans Beck. Localism in Hellenistic Greece. Phoenix supplementary volumes, 61. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781487548315.

Akavia, Abigail. Dancing with Philoctetes: reflections on pain and remembrance. Santa Barbara: Punctum Books, 2023. Pp. 116. ISBN 9781685711405.

Allan, William, Laura Swift. Euripides: Bacchae. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 364. ISBN 9781108844550.

Arbeloa Borbón, Paula, Fernando Doménech Cadalás, Adrián Gordón Zan, Diego Meseguer González, Claudia Serrano Aranda. Ab imo pectore: estudios sobre las emociones en la Antigüedad. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781803276823.

Aulsebrook, Stephanie, Katarzyna Żebrowska, Agata Ulanowska. Sympozjum Egejskie. Vol. 4: papers in Aegean archaeology. Warsaw studies in archaeology, 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 178. ISBN 9782503610375.

Azzopardi, George. Roman municipia of Malta and Gozo: the epigraphic evidence. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 103. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 172. ISBN 9781803276144.

Basile, Salvatore. Lucca Romana e tardoantica. Analisi spaziali e modelli computazionali per lo studio dei paesaggi urbani e rurali. BAR international series, 3152. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2023. Pp. 182. ISBN 9781407361093.

Betancourt, Philip P., Susan C. Ferrence, Alessandra Giumlia-Mair. The Cretan collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. III: metal objects from Gournia. Prehistory monographs, 73. Bristol: INSTAP Academic Press, 2023. Pp. 200. ISBN 9781931534383.

Boccardi, Simone. Pietrabbondante. I rinvenimenti numismatici dalle campagne di scavo 1959-2019. Monumenti antichi. Serie miscellanea, 30. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editor, 2023. Pp. 439. ISBN 9788876893445.

Boozer, Anna Lucille. At home in Roman Egypt: a social archaeology. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781108830928.

Bürge, Teresa, Peter M. Fischer. The decline of Bronze Age civilisations in the Mediterranean: Cyprus and beyond. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, 154. Nicosia: Astrom Editions, 2023. Pp. viii, 414. ISBN 9789925793532.

Carter, Joseph Coleman, Norma Ortíz Galindo. The chora of Metaponto 8. The factory and kiln deposit at Pantanello. BAR international series, 3146. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 690. ISBN 9781407360898.

Chaniotis, Angelos, Thomas Corsten, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Eftychia Stavrianopoulou, Michael Wesley Zellmann-Rohrer, Jan-Mathieu Carbon. Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, volume LXVIII (2018). Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. 962. ISBN 9789004691810.

Cook, Kate. Praise and blame in Greek tragedy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350410497.

Cuccurullo, Emanuele. L’ager albanus e le sue ville: ad utilitatem at voluptatem. Archeologia classica supplementi e monografie, 18. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2022. Pp. 344. ISBN 9788891332691.

Davenport, Caillan, Meaghan McEvoy. The Roman imperial court in the Principate and late antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780192865236.

Davis, P.J. Ovid: Amores book 3. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780198871309.

Day, Leslie Preston, Maria A. Liston. Kavousi IV. The early Iron Age cemeteries at Vronda. Prehistory monographs, 71. Bristol: INSTAP Academic Press, 2023. Pp. 712. ISBN 9781931534369.

Debié, Muriel. Alexandre le Grand en syriaque. Maître des lieux, des savoirs et des temps. Bibliothèque de l’Orient chrétien, 7. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 656. ISBN 9782251454900.

Dodd, Emlyn, Dimitri Van Limbergen. Methods in ancient wine archaeology: scientific approaches in Roman contexts. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 312. ISBN 9781350346642.

Domergue, Claude, Christian Rico. Lateres plumbei Hispani. Production et commerce du plomb hispanique à l’époque romaine (IIe siècle av. J.-C. – Ier siècle apr. J.-C.). Collection de la Casa de Velázquez, 195. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2023. Pp. xvi, 591. ISBN 9788490963838.

Dumarty, Lionel. Langue idéale, langue réelle: description et normalisation des langues classiques du IIIe s. av. J.-C. au XIIe s. de notre ère. Lingua patrum, 15. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 268. ISBN 9782503609010.

Easton, Jeffrey A. Municipal freedmen and intergenerational social mobility in Roman Italy. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 21. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024. Pp. x, 370. ISBN 9789004686342.

Elliott, Colin. Pox romana: the plague that shook the Roman world. Turning points in ancient history. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 304. ISBN 9780691219158.

Ellison, Mark D. The visual rhetoric of the married laity in late antiquity: iconography, the Christianization of marriage, and alternatives to the ascetic ideal. Routledge studies in the early Christian world. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781032546483.

Endress, Laura. Trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval: mythographie, historiographie et au-delà. Ovidiana, 3. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 509. ISBN 9782406154624.

Filtvedt, Ole Jakob, Jens Schröter. Know yourself: echoes of the Delphic maxim in ancient Judaism, Christianity, and philosophy. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 260. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. ix, 634. ISBN 9783111083544.

Funke, Melissa. Phryne: a life in fragments. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781350371873.

Gagliardi, Lorenzo, Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi. Romam commigrare: i romani, i latini e l’immigrazione. Università degli Studi di Milano. Facoltà di Giurisprudenza. Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di Diritto Privato e Storia del Diritto. Sezione di Diritto Romano e Diritti dell’Antichità, 64. Milan: Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2023. Pp. xvi, 279. ISBN 9788828859871.

Galaty, Michael L., Lorenc Bejko. Archaeological investigations in a Northern Albanian province: results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH). Volume one: survey and excavation results. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 64. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, 2023. Pp. xxvii, 309. ISBN 9781951538736.

Galaty, Michael L., Lorenc Bejko. Archaeological investigations in a Northern Albanian province: results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH). Volume two: artifacts and artifact analysis. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 64. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, 2023. Pp. xxvii, 457. ISBN 9781951538699.

Galfré, Edoardo, Christoph Schubert. “Suétone narrateur.” Biographie und Erzählung in De Vita Caesarum. Millennium-Studien, 106. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 184. ISBN 9783111333236.

Gerolemou, Maria, Gilulia Maria Chesi. Body technologies in the Greco-Roman world: technosoma, gender and sex. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. x, 294. ISBN 9781802078602.

Gervais, Kyle, Randall Pogorzelski, Sarah Graham-Shaughnessy. Lucan and Flavian epic. Brill research perspectives in humanities and social sciences; Brill research perspectives in classical poetry. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. viii, 124. ISBN 9789004690691.

Gibson, Roy, Christopher Whitton. The Cambridge critical guide to Latin literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 946. ISBN 9781108421089.

Glasenapp, Bianca. Der Auxiliarisierungsprozess des lateinischen Verbs habere im Spätlatein. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2024. Pp. 216. ISBN 9783381102815.

Goulet, Richard. Études sur les philosophes antiques leurs écoles, leurs bibliothèques, leurs combats. Textes et traditions. Paris: Vrin, 2024. Pp. 740. ISBN 9782711631605.

Hezser, Catherine. The Routledge handbook of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity. Routledge handbooks. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 568. ISBN 9781138241220.

Holzberg, Niklas. Menander: Einleitung. Fragmenta comica, 24.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 104. ISBN 9783949189937.

Ilieva, Petya Velichkova. The late Geometric and early Archaic north-eastern Aegean through the emergence, distribution and consumption of ‘G 2-3 ware’. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. vi, 193. ISBN 9783111289939.

Jordan, Bradley. Imperial power, provincial government, and the emergence of Roman Asia, 133 BCE-14 CE. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198887065.

Kaldellis, Anthony. The new Roman empire: a history of Byzantium. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 1104. ISBN 9780197549322.

Karamanou, Ioanna. Diphilus: Paralyomenos – Crysochoos. Fragmenta comica, 25.2. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 265. ISBN 9783911065009.

Kerrigan, Charlie. Living Latin: everyday language and popular culture. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 136. ISBN 9781350377035.

Kindt, Julia. The Trojan Horse and other stories: ten ancient creatures that make us human. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 380. ISBN 9781009411387.

Knapp, A. Bernard. Late Bronze Age Cyprus: a reassessment of settlement structure and society. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, 192. Nicosia: Astrom Editions, 2023. Pp. 90. ISBN 9789925793518.

Leppard, Thomas P., Sarah C. Murray. Violence and inequality: an archaeological history. Denver: University Press of Colorado, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781646424962.

Loehr, Regina M. Emotion and historiography in Polybius’ Histories. Routledge studies in ancient history. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 242. ISBN 9781032423623.

Lombardini, John. Plato’s political thought. Brill research perspectives in humanities and social sciences; Brill research perspectives in ancient history. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. viii, 120. ISBN 9789004692213.

Lothspeich, Pamela. The epic world. Routledge worlds. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 660. ISBN 9780367252366.

Maillard, Dimitri. Tolkien et l’Antiquite: passé et antiquités en Terre du Milieu. Rencontres, 612. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 246. ISBN 9782406159537.

Mesquita, António Pedro, Ricardo Santos. New essays on Aristotle’s Organon. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 9780367637897.

Mielke, Lars. Spaliere für Silvinus: Charakterschulung in Columellas Werk über die Landwirtschaft. Hypomnemata, 219. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 602. ISBN 9783525302255.

Mihailescu-Bîrliba, Lucrețiu, Ioan Piso. Romans and natives in the Danubian provinces (1st-6th C. AD). Philippika, 173. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. x, 614. ISBN 9783447120968.

Myrup Kristensen, Troels, Anna Collar. Pilgrims in place, pilgrims in motion: sacred travel in the ancient Mediterranean. Aarhus studies in Mediterranean antiquity, 15. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2024. Pp. 287. ISBN 9788771845433.

Nasti, Fara. L’enchiridion di Sesto Pomponio: una ricostruzione. Scriptores iuris romani, 3. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. x, 302. ISBN 9788891320018.

Ogden, Daniel. The Cambridge companion to Alexander the Great. Cambridge companions to the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 612. ISBN 9781108840996.

Ožanić Roguljić, Ivana, Jere Drpić, Angelina Raičković Savić. Life along communication routes from the Roman period to the Middle Ages. Roads and rivers, 2. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 166. ISBN 9781803275970.

Papasavvas, George. Trench warfare at Enkomi: personalities, politics and science in Cypriot archaeology. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature,193. Nicosia: Astrom Editions, 2023. Pp. 366. ISBN 9789925793525.

Picard, Olivier. Thasos et sa monnaie: recueil d’etudes. BCH supplement, 67. Athens: Éditions de l’EFA, 2023. Pp. 632. ISBN 9782869586079.

Rallo, Giuseppe Eugenio. Laughing at domestica facta: identity construction in mid-Republican Rome through the lens of the togata. Studia comica, 21. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9783949189968.

Rodighiero, Andrea, Anna Maganuco, Margherita Nimis, Giacomo Scavello. METra 2. Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura. Lexis supplementi, 14. Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2023. Pp. 290. ISBN 9788869697593.

Schamp, Jacques. Thémistios. Tome III. Discours XIV-XIX: L’empereur espagnol. Collection des universités de France Série grecque – Collection Budé, 572. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9782251006581.

Schierl, Petra. Tragicorum Romanorum fragmenta. Vol. III: Pacuvius. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. xlii, 520. ISBN 9783525250303.

Schultheiß, Jochen. Tragicorum Romanorum fragmenta. Vol. IV: Accius. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. xli, 858. ISBN 9783525250310.

Sirks, Boudewijn. The colonate in the Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 360. ISBN 9781009172608.

Steiner, Margreet L., Eveline J. van der Steen, Noor Mulder-Hymans, Jeannette Boertien. A village from the Roman and Islamic periods in the eastern Jordan Valley: excavations at Tell Abu Sarbut 2012-2015. BAR international series, 3155. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2023. Pp. 150. ISBN 9781407361055.

Telò, Mario. Resistant form: Aristophanes and the comedy of crisis. Santa Barbara: Punctum Books, 2023. Pp. 418. ISBN 9781685710880.

Tordoff, Robert. Aristophanes: Cavalry. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781350065673.

Torgerson, Jesse W. The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes: the ends of time in ninth-century Constantinople. Brill’s series on the early Middle Ages, 28. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xviii, 458. ISBN 9789004501690.

Trapero Fernández, Pedro, André Carneiro. GIS applications in Roman landscape and territory: methodologies and models in Hispania. BAR international series, 3139. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2023. Pp. 188. ISBN 9781407354187.

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R., Şahin Yıldırım. Tios/Tieion on the southern Black Sea in the broader context of Pontic archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 348. ISBN 9781803276205.

Ulanowski, Krzysztof, Bogdan Burliga. Καθηγητής: studies in ancient history, warfare and art presented to Nick Sekunda on his seventieth birthday. Philippika, 171. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. viii, 270. ISBN 9783447120586.

Umachandran, Mathura, Marchella Ward. Critical ancient world studies: the case for forgetting classics. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 284. ISBN 9781032120119.

Van Wijk, Roy. Athens and Boiotia: interstate relations in the archaic and classical periods. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 478. ISBN 9781009340595.

Vogt-Spira, Gregor, Bernhard Zimmermann. Plautus revisited: Problemstellungen und Perspektiven der Plautusforschung. Studia comica, 20. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 598. ISBN 9783949189906.

Volk, Katharina. Nigidius Figulus: Roman polymath. Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 47. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024. Pp. 150. ISBN 9789004690806.

Voltan, Eleonora. Picta Nilotica Romana. L’elaborazione e la diffusione del paesaggio nilotico nella pittura romana. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 106. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 324. ISBN 9781803276380.

Williams, Hamish, Ross Clare. The ancient sea: the utopian and catastrophic in classical narratives and their reception. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781802077605.

Willms, Lothar. Interkulturalität in der Antike. Von Kelten, Römern, Griechen, Etruskern und Germanen. Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 115. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9783989400085.

Xenophontos, Sophia. Medicine and practical ethics in Galen. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 318. ISBN 9781009247801.

Xinyue, Bobby. Temporalities, texts, ideologies: ancient and early-modern perspectives. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350257221.

Zarmakoupi, Mantha. Shaping Roman landscape: ecocritical approaches to architecture and wall painting in early imperial Italy. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781606068489.

Zielinksi, Karol, Anna Rojkowska. The Iliad and the oral epic tradition. Hellenic studies, 99. Washington, D.C: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2023. Pp. xvii, 663. ISBN 9780674292437.

Zucker, Arnaud, Robert Mayhew, Oliver Hellmann. The Aristotelian Mirabilia and early peripatetic natural science. Rutgers University studies in classical humanities. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 356. ISBN 9781032651910.