Month: April 2026

Books received March 2026

From masters of slaves to lords of lands: the transformation of ownership in the western world

James Q. Whitman  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Edward E. Cohen, 

Metrica greca oggi. Prospettive di ricerca

Giampaolo Galvani  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2025

Reviewed by Ronald Blankenborg, 

Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum IV: inscriptiones parietariae Pompeianae Herculanenses Stabianae. Suppl. pars 4: inscriptiones parietariae Pompeianae. Fasc. 2

Heikki Solin, Antonio Varone, Peter Kruschwitz  / De Gruyter, 2021

Reviewed by Rebecca Benefiel, 

Ancient plaster: casting light on a forgotten sculptural material

Abbey L.R. Ellis, Emma M. Payne  / Liverpool University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Lee T. Pearcy, 

Perspectives on Plotinus: the collected essays of John Dillon

John Dillon  / The Prometheus Trust, 2025

Reviewed by James M. Ambury, 

Lungo il corso del fiume Paglia. Archeologia, mobilità e mediazione culturale nell’antichità

Jacopo Tabolli, Edoardo Vanni  / Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025

Reviewed by Ingrid Edlund-Berry, 

Plato’s Hippias Minor: analysis, text, translation, and commentary

Ravi Sharma  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Evan Rodriguez, 

The Cambridge encyclopaedia of late antique art and archaeology

Leonard V. Rutgers, Neil Christie, Robin M. Jensen, Jodi Magness  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Hendrik Dey, 

Homer: Odyssey Book IX

Egbert J. Bakker  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by William Farris, 

The Oxford handbook of Greek cities in the Roman empire

Martin Hallmannsecker, Anna Heller  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Eckhard Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer, 

The censors as guardians of public and family life in the Roman Republic

Anna Tarwacka  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by Alessandra Valentini, 

The Oxford handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

Rubina Raja  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Céline Debourse, 

Tripolitania in the Roman Empire and beyond

Niccolò Mugnai  / British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies, 2025

Reviewed by Antonio Ibba, 

Life of Aesop the Philosopher

Grammatiki A. Karla, David Konstan  / SBL Press, 2024

Reviewed by Marcus Ziemann, 

Sprache, Stil und Text in der lateinischen Spätantike. Beiträge zur lateinischen Literatursprache

Bardo M. Gauly, Alexander H. Arweiler  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024

Reviewed by Aaron Pelttari, 

Lucian’s Sale of Lives and The Dead Come to Life: an intermediate Greek reader

Evan Hayes, Stephen Nimis  / Faenum Publishing, 2025

Reviewed by Tamara Neal, 

Soignés et guéris par les dieux

Bassir Amiri, Guy Labarre, Christian Stein  / Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2025

Reviewed by Dimitri Buisine, 

The idea of the city in late antiquity: a study in resilience

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Javier Martínez Jiménez, 

The audiences of Herodotus: oral performance and the major battle narratives

Ian Oliver  / Lexington Books, 2025

Reviewed by Minna Skafte Jensen,