Month: June 2025

Books received May 2025

Polemone di Ilio: I frammenti degli scritti periegetici. Introduzione, testo greco, traduzione e commento

Mariachiara Angelucci  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022

Reviewed by Julia Taita, 

Populus: living and dying in ancient Rome

Guy de la Bédoyère  / The University of Chicago Press, 2024

Reviewed by Andrew Steck, 

Why Cicero matters

Vittorio Bufacchi  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Bishakha Dutta, 

Vulci: l’area urbana e il suburbio. Evoluzione storica della città e del territorio

Giorgio F. Pocobelli  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2024

Reviewed by Maurizio Forte, 

Eliminativism in ancient philosophy: Greek and Buddhist philosophers on material objects

Ugo Zilioli  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Refik Güremen, 

Jules César, construction d’une image de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Actes du colloque, Besançon 20 et 21 octobre 2022

Claire Mercier, Fabien Bievre-Perrin  / Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2024

Reviewed by Guillaume Flamerie de Lachapelle, 

Brill’s companion to warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean

Lynne A. Kvapil, Kim Shelton  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Vassilis Petrakis, 

The dark side of Statius’ Achilleid: epic distorted

Julene Abad Del Vecchio  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Renée Uccellini, 

Classical philology and linguistics: old themes and new perspectives

Georgios K. Giannakis, Panagiotis Filos, Emilio Crespo, Jesús de la Villa  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Gerd V. M. Haverling, 

Christian beginnings: a study in ancient Mediterranean religion

Stanley Stowers  / Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Gaetano Spampinato, 

“Mos uetustissimus” – Tito Livio e la percezione della clemenza

Elisa Della Calce, Stephen Oakley  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Giovanna Todaro, 

Continuity and change in ancient Umbrian cult places

Arianna Zapelloni Pavia  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Dario Monti, 

Poetica spolia. Il reimpiego del testo dei poeti nei generi letterari della tarda latinità

Concetta Longobardi  / Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2024

Reviewed by Dennis Trout, 

Judea under Greek and Roman rule

David A. deSilva  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Gary Gilbert, 

Traité d’accentuation grecque

Eric Dieu  / Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 2022

Reviewed by Jesse Lundquist, 

Karthago: archäologische Stadtbiographie

Stefan Altekamp  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Gregor Utz, 

Materialising the Roman Empire

Jeremy Tanner, Andrew Gardner  / UCL Press, 2024

Reviewed by Caroline Cheung, 

The epic world

Pamela Lothspeich  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by Ben Radcliffe, 

Dionysius and the city of Rome: portraits of founders in the Roman Antiquities

Beatrice Poletti  / Lexington Books, 2023

Reviewed by Jessica Wall,