Archives: Reviews

Painting Pompeii: painters, practices, and organization

Francesca Bologna  / Brepols, 2024

Reviewed by Jessica Plant, 

Il mito di Atreo e Tieste nella tragedia greca frammentaria di V secolo a.C.

Tommaso Suaria  / Edizioni Quasar, 2025

Reviewed by Lucrezia Sperindio, 

Revenge, punishment, and anger in ancient Greek justice

Joe Whitchurch  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Daniela Bonanno, 

Was ist Residenz?

Torsten Mattern, Marcus Reuter  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023

Reviewed by Marie-Adeline Le Guennec, 

Living with risk in the late Roman world

Cam Grey  / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025

Reviewed by Gregory K. Golden, 

The orators and their treatment of the recent past

Aggelos Kapellos  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Stephen Clarke, 

Scribes and language use in the Graeco-Roman world

Sonja Dahlgren, Martti Leiwo, Marja Vierros  / The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2024

Reviewed by Michael A. Freeman, 

Xenophon’s Socratic rhetoric: virtue, eros, and philosophy in the Symposium

Dustin A. Gish  / Lexington Books, 2022

Reviewed by Vladimir Gildin Zuckerman, 

Magica Levantina and Defixiones Atticae

Jaime Curbera  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Christopher Faraone, 

Divided power in ancient Greece: decision-making and institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic polis

Alberto Esu  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Michele Faraguna, 

Slavery and dependence in ancient Egypt: sources in translation

Jane Rowlandson, Roger S. Bagnall, Dorothy J. Thompson  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jacobo Rodríguez Garrido, 

Eleusis and Enlightenment: the problem of the mysteries in eighteenth-century thought

Ferdinand Saumarez Smith  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, 

The religious history of the Roman Empire: the Republican centuries

J. A. North  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Yann Berthelet, 

Marmor Numidicum. Gewinnung, Verarbeitung und Distribution eines antiken Buntmarmors

Dennis Mario Beck  / Reichert Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Matthias Grawehr, 

Classicism and other phobias

Dan-el Padilla Peralta  / Princeton University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Simon Goldhill, 

Naissance du discours sur les édifices chrétiens dans la littérature latine occidentale: d’Ambroise de Milan à Grégoire de Tours

Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard  / Brepols, 2023

Reviewed by John Moorhead, 

Cypro-Minoan and its writers: at home and overseas

Cassandra M. Donnelly  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Beatrice Pestarino, 

Ancient necropolitics: maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Greek antiquity

Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, Marion Meyer  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Ryan Denson, 

Images in transition: the southern Levant and its imagery between Near Eastern and Greek traditions

Silvia Schroer, Patrick Wyssmann  / Peeters, 2024

Reviewed by Noa Ranzer, 

The ‘Place of Palms’: An urban park at Aphrodisias. Results of The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project

Andrew Wilson, Ben Russell  / Reichert Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Georgios Deligiannakis,