Archives: Reviews

Personal experience and material devotion in ancient Greek religion

K. A. Rask  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, 

The lost history of Sextus Aurelius Victor

Justin Stover, George Woudhuysen  / Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Alessio Mancini, 

The Latin love elegists

Hunter H. Gardner  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Peter E. Knox, 

Critical ancient world studies: the case for forgetting classics

Mathura Umachandran, Marchella Ward  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Hannah Čulík-Baird, 

From the Palatine to Pirro Ligorio: architectural, sculptural and antiquarian studies in memory of Amanda Claridge, 1949-2022

Glynn J. C. Davis, Janet DeLaine, Zena Kamash, Charlotte R. Potts  / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2023

Reviewed by Allison B. Kidd, 

Langue idéale, langue réelle: description et normalisation des langues classiques du IIIe s. av. J.-C. au XIIe s. de notre ère

Lionel Dumarty  / Brepols, 2024

Reviewed by Leonardo Chiocchetti, 

Roman love elegy and the eros of empire

Phebe Lowell Bowditch  / Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Reviewed by R. Gillian Glass, 

Archaeological ambassadors: a history of archaeological gifts in New York City

Elizabeth R. Macaulay  / Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Reviewed by Louise Blanke, 

Religion in Roman Phrygia: from polytheism to Christianity

Robert Parker  / University of California Press, 2023

Reviewed by Corinne Bonnet, 

Pox romana: the plague that shook the Roman world

Colin Elliott  / Princeton University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Rocco Palermo, 

Polibio e Roma, l’alba di un impero

Filippo Battistoni  / Carocci Editore, 2022

Reviewed by François Santoni, 

The new documents in Mycenaean Greek

John Killen  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Anna P. Judson, 

Térence. Comédies. Tome I: Andrienne, Hécyre

Benjamin Victor, Jules Marouzeau  / Les Belles Lettres, 2023

Reviewed by Giuseppe Pezzini, 

Statues and busts

Amanda Claridge, Eloisa Dodero  / Brepols, 2023

Reviewed by Julia Lenaghan, 

Turpitudinum notae: la caratterizzazione dell’usurpatore nei Panegyrici Latini tardoantichi

Massimo Lolli  / Schwabe Verlag, 2023

Reviewed by Sergio Audano, 

Representing the dynasty in Flavian Rome: the case of Josephus’ Jewish War

Jonathan Davies  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten, 

Soutènements et périboles de Delphes: construits en pierres travaillées

Évangélia Trouki  / École française d’Athènes, 2023

Reviewed by Eric W. Driscoll, 

Capua. Tombe orientalizzanti. Necropoli Fornaci

Elena Marazzi, Mattia Maturo  / Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022

Reviewed by Ulla Rajala, 

Facing down the furies: suicide, the ancient Greeks, and me

Edith Hall  / Yale University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Lidia Gambon, 

From photography to 3D models and beyond: visualizations in archaeology

Donald H. Sanders  / Archaeopress, 2023

Reviewed by Alessandro Di Ludovico,