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Roman Inequality: Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions
Edward E. Cohen, Roman Inequality: Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023). 9780197687352. Reviewed by Maarten Schmaal, University of Groningen, m.p.schmaal@rug.nl. Edward Cohen’s Roman Inequality: Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions does not quite do what it says on the tin. The reader will not find a broad economic history regarding enslaved people…
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Iain Ferris, A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024). 9781803277813. Reviewed by Edward Tang, Stanford University, edtanglh@stanford.edu. The relationship between geography, the expression of power, and identity-making has long been recognized in Roman studies.1 The focus is usually on the literary imagination…
Keep readingTechnological Animation in Classical Antiquity
Tatiana Bur, Maria Gerolemou, and Isabel A. Ruffell, eds., Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 9780192857552. Reviewed by Matthew Walmsley, The University of Queensland, uqmwalms@uq.edu.au. With the rising interest in the relationship between humans and machines, Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity, edited by Tatiana Bur, Maria Gerolemou, and Isabel A. Ruffell,…
Keep readingKeeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory: Law, Character and Rhetoric
Edward M. Harris and Alberto Esu, eds., Keeping to the Point in Athenian Forensic Oratory: Law, Character and Rhetoric (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025). 9781399523899. Reviewed by Sidney Kochman, Independent Scholar, sidneykochman@gmail.com This edited volume is one of the newest additions to Edinburgh University Press’s series New Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History. With this…
Keep readingReading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete: Dynamics of Early Christian Identity Co
Michael S. Robertson, Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete: Dynamics of Early Christian Identity Construction, Critical Approaches to Early Christianity 3 (Leiden: Brill, 2024). 9789004685710. Reviewed by John D. Doss, Asbury Theological Seminary, Asbury University, John.doss@asburyseminary.edu. As the title suggests, Michael Scott Robertson provides an important contribution to New Testament (hereafter NT)…
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