Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Laclau, Martin, Law and Literature in Ancient Greece. (International Studies in Law and Literature 1) 205 pp. 2024:1 (Brill / Nijhoff, NE) <716-673>
ISBN 978-90-04-68672-4 hard ¥36,487.- (税込) EUR 155.00

In this work, one of Latin America's most renowned legal philosophers conducts a comprehensive survey of the ancient Greek understanding of the law, drawing on texts by poets (Hesiod), philosophers (Anaximander), playwrights (Aeschylus and Sophocles), and historians (Herodotus and Thucydides). The book ends with a finely detailed analysis of the relationship between language and reality in Aristotle, and the emergence of the notion of the system and its subsequent introduction into Roman law. The author's in-depth study of all these aspects makes this volume an essential reference for philosophers, jurists, and historians.

古代近東における儀礼から神まで－宗教の起源をたどる
Laneri, Nicola, From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East: Tracing the Origins of Religion. 300 pp. 2024:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <716-216>
ISBN 978-1-009-30664-5 hard ¥28,270.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

Human belief systems and practices can be traced to ca. 10,000 BCE in the Ancient Near East, where the earliest evidence of ritual structures and objects can be found. Religious architecture, the relics of human skeletons, animal symbolism, statues, and icons all contributed to a complex network into which the spiritual essence of the divine was materially present. In this book, Nicola Laneri traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities, from prehistoric times until the advent of religious monotheism in the Levant during the first millennium BCE. Considering a range of evidence, from stone ceremonial enclosures, such as as Goebleki Tepe, to the construction of the first temples and icons of Mesopotamian polytheistic beliefs, to the Temple of Jerusalem, the iconic center of Israelite monotheism, Laneri offers new insights into the symbolic value embodied in the religious materiality produced in the ancient Near East.

Leppin, Hartmut, Die Kirchenvaeter und ihre Zeit. 3. Aufl. (Beck'sche Reihe: Wissen 2141) 128 S. 2024:1 (Beck, GW) <716-218>
ISBN 978-3-406-81634-5 paper ¥2,824.- (税込) EUR 12.00 *

DAS STANDARDWERK IN NEUER AUFLAGE Hartmut Leppin erzaehlt die Geschichte der wohl bekanntesten Theologen des fruehen Christentums. Die Lebenslaeufe der vier lateinischen Kirchenvaeter Hieronymus, Ambrosius, Augustinus und Gregor dem Grossen sowie der vier griechischen Kirchenvaeter Athanasius, Basilius, Gregor von Nazianz und Johannes Chrysostomos werden ebenso beschrieben wie die Grundzuege und Wesensmerkmale ihrer Lehren. Zahlreiche neu uebersetzte Zitate tragen zu grosser Anschaulichkeit bei und erhellen, worauf die ueberzeitliche Wirkungsmacht dieser acht herausragenden Persoenlichkeiten der Kirchengeschichte beruht.

Magness, Jodi, Ancient Synagogues in Palestine: A Reevaluation Nearly a Century After Sukenik's Schweich Lectures. (Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology 2022) 128 pp. 2024:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <716-222>
ISBN 978-0-19-726765-3 hard ¥21,485.- (税込) GB￡ 76.00 *

Dozens of ancient synagogues have been discovered around the Mediterranean, most of which date to the fourth-sixth centuries CE and are concentrated in Palestine. In the 1930 Schweich Lectures, Eleazar Lipa Sukenik established a typology and chronology for these buildings. Ancient Synagogues in Palestine evaluates Sukenik's conclusions in light of new discoveries since his time. It opens with an overview of ancient synagogues in the region, followed by a survey of the historiography of the study of these buildings, highlighting its ideological roots in the early Zionist movement. In the final chapters, Magness examines the evidence for the dating of the synagogues at Khirbet Wadi Hamam and Capernaum, arguing that different synagogue types overlapped and were contemporary to the fourth-sixth centuries CE instead of being sequential, as Sukenik thought. This conclusion contradicts a widely accepted view that late antique Jewish communities in Palestine suffered and declined under supposedly oppressive Christian rule.

Scales, Joseph, Galilean Spaces of Identity: Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 214) 399 pp. 2024:4 (Brill, NE) <716-244>
ISBN 978-90-04-69254-1 hard ¥32,956.- (税込) EUR 140.00

We understand the world around us in terms of built spaces. Such spaces are shaped by human activity, and in turn, affect how people live. Through an analysis of archaeological and textual evidence from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the First Jewish War against Rome, this book explores how Judaism was socially expressed: bodily, communally, and regionally. Within each expression, certain aspects of Jewish identity operate, these being purity conceptions, communal gatherings, and Galilee's relationship with the Hasmoneans, Jerusalem, and the Temple in its final days.

4世紀におけるキリスト教神学とローマ皇帝
Smolin, Nathan Israel, Christ the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century AD. (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity) 408 pp. 2024:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <716-249>
ISBN 978-0-19-768954-7 hard ¥24,948.- (税込) US$ 120.00 *

Politics and diplomacy have always been as much about the social and cultural contexts within which political actors operate as they are about the political structures themselves. This was also true of the Roman Empire of the fourth century AD, ruled by the Emperor Constantine the Great--a society marked by social, religious, and political transformation as the empire came under the influence of the Christian Church. Studies of this period often note the difficulty of understanding its politics due to a lack of sources that discuss questions central to political theory. This has led to deprecating views of the Late Empire as an age of unquestioning despotism, political decline, and social decay. Recent scholarship has correctly pushed back against this viewpoint, emphasizing the vibrancy of art, architecture, and social life during this period; however, relatively little attention has yet been given to the deeply consequential effects of Christian theology on the period's politics. Christ the Emperor argues that the alleged absence of explicit political theorizing in fourth century texts is the result of a migration of these discourses from the realm of "secular" politics to that of public Christian theology, where questions fundamental to political theory were analyzed and debated in more far-reaching ways than ever before. When fourth century bishops and Emperors wished to discuss the pressing questions of legitimacy, succession, hierarchy, equality, unity, diversity, and power, they did so largely in and through Christian theology. To understand how these political and social actors thought about and enacted political theory, Nathan Israel Smolin turns to theological sources. In doing so, he reveals this period as one of profound political, social, and religious ferment, in which ideas and structures fundamental to the history of the following millennia were developed and contested--ideas that continue to shape our world today.

預言者、仲介者、王－聖書世界と古バビロニア期マリにおける仲介のダイナミクス
Deluty, Julie, Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 137) 290 pp. 2024:3 (Brill, NE) <716-181>
ISBN 978-90-04-69076-9 hard ¥29,660.- (税込) EUR 126.00 *

In Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the mediation of prophecy for kings in biblical narratives and the Old Babylonian corpus from Mari. In many cases, the prophet's message is delivered through a third party-sometimes a royal official or family member-who may exercise a degree of autonomy in the transmission of the words. Drawing on social network theory, the book highlights the importance of third-party intermediaries in the process of communication that lies at the core of biblical and ancient Near Eastern prophecy. Recognition of the place of non-prophetic intermediaries in a monarchic system offers a new dimension to the study of prophecy in antiquity.

Gill, Ann-Katrin / Smith, Mark (eds.), Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt. 912 pp. 2024:7 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <716-195>
ISBN 978-0-19-289878-4 hard ¥66,434.- (税込) GB￡ 235.00 *

Glorification Spells from a Priestly Milieu in Ancient Egypt presents the first comprehensive edition of an ancient Egyptian ritual composition entitled the Glorification Recited on Each Due Occasion of the Embalming Place, a collection of glorification spells attested in five papyri from around 300 BCE. Arguably the most significant extensive ancient Egyptian ritual text still awaiting systematic study, its constituent spells preserve and transmit religious ideas which resonated with the ancient Egyptians for millennia. The collection and adaptation of these spells into a single coherent ritual work bear witness to the remarkable creativity of the priests and scribes of the latest periods of Egyptian history. Much of this process may be attributable to members of a single family or a small circle of colleagues living in a particular place during a circumscribed period of time, highlighting the importance of individual or small-group agency, not only in preserving and transmitting religious traditions, but in transforming them as well. Glorification spells were recited in the embalming place and elsewhere. They were intended, not only to revivify those to whom they were addressed, restoring their mental and physical faculties, but to secure their elevation to a new, exalted status, that of an akh, or glorified spirit, as well. This status integrated the beneficiary within the hierarchy of gods and other glorified spirits in the next world. This volume places the Glorification Recited on Each Due Occasion of the Embalming Place in its wider historical, religious, and sociological context. It includes a hieroglyphic synopsis of all known examples of the spells, and a transliteration and translation of the copy of them preserved in P. Louvre N. 3129, the type version. In a line-by-line commentary, variant readings in the parallels are recorded and salient points of interest, whether grammatical, lexicographical, historical, topographical, or theological, are discussed. An extensive glossary, a general bibliography, an index, and photographic reproductions are provided, alongside hieroglyphic transcriptions of the papyri.

Halberstam, Chaya T., Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice. (The Bible and the Humanities) 256 pp. 2024:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <716-1995>
ISBN 978-0-19-886514-8 hard ¥21,485.- (税込) GB￡ 76.00 *

What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging are depicted in these narratives, Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice challenges the prevailing notion, both then and now, of the ideal impartial judge. As a work of intellectual history, the book also contributes to contemporary debates about the role of legal decision-making in shaping a just society. Chaya T. Halberstam shows that instead of modelling a system in which lofty, inaccessible judges follow objective and rational rules, ancient Jewish trial narratives depict a legal practice dependent upon the individual judge's personal relationships, reactive emotions, and impulse to care. Drawing from affect theory and feminist legal thought, Halberstam offers original readings of some of the most famous trials in ancient Jewish writings alongside minor case stories in Josephus and rabbinic literature. She shows both the consistency of a counter-tradition that sees legal practice as contingent upon relationship and emotion, and the specific ways in which that perspective was manifest in changing times and contexts.

Bats, Maria / Lacam, J.-C. et al. (textes reunis et edites), La Repubique romaine face aux crises: Traumatismes, resilience et recompositions aux temps des guerres hannibalique et civiles (218-201/49-30 a.C.) Tome 1. (Scripta antiqua) 343 p. 2023:11 (Ausonius, FR) <716-2007>
ISBN 978-2-35613-589-6 paper ¥5,885.- (税込) EUR 25.00

古代ギリシア、ローマ、中国における場所とパフォーマンス
Beck, Hans / Vankeerberghen, Griet (eds.), Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China. (Antiquity in Global Context) 448 pp. 2024:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <716-2009>
ISBN 978-1-009-39002-6 hard ¥32,510.- (税込) GB￡ 115.00 *

This book examines the construction of space and place in early China and the ancient Mediterranean through the lens of performances conducted in specific locations. It highlights conceptions of place and performance, seeing both as crucial to the production of cultural meaning and communal cohesion, and as heavily dependent on the prevailing political culture. Whether urban or rural, global or local, central or fringe, public or private, real or imagined, theatrical or ritual, the places and performances highlighted serve to show both commonalities and differences between the ancient Mediterranean and early China. The range of places of comparison is also very diverse, including roads, gardens, neighbourhoods, hydraulic infrastructures, funerary performance, spectacles at court, and the everyday display of authority through clothing and fashion. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Bieritz, Carl-Friedrich, Mit Sallust Geschichte schreiben: Inter- und Hypotextualitaet in der nachantiken Latinitaet. (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 57) 608 S. 2024:4 (Brill, NE) <716-2010>
ISBN 978-90-04-69326-5 hard ¥41,195.- (税込) EUR 175.00

What do writings about the German king Henry IV (Bruno of Merseburg), about the failed conquest of Ireland (Gerald of Wales), about the wars led by Frederick Barbarossa (Rahewin) and about the Dutch fight against the Spanish armies (Famiano Strada) have in common? They demonstrate that whatever tasks Latin historiographers were facing, they strived to write captivating history that gave meaning to complex conflicts, wars, political intrigues and upheavals. In doing so, they all employed a range of Sallustian techniques and narratives. This book explores the reception of Sallust in post-antique Europe, illuminating how it can help us understand what constitutes Latin literature and literature in general.

Bojs, Karin, Muetter Europas: Die letzten 43000 Jahre. Aus dem Schwedischen von E. Glossmann. 256 S. 2024:2 (Beck, GW) <716-2011>
ISBN 978-3-406-81387-0 hard ¥6,120.- (税込) EUR 26.00 *

WANN UND WARUM ENTSTAND DAS PATRIARCHAT? NEUESTE ERKENNTNISSE DER DNA-FORSCHUNG Wie lebten Frauen in der Stein- und Bronzezeit? Wie waren die Geschlechterverhaeltnisse in der Zeit vor Erfindung der Schrift? Bis vor Kurzem waren alle Antworten auf diese Fragen mehr oder weniger Spekulation. Doch seit DNA-Analysen fuer die praehistorische Forschung zur Verfuegung stehen, hat sich dies geaendert. Die Wissenschaftsjournalistin Karin Bojs traegt die neuesten Ergebnisse zusammen und fragt, wann und warum das Patriarchat entstand. Die Praehistorikerin Marija Gimbutas hatte seit den 50er Jahren eine Theorie entwickelt, nach der in ?Alteuropa“ eher friedliche, matrilineare Gesellschaften existiert haetten, die einem Kult der Muttergoettin huldigten und eher gleiche Geschlechterverhaeltnisse produzierten. Diese Gesellschaften seien durch patriarchalisch orientierte Reitervoelker aus dem Osten verdraengt worden. Gimbutas Thesen wurden damals weitgehend abgelehnt, doch die neuesten DNA-Analysen stuetzen sie teilweise. Sie weisen die von ihr beschriebenen Wanderungsbewegungen nach und auch einen Wandel in den Geschlechterbeziehungen. Karin Bojs fuehrt an die Ausgrabungsorte, analysiert die Funde und sucht nach den Faktoren, die patriarchalische Strukturen beguenstigten. Eine spannend geschriebene Entdeckungsreise in eine ferne Vergangenheit. Geschlechterrollen in der Fruehzeit Was neueste DNA-Analysen ueber das Leben der Frauen in Stein- und Bronzezeit verraten Bojs fuehrt an Ausgrabungsorte, analysiert die Funde und sucht nach Faktoren, die patriarchalische Strukturen beguenstigten

Brun, Patrice, Aristide le Juste: l'art et la maniere de fabriquer un heros dans la cite democratique. (Scripta antiqua) 255 p. 2023:11 (Ausonius, FR) <716-2012>
ISBN 978-2-35613-590-2 paper ¥5,885.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Bueker, Dieter, Textlayout und Bilddesign in Mittelalter und Altertum: Versunkene Technik der Jahrtausende. 434 S. 2023:9 (P. Lang, SZ) <716-2013>
ISBN 978-3-631-88980-0 hard ¥23,324.- (税込) SFR 93.00

Prickings (Einstiche) haben die Textspiegel mittelalterlicher Manuskripte vorbereitet. Das weiss man seit knapp 100 Jahren. Mit Hilfe von Prickings wurden aber auch Bilder konzipiert. Das weiss man, seit der Autor seine Dissertation veroeffentlicht hat (2017). Im vorliegenden Werk analysiert er nun mit einem computer-basierten Ansatz Texte und Bilder aus den vergangenen 3500 Jahren. Die Bilder in diesem Buch dokumentieren das Ergebnis: das Prinzip der konzeptionellen Stiche. Auf babylonischen Tontaefelchen, auf sumerischen Statuen, auf aegyptischen Papyri und Ostraka, auf roemischen Inschriftsteinen, mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinen und Pergamenten wurden Marken bzw. Prickings angebracht und so Textspiegel, Architektur- und andere Zeichnungen und Bilder konzeptionell vorbestimmt. Anhand von Markierungen als optischen Wegweisern konnten die Bearbeiter anschliessend ihre Texte schreiben oder Bilder vervollstaendigen, sei es mit Vogelfeder und Tinte, mit Pinsel, Hammer und Meissel oder Schilfrohr. Dieses durchgaengig aehnliche Verfahren hat die kulturgeschichtliche Entwicklung ueber Jahrtausende begleitet oder sie gar erst ermoeglicht. Erst mit dem Aufkommen von Bleistift und Papier sowie massstabsgerechter Zeichnungen hatte es ausgedient.

P.カートリッジ他編　前古典期ギリシア世界史　第1巻
Cartledge, Paul / Christesen, Paul (eds.), The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World. Volume I: Argos to Corcyra. 632 pp. 2024:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <716-2014>
ISBN 978-0-19-938359-7 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different environmental and human ecosystems they encountered created important differences among widely scattered settlements: each Greek community developed its own unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. Nonetheless, despite their dispersal and diversity, Greek communities were bound together by a network of commercial, cultural, diplomatic, and military ties and shared important commonalities, most notably language and religion. The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, a collaborative effort by more than forty eminent scholars, offers twenty-two detailed and comprehensive studies of key sites from across the Greek world in the period between c. 750 and c. 480 BCE. During that period, Greeks confronted a series of demographic, political, social, and economic challenges and generated an array of responses that transformed the ways in which they lived, worked, and interacted. Much of what is now seen as distinctive about Greek culture--such as democracy, stone temples, and nude athletics--first developed during the Archaic period. The series is organized alphabetically by polis. Volume I contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Argos, Chalcis and Eretria, Chios-Lesbos-Samos, and Corcyra. Together with the other volumes in the series, the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World offers a new and unique resource for the study of ancient Greece that will transform how we understand a crucial era in antiquity.

Cwalinski, Mateusz, Amber in the Circum-Adriatic Bronze Age: Acquisition, Circulation and Adaptation. 732 pp. 2022:2 (P. Lang, SZ) <716-2015>
ISBN 978-3-631-88857-5 hard ¥20,314.- (税込) SFR 81.00 *

The present book takes up the long-debated subject of the presence of amber around the Adriatic during the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC). It offers an exhaustive review of the current state of knowledge about the use of amber by prehistoric communities living on the opposite sides of the sea. The author focuses primarily on the spatial and chronological aspects of amber’s acquisition in Italy and the Balkans, form and function of the artefacts made of it, issues connected to their processing and ways of circulation of these products within the study area. Furthermore, attention is paid to material and symbolic statuses of amber among the local societies. Finally, the role of the circum-Adriatic zone in the long-range transfer of amber from Northern to Southern Europe is assessed.

W.ダールハイム著　アウグストゥス伝　第2版
Dahlheim, Werner, Augustus: Aufruehrer, Herrscher, Heiland. 2., durchgesehene Aufl. 448 S. 2024:1 (Beck, GW) <716-2016>
ISBN 978-3-406-81487-7 hard ¥8,003.- (税込) EUR 34.00 *

古代ローマにおける生と死
de la Bedoyere, Guy, Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome. 496 pp. 2024:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <716-2017>
ISBN 978-0-226-83294-4 hard ¥6,237.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Ganter, Angela, Griechische Geschichte: Von der Bronzezeit bis zum Hellenismus. (Beck'sche Reihe: Wissen 2952) 128 S. 2024:3 (Beck, GW) <716-2019>
ISBN 978-3-406-81637-6 paper ¥2,824.- (税込) EUR 12.00 *

Eine andere griechische Geschichte ausgehend von der Kulturgeschichte Dieser Band bietet eine differenzierte Einfuehrung in Geschichte und Kultur des antiken Griechenland. Der Darstellungshorizont reicht geographisch vom griechischen Festland ueber die Welt der Inseln, Kleinasien, Nordafrika bis nach Sizilien, zeitlich vom 2. Jahrtausend v.Chr. - der Welt der Minoer und Mykener - bis zum Ende der letzten grossen hellenistischen Monarchie, den Ptolemaiern (30 v. Chr.). Die sozio-oekonomischen Verhaeltnisse der Bevoelkerung werden ebenso thematisiert wie Mythologie, Dichtung, Religion, Politik (u.a. Entwicklung der athenischen Demokratie) und Ereignisgeschichte (Perserkriege, Peloponnesischer Krieg, makedonische Hegemonie, Alexanderzug) bis zur Vormachtstellung der Roemer. Ein Ausblick auf das Nachleben der griechischen Antike und Fragen der Raubkunst beschliessen den Band.

Gimatzidis, Stefanos (ed.), Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World: Tracing Provenance and Socioeconomic Ties. 400 pp. 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <716-2021>
ISBN 978-1-009-47485-6 hard ¥33,924.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *

Greek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age, a period of intense mobility. This book presents a holistic study of the earliest Greek pottery exchanged in Greek, Phoenician, and other Indigenous Mediterranean cultural contexts from multidisciplinary perspectives. It offers an examination of 362 Protogeometric and Geometric ceramic and clay samples, analysed by Neutron Activation, that Stefanos Gimatzidis obtained in twenty-four sites and regions in eight countries. Bringing a macro-historical approach to the topic through a systematic survey of early Greek pottery production, exchange, and consumption, the volume also provides a micro-history of selected ceramic assemblages analysed by a team of scholars who specialise in Classical, Near Eastern, and various prehistoric archaeologies. The results of their collaborative archaeological and archaeometric studies challenge previous reconstructions of intercultural relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean and call into question established narratives about Greek and Phoenician migration.

Jehne, Martin, Caesar. 6., ueberarb. u. aktual. Aufl. (Beck'sche Reihe: Wissen 2044) 128 S. 2024:2 (Beck, GW) <716-2023>
ISBN 978-3-406-81631-4 paper ¥2,824.- (税込) EUR 12.00 *

Das Standardwerk in neuer Auflage Caesars Weg, auf dem er seinen Aufstieg betrieb, war nicht unbedingt neu; er folgte lange Zeit einem Kurs, der zwar den Standesgenossen missfiel, aber keine unueberbrueckbaren Gegensaetze aufriss. Was jedoch bei Caesar neu war, war die Hoehe seines Einsatzes. Schulden machte jeder fuer die Karriere, aber Caesar machte so hemmungslos Schulden, dass er am Rande der Katastrophe balancierte und jeder Rueckschlag zur Katastrophe haette werden koennen. Caesar erlitt aber keine Rueckschlaege, und davon war er offenkundig ausgegangen. Er glaubte so unerschuetterlich an sein Glueck und seine ueberlegenen Talente, dass auch der hoechste Einsatz fuer ihn nur konsequent war. Er spielte "Alles oder Nichts", und er scheint nie daran gezweifelt zu haben, dass er gewinnen wuerde.

Lucas, Thierry, L'organisation militaire de la confederation beotienne (447-171 av. J.-C.). (Bibliotheque des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome) 374 p. 2023:11 (Ecole francaise d'Athenes, GR) <716-2027>
ISBN 978-2-86958-600-0 hard ¥12,416.- (税込) EUR 52.75

Miller, Peter J., In Praise of Greek Athletes: Echoes of the Herald's Proclamation in Epinikian and Epigram. 272 pp. 2024:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <716-2029>
ISBN 978-1-009-36595-6 hard ¥24,029.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

In ancient Greece both epinikian songs and inscribed epigrams were regularly composed to celebrate victory at athletic festivals. For the first time this book offers an integrated approach to both genres. It focuses on the ultimate source of information about athletic victory, the angelia or herald's proclamation. By examining the ways in which the proclamation was modified and elaborated in epinikian song and inscribed epigram, Peter Miller demonstrates the shared features of both genres and their differences. Through a comprehensive analysis of the metaphor of the herald across the corpus, he argues that it persists across form, medium, and genre from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period, and also provides a rich array of close readings that illuminate key parts of the praise of athletes. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

ウィトルウィウスの受容必携
Rowland, Ingrid / Bell, Sinclair (eds.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Vitruvius. (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 27) 748 pp. 2024:3 (Brill, NE) <716-2030>
ISBN 978-90-04-27067-1 hard ¥55,789.- (税込) EUR 237.00

As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.

Sallaberger, Walther, Das Gilgamesch-Epos: Mythos, Werk und Tradition. 3., aktual. Aufl. (Beck'sche Reihe: Wissen 2443) 128 S. 2024:2 (Beck, GW) <716-2031>
ISBN 978-3-406-81016-9 paper ¥2,824.- (税込) EUR 12.00 *

Schubert, Charlotte, Der Tod der Tribune: Leben und Sterben des Tiberius und Caius Gracchus. 320 S. 2024:3 (Beck, GW) <716-2033>
ISBN 978-3-406-81372-6 hard ¥7,532.- (税込) EUR 32.00 *

WENDEMARKE DER ANTIKE: DER ANFANG VOM ENDE DER ROeMISCHEN REPUBLIK Das hat Rom in den mehr als 600 Jahren seit seiner Gruendung noch nicht erlebt: Mitglieder des ehrwuerdigen Senats verwandeln sich 133 v.Chr. in einen rasenden Mob und erschlagen den durch heiliges Recht unantastbaren Volkstribunen Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. Er hat es gewagt, ein Gesetz zur Landreform einzubringen, das die Armen beguenstigt, der roemischen Elite aber nicht willkommen ist. Doch die mordluesternen Senatoren ahnen noch groesseres Unheil voraus - eine Verschiebung der politischen Kraefteverhaeltnisse insgesamt zu ihrem Nachteil. Zehn Jahre spaeter wiederholt sich die Tragoedie, als der juengere der Gracchen- Brueder, Caius, ein komplexes politisches Programm ins Werk setzt, dessen Kern abermals eine Landreform ist. Auch er findet den Tod aus der Hand seiner senatorischen Gegner. Charlotte Schubert hat ein spannendes Buch ueber den Anfang vom Ende der roemischen Republik geschrieben. Sie erhellt die komplexen Motive, welche die Gracchen zu ihren politisch wegweisenden Vorhaben veranlassten, und beschreibt die dramatische Wucht der darauf einsetzenden Konflikte. Die reaktionaeren Kreise Roms wussten sich keinen anderen Rat, als die Urheber und ihre Projekte in einem Blutbad untergehen zu lassen, anstatt fuer die draengenden wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Probleme nach alternativen Loesungen zu suchen. Dafuer sollten sie Jahrzehnte spaeter in den dunkelsten Stunden Roms einen hohen Preis zahlen, als die Republik in den Buergerkriegen versank. Die Tragoedie der Gracchen und der Anfang vom Ende der roemischen Republik Wendemarke der Antike: Der Anfang vom Ende der roemischen Republik Von philosophischen Reformern und moerderischen Senatoren

Sinner, Alejandro / Carreras, Cesar / Houten, Pieter, The Human Factor: The Demography of the Roman Province of Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis. 512 pp. 2024:4 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <716-2034>
ISBN 978-0-19-284859-8 hard ¥36,751.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

The Human Factor establishes a foundation for the study of ancient demography in the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on its largest province, Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis. The authors take a multidisciplinary approach, compiling archaeological, epigraphic, architectonic, osteological, and genetic datasets. This comprehensive and detailed study of a single province is necessary to generate accurate demographic estimates and to compare it with datasets from other regions and historical periods. By examining the province of Hispania Citerior/Tarraconensis in depth, the authors provide a detailed understanding of demographic patterns, urbanism, and urbanization rates over time, and link them with the social, cultural, and economic factors that affected the Iberian Peninsula and the Western Mediterranean from the fourth century BC until the end of the Roman period. For instance, population size was a significant indicator of economic growth and performance, and the distribution of people between urban and rural areas played a vital role in the negotiation of collective identities. Additionally, human mobility promoted cultural change and mediated information and technological flows. This is the first comprehensive , state-of-the-art demographic analysis of the Iberian Peninsula from the Iron Age down to the end of the Roman period, and the authors' integration and interpretation of data provide cutting-edge research and methodology, and fill a gap in the scholarly literature, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of the ancient Mediterranean.

Stepanic, Gorana / Gregoric, Pavel, Nigidius Figulus: Roman Polymath. (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 47) 196 pp. 2024:3 (Brill, NE) <716-2036>
ISBN 978-90-04-69080-6 hard ¥30,366.- (税込) EUR 129.00

This long running and established book series publishes scholarly discussions of literary, historical and cultural issues from European classical antiquity and studies of classical ideas in medieval and Renaissance Europe. The series published an average of one volume per year over the last 5 years.

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Sven, Betjes / Hekster, Olivier / Erika, Manders (eds.), Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop of The International Network Impact of Empire (Nijmegen, 18-20 May 2022). (Impact of Empire 50) 388 pp. 2024:4 (Brill, NE) <716-2037>
ISBN 978-90-04-53745-3 hard ¥29,189.- (税込) EUR 124.00 *

This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definition that made the empire into a superstructure whose coherence was embedded in its diversity.

Bay, Carson / Avioz, Michael / Henten, Jan Willem van (eds.), From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond: Text - Re-interpretations - Afterlives. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 215) 632 pp. 2024:5 (Brill, NE) <716-167>
ISBN 978-90-04-69328-9 hard ¥32,956.- (税込) EUR 140.00

Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66-70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several historiographical works in Greek. Josephus was eagerly read and used by Christian thinkers, but eventually his writings became the basis for the early-10th century Hebrew text called Sefer Yosippon, reintegrating Josephus into the Jewish tradition. This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond.