The Journal of Roman Studies 111, 2021
Andrea L. Brock, Laura Motta, Nicola Terrenato, On the Banks of the Tiber: Opportunity and Transformation in Early Rome, pp. 1–30
Bobby Xinyue, (Un)Seeing Augustus: Libertas, Divinisation, and the Iuvenis of Virgil's First Eclogue, pp. 31–48
Michael B. Sullivan, Horace's Programmatic Priamel, pp. 49–73
R. R. R. Smith, Maiestas Serena: Roman Court Cameos and Early Imperial Poetry and Panegyric, pp. 75–152
Tal A. Ish-Shalom, Provincial Monarchs as an Eastern Arcanum Imperii: ‘Client Kingship’, the Augustan Revolution and the Flavians, pp. 153–177
Ruurd Nauta, In Praise of Meliboeus: Calpurnius Siculus and Columella, pp. 179–202
Kyle Helms, Pompeii's Safaitic Graffiti, pp. 203–214
Review Articles
Katherine Clarke, Language and Meaning in Tacitus’ Annals, pp. 215–224
George Woudhuysen, Codex Nicholsonianus, pp. 225–238
Reviews
I. Literature and Reception
MARTIN T. DINTER (ED.), THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO ROMAN COMEDY (Cambridge companions to literature). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxx + 412. isbn 9781107002104. £ 79.99 / US$ 105.00. Serena S. Witzke, pp. 239–240
BRIAN WALTERS, THE DEATHS OF THE REPUBLIC: IMAGERY OF THE BODY POLITIC IN CICERONIAN ROME. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 158, illus. isbn 9780198839576. £ 60. A. Damtoft Poulsen, pp. 240–242
DONNCHA O'ROURKE (ED.), APPROACHES TO LUCRETIUS: TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN READING THE DE RERUM NATURA. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 326, illus. isbn 9781108421966. £ 75. Nik Nicheperovich, pp. 242–243
JENNIFER FERRISS-HILL, HORACE'S ARS POETICA: FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP, AND THE ART OF LIVING. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xli + 301. isbn 9780691195025. $ 45.00/£ 38.00 Michèle Lowrie, pp. 244–245
KATHLEEN MCCARTHY, I THE POET: FIRST-PERSON FORM IN HORACE, CATULLUS, AND PROPERTIUS. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 244. isbn 9781501739552. £ 46. Tom Geue, pp. 245–246
PETER J. HESLIN, PROPERTIUS, GREEK MYTH, AND VIRGIL: RIVALRY, ALLEGORY, AND POLEMIC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp xii + 304. isbn 9780199541577. £ 69. Tara S. Welch, pp. 246–247
ANNE ROGERSON, VIRGIL'S ASCANIUS: IMAGINING THE FUTURE IN THE AENEID (Cambridge classical studies). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. viii + 237. isbn 9781107115392. $ 99.99. Mairead McAuley, pp. 247–249
MARTINA BJÖRK, OVID'S HEROIDES AND THE ETHOPOEIA (Studia Graeca et Latina Lundensia 22). Lund: Lund University, 2016. Pp. 353. isbn 9789188473004. € 49.95. Angeline Chiu, pp. 249–250
M LUIS RIVERO. CONSUELO ÁLVAREZ, ROSA M. IGLESIAS and JUAN A. ESTÉVEZ (EDS), VIVAM! ESTUDIOS SOBRE LA OBRA DE OVIDIO/STUDIES ON OVID'S POETRY. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2018. Pp. 351. isbn 9788417288129. € 35.00. Angeline Chiu, pp. 250–251
R. BRACHT BRANHAM, INVENTING THE NOVEL: BAKHTIN AND PETRONIUS FACE TO FACE (Classics in theory). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xvi + 225. isbn 9780198841265. £ 65/$85. Kirk Freudenburg, pp. 251–252
LAURA ZIENTEK and MARK THORNE (EDS), LUCAN'S IMPERIAL WORLD: THE BELLUM CIVILE IN ITS CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS (Bloomsbury classical studies monographs). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 272. isbn 9781350097438. $ 103.50. Martin T. Dinter, pp. 253–254
ANTONY AUGOUSTAKIS, EMMA BUCKLEY and CLAIRE STOCKS (EDS), FIDES IN FLAVIAN LITERATURE (Phoenix Supplementary Volume 56). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. 328, illus. isbn 9781487505530. $75.00. Simone Finkmann, pp. 254–256
VERENA SCHULZ, DECONSTRUCTING IMPERIAL REPRESENTATION: TACITUS, CASSIUS DIO, AND SUETONIUS ON NERO AND DOMITIAN (Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature 427). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Pp. xii + 410. isbn 9789004407213 (bound). €132.00/$ 159.00. Christopher T. Mallan, pp. 256–257
LUCA GRAVERINI and LARA NICOLINI (EDS), APULEIO, METAMORFOSI. VOL. I, LIBRI I–III (Scrittori greci e latini). Milan: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla/Mondadori, 2019. Pp. cxxvi + 389. isbn 9788804711322. € 50.00. Giuseppina Magnaldi, pp. 257–258
GEOFFREY C. BENSON, APULEIUS’ INVISIBLE ASS: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE UNSEEN IN THE METAMORPHOSES. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 299. isbn 9781108475556. £ 75.00. Sonia Sabnis, pp. 259–260
IRENE PEIRANO GARRISON, PERSUASION, RHETORIC AND ROMAN POETRY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 287. isbn 9781107104242. $ 99.99. Martina Björk, pp. 260–261
THOMAS BIGGS and JESSICA BLUM (EDS), THE EPIC JOURNEY IN GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE (Yale Classical Studies volume 39). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 323. isbn 9781108498098 (bound); 9781108702898 (paper). £ 75.00. Emma Greensmith, pp. 261–262
TOM GEUE, AUTHOR UNKNOWN: THE POWER OF ANONYMITY IN ANCIENT ROME. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. vii + 361. isbn 9780674988200. $ 45. J. Mira Seo, pp. 262–263
NORA GOLDSCHMIDT, AFTERLIVES OF THE ROMAN POETS: BIOFICTION AND THE RECEPTION OF LATIN POETRY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii + 227, illus. isbn 9781107180253. £ 75. Lucia Boldrini, pp. 264–265
IAN MOYER, ADAM LECZNAR and HEIDI MORSE (EDS), CLASSICISMS IN THE BLACK ATLANTIC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 338, illus. ISBN 9780198814122. £ 85. Ulrike Roth, pp. 265–266
II. Archaeology and Art
JACOPO TABOLLI with ORLANDO CERASUOLO (EDS), VEII (Cities and Communities of the Etruscans). Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019. Pp. xix + 238, illus., maps, plans. isbn 9781477317259 (cloth). £ 45.00/US$ 55.00. Laurel Taylor, pp. 266–268
L'ETRURIA DELLE NECROPOLI RUPESTRI. ATTI DEL XXIX CONVEGNO DI STUDI ETRUSCHI ED ITALICI. Pp. x + 400, illus. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2019. isbn 9788876893162. € 140. Michael H. Crawford, p. 268
ISABELLA DAMIANI and CLAUDIO PARISI PRESICCE (EDS), LA ROMA DEI RE, IL RACCONTO DELL'ARCHEOLOGIA. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2019. Pp. 509. isbn 9788849237399. €50. - GABRIELE CIFANI, THE ORIGINS OF THE ROMAN ECONOMY: FROM THE IRON AGE TO THE EARLY REPUBLIC IN A MEDITERRANEAN PERSPECTIVE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 450. isbn 9781108478953. £ 120. Seth Bernard, pp. 269–271
AGNESE LIVIA FISCHETTI and PETER ATTEMA (EDS), ALLE PENDICI DEI COLLI ALBANI: DINAMICHE INSEDIATIVE E CULTURA MATERIALE AI CONFINI CON ROMA (Groningen Archaeological Studies 35). Groningen: Barkhuis, 2019. Pp. 276. isbn 9789492444837. € 54.95. Eoin O'Donoghue, pp. 271–273
GIOVANNA BATTAGLINI, FILIPPO COARELLI and FRANCESCA DIOSONO (EDS), FREGELLAE. IL TEMPIO DEL FORO E IL TEMPIO SUBURBANO SULLA VIA LATINA (Monumenti antichi. Serie miscellanea 23). Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2019. Pp. lvii + 362, illus. isbn 9788876893148. € 80. Michael H. Crawford, p. 273
FIKRET YEGÜL and DIANE FAVRO, ROMAN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM: FROM THE ORIGINS TO LATE ANTIQUITY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 897, 32 unnumbered pp. plates, illus., plans. isbn 9780521470711. £ 230.00. Dominik Maschek, pp. 274–275
RABUN TAYLOR, KATHERINE RINNE and SPIRO KOSTOF, ROME: AN URBAN HISTORY FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 432, illus., maps, plans. isbn 9781107013995. £ 85.
CLAIRE HOLLERAN and AMANDA CLARIDGE (EDS), A COMPANION TO THE CITY OF ROME. (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). Hoboken/Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. Pp. xxvi + 758, illus., plans. isbn 9781405198196. £ 130.
SETH BERNARD, BUILDING MID-REPUBLICAN ROME: LABOR, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE URBAN ECONOMY. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 336, illus. isbn 9780190878788. £ 55.
STEPHEN L. DYSON, ARCHAEOLOGY, IDEOLOGY AND URBANISM IN ROME FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO BERLUSCONI. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xv + 327, illus. isbn 9780521874595. £ 75. Jocelin Chan, Kathryn Welch, pp. 275–279
MARIA L. CALDELLI and CECILIA RICCI (EDS), CITY OF ENCOUNTERS: PUBLIC SPACES AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN ANCIENT ROME (RomeScapes: Social and Cultural Topographies of the City of Rome). Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2020. Pp. 279. isbn 9788854910577. £ 22.80/€ 25. Ben G. J. Salisbury, pp. 279–281
HANNAH PLATTS, MULTISENSORY LIVING IN ANCIENT ROME: POWER AND SPACE IN ROMAN HOUSES. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 337 + xviii, illus. isbn 9781788312998. £ 85. Laura M. Banducci, pp. 281–282
MARK A. LOCICERO, LIQUID FOOTPRINTS: WATER, URBANISM, AND SUSTAINABILITY IN ROMAN OSTIA. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020. Pp. 381, illus. isbn 9789087283230. € 64.50. Adam Rogers, pp. 282–283
SARAH LEVIN-RICHARDSON, THE BROTHEL OF POMPEII: SEX, CLASS, AND GENDER AT THE MARGINS OF ROMAN SOCIETY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp xix + 243, illus., plans. isbn 9781108496872. £ 75.00. Virginia L. Campbell, pp. 283–285
PATRICK R. CROWLEY, THE PHANTOM IMAGE: SEEING THE DEAD IN ANCIENT ROME. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 308. isbn 9780226648293. $ 60.00. Michael Squire, pp. 285–286
ANDREW BURNETT, THE HIDDEN TREASURES OF THIS HAPPY ISLAND. A HISTORY OF NUMISMATICS IN BRITAIN FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT (British Numismatic Society Special Publication no. 14/Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication no. 58). London: Spink, 2020. 3 vols. Pp. xxxvi + 566 (vol. 1); xvi + 612 (vol. 2); xiv + 626 (vol 3), illus. isbn 0901405361. £ 150.00. Michael H. Crawford, pp. 286–287
GONZALO CRUZ ANDREOTTI (ED.), ROMAN TURDETANIA: ROMANIZATION, IDENTITY AND SOCIO-CULTURAL INTERACTION IN THE SOUTH OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA BETWEEN THE 4TH AND 1ST CENTURIES BCE (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean 3). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Pp. xxiii + 256, illus. isbn: 9789004373402. € 123.00/US$ 148.00. Manuel Fernández-Götz, pp. 287–288
BJÖRN FORSÉN (ED.), THESPROTIA EXPEDITION IV: REGION TRANSFORMED BY EMPIRE (PMFIA 24). Helsinki: Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 2019. Pp. iii + 482, illus. isbn 9789526850047. € 35.00. Will Bowden, pp. 288–290
RINSE WILLET, THE GEOGRAPHY OF URBANISM IN ROMAN ASIA MINOR. Sheffield/Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2020. Pp. xvii + 398, ill. isbn 9781781798430. £ 100. Laura Pfuntner, pp. 290–291
LIDEWIJDE DE JONG, THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DEATH IN ROMAN SYRIA. BURIAL, COMMEMORATION, AND EMPIRE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp xv + 365, illus. isbn 9781107131415. £ 80. Olympia Bobou, pp. 291–292
MARTIN STERRY and DAVID J. MATTINGLY (EDS), URBANISATION AND STATE FORMATION IN THE ANCIENT SAHARA AND BEYOND (Trans-Saharan archaeology series 3). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xxiv + 740, illus. isbn 9781108494441. £135. - JOHN SCHEID and MICHEL ZINK (EDS), LES SOCIÉTÉS TRIBALES EN AFRIQUE DU NORD (IXe journée d’études nord-africaines). Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2019. Pp. 155, illus. isbn 9782877543873. € 25. Brent D. Shaw, pp. 292–295
JASPER DE BRUIN, BORDER COMMUNITIES AT THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: PROCESSES OF CHANGE IN THE CIVITAS CANANEFATIUM (Amsterdam archaeological studies 28). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 297, illus. isbn 9789463728102. £ 104. Lacey M. Wallace, pp. 295–296
III. History and Culture
GREG WOOLF, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ANCIENT CITIES: A NATURAL HISTORY. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 528, illus. isbn 9780199664733. £ 25. Rubina Raja, pp. 297–298
MARIO TORELLI, GLI SPURINAS. UNA FAMIGLIA DI PRINCIPES NELLA TARQUINIA DELLA ‘RINASCITA’. (Studia Archeologica 232). Rome: ‘L'Erma’ di Bretschneider, 2019. Pp. 208, 99 figs. isbn 9788891318770. € 145. Michael H. Crawford, p. 298
HEIKKI SOLIN (ED.), STUDI STORICO-EPIGRAFICI SUL LAZIO ANTICO II (Commentationes humanarum litterarum 137). Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2019. Pp. viii + 170, figs. isbn 9789516534346. € 20. Michael H. Crawford, p. 299
MARIA FLORIANA CURSI (ED.), XII TABULAE. TESTO E COMMENTO. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2018. 2 vols. Pp. xvi + 450 (vol. 1); x + 438 (vol. 2). isbn 9788849537314 (set). € 110.00 (set). Michael H. Crawford, pp. 299–301
KARL-JOACHIM HÖLKESKAMP, ROMAN REPUBLICAN REFLECTIONS: STUDIES IN POLITICS, POWER, AND PAGEANTRY. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 274. isbn 9783515127035. €54.00. - KARL-JOACHIM HÖLKESKAMP, SEMA KARATAŞ and ROMAN ROTH (EDS), EMPIRE, HEGEMONY OR ANARCHY? ROME AND ITALY, 201–31 BCE. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. Pp. 258. isbn 9783515115247. € 49.00. Seth Bernard, pp. 301–303
CARSTEN HJORT LANGE and FREDERIK JULIAAN VERVAET (EDS), THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF LATE REPUBLICAN CIVIL WAR (Historiography of Rome and its empire 5). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. Pp. xiii + 527. isbn 9789004373594. € 130.00 Jennifer Gerrish, pp. 304–305
INGO GILDENHARD, ULRICH GOTTER, WOLFGANG HAVENER and LOUISE HODGSON (EDS), AUGUSTUS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HISTORY: THE POLITICS OF THE PAST IN EARLY IMPERIAL ROME (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society supplementary volume 41). Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2019. Pp. vii + 367, illus. isbn 9780956838162. £ 60. Matthew P. Loar, pp. 305–306
JACQUELINE KLOOSTER and INGER N.I. KUIN (EDS), AFTER THE CRISIS: REMEMBRANCE, RE-ANCHORING AND RECOVERY IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (Bloomsbury classical studies monographs). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. vi + 265, illus. isbn 9781350128552. £ 85. Richard W. Westall, pp. 307–308
ANTON POWELL and ANDREW BURNETT (EDS), COINS OF THE ROMAN REVOLUTION, 40 BC – AD 14. EVIDENCE WITHOUT HINDSIGHT. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2020. Pp. xviii + 238, illus. isbn 9781910589762. £ 60. Michael H. Crawford, pp. 308–310
PASCAL MONTLAHUC, LE POUVOIR DES BONS MOTS: «FAIRE RIRE» ET POLITIQUE À ROME DU MILIEU DU IIIe SIÈCLE A.C. À L'AVÈNEMENT DES ANTONINS. Rome: École française de Rome, 2019. Pp. xi + 500. isbn 9782728313662. € 37. Thierry V. Oppeneer, pp. 310–311
HEDVIG VON EHRENHEIM and MARINA PRUSAC-LINDHAGEN (EDS), READING ROMAN EMOTIONS: VISUAL AND TEXTUAL INTERPRETATIONS (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom, 4o 64). Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Rom, 2020. Pp. 199, illus. isbn 9789170421860. SEK 530. Chiara Thumiger, pp. 311–313
MICHAEL KOORTBOJIAN, CROSSING THE POMERIUM: THE BOUNDARIES OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND MILITARY INSTITUTIONS FROM CAESAR TO CONSTANTINE. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xix + 228, illus. isbn 9780691195032. £ 34.00/US$ 39.95 Daniel J. Gargola, pp. 313–314
CHRISTOPHER DEGELMANN, SQUALOR: SYMBOLISCHES TRAUERN IN DER POLITISCHEN KOMMUNIKATION DER RÖMISCHEN REPUBLIK UND FRÜHEN KAISERZEIT. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018. Pp. 361. isbn 9783515117845. £ 62.00/€ 60.00. Alexandra Eckert, pp. 314–315
HARRIET FERTIK, THE RULER'S HOUSE: CONTESTING POWER AND PRIVACY IN JULIO-CLAUDIAN ROME. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 241, illus., maps. isbn 9781421432892. £ 40.50/US$ 54.95. Brandon Bourgeois, pp. 315–316
ARNAUD BESSON. CONSTITUTIO ANTONINIANA. L'UNIVERSALISATION DE LA CITOYENNETÉ ROMAINE AU 3E SIÈCLE. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2020. Pp. 434, illus. isbn 9783796542244. € 38,00. DOI: 10.24894/978-3-7965-4224-4 (Open access). Aitor Blanco-Pérez, pp. 317–318
URSULA ROTHE, THE TOGA AND ROMAN IDENTITY. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. ix + 241, illus. isbn 9781472571540. £ 85. Olivia Elder, pp. 318–319
EDWARD BISPHAM and DANIELE MIANO (EDS), GODS AND GODDESSES IN ANCIENT ITALY. London/New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 178, illus., map, plan. isbn 9781138697553. £ 120.00/US$ 160.00. Eric Orlin, pp. 319–320
LINDSAY G. DRIEDIGER-MURPHY, ROMAN REPUBLICAN AUGURY: FREEDOM AND CONTROL (Oxford classical monographs). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii + 304. isbn 9780198834434. £ 79. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, pp. 321–322
FRANÇOISE VAN HAEPEREN, ÉTRANGÈRE ET ANCESTRALE. LA MÈRE DES DIEUX DANS LE MONDE ROMAIN (Les conférences de l’École pratique des hautes études 12). Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2019. Pp. 206. isbn 9782204135726. € 16. Jacob A. Latham, pp. 322–323
RADCLIFFE G. EDMONDS III, DRAWING DOWN THE MOON: MAGIC IN THE ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN WORLD. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. xv + 474, illus. isbn 9780691156934. $ 45.00/£ 38.00.
CELIA SÁNCHEZ NATALÍAS (ED.), LITTERAE MAGICAE: STUDIES IN HONOUR OF ROGER S. O. TOMLIN (Supplementa MHNH Volume 2). Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico, 2019. Pp. 262, fig. isbn 9788479561833. € 26.00. Adam Parker, pp. 323–325
SOPHIE LALANNE (ED.), FEMMES GRECQUES DE L'ORIENT ROMAIN (Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, Supplément 18). Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2019. Pp. 316, ills., map, plans. isbn 9782848676456. € 35. Eftychia Stavrianopoulou, pp. 325–327
PAUL MCKECHNIE, CHRISTIANIZING ASIA MINOR: CONVERSION, COMMUNITIES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE PRE-CONSTANTINIAN ERA. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 332, illus., maps. isbn 9781108481465 (bound). £ 75.00. Christiane Zimmermann, pp. 327–328
JASON M. SCHLUDE, ROME, PARTHIA, AND THE POLITICS OF PEACE: THE ORIGINS OF WAR IN THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST (Routledge studies in ancient history 12). London/New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 222. isbn 9780815353706. $ 155.
NIKOLAUS OVERTOOM, REIGN OF ARROWS: THE RISE OF THE PARTHIAN EMPIRE IN THE HELLENISTIC MIDDLE EAST (Oxford studies in early empires). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 396. isbn 9780190888329. $ 85. Sabine Müller, pp. 328–330
COLIN P. ELLIOTT, ECONOMIC THEORY AND THE ROMAN MONETARY ECONOMY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xvi + 207, illus. isbn 9781108418607. £ 75. George C. Watson, pp. 330–331
PAUL ERDKAMP, KOENRAAD VERBOVEN and ARJAN ZUIDERHOEK (EDS), CAPITAL, INVESTMENT, AND INNOVATION IN THE ROMAN WORLD (Oxford studies on the Roman economy). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 487 + xx, illus. isbn 9780198841845. £ 100.00. Colin P. Elliott, pp. 331–333
IV. Late Antiquity
DIEDERIK W. P. BURGERSDIJK and ALAN J. ROSS (EDS), IMAGINING EMPERORS IN THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean 1). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Pp. xi + 353, illus. isbn 9789004370890. € 129.00 / $ 156.00. Rebecca Usherwood, pp. 333–334
CARLOS MACHADO, URBAN SPACE AND ARISTOCRATIC POWER IN LATE ANTIQUE ROME: A.D. 270–535. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xix + 317, illus. isbn 9780198835073. £ 75. Sarah E. Bond, pp. 334–336
MAIJASTINA KAHLOS, RELIGIOUS DISSENT IN LATE ANTIQUITY, 350–450 (Oxford studies in Late Antiquity), New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 274. isbn 9780190067250. £ 64. Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, pp. 336–337
JAMES CORKE-WEBSTER, EUSEBIUS AND EMPIRE: CONSTRUCTING CHURCH AND ROME IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xvii + 346. isbn 9781108474078. £ 90. Noel Lenski, pp. 337–338
RAPHAEL A. CADENHEAD, THE BODY AND DESIRE: GREGORY OF NYSSA'S ASCETICAL THEOLOGY (Christianity in Late Antiquity 4). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 267. isbn 9780520970106. $ 95. Jennifer Wright Knust, pp. 338–339
PHILIP R. HARDIE, CLASSICISM AND CHRISTIANITY IN LATE ANTIQUE LATIN POETRY (Sather classical lectures 74). Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 293. isbn 9780520295773. £ 41 / US$ 49.95. Roger P. H. Green, pp. 339–341
KATHARINA POHL (ED.), DICHTUNG ZWISCHEN RÖMERN UND VANDALEN: TRADITION, TRANSFORMATION UND INNOVATION IN DEN WERKEN DES DRACONTIUS (Palingenesia 118). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. Pp. 302, illus. isbn 9783515120890. € 58.00. A. H. Merrills, pp. 341–342
DAVID L. D'AVRAY, PAPAL JURISPRUDENCE c. 400. SOURCES OF THE CANON LAW TRADITION. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. x + 302. isbn 9781108472937. £ 75.00. Dominic Moreau, pp. 342–344
RICHARD PRICE, THE ACTS OF THE SECOND COUNCIL OF NICAEA (787). TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION. (Translated texts for historians 68). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. 2 vols in slip-case. Pp. xiv + 738, map. isbn 9781786941275 (bound). £ 120.00. Mike Humphreys, pp. 344–345
SILKE-PETRA BERGJAN and SUSANNA K. ELM (EDS), ANTIOCH II: THE MANY FACES OF ANTIOCH. INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY, CE 350–450 (Civitatum Orbis Mediterranei Studia 3). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018. Pp. xiii + 506, illus. isbn 9783161551260. € 139. Lieve Van Hoof, pp. 345–346
GIOVANNI R. RUFFINI, LIFE IN AN EGYPTIAN VILLAGE IN LATE ANTIQUITY: APHRODITO BEFORE AND AFTER THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 233, illus., map. isbn 9781107105607. £ 28.99. Petra M. Sijpesteijn, pp. 347–348
JEAN-LUC FOURNET, THE RISE OF COPTIC: EGYPTIAN VERSUS GREEK IN LATE ANTIQUITY. (The Rostovtzeff lectures.) Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 224. isbn 9780691198347. $ 45.00. Mathilde Bru, pp. 348–349