Landscape and Land Use in First Picenum Millennium BC Southeast Italy A Landscape of Ritual and Myth Planting the Seeds of Change By Eleanor Betts By Daphne Lentjes This book explores the sacred landscape of the This book offers a comprehensive overview of region and interprets the evidence for Picene (ca. landscape and land use in southeast Italy in the 900-268 BCE) religion for the first time. The book first millennium BCE. Using the most up-to- explores the relationship between the material date techniques, it combines archaeobotanical evidence (votive deposits of figurines and pottery, and archaeozoological data with information monumentalised inscriptions), the topographical from excavations, field surveys, and ancient landscape and the people who used them. It written texts to place the relationship between considers how the Picenes may have experienced people and landscapes in a broad geographical their environment and given it meaning, with a and chronological framework. It also confronts particular emphasis on sacred sites which have a questions of food habits, the scale and organisation mountain peak, water feature or cave as their cult of agricultural production, the influx of Greek and focus. Roman colonists, and the effects of globalisation on 256p (Routledge 2017) 9781472429575 Hb £105.00 local and regional land use. 306p, col illus (Amsterdam UP 2016) 9789089647948 Hb £70.00 Classical World Women in Antiquity Popular Culture in the Ancient World Real Women across the Ancient World Edited by Lucy Grig Edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin & Jean MacIntosh Traditionally neglected by Turfa classical scholars, popular This volume gathers brand new essays from some culture provides a new of the most respected scholars of ancient history, window through which we archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an can view the ancient world. engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. An international group of The book is divided into ten sections covering scholars tackles a fascinating Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, range of subjects and the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe. Women’s objects – from dice oracles experiences are explored, from ordinary daily life to dressing up, from toys to religious ritual and practice, to motherhood, to theological speculation. childbirth, sex, and building a career. Forensic Diverse comparative and evidence is also treated for the actual bodies of theoretical approaches are used alongside many ancient women. different ancient sources to provide a wide-ranging 1074p (Routledge 2016) 9781138808362 Hb £175.00 and rigorous approach to ancient popular culture. 320p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107074897 Hb £75.00 The Amazons The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World Taste and the Ancient Senses By John Man By Kelli Rudolph Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few elusive tribe of ruthless, hard-fighting, horse-riding items of food and drink. But how were their tastes female warriors. Drawing on recent archaeological different from ours? How did they understand the discoveries, John Man travels to the grasslands of sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies Central Asia, from the edge of the ancient Greek and to other modes of sensory experience? This world to the borderlands of China, to discover volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient the truth about the warrior women mythologized sense of taste, draws on the literature, philosophy, as Amazons. In this deeply researched, sweeping history and archaeology of Greco-Roman antiquity historical epic, Man redefines our understanding to provide answers to these central questions. of the Amazons and their culture, and examines the 290p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781844658688 Hb significance of their legend today. £110.00, 9781844658695 Pb £23.99 328p (Transworld Publishers 2017) 9780593077597 Hb £20.00

31 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books The Frame in Classical Art Cityscapes and Monuments of Edited by Verity J. Platt & Michael Squire This book argues for the integral role of framing Remembrance in Asia Minor within Graeco-Roman art. Contributors combine Edited by Eva Mortensen & Birte Poulson close formal analysis with more theoretical The present volume publishes approaches: chapters examine framing devices 25 contributions written by across multiple media (including vase and fresco scholars specializing in the painting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, history and archaeology of manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis western Asia Minor. New and around the themes of framing pictorial space, well-known material – literary, framing bodies, framing the sacred and framing texts. epigraphical, numismatic, and 734p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107162365 Hb archaeological – is presented £105.00 and analyzed through the twin lenses of memory and The Beverley Collection of Gems at identity. The contributions Alnwick Castle cover more than 1000 years of By Diana Scarisbrick, Claudia Wagner & John cultural diversity during changing political systems, Boardman from the Lydian and Persian hegemony in the Archaic The range of objects in the Beverley Collection – period through Athenian supremacy and Persian cameos, intaglios and finger rings of the highest satrapal rule in the Classical period, then autocratic quality – is considerable: Greek, Roman and kingship in Hellenistic times until, finally, more than Etruscan, as well as a notable assemblage of half a millennium of Roman rule. Identities are voiced neoclassical signed gems by British artists. This through several media and visible at many levels book brings the collection to the attention of a wider of the ancient societies. The studies provide new audience. insights into how human beings chose, deliberately or subconsciously, to commemorate their past and 320p, col illus (Philip Wilson Publishers 2016) their ancestors, and how identity was 9781781300442 Hb £40.00 displayed and expressed under Excavating Pilgrimage shifting political rule. Only Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel 400p, b/w and colour (Oxbow £45.00 until and Movement in the Ancient World Books 2017) 9781785708367 Hb publication £60.00 Edited by Wiebke Friese & Troels Myrup Kristensen This volume sheds new light on the significance Textiles and Cult in the and meaning of material culture for the study of Ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage in the ancient world. The essays explore Edited by Cecilie Brøns & Marie-Louise Nosch some of the rich archaeological evidence for sacred travel and movement, such as the material footprint Recent scholarship has of different activities undertaken by pilgrims, illustrated how textiles the spatial organization of sanctuaries and the played a large and very wider catchment of pilgrimage sites, as well as the important role in the relationship between architecture, art and ritual. ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries. In Greece, the 306p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472453907 Hb so-called temple inventories £115.00 testify to the use of Votive Body Parts in Greek and textiles as votive offerings, in particular to female Roman Religion divinities. Furthermore, in By Jessica Hughes several cults, textiles were This book examines votive offerings in the shape of used to dress the images of different deities, as well parts of the human body. It collects examples from as in the dress of priests and priestesses, and in the four principal areas and time periods: Classical furnishings of the temples. Textiles and Cult in Greece, pre-Roman Italy, Roman Gaul and Roman the Ancient Mediterranean examines the topics of Asia Minor, highlighting differences between these textile production in sanctuaries, the sets of votives, and exploring the implications for use of textiles as votive offerings our understandings of how beliefs about the body changed across classical antiquity. Central themes and ritual dress using epigraphy, Only literary sources, iconography include illness and healing, bodily fragmentation, and the archaeological material £36.00 until human-animal hybridity, transmission and itself. publication reception of traditions, and the mechanics of 320p (Oxbow Books 2017) personal transformation in religious rituals. 9781785706721 Hb £48.00 234p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107157835 Hb £75.00 32 Classical World Where Dreams May Come Peace and Reconciliation in Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman the Classical World World Edited by E. P. Moloney & Michael Stuart Williams By Gil Renberg These essays stress the importance of ‘peace’ as In this book, Gil H. Renberg examines the ancient a positive concept in the ancient world (and not religious phenomenon of incubation, the ritual of just the absence of, or necessarily even related to, sleeping at a divinity’s sanctuary in order to obtain war), and consider examples of conflict resolution, a prophetic or therapeutic dream. Most prominently conciliation, and concession from Homer to associated with the Panhellenic healing god Augustine. Comparing and contrasting theories and Asklepios, incubation was also practiced at the cult practice across different periods and regions, this sites of numerous other divinities throughout the collection highlights, first, the open and dynamic Greek world, but it is first known from ancient Near nature of peace, and then seeks to review a wide Eastern sources and was established in Pharaonic variety of initiatives from across the Classical world. Egypt by the time of the Macedonian conquest; 358p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472466358 Hb later, Christian worship came to include similar £110.00 practices. 900p ,2 vols (Brill 2017) 9789004299764 Hb £226.00 The Archaeology of Greece and Rome Studies in Honour of Anthony Snodgrass Mass and Elite in the Greek and Edited by John Bintliff & Keith Rutter Roman Worlds In acknowledgement of Anthony Snodgrass’s From Sparta to Late Antiquity immense academic achievement, this collection Edited by Richard Evans of essays by a range of international scholars This volume examines mass and elite interaction reflects his wide-ranging research interests: Greek in ancient Mediterranean. They suggest that once prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, the concept of mass and elite was established in Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, the minds of Greeks and later Romans it became societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman a universal component of political life and from world, and Regional Field Survey. there was easily transferred to economic activity 392p b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2016) 9781474417099 Hb or religion. The contributors cast the net beyond £95.00 the confines of Athens (although the city is also represented here) to – amongst others – Syracuse, Science Writing in Greco-Roman the cities of Asia Minor, Pompeii and Rome, and to Antiquity literary and philosophical discourse. By Liba Taub 228p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472462077 Hb Liba Taub explores the rich variety of formats used £115.00 to discuss scientific, mathematical and technical subjects, from c.700 BCE to the sixth century CE. Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Each chapter concentrates on a particular genre Antiquity – poetry, letter, encyclopaedia, commentary and Explorations biography – offering an introduction to Greek and Edited by William V. Harris Roman scientific ideas, while using a selection of The history of healthcare in ancient writings to focus on the ways in which we the classical world suffers encounter them. from notable neglect in one 108p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521113700 Hb £59.99, crucial area. While scholars 9780521130639 Hb £18.99 have intensively studied both the rationalistic medicine that Knowledge, Text and Practice in is conveyed in the canonical Ancient Technical Writing texts and also the ‘temple Edited by Marco Formisano & Philip J. Van der Eijk medicine’ of Asclepius and These essays provide a complex and nuanced other gods, they have largely discussion of the relationship between theory and neglected to study popular practice as it emerges in ancient Greek and Roman medicine in a systematic culture in a number of fields, such as agriculture, fashion. This volume, which for the most part is the architecture, the art of love, astronomy, ethics, fruit of a conference held at Columbia University in mechanics, medicine, and pharmacology. The 2014, aims to help correct this imbalance. Using the main focus is on the textuality of processes of the full range of available evidence – archaeological, transmission of knowledge and its application in epigraphical and papyrological, as well as the literary various fields. texts – the international cast of contributors hopes 294p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107169432 to show what real people in Antiquity actually did Hb £75.00 when they tried to avert illness or cure it. 330p, (Brill 2016) 9789004325586 Hb £117.00 Classical World 33 Greece Cultural Contact and Appropriation in Elis the Axial-Age Mediterranean World Internal Politics and External Policy in Edited by Baruch Halpern & Kenneth Sacks Ancient Greece This volume explores adaptation, resistance and By Graeme Bourke reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange Elis examines the city of Elis from its earliest history, (ca. 800-300 BCE). Some essays expand on an through the Archaic period and the Classical period international discussion about myth, to which even where it reached its zenith, to its decline in the the Church Fathers contributed. Others explore Hellenistic, Roman and later periods. Through questions of how vocabulary is reapplied, or how examining this prominent city-state, its role in the alphabet is reapplied, in a new environment. contemporary politics and the place of Olympia 316p (Brill 2017) 9789004194540 Hb £118.00 in its territory, Graeme Bourke also explores broader issues, such as the relationship between the Athens Burning Spartans and their allies, the connection between The Persian Invasion of Greece and the political structures and Panhellenic sanctuaries, Evacuation of Attica and the network of relationships between ancient By Robert Garland sanctuaries throughout the Greek-speaking world. Between June 480 and 304p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9780415749572 Hb August 479 BC, tens of £105.00 thousands of Athenians The Hellenistic Peloponnese evacuated, following King Xerxes’ victory at the Interstate Relations: A Narrative and Analytic Battle of Thermopylae. History, 371-146 BC Robert Garland explores By Ioanna Kralli the reasons behind the This book offers a comprehensive narrative of the decision to abandon political history of the entire Peloponnese from 371 Attica, while analysing to 146 BC. In the Hellenistic Peloponnese a long the consequences, both shadow was cast by the geo-political changes of the material and psychological, 4th century. After Sparta’s long-invincible army was of the resulting invasion. He defeated at the battle of Leuktra, there was much in addresses questions that are largely ignored in Sparta’s influence which was far from crushed. Not other accounts of the conflict, including how the only did Sparta’s confidence persist, as she agitated evacuation was organized and what kind of facilities for centuries to renew her power; other states of the were available to the refugees along the way. Peloponnese conducted their own foreign policies 184p, b/w illus (Johns Hopkins UP 2017) 9781421421964 in reaction either to Sparta’s decline or, especially, Pb £15.00 to her resurgence. 556p (Classical Press of Wales 2017) 9781910589601 Hb £75.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Classical Greek Oligarchy A Political History By Matthew Simonton Classical Greek Oligarchy thoroughly reassesses an important but neglected form of ancient Greek government. Matthew Simonton challenges scholarly orthodoxy by showing that oligarchy was not the default mode of politics from time immemorial, but instead emerged alongside, and in reaction to, democracy. He establishes for the first time how oligarchies maintained power in the face of potential citizen resistance. The book argues that oligarchs designed distinctive political institutions--such as intra-oligarchic power sharing, targeted repression, and rewards for informants--to prevent collective action among the majority population while sustaining cooperation within Only their own ranks. The book investigates topics such as control of public space, the manipulation of information, and the £32.00 until establishment of patron-client relations, frequently citing 31st January parallels with contemporary nondemocratic regimes. 320p (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691174976 Hb £37.95 34 The Legend of Seleucus Greek Gods Abroad Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in Names, Natures, and Transformations the Ancient World By Robert Parker By Daniel Ogden Greek Gods Abroad examines the interaction By the time of his death, Seleucus had reconstructed between Greek religion and the cultures of the bulk of Alexander’s empire, built Antioch, and the eastern Mediterranean with which it came become a king. It is his legendary afterlife, however, into contact. Robert Parker shows how Greek on which this new study focuses. This legend told conventions for naming gods were extended and of Seleucus’ divine siring by Apollo, his escape adapted, providing bold new insights into religious from Babylon with an enchanted talisman, his and psychological values across the Mediterranean. foundations of cities along a dragon-river with the 261p (University of California Press 2017) 9780520293946 help of Zeus’ eagles, his surrender of his new wife Hb £37.95 to his besotted son, and his revenge, as a ghost, upon his assassin. Omens and Oracles 400p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107164789 Hb £90.00 Divination in Ancient Greece Benefactors, Kings, Rulers By Matthew Dillon Addressing the role which divination played in Studies on the Seleukid Empire Between ancient Greek society, this volume deals with East and West various forms of prophecy and how each was By D. Engels utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring The present volume contains a series of critical together key types of divining, such as from birds, studies devoted to the political, institutional and celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed ideological construction of the Seleukid empire, with animals and dreams, as well as written collections of particular focus on the complex interplay between oracles. Divination was utilised not only to foretell the Seleukids’ Graeco-Macedonian background and the future but also to ensure that the individual or their Achaemenid heritage. In order to explore to state employing divination acted in accordance with what extend the Seleukids can be considered heirs that divinely prescribed future. to the Achaimenids and precursors of the Parthians, 472p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472424082 Hb and to what extent they simply ‘imported’ cultural £135.00 and political behavioural patterns developed in Greece and Macedonia, the studies collected here Myths on the Map adopt a decidedly interdisciplinary and diachronic The Storied Landscapes of Ancient Greece approach. Edited by Greta Hawes 617p, (Peeters Publishers 2017) 9789042933279 Pb This volume brings together contributions from £120.00 leading scholars of Greek myth, literature, history, Greek Federal Terminology and archaeology to examine the myriad intricate ways in which ancient Greek myth interacted with By Jacek Rzepka the physical and conceptual landscapes of antiquity. In pursuit of specifically federalist language Rzepka Specific landscape features acted as repositories examines the inscriptions testifying to the working of myth and spurred their retelling; myths, in of Greek leagues and the life of federal Greeks, as turn, shaped and gave sense to natural and built well as a vast range of Classical authors. He argues environments, and were crucial to the conceptual that the deliberate choice of technical terms, and resonances of places both unknown and known. especially the emergence of federalist jargon in the 368p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198744771 Hb Hellenistic period, reflect the development of the £75.00 federalist path in Greek political thought. 110p, (Akanthina 2017) 9788375312379 Pb £20.00, NYP New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens Citizenship in Classical Athens By Jon D. Mikalson By Josine Blok Jon D. Mikalson offers for classical and Hellenistic What did citizenship really mean in classical Athens? Athens a study of the terminology and contexts It is conventionally understood as characterised by of praises of religious actions and artefacts and holding political office, open only to men. Religion, an investigation of the various authorities in however, was central to the polis and in this domain, religious activities. The authorities include oracles, women played prominent public roles. Josine traditional customs, laws, and decrees, and their Blok argues that for the Athenians, their polis was hierarchy and interaction are described. The founded on an enduring bond with the gods. Laws authority of the Ekklesia, Boule, administrative and anchored the polis’ commitments to humans and military officials, priests, priestesses, and others is gods in this bond, transmitted over time to male and also delineated, and a new view of polis “control” female Athenians as equal heirs. of religion is put forward. 345p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9780521191456 Hb £75.00 500p (Brill 2016) 9789004319189 Hb £178.00 Greece 35 Divine Honors for Mortal Men in Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Greek Cities Slave-Wives, Single Women and The Early Cases “Bastards” in the Ancient Greek World By Christian Habicht Law and Economics Perspectives This book presents Christian Habicht’s argument for the handling of ruler cults in mainland Greece and By Morris Silver the islands, relying upon contemporary testimony, The author proposes down to 240 BCE. John Noel Dillon’s translation and tests radically new of the 1970 German edition also presents the interpretations of three author’s updated case studies based on inscriptional important status groups discoveries since that time. in Greek history: the 256p (Michigan Classical Press 2017) 9780979971396 pallakē, the hetaira, and Hb £55.00 the nothos. In this highly original and challenging The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek new book economist Morris Myth and Poetry Silver proposes and tests the hypothesis that the By Charles Heiko Stocking likelihood of bride sale This book offers a new rises with increases in the distance between the interpretation of ancient ancestral residence of the groom and the father’s Greek sacrifice from a household. The ‘bastard’ (nothoi) children of cultural poetic perspective. pallakai lacked the legal right to inherit from their Through close readings of fathers but were routinely eligible for Athenian the Theogony, the Homeric citizenship. It is argued that the basic social Hymn to Demeter, the meaning of hetaira (‘companion’) Homeric Hymn to Hermes, is not ‘prostitute’/’courtesan’ but and the Odyssey in ‘single woman’ – that is, a woman Only conjunction with evidence legally recognized as being from material culture, it under her own authority (kuria). £28.50 until argues that the ritual of 224p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) publication sacrifice operates as a cultural mechanism for the 9781785708633 Pb £38.00 perpetuation of patriarchal ideology not just in early Greek hexameter, but throughout Greek cultural history. 208p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107164260 Hb £64.99 Revisiting Delphi A History of the Mind and Mental Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece Health in Classical Greek Medical By Julia Kindt Revisiting Delphi speaks to Thought all admirers of Delphi and its By Chiara Thumiger famous prophecies, be they The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary experts on ancient Greek medical sources have often been overlooked in religion, students of the discussions of ancient psychology. This book ancient world, or just lovers does justice to these early medical accounts by of a good story. It invites demonstrating their richness and sophistication, readers to revisit the famous their many connections with other contemporary Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, cultural products and the indebtedness of later along with Herodotus, medicine to their observations. Euripides, Socrates, 506p, (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107176010 Hb £105.00 Pausanias and Athenaeus, offering the first comparative Greek Laughter and Tears and extended enquiry into Antiquity and After the way these and other authors force us to move Edited by Margaret Alexiou & Douglas Cairns the link between religion and narrative centre stage. Their accounts of Delphi and its prophecies reflect a Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and world in which the gods frequently remain baffling disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this and elusive despite every human effort to make volume explores the shifting shapes and functions sense of the signs they give. of laughter and tears, with consideration given to visual, performative and musical arts, as well as to 215p (Cambridge UP 2016) 9781107151574 Hb £64.99 written records. 512p, b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2017) 9781474403795 Hb £95.00 36 Greece Armes, Armement et Contexte Greek Taktika: Ancient Military Writing Funéraire dans la Macédoine and its Heritage Hellénistique Proceedings of the International Conference on Avec un appendice sur les trouvailles d’armes Greek Taktika held at the University of Toruń, relatives à l’archaïsme et aux débuts de l’époque 7-11 April 2005 classique en Macédoine & sur ses confins Edited by Philip Rance & Nicholas Victor Sekunda By Pierre O. Juhel, Dorota Sakowicz & Paul Morillon Following an extensive introduction by Philip This work (in French) constitutes an exhaustive Rance, which surveys the historical development of catalogue raisonné of weapons, in tabular form, ancient Greek military writing and the evolution of found in funerary contexts throughout the territory modern scholarship on this literary tradition, this of Ancient Macedonia in the Hellenistic period. book presents 15 papers devoted to Greek taktika, Juhel contrasts the situation in the Archaic and a broad genre of handbooks concerning tactics, Classical periods, where arms are more plentiful generalship and the conduct of war. Collectively in an extensive appendix, divided into three parts. the contributors address the practical utility of these 105p, b/w and col illus illustrations (Akanthina 2017) texts in ancient warfare, their literary, military and 9788375311822 Hb £25.00, NYP cultural contexts in Antiquity, and their diverse uses as historical sources within the wider sphere of ancient military history. 300p, b/w illus (Akanthina 2017) 9788375312423 Pb £40.00, NYP Greek Art & Archaeology In Celebration of Greek Coinage The Art of Contact By Robin Eaglen Comparative Approaches to Greek and In Celebration of Greek Phoenician Art Coinage is a readable but By S. Rebecca Martin scholarly tribute to ancient Becky Martin reconsiders works of art produced Greek coins. Two initial by, or thought to be produced by, Greeks and chapters relate the author’s Phoenicians during the first millennium B.C., devotion to numismatics when they were in prolonged contact with one and his thoughts on Greek another. She questions what constituted “Greek” coins as art; fifty further and “Phoenician” art and, by extension, Greek and essays seek to identify the Phoenician identity. Explicating the relationship formative geographical, between theory, method, and interpretation, historical, ethnic, political, The Art of Contact destabilizes categories such religious, cultural, artistic, as orientalism and Hellenism and offers fresh social, economic and commercial influences behind perspectives on Greek and Phoenician art history. the coins. 320p b/w and col illus (University of Pennsylvania Press 240p, col illus (Spink Books 2017) 9781907427770 Hb 2017) 9780812249088 Hb £50.00 £40.00 Greek Art in Context Greek Coins and Their Values Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives Western Europe and North Africa: Coins Edited by Diana Rodriguez Perez of Spain, Gaul, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and North Africa What do we mean by ‘context’? In which ways and under what circumstances does context become By Italo Vecchi relevant for the interpretation of Greek material The scope of the fourth edition of GCV is to culture? Which contexts should we look at – viewing summarise the whole range of Greek coinage from context, political, social and religious discourse, West to East with the latest up-to-date references artistic tradition? What happens when there is no and current valuations in three volumes, beginning context? These are some of the questions that this in 2018 with volume I, covering Spain, Gaul, Italy, volume aims to answer. The chapters included cover Sicily, the Island off Italy and Sicily and North current approaches to the study of Greek sculpture Africa. and pottery in which the notion of ‘context’ plays 480p b/w illus (Spink Books 2018) 9781907427787 Hb a prominent role, offering new ways of looking at £50.00, NYP familiar issues. 306p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472457455 Hb £105.00 37 The Canino Connections Boeotia Project, Volume II: The City Edited by Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma of Thespiai Starting in the year 1828, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Survey at a Complex Urban Site of Canino, unearthed more than 2000 Greek vases By John Bintliff, Emeri Farinetti, Božidar Slapšak & on his estate near the ancient Etruscan town of Anthony Snodgrass Vulci. This volume publishes 10 papers by scholars Few major Classical of international repute dealing with these ceramics, cities have disappeared so the person of Lucien Bonaparte, his excavation completely from view, over practices, the history of restorations and the selling the centuries, as Thespiai and buying of Greek ceramics in the 19th century. in Central Greece. Only the 150p, b/w and col illus (Sidestone Press 2017) technique of intensive field 9789088905001 Hb £120.00, 9789088904998 Pb survey, carefully adapted to a £40.00 NYP large urban site and reinforced by historical investigation, has Early Greek Portraiture made it possible to recover Monuments and Histories from oblivion much of its life By Catherine M. Keesling of seven millennia. Surveying the subjects, motives and display contexts 414p (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research of Archaic and Classical portrait sculpture, this 2017) 9781902937816 Hb £70.00 book demonstrates that the phenomenon of portrait representation in Greek culture is complex and Theoretical Approaches to the without a single, unifying history. Bringing a multi- Archaeology of Ancient Greece disciplinary approach to the topic, Keesling grounds Manipulating Material Culture her study in contemporary texts such as Herodotus’ By Lisa Nevett Histories and situates portrait representation within the context of contemporary debates about the This volume offers a series of nature of arete (excellence), the value of historical case studies exploring how a commemoration and the relationship between the theoretical approach to the human individual and the gods and heroes. archaeology of the Greek world provides insight into 344p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107162235 Hb aspects of ancient society. The £75.00 authors examine a range of Artists and Artistic Production in practices, from the creation of individual items such as Ancient Greece ceramic vessels and figurines, Edited by Peter Schultz & Kristin Seaman through to the construction of Greek artists and architects were important social civic buildings, monuments, agents who played significant roles in the social, and cemeteries. At the same time they interrogate a cultural, and economic life of the ancient Greek range of spheres, from craft production, through civic world. In this book, art historians, archaeologists, and religious practices, to funerary ritual. and historians explore the roles and impacts of 368p, b/w illus (University of Michigan Press 2017) artists and craftsmen in ancient Greek society. 9780472130238 Hb £88.50 The contributing authors draw upon artistic, architectural, literary, epigraphical, and historical Kratos & Krater evidence to discuss a range of artists, architects, Reconstructing an Athenian Protohistory artistic media, and regions. By Barbara Bohen 278p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107074460 Athenian governance and culture are reconstructed Hb £64.99 from the Bronze Age into the historical era Tombs, Burials, and Commemoration based on traditions, archaeological contexts and artefacts, in particular the formal commensal in Corinth’s Northern Cemetery and libation krater. The demise of both the By Kathleen Warner Slane constitution and the standard, ancestral krater in Rescue excavations were carried outin 1961/2 along Athens following a mid-eighth century watershed the terrace north of Ancient Corinth by Henry is testimony to an interval of political change, Robinson and the ASCSA. They revealed 70 tile before the systematised establishment of annual graves, limestone sarcophagi, and cremation burials, archonship in the following century. and seven chamber tombs. This volume publishes The support this research has the results of these excavations and examines the given to the validity of the King Only evidence for changing burial practices in the Greek List has resulted in a proposed £32.00 until city, Roman colony, and Christian town. new chronology. 31st January 416p, b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at 270p (Archaeopress 2017) Athens 2017) 9780876610220 Hb £95.00 9781784916220 Pb £40.00 38 Greek Art & Archaeology The Fortifications of Arkadian City- Votive Reliefs States in the Classical and Hellenistic By Carol L. Lawton Periods This volume includes all of the Classical, Hellenistic, By Matthew P. Maher and Roman votive reliefs found to date in the This illustrated study excavations of the Athenian Agora. In addition comprises a comprehensive to providing a catalogue of the reliefs arranged and detailed account of the according to their subjects, the author treats the historical development of history of their discovery, their production and Greek military architecture workmanship, iconography, and function, as well and defensive planning, as their original contexts. specifically in Arkadia in 248p, b/w and col illus (American School of Classical the Classical and Hellenistic Studies at Athens 2017) 9780876612385 Hb £95.00 periods. The fortification circuit of each Arkadian polis The Historical Greek Village is explored: the book provides By Brice L. Erickson an accurate chronology for This volume presents the Protogeometric through the walls in question; an understanding of the Hellenistic material (ca. 970–175 B.C.) from ASCSA relationship between the fortifications and the local excavations conducted in the 1950s at Lerna in topography; a detailed inventory of all the fortified the Argolid. The material derives from two main poleis of Arkadia; a regional synthesis based on this sources: burials from a Geometric cemetery near inventory; and the probable historical reasons behind the settlement and Late Archaic, Classical, and the patterns observed through the regional synthesis. Hellenistic wells from the mound proper. Although 400p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198786597 Hb the material consists primarily of pottery and other £90.00 ceramic finds, it also includes human remains, animal bones and shells, coins, inscriptions, and Pistiros VI bronze and stone objects. The Pistiros Hoard 544p, b/w and col illus (American School of Classical Edited by Jan Bouzek, Jiri Militky, Valentina Taneva & Studies at Athens 2018) 9780876613085 Hb £95.00, NYP Ewa Domaradzka The Minnesota Pylos Project Pistiros VI details a hoard 1990-98 consisting of 549 silver and three gold coins that probably Edited by Frederick A. Cooper & Diane Fortenberry belonged to a mercenary In 1990 the University of Minnesota carried out an serving in Lysimachus’s army. architectural survey of the standing remains of the The hoard is unique both Bronze Age Palace of Nestor, discovered by Carl Blegen in being uncovered during in 1939 and excavated from 1952 to 1966. The Blegen- regular archaeological period backfill covering the site was systematically excavation, which enabled removed so that a complete architectural plan could the team to record precisely be prepared. Although only backfill was removed, the situation of its deposition, numerous unexpected finds were recovered, ranging as well as in the types of coins from discarded Linear B tablets and wall painting it contained, imitated by the first coinage of Central fragments to roof tiles and pottery. European Celts just after the return of part of their 426p b/w and col illus (BAR 2856, 2017) 9781407315348 army to an area in modern Bohemia. Pb £66.00 246p, 57 col pls (Karolinum Press 2017) 9788024633015 Pb £26.50 Panhellenes at Methone Graphe in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Terracotta Lamps II Methone, Macedonia (ca 700 BCE) 1967-2004 Edited by Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin & Yannis By Birgitta Lindros Wohl Z. Tzifopoulos This volume catalogues more than 400 lamps and The papers in this volume discuss the unique, and lamp fragments dating from the Late Archaic to the so far unprecedented for Macedonia, 191 sherds Byzantine periods found over several decades at from Methone in Pieria, dated to ca 700 BCE, the Isthmian Sanctuary of Poseidon. As well as the which bear inscriptions, graffiti, and (trade)marks detailed descriptions of the lamps in the catalogue, inscribed, incised, scratched and rarely painted. the volume presents a commentary on the types 377p, b/w and col illus (Walter de Gruyter 2017) of lamps used at the Sanctuary that enriches our 9783110501278 Hb £120.00 knowledge of their manufacture, use, and artistic evolution over time. 256p, b/w illus (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2017) 9780876619308 Hb £95.00 Greek Art & Archaeology 39 Classical Literature Plato’s Atlantis Story Greek Tragedy on the Move Text, Translation and Commentary The Birth of a Panhellenic Art Form By Christopher Gill c. 500-300 BC This book aims to bring together all the evidence By Edmund Stewart relevant for understanding Plato’s Atlantis Story, This volume argues that the story of tragedy’s providing the Greek text of the relevant Platonic development and dissemination is inherently one texts (the start of Plato’s Timaeus and the incomplete of travel and that tragedy grew out of, and became Critias), together with a commentary on language part of, a common Greek culture, rather than being and content, and a full vocabulary of Greek words. explicitly Athenian. The movement of professional This essential work also offers a new translation poets, actors, and audience members along the of these texts and a full introduction, focused on network of festivals from Sicily to Asia Minor and the philosophical meaning of the story and the from North Africa to the Black Sea allowed for significance of Plato’s presentation, and responding the exchange of poetry in general and tragedy in to recent scholarly discussion of these questions. particular. 216p (Liverpool UP 2017) 9781786940155 Pb £19.95 288p (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198747260 Hb £65.00 Moral History from Herodotus to The Birth of Comedy Diodorus Siculus Texts, Documents and Art from Athenian By Lisa Hau Comic Competitions, 486-280 Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Edited by Jeffrey Rusten Greek historians was the desire to use the past to This volume offers English translations of all of the teach lessons about the present and for the future. surviving fragments of Athenian comedy, leaving She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient out only those which are only of linguistic interest Greek writers of history and the techniques they or impossible to reconstruct with any certainty. used to bring them across. Additional chapters contain translations of texts 224p, b/w illus (Edinburgh UP 2016, Pb 2017) and relevant artsitic depictions, relating to comedy 9781474411073 Hb £80.00, 9781474427135 Pb £24.99 at dramatic festivals, staging, audience, and ancient writers on comedy. Redeeming Thucydides’ Book VIII 792p (Johns Hopkins UP 2011, Pb 2016) 9781421421186 Narrative Artistry in the Account of Pb £37.00 the Ionian War By Vasileios Liotsakis The Routledge Companion to Strabo Since antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides’ History Edited by Daniela Dueck has been considered an unpolished draft which This volume explores the works of Strabo of lacks revision. Vasileios Liotsakis offers a thorough Amasia (c. 64 BCE – c. CE 24), a Greek author description of the compositional plan, which, in writing at the prime of Roman expansion and his opinion, Thucydides put into effect in the last political empowerment. It examines several aspects 109 chapters of his work. His study elaborates on of Strabo’s personality, the political and scholarly the structural parts of the book, their details, and environment in which he was active, his choices as the various techniques through which Thucydides an author, and his ideas of history and geography. composed his narration in order to reach the 422p, b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781138904330 Hb internal cohesion of these chapters as well as their £165.00 close connection to the rest of the History. 201p, b/w illus (Walter de Gruyter 2017) 9783110532074 Word and Context in Latin Poetry Hb £110.00 Studies in Memory of David West Edited by A. J. Woodman & J. Wisse Homer the Preclassic The contributors – Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, By Gregory Nagy Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harrison, Homer the Preclassic considers the development John Moles and Tony Woodman – have aimed to of the Homeric poems – in particular the Iliad produce close readings of classical texts, paying due and Odyssey – during the time when they were attention to historical context and literary tradition still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces in the manner adopted by David West himself. the evolution of rival “Homers” and the different The authors covered are Empedocles, Antisthenes, versions of Homeric poetry in this pretextual period, Callimachus, Lutatius Catulus, Catullus, Horace reconstructed over a time frame extending back (Epodes and Odes), Propertius, Virgil (Aeneid), Dio from the sixth century BCE to the Bronze Age. Chrysostom and Hildebert of Lavardin. 432p, b/w illus (University of California Press 2017) 166p (Cambridge Philological Society 2017) 9780520294875 Pb £27.95 9780956838155 Hb £45.00, NYP 40 Rome The Age of Tarquinius Superbus Edited by C. J. Smith & P. S. Lolof NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Tarquinius Superbus is one of the most vivid figures Empire State of archaic Rome, and the dramatic accounts of his How the Roman Military Built an Empire rise to power, and his expulsion, have shaped our perception of the late sixth century in central Italy. By Simon Elliott This volume asks how reliable is this narrative? The armed forces of What is the archaeological evidence for the late Rome, particularly those sixth century and is it compatible with a model of the later Republic and of a strong individual leader? And what can Principate, are rightly we say about the broader social and economic regarded as some of the transformations in this exciting period of central finest military formations Italian history? ever to engage in warfare. 365p (Peeters 2017) 9789042934696 Pb £115.00 Less well known however is their use by the State Early Rome as tools for such non- Myth and Society military activities in By Jaclyn Neel political, economic and social contexts. In this book the use of the military Early Rome: Myth and Society aims to provide for such non-conflict related duties is considered much-needed modern and accessible translations in detail for the first time. The first, and best and commentaries on Italian legends. It examines known, is running the great construction projects the tales of Roman pre-and legendary history, of the Empire in their capacity as engineers. Next, discusses relevant cultural and contextual the role of the Roman military in the running of information, and presents author biographies. industry across the Roman Empire is examined, Jaclyn Neel debunks the idea that Romans were particularly the mining and quarrying industries unimaginative copyists by spotlighting the vitality but also others. They also took part in agriculture, and flexibility of Italian myth particularly those administered and policed the Empire, provided parts that are less closely connected to Greek tales. a firefighting resource and organised games in 336p (Wiley-Blackwell 2017) 9781119083801 Pb £27.00 the arena. The soldiers of Rome really were the foundations on which the Roman Empire was Livy: History of Rome, Volume IX constructed: they literally built an empire. Simon Books 31-34 Elliott lifts the lid on this less well-known side Edited by J. C. Yardley to the Roman army, in an accessible narrative Books 31-34 narrate the Second Macedonian War designed for a wide readership. (200-196) and its aftermath. This edition replaces the 224p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books 2017) original Loeb edition by Evan T. Sage. 9781785706585 Pb £36.00 710p (Loeb 2017) 9780674997059 Hb £15.95 Politics in the Roman Republic Caesar’s Footprints By Henrik Mouritsen Journeys to Roman Gaul An original synthesis of Rome’s political institutions and practices. It begins by explaining By Bijan Omrani the development of the Roman constitution over Each chapter of Caesar’s time before turning to the practical functioning Footprints is dedicated of the Republic, focusing particularly on the role to a specific journey of of the populus Romanus and the way its powers exploration through were expressed in the popular assemblies. Henrik Roman Gaul. From the Mouritsen concludes by exploring continuity and amphitheatres of Arles and change in Roman politics as well as the process Nimes to the battlefield of by which the republican system was eventually Chalons, where Flavius replaced by monarchy. Aetius defeated Attila the 214p (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107031883 Hb £49.99, Hun, Bijan Omrani explores 9781107651333 Pb £18.99 archaeological sites, artefacts and landscapes to reveal how the imprint of Rome shaped France – and thereby helped to create modern Europe. 416p, b/w illus (Head of Zeus 2017) 9781784970659 Hb £25.00 41 Roman Army Units in the Eastern The Bar Kokhba War Ad 132-135 Provinces: The Last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome 31 BC-AD 195: No. 1 By Lindsay Powell By Raffaele D’Amato In AD 132, Shim’on Ben Koseba, a rebel leader who Between the reigns of Augustus and Septimius assumed the messianic name Shim’on Bar Kokhba Severus, the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire (‘Son of a Star’), led the people of Judaea in open frequently saw brutal fighting, most notably during rebellion, aiming to establish their own independent the conquest of Dacia by Trajan, the suppression of Jewish state and to liberate Jerusalem from the the Great Revolt in Judea and intermittent clashes Romans. This fully illustrated volume explores the with Rome’s great rival Parthia. In these wars, gripping story of the uprising, profiling Bar Kokhba Roman soldiers had to fight in a range of different as well as the Emperor Hadrian and his generals, climates and terrains. Using full-colour artwork, and assesses the impact that this violent rebellion this book examines the variation of equipment and had on the region and those that were displaced. uniforms both between different military units, 96p, b/w and col illus (Osprey 2017) 9781472817983 Pb and in armies stationed in different regions of the £14.99 Empire. 48p, col illus (Osprey 2017) 9781472821768 Pb £10.99 Pax and the Politics of Peace Republic to Principate For the Glory of Rome By Hannah Cornwell A History of Warriors and Warfare This volume argues for By Ross Cowan its fundamental centrality Roman legionaries are often cited as the original of the concept of pax in professional soldiers and famed for their iron understanding the changing discipline, but they were also formidable individual dynamics of the state and warriors who gloried in single combat, taking heads the creation of a new political and despoiling their enemies. They were men who system in the Roman Empire, believed they were sired by a god of war, driven by moving from the debates over the need to create and sustain heroic reputations, the content of the concept and who disrobed in public to display battle scars. in the dying Republic to Ross Cowan explores the mindset of the Roman discussion of its deployment fighting men, examining their motivation, beliefs in the legitimization of and superstitions, illuminating why they fought and the Augustan regime, first died for the glory of Rome. through the creation of an 272p, b/w pls (Pen & Sword Books 2017) 9781473898769 authorized version controlled by the princeps and Pb £16.99 then the ultimate crystallization of the pax augusta as the first wholly imperial concept of peace. 272p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198805632 Hb £65.00

EDITOR’S CHOICE Blood of the Provinces The Roman Auxilia and the Making of Provincial Society from Augustus to the Severans By Ian Haynes Blood of the Provinces is the first fully comprehensive study of the largest part of the Roman army, the auxilia. This non-citizen force constituted more than half of Rome’s celebrated armies and was often the military presence in some of its territories. The book demonstrates how the Roman state addressed a crucial and enduring challenge both on and off the battlefield – retaining control of these miscellaneous auxiliaries upon whom its very existence depended. Crucially, this was not simply achieved by pay and punishment, but also by a very particular set of cultural attributes that characterized provincial society under the Roman Empire. Focusing on the soldiers themselves, and encompassing the disparate military Only communities of which they were a part, it offers a vital £25.00 until source of information on how individuals and communities 31st January were incorporated into provincial society under the Empire, and how the character of that society evolved as a result. 448p (Oxford UP 2016) 9780198795445 Pb £30.00

42 Rome The Sons of Remus The Peace of the Gods Identity in Roman Gaul and Spain Elite Religious Practices in the Middle By Andrew C. Johnston Roman Republic Andrew Johnston explores how the inhabitants By Craige B. Champion of Gaul and Spain, though they willingly adopted The Peace of the Gods certain Roman customs and recognized imperial takes a new approach to authority, never became exclusively Roman. Their the study of Roman elites’ self-representations in literature, inscriptions, and religious practices and visual art reflect identities rooted in a sense of beliefs. The book examines belonging to indigenous communities. Provincials the nature and structure of performed shifting roles for different audiences, the major priesthoods in rehearsing traditions at home while subverting Rome itself, Roman military Roman stereotypes of druids and rustics abroad. commanders’ religious 384p (Harvard UP 2017) 9780674660106 Hb £39.95 behaviours in dangerous field conditions, and the The Shape of the Roman Order state religion’s acceptance The Republic and its Spaces or rejection of new cults and By Daniel J. Gargola rituals in response to external events that benefited Daniel J. Gargola demonstrates how important the or threatened the Republic. Champion argues concept of space was to the governance of Rome. instead that Roman elites sincerely tried to maintain He explains how Roman rulers, without the means Rome’s good fortune through a pax deorum or for making detailed maps, conceptualized the peace of the gods. territories under Rome’s power as a set of concentric 304p, (Princeton UP 2017) 9780691174853 Hb £32.95 zones surrounding the city, and examines how this Empire and Religion idiosyncratic way of making sense of the world fundamentally informed the way they ruled over Religious Change in Greek Cities Under their dominion. Roman Rule 320p (University of North Carolina Press 2017) Edited by Elena Muniz Grijalvo, Juan Manuel Cortes 9781469631820 Hb £47.95 Copete & Lozano Gomez This volume explores the Official Power and Local Elites in the nature of religious change Roman Provinces in the Greek-speaking Edited by Rada Varga & Viorica Rusu-Bolindet cities of the Roman Empire. Emphasis is put This volume explores aspects of the relations on those developments between the official state structures of Rome and that apparently were not local provincial elites. Approaches range from the direct result of Roman historical and epigraphic studies to philological and actions: the intensification linguistic interpretations, and from architectural of idiosyncratically Greek analyses to direct interpretations of the material features in the religious life culture. While some local potentates took pride of the cities; the active role in their relationship with Rome exhibiting their of a new kind of Hellenism in the design of imperial allegiances publicly as well as privately, others religious policies; or the locally different responses preferred to keep this display solely for public to central religious initiatives, and the influence of manifestation. those local responses in other imperial contexts. 214p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781472457318 Hb 222p (Brill 2017) 9789004347106 Hb £102.00 £110.00 Summoned to the Roman Courts Children and Everyday Life in the Famous Trials from Antiquity Roman and Late Antique World Edited by Christian Laes & Ville Vuolanto By Detlef Liebs Roman society was a community of young people, This book brings to life a thousand years of Roman with a third of the population younger than fifteen history through sixteen studies of famous court years old. This volume explores what it meant to be cases – from the legendary trial of Horatius for the a child in the Roman world – what were children’s killing of his sister, to the trial of Jesus Christ, to concerns, interests and beliefs – and whether we that of the Christian leader Priscillian for heresy. can find traces of children’s own cultures. The topics Drawing on a wide variety of ancient sources, the discussed include children’s living environments; author paints a vivid picture of ancient Roman clothing; childhood care; social relations; leisure society. and play; health and disability; upbringing and 288p (University of California Press 2017) 9780520294851 schooling; and children’s experiences of death. Pb £27.95 404p (Routledge 2017) 9781472464804 Hb £110.00 Rome 43 The Economic Integration of L’artisanat dans les cités antiques Roman Italy de l’Algérie Rural Communities in a Globalising World (Ier Siècle Avant Notre Ère -Viie Siècle Après Edited by Tymon de Haas & Gijs Tol Notre Ère) This book presents a series of papers that explore By Touatia Amraoui the changes Rome’s territorial and economic Focusing on urban production in Algeria during expansion brought about in the countryside of Antiquity, this critical study reviews archaeological the Italian peninsula. By drawing on a variety of sites with workshops by defining their activities, source materials (e.g. pottery, settlement patterns, at the same time as analysing how they operated environmental data), they shed light on the and looking at them typologically. Based on a complexity of rural settlement and economies on comparison with documented workshops in the the local, regional and supra-regional scales. Western Roman world, the study of 514p (Brill 2017) 9789004325906 Hb £123.00 the techniques highlights the very strong similarities between these Only Work, Labour, and Professions in regions but also the specific the Roman World local variations of the methods £40.00 until 31st January Edited by Koenraad Verboven & Christian Laes used in Africa at this time. These papers discuss new insights, ideas and 446p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) interpretations on the role of labour and human 9781784916671 Pb £50.00 resources in the Roman economy. They study the The Goths various ways in which work was mobilised and organised and how these processes were regulated. By Simon MacDowall Work as a production factor, however, is not the Both western (Visigoth) and eastern (Ostrogoth) exclusive focus of this volume. Throughout the branches of the Goths had a complex relationship chapters, the contributors also provide an analysis with the Romans, sometimes fighting as their allies of work as a social and cultural phenomenon in against other barbarian interlopers but carving out Ancient Rome. their own kingdoms in the process. Adrianople, 356p (Brill 2016) 9789004331655 Hb £126.00 the events of 410 and the Ostrogoth’s long war with Belisarius, including the Siege of Rome, are among Roman Coins, Money, and Society the campaigns and battles Simon MacDowall in Elizabethan England narrates in detail. He analyses the arms and Sir Thomas Smith’s On the Wages of the Roman contrasting fighting styles of the Ostro- and Visi- Footsoldier Goths and evaluates their effectiveness against the Romans. By Andrew Burnett, Richard Simpson & Deborah 176p, pls (Pen & Sword 2017) 9781473837645 Hb £19.99 Thorpe Sir Thomas Smith was one of the most important Rome and the Classic Maya politicians and intellectuals of the Elizabethan age. Comparing the Slow Collapse of Ancient In this volume the text of his On the Wages of the Civilizations Roman Footsoldier is accompanied by Richard By Rebecca Storey & Glenn R. Storey Simpson’s personal and intellectual biography of this most important of the ‘missing persons’ of the Storey and Storey draw on 16th century. extensive archaeological evidence to consider the 222p b/w illus (American Numismatic Society 2017) ultimate failure of the 9780897223522 Hb £75.00, NYP institutions, infrastructure Rome and the Worlds Beyond and material culture of both Rome and the Classic Its Frontiers Maya. Detailing the relevant Edited by Danielle Slootjes & Michael Peachin economic, political, social This volume offers an expansive approach to and environmental factors interactions between Romans and those beyond behind these notable the borders of Rome. A number of important falls, they contend that a themes bind the essays. Who is an insider, and phenomenon of “slow who the outsider? How were these categories of collapse” has repeatedly occurred in the course of person, or identity, fashioned and/or recognized in human history: complex civilizations are shown antiquity? How shall we recognize them now? What to eventually come to an end and give way to new are the categories, or standards, for measuring or cultures. determining inside and outside in the Roman world? 280p b/w illus (Routledge 2017) 9781629584584 Pb £33.99 And then, of course, what are the repercussions when inside and outside come into contact? 262p (Brill 2016) 9789004325616 Hb £113.00 44 Rome Roman Art & Archaeology Forthcoming from Oxbow Books City Boundaries and Urban Development in Roman Italy The House of the Surgeon, Pompeii By Saskia Stevens Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23) This book takes a new approach to Roman urban boundaries and city planning by exploring Edited by Michael Anderson & Damian Robinson the dynamics and interaction between urban The House of the Surgeon development processes, city limits and the law. As has been one of the most a result, Roman attitudes towards the symbolic frequently cited houses in meanings of civic boundaries can be better the ancient city since its understood. Not only landownership influenced discovery in 1771. The results and determined the use of urban space and its of the exhaustive study of boundaries; also conflicts and constant negotiations the house within its urban between law, culture and tradition, politics, and the context not only challenge dynamics of everyday urban life were important for many of the conclusions of the way the Romans approached urban limits. previous research, but also 335p (Peeters 2017) 9789042933057 Pb £74.00 make it possible at last for this important property The Roman Street to contribute information to the full history Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, of Pompeii’s urban development, illuminating Herculaneum and Rome the chronology of urban change, the processes By Jeremy Hartnett involved in ancient domestic construction, aspects of the ancient environment, and Every day Roman urbanites changing socio-political and took to the street for economic conditions within Only myriad tasks, from hawking vegetables and worshipping Italy throughout the middle to £52.50 until late Republic and early Empire. local deities to simply publication loitering and socializing. 528p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow Books Hartnett takes readers 2017) 9781785707285 Hb £70.00 into this thicket of activity Insularity and Identity in the as he repopulates Roman Roman Mediterranean streets with their full range of sensations, participants, Edited by Anna Kouremenos and events that stretched The papers in this book far beyond simple movement. Combining textual explore the concepts of evidence, comparative historical material, and insularity and identity in the contemporary urban theory with architectural and Roman period by addressing art historical analysis, The Roman Street offers a some of the following social and cultural history of urban spaces that questions: what does it mean restores them to their rightful place as primary to be an island? How has venues for social performance in the ancient world. insularity shaped ethnic, 380p, b/w and col illus (Cambridge UP 2017) cultural, and social identity 9781107105706 Hb £79.99 in the Mediterranean during the Roman period? How Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in were islands connected to the the Cities of the Roman East mainland and other islands? Did insularity produce By Ross Burns isolation or did the populations of Mediterranean islands integrate easily into a common ‘Roman’ The colonnaded axes define the visitor’s experience culture? How has maritime interaction shaped of many of the great cities of the Roman East. the economy and culture of specific islands? Can Though adopted as a sign of cities’ prosperity we argue for distinct ‘island identities’ during the under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly Roman period? The twelve papers ‘Roman’ in their origin. Rather, they reflected the presented here each deal with inventiveness, fertility of ideas and the dynamic role specific islands or island groups, of civic patronage in the Eastern provinces in the first Only thus allowing for an integrated two centuries under Rome. This study concentrates view of Mediterranean £28.50 until on the convergence of ideas behind these great insularity and identity. publication avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the sequence in which ideas developed. 208p b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785705809 Pb £38.00 400p, b/w illus (Oxford UP 2017) 9780198784548 Hb £100.00 45 Forthcoming from Oxbow Books NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS Material Approaches to Roman Magic Occult Objects and Supernatural Substances Materialising Roman Histories Edited by Adam Parker & Stuart McKie Edited by Astrid Van Oyen & Martin Pitts This second volume in the new TRAC Themes The Roman period in Roman Archaeology series seeks to push the witnessed massive research agendas of materiality and lived experience changes in the human- further into the study of Roman magic, a field that material environment, has, until recently, lacked object-focused analysis. from monumentalised Building on the pioneering studies in Boschung and cityscapes to standardised Bremmer’s (2015) Materiality of Magic, the editors low-value artefacts of the present volume have collected contributions like pottery. This book that showcase the value of richly-detailed, context- explores new perspectives specific explorations of the magical practices of to understand this the Roman world. By concentrating primarily on Roman ‘object boom’ the Imperial period and the western provinces, the and its impact on Roman various contributions demonstrate very clearly the history. In particular, the book’s international exceptional range of influences and possibilities contributors question the traditional dominance open to individuals who sought to use magical of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, rituals to affect their lives in these whereby objects have come to stand for social specific contexts – something phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and that would have been largely Only impossible in earlier periods of economic growth. Drawing upon the recent antiquity. £30.00 until material turn in anthropology and related 184p, b/w (Oxbow Books 2018) publication disciplines, the essays in this volume examine 9781785708817 Hb £40.00 what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in The Transition to Late history, rather than what they represent. Antiquity on the Lower Danube 232p (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785706769 Pb £40.00 Excavations at Dichin: An Extraordinary Late Roman and Early Byzantine Fort, Intensive Site- specific Survey and a Unique Roman Aqueduct By Andrew Poulter Precinct, Temple and Altar in Excavations on the site of this remarkable fort in Roman Spain northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) formed part of a By Duncan Fishwick long-term programme of excavation and intensive The studies included in this field survey, aimed at tracing the economic as well volume supplement the as physical changes which mark the transition from work already published by the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages, a programme the author on the imperial which commenced with the excavation and full cult in the Roman West, publication of the early Byzantine fortress/city of focusing on the monuments Nicopolis ad Istrum. The analysis of well-dated of two cities in Roman Spain, finds and their full publication provides a unique Emerita (now Merida) and data-base for the late Roman period in the Balkans; Tarraco (now Tarragona), they include metal-work, pottery, glass, copper alloy and arguing in favour of finds, inscriptions and dipinti as well as quantified proactive initiative from the environmental reports on animal, birds and fish centre. The core of the book with specialist reports on the archaeobotanical is a study of the provincial material, glass analysis and querns. The report also forum at Emerita. It includes a historiographical details the results of site-specific intensive survey, a survey and discusses the plaza (location, portico, new method developed for use in the rich farmland “Arco de Trajano”), then surveys other structures of the central Balkans. In addition, there is a tailed and their general architectonic significance, as well report on a most remarkable and as providing detailed analysis of the inscriptions. well-preserved aqueduct which Other chapters analyse the ‘Temple of Augustus’ in employed the largest siphon Only Tarragona, and consider the numismatic evidence ever discovered in the Roman £52.50 until for an Ara Providentiae at Emerita. Empire. publication 320p, (Ashgate 2017) 9781472412652 Hb £95.00 640p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2018) 9781107103573 Hb £70.00

46 Roman Art & Archaeology Roman Jerusalem From the Mountains to the Sea A New Old City The Roman Colonisation and Urbanisation Edited by Gideon Avni & Guy D. Stiebel of Central Adriatic Italy This collection showcases the latest work on By Frank Vermeulen the Roman colonia of Aelia Capitolina, founded From the Mountains to the Sea proposes an following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. innovative synthesis of recent archaeological Topics include the nature and development of the research on town formation and urbanisation, and urban layout, colonnaded streets, monumental connected Roman colonisation, of the central part arches and city gates, the necropoleis and the of Adriatic Italy, a region characterised by one of the city limits, tableware and lamps and the rural most dense town networks of the Roman Empire. hinterland. Some of the main themes include: town formation, 161p b/w and col illus (Journal of Roman Archaeology SS town planning, the structural relationship town- 105, 2017) 9780991373093 Hb £95.00 territory, religious aspects and urban sanctuaries, public buildings and domestic architecture, as well The Archaeology of Death in Roman as the wider context of territory, region and state. Syria 232p (Peeters 2017) 9789042934702 Pb £95.00 By Lidewijde de Jong Ras il-Wardija Sanctuary Revisited An eclectic collection of plain and embellished A re-assessment of the evidence and newly underground and above- informed interpretations of a Punic-Roman ground tombs filled the sanctuary in Gozo (Malta) cemeteries of the Roman By George Azzopardi province of Syria. Its Ritual activity at this Punic-Roman sanctuary seems inhabitants used rituals of to be evidenced from around the 3rd century BC commemoration to express to the 2nd century AD and, possibly, even as late messages about their local as the 4th century AD. This ritual activity was identity, family, and social focused in a small built temple and in a rock-cut position. Lidewijde de Jong cave that seems to have incorporated investigates these customs a built extension in a later stage. and the belief systems that governed the choices But the practised cult or cults Only made in the commemoration of men, women and were aniconic and remained so children. The book combines spatial analysis of largely throughout. £16.00 until cemeteries with the study of funerary architecture 88p, b/w illus (Archaeopress 2017) 31st January and decoration, grave goods, and information about 9781784916695 Pb £19.00 the deceased provided by sculptural, epigraphic, and osteological sources. 355p, b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2017) 9781107131415 Hb £74.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Limes XXI Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, August 2009 Edited by Nick Hodgson, Paul Bidwell & Judith Schachtmann The XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums between Sunday 16 August and Wednesday 26 August 2009. The papers are organised into the same thematic sessions as in actual conference: Women and Families in the Roman Army; Roman Roads; The Roman Frontier in Wales; The Eastern and North African Frontiers; Smaller Structures: towers and fortlets; Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material Culture; Barbaricum; Britain; Only Roman Frontiers in a Globalised World; Civil Settlements; Death and Commemoration; Danubian and Balkan £72.00 until Provinces; Camps; Logistics and Supply; The Germanies 31st January and Augustan and Tiberian Germany; Spain; Frontier Fleets. 752p, b/w and col illus (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915902 Pb £90.00

Roman Art & Archaeology 47 Roman Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Alan Sorrell Britain The Man Who Created Roman Britain By Roger Bland, Adrian Chadwick, Eleanor Ghey, By Julia Sorrell & Mark Sorrell Colin Haselgrove & David Mattingly Alan Sorrell’s archaeological More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman recon-struction drawings and Britain than from any other province of the Empire. paintings remain some of the This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume best, most accurate and most provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age accomplished paintings of and Roman coins found in England and Wales their genre that continue to with a detailed analysis and discussion.Theories of inform our understanding hoarding and deposition and examined, national and appreciation of historic and regional patterns in the landscape settings of buildings and monuments coin hoards presented, together with an analysis of in Europe, the Near East those hoards whose findspots were surveyed and of and throughout the UK. So those hoards found in archaeological excavations. influential were Sorrell’s It also includes an unprecedented examination of images of Roman towns such as London, Colchester, the containers in which coin hoards were buried Wroxeter, St Albans and Bath, buildings such as the and the objects found with them. The patterns of Heathrow temple and the forts of Hadrian’s Wall, hoarding in Britain from the late 2nd century BC to that he became known as the man who invented the 5th century AD are discussed. The volume also Roman Britain. In this affectionate but objective provides a survey of Britain in the account, Sorrell’s children, both also artists, present 3rd century AD, as a peak of over a brief pictorial biography followed by more detailed 700 hoards are known from the Only descriptions of the genesis, research and production period from AD 253–296. of illustrations that demonstrate £48.75 until 496p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow the artist’s integrity and vision, publication Books 2018) 9781785708558 Hb based largely on family archives Only and illustrated throughout with £65.00 £22.50 until Sorrell’s own works. 192p, b/w and colour (Oxbow Books publication 2017) 9781785707407 Pb £29.99

EDITOR’S CHOICE Hadrian’s Wall Archaeology and History at the Limit of Rome’s Empire By Nick Hodgson Built around AD122, Hadrian’s Wall was guarded by the Roman army for over three centuries and has left an indelible mark on the landscape of northern Britain. It was a wonder of the ancient world and is a World Heritage Site. Written by a leading archaeologist who has excavated widely on the Wall, this is an authoritative yet accessible treatment of the archaeological evidence. The book explains why the expansion of the Roman empire ground to a halt in remote northern Britain, how the Wall came to be built and Only the purpose it was intended to serve. It is not a guidebook to £17.00 until the remains, but an introduction to the Wall and the soldiers and civilians, men, women and children, who once peopled 31st January the abandoned ruins visited by tourists today. 192p, col illus (Robert Hale 2017) 9780719818158 Hb £19.99

48 Roman Britain Forthcoming from Oxbow Books NEW FROM OXBOW BOOKS The Roman Amphitheatre of Chester Volume 1 Britannia Romana The Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology Roman Inscriptions and Roman Britain By Tony Wilmott & Dan Garner By R. S. O. Tomlin This is the first of two Britannia Romana is volumes dealing with the based on the author’s major research excavations 40 years’ experience of on the Chester Amphitheatre the epigraphy of Roman in 2004–2006. The first Britain. It collects 487 amphitheatre was built in inscriptions (mostly on the 70s AD. Amphitheatre stone, but also on metal, 2, probably built in the wood, tile and ceramic), later second century, the majority from Britain was the largest and most but many from other impressive amphitheatre in Roman provinces and Britain, featuring elaborate Italy, so as to illustrate the entrances, internal stairs and decorative pilasters on history and character of Roman Britain (AD 43– the outer wall. This fully integrated volume tells the 410). Each inscription is presented in the original story of the site from the Mesolithic to the end of the (in Latin, except for eight in Greek), followed by life of the amphitheatre. It contains full a translation and informal commentary; they stratigraphic and structural detail, are linked by the narrative which they illustrate, including CGI reconstruction of and more than half (236) are accompanied by Amphitheatre 2, artefactual and Only photographs. The author demonstrates his unrivalled ability to read and understand Roman ecofactual evidence. £22.50 until inscriptions and their importance as a source of 496p, b/w and col illus (Oxbow publication historical knowledge. Books 2017) 9781785707445 Hb £30.00 464p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2017) 9781785707001 Hb £48.00 Clash of Cultures? The Romano-British Period in the West Midlands The Western Cemetery of Roman Edited by Roger White & Mike Hodder Cirencester The general perception of the west midlands region By Neil Holbrook, Jamie Wright, E.R. McSloy & in the Roman period is that it was a backwater Jonny Geber compared to the militarised frontier zone of the Excavations in 2011 to 2015 within the Western north, or the south of Britain where Roman culture Cemetery of Roman Cirencester resulted in the took root early – in cities like Colchester, London discovery of 118 inhumation and 8 cremation burials, and St Albans – and lingered late at cities like the largest investigation of a Roman cemetery in Cirencester and Bath with their rich, late Roman Cirencester since the Bath Gate excavations of the villa culture. The west midlands region captures 1970s. the transition between these two areas of the ‘military’ north and ‘civilised’ south. Where the west 170p, b/w illus (Cotswold Archaeology 2017) midlands differed, and why, are important questions 9780993454530 Hb £19.95, NYP in understanding the regional diversity of Roman Birds, Beasts and Burials Britain. They are addressed by this volume which details the archaeology of the Roman period for By Brittany Elayne Hill each of the modern counties of the region, written Birds, Beasts and Burials examines human-animal by local experts who are or have been responsible for relationships as found in the mortuary record the management and exploration of their respective within the area of Verulamium that is now situated counties. These are placed alongside more thematic in the modern town of St. Albans. The mortuary takes on elements of Roman culture, including the rites given to its people as suggested by co-burial Roman Army, pottery, coins and religion. Lastly, an suggest high variabilities in the approach to the overview is taken of the important personhood of certain classes of both people and transitional period of the fifth and animals. Of major concern are the treatments to both the human and sixth centuries. Only 224p, b/w and colour (Oxbow animal pre- and post- burial and Only £22.50 until Books 2018) 9781785709227 Hb the point at which the animal £24.00 until £30.00 publication enters into the funerary practice. 31st January 210p, b/w illus, col pls (Archaeopress 2017) 9781784915964 Pb £30.00 Roman Britain 49