BMCR 2020.07.01

Books Received June 2020

This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in June 2020 by BMCR; some books listed here may already have been assigned to reviewers. To volunteer to review a book, please visit this page, where you will find a complete list of books available for review, including those still available from previous months.

Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton, Cyclops: the myth and its cultural history. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 456 p. ISBN 9780198713777. $45.00.

Evangelos Alexiou, Daniel Webber, Greek Rhetoric of the 4th Century BC: the elixir of democracy and individuality. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xvi, 361 p. ISBN 9783110559798. $172.99.

Donna Altimari-Adler, Plato’s Timaeus and the missing fourth guest: finding the harmony of the spheres. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, volume 21. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. xxix, 624 p. ISBN 9789004389915. €215,00.

Lewis Ayres, H. Clifton Ward, The rise of the early Christian intellectual. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, volume 139. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xii, 272 p. ISBN 9783110607550. $99.99.

Arnaud Besson, Constitutio Antoniniana L’universalisation de la citoyenneté romaine au 3e siècle. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 52. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2020. 400 p. ISBN 9783796541865. €38,00.

Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Eleanor Ghey, Colin Haselgrove, Iron age and Roman coin hoards in Britain. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. 384 p. ISBN 9781785708558. $99.00.

Bettina Bohle, Olympiodors Kommentar zu Platons “Gorgias”: eine Gegenüberstellung seiner modernen und seiner antiken Interpretation. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 11. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. 288 p. ISBN 9783825368098. €52,00.

Shari Boodts, Sicut dicit: editing ancient and medieval commentaries on authoritative texts. Lectio: studies in the transmission of texts & ideas, 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. 376 p. ISBN 9782503586496. €95,00.

Sara Brill, Aristotle on the concept of shared life. Classics in theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 304 p. ISBN 9780198839583. $100.00.

Christopher Burden-Strevens, Cassius Dio’s speeches and the collapse of the Roman Republic: the Roman history, books 3-56. Historiography of Rome and its Empire, vol. 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. xx, 340 p. ISBN 9789004373600. €121,00.

Jeff Champion, Antigonus the one-eyed: greatest of the successors. Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2020. 256 p. ISBN 9781526774897. $22.95.

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Seneca the Elder and his rediscovered Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium new perspectives on early-imperial Roman historiography. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. ix, 425 p. ISBN 9783110685855. $149.99.

Riccardo Chiaradonna, Marwan Rashed, Boéthos de Sidon – Exégète d’Aristote et philosophe. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series Academica, 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. x, 524 p. ISBN 9783110699821. $126.99.

Nicola Chiarenza, Annette Haug, Ulrich Müller, The power of urban water: studies in premodern urbanism. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. viii, 272 p. ISBN 9783110676648. $137.99.

Anthi Chrysanthou, Defining orphism: the beliefs, the teletae and the writings. Trends in classics. supplementary volumes; volume 94. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xi, 415 p. ISBN 9783110678390. $137.99.

Silvia Condorelli, Marco Onorato, Verborum violis multicoloribus: studi in onore di Giovanni Cupaiuolo. Studi latini, n.s. 95. Napoli: Paolo Loffredo, 2019. 652 p. ISBN 9788832193251. €41,00.

Vesta Curtis, Alexandra Magub, Rivalling Rome: Parthian coins and culture. London: Spink Books. 128 p. ISBN 9781912667444. $21.84.

J. Danckers, C. Cavazzuti, M. Cattani, Facies e culture nell’età del Bronzo italiana?.Artes (Institut historique belge de Rome), XI. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. 321 p. ISBN 9789492771353. €70,00.

A. Dardenay, N. Laubry, Anthropology of Roman housing. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 340 p. ISBN 9782503588605. €90,00.

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Dennis P. Kehoe, Roman law and economics, volume I: institutions and organization. Oxford studies in Roman society & law. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 368 p. ISBN 9780198787204. $110.00.

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Dennis P. Kehoe, Roman law and economics, volume II: exchange, ownership, and disputes. Oxford studies in Roman society & law. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 464 p. ISBN 9780198787211. $125.00.

Michael Davis, The music of reason: Rousseau, Nietzsche, Plato. Haney Foundation series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. x, 226 p. ISBN 9780812251715. $75.00.

Nikolaus Dietrich, Johannes Fouquet, Corinna Reinhardt, Schreiben auf statuarischen Monumenten: Aspekte materialer Textkultur in archaischer und frühklassischer Zeit. Materiale Textkulturen, Band 29. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xiv, 242 p. ISBN 9783110645415. $91.99.

Nikolas Dimakis, Tamara Dijkstra, Mortuary variability and social diversity in ancient Greece: studies on ancient Greek death and burial. Archaeopress Roman archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. 204 p. ISBN 9781789694420. $50.00.

Emlyn Dodd, Roman and Late Antique wine production in the Eastern Mediterranean: a comparative archaeological study at Antiochia ad Cragum (Turkey) and Delos (Greece). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 63. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. viii, 207 p., 42 p. of plates. ISBN 9781789694024. $50.00.

Damjan Donev, The busy periphery: urban systems of the Balkan and Danube provinces (2nd – 3rd c. AD). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 61. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. viii, 379 p. ISBN 9781789693492. $76.00.

Marianne Elster, Die Gesetze der späten römischen Republik Von den Gracchen bis Sulla (133 – 80 v.Chr.). Studien zur Alten Geschichte, Band 028. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020. 624 p. ISBN 9783946317623. €70,00.

Rafael Ferber, Platonische Aufsätze. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 386. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. x, 400 p. ISBN 9783110633344. $103.99.

Leonardo Fuduli, V. Lo Monaco, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΙΣΤΗ ΝΗΣΟΣ – Symposium on Archaeology of Sicily. University of São Paulo, 3-5 April 2019. In, 4. Roma: Arbor Sapientiae, 2019. ISBN 9788897805960. €50,00.

Mattias Gassman, Worshippers of the gods: debating paganism in the fourth century Roman West. Oxford studies in late antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 252 p. ISBN 9780190082444. $85.00.

Dorotei Getov, A catalogue of the Greek manuscripts in the National Library “Sts. Cyril and Methodius”, Sofia. Transmission des Textes: Catalogues. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. 500 p. ISBN 9782503586120. €95,00.

Peter Habermehl, Petronius, Satyrica 79-141. Band 2 Sat. 111–118. Texte und Kommentare, 27/2. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. lxxx, 320 p. ISBN 9783110191097. $126.99.

Nikolas Hächler, Peter Schwarz, Beat Näf, Mauern gegen Migration? spätrömische Strategie, der Hochrhein-Limes und die Fortifikationen der Provinz “Maxima Sequanorum” – eine Auswertung der Quellenzeugnisse. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2020. 382 p. ISBN 9783795435110. €45,00.

Peter Allan Hansen, Ian C. Cunningham, Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Volumen II 1) Epsilon – Iota. 2) Kappa – Omicron. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker, 11-2. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xi, 1000 p. ISBN 9783110667196.

Dieter Harlfinger, Stefano Valente, Griechisch-byzantinische Handschriftenforschung. Traditionen, Entwicklungen, neue Wege. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 900 p. ISBN 9783110365405. $344.99.

Waldemar Heckel, Johannes Heinrichs, Sabine Müller, Frances Pownall, Lexicon of Argead Makedonia. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2020. 540 p. ISBN 9783732904051. €128,00.

Ralph Hexter, Laura Pfuntner, Appendix Ovidiana: Latin poems ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 62. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. xxxiv, 510 p. ISBN 9780674238381. $35.00.

Sinclair Hood, The mason’s marks of Minoan Knossos, volume 1: text. BSA supplementary volume. Athens: British School at Athens, 2020. 650 p. ISBN 9780904887716. $175.00.

Sabine R. Huebner, Eugenio Garosi, Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Matthias Müller, Stefanie Schmidt, Matthias Stern, Living the end of antiquity: individual histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt. Millennium-Studien/millennium studies, 84. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xiv, 250 p. ISBN 9783110683318. $99.99.

Elena Iakovou, Ödipus auf der griechischen und römischen Bühne: der Oedipus Tragicus und seine literarische Tradition. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 367. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xi, 233 p. ISBN 9783110568905. $91.99.

Emanuele Intagliata, Simon Barker, Christopher Courault, City walls in late antiquity: an empire-wide perspective: proceedings of a conference held at the British School at Rome and the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome on 20-21 June 2018. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. iv, 174 p. ISBN 9781789253641. $90.00.

Melanie Jonasch, The fight for Greek Sicily: society, politics, and landscape. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. xvi, 399 p., [1 p. of plates]. ISBN 9781789253566. $70.00.

Manfred Klinkott, Das Fundament des Pergamonaltars und die Aufnahme seiner Fassadenfragmente. Altertümer von Pergamon/Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 3,3. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. x, 231 p. ISBN 9783110598148. $137.99.

Helmut Kyrieleis, Ausgrabungen im Südostgebiet des Heraion von Samos. Samos, 28. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2020. 232 p. ISBN 9783954904525. €58,00.

Nikos Manousakis, Prometheus bound: a separate authorial trace in the Aeschylean corpus. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 98. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xv, 282 p. ISBN 9783110687644. $137.99.

Alexander Merrow, Caesar’s great success: sustaining the Roman army on campaign. Yorkshire: Frontline Books, 2020. 248 p. ISBN 9781473855878. $34.95.

Guy Middleton, Collapse and transformation: the late Bronze Age to early Iron Age in the Aegean. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. xii, 258 p. ISBN 9781789254259. $80.00.

Franco Montanari, History of ancient Greek scholarship: from the beginnings to the end of the Byzantine age. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. viii, 709 p. ISBN 9789004427402. €75,00.

Margaret Mullett, Robert Ousterhout, Fani Gargova, The Holy Apostles: a lost monument, a forgotten project, and the presentness of the past. Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia. Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2020. ix, 448 p. ISBN 9780884024644. $65.00.

S. Douglas Olson, Athenaeus Naucratites. Deipnosophistae: libri viii-xi. epitome.Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xv, 521 p. ISBN 9783110558524. $114.99.

Marco Onorato, Anita Di Stefano, Lo specchio del modello. Orizzonti intertestuali e Fortleben di Sidonio Apollinare. Napoli: Paolo Loffredo, 2020. 488 p. ISBN 9788832193336. €38,50.

Agnès Ouzounian, Aude Cohen-Skalli, Sébastien Morlet, Sydney Hervé Aufrère, Sergio Brillante, Eusèbe de Césarée. Chronique, Tome I. La roue à livres, 90e. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020. 576 p. ISBN 9782251450797. €37,00.

Nikolaus Overtoom, Reign of arrows: the rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East. Oxford studies in early empires. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 396 p. ISBN 9780190888329. $85.00.

Efi Papadodima, Faces of silence in ancient Greek literature: Athenian Dialogues I. Trends in classics, supplementary volumes, 100. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. viii, 318 p. ISBN 9783110690019. $114.99.

Sonia Pertsinidis, Theophrastus’ Characters: a new introduction. Routledge focus on classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2018. xi, 111 p. ISBN 9781138244436. £45.00.

Justin Pigott, New Rome wasn’t built in a day: rethinking councils and controversy at early Constantinople 381-451. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. xiv, 231 p. ISBN 9782503584485. €55,00.

Oliver Pilz, Kulte und Heiligtmer in Elis und Triphylien: untersuchungen zur sakraltopographie der westlichen peloponnes. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xiii, 455 p. ISBN 9783110608328. $137.99.

Carmine Pisano, Questione d’autorità: un’antropologia della leadership nella cultura greca. Antropologia del mondo antico, 11. Bologna: Il mulino, 2019. 239 p. ISBN 9788815280305.

Marina Polito, I decreti dei Demotionidi/Deceleesi ad Atene, IG II2 1237. Testo, traduzione, commento. Milano: LED – Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2020. 148 p. ISBN 9788879169325. €24,00.

Susana Reboreda Morillo, Visiones sobre la lactancia en la Antigüedad: permanencias, cambio y rupturas. Dialogues d’histoire ancienne, supplément, 19. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2020. 294 p. ISBN 9782848677170. €27,00.

Eberhard Sauer, Dariali: the ‘Caspian Gates’ in the Caucasus from antiquity to the age of the Huns and the Middle Ages: the joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge excavations and surveys, 2013-2016. The British Institute of Persian Studies archaeological monographs, Series V. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. 1088 p. ISBN 9781789251920. $120.00.

Thomas Schmidt, Maria Vamvouri, Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, The dynamics of intertextuality in Plutarch. Brill’s Plutarch studies, 5. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. xviii, 664 p. ISBN 9789004421707. $178.00.

Bernd Seidensticker, Euripides. Kyklops. Griechische Dramen. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. x, 340 p. ISBN 9783110453386. $80.99.

Nick Sekunda, Wonders lost and found: a celebration of the archaeological work of Professor Michael Vickers. Archaeopress archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. iv, 221 p. ISBN 9781789693812. $64.00.

Irene Selsvold, Lewis Webb, Beyond the Romans: posthuman perspectives in Roman archaeology. TRAC supplementary series. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. 176 p. ISBN 9781789251364. $59.99.

Philipp Stahlhut, Paul-Gerhard Veh, Claudius Aelianus. Vom Wesen der Tiere. Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur, Band 90. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2020. xxiv, 282 p. ISBN 9783777219042. €174,00.

Gocha Tsetskhladze, Sümer Atasoy, Akın Temür, Settlements and necropoleis of the Black Sea and its hinterland in antiquity: select papers from the third international conference ‘The Black Sea in Antiquity and Tekkeköy: an ancient settlement on the southern Black Sea Coast’, 27-29 October 2017, Tekkeköy, Samsun. Archaeopress archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020. 316 p. ISBN 9781789692068. $70.00.

Theo Vijgen, The cultural parameters of the Graeco-Roman war discourse. Antiquité et sciences humaines, 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 724 p. ISBN 9782503586472. €115,00.

Tom Wellmann, Die Entstehung der Welt: Studien zum Straßburger Empedokles-Papyrus. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Band 142. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xiii, 234 p. ISBN 9783110633726. $114.99.

Martin West, Joachim Latacz, Homers Ilias: Gesamtkommentar; auf der Grundlage der Ausgabe von Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868-1913). Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xvi, 31 p. ISBN 9783110405736. $45.99.

John Zant, Christine Howard-Davis, Roman and medieval Carlisle: the northern Lanes, excavations 1978-82. Lancaster imprints. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology, 2020. 256 p., 127 p. of plates. ISBN 9781907686290. $37.95 (pb).