Month: April 2024

Books received March 2024

Living theatre in the ancient Roman house: theatricalism in the domestic sphere

Richard C. Beacham, Hugh Denard  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by John R. Clarke, 

Theocritus and things: material agency in the Idylls

Lilah Canevaro  / Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Christine Kossaifi, 

Jesus among the gods: early Christology in the Greco-Roman world

Michael F. Bird  / Baylor University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Riemer Roukema, 

Lucretius III: a history of motion

Thomas Nail  / Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Adir de Oliveira Fonseca Junior, 

Reclaiming the past: Argos and its archaeological heritage in the modern era

Jonathan M. Hall  / Cornell University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Christopher Witmore, 

Maximianus’ Elegies: love elegy grew old

Vasileios Pappas  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Kyle Gervais, 

Pax: war and peace in Rome’s golden age

Tom Holland  / Basic Books, 2023

Reviewed by Armin Eich, 

Orthographic traditions and the sub-elite in the Roman empire

Nicholas Zair  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Brent Vine, 

Virgilio: guida all’Eneide

Sergio Casali  / Carocci Editore, 2023

Reviewed by Elena Giusti, 

Humans and their environment: beyond the nature/culture opposition

Claude Calame  / Transnational Press, 2023

Reviewed by David G. Smith, 

Synchronizing the destructions of the Mycenaean palaces

Reinhard Jung, Eleftheria Kardamaki  / Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2022

Reviewed by Trevor Van Damme, 

Gregorios Antiochos: Reden und Briefe

Alexander Sideras  / Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2021

Reviewed by Ugo Mondini, 

Uniformity and regionalism in Latin writing culture of the first millennium C.E.

Rodney Ast, Tino Licht, Julia Lougovaya  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Arturo Moreno Benito, 

Body and machine in classical antiquity

Maria Gerolemou, George Kazantzidis  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Philip D. Bunn, 

Switch: the complete Catullus

Isobel Williams  / Carcanet, 2023

Reviewed by John Godwin, 

Between Miltiades and Moltke: early German studies in Greek military history

Roel Konijnendijk  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Jorit Wintjes, 

Naming and mapping the gods in the ancient Mediterranean: spaces, mobilities, imaginaries

Thomas Galoppin, Elodie Guillon, Max Luaces, Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Sylvain Lebreton, Fabio Porzia, Jörg Rüpke, Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli, Corinne Bonnet  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Hannah B. Smagh, 

Le dialogue de l’Antiquité à l’âge humaniste: péripéties d’un genre dramatique et philosophique

Alice Bonandini, Laurence Boulègue, Giorgio Ieranò  / Classiques Garnier, 2023

Reviewed by Katarzyna Jażdżewska, 

Rehearsals of manhood: Athenian drama as social practice

John J. Winkler, David M. Halperin, Kirk Ormand  / Princeton University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Xavier Buxton,