Reviews
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London’s Roman Tools: Craft, Agriculture and Experience in an Ancient City
12–17 minutesOwen Humphreys, London’s Roman Tools: Craft, Agriculture and Experience in an Ancient City, Archaeology of Roman Britain 3 (Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021). 9781407357386. Reviewed by Tim Penn, University of Oxford, timothy.penn@classics.ox.ac.uk Humphreys’ book is dedicated to “Sarah, and everyone else who won’t read it but might look at the pictures.” But anyone who just looks
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Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean
17–25 minutesRebecca M. Seifried and Deborah E. Brown Stewart, eds., Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean (Grand Forks: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2021). 9781736498613. Reviewed by Eric W. Driscoll, Harvard University, edriscoll@fas.harvard.edu. When modern archaeological survey began in the 1950s with Robert Adams’ fieldwork east of Baghdad, and later in
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Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond
11–16 minutesLaura Gianvittorio-Ungar and Karin Schlapbach, eds., Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (Leiden: Brill, 2021). 9789004462472; 9789004462632. Reviewed by Amanda Kubic, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, akubic@umich.edu. Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond is an ambitious collection of essays with a clear goal: to reconsider ancient dance
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Chiusi Villanoviana
10–15 minutesMaria Chiara Bettini, Chiusi Villanoviana, Monumenti Etruschi 14 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2021). 9788876893285. Reviewed by Jacopo Tabolli, University for Foreigners of Siena (UNISTRASI), jacopo.tabolli@unistrasi.it. Almost one hundred years after Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli’s Clusium, which appeared within the series Monumenti Antichi dei Lincei in 1925, Chiusi Villanoviana [Villanovan Chiusi] by Maria Chiara Bettini represents a seminal
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Der Artemis-Hymnos des Kallimachos
13–20 minutesZsolt Adorjáni, Der Artemis-Hymnos des Kallimachos. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Texte und Kommentare, Band 66 (Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2021). 9783110698428. Reviewed by Gary P. Vos, University of Edinburgh, gvos@ed.ac.uk The last decade has been good to Callimacheans: Annette Harder published her magnum opus, a full-scale edition and commentary on Callimachus’s Aetia,1 while
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Etruscan Orientalization
11–17 minutesJessica Nowlin, Etruscan Orientalization (Leiden: Brill, 2021). 9789004473256. Reviewed by Marilyn Evans, Kalamazoo College, Marilyn.Evans@kzoo.edu This book offers a timely and in-depth examination of the terms “orientalizing” and “orientalization” in Etruscan scholarship. The text is, primarily, a critical historiography. It surveys the use of both terms from the 18th–21st centuries, contextualizing major shifts in their
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The House of Serenos, Part I: The Pottery
7–11 minutesClementina Caputo, Amheida V, The House of Serenos, Part I: The Pottery (New York: New York University Press, 2020). 9781479804658. Reviewed by Karl Racine, Trent University, karlracine@trentu.ca The Dakhleh Oasis Project (DOP) is a conglomerate of various archaeological projects, with scientists aiming to research the ancient landscape near the Dakhla oasis in Egypt. The subject
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Gaming Greekness: Cultural Agonism among Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire
9–14 minutesAllan T. Georgia, Gaming Greekness: Cultural Agonism among Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2020). 9781463241230. Reviewed by Elizabeth R. Davis, Brown University, elizabeth_r_davis@brown.edu. The fraught interactions between pagans, Christians, and Jews throughout the centuries of the Roman Empire have long been a rich field of scholarly inquiry. Georgia’s monograph is
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Milesian Islands: The Fortified Installations in the Insular Environment of Miletus in the Aegean in Context
13–20 minutesKonstantinos Sarantidis. Milesian Islands: The Fortified Installations in the Insular Environment of Miletus in the Aegean in Context. Thiasos Monographie 15 (Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2020). 9788854910737; 9788854910652. Reviewed by Christina DiFabio, Koç University, cdifabio@umich.edu. Given modern national borders, regional studies in Mediterranean archaeology can often be defined within one modern country, even if a sphere
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Monsters in Greek Literature
9–13 minutesFiona Mitchell, Monsters in Greek Literature: Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology (New York: Routledge, 2021). 9780367556464 Reviewed by Grace Zanotti, Milken Community School, gracemzanotti@gmail.com In the introduction to Monsters in Greek Literature: Aberrant Bodies in Ancient Greek Cosmogony, Ethnography, and Biology, Fiona Mitchell sets out her purpose clearly: she will examine
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