Month: July 2025

Books received June 2025

Artwashing the Cyclades: The Leonard N. Stern Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mimesis. Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur

Erich Auerbach, Matthias Bormuth, Olaf Müller  / Narr Francke Attempto, 2024

Reviewed by Tomás Fernández, 

Female agency in the ancient Mediterranean world

Greg Gilles, Karolina Frank, Christine Plastow, Lewis Webb  / Liverpool University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Lien Van Geel, 

The betrayal of the humanities: the university during the Third Reich

Bernard M. Levinson, Robert P. Ericksen  / Indiana University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Hartmut Leppin, 

Early Christianity in Alexandria: from its beginnings to the late second century

M. David Litwa  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Joseph Verheyden, 

Mischungen beim antiken Gelage. Reflexionen des frühgriechischen Symposions

Renate Schlesier  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Giovanni Maria Leo, 

Tekmeria 1. Greci in eta’ arcaica: istituzioni, interazioni, tradizioni

Carmine Nastri, Marina Polito  / LED Edizioni, 2024

Reviewed by Christopher J. Joyce, 

Discourse pragmatics and prosodic reconstruction: a new approach to prosodic structure in Herodotus’ Histories and beyond

Cassandra Freiberg  / Reichert Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by José Miguel Jiménez Delgado, 

Claudio Claudiano. El consulado de Estilicón. Estudio preliminar, traducción, notas y comentario lemático

Vicente Flores Militello  / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2023

Reviewed by Alessia Prontera, 

Milton, Longinus, and the sublime in the seventeenth century

Thomas Matthew Vozar  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Blair Hoxby, 

Flavius Josephus and artwork of Roman antiquity and the early Middle Ages

Steven H. Wander  / Reichert Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Honora Chapman, 

La Germania di Tacito: da Engels al nazismo

Luciano Canfora  / Officina libraria, 2024

Reviewed by Francesco Maria Galassi, 

Social inequality and difference in the ancient Greek world: bioarchaeological perspectives

Anna Lagia, Sofia Voutsaki  / University of Florida Press, 2024

Reviewed by Grace Erny, 

Sublime cosmos in Graeco-Roman literature and its reception: intersections of myth, science and history

David Christenson, Cynthia White  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Patrick Glauthier, 

Deification in classical Greek philosophy and the Bible

James Bernard Murphy  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Zachary T. Hedges, 

Les représentations du désir féminin dans la poésie latine, de Catulle à Juvénal. Contraintes et libertés de l’espace poétique

Giacomo Dimaggio  / MOM Éditions, 2024

Reviewed by Rosario Moreno Soldevila, 

Antiquity in print: visualizing Greece in the eighteenth century

Daniel Orrells  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Rasmus Sevelsted, 

Théodore Métochite, Comparaison de Démosthène et d’Aristide

Didier Clerc  / Schwabe Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Ioannis Polemis, 

Unbound from Rome: art and craft in a fluid landscape, ca. 650-250 BCE

John North Hopkins  / Yale University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Nikoline Sauer,