Books received April 2024 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2024)

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Akimova, Liudmila I. The art of Cyprus: image, meaning, function. Studia archaeologica, 258. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 238. ISBN 9788891331229.

Alonso Déniz, Alcorac,Enrique Nieto Izquierdo,Julian V. Méndez Dosuna,Gilles van Heems. Contacts linguistiques en Grèce ancienne. Diachronie et synchronie. Littérature et linguistique, 5. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2024. Pp. 332. ISBN 9782356680846.

Altman, William H. F.Plotinus the master and the apotheosis of imperial Platonism. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024. Pp. 472. ISBN 9781666944396.

Amraoui, Touatia,Emmanuelle Dumas.De l’objet à la société romaine. Études archéologiques et épigraphiques offertes à Jean-Claude Béal. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 101. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 322. ISBN 9781803276021.

Arampapaslis, Konstantinos.Magic in the literature of the Neronian period: realism and criticism. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 162. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xx, 130. ISBN 9783111429403.

Arrigoni, Giampiera.Profili dell’anima. Storiografia da vicino e da lontano. Series antiqua. Ranica: Sestante Edizioni, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9788866424109.

Baumann, Mario,Vasileios Liotsakis.Digressions in classical historiography. Trends in classics, 150. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 356. ISBN 9783111320755.

Bencivenni, Alice,Maria Elena De Luna,Manuela Mari,Fabian Reiter.Egitto ellenistico e altri scritti di storia, economia, istituzioni. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 50. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xx, 523. ISBN 9783111353661.

Blouin, Katherine.The Nile Delta: histories from antiquity to the modern period. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 676. ISBN 9781009175142.

Bonnet, Corinne,Ralph Häussler.The names of the gods in ancient Mediterranean religions. Classical scholarship in translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 282. ISBN 9781009394826.

Bowes, Kim, Miko Flohr.Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity. Mnemosyne, 481. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024. Pp. xvi, 423. ISBN 9789004694835.

Braccesi, Lorenzo.Druso. Un condottiero oscurato. Problemi e ricerche di storia antica, 38. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. xii, 196. ISBN 9788891332981.

Brancher, Dominique,Jean-Charles Monferran.“L’admirable greffier de nature.” Héritages botaniques et zoologiques de Pline au XVIe siècle. Cahiers d’humanisme et Renaissance. Genève: Droz, 2023. Pp. 264. ISBN 9782600064521.

Caldelli, Maria Letizia,Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni,Nicolas Laubry,Ilaria Manzini,Raffaella Marchesini,Filippo Marini Recchia,Fausto Zevi.Epigrafia ostiense dopo il CIL. 2000 iscrizioni funerarie. Antichistica 15; Storia ed epigrafia 5. Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2023. Pp. 868. ISBN 9788869696121.

Carlà-Uhink, Filippo,Marta García Morcillo.Discursive constructions of corruption in ancient Rome. Cultural History, 13.1. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. Pp. 102. ISSN 2045290X.

Casella, Marilena.Antiochia e i suoi buleuti: i discorsi 48 e 49 di Libanio e le dinamiche del rapporto tra potere locale e potere centrale. Monografie del Centro Ricerche di Documentazione sull’Antichità Classica, 56. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. x, 226. ISBN 9788891332646.

Centanni, Monica,Paolo Biagio Cipolla.Sophocles’ Laocoön. Fragmentary Greek drama, 1. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 108. ISBN 9788891333100.

Christenson, David,Cynthia White.Sublime cosmos in Graeco-Roman literature and its reception: intersections of myth, science and history. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781350344679.

Clark, Gillian.Commentary on Augustine City of God, books 6-10. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780198870081.

Cline, Eric H.After 1177 B.C.: the survival of civilizations. Turning points in ancient history. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780691192130.

Comte, Florent,Hernán González Bordas.Numérique et lecture de textes épigraphiques altérés. PrimaLun@, 27. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 108. ISBN 9782356135469.

Connor, Andrew J.,Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Francisca A. J. Hoogendijk.Unending variety: papyrological texts and studies in honour of Peter van Minnen. Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, 42. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxx, 232. ISBN 9789004680272.

Conventi, Marta,Luigi Gambaro,Marina Lo Blundo,Maura Medri.Le ville Romane di Sanremo. Studia archaeologica, 262. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9788891310231.

Cool, H.E.M.Blue/green glass bottles from Roman Britain: square and other prismatic forms. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 113. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781803277431.

D’Anna, Carmen.Pompei I 14. Le unità abitative e i materiali in contesto. Studi e ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, 50. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 442. ISBN 9788891332004.

De Beer, Susanna.The Renaissance battle for Rome: competing claims to an idealized past in humanist Latin poetry. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780198878902.

De la Bédoyère, Guy.Populus: living and dying in ancient Rome. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780226832944.

Donizeau, Pauline,Yassaman Khajehi,Daniela Potenza.Greek tragedy and the Middle East: chasing the myth. Classical diaspora. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350355699.

Duval, Frédéric,Elisa Guadagnini.Le théâtre antique au Moyen Âge: étude des mots et des concepts dans les textes en français et en italien. Publications romanes et françaises. Genève: Droz, 2024. Pp. 672. ISBN 9782600064682.

Essler, Holger.Mitteilungen aus der Würzburger Papyrussammlung II (P.Würzb. II). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte, 49. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. x, 213. ISBN 9783111384528.

Ferella, Chiara.Reconstructing Empedocles’ thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 412. ISBN 9781009392570.

Girardin, Michaël,Sven Günther,Cristina Soraci.Fiscalità ed epigrafia nel mondo romano. Nuove ricerche. Bibliotheca aperta, 4. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 120. ISBN 9788891332790.

Giulea, Dragoş Andrei.Antioch, Nicaea, and the synthesis of Constantinople: revisiting trajectories in the fourth-century Christological debates. Studies in the history of Christian traditions, 200. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024. Pp. xii, 310. ISBN 9789004683228.

Golitsis, Pantelis,Philippe Hoffmann.Simplicius de Cilicie. Commentaire à la Physique d’Aristote: digressions sur le lieu et sur le temps. Édition critique avec introduction et traduction. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina. Series academica, 9. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. lxvi, 187. ISBN 9783110786002.

Gonis, Nikolaos.The Rendel Harris papyri. Volume III. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte, 51. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. x, 186. ISBN 9783111355511.

Gosner, Linda R.,Jeremy Hayne.Local experiences of connectivity and mobility in the ancient west-central Mediterranean. Monographs in Mediterranean archaeology. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781800504387.

Griebeler, Andrew.Botanical icons: critical practices of illustration in the premodern Mediterranean. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. Pp. 344. ISBN 9780226826790.

Grig, Lucy.Popular culture and the end of antiquity in southern Gaul, c. 400–550. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781108491440.

Hengelbrock, Matthias. Minerva am Theaterwall. Vorträge am Alten Gymnasium Oldenburg, Band 1: Geschichte und Politik. Oldenburg: Florian Isensee GmbH, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9783730820018.

Hengelbrock, Matthias.Minerva am Theaterwall. Vorträge am Alten Gymnasium Oldenburg, Band 2: Philosophie und Literatur. Oldenburg: Florian Isensee GmbH, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9783730820025.

Hobart, Michelle.Medieval landscapes of southern Etruria: the excavations at Capalbiaccio Tricosto, 1976-2010. MediTo ­– archaeological and historical landscapes of Mediterranean central Italy, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 366. ISBN 9782503597751.

Horster, Marietta,Olga Pelcer-Vujačić,Snežana Ferjančić.Studia epigraphica et militaria. In memoriam Miroslava Mirković. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Auctarium series nova. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xii, 390. ISBN 9783111427898.

Hoxby, Blair.Opera, tragedy, and neighbouring forms from Corneille to Calzabigi. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2024. Pp. viii, 340. ISBN9781487503512.

Jacob, Christian.Denys le Périégète. La Description de la terre habitée. La roue à livres, 101. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9782251455396.

Killen, John T.The new documents in Mycenean Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 1199. ISBN 9781009286091.

Kingsley, K. Scarlett.Herodotus and the Presocratics: inquiry and intellectual culture in the fifth century BCE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781009338547.

Klose, Christian.Die Dresdner Gipsabgusssammlung im 19. Jahrhundert. Von der Künstlersammlung Anton Raphael Mengs’ zu Georg Treus experimentellem Lehrmuseum. Transformationen der Antike, 69. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xii, 669. ISBN 9783111325439.

Knoch, Stefan.Calpurnius Flaccus. Deklamationen. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 194. ISBN 9783111154305.

Krostenko, Brian A.The voices of the consul: the rhetorics of Cicero’s De Lege Agraria I and II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xviii, 376. ISBN 9780199734207.

Laferrière, Carolyn M.Divine music in archaic and classical Greek art: seeing the songs of the gods. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 302. ISBN 9781009315944.

Layne, Danielle A.Plotinus. Ennead I.5: On Whether Well-Being Increases with Time. The Enneads of Plotinus. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2024. Pp. 152. ISBN 9781733535748.

Lipps, Johannes, Detlev Kreikenbom, Jonas Osnabrügge.Die Mainzer Salus. Gesellschaft und Stadtkultur im Norden der Germania Superior. Material appropriation processes in antiquity, 3. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2023. Pp. 112. ISBN 9783752007954.

Majithia, Roopen.The highest good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita: knowledge, happiness, and freedom. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350215092.

Mattern, Torsten,Marcus Reuter.Was ist Residenz? Forschungen zu spätrömischen Residenzen, 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. viii, 206. ISBN 9783447121316.

Mebane, Julia.The body politic in Roman political thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781009389297.

Michalewski, Alexandra.Le dieu, le mouvement, la matière: Atticus et ses critiques dans l’Antiquité tardive. Anagôgê, 16. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 282. ISBN 9782251455457.

Moiseeva, Evgenia.La notion de volonté dans les écrits de saint Augustin entre 388 et 404. Collection des études augustiniennes. Série antiquité, 214. Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2024. Pp. 550. ISBN 9782851213310.

Morand, Anne-France,Eric Crégheur,Karine Laporte,Gaëlle Rioual.Regards croisés sur la pseudépigraphie dans l’Antiquité. Judaïsme ancien et origines du christianisme, 30. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9782503602608.

Naddaf, Gerard, Louis-André Dorion.Making sense of myth: conversations with Luc Brisson. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. Pp. 330. ISBN 9780228020707.

Nebelin, Marian.Europas imaginierte Einheit. Kulturgeschichte und Antikerezeption bei Stefan Zweig. Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 96. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2024. Pp. 392. ISBN 9783412523251.

Nielsen, Karen Margrethe.Vice in ancient philosophy: Plato and Aristotle on moral ignorance and corruption of character. Elements in ancient philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 74. ISBN 9781009468039.

Palamidis, Alaya,Corinne Bonnet.What’s in a divine name? Religious systems and human agency in the ancient Mediterranean. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xix, 876. ISBN 9783111326276.

Parisi Presicce, Claudio,Massimo Baldi.Hadrianeum: il progetto architettonico e le fasi costruttive. Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Supplementi, 31. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. xvi, 258. ISBN 9788891308337.

Pensabene, Patrizio,Valerio Bruni.Il teatro e l’odeion di Venafro. Bibliotheca archaeologica, 78. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 156. ISBN 9788891333216.

Pritchard, David M.The Athenian funeral oration: after Nicole Loraux. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 528. ISBN 9781009413084.

Robitzsch, Jan Maximilian.Epicurean justice: nature, agreement, and virtue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xi, 199. ISBN 9781009429467.

Rollinger, Robert,Julian Degen.The world of Alexander in perspective: contextualizing Arrian. Classica et orientalia, 30. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. vi, 409. ISBN 9783447119085.

Rowland, Ingrid D.,Sinclair Bell.Brill’s companion to the reception of Vitruvius. Brill’s companions to classical reception. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 747. ISBN 9789004270671.

Rowlandson, Jane,Roger S. Bagnall,Dorothy J. Thompson.Slavery and dependence in ancient Egypt: sources in translation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 535. ISBN 9781107032972.

Roy, Alyson.Empire of images: visualizing the conquered in the Roman Republic. Appearances – studies in visual research, 5. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024. Pp. xvii, 166. ISBN 9783111325347.

Salvatore, John Pamment.Exeter: a Roman legionary fortress and civitas capital. Archaeopress Roman sites series. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 178. ISBN 9781803276281.

Sanzo, Joseph E.Ritual boundaries: magic and differentiation in late antique Christianity. Christianity in late antiquity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 188. ISBN 9780520399181.

Scharff, Sebastian.Hellenistic athletes: agonistic cultures and self-presentation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781009199957.

Shogry, Simon.Stoic eros. Elements in ancient philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 76. ISBN 9781009500814.

Siapkas, Johannes.1. Från Homeros till Rom. Antikvetenskapens teoretiska landskap, 3. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 97891893614161.

Stowers, Stanley.Christian beginnings: a study in ancient Mediterranean religion. Edinburgh studies in religion in antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781399510066.

Thomi, Severin.Felix Staehelin und die römische Schweiz. Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Antike nach der Antike, 4. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2024. Pp. 527. ISBN 9783796550300.

Todisco, Luigi,Francesca Rosa Pesce.Il Pittore Felton e la sua officina. Ceramografia singolare a Taranto nell’età di Archita. Studia archaeologica, 260. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 192. ISBN 9788891332851.

Tsagalis, Christos C.Heracles in early Greek epic. Mnemosyne, 482. Boston: Brill, 2024. Pp. x, 261. ISBN 9789004696198.

Walter, Anke.The temporality of festivals: approaches to festive time in ancient Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Medieval China. Chronoi, 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. vi, 94. ISBN 9783111364865.

Walthall, D. Alex.Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean world: economy and administration during the reign of Hieron II. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 414. ISBN 9781316511053.

Wells, James Bradley.HoneyVoiced: a translation of Pindar’s songs for athletes. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 344. ISBN 9781350226401.

Winkler, Martin M.Classical antiquity and the cinematic imagination. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 554. ISBN 9781009396714.

Books received April 2024 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2024)
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