Month: August 2024

Books received July 2024

The apocalypse of the birds: 1 Enoch and the Jewish revolt against Rome

Elena L. Dugan  / Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Tony Keddie, 

The Spartan scytale and developments in ancient and modern cryptography

Martine Diepenbroek  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Bruce J. Krajewski, 

Ephorus of Cyme and Greek historiography

Giovanni Parmeggiani  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Craige Champion, 

Exemplarisches Krisenwissen: Gender in Narrativ und Narration des frühen Prinzipats

Tim Helmke  / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023

Reviewed by Simon Lentzsch, 

Plato’s Charmides

Raphael Woolf  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Peter Aronoff, 

Death of the Covenant Code: capital punishment in old Greek Exodus in light of Greco-Egyptian law

Joel Korytko  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Dries De Crom, 

Theocritus: space, absence, and desire

William G. Thalmann  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Marco Fantuzzi, 

Les cités grecques face à l’imperium Romanum

Clément Bady, Olga Boubounelle, Alexandre Vlamos  / Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023

Reviewed by Alfredo Tosques, 

Saeculum: defining historical eras in ancient Roman thought

Paul Hay  / University of Texas Press, 2023

Reviewed by Tom Baarda, 

Le combat de cavalerie dans le monde romain

Maxime Petitjean  / Peeters, 2022

Reviewed by Anna Busetto, 

Die Konstruktion der ‘Anderen’: Barbarenbilder in den Briefen des Sidonius Apollinaris

Veronika Egetenmeyr  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Nikolas Hächler, 

Essays on Jews and Christians in late antiquity in honour of Oded Irshai

Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Martin Goodman  / Brepols, 2023

Reviewed by Andrew S. Jacobs, 

Greek fire, poison arrows, and scorpion bombs: unconventional warfare in the ancient world

Adrienne Mayor  / Princeton University Press, 2022

Reviewed by C. Jacob Butera, 

Sulle orme dell’Iliade: riflessi dell’eroismo omerico nell’epica d’età flavia

Francesco Cannizzaro  / Società editrice fiorentina, 2023

Reviewed by Elina Pyy, 

Municipal freedmen and intergenerational social mobility in Roman Italy

Jeffrey A. Easton  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Pedro López Barja, 

In blood and ashes: curse tablets and binding spells in ancient Greece

Jessica L. Lamont  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Martin Dreher, 

Music: antiquity and its legacy

Eleonora Rocconi  / Bloomsbury, 2023

Reviewed by Manolis Mikrakis, 

Anecdotes artistiques chez Pline l’Ancien: la constitution d’un discours romain sur l’art

Valérie Naas  / Sorbonne Université Presses, 2023

Reviewed by Christopher Allen, 

Vergil and elegy

Alison Keith, Micah Y. Myers  / University of Toronto Press, 2023

Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono,