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Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman and the Formation of Identity Architecture: Ideology and Innovation by Bryan E. Burns edited by Michael L. Thomas Bryan E. Burns here offers a new understanding of These essays explore the emergence of scale and the effects of Mediterranean trade on Mycenaean monumentality as key factors in pre–Imperial Roman Greece by considering the possibilities represented and Etruscan building and the social and political by the traded objects themselves in their Mycenaean strategies which they reflect. They address questions contexts. A range of imported artefacts were both of technical developments and an evolving distinguished by their precious material, uncommon language of power and commemoration. Topics style, and foreign writing, signalling their status as include the use of more durable building materials, tangible evidence of connections beyond the Aegean. the evolving use of architectural terracottas, and the The consumption of these exotic symbols spread development of an architectural paradigm of beyond the highest levels of society and functioned monumentality in the Capitoline temple, and the as symbols of external power sources. Burns argues interplay between performance, ritual and that the consumption of exotic items thus enabled monumentality. 236p b/w illus (University of Texas Press the formation of alternate identities symbolising 2013) 9780292738881 Hb £43.00 resistance to palatial power. 246p, b/w illus (Cambridge Cambridge Economic History of the Greco– UP 2010, Pb 2012) 9780521119542 Hb £61.00, Roman World 9781107697416 Pb 24.99 edited by Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris and Richard Cultural Landscapes, Social networks and Saller Historical Trajectories: A Data–Rich Synthesis In this, the first comprehensive one–volume survey of Early Bronze Age Networks (c. 2200–1700 of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty–eight BC) in Abruzzo and Lazio (Central Italy) chapters summarise the current state of scholarship by Erik van Rossenberg in their specialised fields and sketch new directions This study foregrounds the Central Italian Bronze for research. The approach taken is both thematic, Age, combining landscape and network approaches with chapters on the underlying determinants of in archaeology. Approaching landscapes as networks economic performance, and chronological, with of places, this study advocates a data–rich form of coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman synthesis of Bronze Age trajectories, taking into worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to account all facets which make up cultural landscapes Late Antiquity. The contributors move beyond the and social networks, including metalwork substantivist–formalist debates that dominated deposition, burial, cave use and settlement patterns. twentieth–century scholarship and display a new Tracing changing relationships between these nodes, interest in economic growth in antiquity. New network changes are charted and substantiated from methods for measuring economic development are the Copper Age to the Middle Bronze Age. 350p developed, often combining textual and (Sidestone Press 2012) 9789088900990 Pb £55.00 archaeological data that have previously been treated Divining the Etruscan World: The Brontoscopic separately. 942p figs, maps (Cambridge UP 2007, Pb 2012) 9780521780537 Hb £146.00, 9781107673076 Pb Calendar £40.00 by Jean MacIntosh Turfa The Etruscan Brontoscopic Trade, Traders and the Ancient City Calendar is a rare document edited by Helen Parkins and Christopher Smith of omens foretold by A collection of eleven papers exploring the nature of thunder. It long lay hidden, ancient trade and its interrelationship with cities, embedded in a Greek from the Bronze Age Near East to late Roman translation within a northern Italy. 268p (Routledge 1998, Pb 2012) Byzantine treatise from the 9780415165174 Hb £80.00, 9780415518925 Pb £28.00 age of Justinian. The first Ancient Graffiti in Context complete English trans- by Jennifer Baird, Claire Taylor lation of the Brontoscopic The essays in this volume form a collective attempt Calendar, this book to question current conceptions and definitions of provides an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age ancient graffiti. Ancient graffiti range from texts and society as revealed through the ancient text, images written or drawn both inside and outside especially the Etruscans’ concerns regarding the buildings, in public and private places, to those on environment, food, health and disease. Jean monuments in the city and on mountains in the MacIntosh Turfa also analyzes the ancient Near countryside; what unites them conceptually is that Eastern sources of the Calendar and the subjects of they can be seen as actively engaging with their its predictions, thereby creating a picture of the environment in a variety of ways. This book explores complexity of Etruscan society reaching back before these engagements and demonstrates how differences the advent of writing and the recording of the of scale and spatial dynamics can be negotiated. 243p calendar. 432p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012) b/w illus (Routledge 2011, Pb 2012) 9780415878890 Hb 9781107009073 Hb £65.00 £90.00, 9780415653527 Pb £28.00 32 Classical World

A Companion to Ancient History The Ancient Sailing Season edited by Andrew Erskine by James Beresford To produce a companion to ancient history is Providing a comprehensive obviously a monumental task, and examination of the capacity of comprehensiveness an almost impossible goal, but ancient ships and seafarers to there are nonetheless an impressively wide range of cope with seasonally approaches, key topics and concepts covered in this changing sea conditions, this volume. It is comprised of short essays, each by a book draws on a wide range specialist in the particular field, which, rather than of ancient literary sources serve as a nuts and bolts style introduction, instead while also taking account of intend to get the reader thinking, presenting key modern weather records, arguments from current research. As well as broad hydrological data, and recent overviews by period and geographical area, chapters archaeological discoveries. address such topics as environmental history, the Taking a fresh look at the family, death, finance and resources and citizenship various ways in which seasonality affected maritime to pick but a few. 693p b/w illus (Blackwell 2009, Pb transport across the sea–lanes of the ancient world, 2012) 9781405131506 Hb £136.00, 9781118451366 Pb it offers new perspectives on the nature of seaborne £29.99 trade, naval warfare and piratical operations. The Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian result is a volume that questions many long–held Wars to the Fall of Rome scholarly assumptions concerning the strength and edited by Victor Davis Hanson seaworthiness of ancient vessels, as well as the abilities of Greek and Roman mariners, to regularly Consciously echoing Peter Paret’s monumental undertake voyages across hazardous stretches of sea. Makers of Modern Strategy, this volume comprises 364p (Brill 2012) 9789004223523 Hb £125.00 essays which examine various aspects of military strategy from the Persian Wars to the later Roman Perspective in the Visual Culture of Classical Empire. It reappraises the military thought of Antiquity various famed generals including Pericles, by Rocco Sinisgalli Epiminondas, Alexander and Caesar, as well as In this book, Rocco Sinisgalli investigates theories looking at how challenges such as of linear perspective in the classical era. Departing counterinsurgency, frontier defence, and Empire from the received understanding of perspective in building were faced. 265p (Princeton UP 2010, Pb 2012) the ancient world, he argues that ancient theories 9780691156361 Pb £13.95 of perspective were primarily based on the study of A Companion to Greek and Roman Political objects in mirrors, rather than the study of optics Thought and the workings of the human eye. In support of edited by Ryan K. Balot this argument, Sinisgalli analyzes, and offers new insights into, some of the key classical texts on this Justice, virtue and citizenship were at the center of topic, including Euclid’s De speculis, Lucretius’ De political life in ancient Greece and Rome and were rerum natura, Vitruvius’ De architectura and Ptolemy’s frequently discussed by classical poets, historians and De opticis. 224p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012) philosophers. This companion illuminates Greek and 9781107025905 Hb £60.00 Roman political thought in all its range, diversity and depth. 34 essays provide stimulating discussions Rethinking the Other in Antiquity of classical political thought, ranging from the by Erich S. Gruen Archaic Greek epics to the final days of the Roman For some years, the notion that Greek, Romans and Empire and beyond, taking in theoretical and Jews defined themselves with reference to other historical perspectives. 658p (Blackwell 2009, Pb 2012) peoples whose attributes appeared to be opposite to 9781405151436 Hb £136.00, 9781118451359 Pb 29.99 their own – the so–called ‘Other’ – has enjoyed much Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z scholarly attention. Such self–definition is thought by Liza Cleland, Glenys Davies and Lloyd to have entailed significant distortion and stereotyping of the other peoples used in this way. Llewellyn–Jones But in this provocative book, Gruen argues that this From abolla (a thick woollen cloak) to zostra (a type is too simple a view. In the first section, he examines of decorated hairband) this encyclopedia contains a attitudes towards foreigners, especially the Greek vast amount of information about dress in the idea of Persia and Roman views of Carthage, as well classical world. As well as practical information as memorable depictions of other foreigners in about garments jewellery and so on, it also covers ancient literature. Subtle characterisations rather social attitudes towards clothing, with entries on than symplistic stereotypes are found in many cases. social status and gender. Each entry contains full In the second section, Gruen explores mythic references to both primary and secondary sources. genealogies, foundation legends and stories of 225p b/w illus (Routledge 2007, Pb 2012) 9780415226615 migrations and shows how different Mediterranean Hb £80.00, 9780415542807 Pb 28.00 cultures embraced and absorbed other traditions. 416p b/w illus (Princeton UP 2011, Pb 2012) 9780691148526 Hb £27.95, 9780691156354 Pb £16.95 Greece 33

A Companion to the Archaic Greek World New from Oxbow Books edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub Recent years have seen powerful developments in After Alexander: The Time of the Diadochi the study of archaic Greece, with the emergence of (323–281 BC) new areas of interest, new ways of thinking about edited by Víctor Alonso Troncoso and Edward M. old problems, radical new approaches to the sources Anson and new evidence. Bringing together these strands, When Alexander the Great the Companion systematically covers in 31 chapters, died in 323 BC without a the literary and archaeological evidence for all chosen successor he left regions of the Greek world and all aspects of archaic behind a huge empire and Greek society and culture, including their issued in a turbulent period, Mediterranean context and the impact of non–Greek as his generals and relations cultures on their development. 750p, maps, figs fought for control of vast (Blackwell 2009, Pb 2012) 9780631230458 Hb £136.00, territories. The time of the 9781118451380 Pb £29.99 Successors (Diadochi) is Negotiating Identity in the Ancient usually defined as Mediterranean: The Archaic and Classical beginning with the death of Greek Multiethnic Emporia Alexander in 323 and ending with the deaths of the last two Successors by Denise Demetriou in 281 BC. This is the first major publication to be Building on the growing study of the Mediterranean entirely devoted to the Successors for many decades as a whole, this work explores the ways in which and contains eighteen papers reflecting current identities were constructed and negotiated across the research. The period of the Diadochi relies on a very Mediterranean, focusing not only on ethnic identity, limited number of narrative sources, written long but also on civic, linguistic and religious identities after the events being described. Several papers and on social status. Demetriou analyses literary, attempt to unravel the source history of the epigraphic and archaeological sources from five remaining narrative accounts, and add additional geographically diverse Greek emporia (Emporion, materials through cuneiform and Byzantine texts. Gravisca, Naukratis, Pistiros and Peiraieus), arguing Specific historical issues addressed include the role that the common cultural world of the ancient of so–called royal flatterers and whether or not Mediterranean facilitated the mediation of identity Alexander’s old guard did continue to serve into as something fluid and dynamic, considerably more their sixties and seventies. Three papers reflect the complex than narrow ethnic definitions might allow. recent conscious effort by many to break away from 305p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012) 9781107019447 Hb the Hellenocentric view of the predominantly Greek £60.00 sources, looking at the Iranian context of Brill’s Companion to Herodotus Alexander’s Empire. The papers in the final section edited by Egbert J. Bakker, Irene De Jong and Hans analyse the use of varying forms of propaganda. Van Wees 240p, 10 col illus. (Oxbow Books, 2012) 9781842175125 Twenty–five contributions provide a comprehensive Hb £36.00 overview of research trends into the works of Herodotus, his historical and social context, and the methods and ethnographical bias of Greek The Limits of Altruism in Democratic Athens historiography. The papers include detailed textual by Matthew R. Christ analyses of Herodotus’ technique, literary studies Athenians in the classical period (508–322 BC) were of his influences and discussions of his themes, drawn to an image of themselves as a compassionate characters and opinions. The final section considers and generous people who rushed to the aid of others the treatment of different cultures or periods, in distress, both at home and abroad. What relation including Egyptians, Scythians, Persians and King does this image bear to actual Athenian behaviour? Xerxes. 652p (Brill 2002, Pb 2012) 9789004120600 Hb This book argues that Athenians felt little pressure £250.00, 9789004169661 Pb £35.00 as individuals to help fellow citizens whom they did Feeding the Democracy: The Athenian Grain not know. Democratic ideology called on citizens to Supply in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC refrain from harming one another rather than to by Alfonso Moreno engage in mutual support, and emphasised the Alfonso Moreno examines how the need to secure importance of the helping relationship between grain supplies determined Athenian foreign policy, citizen and city rather than among individual prompting recourse to military conquest and citizens. If the obligation of Athenians to help fellow ruthless resettlements, and how uncomfortable citizens was fairly tenuous, all the more so was their realities (especially elite control) were made responsibility to intervene to assist the peoples of acceptable to popular audiences. 420p (Oxford UP other states; a distinct pragmatism prevailed in the 2007, Pb 2012) 9780199228409 Hb £96.00, city’s decisions concerning intervention abroad. 134p 9780199656943 Pb £29.99 (Cambridge UP 2012) 9781107029774 Hb £60.00 34 Greece

Inscribed Athenian Laws and Decrees 352/ 1– Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece 322/ 1 BC: Epigraphical Essays by Matthew Dillon by Stephen Lambert Travel to a religious event or place of religious This book collects eighteen previously published significance was an important cultural phenomenon papers which make contributions to the study of in ancient Greece. This book examines the attraction the inscribed laws and decrees of the city of Athens, of the main sanctuaries of Delphi, Epidauros and 352/1–322/1 BC. The papers, which are based on fresh Olympia which drew people from all over the Greek comprehensive autopsy of the stones and study of speaking world as well as festivals such as the squeezes, photographs and early transcripts, report Eleusinian mysteries and Panhellenic athletic important epigraphical findings (e.g. new readings, contests. As well as discussing the religious and restorations, joins and datings), and include studies political significance, both local and national, of these of onomastics and of the chronology and the history journeys, Dillon looks at modes of travel, the of the period. 434p (Brill 2012) 9789004209312 Hb sanctity of pilgrims, the role of women and children £105.00 and the logistics of controlling and organising pilgrimage sites. Each chapter is divided into sections Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the under specific headings with a short conclusion at Great’s Empire the end of each, not a very sophisticated approach, by Robin Waterfield but it does make the narrative very accessible. 308p Alexander left a vast and diverse empire that was (Routledge 1997, Pb 2012) 9780415127752 Hb £80.00, gradually carved up by his successors, the diadochoi, 9780415692502 Pb £28.00 over the next forty years. As each leader tried to take Greek Magic on Alexander’s mantle, new hegemonies formed that would shape the political map of the Mediterranean edited by John Petropoulos for centuries. Yet during this time of turmoil the Arranged chronologically with sections on ancient, cultural flowering that characterised Hellenistic Byzantine and modern Greece, this set of studies Greece began. Waterfield’s lively narrative is shows how magic provides a unifying theme complemented by a timeline, genealogical tables and through Greek history. As the contributors show, a list of prominent individuals, as essential reference magic was, even in ancient times a private practice tools. 304p b/w pls (Oxford UP 2011, Pb 2012) rather than part of the established public polis 9780199573929 Hb £18.99, 9780199647002 Pb £9.99 religion, and later chapters show how it was intertwined with Christian belief, whilst remaining Theater of the People: Spectators and Society largely outside the official realm of the church. in Ancient Athens Continuing belief in the evil eye forms the subject of by David Kawalko Roselli the modern chapters. The final section is theoretical, Greek drama has been subject to ongoing textual seeking to define magic, particularly in relation to and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little religion, and asking whether it is something which scholarship has examined the people who composed inevitably declines with technological and scientific the theatre audiences in Athens. Roselli offers a wide– advances. 196p (Routledge 2008, Pb 2012) ranging study that addresses the contested authority 9780415282321 Hb £80.00 9780415282338 Pb £28.00 of audiences and their historical constitution.In Greek Art and the Orient repopulating audiences with foreigners, slaves, by Ann C. Gunter women, and the poor, this book challenges the basis For over a century, scholars have recognised an of orthodox interpretations of Greek drama and orientalising period in the history of early Greek art, places the politically and socially marginal at the in which Greek artisans fashioned works of art heart of the theatre. 288p b/w illus (University of Texas under the stimulus of Near Eastern imports or Press 2011, Pb 2012) 9780292723948 Hb £38.00, resident foreign artisans. In this study, Ann Gunter 9780292744028 Pb £16.99 interrogates the categories of Greek and Oriental as Animal Sacrifice in Ancient Greek Religion, problematic and shifts emphasis to modes of contact Judaism and Christianity, 100 BC to AD 200 and cultural transfers within a broader regional by Maria–Zoe Petropoulou setting. Her provocative study places Greek Through literary and epigraphic evidence, Maria– encounters with the Near East and Egypt in the Zoe Petropoulou examines the presence and context of the Neo–Assyrian Empire, which by the importance of animal sacrifice in the pagan religions 8th and 7th centuries BCE extended from southern of ancient Greek and Jewish societies. This is then Turkey to western Iran. Using an expanded array used as a springboard for exploring how and why of archaeological and textual sources, she argues Christians, by the 2nd century, has turned away that crucial aspects of the identity and meaning of from this practice. The book examines in detail the foreign works of art were constructed through process by which this split occurred and suggests circumstances of transfer, ownership, and display. reasons why a conscious choice was made to alter 257p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2009, Pb 2012) Christian ritual codes to relinquish animal sacrifice. 9780521832571 Hb £59.00, 9780521182997 Pb £18.99 336p (Oxford UP 2008, Pb 2012) 9780199218547 Hb £60.00, 9780199639359 Pb £27.50 Greece 35

Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture: Contexts, New from Aris & Phillips Subjects, and Styles by Sheila Dillon Euripides: Electra This study offers a new approach to the history of edited by M. J. Cropp Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without King Agamemnon is long names. Comprehensively illustrated, it brings dead and his killers rule at together a wide range of evidence that has never Argos. Orestes returns from before been studied as a group. Sheila Dillon exile to avenge his father by considers the few original bronze and marble portrait killing his mother statues preserved from the Classical and Hellenistic Clytemnestra and her periods together with the large number of Greek seducer Aegisthus. His portraits known only through Roman copies by vengeance will release his moving away from the traditional concern with sister Electra from oppression name and dates. Dillon investigates the range of and restore Orestes to his strategies and styles used by these portraits to home and kingdom. This is construct subject identity. 217p many b/w pls the only episode from Greek legend treated in (Cambridge UP 2006, Pb 2012) 9780521854986 Hb surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian £85.00, 9781107610781 Pb £32.99 tragedians of the fifth century B.C. — Aeschylus in Greek Vase Painting and the Origins of Visual his Libation–bearers (part of the Oresteia trilogy), Humour Sophocles and Euripides each in plays named Electra. by Alexandre Mitchell The three plays provide a unique record of In this enjoyable study Alexandre Mitchell uses sixth development and divergence in the content and style to fourth century vase painting to explore visual of Athenian tragic drama. In Euripides’ hands the humour in Ancient Greece. He examines story becomes a tragedy of all too human emotions humourous scenes thematically looking at men, and illusions. Orestes’ revenge is subordinated to women and the everyday, at animals in humorous Electra’s hatred and resentment of her mother and situations, at humorous interpretations of the usurper. Clytemnestra’s death brings brings not mythology and the comic potential of the satyr, and joy and restoration but revulsion, separation and at caricatures, exploring what they reveal about renewed exile. Unwarned by the gods, Electra and Greek society and attitudes, and how they Orestes recognise too late the human costs of contributed to reinforcing social cohesion. The focus executing Apollo’s justice. This edition of Euripides’ of the study is on Athens and Boetia, and the play was first published in 1988. The second edition development of visual, satirical humour in this is extensively revised to reflect more recent work on fashion is clearly linked to the development of the text of the play and its interpretation. 256p (Aris nd Athenian democracy. 371p many b/w illus (Cambridge & Phillips 2 edition 2013) 9780856682384 Hb £40.00, UP 2009, Pb 2012) 9780521513708 Hb £63.00, 9781908343697 Pb 19.99 9781107658097 Pb £24.99 A Culture of Translation: British and Irish Corinth, Volume VII.6: Late Classical Pottery Scholarship in the Gennadius Library (1740- from Ancient Corinth 1840) by Ian MacPhee and Elizabth G. Pemberton edited by Lynda Mulvin In 1971, in the southwestern area of the Roman These papers explore the Forum of Corinth, a round-bottomed drainage work of some of the most channel was discovered filled with the largest deposit pioneering British and Irish of pottery of the 4th century ever found in the city, 18th and early 19th century as well as some coins, terracotta figurines, and metal antiquarians, artists, and and stone objects. This volume publishes the pottery architects who voyaged and metal and stone objects, and includes a re- into the Mediterranean. examination of the coins by Orestes Zervos. Some Print and book culture was of the cooking ware has been subjected to neutron at the core of the early activation analysis, and a statistical analysis of all modern period, not least in recovered pottery has been completed. The contents the world of architecture, of Drain 1971-1 are important for the function of and the conscious effort to gather and disseminate the Classical buildings in this part of Corinth, knowledge of the wider classical world through this especially Buildings I and II, and for the chronology medium is remarkable. The significant contribution of the renovation program that included the of British and Irish scholarship to this broader construction of the South Stoa, which was probably European discourse is here viewed through the lens not built before the last decade of the 4th century. of the extraordinary book collection held in the 318p, 52 b/w pls, b/w illus (American School of Classical Gennadius Library. 126p, col and b/w illus (American Studies at Athens 2012) 9780876610763 Hb £100.00 School of Classical Studies at Athens 2012) 9789609994514 Pb £13.00 36 Greek Literature Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Forthcoming from Aris & Phillips Sicily Aeschylus: Suppliant Women by Olga Tribulato edited by A. J. Bowen Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily Aeschylus’ Suppliant represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result Women begins with a of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which procession of girls, dressed ‘colonial’ languages belonging to branches as diverse in foreign costume and as Italic (Oscan and Latin), Greek and Semitic carrying boughs – tokens (Phoenician) interacted with the languages of the of supplication – arriving natives (the elusive Sicel, Sicanian and Elymian). in Argos. Fugitives from While Greek soon emerged as the leading language, Egypt they are in flight dominating official communication and literature, from their cousins, the sons epigraphic sources and indirect evidence show that of Aegyptus, who want the minority languages held their ground down to them as wives and they the fifth century BCE, and in some cases beyond. seek asylum from King The first two parts of this volume discuss these Pelasgus. Accepting the girls’ claim to Argive languages and their interaction with Greek, while ancestry as decendants of Io, the king perceives that the third part focuses on the sociolinguistic if he grants the petition there will be war. It is only revolution brought about by the arrival of the after much discussion and the threat that, if rejected, Romans. 422p (Cambridge UP 2012) 9781107029316 they will hang themselves from the gods’ statues, Hb £65.00 that the king is pursuaded to put their case to his The Theory and Practice of Life: Isocrates and people, who unanimously vote in favour of granting the Philosophers asylum. This vibrant and lyrical new translation of by Tarik Wareh one of the lesser known of Aeschylus’ plays is This study argues that Isocrates’ contemporary accompanied a full commentary on the text and theory of training and self–formulation was an substantial introduction. (Aris & Phillips 2013) important provacation and creative inspiration to 9781908343789 Hb £50.00, 9781908343345 Pb £19.99 such works as Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and Euripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Plato’s Phaedrus. The second half of the book brings Greek Satyric Drama together the fragmentary evidence for the edited by C. Collard and Patrick O’Sullivan participation of “Isocrateans” in the philosophical Euripides’ Cyclops is the only satyr–play which polemics, princely didactics, and literary competition survives complete. It is of the fourth century, shedding new light on the generally held to be the “lost years” of intellectual and literary history that poet’s late work, but its lie before the dawn of the Hellenistic period. 244p companion tragedies are not (Harvard UP 2012) 9780674067134 Pb 18.95 identifiable. Because of its Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic uniqueness, Cyclops could by Deborah Beck afford only a limited idea of In this original study Deborah Beck analyses the satyric drama’s range, which full range of methods of speech representation, the many but brief placing a new weight on non–direct speech. She quotations from other examines the complex and overlapping functions of authors and plays barely each form of speech representation, building up a coloured. Our knowledge picture of a remarkably unified and consistent use and appreciation of the genre of these techniques across the Iliad and Odyssey and have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery at different narrative levels. 278p (University of Texas since the early 20th Century of considerable Press 2012) 9780292738805 Hb £37.00 fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides’ predecessor, and Reading the Victory Ode of Sophocles, his contemporary – but not, so far, of edited by Peter Agocs, C. Carey, and Richard Euripides himself. This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important Rawles texts of satyric drama, with facing–page translation, This collection of essays by international experts substantial introduction and detailed commentary. examines the victory ode from a range of angles: its It includes not only the major papyri, but very many genesis and evolution, the nature of the shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus commissioning process, the patrons, context of and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd Centuries; performance and re–performance, and the poetics of there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in the victory ode and its exponents. From these their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The different perspectives the contributors offer both a intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable. (Aris panoramic view of the genre and an insight into & Phillips 2013) 9781908343352 Hb £50.00 , the modern research positions on this complex and 9781908343772 Pb £24.99 fascinating subject. 444p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2012) 9781107007871 Hb £70.00 Greek Literature and Rome 37

Simonides on the Persian Wars: A Study of the The Breakdown of the Roman Republic: From Elegiac Verses of the “New Simonides” Oligarchy to Empire by Lawrence Kowerski by Christopher Mackay This book examines the arrangement and In this new primarily narrative history of the final interpretation of the recently published papyrus century of the Roman Republic MacKay aims to get fragments named the ‘new Simonides’, and beyond the moralistic and personality based questions the current assumptions on which most reasoning of the ancient sources to evaulate the modern scholarship is based. The author argues that causes of the failure of the Republican system. these fragments should be considered as pieces of an MacKay’s thesis broadly stated is that the acquisition as yet undetermined poem with a more broadly of empire necessitated the maintenance of a large defined scope than is currently accepted. The text military, but that the Republic lacked any effective shifts the direction of modern scholarship, which safeguards against generals using this army for their focuses almost entirely on the longest of the new own political ends, resulting the chaotic political fragments, as a representation of the so–called violence of the last century of the Republic. The class ‘Plataea Poem’. 241p (Routledge 2005, Pb 2012) composition of the army too led to this situation, 9780415972130 Hb £90.00, 9780415651707 Pb £28.00 with the army increasingly based on the landless Menander: Eleven Plays rural poor, whose interests did not lie with the edited by Colin Austin oligarchic Republican system. There is also a linked Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge look at the changing iconography of Republican University 1998–2008, was one of the world’s coinage, all of which combines to form a lively and foremost experts in the reconstruction and persuasive treatment of the subject. 445p b/w pls interpretation of Greek comedy. When he died in (Cambridge UP 2009, Pb 2012) 9780521518192 Hb August 2010, he was working towards a new £58.00, 9781107657021 Pb £22.99 edition of Menander for the series Oxford Classical Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the Late Texts, for which he had completed only the shorter Roman Republic pieces: Dis Exapaton, Encheiridion, Georgos, Heros, by Valentina Arena Karchedonios, Kitharistes, Koneiazomenai, This is a comprehensive Leukadia, Perinthia, Phasma and Theophoroumene. analysis of the idea of libertas The present volume contains the papyri and book and its conflicting uses in the fragments of these eleven plays, edited by Colin political struggles of the late Austin. It has been prepared for publication by Roman Republic. By Richard Hunter and Peter Parsons. 84p (Cambridge reconstructing Roman Philological Society 2013) 9780956838124 Pb £35.00 political thinking about ***NYP*** liberty against the Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the background of Classical and Transformation of the Roman Republic Hellenistic thought, it by Kathryn Welch excavates two distinct Tacitus suggested that intellectual traditions on the resistance to the onset of the means allowing for the preservation and the loss of Roman Principate was libertas. Considering the interplay of these traditions negligible, that the in the political debates of the first century BC, Dr aristocracy of Rome ‘rushed Arena argues that, as a result of its uses in rhetorical head-long into slavery’. He debates, libertas underwent a form of conceptual and a long tradition of change at the end of the Republic and came to scholarship, ancient and legitimise a new course of politics, which led modern, have maintained progressively to the transformation of the whole this position mostly by political system. 331p (Cambridge UP 2013) savagely compressing the 9781107028173 Hb £60.00 history of the period between Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire: 42 and 27BC and especially by characterising Sextus The Third Century A.D. Pompeius, the younger son of Pompey the Great, by Michael Grant as an adventurer with no legitimate cause. By Grant asserts that it was a miracle that the third paying full attention to the sea throughout the century Roman empire did not collapse, and period, Welch reintegrates the history of Sextus expresses amazement at its continuing for another Pompeius into the better-known narrative of the 200 years in the west, and for far longer in the east. opposition to Caesar and Caesarism. In doing so, The reasons for both collapse and recovery, including she exposes the nature of the struggle, the external threats, the succession of emperors and disagreements and ideological hurdles this military, financial and religious affairs, are explored opposition had to leap, and the ways in which it in Michael Grant’s usual lucid style. 121p 27 b/w pls negotiated with, rather than acceded to, the new (Routledge 1999, Pb 2012) 9780415173230 Hb £80.00, regime. 350p b/w illus (Classical Press of Wales 2012) 9780415642293 Pb £28.00 9781905125449 Hb £50.00 38 Rome

Livy on the Hannibalic War The Praetorian Guard: A History of Rome’s Elite by David Levene Special Forces In this analysis of Books 21-30 of Livy’s history by Sandra Bingham Levene examines such topics as Livy’s construction Conceived as a personal army of his narrative, his source–material and use of for the emperor, the elite literary allusion, his battle scenes, his sophisticated Praetorian Guard soon took but ambivalent attitudes towards non–Romans, and over a wide range of powers above all his challenging and revolutionary in Rome, and thus from the treatment of such things as chronology, causation, very beginning made a much and indeed human character. Livy portrays a world greater impact on the city’s life in which military calculation and human reason than just as an imperial constantly fail, a world in which events occur bodyguard. The Praetorians beyond normal human comprehension, but where were in fact inseparable from everything is governed by a hidden moral structure. the whole machinery of state, 453p (Oxford UP 2010, Pb 2012) 9780198152958 Hb in some cases even making or breaking individual £98.00, 9780198152965 Pb £32.50 emperors. Sandra Bingham here offers a timely Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in history of the Guard from its foundation by Roman Historiography Augustus in 27 BCE to its disbandment by by Eric Adler Constantine in CE 312. Topics covered include arms and insignia; the size, recruitment and command Eric Adler explores the degree to which ancient structure of the Guard; duration of service; the duties historians of Rome were capable of valorizing of individual soldiers and officers; and their families, foreigners and presenting criticisms of their own daily lives and religion. 256p (Tauris 2012) society. By examining speeches put into the mouths 9781845118846 Hb £25.00 of barbarian leaders by a variety of writers, he investigates how critical of the empire these The Cambridge Companion to the Roman historians could be. Throughout he wrestles with Economy broader issues of Roman imperialism and edited by Walter Scheidel historiography, including administrative greed and This book offers readers a comprehensive and corruption in the provinces, the treatment of gender innovative introduction to the economy of the and sexuality, and ethnic stereotyping. 269p Roman Empire. Five main sections discuss theoretical (University of Texas Press 2011, Pb 2012) 9780292744035 approaches drawn from economics, labour regimes, Pb £16.99 the production of power and goods, various means Roman Army: The Greatest War Machine in of distribution from markets to predation, and the the Ancient World success and ultimate failure of the Roman economy. by Chris McNab The book not only covers traditionally prominent features such as slavery, food production and This well illustrated book collects material from a monetization but also highlights the importance of vast array of Osprey’s titles on the Roman army, previously neglected aspects such as the role of editing and reformatting it into a coherent whole. human capital, energy generation, rent–taking, The development of the army is treated logistics and human wellbeing. 456p b/w illus chronologically, with information on military (Cambridge UP 2012) 9780521898225 Hb £60.00, equipment, recruitment, training, strategy, and 9780521726887 Pb £23.99 tactics in battle and in defending the imperial frontiers. Case studies of particular campaigns such Trading Communities in the Roman World: A as the conquest of Gaul, and battles such as Cannae Micro–Economic and Institutional Perspective or Adrianople round out the volume. 280p col illus by Taco T. Terpstra (Osprey 2012) 9781849088138 Pb £12.99 Ancient Roman trade was severely hampered by slow Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 BC – transportation and by the absence of state help in AD 235) enforcing contracts. Here Terpstra offers a new by Jonathan Roth explanation of how traders in the Roman Empire overcame these difficulties. Previous theories have The Roman military supply system, that is, rations, focused heavily on dependent labour, arguing that servants, foraging and requisition, supply lines, transactions overseas were conducted through administration, and so on, forms the subject of this slaves and freedmen. Terpstra argues on the contrary critical study. As a whole the book traces the that the key to understanding long–distance trade development of the Roman logistics into a highly in the Roman Empire is not patron–client or master– sophisticated supply system - a vital element in the slave relationships, but the social bonds between success of Roman arms. In addition, it addresses ethnic groups of foreign traders living overseas and important technical questions, such as the size of the local communities they joined. 248p (Brill 2012) the soldier's grain ration, the function of military 9789004238602 Hb £95.00 servants, and the changes in logistical management under the Republic and Empire 400p, 9 illus (Brill 1998, Pb 2012) 9789004112711 HB £155.00, 9789004225473 Pb £37.00 Roman Archaeology 39

Money in the Late Roman Republic Roman Archaeology for Historians by David B. Hollander by Ray Laurence Roman monetary history has tended to focus on the Roman Archaeology for Historians provides students of study of Roman coinage but other assets regularly Roman history with a guide to the contribution of functioned as, or in place of, money. This book places archaeology to the study of their subject. It surveys coinage in its broader monetary context by also the different approaches to the archaeological examining the role of bullion, financial instruments, material of the period and examines key themes that and commodities such as grain and wine in making have shaped Roman archaeology. It includes payments, facilitating exchange, measuring value discussion of landscape change, urban topography, and storing wealth. The use of such assets reduced the economy, the nature of cities, new approaches the demand for coinage in some sectors of the to skeletal evidence and artefacts in museums. 194p economy and is a crucial factor in determining the b/w illus (Routledge 2012) 9780415505918 Hb £80.00, impact of the large increase in the coin supply during 9780415505925 Pb £21.99 the last century of the Republic. Money demand Roman Building Techniques theory suggests that increased coin production led to further monetization, not per capita economic by Tony Rook growth. 196p (Brill 2007, Pb 2012) 9789004156494 Hb Writing from the view of a building engineer as well £90.00, 9789004225497 Pb £37.00 as an archaeologist, Tony Rook takes a practical approach in this introductory guide to the building Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome types, techniques and methodology of the Romans. by Richard A. Bauman After a survey of the main building types and their Punishment was an integral element of the Roman features, military, public and private, he analyses justice system and as controversial as it is today. Roman building technology from the bottom up, Bauman examines the mechanics of the starting with the foundations, and covering administering of punishment and the philosophical materials such as masonry, brick, mud and wood, beliefs from which attitudes to penalty were born. as well as architectural features such as walls, roofs, The emphasis is placed on crimes against the public pipes, drains and heating. Final chapters cover during the Republic and Principate with less grander and more monumental techniques such as discussion of either civil cases or issues. Special arches and domes. 176p (Amberley 2013) reference is made to changes in attitudes concerning 9781445601496 Pb £18.99 the death penalty. 238p (Routledge 1996, Pb 2012) Comparative Issues in the Archaeology of the 9780415113755 Hb £80.00, 9780415692540 Pb 28.00 Roman Rural Landscape The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman edited by Peter Attema and Gunther Schorner Empire This book treats theoretical and methodological by Kendra Eshleman implications of the classification of archaeological This book examines the role of social networks in sites of the Roman period in regional survey and the formation of identity among sophists, archaeology, and the potential of classifications for philosophers and Christians in the early Roman making intra– and interregional comparisons and Empire. From clashes over admission to classrooms interpretations. Overall the papers testify to the and communion to construction of the group’s importance of surface survey as an autonomous form history, integration into the social fabric of the of archaeological investigation with well–developed community served as both an index of identity and methodologies and analytical frameworks able to a medium through which contests over status and generate data that is just as complex as that derived authority were conducted. 293p (Cambridge UP 2012) from excavation, and with a similarly wide 9781107026384 Hb £60.00 interpretative potential. 135p, 34 figs (Journal of Roman Readers and Reading Culture in the High Archaeology Supplements 88, 2012) 9781887829885 Hb Roman Empire £50.00 by William A Johnson Making Roman Places, Past and Present This work examines the system and culture of edited by Darian Marie Totten and Kathryn reading among the elite in second–century Rome. Lafrenz Samuels The investigation proceeds in case–study fashion This volume collects the papers given at the first using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning CRAC conference (Critical Roman archaeology), a with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus from the US based attempt to promote the sorts of theoretical time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on debates associated with the TRAC conference in the to explore elite reading during the era of the UK. They take two broad approaches, the first section Antonines. Along the way, evidence from the papyri examining sense of place and its construction by the is deployed to help to understand better and more Romans themselves, the second analysing the ways concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the in which the Roman past and its tangible heritage social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. impacts upon modern place–making. 176p, 25 figs 227p (Oxford UP 2010, Pb 2012) 9780195176407 Hb (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplements 89, 2012) £40.00 9780199926718 Pb £22.50 9781887829892 Hb £62.00 40 Roman Archaeology The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt Forthcoming from Oxbow Books by Richard Alston Focusing on the period between the 1st century BC Archaeological Survey and the City and the 6th century AD, Alston’s detailed study edited by Paul Johnson and Martin Millett discusses the impact of Roman and then Christian The ability of archaeologists influences on the architecture and design of Egypt’s to reveal the topography of urban centres. Rather than present his material buried urban sites without chronologically, Alston looks in turn at different excavation has now been spaces within the city, such as the house, the street demonstrated through a and the neighbourhood, with the aim of providing wide range of projects a theoretical methodology for making sense of across the ancient world. ancient cities whilst demonstrating the rich variety Archaeological Survey and the of Egypt. 479p b/w figs (Routledge 2001, Pb 2012) City reviews the results of 9780415237017 Hb £95.00, 9780415642354 Pb £28.00 such projects and in Ostia Speaks: Inscriptions, Buildings and particular discusses the Spaces in Rome’s Main Port ways in which the subject by L.B. Van der Meer might develop in the future, With its long history as the with an emphasis on the integration of different principal port of Rome, Ostia strands of evidence and issues of archaeological forms one of the most interpretation rather than on the technicalities of significant and well known particular methodologies. 288p, 275 illus. (Oxbow Roman sites. This book, Books, 2013) 9781842175095 Pb £36.00 designed for the interested general reader and visitor as ***Only £27.00 until publication*** well as for a scholarly audience, forms a gazetteer Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East: and guide to the wide range Religious Architecture in Syria, Iudaea/ of inscriptions which remain Palaestina and Provincia Arabia in situ. The inscriptions are by Arthur Segal introduced according to their location, and presented This lavishly illustrated volume presents a along with English translations, an explanation of comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual their meaning and significance, and in the case of temples and sanctuaries the more important or visually arresting inscriptions, built in the Roman East accompanied by a photograph. Overall a picture is between the end of the built up of daily life in the port over the whole sweep 1st century BCE and the of the Roman era. 129p b/w illus (Peeters 2012) end of the 3rd century 9789042927001 Pb £30.00 CE. Religious architecture Rethinking Ostia: A Spatial Enquiry into the gave faithful expression Urban Society of Rome’s Imperial Port–Town to the complexity of the Roman East and to its by Hanna Stoger multiplicity of traditions Rethinking Ostia presents an archaeological and pertaining to ethnic and spatial approach to Roman urbanism, focused on religious aspects as well Rome’s port city. as to the powerful Following a scaled influence of Imperial Rome. The source of this power approach, the book lay in the uniformity of the architectural language, examines different aspects the inventory of forms, the choice of styles and the of Ostia’s urban landscape, spatial layout of the buildings. The temples and applying Space Syntax’s sanctuaries studied in this volume demonstrate methods for spatial individual nuances of plan, spatial design, location analysis to the urban in the sanctuary and interrelations with the neighbourhood of one city immediate vicinity but can be divided into two main block – Insula IV ii, categories: Vitruvian temples (derived from selected buildings (Ostia’s Hellenistic–Roman architecture) and Non–Vitruvian guild seats), and the entire temples (those with plans and spatial designs that street system. Through a cannot be analysed according to architectural criteria careful reconstruction of the Insula’s development such as those defined by Vitruvius). 400p, 350 b/w over the first three centuries AD, the work fills a illustrations (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842175262 Hb lacuna – but more importantly it reveals the way £60.00 everyday life was structured in the city, and how this evolved over time in response to internal and ***Only £45.00 until publication*** external influences on the lives of its inhabitants. 315p b/w illus (Leiden UP 2011) 9789087281502 pb £35.00 Roman Archaeology 41

More than Just Numbers?: The Role of Science Veii. The Historical Topography of the Ancient in Roman Archaeology City: A Restudy of John Ward–Perkins’s Survey edited by Irene Schrufer–Kolb edited by Roberta Cascino, Helga Di Giuseppe and This book, part of the International Roman Helen Patterson Archaeology Conference series, presents a range of In the ancient city of Veii 1950s was the subject of case studies from Italy and the provinces that open ground–breaking survey and excavation by John a fresh debate between science–based and Ward–Perkins. However, the results of his fieldwork humanities–based archaeologists. Contributions were never published fully. Knowledge and share a common methodological thread in that the understanding of material culture has increased application of scientific methods in each case answers dramatically over the past fifty years, so allowing research questions that traditional archaeology alone the authors to reveal the full potential of the data. could not. Two additional reviews – one from a This publication reaffirms many of Ward–Perkins’s scientific point of view, the other by a Romanist – original insights, and contextualizes his research debate the contribution of science to Roman within the new discoveries of the past fifty years; archaeology from two different angles. 191p b/w and whilst an important contribution to our knowledge, col illus (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplements 91, it is also a spur to further work. 432p b/w illus, 2 col 2012) 9781887829915 Hb £62.00 pls (British School at Rome 2013) 9780904152630 Hb Rome, Portus and the Mediterranean £85.00 edited by Simon Keay Complete Pompeii This volume brings together various contributions, by Joanne Berry to assess how far Portus, as the maritime port of Another glossy book on Imperial Rome from the mid–first century AD, was Pompeii, but this is the principal conduit for supplying Rome and the definitely one of the better extent to which the commercial links that fed Portus ones. It is well thought out were part of a single overarching network or a series and packed with a huge of interlinked networks that extended across the amount of information, Mediterranean. The volume begins with a detailed accessible to the general reconsideration of Portus and its relationship to reader without being in Ostia and Rome, which is complemented by studies any way patronising. Its considering aspects of the commercial roles of Portus strengths definitely lie in and Ostia, and of transport up the Tiber to Rome. It its wide coverage – there continues with studies that deal with a range of is much more here than the standard, ‘daily life of a broader issues concerning the relationship of Roman’ material. There is a detailed scientific Mediterranean ports to Rome, Portus and Ostia, reconstruction of the eruption for example, and a routes of commerce, and the archaeological evidence fascinating history of archaeological work at for commercial activity at a selection of ports (in Italy, Pompeii, one of the very first ‘sites’ in a modern sense. Sicily, Hispaniae, Africa and the East); before There is also a chapter on the ancient history of returning to more general considerations of Pompeii itself – something that often gets missed, as connectivity, networks, coastal geo–archaeology and if the town was as unchanging in antiquity as it computational methods. 454p, b/w illus, 14 col pls has been since. Pompeii is also placed in its wider (British School at Rome 2013) 9780904152654 Hb £90.00 context within the Roman economy, and the very The Ancient Mediterranean Trade in Ceramic valid point is made that its importance now can blind us to its comparative insignificance in ancient times. Building Materials: A Case Study in Carthage 256p col illus on every page (Thames and Hudson 2007, and Beirut Pb 2013) 9780500051504 Hb £24.95, 9780500290927 by Philip Mills Pb 14.95 This study addresses the level of interregional trade of ceramic building material (CBM), traditionally Vesuvian Sigillata at Pompeii seen as a high bulk low value commodity, within by Jaye McKenzie–Clark the ancient Mediterranean between the third century In this volume, Jaye McKenzie–Clark presents the BC and the seventh century AD. It examines the far–reaching results of her examination of the red impact of different modes of production, distribution slip tableware within three regions of the city of and consumption of CBM and how archaeological Pompeii. It pinpoints the initial supply and use of assemblages differ from what is predicted by current Vesuvian Sigillata, and investigates factors that may models of the ancient economy. It also explores how have led to the popularity of this style of pottery. CBM can be used to investigate cultural identity and The investigation maps the on–going manufacture urban form. The material used in this study derives of these ceramics and identifies changes in from stratified assemblages from two major ports of production and consumption up to the time of the the ancient Mediterranean: Carthage and Beirut. eruption. Examination of the distribution within 132p col & b/w illus (Archaeopress 2013) 9781905739608 contexts of different social use also reveals distinct Pb £30.00 patterns of consumer demands and consumption within Pompeian society. 162p, b/w illus, 4 colour pls (British School at Rome 2013) 9780904152623 Pb £19.95 42 Roman Archaeology New from Oxbow Herculaneum: Past and Future by Andrew Wallace–Hadrill TRAC 2012: Proceedings of the Twenty–Second Wallace–Hadrill begins this handsome volume, a Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology superb overview of Herculaneum, by considering the site’s geology and the history of archaeological Conference, Frankfurt 2012 work there, and goes on to look at the evidence for edited by Annabel Bokern, Marion Bolder–Boos, daily life in the town, as well as the amenities it offered Stefan Krmnicek and Dominik Maschek to different members of society. Pictures of key The twenty–second buildings as well as material remains – striking Theoretical Roman statues, items of furniture and stone reliefs, for Archaeology Conference example – help to give an excellent sense of the site. (TRAC) was held at the The final chapter is devoted to the describing the Goethe–University fascinating struggle to preserve the site in recent Frankfurt am Main in years. 352p col illus t/out (Frances Lincoln 2011, Pb 2012) spring 2012. During the 9780711231429 Hb £40.00, 9780711233898 Pb £25.00 three–day conference fifty Domus Augustana: Neue Forschungen zum papers were delivered, discussing issues from a ‘Versenkten Peristyl’ auf dem Palatin wide range of geographical by Natascha Sojc regions of the Roman This book is the result of an interdisciplinary Empire, and applying research project into the foundations, brickwork, various theoretical and methodological approaches. brickstamps, waterworks and room decoration of An equally wide selection of subjects was presented: the Domus Augustana, the imperial palace on the sessions looked at Greek art and philhellenism in Palatine in Rome. The project has brought a revised the Roman world, the validity of the concept of chronology and a new interpretation of room use. ‘Romanisation’, change and continuity in Roman 276p (Sidestone Press 2013) 9789088900402 Pb £42.00 religion, urban neighbourhood relations in Pompeii Handbook to Roman Legionary Fortresses and Ostia, the transformation of objects in and from by M.C. Bishop the Roman world, frontier markets and Roman Mike Bishop here provides a handy reference guide archaeology in the Provinces. In addition, two to every securely identified Roman legionary fortress. general sessions covered single topics such as the An introductory section details the main building ‘transvestite of Catterick’, metal recycling or types, the development of fortress plans and Egyptian funeral practice in the Roman period. This construction, their defences and infrastructure. The volume contains a selection of papers from all these main body of the book, however, comprises the sessions. 220p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2013) gazetteer, detailing the fortresses’ location, 9781782971979 Pb £35.00 dimensions, construction history, garrisoning, and bibliography, the majority illustrated with a site plan. 256p, b/w illus, col pls (Pen & Sword 2013) Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum 9781848841383 Hb £25.00 by Paul Roberts Roman Body Armour Accompanying the British Museum’s current by Hilary and John Travis blockbuster exhibition, this is a beautifully produced Hilary and John Travis have experience both as catalogue, featuring archaeologists and reenactors, and persepctives from over 250 objects from both walks of life are combined in this new study. It the excavations at draws together the streams of published information Pompeii and Hercu- of sculptural imagery and archaeological ‘hard’ laneum. A picture of evidence, while also looking at the component parts daily life in these and how they are physically put together. This ancient towns is built evidence was used to produce practical up room by room, with reconstructions of Roman armour, which were then the text providing a subjected to low–level, simulated wear, over several detailed description of years, to view component inter–action, as well as the typical activities for simulated combat/ destructive testing using a range which they were used, of weaponry, including archery equipment, to view backed up with which parts were more susceptible to damage, and illustrations and discussion both of the rooms what features may be anticipated archaeologically themselves and of their material culture. An opening on artefacts as evidence of regular wear, combat section covers the public spaces of the towns and damage and field repairs.160p b/w illus, col pls their civic life, whilst the book is rounded off with a (Amberley 2011, Pb 2012) 9781445603599 Hb £25.00, look at their destruction. 320p col illus (British Museum 9781445608037 Pb £18.99 Press 2013) 9780714122762 Hb £45.00, 9780714122823 Pb £25.00 Roman Archaeology and Roman Britain 43

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Roman Britain: A New History 55 BC – AD 450 by Pat Southern Making Textiles in pre–Roman and Roman In contrast to many recent Times: People, Places, Identities offerings where cultural edited by Margarita Gleba matters and Romanisation are Textile production is an economic necessity that has to the fore, this history of confronted all societies in the past. While most Roman Britain adopts a textiles were manufactured at a household level, narrative approach, with a valued textiles were traded over long distances and focus on military and these trade networks were influenced by raw material administrative matters. The supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by regional big events, such as Caesars traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean invasion, Boudiccas revolt and regions and Making Textiles in pre–Roman and the construction of Hadrians Roman times explores the abundant archaeological Wall are covered in the greatest and written evidence to understand the typological depth, but there is still plenty of room for less well and geographical diversity of textile commodities. known developments in the 3rd and 4th centuries. Beginning in the Iron Age, the volume examines 432 b/w illus, col pls (Amberley 2011, Pb 2013) the foundations of the textile trade in Italy and the 9781445601465 Hb £25.00, 9781445611907 Pb 12.99 emergence of specialist textile production in Austria, Rethinking Roman Britain: Coinage and the impact of new Roman markets on regional Archaeology traditions and the role that gender played in the by Philippa Jane Walton production of textiles. Trade networks from far This volume explores the potential of the coin data beyond the frontiers of the Empire are traced, whilst (approximately 220,000 coins to date) recorded by the role of specialized merchants dealing in particular the Portable Antiquities Scheme alongside that from types of garment and the influence of Roman collegia archaeological sites as a tool for understanding the on how textiles were produced and distributed are development of the Roman province of Britannia. A explored. Of these collegia, that of the fullers appears variety of case–studies analyse patterns of coin loss to have been particularly influential at a local level to evaluate when, where, by whom and for what and how cloth was cleaned and treated is examined purpose coinage was used. Thematic issues such as in detail, using archaeological evidence from Pompeii ‘regionality’ and ‘Romanisation’ are also considered. and provincial contexts to understand the processes 274p, b/w illus (Editions Moneta 2012) 9789491384059 behind this area of the textile trade. 240 b/w & col. Pb £90.00 illus (Oxbow Books 2013) 9781842177679 Hb £30.00 The Maritime Landscape of Roman Britain: Water Transport on the Coasts and Rivers of ***Only £22.00 until publication*** Britannia by James Ellis Jones A synthesis of archaeological work on the maritime The Roman Iron Industry in Britain and riverine landscape across the province of by David Sim Britannia. After surveying the coastal landscape and This is a fully revised and the boats and ships in use during the Roman period, updated version of David Jones first explores the military role of the sea, in Sim’s Iron for the Eagles . supplying the army and for naval and amphibious This detailed study of the operations. He then analyses the importance of sea iron industry, focusing and riverine transport for trade, both internal and primarily on Britain, uses in terms of imports and exports. A gazetteer of both archaeological evidence prominent coastal sites completes the volume. 213p and experimental work to b/w illus (BAR BS 556, Archaeopress 2012) highlight the enormous 9781407309583 Pb £35.00 investment of time, labour Roman Birmingham 4: Excavations at Metchley and skill required in the production process. Sim Roman Fort 2004–2005 outlines the various stages by Alex Jones in the production process from prospecting and A report on excavations which provide evidence for mining, to the preparation of the ore, fuel, smelting, the entire military sequence at the Roman fort of and the production of artefacts, looking especially Metchley. A wide range of features and feature types at those associated with the military: shield bosses, were sampled, including defensive ditches and swords, arrows, chain mail, nails and so forth. 159p, gatehouse structures, timber–framed buildings and b/w illus, col pls (The History Press 2002, 2nd ed 2012) industrial features. The results add to our 9780752468655 Pb £17.99 understanding of the site layout, and its planning as well as the specialised functions of the military complex and aspects of its Post Roman use and occupation. 121p b/w illus (BAR BS 552, Archaeopress 2012) 9781407309309 Pb £30.00 44 Roman Britain

Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Story of Roman Bath by Pat Southern Newcastle upon Tyne, the Eye of the North: In this highly readable study Pat Southern turns An Archaeological Assessment her attention to Bath, one of Roman Britain’s most by David Heslop unusual and successful settlements, founded to take advantage of the natural hot springs. She synthesises Newcastle’s long and proud history began in Roman times when Hadrian’s Wall marked the the excavations of Barry Cunliffe and the Bath northernmost point of the Roman Empire. They Archaeological trust, building a picture of the development of the town and its hinterland from built Pons Aelius close to where the Tyne Bridge is today and it marks the birth of Newcastle upon Tyne the first traces of human activity in the Mesolithic as a settlement. The exact significance of the early to post–Roman decline and rebirth in the later medieval and modern age. The focus, however is on Roman occupation, possibly pre–dating the construction of the Wall, remains poorly the Roman period, and on the baths themselves in understood, but recent development–led excavation particular. Southern outlines the main phases of building and renovation, and explores the religious has complimented the publicly–funded research of the late 20th century. Following the withdrawal of aspects of the springs and the Temple of Sulis the Roman army, the local inhabitants employed the Minerva. She also uses epigraphic evidence to shed light on the lives of those who came to use the baths, decaying fort as a cemetery, eventually with its own Anglo–Saxon church. After the Norman Conquest, and explores the daily lives of the town’s residents 224p b/w and col illus (Amberley the same strategic site was used to plant a castle of and its administration. 2012) 9781445610900 Hb £20.00 national significance, as the town became the King’s northern bulwark against Scottish Aggression, and Roman Chester: Fortress at the Edge of the termed the ‘Eye of the North’. (Oxbow Books 2013) World 9781842178140 Hb £45.00 by David Mason David Mason traces the early history of this Roman ***Only £36.00 until publication*** military stronghold, of the construction and early years of the fort and the development of the garrison town and the surrounding civilian settlement. Colchester: The Archaeology of Fortress Town Originally published in 2001, with a different subtitle, by Adrian Gascoyne and David Radford, edited the book is fully updated and somewhat expanded by Philip Wise for this second edition which reflects all of the This volume is a critical archaeological work, published and unpublished, assessment of the current carried out in and around Chester in the intervening state of archaeological decade, including the author’s own excavations in knowledge of the the suburb of Heronbridge. 256p b/w illus, col pls (The settlement originally called History Press 2001, 2nd ed. 2012) 9780752468761 Pb 18.99 Camulodunon and now The Roman Cemeteries and Suburbs of known as Colchester. The Winchester, Excavations 1971 –1986 town has been the subject of antiquarian interest by Patrick Ottaway, K. E. Qualmann, H. Rees and since the late 16th century G. Scobie and the first modern This volume publishes the archaeological excava- results of excavations in the tions occurred in 1845 close to Colchester Castle, the northern, western and town’s most prominent historic site. The earliest eastern suburbs of Roman significant human occupation recorded from Winchester and provides Colchester dates to the late Neolithic, but it was only evidence both for the towards the end of the 1st century BC that an development of settlement in oppidum was established in the area. This was the suburbs, and for superseded initially by a Roman legionary fortress mortuary practices and their and then the colonia of Camulodunum on a hilltop development in the town. bounded on the north and east by the river Colne. The book reports on the After the Norman Conquest, a castle was built on excavations suburb by the foundations of the ruined Roman Temple of suburb, as well as Claudius, and a priory and an abbey were containing specialist reports on the human remains, established just to the south of the walled town. a catalogue and gazetteer of the burials, and a 352p, 100 b/w illus. (Oxbow Books 2012) 9781842175088 summary and discussion of the burial evidence in Hb £45.00 its local and wider context, particularly in comparison to the recently published cemetery at Lankhills. 399p b/w illus (Winchester Museums 2012) ***Only £36.00 until publication*** 9780861350209 Pb £35.00 Roman Britain 45

A Romano-British Settlement in the Waveney New from Windgather Press Valley: Excavations at Scole, 1993–4 edited by Trevor Ashwin and Andrew Tester The Romano–British Peasant: Towards a Study The Roman settlement at Scole was located at the of People, Landscapes and Work during the point where the main road from Camulodunum to Roman Occupation of Britain Venta Icenorum crossed the River Waveney. As well as describing settlement morphology and by Mike McCarthy development over an extensive area, this report This important and includes a number of specialist studies of exceptional significant volume importance — notably those dealing with a large examines, for the first time, body of waterlogged Roman structural timber, with the ordinary people of the character and context of metalworking within Roman Britain. This the settlement, and with the environmental sequence overlooked group – the recorded in a palaeochannel of the river. Other farmers, shopkeepers, highlights include an account of a possible maltings labourers and others – fed complex, and a critical study of the formation of a the country, made the variety of ‘dark earth’ deposits which draws upon clothes, mined the ores, the evidence both of artefact distributions and of built the villas and towns soil chemistry. 275p b/w illus (East Anglian Archaeology and got their hands dirty 2013) Pb £25.00 ***NYP*** in the fields and at the potter’s wheel. The book aims to rebalance our view of Roman Britain from its The Roman Villa at Brading, Isle of Wight: The current preoccupation with – archaeologically visible Excavations of 2008-10 – elite social classes and the institutions of power, by Barry Cunliffe towards a recognition that the ordinary person Brading Roman Villa is a mattered. It looks at how people earned a living, fine example of a maritime family size and structure, social behaviour, customs courtyard villa with in situ and taboos and the impact of the presence of non– mosaics which rank among locals and foreigners, using archaeology, texts and the best of their kind in ethnography. It also explores how the natural forces northern Europe. It was which underlay the use of agricultural land and originally excavated in the regional variation in agricultural practice impacted 1880s. This volume reports upon the size, health and nutrition of the on a new programme of population. The Romano–British Peasant leads the excavations carried out in way towards a greater understanding of ordinary 2008-10, whilst also delving men and women and their role in the history and into earlier work to provide context. The research landscape of Roman Britain. 160p, b/w and col illus involved a full re-excavation of the North Range, (Windgather Press 2013) 9781905119479 Pb £29.95 an examination of the buildings of the South Range by sample excavations, a detailed study of the extant remains of the West Range to establish the building London Gateway: Iron Age and Roman salt sequence and a sample excavation of the early making in the Thames Estuary enclosures identified by geophysical survey to the edited by Edward Biddulph, Stuart Foreman, east of the North Range. 291p col illus (Oxford Elizabeth Stafford and Dan Stansbie University School of Archaeology 2013) 9781905905263 Excavation by Oxford Archaeology in 2009 during Hb £39.00 Roman and medieval development south of construction of the Cheapside: Excavations at Bow Bells House, Stanford Wharf Nature Reserve uncovered City of London, 2005–6 remarkable evidence for by Isca Howell, Lyn Blackmore, Christopher Iron Age and Roman– Philpotts and Amy Thorp period salt making and Excavations on the south side of Cheapside found associated activities. evidence for Roman timber buildings and pits dating Structures included a to the later 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and a masonry probable boathouse, building constructed after c AD 125. Evidence for unique in Roman Britain. later Roman occupation was limited by modern The excavations shed new truncation. No medieval ground surfaces survive, and important light on but the site was reoccupied from the 10th century evolving methods of salt with at least one substantial building existing by production, which reflect wider changes in economy the 13th century. Pit and well groups include late and society in the Thames Estuary between c. 400 13th- or early 14th-century vessels associated with BC and AD 400. 209p, col and b/w illus (Oxford the wine trade and early 14th-century kitchenware. Archaeology 2012) 9780904220711 Hb £20.00 120p col illus (Mola 2013) 9781907586170 Pb £15.00 ***NYP*** 46 Roman Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Late Roman Silver: The Traprain Treasure in Context A Corpus of Roman Pottery from Lincoln edited by F. Hunter and Kenneth S. Painter by Margaret Darling and Barbara Precious, with Taking as its starting point a comprehensive Joanna Bird, Brenda Dickinson and Katharine reappraisal of the magnificent Traprain treasure, this Hartley fine collection of papers widens its focus to include detailed discussion of the phenomenon of hacksilber This is the first major (the deliberate breaking and bending of silver analysis of the Roman artefacts in such hoards) and what it can tell us pottery from excavations in about Roman–barbarian interactions, identity Lincoln (comprising more formation on both sides of the frontier, and the end than 150,000 sherds). The of Roman Britain more generally. 446p col illus t/out pottery is presented in seven (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2013) 9781908332028 major ware groups. Fine Hb £50.00 wares include a modest range of imports and are The Antiquarian Rediscovery of the Antonine dominated by Nene Valley Wall products. Oxidised wares by Lawrence Keppie are mostly local products The Antonine Wall has been visible as an upstanding with a few imports as are the earthwork across the central belt of Scotland between shell- and calcite-tempered wares and reduced wares. Forth & Clyde since its construction by the Roman The final three are the standard specialised wares: legions over 1,850 years ago, early in the reign of mortaria, mostly of German and Mancetter-Hartshill the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius. This book takes manufacture; amphorae (80% Spanish Dressel 20) up its story from the time of its abandonment in the and samian, mostly from Les Martres/Lezoux and reign of Pius’ successor, Marcus Aurelius, and charts 75% undecorated! The discussion explores the developments in our knowledge about it through chronological range of the entire ceramic assemblage the Middle Ages and after, up to the early years of across the three discrete parts of the Roman fortress the twentieth century, by which time the earliest and later colonia. 544p, b/w illus throughout, 16 pages scientific excavations had taken place. 170p b/w and of colour illus (Lincoln Archaeological Studies no 6, Oxbow col illus (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2012) Books 2012) 9781842174876 Hb £35.00 9781908332004 Hb £35.00 ***Only £26.00 until publication*** Hadrian’s Wall Archaeology Issue 3 (2012) edited by David Mason This annual magazine provides summary reports Silchester and the Study of Romano–British of all the latest Urbanism archaeological work at edited by Michael Fulford Hadrian’s Wall and the The Iron Age and Roman town at Silchester has been northern frontier zone more the subject of intensive new, field–led research since generally. Highlights of this the 1970s, which is shedding important fresh light issue include updates on on the development and character of the town, with excavations at the forts of a major excavation and publication programme Vindolanda and Binchester, continuing with the ‘Town Life Project’ centred on at a section of the wall and Insula IX. The illustrated papers collected in this vallum near Carlisle, and a volume contribute to a social and economic history report on new excavations at Maryport which have of the town, essential steps towards a led to a reassessment of the circumstances of the characterisation of urbanism in Roman Britain. deposition of the famous altar stones. 44p col illus Following an introduction by the editor, the (Durham County Council 2012) 9781907445958 Pb £5.00 majority of the 14 contributions re–assess and An Introduction to Hadrian’s Wall contextualise aspects of the material culture of the by M.C. Bishop town, the biological remains, the origins of Calleva Inspired by the sorts of questions he is asked when in the late Iron Age, how interpretations of the leading walking tours on the wall, Mike Bishop here town have changed since the later 16th century, the presents a Q&A style introduction to this most building of the later Roman town wall, the evidence famous of Roman monuments. 100 Questions range for foreigners and locals in the town, and a multi– from the general - When was it built? Who built it? stranded, sociological overview of change over time - to the particular - Did the turrets have roofs? What in a residential insula (Fulford). 280p b/w illus (Journal is the berm? - and each answer, though necessarily of Roman Archaeology Supplements 9, 2012) concise contains advice on further reading. 34p b/w 9781887829908 Hb £70.00 illus (Armatura Press 2011) 9780957026148 Pb £3.95 Roman Britain, Literature and Late Antiquity 47

The First Souvenirs: Enamelled Vessels from Seneca: Oedipus Hadrian’s Wall edited by A.J. Boyle edited by David J. Breeze Seneca’s Oedipus is the only surviving Roman play Marking the discovery of the fine enamalled Illam based on the story of Oedipus, and this is the first Pan, this book also contains a detailed reappraisal full edition and commentary to appear in English. of two similar vessels, the Amiens Patera and the Boyle begins by discussing Seneca himself, the Rudge Cup. All three are inscribed with the namesof Roman theatrical tradition, and previous versions forts along Hadrian’s Wall, although none was of the myth, before analysing the play and its found close to it, and it is proposed here that the reception. 568p (Oxford UP 2010, Pb 2012) pans were intended as souvenirs, and demonstrate 9780199547715 Hb £93.00, 9780199660506 Pb £35.00 the special status of the Wall among the empire’s The Cambridge Companion to the Age of frontiers even in Roman times. 120p col illus Constantine (Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 2012) 9781873124581 Pb £15.00 edited by Noel Lenski This Cambridge Companion gives a comprehensive Hadrian’s Wall and the End of Empire: The introduction to the age of the emperor Constantine, Roman Frontier in the 4th and 5th Centuries a man whose strong personality is evident in the by Rob Collins development of the Roman Empire during the period Synthesising archaeological data, as well as the of his rule, and whose own personal development limited documentary sources, this book presents a often ran alongside that of the empire. Divided into new view of the transition from Roman to early five sections dealing with political history, religion, medieval along the Hadrian’s Wall frontier zone. social and economic history, art, and foreign Collins surveys the evidence for continued relations, each chapter examines the intimate occupation at the Wall’s forts and reassesses its interplay between a powerful personality and his character, suggesting that the limitanei continued world. The second edition contains minor to play “an important part in the frontier until the corrections, updated footnotes and a brief summary Roman period, and probably beyond”. Whilst the of new publications on the reign. 469p many b/w pls frontier did not collapse in the wake of the end of (Cambridge UP 2006, 2nd ed 2012) 9781107013407 Hb empire, however, Collins does find evidence of £65.00, 9781107601109 Pb £24.99 increasing fragmentation through the 5th and 6th Constantine and the Christian Empire centuries, conditioned by the scarcer resources by Charles M. Odahl availble to the fort commanders. 214p b/w illus Aimed at the ‘curious and intelligent’ general reader (Routledge 2012) 9780415884112 Hb £80.00 as well as the scholar, and supported by numerous Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature illustrations, this detailed study initially assesses the by Victoria Emma Pagan economic decline, military failures and imperial chaos In this compelling exploration of Latin literature, of Rome and its empire during the 3rd century, as Pagan illuminates the ways that elite Romans well as the rise to power of Constantine’s family. invoked conspiracy as they navigated the Constantine’s conversion and his Christian hierarchies, divisions, and inequalities in their transformation of the religious and physical society. By seeming to uncover conspiracy topography of Rome, and the wider ramifications of everywhere, Romans could find the need to crush this radical shift, receive attention as does slave revolts, punish rivals with death or exile, Constantine’s financial and administrative reforms, dismiss women, denigrate foreigners, or view their his military prowess, his creation of the new eastern emperors with deep suspicion. 184p (University of capital Constantinople and his efforts to consolidate Texas Press 2013) 9780292739727 Hb £39.00 the dynasty. The second edition contains only minor A Companion to Ovid revisions as well as an extended section on Constantine’s legacy and modern reception. 410p b/ by Peter E. Knox w illus (Routledge, 2nd ed 2010, Pb 2012) 9780415575348 More than 30 new essays from an international cast Hb £90.00, 9780415645140 Pb £23.99 of specialists reflect the most recent developments in Ovidian scholarship. Written in an accessible and The Late Roman World and Its Historian: lively style, the essays represent a wide range of Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus critical methodologies and approaches to Ovid’s edited by David Hunt and Jan Willem Drijvers literary oeuvre. These essays tackle such basic issues This collection of papers analyses the writings of as backgrounds and contexts, genre and style, Ammianus Marcellinus. The contributors engage ancient and modern reception while also offering especially with the concept of self–identification. provocative new interpretations of the poet’s major They address the tension of Ammianus’ dual role as works from the Amores and Ars Amatoria to the both ‘outside’ external narrator and at the same time Metamorphoses and beyond. 534p (Blackwell 2009, and ‘insider’ to the contemporary experiences and Pb 2012) 9781405141833 Hb £136.00, 9781118451342 events which make up his surviving history. 256p Pb £29.99 (Routledge 1999, Pb 2012) 9780415202718 Hb £80.00, 9780415642330 Pb £28.00