Month: November 2025

Books received October 2025

The temporality of festivals: approaches to festive time in ancient Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Medieval China

Anke Walter  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Xianhua Wang, 

Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world

Eleanor Cowan, Tim Parkin  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Nephele Papakonstantinou, 

Pinelli e gli Excerpta de legationibus: l’Ambrosiano G 72 inf.

Francesca Christina Porro  / Genova University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Ciro Giacomelli, 

Màrturi mytho: poésie, histoire et société aux époques imperiale et tardive

Morgane Cariou, Nicola Zito  / Edizioni dell'Orso, 2024

Reviewed by Laura Miguélez-Cavero, 

Greek endowments in the Classical and Hellenistic periods

Sophia Aneziri  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025

Reviewed by Flavio Santini, 

Penelope’s bones: a new history of Homer’s world through the women written out of it

Emily Hauser  / The University of Chicago Press, 2025

Reviewed by Ruth Scodel, 

Plague in antiquity

Andrew Jamieson, Caroline Tully, Louise Hitchcock  / Peeters, 2024

Reviewed by Edmund P. Cueva, 

Public toilets (foricae) and sanitation in the ancient Roman world: case studies in Greece and North Africa

Antonella Patricia Merletto  / BAR Publishing, 2023

Reviewed by Dallas DeForest, 

Die semitischen Personennamen in den griechischen und lateinischen Inschriften aus Syrien und dem Libanon

Giulia Francesca Grassi  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Yang Han, 

A second gaze: intertextuality and transient meaning in Roman texts and objects

Matthias Grawehr, Markus Kersten  / Propylaeum, 2024

Reviewed by Robert A. Rohland, 

Images in transition: the southern Levant and its imagery between Near Eastern and Greek traditions

Silvia Schroer, Patrick Wyssmann  / Peeters, 2024

Reviewed by Noa Ranzer, 

Archaeology of the Mediterranean during late antiquity and the middle ages

Angelo Castrorao Barba, Davide Tanasi, Roberto Miccichè  / University Press of Florida, 2023

Reviewed by Ian Randall, 

Imagines urbis: literarische Raumwahrnehmung der Stadt Rom im ersten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert

Leif Scheuermann  / Computus Druck Satz and Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Maximiliane Gindele, 

Dire remedies: a social history of healthcare in classical antiquity

William V. Harris  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Katherine Petrasek, 

Chasing the idea of completeness: great book collections in the Roman world

Katarzyna Pietruczuk  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Nigel Wilson, 

The conqueror’s gift: Roman ethnography and the end of antiquity

Michael Maas  / Princeton University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Andy Merrills, 

Ancient Bovillae: history, art, and archaeology of a lost city in the Roman hinterland

Peter Hatlie  / University of Michigan Press, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher Smith, 

Aristotele, La Politica: guida

Mirko Canevaro, Cesare Zizza  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2025

Reviewed by Thornton C. Lockwood, 

The small stuff of Roman antiquity

Emily Gowers  / University of California Press, 2025

Reviewed by John F. Donahue,