Reviews
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Luwian Hieroglyphic Texts in Late Bronze Age Scribal Tradition
5–8 minutesFred C. Woudhuizen, Luwian Hieroglyphic Texts in Late Bronze Age Scribal Tradition, (Wiesbaden: Harrowitz Verlag, 2021). 9783447115315. Reviewed by Josh Cannon, University of Pittsburgh, jwc70@pitt.edu This volume is unique and of great value in that it presents the full known corpus of Late Bronze Age (LBA) hieroglyphic Luwian texts (minus those texts that contain less
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Dynastic Deeds
15–22 minutesAlessandro Poggio, Dynastic Deeds: Hunt Scenes in the Funerary Imagery of the Achaemenid Eastern Mediterranean, (Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020). 9781407356389; 9781407354668. Reviewed by Stephanie Kimmey, Colorado College, skimmey@coloradocollege.edu Poggio’s book fits in its art historical context by exploring dynastic funerary monuments, while also using a wider range of supporting evidence, such as iconography of other
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Other Natures: Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography
17–25 minutesClara Bosak-Schroeder, Other Natures: Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020). 9780520343481. Reviewed by Emily S. Wilson, Colorado State University, wilsones@colostate.edu. A video from the exhibit “Restoring Earth” at the Field Museum in Chicago asks, “What can the past teach us about living with nature?” (170). Quite a bit, it
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Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity
25–37 minutesStephanie M. Langin-Hooper, Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia: Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). 9781108769020. Reviewed by Leticia R. Rodriguez, Florida State University, lrrodriguez@fsu.edu. Intimacy, interaction and play, and social norms as activated and understood through the miniature are but some of the themes that Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper rigorously and playfully explores in
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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practice
13–19 minutesAnna Judson, The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). 9781108494724. Reviewed by Theodore Nash, University of Michigan, theonash@umich.edu. This review has been reverted to its unedited version per the request of the reviewer (1/4/2022) In the story best known, Linear B was deciphered by Michael Ventris in
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The Amphorae of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens from the Submycenaean to the Protogeometric Period
6–9 minutesSimona Dalsoglio, The Amphorae of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens from the Submycenaean to the Protogeometric Period, BAR International Series 3014 (Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2020). 9781407315676. https://doi.org/10.3726/b17129. Reviewed by Hannah L. Ringheim, ETH Zürich, hannah.ringheim@gess.ethz.ch As a study of one of the most important cemeteries in Early Iron Age Greece, this reassessment of the Submycenaean
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Digital Historical Research on Southeast Europe and the Ottoman Space
11–17 minutesDino Mujadžević, ed., Digital Historical Research on Southeast Europe and the Ottoman Space, Studies on Language and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe Volume 35 (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021). https://doi.org/10.3726/b17129. Reviewed by Rebecca M. Seifried, University of Massachusetts Amherst, rseifried@umass.edu Digital Historical Research on Southeast Europe and the Ottoman Space is an edited volume born
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Worshippers of the Gods
14–22 minutesMattias P. Gassman, Worshippers of the Gods: Debating Paganism in the Fourth-Century Roman West, Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). 9780190082444. Reviewed by Colin M. Whiting, Dumbarton Oaks, whitingc01@doaks.org Mattias Gassman’s Worshippers of the Gods is an engaging reappraisal of the fourth-century discourse about paganism and Christianity in the West. It
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Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
15–23 minutesSarah Olsen, Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature: Representing the Unruly Body (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). 9781108485036. Reviewed by Jennifer Starkey, Unaffiliated, acerito@protonmail.com. Though dance has long been on the scholarly agenda, the focus is nearly always on choruses of various kinds. Olsen builds on this essential groundwork to explore the rare
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Reset in Stone: Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens
18–27 minutesSarah A. Rous, Reset in Stone: Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). 9780299322809. Reviewed by Chelsea A.M. Gardner, Acadia University, chelsea.gardner@acadiau.ca. This volume, available in both hardcover and paperback, is 218 pages of text divided into an introduction, four chapters of content, and an epilogue. There are a further
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