Studies of Homeric Greece The Early Mediterranean World, By Jan Bouzek 1200 – 600 BC Studies of Homeric Greece is Edited by Anne-Marie Wittke a comprehensive companion Ranging in time from the to the archaeology and end of the Bronze Age to history of Late Mycenaean the dawn of the so-called to Geometric Greece and historical period (12th- the koine of Early Iron Age 6th centuries BC), this Geometric styles in Europe compendium presents the and Upper Eurasia, circa first complete survey of 1300-700 BC, in relation the early history of all the to their Near Eastern cultures along the coasts neighbours. Jan Bouzek of the Mediterranean. In discusses this pivotal period addition to the Phoenicians, of human history, in an attempt to combine Greeks and Etruscans, these archaeological evidence with the words of Homer also include many other and Hesiod, and the first Phoenician and Greek peoples, such as the Iberians, Ligurians, Thracians, trading ventures. Phrygians, Luwians, Aramaeans and Libyans. The 320pp (Karolinum Press 2018) 9788024635613 Pb £23.00 main focus is on contacts, the transfer of culture and knowledge and key common themes, such as To Die in Style! mobility, religion, resources, languages and writing. The residential lifestyle of feasting and dying 592pp b/w illus (Brill 2018) 9789004339323 Hb £300.00 in Iron Age Stamna, Greece By Gioulika Christakopoulou & Olga Christakopoulou The Etruscans This book re-examines the cemeteries of Stamna, 9th–2nd Centuries BC highlighting tombs with unique architecture or By Raffaele D’Amato peculiar structures with individual features, in Drawing on archaeological evidence including order to investigate the complex identity of elite warrior tombs, paintings, sculptures, and fully group ideologies. The study of such a large number illustrated throughout, this study describes the of PRG tombs (c. 500) presents a remarkable Etruscans at war. Divided into two sections on representative example for discussion of the the Villanovan army and the Etruscan classical perception of death, confronting army respectively, each looks at arms and armour, it through the mourning ritual, clothing and display, infantry and cavalry, and but also examining the creation Only organisation and tactics. of an individual and collective £19.00 until 64pp col illus (Osprey 2018) 9781472828316 Pb £11.99 memory. 31st May 84pp, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919351 Pb £22.00 Classical World The Cambridge History of Religions The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World in the Ancient World Volume 1: From the Bronze Age to Volume 2: From the Hellenistic Age to the Hellenistic Age Late Antiquity Edited by Michele Renee Salzman & Marvin A. Sweeney Edited by William Adler The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient The nineteen essays in World provides a comprehensive and in-depth this volume begin with analysis of the religions of the ancient Near East the Hellenistic age and and Mediterranean world. The fourteen essays in extend to the late Roman Volume 1 begin in the third millennium BCE with period. Its contributors, all the Sumerians and extend to the fourth century acknowledged experts in BCE through the fall of the Achaemenid Persian their fields, analyze a wide Empire and the demise of Alexander the Great. spectrum of textual and 464pp (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9781108703130 material evidence. Pb £22.99 464pp (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9781108703123 Pb £22.99

35 The Punic Mediterranean The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity Identities and Identification from Phoenician Political, Cultural, and Economic Impacts Settlement to Roman Rule Edited by Matthew Adam Cobb Edited by Josephine Crawley Quinn and Thanks to the Indian Ocean Nicholas C. Vella trade, peoples living in the The role of the Phoenicians , Parthia, in the economy, culture India, and Southeast Asia and politics of the ancient increasing had access to Mediterranean was as large exotic foreign products, as that of the Greeks and while the lands from which Romans, but their lack of they derived, and the peoples literature and their oriental inhabiting these lands, also associations mean that they captured the imagination, are much less well-known. finding expression in Focusing on a series of case- a number of literary and studies from the colonial poetic works. The three world of the western major themes of the book are the development Mediterranean, this volume asks what ‘Phoenician’ of this trade, how consumption and exchange and ‘Punic’ actually mean, how Punic or western impacted on societal developments, and how the Phoenician identity has been constructed by Indian Ocean trade influenced the literary creations ancients and moderns, and whether there was in of Graeco-Roman and Indian authors. fact a ‘Punic world’. 288pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138738263 Hb 404p b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge UP Pb 2014, 2018) £115.00 9781107055278 Hb £82.99, 9781107663787 Pb £27.99 The Story of Greece and Maritime Networks in the Ancient By Tony Spawforth Mediterranean World This new history of the Edited by Justin Leidwanger and Carl Knappett Classical world reveals that For the coast-hugging populations of the ancient Greek and Roman civilization, Mediterranean, mobility and exchange depended to varying degrees, was on a distinct environment and technological supremely and surprisingly parameters that created diverse challenges and receptive to external opportunities, making the modelling of maritime influences, particularly from interaction a paramount concern for understanding the East. From the rise of cultural interaction more generally. Network- the Mycenaean world of inspired metaphors have long been employed the sixteenth century B.C., in discussions of this interaction, but increasing Spawforth traces a path theoretical sophistication and advances in formal through the ancient Aegean network analysis now offer opportunities to refine to the zenith of the Hellenic and test the dominant paradigm of connectivity. state and the rise of the Roman empire, the coming Extending from prehistory into the Byzantine of and the consequences of the first period, the case studies here reveal the potential of caliphate. such network approaches. 392pp, col illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300217117 Hb £20.00 272pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108429948 Hb £75.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Greek and Roman Religions By Rebecca I. Denova Rebecca Denova explores the presence of divinity in all aspects of ancient life and highlights the origins of myth, religious authority, institutions, beliefs, rituals, sacred texts, and ethics. Comprehensive in scope, the text focuses on myriad aspects that constitute Greco-Roman culture such as economic class, honour and shame, and slavery as well Only as the religious role of each member of the family. The £34.50 until integration of ethnic and community identity with divine elements are highlighted in descriptions of religious 31st May festivals. 348pp (Wiley-Blackwell 2018), 9781118542958 Pb £37.95

36 Classical World A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Jerry Toner The Ancient Art of Transformation The ancient world used the senses to express an Case Studies from Mediterranean Contexts enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects Edited by Renee M. Gondek & Carrie L. of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and Sulosky Weaver interconnected. This volume presents essays on the The Ancient Art of following topics: the social life of the senses; urban Transformation examines sensations; the senses in the marketplace; the senses the visual manifestation in religion; the senses in philosophy and science; of human transformation medicine and the senses; the senses in literature; art in the ancient and early and the senses; and sensory media. medieval Mediterranean 280pp, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2016, Pb 2018) world, exploring the role 9780857853394 Hb £75.00, 9781350077843 Pb £24.99 of art and visual culture in enabling, hindering, Tell Me Who You Are or documenting physical, Labeling Status in the Graeco-Roman World spiritual, personal, and social transitions such as Edited by Maria Nowak, Adam Łajtar & Jakub Urbanik pregnancy and birth, initiations, marriage, death The twelve articles which make up this volume and funerals. The definition of “transformation” focus on various issues surrounding personal is also expanded to address instances of less identification from the classical period through personal and more widespread transitions such Hellenistic and Roman times up to the early as shifts in political establishments and changes Byzantine era. in cultural identity in geographic locations. 299pp (Journal of Juristic Papyrology 2018) 5550210059 Additionally, although the ancient material Pb £21.95, NYP record documents certain rites of passage such as marriage and death extensively, artefacts and their On Ancient Warfare accompanying images are often studied simply to By Richard A. Gabriel reconstruct these social processes. Richard Gabriel has been studying and writing 240p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2019) about ancient warfare for nearly half a century. 9781789251043 Pb £38.00 This book presents his thoughts and perspectives on a selection of aspects of ancient warfare from broad topics such as the origins of war, through logistics, military medicine and psychiatry or the Sound and the Ancient Senses origins of jihad, to specifics such as the generalship Edited by Shane Butler & Sarah Nooter of Alexander the Great (Gabriel’s not a fan), Scipio Sound has important and Hannibal. relevance to scholars of 336pp, b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781526718457 Hb ancient literature and of £25.00 its well-known sonorities but Sound and the Ancient Barbarians in the Greek and Senses goes beyond this Roman World traditional topic to engage By Erik Jensen with sound in a wide range of What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think aspects and areas of classical of the peoples they referred to as barbarians? culture. It offers a new set Did they share the modern Western conception of tools and perspectives of “barbarians” as brutish, unwashed enemies of for approaching the key civilization? Or our related notion of “the noble question of the “orality” of ancient culture and the savage?” Was the category fixed or fluid? Was it relation of oral performance and transmission to the based on race? Erik Jensen addresses these and circulation and uses of written texts. other questions through a copiously illustrated 320pp b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781138120389 Hb introduction to the varied and evolving ways in £110.00, 9781138481664 Pb £23.99 which the ancient Greeks and Romans engaged with, and thought about, foreign peoples. 312pp (Hackett 2018) 9781624667121 Pb £15.00

Classical World 37 Shoes, Slippers, and Sandals Individuals and Materials in the Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity Greco-Roman Cults of Isis Edited by Sadie Pickup & Sally Waite Agents, Images, and Practices This volume comprises fifteen chapters covering Edited by Valentino Gasparini & Richard Veymiers a wide range of aspects associated with feet and This weighty collection focuses on the individuals footwear in classical antiquity. Contributions and groups which animated the diffusion and are grouped under four headings: ‘Envisaging reception of the cults of Isis and other Egyptian gods Footwear’, ‘Following Footprints’, ‘One from a Pair’ throughout the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. The and ‘Between Representation and Reality’, reflecting 26 contributions divided into three sections devoted the broad range and interdisciplinary nature of the to the “agents”, their “images” and their “practices”, approaches undertaken. shed new light on this religious movement that 272pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781472488763 Hb appears much more heterogeneous and colourful £115.00 than previously recognized. Prostheses in Antiquity 1146pp (Brill 2018) 9789004377837 Hb £293.00 Edited by Jane Draycott Classical Antiquities of Algeria The ancient literary and documentary evidence for A Selective Guide prostheses and prosthesis use is contradictory, and By Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, Claude Sintes & the bioarchaeological and archaeological evidence Philip Kenrick is enigmatic, but discretion and utility were not Algeria’s Roman monuments are particularly necessarily priorities. So, when, how and why did impressive. This is partly because they are well- individuals utilise them? This volume, the first to preserved, but also because the French, he colonial explore prostheses and prosthesis use in classical rulers, carried out extensive excavations and antiquity, seeks to answer these questions. restorations. This guidebook will take you to all 248pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9781472488091 Hb the sites, with a historical introduction, a detailed £115.00 gazetteer of the principal museums and Roman sites Gender, Identity and the Body in and lavish provision of maps, plans and photographs. 328pp col illus (Society for Libyan Studies 2019) Greek and Roman Sculpture 9781900971546 Pb £20.00, NYP By Rosemary Barrow Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture The Oxford Handbook of Greek and offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient Roman Art and Architecture art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory Edited by Clemente Marconi from gender studies, body studies, art history and This Handbook seeks to explore key aspects of other related fields. The book raises important Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, and to questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting assess the current state of the discipline. After a responses that the individual works can be shown to framing introduction which compares ancient evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both and modern notions of art and architecture, the original context and modern experience. Handbook is divided into five sections: Pictures from 256pp, 33 b/w illus. (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107039544 the Inside, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture Hb £75.00 in the Making, Ancient Contexts, Post-Antique Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Contexts, and Approaches. 728pp (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2018) 9780199783304 Hb Ancient World £120.00, 9780190887124 Pb £35.99 Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings Edited by Susanne Ebbinghaus The Materiality of Text Vessels shaped as bulls, lions, birds, donkeys, and Placement, Perception, and Presence of other animals were routinely used to pour and Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity drink liquids at feasts throughout the ancient Edited by Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic & world. Bringing together animal-shaped vessels Edmund Thomas from the Mediterranean, the Near and Far East, The Materiality of Text provides a multi-disciplinary and the Americas, this fascinating cross-cultural perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. study is the first large-scale consideration of this The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order phenomenon. Experts from around the world to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and reveal how these entertaining, often extremely perception: starting with an analysis of the forms lifelike vessels functioned not only as feasting of writing and its perception as an act of physical paraphernalia but also as ritual implements, and cultural intervention, the volume moves on to symbols of social status, and objects of artistic consider the texts’ ubiquity and strategic positioning exchange and experimentation. within epigraphic, literary, and architectural spaces. 400pp, b/w and col illus (Yale UP 2018) 9780300237030 436pp (Brill 2018) 9789004375505 Hb £119.00 Hb £40.00 38 Classical World Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and (2 volumes): Roman Comedy Volume 1: Greek Novels, Volume 2: Roman Edited by Michael Fontaine & Adele C. Scafuro Novels and Other Important Texts This volume provides a comprehensive survey Edited by Edmund Cueva of Greek and Roman comedy from the birth of This two volume set publishes the proceedings of comedy in Greece to its end in Rome, from the the Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Hellenistic diffusion of performances after the Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the death of Menander to its artistic, scholarly, and fall of 2015. The essays provide clear evidence that literary receptions in the later Roman Empire. the ancient novel has become a valuable part of 41 essays spread across Greek Comedy, Roman the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to Comedy, and the transmission and reception of understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Ancient comedy, while an introduction surveys 773pp, 2 vols (Barkhuis 2018) 9789492444561 Hb the major trends and shifts in scholarly study of £180.00 comedy from the 1960s to today. 912pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9780199743544 Hb £137.50, 9780190887216 Pb £35.99 Greece How to Do Things with History Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily New Approaches to Ancient Greece A Social and Economic History Edited by Danielle Allen, Paul Christesen & By Franco de Angelis Paul Millett This book represents the How to Do Things with first ever systematic and History is a collection of comprehensive attempt to essays that explores current synthesize the historical and and future approaches to the archaeological evidence for study of ancient Greek cultural Greek society and economy history. Rather than focus in Sicily, and to deploy it to directly on methodology, the test the various historical essays demonstrate how some models proposed over the of the most productive and past two centuries. While significant methodologies for Sicily and Greece had studying ancient Greece can conjoined histories from the be employed to illuminate start, their relationship was a range of different kinds of not one of periphery and centre or of colony and subject matter. They are based on papers delivered at state in any sense, but of an interdependent and a conference held at Cambridge University in honour mutually enriching diaspora. of Paul Cartledge’s retirement. 464pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2016, Pb 2018) 416pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190649890 Hb £55.00 9780195170474 Hb £71.00, 9780190887131 Pb £25.99 Foundation Myths and Politics Ancient Macedonians in Greek & in Ancient Ionia Roman Sources By Naoise Mac Sweeney From History to Historiography This book examines Edited by Tim Howe & Frances Pownall foundation myths told about The essays in this collection explore how Classical the Ionian cities during the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman authors reinterpret archaic and classical periods. and sometimes misinterpret information on ancient The Ionian cities seem to Macedonians to serve their own literary and have rejected oppositional political aims. Although Roman ideas pervade the models of cultural difference historiographical tradition, this volume shows that which set in contrast East the manipulation of ancient Macedonian history and West, Europe and Asia, largely occurred much earlier. It reflected the Greek and Barbarian, opting complicated dynastic politics of the Argead royal instead for a more fluid and house, the efforts of Alexander himself to redefine nuanced perspective on Macedonian kingship, and the competing strategies ethnic and cultural distinctions. of the Successors to claim his legacy. 253pp b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2013, Pb 2019) 301pp, (Classical Press of Wales 2018) 9781910589700 9781107037496 Hb £65.00, 9781108729963 Pb £19.99 Hb £60.00 39 Antipater’s Dynasty Myths and Tragedies in Their Ancient Alexander the Great’s Regent and his Successors Greek Contexts By John D. Grainger By Richard F. Buxton Antipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon This work brings together eleven of Richard under Philip II and instrumental in the succession Buxton’s studies of Greek mythology and Greek of Alexander III (the Great). Alexander entrusted tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship Antipater with ruling Macedon in his long absence between the two, and their importance to the and he defeated the Spartans in 331 BC. Antipater’s Greeks themselves. Situating and contextualizing eldest son Cassander later became regent of topics and themes, such as mountains, (were) Macedon but eventually had Alexander IV killed wolves, mythological names, movement/stillness, and made himself king. Three of his sons in turn blindness, and feminization, within the world briefly succeeded him but could not retain the of ancient Greece, Buxton traces the intricate throne. Antipater’s female heirs are shown to be variations and retellings which they underwent in just as important, both as pawns and surprisingly Greek antiquity. independent players. 304pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2013, Pb 2018) 9780199557615 288pp (Pen & Sword 2019) 9781526730886 Hb £25.00 Hb £79.00, 9780198814573 Pb £25.00 Athenian Law and Society Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity By Konstantinos A. Kapparis By Greta Hawes In democratic Athens the law was both a product of This volume charts ancient dissatisfaction with democracy and a force for safeguarding democratic the excesses of myth, and the various attempts to practices. This study investigates the mutual cut these stories down to size by explaining them relationship between law and society in classical as misunderstood accounts of actual events. In the Athens and includes a detailed study of Athenian hands of ancient rationalizers, the hybrid forms legislation, constitution, finance, society, daily life, of the Centaurs become early horse-riders, seen gender relations, religion, and culture, and their from a distance; the Minotaur the result of an impact upon modern cultural values. illicit liaison, not an inter-species love affair; and 280pp (Routledge 2018) 9781472449184 Hb £125.00 Cerberus, nothing more than a notorious snake with a lethal bite. The Political Economy of Classical Athens 304pp (Oxford UP 2014, Pb 2018) 9780199672776 Hb A Naval Perspective £81.00, 9780198831037 Pb £25.00 By Barry O’Halloran In the face of increasingly compelling arguments Myth, Literature, and the Creation of for the existence of a market economy in classical the Topography of Thebes Athens, the Finleyan orthodoxy is finally By Daniel W. Berman relinquishing its long dominion. In this book, The topography of Thebes, both natural and built, Barry O’Halloran contributes to this debate with very often plays a significant role in its myths. This an analysis of the economic foundations of Athens book explores the relationship between the city’s through the prism of its navy. His macroeconomic spaces as they were represented in the Greek literary approach utilises an employment-demand tradition and the physical realities of a developing model through which enormous naval defence city that had been continuously inhabited since at expenditures created an exceptional period of least the second millennium BC. It finds that the demand-led economic growth. urban topography of Thebes came more and more 395pp (Brill 2018) 9789004386143 Hb £120.00 to reflect the literary, even fictional, constructions of its mythic past. Great Naval Battles of the Ancient 200pp (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) 9781107077362 Hb Greek World £64.99, 9781107434363 Pb £23.99 By Owen Rees This book presents a selection of thirteen naval The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes battles that span a defining century in ancient Edited by Gunther Martin Greek history, from the Ionian Revolt and Persian As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Invasion to the rise of external naval powers in Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his the Mediterranean Sea, such as the Carthaginians. time. The Oxford Handbook sets out to explore The background, wider military campaigns, and the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving the opposing forces are discussed, followed by a particular weight to elucidating the settings and narrative and analysis of the fighting. Finally, the contexts of his activities, as well as some of the key aftermaths of the battles are dealt with, looking at themes dealt with in his speeches, and thereby the strategic implications of the outcome for both illustrating the interplay and mutual influence the victor and the defeated. between his rhetoric and the environment from 218pp (Pen & Sword 2019) 9781473827301 Hb £19.99 which it emerged. 456pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198713852 Hb £95.00 40 Greece The Story of Myth The Early Seleukids, Their Gods and By Sarah Iles Johnston Their Coins Instead of looking for By Kyle Erickson hidden meanings, Sarah Iles This study argues that rather than projecting an Johnston argues that the very imperialistic Greek image of rule, the Seleukid kings nature of myths as stories deliberately produced images, particularly on their enabled them to do their most coinage, that represented their personal power, and important work: to create and that were comprehensible to the majority of their sustain belief in the gods and subjects within their own cultural traditions. These heroes who formed the basis images relied heavily on the syncretism between of Greek religion. She reveals Greek and local gods, in particular their ancestor the subtle yet powerful ways Apollo. in which these ancient Greek 252pp, b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780415793766 Hb tales forged enduring bonds £140.00 between their characters and their audiences, created coherent story-worlds, and made it possible to believe The Rise of the Seleukid Empire in extraordinary gods. (323–223 BC) 350pp (Harvard UP 2019) 9780674185074 Hb £32.95 Seleukos I to Seleukos III The Derveni Papyrus By John D. Grainger Unearthing Ancient Mysteries John D Grainger relates Edited by Marco Antonio Santamaria Alvarez the remarkable twists of fortune and daring that saw The Derveni Papyrus is a Seleukos, an officer in an fascinating and challenging elite guard unit, emerge from document which, after the wars of the Diadochi some reflections on minor (Alexander’s successors) in divinities and unusual cults, control of the largest and comments upon a poem richest part of the empire attributed to Orpheus of the late Alexander the from an allegorical and Great. After his conquests philosophical perspective. and eventual murder, we This volume focuses on the then see how his successors continued his policies, restoration and conservation including the repeated wars with the Ptolemaic of the papyrus, the ideas rulers of Egypt over control of Syria. The volume of the anonymous author about Erinyes and ends with the deep internal crisis and the Wars of daimons, comparisons with Hesiod’s Theogony and the Brothers, which left only a single member of the Parmenides’ poem, the exegetical approach of the dynasty alive in 223 BC. commentator, his cosmogonic system, his attitude regarding mystery cults and his peculiar theology. 256pp (Pen & Sword 2014, Pb 2018) 9781526743763 Pb £12.99 182pp (Brill 2018) 9789004384842 Hb £117.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire By Paul J. Kosmin The Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to the Persian Gulf. In a radical move to impose unity and regulate behaviour, they introduced a linear and transcendent conception of time. Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years became the de facto measure of historical duration. This new temporality, propagated throughout the empire, changed how people did business, recorded events, and oriented themselves to the larger world. Challenging this order, however, were rebellious subjects who resurrected their pre-Hellenistic Only pasts and created apocalyptic time frames that predicted the £36.00 until total end of history. The interaction of these complex and competing temporalities, Kosmin argues, led to far-reaching 31st May religious, intellectual, and political developments. 390pp (Harvard UP 2019) 9780674976931 Hb £39.95

Greece 41 Orphic Traditions and the Birth of The Seleukid Empire 281–222 the Gods War Within the Family By Dwayne A. Meisner Edited by Kyle Erickson Meisner applies a new The contributors to this book theoretical model for argue that in the decades studying Orphic theogonies after Seleukos the empire and suggests certain features developed flexible structures that characterize them as that successfully bound it different from Hesiod. Most together in the face of a importantly, he argues that series of catastrophes. The the Orphic myths of Phanes strength of the Seleukid emerging from the Cosmic realm lay not simply in its Egg and Zeus swallowing vast swathes of territory, but Phanes are at least as rather in knowing how to important as the well-known tie the new, frequently non- myth of Dionysus being Greek, nobility to the king dismembered by the Titans, long thought to have through mutual recognition of sovereignty. been the central myth of Orphism. 315pp (Classical Press of Wales 2018) 9781910589717 Hb 320pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190663520 Hb £55.00 £60.00 Greek Art and Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Cutting-edge Technologies in Greek Colonization in Local Context Ancient Greece Case Studies in Colonial Interactions Edited by Marina Panagiotaki, Ilias Tomazos and Fotios Edited by Jason Lucas, Carrie Ann Murray & Sara Papadimitrakopoulos Owen This volume examines materials produced with Greek Colonization in Local the use of fire and mostly by use of the kiln Context takes a fresh look (metals, plasters, glass and glaze, aromatics). The at Greek colonies around technologies based on fire have been considered Europe and Black Sea. The high-tech technologies and they have contributed emphasis is on cultural to the evolution of man throughout history. Papers interaction, transformation highlight technical innovations of the technician/ and the repercussions and artist/pyrotechnologist that lived in the Aegean local reactions to colonization (mainland Greece and the islands) in social, religious and cultural during the Bronze Age, the terms. Papers examine the Classical and the Byzantine Only archaeological evidence periods. £32.00 until for cultural interaction in a series of case studies from locations around the 256pp b/w and col illus publication (Oxbow Books 2019) Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, at a variety of 9781789252989 Hb £40.00 scales. Contributors consider the effects of colonization on urban life and developments in cities and smaller settlements as well as in the rural landscapes surrounding and supporting them. This collection of new papers by leading scholars reveals fascinating details of the native response to the imposition of Greek rule and the indigenous input into early state development in the Mediterranean and adjacent Only regions. £32.00 until 224pp, b/w (Oxbow Books publication 2019) 9781789251326 Pb £40.00

42 Eye and Art in Ancient Greece Forthcoming from Oxbow Books By Christopher Witcombe Kale Akte, the Fair Promontory This book examines various key aspects of Greek visual Settlement, Trade and Production on the culture, such as continuity Nebrodi Coast of Sicily 500 BC–AD 500 and change, nudity, identity, By Adam Lindhagen lifelikeness, mimesis, This volume investigates personation and enactment, the interaction between the symmetry, dance, harmony, natural environment, market and the representation of forces and political entities emotions, to ask how and in an ancient Sicilian town why choices were made in and its surrounding micro- the conception and making region over the time-span of of artefacts. Special attention a thousand years. Focusing is given to factors contributing to the formation of on the ancient polis of Kale taste and the emergence and transmission over time Akte (Caronia) and the of concepts of art and beauty and the means by surrounding Nebrodi area which they were identified and judged. on the north coast of Sicily, 250pp, b/w illus (Brepols 2018) 9781909400030 Hb the book examines the city’s archaeology and £81.00 history from a broad geographical and cultural viewpoint, suggesting that Kale Akte may have Art & Archaeology of the Greek World had a greater economic importance for Sicily and By Richard T. Neer the wider Mediterranean world than its size and Greek Art and Archaeology Celebrated for its abundant lowly political status would suggest. Also discussed illustrations and accessible is the gradual population shift away from the voice, Art & Archaeology of hill-top down to a growing harbour settlement at the Greek World arrives in Caronia Marina, at the foot of the rock. The book its second edition with more is particularly important for the comprehensive coverage of the earliest Bronze analysis of the 1999–2004 excavations at the latter, Age and latest Hellenistic with fresh interpretations of the function of the periods, and increased buildings excavated and their chronology, as well archaeological context; the for reviewing the present state of picture of ancient Greek art our knowledge about Kale Acte/ is expanded to help readers Calacte, and defining research Only better understand how the questions for the future. £48.00 until subject connects to, and reflects, the historical 464pp, b/w and col illus publication developments of the time. (Oxbow Books 2019) 408pp, col illus (Thames and Hudson 2nd ed 2019) 9781789252507 Hb £60.00 9780500052082 Hb £45.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. By William A. P. Childs Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting. Taking into consideration developments in style and subject matter, and elucidating political, religious, and intellectual context, William A. P. Childs argues that Greek art in this era was a natural outgrowth of the high classical period and focused on developing the rudiments of individual expression that became the hallmark of the classical in the fifth century. As Childs shows, in many respects the art of this period corresponds with the philosophical inquiry by Plato and his contemporaries into the nature of art and speaks to the Only contemporaneous sense of insecurity and renewed religious £42.50 until devotion. Another overarching theme concerns the nature of “style as a concept of expression,” an issue that becomes more important given the 31st May increasingly multiple styles and functions of fourth-century Greek art. 592pp, col illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691176468 Pb £50.00

Greek Art and Archaeology 43 Corinth, Volume 22 The Agora Bone Well The Julian : Architecture, Sculpture, By Maria A. Liston, Susan I. Rotroff & Lynn M. Snyder Epigraphy Even though Dorothy By Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool & Paul D. Scotton Thompson excavated the Early-20th-century explorations of the Roman Agora Bone Well in 1938, Forum at Ancient Corinth revealed a massive early the well and its remarkable imperial building now known as the Julian Basilica. finds have never been fully The structure stood on a podium over four meters studied until now. Dating high, and dominated the east end of the forum until to the second quarter of its destruction in the 4th century A.D. Within it was the 2nd century B.C., the one of the largest known shrines to the imperial cult well contained the remains and the likely site of the imperial court of law for the of roughly 460 newborn Roman province of Achaia. This richly illustrated infants, as well as a few older volume provides a thorough, contextual study of individuals. Also found in the well were the bones this important building. of over 150 dogs and an assortment of other animals, 448pp, b/w illus, col pls (ASCSA 2019) 9780876610237 plus various artifacts, including an intriguing herm Hb £95.00, NYP and an ivory chape. 200pp, b/w illus(ASCSA 2018) 9780876615508 Pb £45.00 Lerna 8 The Historical Greek Village Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth By Brice L. Erickson Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes This volume presents the Protogeometric through Hellenistic material (ca. 970–175 B.C.) from ASCSA By Eleni Hasaki excavations conducted in the 1950s at Lerna in the An unparalleled assemblage Argolid, one of the most important prehistoric sites of Archaic black-figure painted in Greece. The material derives from two main plaques was uncovered near sources: burials from a Geometric cemetery near Penteskouphia, a village the settlement and Late Archaic, Classical, and west of ancient Corinth, Hellenistic wells from the mound proper. Although over a century ago. In this the material consists primarily of pottery and other volume, the findspot of the ceramic finds, it also includes human remains, plaques is identified and the animal bones and shells, coins, inscriptions, and assemblage as a whole is bronze and stone objects. fully contextualized within 520pp b/w and col illus (ASCSA 2018) 9780876613085 the Archaic world. Then, by Hb £95.00 focusing specifically on the images of potters at work, the author illuminates the Oikema ou Piece Polyvalente relationship between Corinthian and Athenian art, Recherches sur une Installation Commerciale the technology used in ancient pottery production, de l’Antiquite Grecque and religious anxiety in the 6th century B.C. By Pavlos Karvonis 456pp, b/w and col illus (ASCSA 2019) 9780876615539 This volume discusses the Pb £45.00, NYP evolution of oikema – is Vrysaki the most common type of A Neighborhood Lost in Search of commercial facility in ancient the Athenian Agora Greece – presenting the architectural characteristics By Sylvie Dumont and the equipment of oikemata Between 1931 and 1939, central Athens was and discussing their location transformed by the expropriation and demolition and relationship with other of the Vrysaki neighbourhood at the foot of the buildings. The ownership, use Acropolis. More than 5,000 inhabitants were and maintenance of oikemata displaced and 348 properties were torn down so are also discussed. It is argued that the American School of Classical Studies at that oikemata provided merchants and craftsmen Athens (ASCSA) could excavate the ancient Agora. with a suitable working space and contributed to the Using materials from the ASCSA Archives and a gradual abandonment of houses large collection of photographs from the 1930s, this as working places, especially volume details the history of the negotiations, the in cities that developed in the Only expropriations, and, most importantly, the Vrysaki Hellenistic period. £29.00 until neighbourhood itself. 224pp, b/w and col illus (ASCSA 2019) 9780876619698 136pp, b/w and col illus 31st May (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919399 Hb £60.00, NYP Pb £34.00 44 Greek Art and Archaeology Greek Literature Tombs of the Ancient Poets The Returning Hero Between Literary Reception and Material Nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Culture Settlement Edited by Nora Goldschmidt & Barbara Graziosi Edited by Simon Hornblower & Giulia Biffis This volume explores the A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek ways in which the tombs of literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly – the ancient poets – real or but by no means only – of mythical Greek heroes imagined – act as crucial sites from Troy. This volume offers a truly interdisciplinary for the reception of Greek exploration of the concept of nostos in ancient and Latin poetry. Drawing Greek culture. The chapters examine both literary together a range of examples, and material evidence in order to achieve a better the collection makes a understanding of the nature of Greek settlement distinctive contribution to in the Mediterranean zone, and of sometimes the study of literary reception equivocal Greek and Roman perceptions of home, by focusing on the materiality displacement, and returning. of the body and the tomb, 352pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198811428 Hb and the ways in which they £75.00 mediate the relationship between classical poetry and its readers. Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient 384pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198826477 Hb Greece £80.00 Selected Essays The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod By Richard Seaford This volume brings together a wide range of papers Edited by Alexander Loney & Stephen Scully written with a focus on Greek tragedy. Several are This volume brings together 29 scholars to discuss pioneering explorations of the tragic evocation and aspects of Hesiod’s poetry and its milieu and to representation of rites of passage: mystic initiation, explore questions of reception. It first addresses the wedding, and death ritual. The other key factor questions of authorship, historicity, and the nature in the historical context of tragedy is the recent of composition of the Theogony and Works and monetisation of Athens. Days. Subsequent chapters on the archaeology and 496pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107171718 Hb £100.00 economic history of archaic Boiotia, Indo-European poetics, and Hesiodic style offer a critical picture of Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century the sorts of questions that have been asked rather A Survey from ca. 400 BC to ca. AD 400 than an attempt to resolve debate. Edited by Vayos Liapis & Antonis K. Petrides 528pp (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190209032 Hb £97.00 This volume contains in-depth discussions of Hesiod all available textual evidence, but also provides historical perspectives on every aspect of the The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other post-fifth-century history of tragedy. Oft-neglected Fragments plays are studied alongside such topics as the Edited by Glenn W. Most expansion of Greek tragedy beyond Athens, theatre This second volume contains The Shield and performance, music and dance, society and politics, extant fragments of other poems, including the as well as the reception of Greek tragedy in the Catalogue of Women, that were attributed to Second Sophistic and in Late Antiquity. Hesiod in antiquity. None of these is now thought 410pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107038554 Hb £90.00 to be by Hesiod himself, but all have considerable literary and historical interest. Glenn W. Most has Parody, Politics and the Populace thoroughly revised his edition to take account of in Greek Old Comedy the textual and interpretive scholarship that has By Donald Sells appeared since its initial publication. This book argues that Old Comedy’s parodic and 448pp (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997219 Hb £18.95 non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, Hesiod and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia art, politics and society. Donald Sells locates the Edited by Glenn W. Most enduring significance of parody in the specific The first volume of this revised Loeb Classical cultural, social and political subtexts that often Library edition offers Hesiod’s two extant poems frame Old Comedy’s bold experiments with other and a generous selection of testimonia regarding his genres and drive its rapid evolution. life, works, and reception. 304pp, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2018) 9781350060517 Hb 408pp (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674997202 Hb £18.95 £85.00 45 Xenophon and the Graces of Power Hippocrates By Vincent Azoulay Diseases of Women 1–2 Vincent Azoulay analyses across Xenophon’s diverse Edited by Paul Potter texts the techniques by which the Greek writer This is the eleventh and final volume in the Loeb recommends that leaders should manipulate. Classical Library’s complete edition of. Here, Paul Through gifts and personal allure, though mystique, Potter presents the Greek text with facing English dazzling appearance, exemplary behaviour, strategic translation of Diseases of Women 1 and 2, which absences – and occasional terror, Xenophon analyses represent the most extensive accounts in the ways in which a powerful few might triumphantly Hippocratic collection of female reproductive life, triumphantly replace the erratic democracies and the pathological conditions affecting the female selfindulgent oligarchies of his day. reproductive organs, and their proper terminology 430pp (Classical Press of Wales 2018) 9781910589694 and recommended treatments. Hb £65.00 528pp (Harvard UP 2018) 9780674996571 Hb £18.95 Ptolemy’s Philosophy The Cambridge Companion to Mathematics as a Way of Life Hippocrates By Jacqueline Feke Edited by Peter E. Pormann Claudius Ptolemy is In this companion, an remembered today for international team of authors his astronomy, but his introduces major themes in philosophy is almost Hippocratic studies, ranging entirely lost to history. This from textual criticism and groundbreaking book is the the ‘Hippocratic Question’ to first to reconstruct Ptolemy’s problems such as aetiology, general philosophical system- physiology and nosology. -including his metaphysics, Emphasis is given to the epistemology, and ethics – afterlife of Hippocrates from and to explore its relationship Late Antiquity to the Modern to astronomy, harmonics, period. Hippocrates had as element theory, astrology, much relevance in the fifth- cosmology, psychology, and theology. Feke reveals century BC Greek world as in the medieval Islamic how Ptolemy’s unique system is at once a critique world, and he remains with us today in both of prevailing philosophical trends and a conception medical and non-medical contexts. of the world in which mathematics reigns supreme. 320pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107695849 Pb £26.99 256pp b/w illus (Princeton UP 2018) 9780691179582 Hb £30.00 Rome Rome Victorious Rome after The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire By J. Alison Rosenblitt By B. Dexter Hoyos Rome after Sulla offers a new Perhaps the most famous perspective on the damaged, example in history of volatile, and conflictual modest beginnings rising political culture of the late to greatness, Rome’s empire Roman republic. The book was never static or uniform. begins with a narrative of the Over the centuries, under years immediately following the ‘boundless grandeur of the dictatorship of Sulla (80- the Roman peace’ (as the 77 BC). Arguing that Sulla’s Elder Pliny put it), imperial settlement was never stable, law, civilisation and language the book posits that the vigorously interacted with events and the unresolved and influenced local cultures traumas of the first civil war across western and central of the Roman republic triggered profound changes Europe and . However, as Dexter Hoyos in Roman political culture, to which Sallust’s reveals, the empire was not won cheaply or fast, and magnum opus, his now-fragmentary Historiae, is did not always succeed. our best guide. 272pp, col pls (I.B. Tauris 2019) 9781780762746 Hb 240pp, b/w illus (Bloomsbury 2019) 9781472580573 Hb £25.00 £85.00 46 Prostitutes and Matrons in Forthcoming from Oxbow Books the Roman World By Anise K. Strong Rome’s Greatest Warlord Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World is the By Simon Elliott first substantial account of Julius Caesar has been the elite Roman concubines inspiration to countless and courtesans. Exploring military commanders over the blurred line between the last two millennia. This proper matron and wicked concise history details his prostitute, it illuminates the military life, and how it lives of sexually promiscuous impacted with his political women like Messalina and career, from his youth Clodia, as well as prostitutes through the civil wars that with hearts of gold who resulted in his becoming saved Rome and their lovers the dictator of Rome, and in times of crisis. It also offers insights into the his legacy. multiple functions of erotic imagery and the 160pp, b/w illus circumstances in which prostitutes could play (Casemate UK 2019) prominent roles in Roman public and religious life. 9781612007090 Pb £7.99 314pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2016, Pb 2018) 9781107148758 Hb £77.00, 9781316602645 Pb £20.00 Politics and Philosophy at Rome Mutina 43 BC Collected Papers Mark Antony’s Struggle for Survival By Miriam T. Griffin & Catalina Balmaceda By Nic Fields This volume presents the collected papers of In the aftermath of the Miriam T. Griffin, whose work has played a central murder of Gaius Julius role in forging links between scholarship on Caesar, his self-declared the history of the Graeco-Roman world and its successor Mark Antony philosophies. The collection covers a range of struggled to hold together his topics in Roman Republican and Imperial history, legacy. Following an abortive Roman historiography, and the interplay of Latin coup attempt by Caesar’s philosophy and Roman politics, as well as featuring adopted son Octavian, two a host of key Latin authors, most notably Cicero, of Antony’s legions declared Seneca, and Tacitus. for him, leading to a renewed 832pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780198793120 Hb outbreak of civil war. Fully £120.00 illustrated with specially commissioned artwork and maps, this is the full Rome Dionysius of Halicarnassus and story of the battles which would see Octavian move Augustan Rome from being a young, inexperienced aristocrat to the Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography dominating figure of Augustus. 96pp,col illus (Osprey 2018) 9781472831200 Pb £14.99 Edited by Richard Hunter & Casper C. de Jonge This volume examines Beyond Greek how Dionysius’ critical The Beginnings of Latin Literature and rhetorical works are connected with his history of By Denis Feeney Rome, and the complex ways Beyond Greek traces the emergence of Latin literature in which both components of from 240 to 140 BCE, beginning with Roman stage this dual project – rhetorical productions of plays that represented the first criticism and historiography translations of Greek literary texts into another – fit into the social, language. In an ancient Mediterranean world made intellectual, literary, cultural up of many multilingual societies with no equivalent and political world of Rome to the text-based literature of the Greeks, literary under Augustus. How does translation was unusual if not unprecedented. Feeney Dionysius’ interpretation of shows how it allowed Romans to systematically the earliest Romans resonate take over Greek forms of tragedy, comedy, and epic, with the political reality of the Principate? And how making them their own and giving birth to what has do his views relate to those of Cicero, Livy and Horace. become known as Latin literature. 304pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108474900 Hb £75.00 400pp (Harvard UP 2016, Pb 2019) 9780674986589 Pb £17.95 Rome 47 The Function of the Roman Army in A History of the Roman Equestrian Southern Arabia Petraea Order By Mariana Castro By Caillan Davenport In the region of Arabia there is still little Throughout more than a consensus about the purpose of the Roman thousand years of Roman military presence, its fluctuating functions, history, equestrians played or the role of hundreds of fortified buildings prominent roles in the scattered across the landscape. This study aims Roman government, army, to provide a fresh perspective on these issues and society as cavalrymen, by employing a landscape approach, paralleling officers, businessmen, it with the ancient sources which describe the tax collectors, jurors, roles of the Roman military in the East. It uses administrators, and writers. a variety of digital resources to This book offers the first contextually map and model the comprehensive history of the ancient system of fortifications, Only equestrian order, covering settlements, and trade routes. £34.00 until the period from the eighth century BC to the fifth 226pp, b/w and col illus 31st May century AD. It examines how Rome’s cavalry became (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919528 the equestrian order during the Republican period, Pb £40.00 before analysing how imperial rule transformed the role of equestrians in government. Roman Heavy Cavalry 1 678pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2019) 9781107032538 Cataphractarii & Clibanarii, 1st Century BC– Hb £130.00 5th Century AD By Raffaele D’Amato Law and Power in the Making of From the army of Marc Antony in the 1st century the Roman Commonwealth BC, Roman generals hired Oriental heavy armoured By Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi cavalry to serve in their military alongside the With a broad chronological sweep, this book legions. These troops, both from the northern provides an historical account of Roman law steppes and the Persian frontiers, continued an and legal institutions which explains how they ancient tradition of using heavy armour and long were created and modified in relation to political lances, and fought in a compact formation for developments and changes in power relations. It maximum shock effect. This first book in a two part underlines the constant tension between two central series on Roman Heavy Cavalry examines their use aspects of Roman politics: the aristocratic nature over the Imperial period up to the fall of Western of the system of government, and the drive for Empire in the 5th century A.D. increased popular participation in decision-making 64pp, col illus (Osprey 2018) 9781472830043 Pb £11.99 and the exercise of power. 402pp (Cambridge UP 2014, Pb 2018) 9781107071971 Hb £69.99, 9781107420465 Pb £27.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Zenobia Shooting Star of Palmyra By Nathanael J. Andrade Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra. By doing so, it aims to shed greater light on the experiences of Zenobia and Palmyrene women like her at various stages of their lives. Not limiting itself to the political aspects of her governance, it contemplates what inscriptions and material culture at Palmyra enable us to know about women and the practice of gender there, and thus the world that Zenobia navigated. It reflects on her Only clothes, house, hygiene, property owning, gestures, religious £19.50 until practices, funerary practices, education, languages, social identities, marriage, and experiences motherhood, along with 31st May her meteoric rise to prominence and civil war. 304pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190638818 Hb £22.99

48 Rome The Roman Agricultural Economy Making Mesopotamia Organization, Investment and Production Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Edited by Alan K. Bowman & Andrew Wilson Borderland This volume is a collection of By Hamish Cameron studies which presents new Hamish Cameron examines the representation of analyses of the nature and the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical scale of Roman agriculture writing of Strabo, , Claudius Ptolemy, in the Mediterranean world the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi, and from c. 100 BC to AD 350. Ammianus Marcellinus. The region provided Moving substantially beyond fertile ground for these authors to articulate their the simple assumption ideas about space, boundaries, and imperial power. that agriculture was the Cameron shows how each author constructed an dominant sector of the image of Mesopotamia in keeping with the goals ancient economy, the volume and context of their own work, while collectively explores what was special creating a vision of Mesopotamia as a borderland and distinctive about it, space of movement, inter-imperial tension, and especially with a view of its development and global engagement. integration during a period of expansion and 388pp (Brill 2019) 9789004388628 Hb £133.00 prosperity across the empire. 352pp (Oxford UP 2013, 2018) 9780199665723 Hb £105.00, Pb 9780198788522 Pb £27.50 Roman Art and Archaeology Roman Turdetania Settlement, Urbanization, and Romanization, Identity and Socio-Cultural Population Interaction in the South of the Edited by Alan Bowman & Andrew Wilson between the 4th and 1st centuries BCE This volume presents a collection of studies Edited by Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti focusing on population and settlement patterns Roman Turdetania makes use of the literary and in the Roman empire between 100 BC and AD archaeological sources to provide an updated state 350. The analyses highlight issues of regional and of knowledge from a postcolonial approach about temporal variation. The chapters fall into two the socio-cultural interaction processes and the main groups, the first dealing with the evidence subsequent romanisation of the populations in the for rural settlement, as revealed by archaeological southern Iberian Peninsula from the 4th to the 1st field surveys, and the attendant methodological centuries BCE. The resulting communities shaped a problems of extrapolating from that evidence a view new identity, hybrid and converging, resulting from of population; and the second with city populations the previous Phoenician-Punic substrate vigorously and the phenomenon of urbanization. coexisting with the new Hellenistic-Roman imprint. 384pp, (Oxford UP 2011, Pb 2018) 9780199602353 Hb 256pp (Brill 2018) 9789004373402 Hb £124.00 £105.00, 9780198788515 Pb £25.00 Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily Estudios Sobre el Africa Romana By Laura Pfuntner Culturas e Imaginarios en Transformacion Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily offers the Edited by Fabiola Salcedo Garces, Estefania Benito first comprehensive English-language overview of Lazaro & Sergio Espana-Chamorro the history and archaeology of Roman Sicily since R. These essays explore the mosaic of cultures that J. A. Wilson’s Sicily under the Roman Empire (1990). was the world of the Roman province of Africa Laura Pfuntner traces the development of cities and Proconsularis. Most of the articles are dedicated settlement networks in Sicily in order to understand to the world of images, but others also treat many the island’s political, economic, social, and cultural other issues such as historiography, the archaeology role in Rome’s evolving Mediterranean hegemony. of architecture, Libyan-Berber She identifies and examines three main processes ethnicities and even cultural traceable in the archaeological record of settlement parallels between North Africa Only in Roman Sicily: urban disintegration, urban and the Iberian Peninsula. £37.50 until adaptation, and the development of alternatives to Spanish text. 368pp b/w and urban settlement. col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 31st May 320pp b/w illus (University of Texas Press 2019) 9781784919078 Pb £44.00 9781477317228 Hb £45.00

49 Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia The Hypogeum of the Aurelii Materiality and Religious Experience A New Interpretation as the Collegiate Tomb By Csaba Szabo of Professional Scribae This work looks at the role of ‘sacralised’ spaces, By John Bradley or sanctuaries, in the religious communication of The three chambers of the Hypogeum of the Dacia. The author analyses the role Aurelii, so-named from a mosaic inscription of space sacralisation, religious in one of the surviving chambers, contain a appropriation, embodiment and Only varied series of images that have long been the social impact of religious considered an example of early Christian or £34.00 until communication in urban, Gnostic iconography. One hundred years after military and rural contexts. 31st May the monument’s discovery, the author challenges 254pp, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2018) earlier theories and concludes that, far from having 9781789690811 Pb £40.00 religious significance, the pictures reveal a world of professional Rural Cult Centres in the Hauran as pride among a group of what we Only Part of a Broader Network of the Near might today call ‘white collar’ £32.50 until workers. East (100 BC–AD 300) 31st May By Francesca Mazzilli 206pp, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2019) 9781789690477 Pb £38.00 The book challenges earlier scholars’ emphasis on the The Archaeology of Early role played by local identities Roman Religion and Romanisation in religion and religious architecture in By Elizabeth Colantoni the Roman Empire through The religion of the people of Rome in the first the first comprehensive centuries of the city’s history has long been a topic multidisciplinary analysis of interest for scholars, but it has been investigated of rural cult centres in the primarily through literary evidence. This book uses Hauran (southern Syria) the archaeological data to construct a new narrative from the pre-Roman to the about early Roman religious practices, examining Roman period (100 BC-AD the role and nature of sacred space; the religious 300). The author also re-assesses the social meaning calendar; gods, priests and worshippers; ritual of these sanctuaries, discusses the identity of the elite and sacrifice; and death rites and ancestor cult in group that contributed financially early Rome as they can be understood through the to the building of sanctuaries, and archaeological evidence. attempts to reconstruct ritual and Only 208pp (Routledge 2018) 9780415836647 Hb £105.00 economic activities in cult centres. £27.50 until 220pp b/w illus (Archaeopress 31st May 2018) 9781784919542 Pb £32.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Decoration and Display in Rome’s Imperial Thermae Messages of Power and their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla By Maryl B. Gensheimer Maryl B. Gensheimer takes an interdisciplinary approach to existing archaeological data, textual and visual sources, and anthropological theories in order to generate a new understanding of the visual experience of the Baths of Caracalla and show how the decoration played a critical role in advancing imperial agendas. The case studies addressed herein – ranging from architectural to freestanding sculpture and mosaic – demonstrate that sponsoring monumental baths was hardly an act of altruism. Rather, even while they provided recreation for elite and sub-altern Romans alike, such buildings were concerned primarily with dynastic legitimacy and imperial largess. Decorative programs articulated these themes by Only consistently drawing analogies between the subjects of the £54.50 until decoration and the emperor who had paid for it. The unified 31st May decorative program – and the messages of imperial power therein – adroitly honoured the emperor and consolidated his reputation. 408pp b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190614782 Hb £64.00 50 Roman Art and Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Domus del Ninfeo at Ostia (III, VI, 1-3) The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower Danube By Alessandra Batty This book is the first in-depth analysis of one of the Excavations and Survey at Dichin, a Late Roman most remarkable monuments of Ostia, the Domus to Early Byzantine Fort and a Roman Aqueduct del Ninfeo. Originally built as a multi-storey complex By Andrew Poulter during the reign of Hadrian, in Late Antiquity it was Excavations on the site converted into a ground-floor mansion. This study of this remarkable fort in aims to present a comprehensive picture of the northern Bulgaria (1996– Domus, analysing not only the many structural 2005) formed part of a changes but also its topographical setting, historical long-term programme of context and social inferences. It also presents the excavation and intensive results of a clearance in a previously neglected area field survey, aimed at tracing of the house. the economic as well as 252pp, b/w and col illus (BAR 2909, 2018) 9781407316147 physical changes which Pb £57.50 mark the transition from the Roman Empire to the The Pantheon Middle Ages, a programme From Antiquity to the Present which commenced with the excavation and full Edited by Tod A. Marder & Mark Wilson Jones publication of the early Byzantine fortress/city The Pantheon gives an up- of Nicopolis ad Istrum. The analysis of well- to-date account of recent dated finds and their full publication provides a research on the best unique data-base for the late Roman period in the preserved building in the Balkans; they include metal-work, pottery, glass, corpus of ancient Roman copper alloy finds, inscriptions architecture from the and dipinti as well as quantified time of its construction to environmental reports on Only the twenty-first century. animal, birds and fish. £52.00 until Together, the essays shed 640p, (Oxbow Books publication light on all aspects of the 2019) 9781785709586 Hb Pantheon’s creation, and £70.00 establish the importance of Army of the Roman Emperors the history of the building to an understanding of its ancient fabric and heritage, its present state, and its Archaeology and History special role in the survival and evolution of ancient By Thomas Fischer architecture in modern Rome. The Roman army acted not 503pp, b/w illus, col pls (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2018) only as an armed power of 9780521809320 Hb £80.00, 9780521006361 Pb £24.99 the state in external and internal conflicts, but also Building Mid-Republican Rome carrying out functions which Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy nowadays are performed by By Seth Bernard police, local government, Building Mid- customs and tax authorities, Republican Rome offers as well as constructing roads, a holistic treatment of the ships, and buildings. With development of the Mid- this opulent volume, Thomas Republican city from 396 Fischer presents a comprehensive and unique to 168 BCE. It describes exploration of the Roman military of the imperial the city’s transformation in era. With over 600 illustrations, the costumes, terms of both new urban weapons and equipment of the Roman army are architecture and new explored in detail using archaeological finds dating socioeconomic structures, from the late Republic to Late Antiquity, and including slavery, coinage, from all over the Roman Empire. and market-exchange. These Originally published as Die physical and historical Armee der Caeseren (2012). Only developments were closely linked: building the 496pp, col and b/w illus £36.00 until Republican city was expensive, and meeting such (Oxbow Books 2019) publication costs had significant implications for urban society. 9781789251845 Hb £45.00 336pp, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2018) 9780190878788 Hb £55.00

Roman Art and Archaeology 51 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Introduzione alle Antichita di Ventotene Ricerche Archeologiche nell’Isola di Ventotene 1 Beyond the Romans Edited by Giovanni Maria De Rossi & Salvatore Medaglia Posthuman Perspectives in Roman Archaeology Ventotene is a small island located in the Tyrrhenian Edited by Irene Selsvold & Lewis Webb sea, known in Antiquity as Pandateria. The site Posthumanism constitutes hosts the ruins of a large Roman villa where, a multitude of theoretical during the first century AD, many women related positions characterised to imperial families were exiled. The book reviews by common critiques of the studies and excavations carried out in Ventotene anthropocentrism and since the 18th century, and provides a synthesis of its human exceptionalism. Roman age archaeology, including This is the first volume on the numerous discoveries made these themes in Roman in the waters surrounding the Only Archaeology, aimed island. £27.50 until at providing valuable Italian text. 128pp, b/w illus, col pls 31st May perspectives into Roman (Archaeopress 2018) 9781789690170 myth, art and material Pb £32.00 culture, displacing and complicating notions of human exceptionalism and individualist La Delimitación de los subjectivity. Contributions consider non- Espacios Públicos en Pompeya human agencies, particularly animal, material, By Noemí Raposo Gutiérrez environmental, and divine agencies, critiques The delineation of public spaces in Pompeii has here of binary oppositions and gender roles, and the been examined through a study of the boundary Anthropocene. Ultimately, the papers stress stones known as termini. These stones were strongly that humans and non-humans are controlled by municipal legislation, but they were entangled and imbricated in also protected by customary law and religious Roman Britain larger systems: we are all post- Only precepts. Those who damaged or moved the termini human. £32.00 until had to pay a penalty, which was imposed by the 160pp, b/w (Oxbow Books municipal council or, in some cases, by the emperor. 2019) 9781789251364 Hb publication Spanish text. 280pp, b/w and col illus (BAR 2974, 2018) £40.00 9781407316765 Pb £51.00 The Fortifications of Pompeii and The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Ancient Italy Nutrition in the Roman World By Ivo van der Graaff This study redefines Pompeii’s fortifications as a Edited by Paul Erdkamp & Claire Holleran central monument that physically and symbolically This handbook presents a shaped the city. It considers the internal and comprehensive overview external forces that morphed its appearance, and of the sources, issues and traces how the fortifications served to foster a sense methodologies involved of community. The defences emerge as a dynamic in the study of the Roman ideologically freighted monument, subject to diet. Part I introduces the manipulation and appropriation that was critical to reader to the wide range the image and identity of Pompeii. of textual, material and bioarchaeological evidence. 272pp, b/w illus, col pls (Routledge 2018) 9781472477163 Part II offers an overview Hb £105.00 of various kinds of food From Caesar to Augustus, and drink and the social c. 49 BC–AD 14 setting of their consumption. Part III widens the Using Coins as Sources perspective with articles on women and children, regional studies, and on Jews and Christians. By Clare Rowan Part IV showcases the contribution of physical An accessible and detailed introduction to Roman anthropology. The final section puts food supply and provincial coinage in the late Republic and early and its failure in the context of community and Empire. Almost two hundred different coins are empire. illustrated at double life size, with each described in 366pp b/w illus (Routledge 2018) 9780815364344 Hb detail, and technical Latin and numismatic terms are £175.00 explained. Chapters are arranged chronologically, and iconography, archaeological contexts, and the economy are clearly presented. 264pp, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781107675698 Pb £17.99 52 Roman Art and Archaeology Die Bleifunde der Romisch- Roman Amphorae in Neuss Republikanischen Anlage von Sanisera, Augustan to Julio-Claudian Contexts Edited by Horacio Gonzalez Cesteros & Archaologische und Archaometrische Analyse Piero Berni Millet By Regine Muller This book provides an in-depth study of one of This volume includes the archaeological and the most important archaeological artefacts for archaeometrical analysis of the lead finds from understanding military supply along the Rhine the Roman Republican military fort of Sanisera frontier: the amphorae. Deliveries arrived at in northern Minorca. The fort was built after the different military camps established in the the Roman conquest of the island in 123 BC and intersection between Erf and Rhine from 16 BC until abandoned during the last third of the 1st century the Claudian principate. The study of this material BC. By correlating typological-archaeological and is essential not only for understanding Neuss, but scientific methods, the site’s unusual large number for further understanding of the of lead objects/artefacts are examined within whole Rhine and the logistics of their find context and reviewed the Roman army and its supply Only from very distant areas. for superregional connections to £30.00 until contemporary sites within the Only 144pp, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2019) 9781789690521 31st May Mediterranean. £32.50 until Pb £35.00 German text. 266pp, b/w and 31st May col illus (Archaeopress 2018) 9781784919887 Pb £38.00 Roman Britain Footprints from the Past Thwing, Rudston and the Roman-Period The South-Eastern Extramural Settlement of Exploitation of the Yorkshire Wolds Roman Alchester and Rural Occupation in its Edited by Rose Ferraby, Paul Johnson, Martin Millett Hinterland: The Archaeology of East West Rail & Lacey Wallace Phase 1 A report principally on the investigation of a By Andrew Simmonds & Steve Lawrence Romano-British ladder settlement at Thwing, carried This volume presents excavations which out between 2004 and 2008. The comprehensive investigated part of the south-eastern extramural geophysical survey and field-walking strategy settlement associated with the Roman fortress and enhanced previous cropmark plots. The main subsequent town at Alchester, Oxfordshire, as well excavation at Thwing focused upon a substantial as rural settlements in its rural hinterland. The rectangular stone structure dating to the later investigations extended across two successive routes Roman period. The penultimate chapter addresses south. Stone-founded buildings were constructed the landscape evidence for the nearby Rudston villa, during the late 1st-early 2nd century, including two whilst the final chapter consider the Thwing and single-celled structures of uncertain function that Rudston sites in a broader context. Comprehensive may represent a gatehouse or a pair of shrines. finds reports are integrated throughout the volume. 298pp, 72 tables (Oxford Archaeology 2018) 272pp, col illus (Yorkshire Archaeological Society 2017) 9780904220827 Hb £20.00 9780993238376 Pb £25.00 EAA 167 The Origin of Roman London A Romano-British Industrial Site at East Winch, By Lacey M. Wallace Norfolk This book presents a detailed archaeological By Mike Lally, Kate Nicholson, Andrew Peachey, account of the first decade of one of the best- Leonora O’Brien & Andrew A. S. Newton excavated cities in the Roman Empire. Delving Excavations at East Winch in north-west Norfolk, into the artefact and structural reports from all revealed a Romano-British pottery production site excavations of pre-Boudican levels in London, it — part of the Nar Valley industry — as well as brings together vast quantities of data which are more limited evidence of iron smelting and possible discussed and illustrated according to a novel habitation. The pottery assemblage adds considerably methodology that address both the difficulties and to our understanding of this industry. Of principal complexity of ‘grey literature’ and urban excavation. importance is the occurrence within the pottery 272p b/w and col pls (Cambridge UP 2015, Pb 2019) assemblage of tightly dated imports which assist in 9781107047570 £80.99, 9781108730013 Pb £22.99 developing a chronology for the Nar Valley industry. 104pp b/w illua (East Anglian Archaeology 2018) 9780993247736 Pb £20.00 53 The Crosby Garrett Helmet Romans and Natives in Central Britain Edited by David Breeze Edited by R.D. Martlew The discovery of a Roman sports helmet at Crosby What happened to the Garrett, Cumbria, in 2010 aroused considerable Brigantes when Rome took public interest. Subsequent field work and over? How were they affected excavation demonstrated that the helmet had been by military events? Can we buried in a farm of the Romano-British period, see sub-territories in their dated by two coins of the 330s and contemporary material culture? How did pottery finds. The helmet itself is a unique type of they react to the opportunities ‘sports’ helmet worn at Roman military exercises that Rome offered? Was and dates to the 3rd century AD. In this book, David their way of looking at the Breeze brings together the results of the field work world altered? This book and excavation along with discussions of the helmet summarises current opinion. and its significance and an account of its discovery. 84pp col illus (Yorkshire 112p col illus (CWAAS 2018) 9781873124796 Pb £18.00 Archaeological Society) Pb £12.00 Late Antique and Byzantine Beyond Intolerance Armies of the Late Roman Empire The Meeting of Milan of 313 AD and the AD 284 to 476 Evolution of Imperial Religious Policy from the History, Organization and Uniforms Age of the Tetrarchs to Julian the Apostate By Gabriele Esposito Edited by Davide Dainese & Viola Gheller Gabriele Esposito challenges The papers summoned in this volume tackle the many stereotypes and complex historical phase following the edict of misconceptions regarding Milan a number of perspectives (from Church the Late Roman Army; for history and theology to political and juridical example, he argues that the history). The chronological scope, stretching from Roman military machine the decades preceding the meeting of 313 to the remained a reliable and reign of Julian the Apostate, allows a focus on efficient one until the very the cultural, political and juridical premises of last decades of the Western Constantine and Licinius’ decisions and the way Empire. He describes the they affected a number of aspects of everyday life organization, structure, within the Empire’s borders, until Julian’s pagan equipment, weapons, combat history and tactics of “restoration” and beyond it. Late Roman military forces. The origins and causes 220pp (Brepols 2019) 9782503574493 Pb £120.00 for the final military fall of the Empire are discussed in detail, as well as the influence of the ‘barbarian’ Emperor and Senators in the Reign peoples on the Roman Army. of Constantius II 208pp, b/w illus (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781526730374 Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Hb £19.99 Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD By Muriel Moser The Military History of Late Rome In this book, Muriel Moser AD 361–395 investigates the relationship By Ilkka Syvanne between the emperors This is the second volume in an ambitious series Constantine I and his giving the reader a comprehensive narrative of late son Constantius II (AD Roman military history from AD 284-641. It gives 312-361) and the senators a detailed account of the changes in organization, of Constantinople and equipment, strategy and tactics among both the Rome. She examines and Roman forces and her enemies in the relevant contextualizes the integration period, while also giving a detailed but accessible of the social elites of Rome account of the campaigns and battles. This volume and the Eastern provinces covers the tumultuous period from the death of into the imperial system and Constantius II in AD 361 to the death of Theodosius. demonstrates their increased 256pp (Pen & Sword 2018) 9781783462735 Hb £30.00 importance for the maintenance of imperial rule in response to political fragility and fragmentation. 434pp (Cambridge UP 2018) 9781108481014 Hb £90.00 54