BMCR 2024.06.01

Books received May 2024

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Alonso, Natàlia, T. J. Anderson, Luc Jaccottey. Querns and mills in Mediterranean antiquity. Tradition and innovation during the first millennium BC. DAN@, 12. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 158. ISBN 9782356135421.

Ampio, Riccardo. Vittricio di Rouen. De Laude Sanctorum. Biblioteca di studi storico-religiosi, 20. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2023. Pp. xiv, 334. ISBN 9788836134144.

Bats, Maria, Jean-Claude Lacam, Raphaëlle Laignoux. La République romaine face aux crises: traumatismes, résilience et recompositions aux temps des guerres hannibalique et civiles (218-201/49-30 a.C.). Tome 1. Scripta antiqua, 174. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 345. ISBN 9782356135896.

Baumer, Lorenz E., Fayçal Falaky, Zeina Hakim. Diderot et l’archéologie. Rencontres, 620. Le dix-huitième siècle, 45. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 267. ISBN 9782406165774.

Beatrice, Pier Franco. The philosophy of the few against the Christians. An inquiry into the textual transmission of Porphyry’s Philosophy According to the Chaldean Oracles. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 31. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xviii, 581. ISBN 9789004680067.

Begass, Christoph, Christian Mann, Marco Tentori Montalto. Money and honor in ancient athletics. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 228. ISBN 9783515136341.

Bendle, Christopher. The office of “magister militum” in the 4th century CE. A study into the impact of political and military leadership on the later Roman Empire. Studies in ancient monarchies. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 236. ISBN 9783515136143.

Benefiel, Rebecca, Catherine M. Keesling. Inscriptions and the epigraphic habit: the epigraphic cultures of Greece, Rome, and beyond. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 20. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 366. ISBN 9789004683112.

Bertani, Francesco. Poesia degli indovini selvaggi: le tavolette di maledizione in lingua greca come fonti di poesia sommersa (6.-1. secolo a.C.). Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 28. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 358. ISBN 9783515136044.

Betjes, Sven, Olivier Hekster, Erika Manders. Tradition and power in the Roman Empire: proceedings of the fifteenth workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Nijmegen, 18-20 May 2022). Impact of empire, 50. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xiv, 342. ISBN 9789004537453.

Bilde, Pia Guldager, Susan I. Rotroff. Mouldmade bowls of the Black Sea region and beyond: from prestige object to an article of mass consumption. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 28. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 876. ISBN 9789004549098.

Bozzone, Chiara. Homer’s living language: formularity, dialect, and creativity in oral-traditional poetry. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 292. ISBN 9781316512418.

Brun, Patrice. Aristide ‘le Juste’. L’art et la manière de fabriquer un héros dans la cité démocratique. Scripta antiqua, 175. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 256. ISBN 9782356135902.

Campa, Naomi T. Freedom and power in classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 212. ISBN 9781009221436.

Cankardeş-Şenol, Gonca. Lexicon of fabricant dies on Rhodian amphora stamps. Volume 1, fabricants A. Études méditerranéennes, 5. Athens: Éditions de l’EFA, 2023. Pp. 436. ISBN 9782869586161.

Carbone, Lucia F. Local coinages in a Roman world: second century BC-first century AD. A catalogue of the Richard B. Witschonke collection of coins in the early Roman provinces. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 576. ISBN 9780897224000.

Centanni, Monica, Paolo Biagio Cipolla. Sophocles’ Laocoön. Fragmentary Greek drama, 1. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 108. ISBN 9788891333100.

Corti, Lorenzo. Sextus Empiricus Against the Arithmeticians. Philosophia antiqua, 167. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. 228. ISBN 9789004679498.

Conventi, Marta, Luigi Gambaro, Marina Lo Blundo, Maura Medri. Le ville romane di Sanremo. Studia archaeologica, 262. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9788891310231.

Davenport, Caillan, Shushma Malik. Representing Rome’s emperors: historical and cultural perspectives through time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780192869265.

De Vido, Stefania, Cécile Durvye. Un monde partagé: la Sicile du premier siècle av. J.-C. entre Diodore et Cicéron. Antichistica, 37. Filologia e letteratura, 6. Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2023. Pp. 310. ISBN 9788869697432.

Dey, Hendrik, Fabrizio Oppedisano. L’Eredità di Giustiniano. L’ultima guerra dell’Italia romana. Saggi di storia antica, 45. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 684. ISBN 9788891328595.

Donahue, John, Lee L. Brice. Brill’s companion to diet and logistics in Greek and Roman warfare. Brill’s companions to classical studies, 8. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xii, 454. ISBN 9789004686618.

Driessen, Jan, Tiziano Fantuzzi. Chronos: stratigraphic analysis, pottery seriation and radiocarbon dating in Mediterranean chronology. AEGIS, 26. Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2024. Pp. 356. ISBN 9782390614517.

Dubreuil, Laurent. Botaniser l’Odyssée. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 128. ISBN 9782251455723.

Esposito, Arianna, Airton Pollini. Cités nouvelles, villes des marges: fondations, formes urbaines, espaces ruraux et frontières de l’archaïsme à l’Empire. Diabaseis, 10. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2023. Pp. 832. ISBN 9788846767905.

Fernández-Götz, Manuel, Nico Roymans. Archaeology of the Roman conquest: tracing the legions, reclaiming the conquered. Cambridge elements. The archaeology of Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 112. ISBN 9781009507295.

Finocchietti, Luigi, Natacha Lubtchansky, Claude Pouzadoux. Au pied des murs. Étude exploratoire du périurbain dans les cités de l’Italie méridionale antique. Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard, 27. Naples: Publications du Centre Jean Bérard, 2023. Pp. 191. ISBN 9782380500417.

Foulon, Éric, Michel Molin. Polybe. Histoires. Livres XXII – XXIX. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque – Collection Budé, 574. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. cii, 554. ISBN 9782251006598.

Franklinos, T. E., Jennifer Ingleheart. Essays on Propertian and Ovidian elegy: a limping lady for Stephen Heyworth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198908111.

Gebler, Aaron. Die Verwendung und Bedeutung von Losverfahren in Athen und im griechischen Raum vom 7. bis 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 27. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 310. ISBN 9783515135757.

Girardin, Michaël, Sven Günther, Cristina Soraci. Fiscalità ed epigrafia nel mondo romano: nuove ricerche. Bibliotheca aperta, 4. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 120. ISBN 9788891332790.

Gowers, Emily. Rome’s patron: the lives and afterlives of Maecenas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 488. ISBN 9780691193144.

Guyomarc’h, Gweltaz, Frans A. J. de Haas. Studies on Alexander of Aphrodisias’ On Mixture and Growth. Philosophia antiqua, 170. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. vi, 276. ISBN 9789004686014.

Hagen, Eva. Variationen über Latinus. Erzählungen über die Ursprünge der Latiner von Hesiod bis ins 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Historia – Einzelschriften, 273. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 283. ISBN 9783515136150.

Hardwick, Alexandra. Off-stage groups in Athenian drama. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. viii, 253. ISBN 9780198887225.

Harrison, Stephen, Regine May. Apuleius in European literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780192862983.

Hartung, Sebastian. Kontinuitäten und Brüche in den römisch-markomannischen Beziehungen während der Kaiserzeit: Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Alltag neben einer antiken Supermacht. Geographica historica, 46. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 714. ISBN 9783515136099.

Hijmans, Steven E. Sol: image and meaning of the sun in Roman art and religion. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 2 vol, pp. xviii, 1440. ISBN 9789004516526.

Hochard, Pierre-Olivier. Les Antigonides et la Grèce égéenne: numismatique et morceaux choisis. Numismatica antiqua, 15. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 170. ISBN 9782356135889.

Ingrosso, Paola. Menandro. Sicioni. Prosopa – teatro greco: studi e commenti. Lecce: Pensa, 2024. Pp. 408. ISBN 9791255681137.

Jouanna, Jacques, Anargyros Anastassiou, Antonio Ricciardetto. Hippocrate. L’officine du médecin. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque – Collection Budé, 575. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. ccl, 134. ISBN 9782251006604.

Kötter, Jan-Markus, Maria Osmers, Dorothea Rohde, Jan Timmer. Zum Umgang mit Enttäuschungen in der Antike. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 266. ISBN 9783515136112.

Laes, Christian. Disability and healing in Greek and Roman myth. Elements in Greek and Roman mythology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 82. ISBN 9781009494663.

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. The Cleopatras: the forgotten queens of Egypt. New York: Basic Books, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781541602922.

Masetti-Rouault, Maria Grazia, Ilaria Calini, Robert Hawley, Lorenzo D’Alfonso. Ancient western Asia beyond the paradigm of collapse and regeneration (1200-900 BCE): proceedings of the NYU-PSL international colloquium, Paris Institut national d’histoire de l’art, April 16-17, 2019. ISAW monographs. New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 2024. Pp. xv, 623. ISBN 9781479834624.

Meunier, Emmanuelle, Jean-Marc Fabre, Eneko Hiriart, Stéphane Mauné, Călin Gabriel Tămaş. Mines et métallurgies anciennes. Mélanges en l’honneur de Béatrice Cauuet. DAN@, 9. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 336. ISBN 9782356135391.

Miller, Micah M. Origen of Alexandria and the theology of the Holy Spirit. Oxford early Christian studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780198895749.

Miller, Paul Allen. Theory does not exist: comparative ancient and modern explorations in psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and rhetoric. Anthem symplokē studies in theory. London: Anthem Press, 2024. Pp. 214. ISBN 9781839990854.

Mitchell, Stephen. Catullus: selected poems. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. Pp. 168. ISBN 9780300275292.

Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos P. Brill’s companion to Ancient Greek and Roman warfare on film. Brill’s companions to classical studies, 7. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxi, 588. ISBN 9789004686816.

Osnabrügge, Jonas. Die epigraphische Kultur an Oberrhein und Neckar in römischer Zeit. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, 66. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 702. ISBN 9783515135566.

Ozbek, Leyla. Sofocle, Niobe. Introduzione, testo critico, commento e traduzione. Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2023. Pp. xii, 175. ISBN 9788869698132.

Pellegrino, Matteo. Aristofane. Commedie perdute: antologia di frammenti. Lingue e letterature. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2024. Pp. 200. ISBN 9788829023349.

Pitteloud, Luca. Ordre et désordre dans l’univers: une étude sur l’expérience de pensée du Timée. Brill’s Plato studies series, 16. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 376. ISBN 9789004689497.

Pocobelli, Giorgio F. Vulci: l’area urbana e il suburbio. Evoluzione storica della città e del territorio. Atlante tematico di topografia antica. Supplementi, 24. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 338. ISBN 9788891332837.

Poletti, Beatrice. Dionysius and the city of Rome: portraits of founders in the Roman Antiquities. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. Pp. xi, 259. ISBN 9781793655066.

Qandeil, Haytham. The office of the epimeletes: studies in the administration of Ptolemaic Egypt. Sonderreihe der Abhandlungen Papyrologica Coloniensia, 49. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xiv, 237. ISBN 9783506794680.

Raja, Rubina. The Oxford handbook of Palmyra. Oxford handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 632. ISBN 9780190858117.

Scicolone, Federica. The language of objects: deixis in descriptive Greek epigrams. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 18. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xvi, 324. ISBN 9789004545502.

Silver, Kenneth, Minna Silver, Raffaella Pappalardo. Satellite and archaeological reconnaissance in the Tur ‘Abdin, Turkey. Final report of the Finnish Swedish archaeological project in Mesopotamia (FSAPM), 2014-2016. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781803277127.

Siron, Nicolas. Nouvelle histoire d’Athènes: la cité vue de l’Agora, Ve-IVe siècle av. J.-C. Paris: Perrin, 2024. Pp. 400. ISBN 9782262103439.

Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia. Agir et subir. Femmes et familles face aux mutations de l’époque hellénistique. Mondes anciens, 12. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 214. ISBN 9782251455693.

Stolyarik, Elena S., John M. Kleeberg. Scythians and Greeks on the Western Black Sea: the coinage of the kings of Scythia Minor in Dobruja, 218/212-110 BCE. Numismatic studies, 47. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2023. Pp. viii, 225. ISBN 9780897224055.

Tempest-Walters, Kit. Plotinus on eternity and time (Ennead III.7). Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 32. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xii, 178. ISBN 9789004693531.

Todisco, Luigi, Francesca Rosa Pesce. Il pittore Felton e la sua officina. Ceramografia singolare a Taranto nell’età di Archita. Studia archaeologica, 260. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 192. ISBN 9788891332851.

Voß, Carlotta. Ironie und Urteil. Ironische Historiographie und die Entdeckung des Politischen bei Thukydides. Thoukydideia, 3. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 329. ISBN 9783525363959.

Waterfield, Robin, John Rich. Cassius Dio. The fall of the Roman Republic: Roman History, books 36-40. Oxford world’s classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780198822882.

Wolf, Markus. Hellenistische Heiligtümer in Kampanien: Sakralarchitektur im Grenzgebiet zwischen Grossgriechenland und Rom. Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Rom, 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. xii, 232. ISBN 9783447119405.

Woolf, Greg, Ilaria Bultrighini, Camilla Norman. Sanctuaries and experience: knowledge, practice and space in the ancient world. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 83. Stuttgart: Frank Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 474. ISBN 9783515133999.