Month: March 2025

Books received February 2025

At home in Roman Egypt: a social archaeology

Anna Lucille Boozer  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Andrew T. Wilburn, 

Scritti scelti di storiografia italiana e tedesca sul Mondo Antico tra XIX e XX secolo

Leandro Polverini, Arnaldo Marcone  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2024

Reviewed by Dino Piovan, 

Classical antiquity and medieval Ireland: an anthology of medieval Irish texts and interpretations

Michael Clarke, Erich Poppe, Isabelle Torrance  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Craig R. Davis, 

Listening to the philosophers: notes on notes

Raffaella Cribiore  / Cornell University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Eleanor Dickey, 

Catullus: selected poems

Stephen Mitchell  / Yale University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Shane Hawkins, 

Local coinages in a Roman world, second century BC-first century AD: a catalogue of the Richard B. Witschonke collection of coins in the early Roman provinces

Lucia F. Carbone  / American Numismatic Society, 2023

Reviewed by Corey J. Ellithorpe, 

Les récits de destruction en Méditerranée orientale ancienne

Ilaria Calini  / Classiques Garnier, 2024

Reviewed by Tom Hercules Davies, 

Out of one, many: ancient Greek ways of thought and culture

Jennifer T. Roberts  / Princeton University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Mark Munn, 

Kavousi IV. The early Iron Age cemeteries at Vronda

Leslie Preston Day, Maria A. Liston  / INSTAP Academic Press, 2023

Reviewed by Catharine Judson, 

Brill’s companion to ancient Greek and Roman warfare on film

Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Ronald Blankenborg, 

Imprints of dance in ancient Greece and Rome

Zoa Alonso Fernández, Sarah Olsen  / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2024

Reviewed by Michel Briand, 

Le théâtre antique au Moyen Âge: étude des mots et des concepts dans les textes en français et en italien

Frédéric Duval, Elisa Guadagnini  / Droz, 2024

Reviewed by Anne Morvan, 

How to be queer: an ancient guide to sexuality

Sarah Nooter  / Princeton University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Daniel Libatique, 

Coins and economy in Magdala/Taricheae from the Hasmoneans to the Umayyad Period

Bruno Callegher  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023

Reviewed by Amit Gvaryahu, 

Mouldmade bowls of the Black Sea region and beyond: from prestige object to an article of mass consumption

Pia Guldager Bilde, Susan I. Rotroff  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Patricia Kögler, 

Die Exkurse im Geschichtswerk des Prokopios von Kaisareia: Literarische Tradition und spätantike Gegenwart in klassizistischer Historiographie

Albrecht Ziebuhr  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Max Ritter, 

Tragedy, philosophy, and political education in Plato’s Laws

Ryan K. Balot  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Nicholas Baima, 

Paideia e ginnasi in Egitto ellenistico e romano

Silvia Bussi, Livia Capponi  / LED Edizioni, 2024

Reviewed by José Antonio Fernández Delgado, 

Handbuch des Römischen Privatrechts

Ulrike Babusiaux, Christian Baldus, Wolfgang Ernst, Franz-Stefan Meissel, Johannes Platschek, Thomas Rüfner  / Mohr Siebeck, 2023

Reviewed by Jean-Jacques Aubert,