Archives: Reviews

Atheism at the agora: a history of unbelief in ancient Greek polytheism

James C. Ford  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Jan N. Bremmer, 

Fertility, ideology, and the cultural politics of reproduction at Rome

Angela Hug  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Helena López Gómez, 

Aristotle’s ontology of artefacts

Marilù Papandreou  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Riin Sirkel, 

Shifting currents: a world history of swimming

Karen Eva Carr  / Reaktion Books, 2022

Reviewed by Peter Miller, 

A commentary on Panegyrici Latini II(12): an oration delivered by Pacatus Drepanius before the emperor Theodosius I in the senate at Rome, AD 389

Roger Rees  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Cédrik Michel, 

Mondes grec et indien, d’Alexandre le Grand à Kaniṣka

Guillaume Ducoeur, Claire Muckensturm-Poulle  / Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023

Reviewed by Marco Ferrario, 

Sophocles’ Laocoön

Monica Centanni, Paolo Biagio Cipolla  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2024

Reviewed by Vayos Liapis, 

The field armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630

Anthony Kaldellis, Marion Kruse  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Philip Rance, 

Socioeconomic transformation in the Sasanian empire: late antique central Zagros

Hossein Habibi  / Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Eve MacDonald, 

Understanding integration in the Roman world

Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo, Rosario Moreno Soldevila  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Jonas Scherr, 

Myth and history in the historiography of early Rome

Tim Cornell, Nicolas Meunier, Daniele Miano  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Fred K. Drogula, 

Letters and letter writing

Peter Arzt-Grabner  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Ezra la Roi, 

Seleukid ideology: creation, reception and response

Altay Coşkun, Richard Wenghofer  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023

Reviewed by Marco Ferrario, 

Brill’s companion to the reception of Vitruvius

Ingrid D. Rowland, Sinclair Bell  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Indra Kagis McEwen, 

I collegia e le relazioni clientelari: studio sui legami di patronato delle associazioni professionali nell’Occidente romano tra I e III sec. d.C

Simone Ciambelli  / Pàtron editore, 2022

Reviewed by Timothy Smith, 

Ovid’s Terence: tradition and allusion in the love elegies and beyond

Iris Brecke  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Sebastian Hyams, 

The ancient theatre at Kalydon in Aitolia

Rune Frederiksen, Olympia Vikatou  / Aarhus University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Nicolò Masturzo, 

The Bacchic gold tablets and poetic tradition: memory and performance

Mark F. McClay  / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Marco Antonio Santamaría, 

Women, pilgrimage, and rituals of healing in modern and ancient Greece: a comparison

Evy Johanne Håland  / Cambridge Scholars, 2023

Reviewed by Christina Aamodt, 

The Roman lower Danube frontier: innovations in theory and practice

Emily Hanscam, John Karavas  / Archaeopress, 2023

Reviewed by Timothy C. Hart,