Classical World Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria c. 900-500 BC NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS By Charlotte R. Potts Ancient Fortifications Religious Architecture in Edited by Silke Muth, Peter Schneider, Mike Schnelle Latium and Etruria c. 900- & Peter De Staebler 500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment Since the early years of of cult buildings in western the 21st century, research central Italy from the Iron on ancient fortifications Age to the Archaic Period. has experienced an The first part of the study international boom, examines the processes by reflected in this bilingual which religious buildings (English and German) changed from huts and book. The book is divided shrines to monumental into two parts: the first part temples, and explores apparent differences between includes 12 chapters on these processes in Latium and Etruria. The second methods of interpretation, part analyses the broader architectural, religious, documentation, and field and topographical contexts of the first Etrusco- project organisation; the systematic description Italic temples alongside possible rationales for their and presentation of fortifications; the‘building introduction. experience’; masonry forms and techniques; defensive, symbolic, and urbanistic functions 208p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198722076 Hb and aspects; on fortifications in written sources, £75.00 the visual arts, and as a historical source; and on Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily regional and rural fortifications, and regionally Evaluating Language Contact in a Fragmentary confined phenomena. Part two is a catalogue that Corpus offers exemplary presentations of fortifications. By Katherine McDonald 352p, (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701399 Hb £55.00 Using frameworks from Weben und Gewebe in der Antike/ epigraphy, archaeology and the sociolinguistics of Texts and Textiles in the Ancient language contact, this book World explores the relationship Materialität – Repräsentation – Episteme – between Greek and Oscan, Metapoetik / Materiality – Representation – two of the most widely spoken Episteme – Metapoetics languages in the south of the By Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer pre-Roman Italian peninsula. This volume presents 11 Dr McDonald demonstrates papers arranged under that genre and domain are the four headings of critical to understanding the title which focus on where and when Greek was the process of textile used within Oscan-speaking communities, and how manufacture, the weaving ancient bilinguals exploited the social meaning of process itself, and the their languages in their writing. materiality of fabric. 302p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107103832 Hb £64.99 Contributions address the problematic issues The Oxford History of Historical Writing of cognitive archaeology, Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600 consumer research, Edited by Grant Hardy & Andrew Feldherr literary theory and themes exploring both Volume I of this major new global survey of philosophical history and the history of reception historical writing offers essays by leading scholars of ideas and practice. Text mainly in German. on the development and history of the major 192p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) traditions of historical writing, including the 9781785700620 Hb £35.00 ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600. It provides both an authoritative survey of the field and an unrivalled opportunity to make cross- cultural comparisons. 672p, (Oxford UP 2011, Pb 2015) 9780198737803 Pb £35.00 34 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books A Companion to Food in the Ancient Classical World World Focus on Fortifications Edited by John Wilkins & Robin Nadeau Edited by Rune Frederiksen, Silke Muth, Peter Schneider A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents & Mike Schnelle a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects With a collection of 57 relating to the production, preparation and articles in English, French consumption of food and drink in antiquity. Topics and German, presenting covered include the latest findings related to food the most recent research on in ancient literature; food and its relationship to ancient fortifications, this diet, nutrition, philosophy, gender, class and power; book is the most substantial archaeological and anthropological food studies; publication to have issued the production, transport and preparation of food; on the topic for many years. food cultures beyond the Greek and Roman worlds; The papers were presented the role of food in ancient religious practices; and at a conference in Athens in considerations of “great food cultures”. December 2012, and they all 457p (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) 9781405179409 Hb £120.00 present material and discuss topics under seven headings that represent the Ancient Botany most central themes in the study of fortification By Laurence Totelin & Gavin Hardy in antiquity: the origins of fortification, physical A new overview of ancient botany and the Classical surroundings and building technique, function texts which form its scientific foundations. The and semantics, historical context, authors adopt a thematic approach rather than a the fortification of regions and chronological one, considering important issues regionally confined phenomena, Only such as the definition of a plant, nomenclature, the fortifications of Athens and £55.00 until classifications, physiology, the link between plants new field research. publication and their environment, and the numerous usages 624p, (Oxbow Books 2016) of plants in the ancient world. The book also takes 9781785701313 Hb £70.00 care to place ancient botany in its historical, social Spinning Fates and the Song and economic context. of the Loom 238p, (Routledge 2015) 9780415311205 Pb £29.99 The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production Ancient Geography as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece Greek and Latin Literature and Rome Edited by Marie Louise Nosch, Mary Harlow & By Duane W. Roller Giovanni Fanfani Duane Roller offers a comprehensive account of Spanning mainly Greek ancient pioneers in the field of geography, and the and Latin poetic genres, yet frontiers that defined their world. From the Bronze encompassing comparative Age to Late Antiquity, Roller maps the development evidence from other Indo- of geographical scholarship from its incipient European languages and beginnings in the literature of Hesiod, Homer, literatures, these 18 chapters Herodotus and the tragedians through to the draw a various yet consistent learned compendia of Posidonius and Strabo – and picture of the literary the scientific discoveries of Pythagoras, Eratosthenes exploitation of the imagery, and Euclid that made it all possible. concepts and symbolism of 288p, (I.B. Tauris 2015) 9781784530761 Hb £62.00 ancient textiles and clothing. Topics include refreshing Women & War in Antiquity readings of tragic instances of deadly peploi and Edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith fatal fabrics, situating them within a Near Eastern Sixteen scholars re-examine classical sources to tradition of curse as garment, explore female agency uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored in the narrative of their production, and argue for relationship between women and war in ancient broader symbolic implications of textile-making Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played within the sphere of natural wealth. The concepts a much more active role in battle than previously and technological principles of ancient weaving assumed, embodying martial virtues in both emerge as cognitive patterns that, real and mythological combat. They consider a by means of analogy rather than vast panorama of scenes in which women are metaphor, are reflected in early Only portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and Greek mathematic and logical £28.50 until beneficiaries of war. thinking, and in archaic poetics. publication 341p (Johns Hopkins UP 2015) 9781421417622 Hb £35.50 (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785701603 Hb £38.00 Classical World 35 Revealing & Concealing in Antiquity Philosophy and the Ancient Novel Textual & Archaeological Approaches to Edited by Silvia Montiglio & Marília F. Futre Pinheiro Secrecy The papers assembled in this volume explore a Edited by Sine Grove Saxkjaer & Eva Mortensen relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient This volume explores the concept of secrecy novel: the relationship between ostensibly non- and its implications in Antiquity, Late Antiquity philosophical genres and philosophy. The papers and the Renaissance in eleven cross-disciplinary in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging contributions using both textual and archaeological from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian sources. By exploring the revealing and concealing narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by of knowledge across different social contexts, diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances time frames and geographical locations, the book in these texts. provides insight into the concept of secrecy and 179p, (Barkhuis 2015) 9789491431890 Hb £57.20 its potential for illuminating the agendas behind identity construction, political propaganda, literary Kinesis works, religious practices and shared history. The Ancient Depiction of Gesture Motion 202p (Aarhus UP 2015) 9788771243895 Hb £25.00 and Emotion Edited by Judith P. Hallett, Edith Foster & Christina Clark Holy Men and Charlatans in This collection explores the depiction of emotions, the Ancient Novel gestures, and nonverbal behaviours in ancient Edited by Gareth Schmeling, Michael Paschalis & Stelios Greek and Roman texts, and considers the precise Panayotakis language depicting them. Individual contributors This collection focuses on male and female examine genres ranging from historiography and characters in the ancient novel and related texts, epic to tragedy, philosophy, and vase decoration. They both pagan and Christian; these characters are explore evidence as disparate as Pliny’s depiction of presented either as holy or as charlatans but in animal emotions, Plato’s presentation of Aristophanes’ several cases the two categories cannot be easily hiccups, and Thucydides’ use of verb tenses. distinguished from each other. 328p, (University of Michigan Press 2015) 9780472119592 211p, (Barkhuis 2015) 9789491431906 Hb £61.00 Hb £77.50 Divine Images and Human Imaginations Irritamenta in Ancient Greece and Rome Numismatic Treasures of a Renaissance Collector Edited by Joannis Mylonopoulos By John Cunnally Images of the gods transformed the divine world into These are the records of a coin collection owned by a visually experienceable entity, comprehensible even Andrea Loredan, a Venetian patrician well known without a theoretical or theological superstructure. in the 1550s and ‘60s as a passionate connoisseur For the illiterate, images were together with oral of antiquities. The book was intended as a sales traditions and rituals the only possibility to approach catalogue and comprises lavish illustrations of silver the idea of the divine; for intellectuals, images of the tetradrachmas of Athens and Alexander the Great, gods could be allegorically transcended symbols to aurei of Philip and Augustus, denarii of Caesar and reflect upon. Based on the art historical and textual his assassins, and large Imperial sestertii of Nero evidence, this volume offers a fresh view on the and Hadrian. historical, literary, and artistic significance of divine 766p, (American Numismatic Society 2016) images as powerful visual media of religious and 9780897223423 Hb £165.00, NYP intellectual communication. 404p (Brill 2009, Pb 2015) 9789004179301 Hb £135.00, 9789004283169 Pb £40.00 Greece Ancient Ethnography Edited by Joseph Skinner & Eran Almagor The Invention of Coinage and the This volume brings together eleven original essays Monetization of Ancient Greece exploring the wider intellectual and cultural By David M. Schaps milieux from which ancient ethnography arose, its Only with the invention of Greek coinage does the transformation and development in antiquity, and the concept “money” clearly materialize in history. David way in which 19th century receptions of ethnographic M. Schaps addresses a range of issues pertaining to traditions helped shape the modern study of the major shifts in ancient economies, including money, ancient world. Its chapters deal with the origins of the exchange, and economic organization in the Near term ‘barbarian’, the role of ethnography in Tacitus’ East and Greece before the introduction of coinage; Germania, Plutarch’s Lives, Xenophon’s Anabasis, the invention of coinage and the reasons for its and Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae, Herodotean adoption; and the development of using money to storytelling, Henry and George Rawlinson, and generate greater wealth. Megasthenes’ treatise on India. 312p, (University of Michigan Press 2003, Pb 2015) 296p, (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781474234764 Pb £21.99 9780472113330 Hb £83.50, 9780472036400 Pb £31.50 36 The Battle of Arginusae Ships and Silver Taxes and Tribute Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War By Hans Van Wees By Debra Hamel Hans van Wees reconstructs Whilst the pivotal naval the scattered evidence for all battle of Arginusae may have aspects of public finance, in resulted in Athenian victory, archaic Greece at large and its aftermath saw the failure early Athens in particular, to rescue the shipwrecked to reveal that a complex crews of 25 of their vessels, machinery of public funding and in the ensuing post- and spending was in place as mortem back in Athens the early as the reforms of Solon 8 generals in charge were in 594 BCE. Public finance sentenced to be executed. was in fact a key factor in This book describes the the rise of the early Athenian violent battle and its horrible state – long before Themistocles, the empire and aftermath. Recreating the claustrophobic, unhygienic democracy. conditions in which the ships’ crews operated, Hamel 224p, (I.B. Tauris 2013, Pb 2015) 9781784534325 Pb £16.99 provides an in-depth examination of the fraught relationship between Athens’ military commanders Democracy’s Beginning and its sovereign democracy. The Athenian Story 160p, b/w illus (Johns Hopkins UP 2015) 9781421416816 By Thomas N. Mitchell Pb £13.00 A new history of the birth of democracy in Ancient Economic Analysis of Institutional Athens, its institutions, Change in Ancient Greece day-to-day functioning and Politics, Taxation and Rational Behaviour eventual extinguishing at By Carl Hampus Lyttkens the hands of Macedonia. This book presents an economic analysis of the Mitchell addresses issues causes and consequences of institutional change including what initially in ancient Athens. Focusing on the period 800- inspired the political beliefs 300 BCE, it looks in particular at the development underpinning it, the ways the of political institutions and taxation, including system succeeded and failed, reassessments of the activities of individuals how it enabled both an like Solon, Kleisthenes and Perikles and of the empire and a cultural revolution that transformed changes in political rules and taxation after the the world of arts and philosophy, and the nature Peloponnesian War. of the Achilles heel that hastened the demise of 208p (Routledge 2012, Pb 2015) 9780415630160 Hb Athenian democracy. £95.00, 9781138902312 Pb £37.99 350p b/w pls (Yale UP 2015) 9780300215038 Hb £25.00

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Greece37 Federalism in Greek Antiquity The Origins of the Olympic Games Edited by Peter Funke & Hans Beck By Andras Patay-Horvath In the volatile interstate environment of Greece, Even in antiquity it was debated when and why federalism was a creative response to the challenge the Olympic Games had been established and by of establishing regional unity, while at the same whom. This volume offers a new explanation for the time preserving a degree of local autonomy. This phenomenon, based mainly on the interpretation of volume provides a comprehensive reassessment of the archaeological material and some ethnographic the topic. It comprises detailed contributions on all parallels, and argues that the Games evolved from federal states in Aegean Greece and its periphery, hunting and from animal ceremonialism observed as well as thematic sections that place the topic in a among various hunting groups. broader historical and social-scientific context. 156p (Archaeolingua 2015) 9789639911727 Pb £22.00 604p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9780521192262 Hb £99.99 The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Stasis and Stability Greek Religion Exile, the Polis and Political Thought Edited by Esther Eidinow & Julia Kindt c. 404-146 BC This handbook offers a By Benjamin Gray comprehensive overview This volume uses exile and exiles as a lens for of scholarship in ancient investigating the later Classical and Hellenistic polis Greek religion, from the and the political ideas which shaped it. The issue Archaic to the Hellenistic of the political and ethical status of exile and exiles periods. The initial chapters necessarily raised fundamental questions about lay out the key dimensions civic inclusion and exclusion, closely bound up with of ancient Greek religion, basic ideas of justice, virtue, and community. This approaches to evidence, and makes it possible to interpret the varied evidence for the representations of myths. exile as a guide to the complex, dynamic ecology of The following chapters political ideas within the later Classical and post- discuss the continuities and Classical civic world. differences between religious practices in different 448p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780198729778 Hb £90.00 cultures, including Egypt, the Near East, the Black Sea, and Bactria and India. Eumenes of Cardia 736p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199642038 Hb £95.00 A Greek Among Macedonians (Second Edition) By Edward M. Anson Treasure Map This second edition updates the original work in A Guide to the Delian Inventories light of a decade of scholarly activity and presents By Richard Hamilton much new analysis influenced by this continuing In the fourth century b.c.e., the Athenians introduced scholarship. Eumenes of Cardia was a royal to the sacred isle of Delos the habit of making secretary who, in the years following the death of marble inscriptions that noted inventories of goods Alexander the Great became a major contender for in religious precincts. Richard Hamilton has tackled power. 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This book well as issues of royal ideology. The essays rely proposes a new interdisciplinary approach called especially on literary evidence and art works in Developmental Childhood Archaeology. In essence order to illuminate Berenice’s status and position it is an archaeological study based on a collection at the courts of Cyrene and Egypt. It offers new of material relating to childhood in ancient Attica, interpretations of the few known events of Berenice’s dating back to 480-300 B.C. That is, various types life until the early reign of Ptolemy III, as well her of toys, iconographic evidence of children on influence and authority in Cyrene and Egypt. vases and graves steles, primary written sources 272p, (Palgrave 2015) 9781137494610 Hb £60.00 on children’s lives, and the view on children in the Greek Classical period. 300p (Aarhus UP 2015) 9788771242973 Hb £40.00 38 Greece Greek Art & Archaeology Entre Aidos y Peitho NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS La iconografía del gesto del velo en la antigua Grecia On the Fascination of Objects By Pablo Aparicio Resco Edited by John Boardman, Andrew Parkin & Sally This volume focuses on Ancient Greece, and delves Waite into the iconography of the veil gesture, but also The Shefton Collection explores other topics closely related to it from an in Newcastle upon Tyne anthropological perspective. Spanish text. contains a fine array of 179p, (JAS Arqueologia 2015) 9788494211041 Pb £13.00 Greek and Etruscan objects and takes its name Isthmia from its founder Professor Lamps from the UCLA/OSU Excavations Brian Shefton (1919 – 2012). at Isthmia, 1967-2004 In spite of the importance By Birgitta Wohl of this collection it has This volume catalogues more than 400 lamps and not been widely published lamp fragments dating from the Late Archaic to the and remains something Byzantine periods found over several decades at of a hidden gem. Brian the Isthmian Sanctuary of Poseidon. As well as the Shefton was an insightful collector, as well as detailed descriptions of the lamps in the catalogue, a distinguished scholar of Greek and Etruscan the volume presents a commentary on the types archaeology, and the 14 papers presented of lamps used at the Sanctuary that enriches our here reflect the broad scope of the collection; knowledge of their manufacture, use, and artistic ranging across pottery, jewellery, terracottas and evolution over time. metalwork. The contributions, written by leading experts in the field, focus on specific objects or 224p, (American School of Classical Studies at Athens groups of objects in the Collection, providing 2016) 9780876619308 Hb £95.00, NYP new interpretations and bringing previously Gnathia and Related Hellenistic Ware unpublished items to light. The history of the Shefton Collection is explored. Together these on the East Adriatic Coast contributions provide a tribute to a remarkable By Maja Mise individual who made a substantial and notable Gnathia ware, originally produced in Apulia, was contribution to his discipline. found on numerous sites on the East Adriatic coast 192p col illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700064 and in its hinterland, especially in ancient Issa. Pb £60.00 The aims of this study are fourfold: to present Gnathia ware on the East Adriatic coast; to define local Issaean Gnathia production; to identify further workshops on the East Adriatic coast and Arts of the Hellenized East their relationship to other types of Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre- Hellenistic pottery; and finally Islamic Era to understand the trade and Only By Martha L. Carter contacts in the Adriatic during £25.50 until Dating from the centuries the Hellenistic period. 30th April following Alexander the 178p, (Archaeopress Archaeology Great’s conquest of Iran 2015) 9781784911645 Pb £32.00 and Bactria in the middle of the 4th century BCE up Sounion Revisited to the advent of the Islamic The Sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena era, the beautiful bowls, at Sounion in Attica drinking vessels, platters By Zettta Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis and other objects in this This book is the first to be published from a wider catalogue drawn from the research project, still in progress, about the sanctuaries al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, of Poseidon and Athena on the promontory of suggest that some of the best Sounion. It examines and interprets a wide selection Hellenistic silverwork was not made in the Greek of unpublished finds. It also re-evaluates the limited heartlands, but in this eastern outpost of the records of the work in the sanctuaries Seleucid empire. Martha L Carter connects these conducted by Valerios Stais far-flung regions from northern Greece to the between 1897-1915, and reviews Only Hindu Kush, tracing the common cultural threads the establishment and early £44.00 until that link their diverse geography and people. development of the sanctuaries. 30th April 424p col illus (Thames and Hudson 2015) 9780500970690 346p, (Archaeopress Archaeology Hb £45.00 2015) 9781784911546 Pb £55.00 39 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration in Corinth’s Northern Cemetery Textile Production in Classical Athens By Kathleen Slane By Stella Spantidaki Rescue excavations were carried out in 1961/2 along the In ancient Greece, textiles were considered among terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry Robinson the principal and most fundamental cultural and the ASCSA. They revealed 70 tile graves, limestone expressions. Textile production was a fundamental sarcophagi, and cremation burials, and seven chamber part of the economy and was practised also by tombs. The burials ranged in date from the 5th century men in both the domestic and artisanal spheres. B.C. to the 6th century A.D., and about 240 skeletons The resulting technological sophistication is were preserved for study. This volume publishes the reflected in depictions of discrete or elaborate results of these excavations and examines the evidence patterns, in the rich diversity of textile implements for changing burial practices in the Greek city, the and in the variety in the quality of the extant Roman colony, and the Christian town. textiles In Textile Production in Classical Athens 500p b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at Stella Spantidaki provides the first synthesis of Athens 2016) 9780876610220 Hb £95.00, NYP the available evidence from textual, iconographic and archaeological sources on textile production Corinth XVIII.7 in 5th and 4th century BC Athens, employing an The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore interdisciplinary perspective that sets the frame for By Nancy Bookidis & Elizabeth G. Pemberton future research in the field. She presents a detailed This volume incorporates two bodies of material – consideration of the historical and social context of Greek lamps and offering trays. The lamps include textile production in classical Athens, examines and those made from the 7th through 2nd centuries B.C., discusses evidence for the equipment, together with a few Roman examples not included materials, processes and techniques in Corinth XVIII.2. The offering trays support a employed at each stage of the variety of vessels rather than types of food and had full production sequence, and Only a symbolic function in the Sanctuary rituals. discusses the organisation of £28.50 until production and trade. 256p b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at publication Athens 2016) 9780876611876 Hb £95.00 NYP 256p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books 2016) 9781785702525 Pb £38.00 The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine By Robert S. Wagman The Pharsalian shrine holds a special place among The Bioarchaeology of Classical ancient nymph caves as the only such site to Kamarina feature an inscribed poetic chronicle of the shrine’s Life and Death in Greek Sicily foundation and its founder. This volume includes a By Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver revised catalogue, extensive new commentaries on This study synthesizes the cave’s famous inscriptions, and an investigation skeletal, material, and of the site’s topographical and archaeological layout. ritual data to reconstruct It challenges some commonly held views about the the cultural practices of origin of the foundation poem. Kamarina, a city-state in 278p, (Brill 2015) 9789004297616 Hb £95.00 Sicily. Using evidence from 258 recovered graves Greek Historiography from the Passo Marinaro By Thomas F. Scanlon necropolis (circa the fifth Situating historical writing to the third century BCE), among the forms of epic Sulosky Weaver suggests that and lyric poetry, drama, Kamarineans were closely philosophy and science linked to their counterparts in neighbouring Greek for which the Greeks are cities. Evidence of violence, like head trauma already so well known, Greek and a high young adult mortality rate, indicate historiography examines exposure to a series of catastrophic events. Other individual historians evidence at burial sites allude to Kamarina’s mixed perspectives on power and ancestry, ethnicity, and social hierarchy. Despite human nature as a means of the tumultuous nature of the times, the resulting tracing the early evolution of portrait reveals that Kamarina was a place where ancient Greek history. From individuals of diverse ethnicities and ancestries Thucydides to Polybius, the volume considers were united in life and death by shared culture and pervading questions of causation, divine justice, funerary practices. leadership, civilization versus barbarism, legacy 368p, (UP of Florida 2015) 9780813061122 Hardcover and literary reception. £75.50 333p (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) 9781405145220 Hb £45.00 40 Greek Art & Archaeology Greek Literature Thucydides The Spell of Hypnos By P. J. Rhodes Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek This concise introductory guide sets Thucydides Literature in context as a Greek historian writing about the By Silvia Montiglio Peloponnesian War; as an intellectual in the era Silvia Montiglio’s imaginative and comprehensive of the ‘sophists’, who were willing to question a study of the topic illuminates the various ways variety of traditional assumptions; and as an upper- writers in antiquity used sleep, and sleeplessness class Athenian who lived through and was actively to deal with major aspects of plot and character involved in the Peloponnesian War as a general. development. She explores recurring tropes of P. J. 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Aloys Winterling undertakes a thorough country estates as a political and literary tool. comparative review of the evidence, setting it in While for some the villas were retreats in which its contemporary cultural context and discarding to compose literature and to escape from politics, those elements which are obviously fabrications. others adapted this same tradition of cultured otium He rejects the charge that Caligula was insane, (or deliberate retirement from everyday politics) to and instead sees his actions, cruel though they present radical and competing visions of society and undoubtedly were, in the political context of a literature alike. newly emasculated senate, whose powerlessness 146p (Bloomsbury 2011, Pb 2015) 9780715634899 Hb Caligula exposed mercilessly. £45.00, 9781474244022 Pb £15.99 240p (University of California Press 2011, Pb 2015) 9780520287594 Pb £16.95 Laughter in Ancient Rome By Mary Beard Processes of Cultural Change and What made the Romans Integration in the Roman World laugh? Drawing on a wide Edited by Saskia T. Roselaar range of Roman writing A collection of studies on the interaction between from essays on rhetoric to a Rome and the peoples that became part of its Empire surviving Roman joke book between c. 300 BC and AD 300. The book focuses Mary Beard tracks down the on the mechanisms by which interaction between giggles, smirks, and guffaws Rome and its subjects occurred, e.g. the settlement of of the ancient Romans colonies by the Romans, army service, economic and themselves. From ancient cultural interaction. In many cases Rome exploited monkey business to the role the economic resources of the conquered territories of a chuckle in a culture of without allowing the local inhabitants any legal tyranny, she explores Roman autonomy. However, they usually maintained a great humour from the hilarious, to the momentous, to deal of cultural freedom of expression. the surprising. 290p, (Brill 2015) 9789004294547 Hb £100.00 336p, (University of California Press 2014, Pb 2015) 9780520287587 Pb £12.95 Bringing in the Sheaves Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World In Bed with the Romans By Brent D. Shaw By Paul Chrystal Brent D. Shaw investigates the ways in which Our popular impression of the Roman Empire Roman Art & Archaeology human labour interacted with the instruments of is of a seamy, salacious world in which intrigue harvesting, what part the workers and their tools had and sexual licence were ubiquitous at the highest in the whole economy, and how the work itself was levels of state. This accessible account explores that organized. Both collective and individual aspects of familiar elite world as well as the role sex played the story are investigated, centred on the life-story in broader Roman society – from sex in Roman of a single reaper whose work in the wheat fields of marriage to homosexuality, from sexual graffiti and North Africa is documented in his funerary epitaph. prostitution to sexual medicine and aphrodisiacs. 457p b/w illus (Toronto UP 2013, Pb 2015) 9781442629226 304p, (Amberley Publishing 2015) 9781445643441 Pb £29.99 Hardcover £20.00 Roman Social Imaginaries Hidden Lives Public Personae Language and Thought in Contexts of Empire Women and Civic Life in the Roman West By Clifford Ando By Emily Hemelrijk Ando examines the connection between the Studying the civic participation of women in the nature of the Latin language and Roman thinking towns of Italy outside Rome and in the Latin- about law, society, and empire. He considers how speaking provinces of the Empire, this books offers metaphor, metonymy, analogy, and ideation helped a new view on Roman women and urban society. create the structures of thought that shaped the Women’s civic roles as priestesses, benefactresses Roman Empire as a political construct. Using and patronesses or ‘mothers’ of cities are brought Latin’s extraordinary capacity for abstraction , to the fore. In contrast to the city of Rome, which laws and institutions invented for use in a single was dominated by the imperial family, the book Mediterranean city-state could be deployed across demonstrates that wealthy women in the local a remarkably heterogeneous empire. Italian and provincial towns had ample opportunity 124p (University of Toronto 2015) 9781442650176 Hb to leave their mark on the city. £25.99 648p (Oxford UP 2015) 9780190251888 Hb £55.00 42 Rome Roman Festivals in the Greek East Magical Practice in the Latin West From the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era Edited by Francisco Marco Simon & Richard L. Gordon By Fritz Graf This volume contains the first This study explores the development of ancient festival critical editions in English of culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying important newly discovered particular attention to the fundamental religious curse tablets from Mainz and changes that occurred. It addresses several key Rome as well as major surveys questions for the religious history of later antiquity: of new prayers for justice. How did Jews and pre-Constantinian Christians, Other sections are devoted articulate their resistance? How did these festivals to the discourse of magic in change when the empire converted to Christianity? the West, to the linguistics Why did emperors not yield to the long-standing and aims of cursing, and to pressure of the Church to abolish them? And finally, the major field of protective how did these very popular festivals – despite their and eudaemonic magic up to pagan tradition – influence the form of the newly and including the Visigothic developed Christian liturgy? slates and the Celtic loricae. 384p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107092112 Hb £74.99 702p (Brill 2009, Pb 2015) 9789004179042 Hb £180.00, 9789004283183 Pb £40.00 The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World By Claude Moatti By Sarolta A. Takacs In this classic work, now appearing in English This study deals with the integration of the for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the cult of Isis among Roman cults, the subsequent intellectual transformation that occurred at the end transformation of Isis and Sarapis into gods of the of the Roman Republic. This movement, linked to Roman state, and the epigraphic employment of the the development of writing, challenged old forms names of these two deities independent from their of authority and adhesion, belief and behaviour, cultic context. It refutes the myth that the guardians without destroying tradition; and for this reason of tradition and Roman religion tried to curb the this rational trend can be described not as a cultural cult of Isis in order to rid Rome and the imperium but as an epistemological revolution whose greatest from this decadent cult. achievement, Professor Moatti argues, was the 252p (Brill 1994, Pb 2015) 9789004283336 Pb £40.00 development of the system of Roman law. 416p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9780521895781 Hb £75.00 Roman Art & Archaeology Sabores de Roma Shaky Ground Actas del I Simposio Internacional Sobre Context, Connoisseurship and the History Gastronomía Antigua Romana of Roman Art Edited by Pedro Carretero By Elizabeth Marlowe This book derives from a programme of experimental Canonical pieces like the research on the recipes of Apicius. Topics span from Barberini Togatus or the food production and manipulation to experimental Fonseca bust of a Flavian lady recipes and new products commercialized in the last appear in many scholarly couple of years (garum, oil, wine…). Spanish text. studies and virtually 148p (JAS Arqueologia 2015) 9788494211065 Pb £13.00 every textbook on Roman art. But we have no more Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi certainty about these works’ Art and Social History archaeological contexts than By Janet Huskinson we do about those that surface This is the first full study of Roman strigillated on the market today. This sarcophagi. Characterized by panels of carved fluting book argues that the current and limited figure scenes, they were produced from legal and ethical debates over looting, ownership the mid-second to the early fifth century AD, and and cultural property have distracted us from the thus cover a critical period in Rome, from empire epistemological problems inherent in all (ostensibly) to early Christianity. The book focuses on their rich ancient artworks lacking a known findspot, problems potential as an historical source for exploring the that should be of great concern to those who seek to social and cultural life of the city in the later empire. understand the past through its material remains. 368p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199203246 Hb 184p, (Bloomsbury 2013, Pb 2015) 9781474234665 Pb £75.00 £15.99 43 A Companion to Roman Art NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Edited by Barbara E. Borg Roman art has become a valuable object of study, Ways of Being Roman not only for its aesthetic qualities, but as a historical Discourses of Identity in the Roman West source in its own right. It provides us with insights By Louise Revell into Roman self-perceptions, value systems and This book examines ways of perceiving the world that complement the question of identity information taken from written sources. In this in the Roman west. companion the reader is introduced through Roman Combining material art to the daily Roman world, its preoccupations and textual evidence, and cultural characteristics. The book includes it takes an innovative sections focusing on methodology and approaches, approach in looking at genres, contexts of display and usage of art and its the wider discourses modern reception and utilization. or ideologies through 638p, b/w illus, col pls (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) which an individual 978405192880 Hb £140.00 sense of self was learnt and expressed. The Civilian Town at Aquincum This wide-ranging survey considers ethnic Guide to the Archaeological Park at Aquincum identity, status, gender and age. Rather than By Paula Zsidi constructing a paradigm of the ‘ideal’ of The remains of Aquincum, the one-time seat of any specific aspect of personal identity, it the Roman province of Pannonia, can be found looks at some of the wider cultural ideas in several locations across Budapest. Outstanding which were drawn upon in differentiating among these is the Archaeological Park around the groups of people and how they were expressed Aquincum Museum with the remains of buildings within the written sources and the material brought to light during the excavations conducted culture. This book further looks at how the over more than a century. This guidebook contains caricatures of specific identities, such as detailed descriptions of some thirty buildings and women or children, were used as metaphors their most outstanding finds. to express other messages. It concludes by considering instances of the appropriation and 142p col illus (Archaeolingua 2014) 9789639340558 Pb reinterpretation of ‘Roman’ as a concept in the £18.00 creation of more recent identities. The Moving City 144p (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781842172926 Pb £29.95 Processions Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome Journal of Roman Pottery Studies Edited by Simon Malmberg, Jonas Bjornebye & Ida Ostenberg Volume 16 This collection focuses on movements in the ancient Edited by Steven Willis city of Rome, exploring the interaction between The Journal of Roman people and monuments. Covering a wide range Pottery Studies of people, places, sources, and times, the volume continues to present a includes a survey of Republican, imperial, and cross-section of recent late antique movement, triumphal processions of research not just from conquering generals, seditious, violent movement of the UK but also Europe. riots and rebellion, religious processions and rituals Volume 16 carries and the everyday movements of individual strolls or papers on a variety of household errands. subjects from Britain 376p, (Bloomsbury 2015) 9781472528001 Hb £80.00 and the Continent, ranging from papers From Pompeii dealing with production The Afterlife of a Roman Town sites to those looking at the distribution of By Ingrid D. Rowland types. There are case studies on kiln vessels The experience of Pompeii always reflects a particular from Essex, pottery production in Roman time and sensibility. The city’s houses, temples, gardens Cologne, excavations at Toulouse, as well as – and traces of Vesuvius’s human victims – have elicited an examination of transport routes of samian responses ranging from awe to embarrassment, with ware to Britain. Also included are an editorial, shifting cultural tastes playing an important role. obituaries and book reviews. Rowland treats readers to the distinctive, often quirky 200p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781785700743 responses of visitors ranging from Wolfgang Amadeus Pb £50.00 Mozart, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain to Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman. 340p b/w illus (Harvard UP 2014, Pb 2015) 9780674088092 Pb £14.95 44 Roman Art & Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Roman Villa of Hoogeloon and Roman Crete the Archaeology of the Periphery New Perspectives Edited by H. Hiddink, Ton Derks & N. Roymans Edited by Jane E. Francis & Anna Kouremenos This book is about the Roman villa complex of Hoogeloon, a key site for the understanding of the The last several decades have impact of empire on a peripheral region in the seen a dramatic increase in Roman North. A central role is attributed to agency interest in the Roman period and the interplay of military and urban networks and on the island of Crete. Ongoing native social structures. Themes discussed include and some long-standing town-country relations, monetization, the agrarian excavations and investigations economy of the region, changing settlement systems, of Roman sites and buildings, and the ethnic identity of the inhabitants. intensive archaeological survey of Roman areas, and 356p, (Amsterdam UP 2015) 9789089648365 Hb £96.00 intensive research on artefacts, Las Presas Romanas en Espan˜a 2015 history, and inscriptions of the island now provide abundant By Juan Carlos Castillo Barranco data for assessing Crete alongside other Roman In Spain there are the remains of and references to provinces. The breadth of topics addressed by the 73 dams from the Roman era, constructed between papers in this volume is an indication of Crete’s vast the 1st and 4th centuries AD. Forty five are detailed archaeological potential for contributing to current in full in this study. academic issues such as Romanisation/acculturation, Spanish text. b/w illus (British Archaeological Reports climate and landscape studies, regional production 2714, 2015) 9781407313672 Pb £49.00 and distribution, iconographic trends, domestic housing, economy and trade, and the transition to the La Valle del Sagittario e la Conca Peligna late-Antique era. These papers confirm Crete’s place Abruzzo Tra Il IV e Il I Secolo A.C. as a fully realised participant in the Dinamiche e Sviluppi Della Romanizzazione Roman world over the course of By Anna Dionisio many centuries but also position Only This book examines the most significant Roman it as a newly discovered source of £36.00 until discoveries and studies in the Sagittarius valley academic inquiry. and Peligna Dell. The theme of Romanization is publication 288p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2016) introduced and defined from an historical point of 9781785700958 Hb £48.00 view and a crtical study of the methodology that has been followed is presented, examining the advantages and limitations involved. Civic Monuments and the Augustales Italian text. 636p (British Archaeological Reports 2735, in Roman Italy 2015) 9781407313924 Pb £85.00 By Margaret L. Laird Die Romische Villa als Indikator This book examines Provinzialer Wirtschafts- Und ancient Roman statues Gesellschaftsstrukturen and their bases, tombs, dedicatory altars, and panels By Mareike Rind commemorating gifts of This investigation of the Roman villa and its civic beneficence made by economic structures in the western provinces of the Augustales, civic groups the Roman Empire shows that rural settlement composed primarily of developed at different paces and intensities that wealthy ex-slaves. Margaret largely depended on the specific region in which L. Laird examines how these a villa landscape was intended and created. The monuments functioned as Roman villa economy was a complex and dynamic protagonists in their built and system that in its configuration vastly differed, social environments by focusing on archaeologically according to the specific province, although one attested commissions made by the Augustales that served clear functional purposes such as self- in Roman Italian towns. She considers how subsistence and, ideally, surplus dedications and their accompanying inscriptions production for the supply of created webs of association and transformed places the Roman military in newly Only of display into sites of local history. Understanding conquered provinces. German £36.00 until text. how these objects functioned in ancient cities, the 30th April book argues, illuminates how ordinary Romans 292p, (Archaeopress Archaeology combined public lettering, honorific portraits, 2015) 9781784911683 Pb £45.00 emperor worship, and civic philanthropy to express their communal identities. 338p, (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107008229 Hb £64.99 Roman Art & Archaeology45 Roman Provincial Coinage Volume IX Per Terram, Per Mare By Antony Hostein Seaborne Trade and the Distribution of Roman This volume presents for the first time an Amphorae in the Mediterranean authoritative and systematic account of the coins By Stella Demestica minted in the Roman provinces during the period This book explores seaborne from the accession of Trajan Decius in AD 249 to trade in the Roman the death of Uranius Antoninus in AD 254. The Mediterranean through the introductory essays and extensive catalogue section study of amphorae. New data (detailing over 15,000 coins classified into 2,330 main are presented on amphorae varieties) are followed by indexes and an illustration exported, variously, to the of every major issue listed. Black Sea, the Adriatic, the 656p b/w illus (British Museum Press 2016) western Mediterranean, 9780714118291 Hb £160.00 Cyprus and the Aegean. Shipwrecks and harbour Monuments in Miniature assemblages are discussed Architecture on Roman Coinage together with finds from By Nathan Elkins urban centres, providing insights into the diverse The regular representation mechanisms of maritime commerce during the of the built environment on Roman period. coins was a purely Roman 298p, (Astrom Editions 2015) 9789170812156 Hb £60.00 phenomenon among the ancients. From the first The Ceramics Industry of Roman occurrence in 135 BC through Sikyon the late Roman Empire, the A Technological Study architectural images on coins By Conor Trainor from Rome commemorated Between the second century BC and the third or politicized the century AD, the Greek city of Sikyon was home monument in question. to a ceramics industry that specialized in the This comprehensive and production of a range of coarseware ceramics, chronological approach to architectural coin especially transport amphorae. This study employs types conveys the complexity of the subject and a multifaceted approach, integrating ancient history, underscores how the designs were symptomatic of, archaeology and compositional analysis of clays and and sensitive to, the underlying social, cultural and ceramics to explore this industry. It demonstrates historical trends that affected both Roman art and significant economic growth occurring after the Roman society at large. Roman conquest of the Sikyon region. 240p, (American Numismatic Society 2016) 9780897223447 125p, (Astrom Editions 2015) 9789170812033 Hb £30.00 Hb £65.00, NYP

EDITOR’S CHOICE Understanding Roman Frontiers A Celebration for Professor Bill Hanson Edited by Ioana A. Oltean, Rebecca H. Jones & David J. Breeze Roman frontiers defined the Roman Empire, one of the greatest states that the world has ever seen. By understanding these frontiers we can better understand the relationship between Rome and her neighbours. Leading scholars of the frontiers of the Roman Empire have come together to present this collection of essays published in honour of one of their most distinguished practitioners, Professor Bill Hanson. The focus of the book is how we understand the operation and function of Roman frontiers, how we learn about the effect of these frontiers on the people who lived in their vicinity, and how new scientific techniques, particularly remote sensing, help us to extend our knowledge. The book is divided into three parts: studies of the frontier installations; considerations of the value of artefacts; and discussions of Only future directions for research. The contributors bring the £24.00 until results of recent work to the public, including the ways in which we interpret and present Roman frontiers, and cast light on the vitality of life on the frontier zone 30th April nearly 2,000 years ago. 288p, (Birlinn Ltd 2015) 9781906566852 Hb £30.00

46 Roman Art & Archaeology Roman Britain Roman Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books A Very Short Introduction By Peter Salway The Archaeology of the Lower City and In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Adjacent Suburbs Peter Salway makes a number of essential updates By Kate Steane, Margaret Darling, Michael J. Jones, in light of recent research in the area. He looks Jenny Mann, Alan Vince & Jane Young at issues of ethnicity, ‘Britishness’, and post- This volume contains reports colonialism, provides alternative theories to the end on excavations undertaken in of the Roman period in Britain, and draws parallels the lower walled city at Lincoln between the history of Roman Britain and a wide and its adjacent suburbs range of other periods, territories, and themes, between 1972 and 1987. The including the modern experience of empires and earliest features encountered national stereotypes. were remains of timber 124p, b/w illus (Oxford UP, 2nd ed. 2015) 9780198712169 storage buildings, probably Pb £7.99 associated with the Roman legionary occupation in the Journey to Britannia later 1st century AD. In the 4th From the Heart of Rome to Hadrians Wall century, the fortifications were AD 130 enlarged and two new gates inserted. Occupation of By Bronwen Riley an urban nature did not recommence until the late Combining an extensive range of Greek and Latin 9th century. Markets were established sources with a sound understanding of archaeology, in the 11th century and stone began Bronwen Riley imaginatively reconstructs an epic to replace timber for residential Only structures from the mid-12th journey from Rome to the newly constructed £42.00 until century. Hadrian’s Wall in AD 130. She provides an evocative publication snapshot of Roman Britain, bringing vividly to life 608p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books the smells, sounds, colours and textures of travel in 2016) 9781782978527 Hb £55.00 the second century AD. Segedunum: Excavations by 272p, (Head of Zeus 2015) 9781781851340 Hb £25.00 Charles Daniels in the Roman Fort at Hadrian’s Wall Wallsend (1975-1984) A Life By Alexandra Croom & Alan Rushworth By Richard Hingley Between 1975 and 1984 While the Wall is famous almost the entire area of the as a Roman construct, its Roman fort of Segedunum monumental physical in Wallsend was excavated structure did not suddenly under the direction of cease to exist in the fifth Charles Daniels, senior century. This volume lecturer in the Department explores the after-life of of Archaeology at Newcastle Hadrian’s Wall and considers University. It is these the ways it has been excavations which form the imagined, represented, and subject of this publication. researched from the sixth This comprehensive report century to the internet. The on the structural remains (Vol. 1) and finds (Vol. 2) sixteen chapters show the show clearly that Daniels’ work represented one of changing manner in which the most ambitious and prolonged programmes of the Wall has been conceived and the significant fieldwork attempted on the northern frontier up role it has played in imagining the identity of the to that point and has made Wallsend one of the English, including its appropriation as symbolic most fully investigated of Roman forts in Britain. boundary between England and Scotland. Hingley Volume 1 describes first the stratigraphic sequences discusses the transforming political, cultural, and and excavation of the stone and timber buildings religious significance of the Wall during this entire of the fort’s central range, while Volume 2, on the period and addresses the ways in which scholars predominantly 2nd–3rd century material culture from the site, and artists have been inspired by the monument looks at the stonework, pottery, over the years. Only coins and small finds recovered. 416p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012, Pb 2015) 9780199641413 £42.00 until 816p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books Hb £87.00, 9780198707028 Pb £30.00 publication 2016) 9781785700262 Hb £55.00, NYP 47 A Roman Frontier Post and its People The Romans in Huddersfield – Newstead 1911-2011 A New Assessment Edited by Lawrence Keppie & Fraser Hunter Huddersfield and District Archaeological This volume reassesses Society James Curle’s pioneering Edited by Granville Clay, Gerrie Brown & excavations at Newstead and Barry Hobson asks how the picture has been Work on the vicus of the Roman fort at Slack, revised in the intervening Huddersfield during three seasons of excavation century. It is constructed in 2007, 2008 and 2010, covered in this volume, around five main themes: has led to a reconsideration of the dates of Early work on the site; the Roman occupation, taking it well into the 3rd and fort complex; the finds; the possibly 4th centuries AD. Radiocarbon dating setting, especially links to the and pottery analysis show convincingly that there local population; the afterlife was considerable late activity in the vicus area of the excavations, in terms adjacent to the fort and the Roman road from of their continuing impact. Chester to York. 250p, (National Museum of Scotland 2012, Pb 2015) 94p, (British Archaeological Reports BS 620, 2015) 9781910682012 Pb £25.00 9781407314068 Pb £26.00 The Antonine Wall Pudding Pan A Handbook to Scotland’s Roman Frontier A Roman Shipwreck from Britain and By Anne Robertson & Lawrence Keppie its Cargo of Samian Pottery This well-known handbook By Michael Walsh to the Roman frontier For more than 300 years commercial fishermen between Forth and Clyde, working in the outer Thames estuary have in print since 1960, is recovered Roman pottery in the vicinity of republished here in a revised Pudding Pan. The exhaustive research presented format and illustrated for in this book, the first detailed study of a seemingly the first time in full colour. predominantly samian cargo in British waters, It incorporates the latest convincingly argues that the retrieved 700 artefacts results of archaeological represent an unknown proportion of a cargo from excavation, fieldwork and a Roman trading ship en route from northern research, with numerous France to London that was deposited on the photographs and plans to seabed between AD 175 and 195. aid the modern visitor. 202p, (British Museum Press 2016) 9780861592029 Pb 144p, (Glasgow Archaeological Society 2015) £40.00, NYP 9780902018143 Pb £9.50

EDITOR’S CHOICE Bignor Roman Villa By Miles Russell & David Rudling Discovered in 1811, Bignor is one of the richest and most impressive villas in Britain, its mosaics ranking among the finest in north-western Europe. Opened to the public for the first time in 1814, the site also represents one of Britain’s earliest tourist attractions, remaining in the hands of the same family, the Tuppers, to this day. This book sets out to explain the villa, who built it, when, how it would have been used and what it meant within the context of the Roman province of Britannia. It also sets out to interpret the remains, Only as they appear today, explaining in detail the meaning of the £12.00 until fine mosaic pavements and describing how the villa was first found and explored and the conservation problems facing the 30th April site in the twenty-first century. 176p, (The History Press 2015) 9780750961554 Pb £14.99

48 Roman Britain Latin Literature NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Bath: An Archaeological Juvenal Satires IV Assessment By John Godwin A study of settlement around the sacred Juvenal’s fourth book of hot springs from the Mesolithic to the 17th Satires consists of three century AD poems which are all By Emily La Trobe-Bateman & Rosalind Niblett concerned with contentment This volume provides in various forms. These a collection and poems use enormous rigorous assessment humour and wit to puncture of the accumulated the pretensions of the foolish information relating to and the wicked, urging an Bath’s rich archaeological acceptance of our lives and a heritage. Part 1 comprises more positive stance towards an overview of the area’s life and death by mockery natural topography, a of the pompous and comic description of the rich summary of antiquarian and famous. The Introduction places Juvenal in the and early archaeological history of Satire and also explores the style of the investigation, and poems as well as the degree to which they can be a survey of the archaeological evidence read as in any sense documents of real life. The text available to us today. Part 2 collates the detailed is accompanied by a literal English translation and archaeological evidence, summarising earlier the commentary is keyed to important words in the work, assessing the nature of the evidence, translation and aims to be accessible to readers with and setting out our informed understanding of little or no Latin. Bath’s past. Lastly, Part 3 offers an overview of 200p, (Aris & Phillips 2016) 9781910572320 Hb £50.00, the current understanding of the archaeology 9781910572337 Pb £19.99 NYP of Bath, an assessment of the potential of the surviving deposits for providing new data, and Plautus: Aulularia suggestions for future research directions. By Walter Stockert & Keith Maclennan b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2015) 9781782979982 Hb Plautus’ play, the Pot of £40.00 Gold is here presented with a facing English translation, introduction and a detailed commentary, the first on Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, the text for over a century. Volume 16, 2016 The introduction critically Greek and Roman Poetry; The Elder Pliny examines the various Edited by Roy Gibson & Francis Cairns options that have been Contents: The Elder Pliny; proposed for the end of the Cicero as Role-Model in play, its construction and the Self-Definition of Pliny influence on subsequent the Elder; Notes from classical drama, and provides a detailed and Underground: the Curious comprehensive background to the writing, Katabasis of Dionysodorus; performance and transmission of the play in its Taxonomic Organization in ancient Roman setting. Pliny’s Natural History; The 326p (Aris & Phillips 2016) 9781910572375 Hb £50.00, Authority of Greek Poetry 9781910572382 Pb £19.99, NYP in Pliny’s Natural History 18.63-65; Pliny the Elder on Pythagoras’ Greek and Roman Poetry; Four Reasons not to have an Epinician; Callimachus at the Mouseion (the Hymn to Delos); Literary Love Triangles: Berenice at Alexandria and Rome; Lucilius and Horace: from criticism to identification. 340p, (Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd 2016) 9780905205595 Hb £50.00, NYP

49 Livy’s Political Philosophy Pliny’s Defense of Empire By Ann Vasaly By Thomas R. Laehn This volume explores the political implications Laehn offers a radical reinterpretation of the of the first five books of Livy’s celebrated history architecture of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, of Rome, challenging the common perception of exposing fundamental errors in the inherited the author as an apolitical moralist. Ann Vasaly understanding of the text traceable to its initial argues that Livy intended to convey through the reception in ancient Rome. Recognition of the text’s narration of particular events crucial lessons about true structure reveals that Pliny’s encyclopaedia is in the interaction of power and personality, including fact a first-rate work of political philosophy constituting the personality of the Roman people as a whole. an apology for Roman imperial expansionism 209p (Cambridge UP 2015) 9781107065673 Hb £55.00 grounded in a sophisticated account of human nature. 168p (Routledge 2013, Pb 2015) 9780415818506 Hb Julius Caesar’s Bellum Civile and the £90.00, 9781138943018 Pb £24.99 Composition of a New Reality By Ayelet Peer Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger Offering a new interpretation of the Bellum Civile An Introduction this book reveals the intricate literary world that By Roy K. Gibson and Ruth Morello Caesar creates using sophisticated techniques such This new overview of Pliny’s letters combines close as a studied choice of vocabulary, rearrangement of readings with broader context. Chapters trace Pliny’s events, use of indirect speech, and more. Each of the autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters, three books of the work is examined independently set the letters within the Roman epistolographical to set out the gradual transformation of Caesar’s tradition, and provide case studies of thematic literary persona, in step with his ascent in the ‘real’ groups within the collection. The final chapter world. focuses on the ‘grand design’ which unifies and 200p, (Ashgate 2015) 9781472452078 Hb £70.00 structures the collection. 364p (Cambridge UP 2016) 9780521603799 Pb £19.99 Late Antiquity & Byzantium Religions of the Constantinian Empire The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity By Mark Edwards Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson A synoptic review of Constantine’s relation to all The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an the cultic and theological traditions of the Empire. innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that Divided into three parts, the first considers the efforts has become increasingly central to scholarly debates of Christians to construct their own philosophy, over the history of western and Middle Eastern and their own patterns of the philosophic life, in civilizations. Historical events are set in the context opposition to Platonism. The second assembles of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious evidence of survival, variation or decay in religious change during the period. The geographical scope practices which were never compulsory under of this handbook is unparalleled among comparable Roman law. The third reviews the changes, both surveys: Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans within the church and in the public sphere, which all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope were undeniably prompted by the accession of a extends to the western kingdoms, Ireland, and Christian monarch. Scandinavia in the West. 384p, (Oxford UP 2015) 9780199687725 Hb £30.00 1296p col pls (Oxford UP 2013, Pb 2015) 9780195336931 Hb £120.00, 9780190277536 Pb £38.99 Two Romes Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Edited by Gavin Kelly & Lucy Grig Christian Golden Age In this unified essay collection, prominent By Jonathan Bardill international scholars examine the changing roles Jonathan Bardill shows how Constantine’s and perceptions of Rome and Constantinople in propagandists exploited the traditional themes Late Antiquity from a range of different disciplines and imagery of rulership to portray him as having and scholarly perspectives. The seventeen chapters been elected by the supreme solar God to save his cover both the comparative development and the people and inaugurate a brilliant golden age. The shifting status of the two cities. Developments in author argues that the cultivation of this image politics and urbanism are considered, along with made it possible for Constantine to reconcile the the cities’ changing relationships with imperial long-standing tradition of imperial divinity with his power, the church, and each other, and their monotheistic faith by assimilating himself to Christ. evolving representations in both texts and images. 440p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2011, Pb 2015) 496p b/w illus (Oxford UP 2012, 2015) 9780199739400 9780521764230 Hb £89.99, 9781107538986 Pb £23.99 Hb £62.00, 9780190241087 Pb £29.99 50 Late Antiquity & Byzantium