Archives: Reviews

Galen: “On Avoiding Distress” and “On My Own Opinions”

Ioannis Polemis, Sophia Xenophontos  / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by Teun Tieleman, 

Textiles in motion: dress for dance in the ancient world

Audrey Gouy  / Oxbow Books, 2023

Reviewed by Giacomo Bardelli, 

The Greek words in Persius’ literary programme

Spyridon Tzounakas  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by László Takács, 

Cicero’s Brutus: edition, textual commentary, and study of the transmission

Douglas R. Thomas  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Andrew R. Dyck, 

Medea’s long shadow in postcolonial contexts

Ana Filipa Prata, Rodrigo Verano  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by Carolyn MacDonald, 

Hospitalité et régulation de l’altérité dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne

Claire Fauchon-Claudon, Marie-Adeline Le Guennec  / Ausonius Éditions, 2022

Reviewed by Gaia De Luca, 

A commentary on Plautus’ Curculio

T. H. M. Gellar-Goad  / University of Michigan Press, 2024

Reviewed by Areti Kyrkopoulou, 

Mediterranean connections: how the sea links people and transforms identities

Laura C. Schmidt, Anja Rutter, Lutz Käppel, Oliver Nakoinz  / Sidestone Press, 2023

Reviewed by Marcus Ziemann, 

Tite-Live et la mise en scène de l’histoire. La construction narrative du conflit patricio-plébéien

Nicolas Meunier  / Les Belles Lettres, 2024

Reviewed by R. A. Lahiri, 

Leading Rome from a distance: asserting autocracy through absence, 300 BCE-37 CE

Ralph Lange  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Darrel Janzen, 

Classics, love, revolution: the legacies of Luigi Settembrini

Andrea Capra, Barbara Graziosi  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Anna Maria Cimino, 

Les frises à guirlandes d’Aphrodisias de Carie

Nathalie de Chaisemartin  / Ausonius Éditions, 2024

Reviewed by Marcello Spanu, 

Discursive constructions of corruption in ancient Rome

Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Marta García Morcillo  / Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Sarah E. Bond, 

Petits dieux des Romains et leurs voisins. Enquête comparatiste sur les hiérarchies divines dans les cultures romaines, italiques et grecques

Francesca Prescendi, Françoise Van Haeperen  / Brepols, 2024

Reviewed by Marin Mauger, 

Themistius and Aristotle: teaching philosophy from late antiquity to the Middle Ages

Elisa Coda  / Brepols, 2024

Reviewed by Yoav Meyrav, 

Cinismo e Cristianesimo delle origini

Stefano Mecci  / Brepols, 2024

Reviewed by Gianluca Piscini, 

Antiquarianismus in Rom: 2. Jhd. v. Chr.-3. Jhd. n. Chr.

Raphael Schwitter  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Nicoletta Bruno, 

La cité et le nombre. Clisthène d’Athènes, l’arithmétique et l’avènement de la démocratie

Paulin Ismard, Arnaud Macé  / Les Belles Lettres, 2024

Reviewed by Alexandra Eckert, 

L’Eredità di Giustiniano. L’ultima guerra dell’Italia romana

Hendrik Dey, Fabrizio Oppedisano  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2024

Reviewed by Maxime Emion, 

The ruins of Rome: a cultural history

Roland Mayer  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Hendrik Dey,