Archives: Reviews

Hercules performed: the hero on stage from the Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century

Emma Stafford  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Hannah Jorsh, 

Hellenistic athletes: agonistic cultures and self-presentation

Sebastian Scharff  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by John Haberstroh, 

Birthing Romans: childbearing and its risks in imperial Rome

Anna Bonnell Freidin  / Princeton University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Helena López Gómez, 

Denys le Périégète. La Description de la terre habitée

Christian Jacob  / Les Belles Lettres, 2024

Reviewed by José Leonardo Sousa Buzelli, 

Name and identity: selected studies on ancient anthroponymy through the Mediterranean

Cristina de la Escosura Balbás, Anamarija Kurilič, Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo  / BAR Publishing, 2024

Reviewed by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, 

L’Antiquité selon Guillaume Budé: à l’école d’un humaniste érudit

Romain Menini, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi  / Belles lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Gianmario Cattaneo, 

Flavius Josephus’ self-characterisation in first-century Rome. A historiographical analysis of autobiographical discourse in the Judaean War

Eelco Glas  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by William den Hollander, 

Back to the game: reframing play and games in context

Barbara Carè, Véronique Dasen, Ulrich Schädler  / Associação Ludus, 2022

Reviewed by Sonia Klinger, 

Confiscation or coexistence: Egyptian temples in the age of Augustus

Andrew Connor  / University of Michigan Press, 2022

Reviewed by Friederike Herklotz, 

From Safin to Roman: cultural change and hybridization in central Adriatic Italy

Oliva Menozzi  / Archaeopress, 2024

Reviewed by Ludovico Rodolfo Runco, 

Magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: studies in honor of Christopher A. Faraone

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Carolina López-Ruiz, Sofía Torallas Tovar  / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Marko Vitas, 

Ancient science and technology of colour. Pigments, dyes, drugs and their experience in antiquity

Matteo Martelli, Maria Michela Sassi  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023

Reviewed by Alessandro Di Ludovico, 

Queens in antiquity and the present: speculative visions and critical histories

Patricia Eunji Kim, Anastasia Tchaplyghine  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Lynette Mitchell, 

Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896-c.1936

Nora Goldschmidt  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Daniel Orrells, 

Homer’s living language: formularity, dialect, and creativity in oral-traditional poetry

Chiara Bozzone  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by José-Antonio Fernández Delgado, 

Dinámicas históricas, religiosas e iconográficas en el norte de África

Fabiola Salcedo Garcés, Jorge García Sánchez, Raquel Rubio González  / Archaeopress, 2024

Reviewed by Iria Souto Castro, 

Freedom and power in classical Athens

Naomi T. Campa  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Winfried Schmitz, 

Plato’s political thought

John Lombardini  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Joseph Gerbasi, 

The magister equitum in the Roman Republic: the evolution of an extraordinary magistracy

Bradley Jordan  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Elizabeth H. Pearson, 

Homer as a cultural horizon

Nicolas Bertrand, Gregory Nagy, Giampiero Scafoglio, Arnaud Zucker  / Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023

Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Stockdale,