BMCR 2024.10.01

Books received September 2024

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Ahn, Johann Franz, Peter Henn, Claude Pavur. Compact key Latin vocabularies. Claude Pavur, 2024. Pp. 282. ISBN 9798333763044.

Battistella, Florian. Kaisertum und Kolonat. Untersuchungen zur Agrargesetzgebung Justinians und zu ihrem Kontext. Roma aeterna, 14. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 484. ISBN 9783515136273.

Bavuso, Irene, Guido Furlan, Emanuele E. Intagliata, Julia Steding. Economic circularity in the Roman and early medieval worlds: new perspectives on invisible agents and dynamics. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2023. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781789259964.

Blank, Thomas. Religiöse Geheimniskommunikation in der Mittleren und Späten Römischen Republik. Separatheit, gesellschaftliche Öffentlichkeit und zivisches Ordnungshandeln. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 82. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 648. ISBN 9783515133869.

Blouin, Katherine, Ben Akrigg. The Routledge handbook of classics, colonialism, and postcolonial theory. Routledge handbooks of classics and theory. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 700. ISBN 9780367555481.

Brodersen, Isidor. Das Spiel mit der Vergangenheit in der Zweiten Sophistik. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 86. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 244. ISBN 9783515135344.

Bullen, David, Christine Plastow. Greek tragedy, education, and theatre practices in the UK classics ecology. Classics in and out of the academy. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 142. ISBN 9781032256788.

Castel, Jean-Pierre, Jean-Claude Simard. La mathématisation du temps: de la science hellénistique à la science moderne. Zêtêsis. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2024. Pp. 551. ISBN 9782766303885.

Cavarzere, Alberto. Martianus Capella. De nuptiis Philologiae. Vol. IV, Liber V: De Rhetorica. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2024. Pp. 696. ISBN 9783615004700.

Claudiano, Claudio, Vicente Flores Militello. El consulado de Estilicón. Coyoacán: Libros Unam, 2023. Pp. 482. ISBN 9786073084376.

Corradi, Michele, Lorenzo Ferroni. Περὶ ἐπῶν δεινὸν εἶναι. Prospettive filologico-letterarie sul Protagora di Platone. Diotima, 11. Baden-Baden: Academia, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9783985721214.

Culman, Leonard, Charles Hoole, Claude Pavur. Smart Latin: maxims for mastery. Claude Pavur, 2024. Pp. 194. ISBN 9798333669186.

Degen, Julian, Hilmar Klinkott, Robert Rollinger, Kai Ruffing, Brigitte Truschnegg. Ancient worlds in perspective: contextualizing Herodotus. Philippika, 150. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. Pp. vi, 284. ISBN 9783447121330.

Deleville, Prunelle, Marylène Possamaï-Pérez. Ovide moralisé. Livre I. Moyen âge en traduction, 15. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 121. ISBN 9782406172642.

Fant, J. Clayton, Leah E. Long, Lynley J. McAlpine. Roman decorative stone collections in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Kelsey Museum studies, 10. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. Pp. 282. ISBN 9780472131952.

Forsén, Björn, Antti Lampinen. Oriental mirages: stereotypes and identity creation in the ancient world. Oriens et occidens, 42. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 341. ISBN 9783515136723.

Freas, Debra, Andrew Zissos. Selections from Petronius, The Satyrica: The Tales of Eumolpus. Bloomsbury classical languages. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781350341289.

Gartmann, Thomas. Stürme – Seuchen – Spekulanten. Versorgungsprobleme im antiken Rom und ihre angeblichen Ursachen. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2024. Pp. 460. ISBN 9783796551758.

González-Villaescusa, Ricardo. Cities and territories of the western Roman Empire: 4th century BC to the 3rd century AD. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 120. ISBN 9781032586250.

Hart, Timothy C. Beyond the river, under the eye of Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 9780472133536.

Jazwa, Kyle A. The tiled-roof phenomenon in early Helladic Greece: evidence from Zygouries. Hesperia supplement, 53. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780876615553.

Joyce, Christopher J. Amnesty and reconciliation in late fifth-century Athens: the rule of law under restored democracy. New approaches to Ancient Greek institutional history. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781399506342.

Kilgallon, Silvie, Fiona Mitchell. Time and chronology in creation narratives. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. xii, 146. ISBN 9780367481667.

Kim, Patricia Eunji, Anastasia Tchaplyghine. Queens in antiquity and the present: speculative visions and critical histories. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781350380882.

Kitchell, Jr., Kenneth F. They did it first: the skills of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2024. Pp. xvi, 238. ISBN 9780865168848.

Lanier, John, Ella Blanco, Suran Gao, Kabir Blake Gupta, Sabine Mazzeo, Khensa Musaddequr Rahman, April Wen, Mattia Gianluca Worster. Gergovia. Caesar’s Gallic War VII 29-62. Williamsburg, VA: Pixelia Publishing, 2024. Pp. 169. ISBN 9781737033042.

Le Quéré, Enora. Le monde grec des foulons. Histoire et archéologie d’un métier du textile dans l’Orient grec. Archaiologia. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 9782757441947.

Longley, Georgina. Herodotus: book III. Greek texts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781350282803.

Lucio Cristante, Vanni Veronesi. Martianus Capella. De nuptiis Philologiae. Vol. 5, Liber VI: De Geometria. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2023. Pp. cxii, 517. ISBN 9783615004588.

Machado, Carlos, Rowan Munnery, Rebecca Sweetman. Lived spaces in late antiquity. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 354. ISBN 9781138385306.

Machek, David, Vladimír Mikeš. Plato’s Gorgias: speech, soul and politics. Brill’s Plato studies series, 17. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. x, 241. ISBN 9789004699052.

Männlein, Irmgard. Mystik und Allegorese: der Platoniker Porphyrios über Götterstatuen (Περὶ ἀγαλμάτων). Eine Studie zur spätantiken Religionsphilosophie. Roma aeterna, 16. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp.339. ISBN 9783515135177.

Marchesi, Ilaria. Women in Martial: a semiotic reading. Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198920304.

Marinis, Agis. Poetics and religion in Pindar: ambits of performance and cult. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 222. ISBN 9781138090170.

Mazza, Roberta. Stolen fragments: black markets, bad faith, and the illicit trade in ancient artefacts. Stanford: Redwood Press, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781503632509.

McCarter, Stephanie A. Women in power: classical myths and stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra. New York: Penguin Classics, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780143136361.

Meens, Anna, Margarita Nazou, Winfred van de Put. Fields, sherds and scholars: recording and interpreting survey ceramics. Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens, 9. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2023. Pp. 170. ISBN 9789464262100.

Monaco, Chiara, Robert Machado, Eleni Bozia. Redefining the standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism. Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 6. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xiv, 342. ISBN 9789004682993.

Ogden, Daniel. The tyrants of Corinth: legends of Cypselus and Periander. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. xiii, 270. ISBN 9781032778433.

Pachoumi, Eleni. Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art According to the Greeks. Critical edition with translation and commentary. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 33. Brill: Leiden, 2024. Pp. xiv, 200. ISBN 9789004697546.

Pavur, Claude. Catiline’s war. Claude Pavur, 2024. Pp. 252. ISBN 9798322917205.

Pavur, Claude. Learn Latin with Seneca: an acceleration reader with pari passu translation. Claude Pavur, 2024. Pp. 308. ISBN 9798880445882.

Prata, Ana Filipa, Rodrigo Verano. Medea’s long shadow in postcolonial contexts. Classics and the postcolonial. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 244. ISBN 9781032261119.

Quiroga Puertas, Alberto J., Leire Olabarria. The ancient world in alternative history and counterfactual fictions. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781350281622.

Ready, Jonathan L. The Oxford critical guide to Homer’s Iliad. Oxford critical guides. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198869870.

Rollinger, Christian. Zeremoniell und Herrschaft in der Spätantike. Die Rituale des Kaiserhofs in Konstantinopel. Historia – Einzelschriften, 275. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 811. ISBN 9783515136358.

Roux, Sylvain. La philosophie antique comme exercice spirituel? Un paradigme en question. Anagôgê. Paris: Les Belles lettres, 2024. Pp. 230. ISBN 9782251456034.

Sarti, Laury. Orbis Romanus: Byzantium and the legacy of Rome in the Carolingian world. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 424. ISBN 9780197746523.

Schmidt, Laura C., Anja Rutter, Lutz Käppel, Oliver Nakoinz. Mediterranean connections: how the sea links people and transforms identities. Scales of transformation, 18. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2023. Pp. 236. ISBN 9789464270709.

Schusser, Theresia. Christliche religiöse Gewalt im spätantiken Ägypten: hagiographische Schriften im Fokus kultur-und mentalitätsgeschichtlicher Fragestellungen. Ägypten und Altes Testament. Münster: Zaphon, 2023. Pp. 170. ISBN 9783963272349.

Singer, P. N., Ralph M. Rosen. The Oxford handbook of Galen. Oxford handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 752. ISBN 9780190913687.

Spencer, Lindsay C. Lerna. Volume IX: the Middle Helladic pottery. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 944. ISBN 9780876613092.

Stafford, Emma. Hercules performed: the hero on stage from the Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century. Metaforms, 25. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxvi, 390. ISBN 9789004695757.

Stróżyński, Mateusz. The human tragicomedy: the reception of Apuleius’ Golden Ass in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Metaforms. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. vi, 243. ISBN 9789004695832.

Teverson, Richard. Visions of the future in Roman frontier kingdoms 100 BCE-100 CE. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781032544298.

Tsiampokalos, Theofanis. Plutarch and rhetoric: the relationship of rhetoric to ethics, politics and education in the first and second centuries AD. Plutarchea hypomnemata. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9789462704190.

Turner, Aaron. Heidegger and classical thought. SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024. Pp. 437. ISBN 9781438499062.

Urciuoli, Emiliano Rubens. Citifying Jesus: the making of an urban religion in the Roman empire. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 520. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. Pp. x, 309. ISBN 9783161623714.

Vachon, David. La théurgie et la mystagogie dans la philosophie de Proclus: statut, rôle, implications. Zêtêsis. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2024. Pp. 376. ISBN 9782766303670.

Vladerack, Christoph, Claude Pavur. Selectissimae: Latin phrases for mastery. Claude Pavur, 2024. Pp. 270. ISBN 9798334750753.

Vogel, Moritz. Platons Philosophie der Zahlen. Eine systematische Rekonstruktion anhand der Dialoge Platons und der Pragmatien des Aristoteles. Academia philosophical studies, 87. Baden-Baden: Academia, 2024. Pp. 308. ISBN 9783985721849.

Wiles, David. Democracy, theatre and performance: from the Greeks to Gandhi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781009167994.

Ziebuhr, Albrecht. Die Exkurse im Geschichtswerk des Prokopios von Kaisareia: Literarische Tradition und spätantike Gegenwart in klassizistischer Historiographie. Hermes – Einzelschriften, 126. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 258. ISBN 9783515136709.