new and notable A timely analysis of the bombing of Pompeii in 1943 and the importance of protecting world heritage sites Bombing Pompeii World Heritage and Military Necessity Nigel Pollard “Pollard knows his material inside and out, and his argument will certainly become definitive. The subject also opens up the larger issue of protection of physical culture and monuments in wartime.” — Harry B. Evans, Fordham University Bombing Pompeii examines the circumstances under which over 160 Allied bombs hit the archaeological site of Pompeii in August and September 1943, and the wider significance of this event in the history of efforts to protect cultural heritage in conflict zones, a broader issue which is still of great importance. The book sets this event, along with other instances of damage and risk to cultural heritage in Italy in the Second World War, in the context of the development of the Allied Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives – the “Monuments Men.” Nigel Pollard is Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Human- ities at Swansea University. 6 x 9. 340pp. 35 illustrations, 10 tables. Hardcover 2020 9780472132201 $54.95 University of Michigan Press • press.umich.edu 1 new and notable A Casebook on Roman Water Law Cynthia Jordan Bannon Engaging study of key issues in Roman water regu- lation from legal and environmental history, both ancient and modern. The Romans are famous for constructing aqueducts, canals, and dams. But their law is also a lasting mon- ument to their attempts to control water. A Casebook on Roman Water Law presents an analytical collec- tion of Roman sources for water rights. The Romans recognized water as a natural resource, a public good, and an economic commodity, and they grappled with these issues as they developed law to regulate water. This casebook aims to cross historical and disciplinary boundaries by making the primary evidence for Ro- man water rights accessible to students and research- 6 x 9. 262pp. 2 illustrations, 3 tables. ers. Cases are presented in both original Latin and English translation. Hardcover 2020 Paper 2020 9780472132072 9780472037865 Cynthia Jordan Bannon is Professor of Classical Studies at $80.00 $34.95 Indiana University Bloomington. The Black Widows of the Eternal City The True Story of Rome’s Most Infamous Poisoners Craig A. Monson An intriguing and well-researched account behind the dozens of female poisoners in seventeenth- century Rome The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause célèbre in seventeenth-century Rome, how it resonated then and has continued to resonate: the 1659 investigation and prosecution of Gironima Spana and dozens of Roman widows, who shared a particularly effective poison to murder their husbands. Craig A. Monson is the Paul Tietjens Professor Emeritus of Music at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of several books, including, most recently, Nuns Behaving Badly (2010), Divas in the Convent (2012), and Habitual Offenders: A 6 x 9. 258pp. 20 illustrations. True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in 17th-century Italy (2016). He lives in St. Louis. Hardcover 2020 9780472132041 $49.95 2 University of Michigan Press • press.umich.edu new and notable Ancient Latin Poetry Books Materiality and Context Gabriel Nocchi Macedo Series: New Texts from Ancient Cultures Before the invention of printing, all forms of writing were done by hand. For a literary text to circulate among readers, it had to be copied by scribes. As a result, two copies of an ancient book were differ- ent from one another, and each individual book or manuscript has its own history. The oldest of these books, those that are the closest to the time in which the texts were composed, are few, usually damaged, and have been often neglected in the scholarship. Ancient Latin Poetry Books presents a detailed study of the oldest manuscripts still extant that contain texts by Latin poets, such as Virgil, Terence, and Ovid. 6 x 9. 320pp. 5 plates, 80 tables. Gabriel Nocchi Macedo is Postdoctoral Fellow at Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium. Hardcover June 2021 9780472132393 $80.00 The Discovery of the Fact Clifford Ando and William P. Sullivan, Editors Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World The Discovery of the Fact draws on expertise from lawyers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of classical studies and ancient history to take a very modern perspective on an underexplored but essen- tial domain of ancient legal history—the role of state and legal institutions as adjudicators and progeni- tors of fact. This book investigates the relationships among the law, legal institutions, and the boundar- ies of knowledge in classical Greece and Rome, and compels us to examine the role of a legal system in everyday discourse, governance, and notions of ownership and law and order. Clifford Ando is David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities and Professor of Classics, History, Law at Uni- versity of Chicago. William P. Sullivan is Drinan Research 6 x 9. 232pp. Fellow at Boston College Law School. Hardcover 2020 9780472131884 $75.00 University of Michigan Press • press.umich.edu 3 new and notable Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire T. H. M. Gellar-Goad Unexpected satire in a classic philosophical text Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire offers the first comprehensive examination of Roman epic poet Lucretius’ engage- ment with satire. Author T. H. M. Gellar-Goad argues that what has often been understood as an artfully persuasive exposition of Epicurean philosophy de- signed to convert the uninitiated is actually a mimesis of the narrator’s attempt to effect such a conversion on his internal narrative audience—a performance for the true audience of the poem, whose members take pleasure from uncovering the literary games and the intertextual engagement that the performance entails. 6 x 9. 290pp. 2 tables T. H. M. Gellar-Goad is Associate Professor of Classics and Hardcover 2020 Zachary T. Smith Fellow, Wake Forest University. 9780472131808 $85.00 Poetics of the First Punic War Thomas Biggs Latin poetry’s place in the ever-changing landscape of Ancient Roman memory Poetics of the First Punic War is concerned with the transmission and transformation of memory in Ancient Rome. It tracks Latin poetry’s place in the ever-chang- ing landscape of Roman historical representation with a focuson the narrative of the First Punic War as it was filtered through new texts and objects, ideas, and ide- ologies. The initial encoding of the war in Roman cul- tural memory made the war forever “epic” in ways that complicate the politics of memory at Rome. This book contains the most sustained treatment in Anglophone scholarship of Naevius’ fragmentary poem, along with its predecessor, Livius Andronicus’ Odusia. 6 x 9. 264pp. 9 illustrations Thomas Biggs is Associate Professor of Classics at the Univer- sity of Georgia. Hardcover 2020 9780472132133 $80.00 4 University of Michigan Press • press.umich.edu new and notable Grief and the Hero The Futility of Longing in the Iliad Emily P. Austin A new understanding of Achilles’ grief for Patroklos in the Iliad Grief and the Hero examines Achilles’ experience of the futility of grief in the context of the Iliad’s study of anger. Rather than assuming that grief gives rise to anger, this book pays close attention to the poem’s representation of the origin of these emo- tions. In the Iliad, only Achilles’ grief for Patroklos is joined with the word pothê, “longing”; no other grief in the poem is described with this term. The Iliad de- picts Achilles’ grief as the rupture of shared life—an insight that generates a new way of reading the epic. Grief and the Hero will appeal not only to scholars and students of Homer but to all humanists. Loss, longing, and even revenge touch many human lives, 6 x 9. 208pp. and the insights of the Iliad have broad resonance. Hardcover March 2021 Emily P. Austin is Assistant Professor of Classics and the 9780472132324 College, University of Chicago. $70.00 The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence Mathias Hanses A novel study of the popularity of Roman comedies well into the second century CE The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence documents the ongoing popularity of Roman comedies, and shows that they continued to be performed in the late Republic and early Imperial periods. Playwrights Plautus and Terence impressed audiences with stock characters like the young- man-in-love, the trickster slave, and many others. Scholars have commonly believed that the plays fell out of favor by the end of the first century BCE, but The Life of Comedy demonstrates that performances of these comedies continued at least until the turn of the second century CE. 6 x 9. 426pp. 8 illustrations Mathias Hanses is Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Penn State University. Hardcover 2020 9780472132256 $85.00 University of Michigan Press • press.umich.edu 5 new and notable Foodways in Roman Republican Italy Laura M. Banducci Uncovering Roman Republican life through food Foodways in Roman Republican Italy explores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period. Traditionally, studies of the cultural effects of Roman contact and conquest have focused on observing changes in the public realm: that is, changing urban organization and landscape, and monumental construction. Foodways studies reach into the domestic realm: how do the daily behaviors of individuals express their personal identity, and how does this relate to changes and expressions of identity in broader society? Laura M.