Archives: Reviews

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, 

Xenophon’s anabasis: a Socratic history

Shane Brennan  / Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Claudia Marsico, 

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, 

Urbanism and its impact on human health: a long-term study at Knossos, Crete

Anna C. Moles  / BAR Publishing, 2023

Reviewed by Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen, 

Dire le décor antique: textes grecs et latins au miroir des realia (IIIe s. av.-VIIIe s. ap. J.-C.)

Nicole Blanc, Marie-Thérèse Camus, Hélène Eristov, Marie-Christine Fayant, Delphine Lauritzen  / Les Belles Lettres, 2024

Reviewed by Silvia Gazzoli, 

Chasing the idea of completeness: great book collections in the Roman world

Katarzyna Pietruczuk  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Nigel Wilson, 

Gewalt in der Antike. Religiöse Ansätze zu ihrer Legitimierung und Delegitimierung

Johannes Breuer, Jochen Walter  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Cesare Barba,