Publications

A second gaze: intertextuality and transient meaning in Roman texts and objects

Matthias Grawehr, Markus Kersten  / Propylaeum, 2024

Reviewed by Robert A. Rohland, 

Die semitischen Personennamen in den griechischen und lateinischen Inschriften aus Syrien und dem Libanon

Giulia Francesca Grassi  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Yang Han, 

Public toilets (foricae) and sanitation in the ancient Roman world: case studies in Greece and North Africa

Antonella Patricia Merletto  / BAR Publishing, 2023

Reviewed by Dallas DeForest, 

Plague in antiquity

Andrew Jamieson, Caroline Tully, Louise Hitchcock  / Peeters, 2024

Reviewed by Edmund P. Cueva, 

Penelope’s bones: a new history of Homer’s world through the women written out of it

Emily Hauser  / The University of Chicago Press, 2025

Reviewed by Ruth Scodel, 

Greek endowments in the Classical and Hellenistic periods

Sophia Aneziri  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025

Reviewed by Flavio Santini, 

Màrturi mytho: poésie, histoire et société aux époques imperiale et tardive

Morgane Cariou, Nicola Zito  / Edizioni dell'Orso, 2024

Reviewed by Laura Miguélez-Cavero, 

Pinelli e gli Excerpta de legationibus: l’Ambrosiano G 72 inf.

Francesca Christina Porro  / Genova University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Ciro Giacomelli, 

Domestic violence and vulnerability in the Roman world

Eleanor Cowan, Tim Parkin  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Nephele Papakonstantinou, 

The temporality of festivals: approaches to festive time in ancient Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Medieval China

Anke Walter  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Xianhua Wang, 

Books received October 2025

The highest good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita: knowledge, happiness, and freedom

Roopen Majithia  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Joachim Aufderheide, 

Greek and Roman antiquity in First World War poetry. Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Kathleen Riley, 

Xenophon of Athens: a Socratic on Sparta

Noreen Humble  / Cambridge University Press, 2021

Reviewed by Richard Fernando Buxton, 

Figuring death in classical Athens: visual and literary explorations

Emily Clifford  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Seth Estrin, 

The Homeric Doloneia: evolution and shaping of Iliad 10

Christos C. Tsagalis  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Andromache Karanika, 

The Confessions of Saint Augustine: a Latin reader’s edition. Books I-IX

K.A. Bergdorf  / Emmaus Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Michael Klaassen, 

Hermias: On Plato, Phaedrus 257C-279C, with ‘Syrianus’: Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles

Dirk Baltzly, Michael Share  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by J. M. Dillon, 

Comedy in literature and popular culture: from Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live

James V. Morrison  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by Amy S. Lewis, 

Governare l’emergenza. Sulla gestione senatoria di “interregnum”, “dictatura” e “prorogatio imperii” (V-III sec. a.C.)

Francesco Verrico  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Federico Russo,