Publications

Lucian’s laughing gods: religion, philosophy, and popular culture in the Roman East

Inger N.I. Kuin  / University of Michigan Press, 2023

Reviewed by Anna Peterson, 

Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy

Basil DuFallo, Riemer A. Faber  / University of Michigan Press, 2023

Reviewed by Carolyn MacDonald, 

The second Alcibiades: a Platonist dialogue on prayer and on ignorance

Harold Tarrant  / Parmenides Publishing, 2023

Reviewed by J. J. Mulhern, 

The ‘cursus laborum’ of Roman women: social and medical aspects of the transition from puberty to motherhood

Anna Tatarkiewicz  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Reviewed by Sheena Finnigan, 

The friar and the philosopher: William of Moerbeke and the rise of Aristotle’s science in medieval Europe

Pieter Beullens  / Routledge, 2022

Reviewed by Christian Høgel, 

Plautus: Curculio

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Reviewed by William M. Owens, 

Change and transition on Crete: interpreting the evidence from the Hellenistic through to the early Byzantine period

Jane Francis, Michael J. Curtis  / Archaeopress, 2023

Reviewed by François Chevrollier, 

Books received November 2023

Selections from the poems of Paulinus of Nola, including the correspondence with Ausonius: introduction, translation, and commentary

Alex Dressler  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Clare Pryor, 

Queens of a fallen world: the lost women of Augustine’s Confessions

Kate Cooper  / Basic Books, 2023

Reviewed by Geoffrey Nathan, 

Plato goes to China: the Greek classics and Chinese nationalism

Shadi Bartsch  / Princeton University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, 

Velzna II: lo scavo di Campo della Fiera di Orvieto. Materiali di epoca romana

Simonetta Stopponi  / "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2023

Reviewed by Arianna Zapelloni Pavia, 

The tomb of Parennefer, butler of Pharaoh Akhenaten: Theban tomb 188

Susan Redford  / Eisenbrauns, 2022

Reviewed by Elizabeth Eltze, 

Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey, volume I: preface and commentary on rhapsodies 1-4

Eric Cullhed, S. Douglas Olson  / Brill, 2022

Reviewed by Donald J. Mastronarde, 

Cicero and the people’s will: philosophy and power at the end of the Roman Republic

Lex Paulson  / Cambridge University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Sean McConnell, 

Greek comedy and embodied scholarly discourse

Anna A. Novokhatko  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Jenni Glaser, 

De Cadmos à Créon: de la Thèbes mythique à la Thèbes tragique

Sylvie David  / Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023

Reviewed by Angela Ganter, 

Le mythe de fondation de Lugdunum

Marco Virgilio García Quintela  / Classiques Garnier, 2022

Reviewed by Daniel J. Martin-Arroyo Sánchez, 

Corpus of Greek Graffiti from Dalmatia

Slobodan Cace, Alan Johnston, Branko Kirigin, Lucijana Šešelj  / University of Chicago Press, 2022

Reviewed by Niki Oikonomaki, 

Riggsby on Dolganov on Riggsby, Mosaics of knowledge: representing information in the Roman world

Response by Andrew M. Riggsby | Original Review by Anna Dolganov,