BMCR 2025.04.01

Books received March 2025

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Acharya, Amitav, Manjeet Singh Pardesi. Divergent worlds: what the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean can tell us about the future of international order. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. viii, 235. ISBN 9780300214987.

Araújo, Carolina. Plato’s power. Studies on the interaction of art, thought and power. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 315. ISBN 9789004712881.

Ballesteros, Bernardo. Divine assemblies in early Greek and Babylonian epic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780198924593.

Beaujard, Emmanuel, Paul Pietquin, Toon Van Hal, Claude Obsomer. “Un riche pâturage de mots”: études d’hippiatrie, de linguistique, d’histoire et de culture classiques offertes à Anne-Marie Doyen et à Herman Seldeslachts à l’occasion de leur éméritat. Collection d’études classiques. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. viii, 509. ISBN 9789042954434.

Birk, Ralph, Lauren Coulon. The Thebaid in times of crisis: revolt and response in Ptolemaic Egypt. Chronoi. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 372. ISBN 9783111607849.

Bond, Sarah E. Strike: labor, unions, and resistance in the Roman Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. xi, 254. ISBN 9780300273144.

Bothorel, Julie, Frédéric Hurlet. Le tirage au sort dans l’Antiquité: du monde grec à Rome. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2025. Pp. 346. ISBN 9782356680884.

Burgersdijk, Diederik, Fokke Albert Gerritsen, Willemijn Waal. Constantinople through the ages: the visible city from its foundation to contemporary Istanbul. Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xv, 447. ISBN 9789004710979.

Cabanes, Pierre. Épire et Illyrie méridionale dans l’Antiquité: opera selecta. BCH Supplément, 68. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2024. Pp. xxxi, 1737. ISBN 9782869586437.

Carè, Barbara, Véronique Dasen, Ulrich Schädler. Back to the game: reframing play and games in context. Board Game Studies Journal, 16.1. Lisbon: Associação Ludus, 2022. Pp. 432. ISBN 9798482581698.

Carlà-Uhink, Filippo, Eike Faber. Corruption in the Graeco-Roman world: re-reading the sources. Twisted transfers, 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. pp. xviii, 344. ISBN 9783111338606.

Christensen, Joel P. Storylife: on epic, narrative, and living things. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. 248. ISBN 9780300269239.

Cipolla, Paolo Biagio. Aeschylus’ satyric Prometheus. Fragmentary Greek drama. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 134. ISBN 9788891334350.

Coray, Marina, Martha Krieter-Spiro, Benjamin Millis, Sara Strack. Homer’s Iliad: the Basel commentary. Book XXI. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xv, 337. ISBN 9783111090856.

Crawford-Brown, Sophie. Religious architecture and Roman expansion: temples, terracottas, and the shaping of identity, 3rd-1st c. BCE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781009445115.

D’Amicis, Amelia. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Italia, LXXXVIII. Ceramica sovraddipinta “Di Gnathia”. Taranto – Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Fascicolo V. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 188. ISBN 9788891334619.

Delucchi, Martina. Imagining Telephus: a Greek myth across cultures in the ancient Mediterranean. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 227. ISBN 9783111349893.

Di Bello, Michele. Euripides’ Peliades. Fragmentary Greek drama. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 162. ISBN 9788891334404.

Di Mambro, Sofia. Nicomaco di Gerasa, Manuale di Armonica. Edizione critica, traduzione, commento. Mathematica Graeca antiqua, 5. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra, 2025. Pp. 312. ISBN 9788833154909.

Dohmann, Heike, Peter Pfälzner, Conrad Schmidt. Der Königsgruftkomplex von Qaṭna. Teil 2: Die Grabkammern. Befund, Kontextualisierung, Interpretation. Qatna Studien. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. Pp. lxvi, 721. ISBN 9783447122788.

Duncan, A. C. Ugly productions: an aesthetics of Greek drama. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025. Pp. 292. ISBN 9780472133598.

Franklinos, T. E. Propertius’ Cynthia: the book as beloved. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198940234.

Föllinger, Sabine. Begründen und Erklären im antiken Denken: Akten des 7. Kongresses der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie 2022. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. x, 558. ISBN 9783111413112.

Fürst, Alfons. Origeniana tertia decima. Origen and philosophy: a complex relation. Proceedings of the 13th International Origen Congress, Münster, 15-19 August, 2022. Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. xiii, 865. ISBN 9789042953512.

Gassner, Verena, Friedrich Krinzinger, Alexander Sokolicek. 1971-2021: 50 anni di ricerche Austriache a Velia. Vienna: Phoibos Verlag, 2023. Pp. 294. ISBN 9783851612851.

Georges-Zimmermann, Patrice, Paul Bailet, Cécile Harlaut, Raymond Boyer. La crémation antique à Alexandrie: de la fouille des urnes à la restitution des pratiques funéraires. Etudes alexandrines. Alexandria: Centre d’Études Alexandrines, 2023. Pp. viii, 611. ISBN 9782490128280.

Gianvittorio-Ungar, Laura. Narratives at play in Aeschylus: perspectives on genre and poetics. Mnemosyne supplements, 491. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. viii, 298. ISBN 9789004715790.

Glauthier, Patrick. The scientific sublime in imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 312. ISBN 9780197787557.

González Soutelo, Silvia. Thermalism in the Roman provinces: the role of medicinal mineral waters across the empire. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. iv, 221. ISBN 9781803277752.

Guédon, Stéphanie. Juba II: l’Afrique au défi de Rome. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. 180. ISBN 9782251456690.

Hall, Edith. Epic of the earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the fight for a dying world. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9780300275582.

Hallmannsecker, Martin, Anna Heller. The Oxford handbook of Greek cities in the Roman empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 824. ISBN 9780192870933.

Hatlie, Peter. Ancient Bovillae: history, art, and archaeology of a lost city in the Roman hinterland. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025. Pp. xviii, 396. ISBN 9780472133543.

Havrda, Matyáš, Pauline Koetschet. Galen, “On Demonstration”: reconstruction of a lost treatise from Greek and Arabic sources. Scientia Graeco-Arabica. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 244. ISBN 9783119149891.

Jagannathan, Dhananjay. Aristotle’s practical epistemology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. xiii, 200. ISBN 9780197781487.

Jansen, Gemma C. M., Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Richard Neudecker. Sixty-six toilets and urinals in the ancient city of Rome: sanitary, urbanistic, and social agency. Babesch Supplements. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. xii, 322. ISBN 9789042953376.

Janssen, K. P. S. Marginalized religion and the law in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780192856104.

Johne, Klaus-Peter. Die Markomannen und ihre Nachbarn: Germanen an der Peripherie des Römischen Reiches. RAW. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2025. Pp. 230. ISBN 9783170377172.

Jones, Janet Duncan. Gordion glass vessels. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2025. Pp. xvi, 256. ISBN 9781949057294.

Kimmel-Clauzet, Flore. Définir l’épopée en Grèce ancienne: Contribution à une histoire de l’idée d’épopée d’Hérodote à Tzetzès. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2024. Pp. 273. ISBN 9782356680891.

Lacovara, Peter. A legacy of learning in Near Eastern archaeology: centennial studies in memory of Helene J. Kantor. Bicester: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 166. ISBN 9781803279299.

Lenk, Stefanie. Roman identity and lived religion: baptismal art in late antiquity. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xxxi, 248 pages. ISBN 9781009408653.

Linder, Margit, Werner Petermandl, Christoph Schäfer, Leif Scheuermann. Libens laetus merito: Festschrift für Wolfgang Spickermann zum 65. Geburtstag. Philippika. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. Pp. x, 342. ISBN 9783447122085.

Łuć, Ireneusz. Roman military tribunes (first century BC to third century AD): a historical and prosopographical study. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 396. ISBN 9781803278537.

Martin, Thomas R. Phocion: good citizen in a divided democracy. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii, 200. ISBN 9780300256635.

Martorana, Simona. Il “Romulus” della “Recensio Gallicana”. Fabula. Fables from antiquity to modern times, 3. Florence: Sismel, 2024. Pp. viii, 252. ISBN 9788892902084.

Merkel, Stephen, Heike Möller. Ceramic finds in context (Roman to early Islamic times): final publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project VII. SI: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xii, 262. ISBN 9782503609973.

Métraux, Guy P. R. Ancient Roman villas: the essential sourcebook. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN 9781606069370.

Montoya González, Rubén. Visualising glocalization: villas, architectural spaces and pavements in Hispania Baetica (2nd Century AD – 4th Century AD). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 336 pages. ISBN 9781803278957.

Morais, Rui, Delfim Ferreira Leão, Maria de Fátima Silva, Daniela Ferreira. Reading ancient objects inside out: Greek figure-decorated pottery in Portugal. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. ix, 356. ISBN 9781803278612.

Mullen, Alex, Anna Willi. Latinization, local languages, and literacies in the Roman West. Oxford studies in ancient documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 512. ISBN 9780198887515.

Muratore, Davide. Xénophon: Constitution des Lacédémoniens. Collection des universités de France, série grecque – Collection Budé, 581. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. cii, 396. ISBN 9782251006666.

Netz, Reviel. Why the ancient Greeks matter: the problematic miracle that was Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xii, 188. ISBN 9781009505598.

Nikolopoulou, Kalliopi. Hunting for justice: the cosmology of dikē in Aeschylus’s Oresteia. SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2025. Pp. x, 254. ISBN 9798855801286.

Nova, Isabella. I poemi omerici nella cultura greca: dalla pittura su vaso alle rappresentazioni teatrali (secoli VII-V a.C.). Lingue e letterature Carocci. Roma: Carocci editore, 2024. Pp. 271. ISBN 9788829024155.

Pareja, Marie N., Robert Arnott. There and back again: Afro-Eurasian exchange in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. iii, 150. ISBN 9781803278056.

Porte, Danielle. L’âme romaine et le divin. Langues et cultures anciennes. Brussels: Safran, 2025. Pp. 340. ISBN 9782874571497.

Reggiani, Nicola. Digital papyrology III. The digital critical edition of Greek papyri: issues, projects, and perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 365. ISBN 9783111070131.

Roberts, Jennifer T. Thucydides: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. xx, 125. ISBN 9780192855824.

Robertson, Donald. Marcus Aurelius: the stoic emperor. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024. Pp. xii, 232. ISBN 9780300256666.

Schroer, Silvia, Patrick Wyssmann. Images in transition: the southern Levant and its imagery between Near Eastern and Greek traditions. Orbis biblicus et orientalis. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. xi, 272 pages. ISBN 9789042954410.

Seidensticker, Bernd. Elektra. Griechische Dramen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. x, 515. ISBN 9783110796520.

Sier, Kurt. Aeschylus’ “Choephori”: issues of interpretation and text. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 68. ISBN 9783515138222.

Smart, Anthony. Grief and sorrow in the Roman world: republic to empire. History of emotion. London: Bloomsbury, 2025. Pp. 287. ISBN 9781350511675.

Smith, Colin C. Inquiring into being: essays on Parmenides. SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2025. Pp. 301. ISBN 9798855801347.

Stern, Matthias. Taxes and authority in the late antique countryside: the reach of the state and the pagarchs of Byzantine Egypt (284-642 CE). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xvii, 394. ISBN 9783111435923.

Suaria, Tommaso. Il mito di Atreo e Tieste nella tragedia greca frammentaria di V secolo a.C. Quaderni di Seminari Romani di Cultura Greca. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2025. Pp. 220. ISBN 9788854915596.

Talalay, Lauren E. From the motor city to the Mediterranean: travels of a truck, a sedan, and an inquisitive photographer, 1924–1926. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum Publication, 2024. Pp. xi, 292. ISBN 9781733050456.

Trimble, Gail. Catullus: poem 64. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 904. ISBN 9781107018594.

Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. Greek colonisation: continuing an account of Greek colonies and settlements overseas. Colloquia antiqua, 41. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. xxii, 686. ISBN 9789042951310.

Tusa, Sebastiano, Valeria Li Vigni Tusa. Sicilia archeologica vista dal cielo: dalla preistoria all’età romana. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. xvi, 252. ISBN 9788891332424.

Walde, Christine. Lucans Epos vom Bürgerkrieg zwischen Caesar und Pompeius: eine poetische Anatomie menschlicher Destruktivität. Studies in ancient civil war. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiv, 567. ISBN 9783111544083.

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. The idea of the city in late antiquity: a study in resilience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 456. ISBN 9781009527071.

Ware, Owen. Return of the gods: mythology in romantic philosophy and literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 265. ISBN 9780197763964.

Wheeler, Ginny. Water displays in domestic spaces across the late Roman West: cultivating living buildings. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2025. Pp. xiv, 222. ISBN 9798888571125.

Wittwer, Roland. Galeni. De locis affectis III–IV / Galen. Über das Erkennen erkrankter Körperteile III–IV. Corpus medicorum Graecorum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xxxii, 212. ISBN 9783111669304.

Woodman, A. J. Velleius Paterculus. Loeb classical library, 152. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780674997639.