Archives: Reviews

How republics die: creeping authoritarianism in ancient Rome and beyond

Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, David Rafferty, Christopher J. Dart  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Daniel Sutton, 

Alatzomouri Pefka: a Middle Minoan IIB workshop making organic dyes

Vili Apostolakou, Thomas Brogan, Philip Betancourt  / INSTAP Academic Press, 2020

Reviewed by Hariclia Brecoulaki, 

Eudoxe de Cnide. Témoignages et fragments

Victor Gysembergh  / Les Belles Lettres, 2024

Reviewed by Konstantine Panegyres, 

Philosophers, Jews, and Christians in the Roman empire: authority, text, and tradition

Leslie Kelly  / Routledge, 2025

Reviewed by Mark Letteney, 

Early Christian writers in the West and the classical literary tradition: stylistic and literary perspectives

Sophia Papaioannou, Thomas Tsartsidis  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Gabriela Ryser, 

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, 

Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: a linguistic commentary and a comparative study

Laura Massetti  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Chris Eckerman, 

The sophists

Richard McKirahan  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by Alex Lee, 

Roman bioarchaeology: interdisciplinary perspectives on life and death in the Roman world

Elizabeth A. Bews, Kathryn E. Marklein  / University of Florida Press, 2024

Reviewed by Erica Rowan, 

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, 

La théurgie et la mystagogie dans la philosophie de Proclus: statut, rôle, implications

David Vachon  / Presses de l'Université Laval, 2024

Reviewed by Ilinca Tanaseanu-Doebler, 

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,