BMCR 2024.12.01

Books received November 2024

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Abad Del Vecchio, Julene. The dark side of Statius’ Achilleid: epic distorted. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780198895206.

Ajello Mahler, Guendalina. Monumental transformations: reuse, adaptation and the evolution of Rome’s theaters after antiquity. Architecture and the arts in early modern Italy, 4. Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2024. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781909400542.

Alván León, Alexandra V. Der Intellekt als vollkommene Potenz: Rezeption und Umdeutung der aristotelischen Nuslehre bei Alexander von Aphrodisias. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, 11. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 266. ISBN 9783111441993.

Antela-Bernárdez, Borja, Marc Mendoza. Elite women in Hellenistic history, historiography, and reception. Women of the past, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 172. ISBN 9782503611068.

Atack, Carol. Plato: a civic life. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781789149463.

Bakogianni, Anastasia, Luis Unceta Gómez. Classical reception: new challenges in a changing world. Trends in classics pathways of reception, 9. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xiv, 419. ISBN 9783110773385.

Becker, Eve-Marie, Alfons Fürst. Brief und Bildung: von der Antike bis zur Moderne. Epistula – studies on ancient letter writing, 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. ix, 444. ISBN 9783110742299.

Blanc, Nicole, Marie-Thérèse Camus, Hélène Eristov, Marie-Christine Fayant, Delphine Lauritzen. Dire le décor antique: textes grecs et latins au miroir des realia (IIIe s. av.–VIIIe s. ap. J.–C.). Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 1588. ISBN 9782251456140.

Bocholier, Julien. Les Héraclides d’Euripide. Edition, traduction et commentaire. Études anciennes, 163. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 640. ISBN 9782251456287.

Bologna, Francesca. Painting Pompeii: painters, practices, and organization. Studies in classical archaeology, 14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. xvi, 120. ISBN 9782503611198.

Brentjes, Rana, Sonja Brentjes, Stamantina Mastorakou, Dagmar Schäfer. Imagining the heavens across Eurasia from antiquity to early modernity. Havertown, PA: Mimesis International, 2024. Pp. 750. ISBN 9788869774256.

Castelnérac, Benoît, Luca Gili, Laetitia Monteils-Laeng. Foreign influences: the circulation of knowledge in antiquity. Philosophie hellénistique et romaine, 16. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9782503598956.

Chandezon, Christophe, Bruno D’Andrea, Armelle Gardeisen. Circulations animales et zoogéographie en Méditerranée (Xe siècle av.-Ier siècle J.-C. apr. J.-C.). Études méditerranéennes, 9. Rome: École française de Rome, 2024. Pp. 688. ISBN 9782728318087.

Civitillo, Matilde, Silvia Ferrara, Torsten Meissner. Cretan hieroglyphic. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781009490108.

Coda, Elisa. Themistius and Aristotle: teaching philosophy from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. Philosophy in the Abrahamic traditions of the Middle Ages, 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 302. ISBN 9782503581644.

Colella, Lucia C. I testamenti dei cittadini romani d’Egitto tra storia sociale e prassi giuridica: dal I secolo d.C. a Severo Alessandro. Philippika, 178. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. Pp. xvi, 438. ISBN 9783447121613.

Cowan, Eleanor, Tim Parkin. Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 66.2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 174. ISSN 00760730.

Csepregi, Ildikó. Incubation in early Byzantium: the formation of Christian incubation cults and miracle collections. Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, 41. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9782503606606.

Curbera, Jaime. Inscriptiones Graecae II/III: Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Fasciculus 1: defixiones Atticae. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xiv, 462. ISBN 9783111335780.

De Maddalena, Linda. Riserva di gradimento nella compravendita. Diritto romano e tradizione romanistica. Studi e ricerche. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2024. Pp. 130. ISBN 9788855131742.

Destephen, Sylvain. Du Christianisme et des hommes dans l’Antiquité Tardive. Essais de prosopographie. Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes – Sciences religieuses, 202. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9782503610887.

Fischer, André Manuel. Ars Metrica. Formen der Vermittlung in der antiken Vers- und Prosodielehre. Palingenesia, 140. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9783515137348.

Freiberg, Cassandra. Discourse pragmatics and prosodic reconstruction: a new approach to prosodic structure in Herodotus’ Histories and beyond. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. Pp. 364. ISBN 9783752007619.

Hall, Edith. Aeschylus: Agamemnon. Aris and Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. Pp. 560. ISBN 9781800856288.

Harrisson, Juliette, Martin Lindner, Luis Unceta Gómez. Playful classics: classical reception as a creative process. Imagines classical receptions in the visual and performing arts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350418622.

Hornblower, Simon. Hannibal and Scipio: parallel lives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 528. ISBN 9781009453356.

Hudson, Nicholas. Dining at the end of antiquity: class, status, and identity at Roman tables. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. Pp. 373. ISBN 9780520391451.

Hyland, John, Khodadad Rezakhani. Brill’s companion to war in the ancient Iranian empires. Brill’s companions in classical studies. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xvii, 682. ISBN 9789004708211.

Ismard, Paulin, Arnaud Macé. La cité et le nombre. Clisthène d’Athènes, l’arithmétique et l’avènement de la démocratie. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 206. ISBN 9782251456393.

Kamesar, Adam. Philo of Alexandria: Quod deterius potiori insidiari soleat. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 700. ISBN 9781009234795.

Kelting, Edward William. Egyptian things: translating Egypt to early imperial Rome. Oakland: University of California, 2024. Pp. 260. ISBN 9780520402188.

Lambert, Danielle Hyeonah. Decolonizing Roman imperialism: the study of Rome, romanization, and the postcolonial lens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 238. ISBN 9781009491020.

Lange, Ralph. Leading Rome from a distance: asserting autocracy through absence, 300 BCE-37 CE. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781350325401.

López Sánchez, Fernando, Marisa Bueno, David Martínez Chico. Coins, riches, and lands: paying for military manpower in antiquity and early medieval times. Oxford: Oxbow, 2024. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781789259902.

Malosse, Pierre-Louis, Bernard Schouler, Catherine Bry. Libanios. Apologie de Socrate suivie de Socrate condamné au silence. Collection des universités de France Série grecque – Collection Budé, 577. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 304. ISBN 9782251006635.

Manuwald, Gesine. Cicero: De Re Publica. Aris and Phillips Classical Texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. Pp. 664. ISBN 9781802074420.

Marongiu, Laura. “Un piccolo esempio”. La psicagogia matematica di Platone. Brill’s Plato studies series, 18. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 224. ISBN 9789004701489.

Martorana, Simona. Seeking the mothers in Ovid’s Heroides. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 294. ISBN 9781501777066.

Masi, Francesca, Morel Pierre-Marie, Francesco Verde. Epicureanism and scientific debates. Epicurean tradition and its ancient reception. Volume II. Epistemology and ethics. Ancient and medieval philosophy – series 1. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024. Pp. 300. ISBN 9789462704374.

McInerney, Jeremy. Centaurs and snake-kings: hybrids and the Greek imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781009459105.

Mecci, Stefano. Cinismo e Cristianesimo delle origini. Monothéismes et philosophie, 34. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 236. ISBN 9782503607535.

Meunier, Nicolas, Bernard Mineo. Tite-Live et la mise en scène de l’histoire. La construction narrative du conflit patricio-plébéien. Études anciennes, 89. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9782251455877.

Michels, Christoph, Hans Beck, Achim Lichtenberger. The same, but different? Monarchical rule and representation in the Hellenistic world. Studies in ancient monarchies, 11. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 693. ISBN 9783515136365.

Moscone, Sara. Pro veritate historiae: Flavio Giuseppe e le fonti ebraiche nell’Historia Scholastica di Pietro Comestore. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2024. Pp. 287. ISBN 9783796552021.

Morlet, Sébastien. Eusèbe de Césarée et la philosophie. Christianisme et philosophie en Palestine au tournant du IVe siècle de notre ère. Semitica et Classica. Supplementa, 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 267. ISBN 9782503614762.

Munro, Beth. Recycling the Roman villa: material salvage and the medieval circular economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 278. ISBN 9781009475587.

Nazarian-Trochet, Marlène. Chasseurs étrusques. Archéologie et culture. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024. Pp. 142. ISBN 9782753598478.

Nicastro, Nicholas. Archimedes: fulcrum of science. Great lives of the ancient world. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781789149227.

Niesiołowski-Spano, Łukasz, Kacper Ziemba, Christophe Nihan. Contact zones in the eastern Mediterranean. Judeans and their neighbours in intercultural contexts: places, middlemen, transcultural contacts—sixth to second century BCE. Mundus orientis, 5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 252. ISBN 9783525522202.

Peluso, Lavinia. Thomas Hobbes. Saggi su storia e politica: i “Tre Discorsi e l’ “Introduzione a Tucidide. Archivio Thomas Hobbes. Testi e studi, 1. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2024. Pp. xxxviii, 176. ISBN 9788822269560.

Pitz, Zoé. Le bestiaire sacrificiel dans les normes rituelles grecques. Kernos supplément 43. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2024. Pp. 322. ISBN 9782875624147.

Porro, Francesca Christina. Pinelli e gli Excerpta de legationibus: l’Ambrosiano G 72 inf. Testi dell’Oriente greco tardoantico e bizantino, 3. Genova: Genova University Press, 2023. Pp. 167. ISBN 9788836182411.

Prescendi, Francesca, Françoise Van Haeperen. Petits dieux des Romains et leurs voisins. Enquête comparatiste sur les hiérarchies divines dans les cultures romaines, italiques et grecques. Bibliothèque de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes—Sciences religieuses, 206. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 451. ISBN 9782503611518.

Rempe, Niklas. Nomoi: soziale Normen und Gesetze der griechischen Welt bis 450 v. Chr. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 29. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 9783515137454.

Riedweg, Christoph, Riccarda Schmid, Andreas Victor Walser. Demokratie und Populismus in der griechischen Antike und heute: Akten der ersten internationalen Tagung des ZAZH – Zentrum Altertumswissenschaften Zürich, UZH 2020. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. ix, 512. ISBN 9783111323558.

Schadee, Hester, Keith Sidwell, David Rundle. Poggio Bracciolini, Guarino of Verona, Pietro del Monte: On Leaders and Tyrants. The I Tatti Renaissance library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. Pp. 624. ISBN 9780674297128.

Scheuermann, Leif. Imagines urbis: literarische Raumwahrnehmung der Stadt Rom im ersten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert. Gutenberg: Computus Druck Satz and Verlag, 2024. Pp. 460. ISBN 9783940598585.

Schlesier, Renate. Mischungen beim antiken Gelage. Reflexionen des frühgriechischen Symposions. Münchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten, 7. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 157. ISBN 9783111416748.

Schliephake, Christopher, Gregor Weber. Deutungskämpfe um die antike Divination im Spiegel spätrepublikanischer und kaiserzeitlicher Texte. Historische Zeitschrift – Beihefte, 81. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 250. ISBN 9783110728170.

Schwitter, Raphael. Antiquarianismus in Rom: 2. Jhd. v. Chr.–3. Jhd. n. Chr. Mnemosyne, 484. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xii, 576. ISBN 9789004705876.

Shaw, Elizabeth. Roman feet and shoes. The cultural significance of feet, footwear, and their representations in the north-western provinces. BAR-IS, 3186. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2024. Pp. 194. ISBN 9781407361543.

Selinger, Reinhard. Decius. Ein roemischer Kaiser zwischen Tradition und Restauration. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2024. Pp. 252. ISBN 9783631913628.

Steinhart, Matthias. Die Verlebendigung der Welt: geographische weibliche Personifikationen bei Claudian. Ikonographie, Poetik und Politik in der Spätantike. Paradeigmata. Baden-Baden: Rombach, 2024. Pp. 107. ISBN 9783988580818.

Stock, Wiebke-Marie. Plotinus on what we think we are. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 34. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. viii, 186. ISBN 9789004678644.

Tichy, Eva. Ilias diachronica. Sprachgeschichtliche Textbearbeitung und unitarische Analyse. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. liv, 1054. ISBN 9783525302958.

Ulrich, Jeffrey P. Shadow of an ass: philosophical choice and aesthetic experience in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 9780472133567.

Vafea, Flora. The Risāla Dhāt al-kursī attributed to Ptolemy: treatise on the celestial globe with stand. Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus – texts, 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. xii, 245. ISBN 9782503602226.

Verrico, Francesco. Governare l’emergenza. Sulla gestione senatoria di “interregnum”, “dictatura” e “prorogatio imperii” (V-III sec. a.C.). Acta Senatus B. Studien und Materialien, 16. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 337. ISBN 9783515138079.

Volk, Katharina, James E.G. Zetzel. Cicero. Laelius de Amicitia. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781108832250.

Wilson, Andrew, Ben Russell. The ‘Place of Palms’: An urban park at Aphrodisias. Results of The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project. Aphrodisias, 14. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. Pp. 464. ISBN 9783752006926.

Zachhuber, Juliane. Religious life in late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780198897422.