This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in August 2021 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. Please allow at least a couple of weeks for us to reply to your request.
Crystal Addey, Divination and knowledge in Greco-Roman antiquity. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781138212992. $160.00.
Manuel Albaladejo Vivero, David Alejandro Hernández de la Fuente, Stéphane Lebreton, Pierre Schneider, Non sufficit orbis: geografía histórica y mítica en la antigüedad. Madrid: Dykinson, 2020. Pp. 698. ISBN 9788413771700. €49,00.
Franz Alto Bauer, Alessandro Colantoni, Hanna Hadler, Willian Loerts, Luca Lorio, Ralph Rosenbauer, Andreas Schaub, Benjamin Streubel, Tina Wunderlich, Forma urbis Ostiae: Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Hafenstadt Roms von der Zeit der Republik bis ins frühe Mittelalter. Sonderschriften des Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom, 25. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. xviii, 464. ISBN 9783447115346. €98,00.
Antón Alvar Nuño, Historiografía de la esclavitud. Anejos de la Revista de Historiografía, 10. Madrid: Dykinson, 2019. Pp. 500. ISBN 9788413244594. €33,00.
Angela Maria Andrisano, Vinicio Tammaro, Benedetto Marzullo: il grecista che fondò il Dams. Storie e linguaggi, 30. Padova: Libreria Universitaria, 2019. Pp. 180. ISBN 9788833591452. €19,90.
Anna Anguissola, Pliny the Elder and the matter of memory: an encyclopaedic workshop. Young Feltrinelli prize in the moral sciences. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 154. ISBN 9780367349882. $59.95.
Anne-Elisabeth Beron, Calpurnius Siculus: “Erste Ekloge” Einleitung, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Palingenesia, 124. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 346. ISBN 9783515128438. €60,00.
Katell Berthelot, Natalie Dohrmann, Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, Legal engagement: the reception of Roman law and tribunals by Jews and other inhabitants of the Empire. Collection de l’École française de Rome, 579. Rome: Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021. Pp. 544. ISBN 9782728314645. €40,00.
Elisabetta Bianchi, Matteo D’Acunto, Opere di regimentazione delle acque in età arcaica: Roma, Grecia e Magna Grecia, Etruria e mondo italico. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2020. Pp. 617. ISBN 9788854910676. €85,00.
Corinne Bonnet, Noms de dieux: portraits de divinités antiques. Collection Essais. Série Histoire. Toulouse: Éditions Anacharsis, 2021. Pp. 376. ISBN 9791027904082. €23,00.
Lee L. Brice, New approaches to Greek and Roman warfare. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781119248514. $69.95.
Sarah Broadie, Plato’s sun-like good: dialectic in the Republic. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 479. ISBN 9781316516874. $99.99.
Stephanie Lynn Budin, Freewomen, patriarchal authority and the accusation of prostitution. Interdisciplinary research in gender. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780367198299. $160.00.
Pierangelo Buongiorno, Giuseppe Camodeca, Die ‘Senatus consulta’ in den epigraphischen Quellen: Texte und Bezeugungen. Acta senatus B, Studien und Materialien, 9. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 458. ISBN 9783515126045. €104,00.
Alexandra W. Busch, Silvia Aglietti, Ager albanvs von republikanischer Zeit zur Kaiservilla. Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Rom, 24. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. xi, 355. ISBN 9783447114394. €89,00.
Matteo Capponi, Claude Calame, Parole et geste dans la tragédie grecque: à la lumière des trois ‘Électre’. Neuchâtel: Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, 2021. Pp. 375. ISBN 9782889303267.
Carmine Catenacci, Marialuigia Di Marzio, Le ‘Vespe di Aristofane’: Giornate di studio in ricordo di Massimo Vetta. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2020. Pp. 244. ISBN 9788833152356. €170,00.
Sara Chiarini, Devotio malefica: Die antiken Verfluchungen zwischen sprachübergreifender Tradition und individueller Prägung. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 15. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 339. ISBN 9783515129732. €60,00.
Joel P. Christensen, The many-minded man: the Odyssey, psychology, and the therapy of epic. Myth and poetics, 2. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 360. ISBN 9781501752346. $39.95.
Maria Aloysia Di Marzio, Bacchylidis encomiorum et eroticorum fragmenta. Lyricorum Graecorum quae exstant, 15. Rome: In Aedibus Athenaei, 2020. Pp. 244. ISBN 9788884761279. €73,00.
Christopher Diez, Ciceros emanzipatorische Leserführung: Studien zum Verhältnis von dialogisch-rhetorischer Inszenierung und skeptischer Philosophie in “De natura deorum”. Palingenesia, 128. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 406. ISBN 9783515130264. €67,00.
Lionel Dumarty, Apollonius Dyscole, Traité des adverbes. Textes et traditions, 32. Paris: J. Vrin, 2021. Pp. 582. ISBN 9782711629817. €58,00.
Matthew Duncombe, Ancient relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, and Sceptics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780198846185. $70.00.
Jean Gascou, Églises et chapelles d’Alexandrie byzantine: recherches de topographie cultuelle. Studia papyrologica et Aegyptiaca parisina, 1. Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’histoire et de civilisation de Byzance, 2020. Pp. 156. ISBN 9782916716695.
Louis Godart, Les scribes de Pylos. Biblioteca di Pasiphae, 13. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2021. Pp. 232. ISBN 9788833152837. €450,00.
Benjamin Goldlust, Approches du livre III des Saturnales de Macrobe: histoire de la religion, encyclopédisme, esthétique. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1512. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021. Pp. 225. ISBN 9782848678443. €19,00.
Michail Grazianskij, Kaiser Justinian und das Erbe des Konzils von Chalkedon. Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium, 30. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 317. ISBN 9783515088428. €58,00.
C.T. Hadavas, Longus, Daphnis and Chloe: an intermediate Greek reader. C.T. Hadavas, 2020. Pp. 311. ISBN 9798587437159. $18.95.
Winfried Held, The transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic period in the Levant, Cyprus, and Cilicia: cultural interruption or continuity? Symposion at Philipps-Universität Marburg, October 12-15, 2017. Marburger Beiträge zur Archäologie, 6. Marburg: Eigenverlag des Archäologischen Seminars der Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2020. Pp. 244. ISBN 9783818505578.
Ella Hermon, La colonie romaine: espace, territoire, paysage. Les Gromatici entre histoire et droit pour la gestion des ressources naturelles. Institut des Sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1456. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2020. Pp. 494. ISBN 9782848676524. €35,00.
Kenneth G. Holum, Caesarea Maritima. Excavations in the old city, 1989-2003, conducted by the University of Maryland and the University of Haifa: final reports. ASOR archaeological reports, 27. Alexandria, VA: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2020. Pp. xviii, 454. ISBN 9780897571159. $89.95.
Bernhard Kaiser, Streit und Kampf: Die verbalen Angriffe gegen Sokrates in Platons “Gorgias”. Palingenesia, 125. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 256. ISBN 9783515128599. €56,00.
Bernd Lorenz, Gregor von Nazianz: Threnos über die Leiden seiner Seele (Carmen II, 1, 45). Palingenesia, 129. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 112. ISBN 9783515130356. €38,00.
Sonia Macrì, Narciso: la passione dello sguardo. Variazioni sul mito. Tascabili Marsilio, 382. Venice: Marsilio, 2020. Pp. 181. ISBN 9788829703517. €9,00.
Hubertus Manderscheid, Minturnae I: ‘nil magis mirandum in toto orbe terrarum’. Wasserbewirtschaftung, Hydrotechnik und Wasserarchitektur von Minturnae. Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Rom, 23. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. Pp. xxi, 325. ISBN 9783447113618. €74,00.
José Carlos Martín-Iglesias, Pablo C. Díaz, Margarita Vallejo Girvés, La Hispania tardoantigua y visigoda en las fuentes epistolares: antología y comentario. Nueva Roma, 52. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2020. Pp. 981. ISBN 9788400106676. €11,95.
Chris Mowat, Engendering the future: divination and the construction of gender in the late Roman Republic. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 75. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 201. ISBN 9783515129343. €49,00.
Vasilis Politis, Plato’s essentialism: reinterpreting the theory of forms. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. x, 252. ISBN 9781108833660. $99.99.
Roberta Ricci, Poggio Bracciolini and the re(dis)covery of antiquity: textual and material traditions. Proceedings of Symposium held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016. Atti, 38. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 205. ISBN 9788864539676. €16,90.
Garrett Ryan, Greek cities and Roman governors: placing power in imperial Asia Minor. Studies in Roman space and urbanism. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 172. ISBN 9780367756840. $160.00.
Paweł Sawiński, M. Jarczyk, Holders of extraordinary imperium under Augustus and Tiberius: a study into the beginnings of the principate. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 166. ISBN 9780367725334. $160.00.
Johanna Schenk, Traditionsbezug und Transformation: Die Briefe des Avitus von Vienne als Inszenierungen eines spätantiken Bischofs. Roma Aeterna, 10. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. Pp. 291. ISBN 9783515128728. €56,00.
Mathilde Simon, Operae pretium facimus: mélanges en l’honneur de Charles Guittard. Collection Kubaba. Série antiquité. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021. Pp. 764. ISBN 9782343213453. €55,00.
Tyler Jo Smith, Religion in the art of archaic and classical Greece. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 451, [12 p. of plates]. ISBN 9780812252811. $89.95.
Nicholas D. Smith, Socrates on self-improvement: knowledge, virtue, and happiness. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xix, 182. ISBN 9781316515532. $99.99.
Richard Stoneman, Megasthenes’ ‘Indica’: a new translation of the fragments with commentary. Routledge classical translation. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 172. ISBN 9780367472948. $160.00.
Angeliki Syrkou, Horrorscope: the gallery of tortures in late antiquity. Studi di egittologia e di papirologia, 14. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2021. Pp. 81. ISBN 9788833152936. €128,00.
Charlotte C. S. Thomas, Liberty, democracy, and the temptations to tyranny in the Dialogues of Plato. The A. V. Elliott conference series. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2021. Pp. xx, 257. ISBN 9780881467857. $25.00.
Christian Touratier, Morphematik. Lateinische syntax, 1. Hamburg: Buske, 2020. Pp. 544. ISBN 9783967690187. $41.99.
Giulia Tozzi, Decreti dal santuario di Dioniso Eleutereo ad Atene. Biblioteca di studi antichi, 101. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2021. Pp. 168. ISBN 9788833152653. €54,00.
Amedeo Visconti, Massimiliano Lanzillo, Studi sull’Irpinia antica. Napoli: Tiotinx Edizioni, 2021. Pp. xviii, 458. ISBN 9788894484922.
Jan Weidauer, Männlichkeit verhandeln: von Lüstlingen, Kriegern und wahren Römern (1./2. Jh. n. Chr.). Mainzer althistorische Studien, 9. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2021. Pp. vi, 299. ISBN 9783969290286. €42,90.
Giuseppe Zanetto, Teatro tragico greco: ricostruzioni e interpretazioni. Consulta universitaria di greco, 4. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2020. Pp. 114. ISBN 9788833152738. €36,00.