Month: March 2024

Books received February 2024

The Tacitus encyclopedia

Victoria Emma Pagán  / Wiley Blackwell, 2023

Reviewed by David Woods, 

Homer and his Iliad

Robin Lane Fox  / Basic Books, 2023

Reviewed by Richard Janko, 

Gods and mortals: ancient Greek myths for modern readers

Sarah Iles Johnston  / Princeton University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Jacqueline Klooster, 

On the diffusion of zoological knowledge in late antiquity and the Byzantine period

Oliver Hellmann, Arnaud Zucker  / Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2023

Reviewed by Tristan Schmidt, 

The Babylonian Talmud and late antique book culture

Monika Amsler  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Noah Benjamin Bickart, 

Ovids Ars Amatoria und Remedia Amoris im Licht ihrer Rezeption: Rollenspiele erotodidaktischer Kommunikation

Jan Michael König  / WBG Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Ulrich Schmitzer, 

ΘΕΑΤΡΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΖΩΗ: estudios de teatro griego en honor de la profesora Milagros Quijada Sagredo

M. Carmen Encinas Reguero, Javier Bilbao Ruiz  / Ediciones Clásicas, 2021

Reviewed by Leyla Ozbek, 

Interamna Lirenas: a Roman town in central Italy revealed

Alessandro Launaro, Martin Millett  / McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2023

Reviewed by Elizabeth Fentress, 

Imperialer Wandel und ptolemäischer Imperialismus in Syrien. Konnektivität, Konkurrenz und Kooperation

Ole Johannsen  / Brill; Schöningh, 2023

Reviewed by Achim Lichtenberger, 

The position of Roman slaves: social realities and legal differences

Martin Schermaier  / de Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Francesca Reduzzi, 

Classics at primary school: a tool for social justice

Evelien Bracke  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Garrett Dome, 

Sport: antiquity and its legacy

Peter J. Miller  / Bloomsbury, 2023

Reviewed by Christian Mann, 

La seconda epistola ad Ammeo di Dionigi di Alicarnasso: studi sulla tradizione manoscritta

Alessandra Palla  / Reichert Verlag, 2023

Reviewed by Ciro Giacomelli, 

Arete and the Odyssey’s poetics of interrogation: the queen and her question

Justin Arft  / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Adrian Kelly, 

Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: the last pharaoh and ecclesiastical politics in the later Roman empire

Volker L. Menze  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Colin Behrens, 

Early Greek epic: language, interpretation, performance

Christos Tsagalis  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Laura Lulli, 

Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers: the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean

Anna M. Sitz  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Gabriel Gabbardo, 

Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers: the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean

Anna M. Sitz  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by David Ungvary, 

Mediterranean timescapes: chronological age and cultural practice in the Roman empire

Ray Laurence, Francesco Trifilò  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Ulrike Roth,