2019.02.01

Books Received January 2019.

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Bär, Silvio and Emily Hauser (ed.). Reading poetry, writing genre: English poetry and literary criticism in dialogue with classical scholarship. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xi, 256 p. £76.50. ISBN 9781350039322.

Baumann, Mario and Susanne Froehlich (ed.). Auf segelbeflügelten Schiffen das Meer befahren: Das Erlebnis der Schiffsreise im späten Hellenismus und in der Römischen Kaiserzeit. In Zusammenarbeit mit Jens Börstinghaus. Philippika/Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen, 119. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. 432 p. €98,00. ISBN 9783447197328.

Bosman, Philip (ed.). Intellectual and empire in Greco-Roman antiquity. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. xx, 221 p. £115.00. ISBN 9781138505094.

Bryce, Trevor. Warriors of Anatolia: a concise history of the Hittites. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 2019. xii, 288 p. £20.00. ISBN 9781788312370.

Buchholz, Matias. Römisches recht auf Griechisch: Prolegomena zu einer linguistischen Untersuchung der Zusammensetzung und Semantik des byzantinischen prozessrechtlichen Wortschatzes. Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum, 135. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2018. iii, 236 p. ISBN 9789516534285.

Büchsenschütz, Nora. Iberische Halbinsel und Marokko. Repertorium der christlich-antiken Sarkophage, 4. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2018. 330 p. €78,00. ISBN 9783954903627.

Burrus, Virginia. Ancient Christian ecopoetics: cosmologies, saints, things. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 296 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780812250794.

Catapano, Massimo. Sesto empirico e i tropi della sospensione del giudizio. Lexis ancient philosophy, XIII. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2018. 279 p. €60,00 (pb). ISBN 9789025613372.

Cikán, Ondrej and Georg Danek (ed., trans., comm.). Longos. Daphnis und Chloë. Ein poetischer Liebesroman. Wien; Prag: Kētos, 2018. 368 p. €20,00. ISBN 9783903124011.

Cueva, Edmund, Gareth Schmeling, Paula James, Karen Ni Mheallaigh, Stelios Panayotakis and Nadia Scippacercola (ed.). Re-wiring the ancient novel, (2 vols.). Ancient narrative. Supplementum, 24. Groningen: Barkhuis & Groningen University Library, 2018. xxxiv, 353; vii, 378 p. ISBN 9789492444561.

David, Jean-Michel. Au service de l'honneur: les appariteurs de magistrats romains. Mondes Anciens, 7. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019. 361 p., [7 p. of plates]. €33,00 (pb). ISBN 9782251448947.

David, Sylvie, Cécile Daude and Claire Muckensturm-Poulle. Le déploiement du sens: actualité des commentaires anciens à la poésie grecque. Institut des sciences et techniques de l'Antiquité. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2018. 357 p. €30,00 (pb). ISBN 9782848676432.

Defouw, Richard J. The subtelty of Homer. Boulder, CO: Richard J. Defouw, 2018. xi, 350 p. ISBN 9780692185438.

Docter, Ronald F. and Maud Webster (ed.). Exploring Thorikos. Ghent: Ghent University, 2018. 72 p. €20,00 (pb). ISBN 9789492944399.

Ducrey, Pierre (ed.). Polémica: etudes sur la guerre et les armées dans la grèce ancienne. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019. 553 p. €27,00 (pb). ISBN 9782251448930.

Erickson, Kyle. The early Seleukids, their gods and their coins. London; New York: Routledge, 2018. 190 p. $140.00. ISBN 9780415793766.

Esposito, Gabriele. Armies of the late Roman Empire AD 284 to 476. Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2018. 178 p. £19.99. ISBN 9781526730374.

Fulford, Michael, Amanda Clarke, Emma Durham and Nicholas Pankhurst. Late Iron Age Calleva: the pre-conquest occupation at Silchester Insula IX. Silchester Roman town: the Insula IX town life project. Volume 3. Britannia monographs series, 32. London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2018. xx, 532 p. £75.00 (pb). ISBN 9780907764458.

Glazer, Kenneth. Searching for Oedipus: how I found meaning in an ancient masterpiece. Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Hamilton Books, 2018. x, 267 p. $19.99 (pb). ISBN 9780761870463.

Golder, Werner (ed., trans.). Celsus und die antike Wissenschaft: lateinisch-griechisch-deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. 911 p. ISBN 9783110441659.

Gondek, Renee M. and Carrie Lynn Sulosky Weaver (ed.). The ancient art of transformation: case studies from Mediterranean contexts. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2019. xiii, 224 p. £38.00 (pb). ISBN 9781789251043.

Grandazzi, Alexandre and Anne Queyrel-Bottineau (ed.). Antiques uchronies: quand les Grecs et Romains imaginent des histoires alternatives. Histoires. Dijon: Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2018. 355 p. €25,00 (pb). ISBN 9782364412866.

Grignon, Claire (ed.). Médecins et philosophes: une histoire. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2019. 508 p. €26,00 (pb). ISBN 9782271092878.

Guédon, Stéphanie (ed.). La frontière méridionale du Maghreb: Approches croisées (Antiquité - Moyen Âge). 1. Scripta receptoria, 13. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2018. 242 p. €25,00 (pb). ISBN 9782356132321.

Haldon, John F., Hugh Elton and Jim Newhard (ed.). Archaeology and urban settlement in late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia: Euchaïta-Avkat-Beyözü and its environment. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxix, 377 p. $125.00. ISBN 9781108471152.

Hanink, Johanna (trans.). Thucydides. How to think about war: an ancient guide to foreign policy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 336 p. $16.95. ISBN 9780691193847.

Harriman, Benjamin. Melissus and Eleatic monism. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii, 242 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781108416337.

Huebner, Sabine R. and Geoffrey S. Nathan (ed.). Mediterranean families in antiquity: households, extended families, and domestic space. Malden: Wiley Blackwell, 2017. xii, 352 p. $115.99. ISBN 9781119143697.

Humphreys, Sarah C. Kinship in ancient Athens: an anthropological analysis, (2 vols.). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxi, 1457 p. $365.00. ISBN 9780198788256; 9780198788263.

Iacono, Francesco. The archaeology of late Bronze Age interaction and mobility at the gates of Europe: people, things and networks around the southern Adriatic Sea. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xvi, 286 p. €102.60. ISBN 9781350036147.

Ingo, Gildenhard. Cicero, Philippic 2, 44-50, 78-92, 100-119: Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and commentary. Classics textbooks, 6. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2018. 488 p. £19.95. ISBN 9781783745890.

Kaveney, Roz. Catullus. The poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus: some English versions. Bristol: Sad Press, 2018. 154 p. ISBN 9781912802227.

Kivistö, Sari. Lucubrationes Neolatinae: readings of Neo-Latin dissertations and satires. Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 134. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2018. xii, 244 p. €25,00 (pb). ISBN 9789516534278.

Kosmin, Paul J. Time and its adversaries in the Seleucid empire. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2019. 390 p. $55.00. ISBN 9780674976931.

Leontis, Artemis. Eva Palmer Sikelianos: a life in ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xvi, 339 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780691171722.

Liapis, Vaios and Antonis K. Petrides (ed.). Greek tragedy after the fifth century: a survey from ca. 400 BC to ca. AD 400. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiv, 415 p. $125.00. ISBN 9781107038554.

Liverani, Paolo, Michael Pfanner, Stephanie Langer and Friederike Fless. Katalog der Skulpturen IV: Historische Reliefs. Monumenta Artis Romanae, 40. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2018. 288 p. €125,00. ISBN 9783954903078.

López Férez, Juan Antonio. Galeno: preparación y constitución de textos críticos, entrega y publicación de obras propias o ajenas. Estudios de Filología Griega (EFG), 16. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2018. 228 p. €16,00 (pb). ISBN 9788478828234.

Lorrain, Agnès. Le commentaire de Théodoret de Cyr sur l'Épître aux Romains: études philologiques et historiques. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, Band 179. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. xv, 390 p. €129,95. ISBN 9783110537888.

McEachnie, Robert. Chromatius of Aquileia and the making of a Christian city. Routledge studies in the early Christian world. London: Taylor and Francis, 2017. 232 p. $149.95. ISBN 9781138221444.

Medda, Enrico (ed.). Eschilo. Agamennone, (3 vols.). Bollettino dei classici. Supplementi, 31. Roma: Bardi Edizioni, 2017. €120,00. ISBN 9788821811524.

Montel, Sophie and Airton Pollini (ed.). La question de l'espace au ive siècle avant J.-C. dans les mondes grec et étrusco-italique: continuités, ruptures, reprises. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de France-Comté, 2018. 315 p. €30,00 (pb). ISBN 9782848676388.

Moser, Muriel. Emperor and senators in the reign of Constantius II: maintaining imperial rule between Rome and Constantinople in the fourth century AD. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvii, 420 p. $125.00. ISBN 9781108481014.

Nicolardi, Federica (ed., trans., comm.). Filodemo. Il primo libro della retorica. Scuola di Epicuro, volume diciannovesimo. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 2018. 462 p. €70,00. ISBN 9788870886580.

Paul, Chrystal. Emperors of Rome: the monsters, from Tiberius to Theodora, AD 14-548. History of terror. Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2018. 127 p. £12.99. ISBN 9781526728852.

Pratt, Louise H. and C. Michael Sampson (ed.). Engaging classical texts in the contemporary world: from narratology to reception. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. xii, 291 p. $80.00. ISBN 9780472131082.

Pritchard, David. Athenian democracy at war. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxiv, 287 p. $105.00. ISBN 9781108422918.

Rigo, Antonio, Michele Trizio and Eleftherios Despotakis (ed.). Byzantine hagiography: texts, themes and projects. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization, 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. 450 p. €95,00. ISBN 9782503577715.

Roberts, Adam (trans.). Wodwo Vergil: Vergil's Eclogues. Bristol: Sad Press, 2018. 112 p. ISBN 9780244034771.

Rodríguez Martín, José Domingo. El tratado de actionibus y sus apéndices. Colección Ciencia y pensamiento juridico 27. Santiago de Compostela: Andavira, 2016. 212 p. €19,00 (pb). ISBN 9788484089438.

Rogers, Brett M. and Benjamin Eldon Stevens (ed.). Once and future antiquities in science fiction and fantasy. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. xii, 233 p. $26.95 (pb). ISBN 9781350074880.

Ruffing, Kai and Kerstin Droß-Krüpe (ed.). Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est Beiträge zur Wirtschafts-, Sozial-, Rezeptions- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Antike. Festschrift für Hans-Joachim Drexhage zum 70. Geburtstag. Philippika, 125. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. viii, 708 p. €124,00. ISBN 9783447110877.

Schironi, Francesca. The best of the grammarians: Aristarchus of Samothrace on the Iliad. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. xxvi, 908 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780472130764.

Schumacher, Leonhard and Frank Bernstein (ed.). Historischer Realismus: Kleine Schriften zur Alten Geschichte. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018. 357 p. €80,00. ISBN 9783946317258.

Shoemaker, Stephen J. The apocalypse of empire: imperial eschatology in late antiquity and early Islam. Divinations: rereading late ancient religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 260 p. $59.95. ISBN 9780812250404.

Siapkas, Johannes. Från Olympia till Leonidas. Antikvetenskapens teoretiska, II. Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2018. 368 p. 269 kr. ISBN 9789188661692.

Smith, Alexander, Martyn Allen, Tom Brindle, Michael Fulford and Lisa Lodwick. New visions of the countryside of Roman Britain volume 3: life and death in the countryside of Roman Britain. Britannia monography series, 31. London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2018. xviii, 419 p. £32.40 (pb). ISBN 9780907764465.

Stoneman, Richard. The Greek experience of India: from Alexander to the Indo-Greeks. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 376 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780691154039.

Syvanne, Ikka. The military history of late Rome 361-395. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018. 256 p. £30.00. ISBN 9781783462735.

Szabo, Csaba. Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia: materiality and religious experience. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 49. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. viii, 242 p., 54 p. of plates. £40.00. ISBN 9781789690811.

Throop, Susanna A. The Crusades: an epitome. Leeds: Kismet Press, 2018. xv, 196 p. ISBN 9781912801022.

Tissi, Maddalena. Gli oracoli degli dèi greci nella Teosofia di Tubinga. Hellenica, 72. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2018. 390 p. €40,00. ISBN 9788862748483.

Tonglet, Delphine. Le kyathos attique de Madame Teithurnai: échanges artisanaux interactions culturelles entre Grecs et Étrusques en Méditerranée archaïque, (2 vols.). Études d'Archéologie, . Bruxelles: Crea-Patrimoine, 2018. 371; 204 p. ISBN 9782960202908.

Tzochev, Chavdar. Amphora stamps from Thasos. The Athenian Agora, volume XXXVII. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2016. xx, 244 p., [1 p. of plates]. ISBN 9780876612378.

van Voorhis, Julie. The sculptor's workshop. Aphrodisias, 10. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2018. x, 117 p., 60 p. of plates. €69,00. ISBN 9783954902682.

Vavouranakis, Giorgos, K. Kopanias and Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos (ed.). Popular religion and ritual in prehistoric and ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018. x, 170 p., 30 p. of plates. €32,00. ISBN 9781789690453.

Wesselingh, Karyn M. Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates: a zooarchaeological analysis. Mediterranean archaeology supplement, 11. Sydney: Meditarch, 2018. xvii, 241 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780958026581.

Wilberding, James, Julia Trompeter and Alberto Rigolio (trans.). Michael of Ephesus. On Aristotle: Nicomachean ethics 10. Themistius: On Virtue. Ancient commentators on Aristotle. London; New York; Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 276 p. $82.08. ISBN 9781350085077.

Will, Elizabeth Lyding and Kathleen Warner Slane. Cosa: the Roman and Greek amphoras. Supplements to the memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. xi, 214 p., 70 p. of plates. $72.00. ISBN 9780472131433.

Winthrop, Delba. Aristotle, democracy and political science. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. xv, 254 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780226553542.

Woodruff, Paul (ed.). The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: philosophical perspectives. Oxford studies in philosophy and literature. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi, 242 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780190669454.

Yuretich, Linda. The Chronicle of Constantine Manasses. Translated texts for Byzantinists, 6. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. 288 pages. £95.00. ISBN 9781786941510.

Zannis, Angelos G. Le pays entre le Strymon et le Nestos: géographie et histoire (VIIe-IVe siècle avant J.-C.). Meletemata, 71. Athènes: Fondation Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique Institut de Recherches Historiques Section de l' Antiquite Grecque et Romaine, 2014. 634 p. ISBN 9789609538275.