BMCR 2024.07.01

Books received June 2024

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Arcuri, Rosalba. Poteri al confine. Filarchi giudici re tra Impero romano e Barbaricum. Biblioteca tardoantica, 14. Santo Spirito: EdiPuglia, 2023. Pp. 290. ISBN 9791259950420.

Augusto, Diego Piay. Priscillian: the life and death of a Christian dissenter in late antiquity. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2024. Pp. 221. ISBN 9781463245597.

Bardelli, Giacomo. Il “circulo delle fibule” di Sirolo-Numana. Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 163. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2024. Pp. xvi, 467. ISBN 9783969293089.

Benelli, Enrico, Simona Marchesini, Edoardo Middei, Paolo Poccetti. Per una definizione delle lingue e delle culture sabelliche: sguardi incrociati. Linguarum varietas, 11. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 408. ISBN 9788833154565.

Bernstein, Frank. Vergessen als politische Option. Zur Einhegung interner Konflikte in der Antike. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 106. ISBN 9783515135023.

Bertini, Paolo. La lunga notte di Alcinoo. Come e perché è fatta l’Odissea. Riccò del Golfo: Il Filo di Ariana, 2024. Pp. 154. ISBN 9791254750407.

Bertrand, Nicolas, Gregory Nagy, Giampiero Scafoglio, Arnaud Zucker. Homer as a cultural horizon. Philologia antiqua, 16. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023. Pp. 188. ISBN 9788833155272.

Bonnet, Guillaume. Varron. La langue latine. Tome VI: livre X. Collection des universités de France. Série latine – Collection Budé, 441. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. xl, 120. ISBN 9782251015019.

Brecoulaki, Hariclia. Archaeology of colour. Technical art history studies in Greek and Roman painting and polychromy. Meletemata, 87. Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, 2023. Pp. 450. ISBN 9789603710899.

Breuer, Johannes, Jochen Walter. Gewalt in der Antike. Religiöse Ansätze zu ihrer Legitimierung und Delegitimierung. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 26. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 191. ISBN 9783515134507.

Cairns, Douglas, Curie Virág. In the mind, in the body, in the world: emotions in early China and ancient Greece. Emotions of the past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780197681800.

Cau Ontiveros, Miguel Ángel. Las islas Baleares durante la Antigüedad Tardía (siglos III-X). Historia y arqueología. Limina/limites, 13. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 582. ISBN 9781789692365.

Cavalieri, Marco. Da villa tardoantica a cantiere altomedievale. La trasformazione di Aiano (San Gimignano, Siena). Amoenitas, 11. Pisa; Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2022. Pp. 168. ISBN 9788881475445.

Chaintreuil, Ulysse. L’Unité de la forme. L’ontologie d’Aristote et le défi de la complexité. Les anciens et les modernes – études de philosophie, 60. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 380. ISBN 9782406167860.

Charles, David. The history of hylomorphism: from Aristotle to Descartes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780192897664.

Cherstich, Luca. The southern necropolis of Cyrene. Reports, excavations and studies of the Archaeological Unit of the University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, 4. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 500. ISBN 9781803275499.

Cheung, Caroline. Dolia: the containers that made Rome an empire of wine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 344. ISBN 9780691243009.

Cioffi, Robert. Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek novel. Between representation and resistance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780192870537.

Cribiore, Raffaella. Listening to the philosophers: notes on notes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781501774768.

Crofton-Sleigh, Lissa, Brian Beams. Past and future presence: approaches for implementing XR technology in humanities and art education. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2024. Pp. 291. ISBN 9781943208692.

Crummy, Nina, Richard Henry, Nick Griffiths. Double-sided antler and bone combs in late Roman Britain: stylistic groups, context and status. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 116. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 148. ISBN 9781803276441.

DeLaine, Janet. Roman architecture. Oxford history of art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780192842121.

Domouzi, Andriana, Silvio Bär. Artificial intelligence in Greek and Roman epic. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781350260696.

Esu, Alberto. Divided power in ancient Greece: decision-making and institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic polis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198883951.

Ferré, Barbara, Emmanuel Brochier. Thomas D’Aquin. Commentaire du Traité du Ciel d’Aristote. Sagesses médiévales, 27. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 678. ISBN 9782251455747.

Ferris, Iain. A map of the body, a map of the mind: visualising geographical knowledge in the Roman world. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 115. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 338. ISBN 9781803277813.

Fontaine, Michael. How to get over a breakup: an ancient guide to moving on. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 184. ISBN 9780691220307.

Freidin, Anna Bonnell. Birthing Romans: childbearing and its risks in imperial Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780691226279.

Fröhlich, Pierre, Milagros Navarro Caballero. L’épigraphie au XXIe siècle. Actes du XVIe Congrès international d’épigraphie grecque et latine (Bordeaux, 29 août-02 septembre 2022). Scripta antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 438. ISBN 9782356136008.

Gawley, James. Allusions across the language barrier: the poetic techniques of Voltaire and Vergil. Cultures et pratiques savantes du numérique, 3. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 340.

Glas, Eelco. Flavius Josephus’ self-characterisation in first-century Rome. A historiographical analysis of autobiographical discourse in the Judaean War. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 19. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 285. ISBN 9789004697638.

Grassigli, Gian Luca, Niccolò Cecconi, Danilo Nati. Gubbio Guastuglia. Quaderni di Otium. Collana di studi di archeologia e antichità classiche, 7. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2024. Pp. 146. ISBN 9788876893414.

Grillo, Luca. How to make money: an ancient guide to wealth management. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9780691239125.

Hadavas, C. T. Chariton, Callirhoe: an intermediate ancient Greek reader. C. T. Hadavas, 2024. Pp. 519. ISBN 9798327463950.

Hahn, Michael. Laici religiosi. Überwachung, soziale Kontrolle und christliche Identität in der Spätantike. Vestigia, 78. München: C.H. Beck, 2024. Pp. 667. ISBN 9783406815713.

Halliwell, Stephen. Wasps and other plays. Oxford world’s classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 480. ISBN 9780198900221.

Heberlein, Friedrich. Favonius Eulogius: Abhandlung über das Somnium Scipionis. Bibliothek der lateinischen Literatur der Spätantike, 3. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 221. ISBN 9783515135603.

Herbaux, François. Pythéas. Explorateur du Grand Nord. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9782251455280.

Heydemann, Gerda. Cassiodors Psalmenkommentar. Exegese, Politik und die christliche Neuordnung der römischen Welt. Roma aeterna, 15. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 529. ISBN 9783515135924.

Hoer, Alexander. Die Höhenbefestigungen Samniums vom 4.–1. Jh. v. Chr. Eine landschafts- und siedlungsarchäologische Analyse. Zürcher archäologische Forschungen, 12. Basel; Frankfurt am Main: Librum, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9783906897936.

Hoffmann-Salz, Julia, Matthäus Heil, Holger Wienholz. The eastern Roman empire under the Severans. Old connections, new beginnings? Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 9783525302514.

Jaeggi-Richoz, Sandra. La fabrique des bébés dans l’Antiquité. Enquête sur les “biberons” gallo-romains. Generation, 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 745. ISBN 9782503599144.

Jouanna, Jacques, Antonio Ricciardetto, Caroline Noirot. Médecine et tragédie en Grèce antique. Scripta minora 1961-2023. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. xiv, 2862. ISBN 9782251454979.

Kreinecker, Christina M., John S. Kloppenborg, James R. Harrison. Everyday life in Graeco-Roman times. Documentary papyri and the New Testament. Studies in cultural contexts of the Bible, 6. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xlviii, 256. ISBN 9783506794635.

Lazar, Leah. Athenian power in the fifth century BC. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198896265.

Lefebvre, Benoît. Combattre de loin chez les Romains. Réalités et représentations culturelles (Ier siècl a.C.-IIIe siècle p.C.). Scripta antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9782356136022.

Levinson, Bernard M., Robert P. Ericksen. The betrayal of the humanities. The university during the Third Reich. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. Pp. 624. ISBN 9780253060785.

Limoncelli, Massimo, Laura Schepis. Virtual restoration 3.1. Architecture: principles and methods for virtual archaeological reconstruction of ancient monuments. Studia archaeologica, 263. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 386. ISBN 9788891333308.

Lizzi Testa, Rita. Un Occidente rivolto a Est. Dalla fine della dinastia teodosiana alla rovina dell’Italia romana. Saggi di storia antica, 46. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9788891331779.

Ma, John. Polis: a new history of the ancient Greek city-state from the early Iron Age to the end of antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 736. ISBN 9780691155388.

Maiuro, Marco, Jane Botsford Johnson. The Oxford handbook of pre-Roman Italy (1000—49 BCE). Oxford handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 880. ISBN 9780199987894.

Marantou, Eleni. Exploring the sacred landscape of the ancient Peloponnese: cults and sacred places. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 306. ISBN 9781803277714.

Martelli, Matteo, Maria Michela Sassi. Ancient science and technology of colour. Pigments, dyes, drugs and their experience in antiquity. Technai, 13-14. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 384. ISBN 9788833155258.

Mathieu-Colas, Michel. Lexique des divinités grecques et romaines. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. lii, 1322. ISBN 9782251454986.

Mittag, Peter Franz. Römische Medaillons III. Marcus Aurelius und Lucius Verus. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 303. ISBN 9783515136822.

Morlet, Sébastien, Marco Rizzi. Histoire de la littérature grecque chrétienne des origines à 451. Tome V. Du IVᵉ siècle au concile de Chalcédoine (451). L’Égypte et Cyrène. L’Âne d’or, 73. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 626. ISBN 9782251455709.

Nieschler, Anna. Der Borysthenitikos des Dion von Prusa. Einleitung und Kommentar. Palingenesia, 138. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 344. ISBN 9783515136815.

Nieto Izquierdo, Enrique. Prosopographie et onomastique des Épidauriens (Ve s. av. J.-C. – IVe s. apr. J.-C.). Hautes études du monde gréco-romain, 64. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2024. Pp. 760. ISBN 9782600057561.

Nooter, Sarah. How to be queer: an ancient guide to sexuality. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9780691248615.

Orrells, Daniel. Antiquity in print: visualizing Greece in the eighteenth century. New directions in classics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. xii, 356. ISBN 9781350407763.

Panzram, Sabine, Achim Arbeiter, Markus Trunk, Felix Teichner. Noheda. Überschwang der Bilder und hispanisch-spätantike Villenkultur/La opulencia de las imágenes y las grandes “villae” de la Hispania tardoantigua. Iberica selecta, 1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 533. ISBN 9783515136389.

Pirson, Felix, Brigitta Schütt, Thekla Schulz. Micro-regions as spaces of socio-ecological interaction: first milestone workshop of the project “The Transformation of the Pergamon Micro-Region between the Hellenistic and the Roman Imperial Period”, Istanbul 11-12 March 2022. Tagungen und Kongresse, 3. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. Pp. ix, 276. ISBN 9783752008050.

Polverini, Leandro, Arnaldo Marcone. Scritti scelti di storiografia italiana e tedesca sul Mondo Antico tra XIX e XX secolo. Saggi di storia antica, 47. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 590. ISBN 9788891333285.

Pothecary, Sarah. Strabo’s Geography: a translation for the modern world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 1104. ISBN 9780691243139.

Raja, Rubina. Palmyra in perspective. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 11. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. xvi, 270. ISBN 9782503610320.

Roberts, Jennifer T. Out of one, many: ancient Greek ways of thought and culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. xx, 444. ISBN 9780691243856.

Rodríguez-Martín, F. Germán. La industria ósea en la Hispania romana. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 720. ISBN 9781803276656.

Schmid, Stephan G., Will M. Kennedy. The topography of ancient Idalion and its territory. Studia Cyprologica Berolinensia, 2. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2024. Pp. 350. ISBN 9783832553999.

Shipley, D. Graham J. Geographers of the ancient Greek world. Selected texts in translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 1240. ISBN 9781009174893.

Spathi, Maria G., Maria Chidiroglou, Jenny Wallensten. Apotropaia and phylakteria: confronting evil in ancient Greece. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781803277493.

Van der Laan, Sarah. The choice of Odysseus: Homeric ethics in Renaissance epic and opera. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198778295.

Villemur, Patrick. Le monnayage du municipe romain d’Utique (Afrique proconsulaire). Numismatica antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 197. ISBN 9782356135919.

Wilkins, Alan. Roman imperial artillery: outranging the enemies of empire. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 114. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 254. ISBN 9781803277837.

Zanin, Manfredi. L’aristocrazia senatoria e l’egemonia del Mediterraneo. Uno studio sulle forme dell’imperialismo romano nel II secolo a.C. Historia, 274. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 568. ISBN 9783515136310.