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Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition
Celia M. Campbell, Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2024). 9780299348748. Reviewed by Daniel Libatique, Fairfield University, dlibatique@fairfield.edu. Ovid’s…
Keep readingAthenian Power in the Fifth Century BC
Leah Lazar, Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 9780198896265. Reviewed by Christine Downton, University of Leicester, cad38@leicester.ac.uk. The overall aim of this monograph is…
Keep readingAdoption, Adaption, and Innovation in Pre-Roman Italy
Jeremy Armstrong and Aaron Rhodes-Schroder (eds.), Adoption, Adaption, and Innovation in Pre-Roman Italy: Paradigms for Cultural Change, Archaeology of the Mediterranean World 3 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2023). 9782503602325. Reviewed by Ulla…
Keep readingRoman Imperial Artillery: Outranging the Enemies of the Empire
Alan Wilkins, Roman Imperial Artillery: Outranging the Enemies of the Empire, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024). 9781803277837. Reviewed by Evan Schultheis, independent scholar, flavivsaetivs@gmail.com. Alan Wilkins’s Roman Imperial Artillery is…
Keep readingChrist the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century AD
Nathan Israel Smolin, Christ the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century AD, Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024). 9780197689547. Reviewed by…
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