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

共和政ローマにおける教養ある奴隷と教育を受けた解放奴隷
Flower, Harriet I., Intellectual Property: Learned Slaves and Educated Freedmen in Republican Rome. 240 pp. 2025:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US)
ISBN 978-0-691-26616-9 hard ¥8,481.- (税込) US$ 39.95

The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient RomeSlaves and freedmen played an important yet understudied role in the literary culture of the Roman Republic. Though their work went largely uncredited, they fulfilled vital roles as editors, researchers, and collaborators in the service of Rome's literary and political elite. Intellectual Property tells the stories of these gifted and highly educated young men, from Licinius the flute-player, who shaped the rhetorical style of the orator Gaius Gracchus, to the grammarian and teacher Tyrannio of Amisus, who was brought to Rome as a war captive.Highlighting the unique social prestige of literary production and intellectual performance in a society pervaded by slave labor, Harriet Flower shows how the exorbitant prices paid for the highly educated encouraged a complex system of training young boys for the marketplace or acquiring educated captives as booty, and how they were treated as valuable assets to be deployed as prizes, gifts, or investments that could bestow financial and cultural capital. She demonstrates how enslaved and manumitted intellectuals, far from being menial workers, shared close relationships with leading Romans of the day. They came from a variety of backgrounds and were relied on as coauthors and collaborators in a range of genres, with some gaining fame as authors themselves.With lively case studies and insightful new interpretations of the ancient sources, Intellectual Property paints a more nuanced picture of enslaved labor in ancient Rome, revealing how the contributions of enslaved intellectuals were closely linked to the ambitious development of Latin literary culture and the dissemination of knowledge.

古代ローマにおける法の支配
Cowan, Eleanor / Morrell, Kit / Pettinger, A. et al (eds.), The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome. 304 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <747-635>
ISBN 978-0-19-895932-8 hard ¥28,640.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

The ideal of the rule of law - that the law should protect all citizens from arbitrary exercises of power - can be traced from ancient Greece to the present day. The Roman contribution to the rule of law tradition has been largely overlooked, however, both in rule-of-law scholarship and recent considerations of Roman law. This volume - the first of its kind - brings together the study of the rule of law and the study of ancient Rome. Its chapters apply insights and approaches drawn from modern legal theory in order to understand the ways in which Romans thought about law and the place of law in their community, the ways in which Roman institutions and political norms protected citizens against the arbitrary exercise of power, and how these ideas and practices changed with Rome's transition from republic to empire. Together, the contributors turn a new spotlight on the community of the Romans by asking whether and to what extent Rome may be said to have invested in the idea and practice of 'the rule of law', and how the rule of law intersected with other values including justice, popular sovereignty, and the personal authority of the emperor. At the same time, the volume seeks to enrich current thinking on the rule of law by providing an evidence-rich case-study of ancient Rome during the republic and empire. Recent years have witnessed increasing attacks on the rule of law, including attacks arising within liberal democracies and their institutions. It is a crucial time to be thinking about the rule of law. Deepening our historical understanding through close study of the rule of law in Rome is both timely and necessary.

Healey, John Francis, The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE. (Supplement to Aramaic Studies 20) 260 pp. 2025:8 (Brill, NE) <747-641>
ISBN 978-90-04-73065-6 hard ¥51,975.- (税込) EUR 210.00

This book provides a re-edition and translation of the Syriac legal parchments of the mid 3rd century CE from Upper Mesopotamia, along with extensive commentary. These documents constitute our earliest significant evidence of the Syriac language and script, since only short epigraphs on stone and in mosaics survive otherwise. The texts are reproduced in Syriac script and in transliteration, while plates of the documents and script charts are also included, along with chapters devoted to script and language (in the context of the development of the later Classical Syriac forms) and to law (in the context of the adaptation of Aramaic law to Romanization).

ローマを生き抜く－90％の人々の経済生活
Bowes, Kim, Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent. 504 pp. 2025:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-430>
ISBN 978-0-691-27333-4 hard ¥8,481.- (税込) US$ 39.95

A radical revision-and worker's-eye view-of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economyThe story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor.Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves. She finds working people producing a consumer revolution, making and buying all manner of goods from fine pottery to children's toys. Many of the poorest working people probably pieced together a living from multiple sources of income, including wages. And she suggests that Romans' most daunting challenge was the struggle to save. Like many modern people, saving enough to buy land or start a business was a slow, precarious slog. Bowes shows how these economies of survival were shared by a wide swath of the populace, blurring the lines between genders, ages, and legal status.Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today's laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.

Caesar, Gallic War. Ed. & tr. by C. Damon. (Loeb Classical Library) 624 pp. 2025:11 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-1577>
ISBN 978-0-674-99774-5 hard ¥6,369.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

The conquest that begot the Roman Empire.Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered Roman politics as a "democrat" against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Britain twice; was forced into civil war; became master of the Roman world; and achieved wide-reaching reforms until his murder. We have his books of commentarii (notes): eight on his wars in Gaul from 58-52 BC, including the two expeditions to Britain in 55-54, and three on the civil war of 49-48. They are records of his own campaigns (with occasional digressions) in vigorous, direct, clear, unemotional style and in the third person.Although the Gallic War in particular is carefully designed to present Caesar in the most favorable light as both commander and Roman citizen, it has long been revered as exemplary military history and a model of Latin prose style.This edition of the Gallic War replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library edition by H. J. Edwards (1917) with new text, translation, introduction, and bibliography. In the Loeb Classical Library edition of Caesar, Volume II is his Civil War; Volume III consists of Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War, commonly ascribed to Caesar by our manuscripts but of uncertain authorship.

Cicero, Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. De Lege Agraria. Ed. & Tr. by A. R. Dyck. (Loeb Classical Library 240) 624 pp. 2025 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-1578>
ISBN 978-0-674-99767-7 hard ¥6,369.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

The early speeches.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension, and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part; together with his rhetorical treatises, they have long served as models for orators, advocates, and others.This volume contains four speeches from Cicero's pre-consular, and one from his consular period. Pro Quinctio, his earliest surviving defense (81), handles a complex commercial dispute deftly and in loftier style than usual in such cases. Pro Roscio Amerino, his first criminal case (80), is a successful defense on a politically fraught charge of parricide. Pro Roscio Comoedo (72 or 71) defends a famous actor and old friend involved in a financial dispute, with suitably theatrical flair. Pro Tullio (71), a dispute between neighbors about a deadly slave attack, casts light on social conditions in the Italian countryside in the aftermath of Spartacus' revolt. De Lege Agraria (63) successfully forces the withdrawal of a proposal for the distribution of agricultural land to the urban plebs.This edition replaces the original by John Henry Freese (1930). The texts have been freshly edited and translated, with full introductions and ample notation.

E.H.クライン著　愛、戦争、外交－アマルナ文書の発見とそれが明らかにした青銅器時代の世界
Cline, Eric H., Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed. 280 pp. 2025:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <747-1579>
ISBN 978-0-691-27408-9 hard ¥7,430.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near EastIn 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten's capital city, a site now known as Amarna. She found a cache of cuneiform tablets, nearly four hundred in all, that included correspondence between the pharaohs and the mightiest powers of the day, such as the Hittites, Babylonians, and Assyrians. Love, War, and Diplomacy tells the story of the Amarna Letters and the dramatic world of the Bronze Age they revealed.Blending scholarly expertise with painstaking detective work, Eric Cline describes the spectacular discovery, the fierce competition among dealers and museums to acquire the tablets, and the race by British and German scholars to translate them. Dating to the middle of the fourteenth century BCE and the time of Tutankhamun's immediate predecessors, Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaten, the Amarna Letters are the only royal archive from New Kingdom Egypt known to exist. In them, we learn of royal marriages, diplomatic negotiations, gift-giving, intrigue, and declarations of brotherly love between powerful rulers as well as demands made by the petty kings in Canaan who owed allegiance to Egypt's pharaohs.A monumental achievement, Love, War, and Diplomacy transports readers to the glorious age of the Amarna Letters and the colonial era that brought them to light and reveals how the politics, posturing, and international intrigues of the ancient Near East are not so unlike today's.

プトレマイオス朝エジプトにおける産業、貿易、国家
Dogaer, Nico, Industry, Trade and the State in Ptolemaic Egypt. 380 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <747-1583>
ISBN 978-1-009-41337-4 hard ¥30,376.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

This book provides a reassessment of Ptolemaic state intervention in industry and trade, an issue central to the economic and political history of Hellenistic Egypt. Based on a full survey of Greek and Demotic Egyptian sources, and drawing on theoretical perspectives, it challenges the prevailing interpretation of 'state monopolies'. While the Ptolemies displayed an impressive capacity to intervene in economic processes, their aims were purely fiscal, and the extent of their reach was limited. Every sector was characterised by significant market activity, either recognised and supported by the state, or illicit where the Ptolemies did make attempts to establish exclusive control. Nico Dogaer provides a full account of several key industries and presents new conclusions about the impact of Ptolemaic rule, including on economic performance. The book also makes an important contribution to broader debates about the relation between states and markets in historical societies.

古代メソポタミアの記憶と忘却－ジッグラト、王の彫刻、ウル第三王朝時代のアッカドの遺産
Feldman, Marian H., Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Mesopotamia: Ziggurats, Royal Sculpture, and the Shaping of the Akkadian Legacy During the Ur III Period. 192 pp. 2025:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1585>
ISBN 978-0-226-84285-1 hard ¥11,676.- (税込) US$ 55.00

Gaullier-Bougassas, Catherine (ed.), Nouvelles traductions et receptions indirectes de la Grece ancienne. Tome 1: Histoires des heros fondateurs grecs et troyens (textes et images, 1300-1560). (Recherches sur les Reception de l'Antiquite 9) 500 p. 2025:7 (Brepols, BE) <747-1588>
ISBN 978-2-503-60685-9 paper ¥27,225.- (税込) EUR 110.00

Hartoch, Else (ed.), The Writing Tablets of Roman Tongeren (Belgium): And Associated Wooden Finds. 424 pp. 2025:6 (Brepols, BE) <747-1589>
ISBN 978-2-503-61687-2 hard ¥21,037.- (税込) EUR 85.00

James, Thomas, Lions in the Shadows: Northern Syria and Southeastern Anatolia at War, c.1180-708 BC: Ancient Warfare Series Volume 5. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East) 268 pp. 2025:9 (Brill, NE) <747-1591>
ISBN 978-90-04-73559-0 hard ¥31,680.- (税込) EUR 128.00

Welcome to the first publication that has sought to understand Early Iron Age warfare from the perspectives of the cultures that lived in northwestern Syria and southeastern Anatolia, including places such as Carchemish and Sam'al. Traditionally conflict studies of the era have been pursued through the lenses of these polities' contemporaries, especially Neo-Assyrian kings. The goal of this publication is to use the available archaeological evidence to establish insights into their own conflicts, which can be used to move toward creating a history of war for the era that encompasses the viewpoints from as many cultures as possible.

Leonard, Miriam, Revolution: Modern Uprisings in Ancient Time. (Critical Antiquities) 112 pp. 2025:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1592>
ISBN 978-0-226-84303-2 hard ¥24,414.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84305-6 paper ¥4,776.- (税込) US$ 22.50

A consideration of how modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity. Despite its Latin etymology, "revolution" in its modern understanding arguably did not exist in antiquity, and revolution as we know it today is considered by many theorists to be a term born in modernity. While they certainly had times of momentous political upheaval, the Greeks and Romans tended to understand such events as part of a narrative of political continuity rather than novelty or rupture. Nevertheless, modern revolutions have repeatedly appropriated tropes of classical discourse, such as freedom, tyranny, tragedy, and fraternity. With this book, Miriam Leonard offers a conceptual history of revolution, unraveling modernity's yearning for the new and questioning why ancient concepts continue to play such an important role in political uprisings. Leonard looks at examples of appeals to antiquity during the French and Haitian Revolutions, in anticolonial struggles, and feminist and queer movements and considers works of theorists such as Karl Marx, Hannah Arendt, and Sigmund Freud that foreground an engagement with antiquity.

Marciak, Michal, Alexander the Great and the Campaign of Gaugamela: New Research on Topography and Chronology. IAMNI 1 (Italian Archaeological Mission to Northern Iraq). (Subartu 53) 180 pp. 2025:8 (Brepols, BE) <747-1593>
ISBN 978-2-503-61626-1 paper ¥21,037.- (税込) EUR 85.00

Michelakis, Pantelis, Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides. (Classics in Theory Series) 272 pp. 2025:11 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <747-1594>
ISBN 978-0-19-884410-5 hard ¥28,640.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' Oedipus the King (esp. 1-215), and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War book 2 (esp. 47.3-54). The question at the core of this study is how a destructive force within narrative becomes a creative force for narrative itself: both in terms of the formation of narrative and in narrative's encounter with its readers and spectators as the hosts that will ensure its dissemination and its survival through time. The three accounts of plague visitations under discussion matter as examples of a particular type of narrative event associated with crisis. In all three of them, the plague spreads through seemingly disparate but closely interconnected social, material, and technical networks: different linguistic domains, structures of narrative space and time, routes of knowledge and affect, and biological and socio-political bodies. Thematically, the plague is a disruptive force that breaks down distinctions between and across such networks. At the same time, however, it is also a generative force that shows the capacity of narrative to expose the heterogeneous parts of such networks and the complex interconnections within and between them. By emphasizing the disruptive, invasive force of such narratives, with their power to spread like epidemic disease, this book offers a way of thinking through the anxieties generated by exposure to technical and artistic skill.

Montiglio, Silvia, Schadenfreude and its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece. 336 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <747-1595>
ISBN 978-0-19-898146-6 hard ¥28,640.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

Schadenfreude, "pleasure in other people's misfortunes", is an emotion that pervades Greek texts and pervaded Greek communities. Many of their salient characteristics provided the ideal terrain for schadenfreude: competitiveness, a fierce attachment to honor and reputation, the neat partition between friends and enemies, and the exposure of people's lives to the public eye. This book draws on the major literary genres--epic, archaic poetry, tragedy, comedy, historiography, oratory, and philosophy--and on sources describing a variety of cultural practices and beliefs--symposiastic entertainments, sport competitions, curses, the fear of fortune and of the gods, punishments on earth and in the underworld--to tease out the specific configurations of schadenfreude in ancient Greece from the archaic period to roughly the second century CE. Among the emotion's striking features are its tendency to take a loud voice, as mockery or laughter, its being often released in public, and subsequently its damaging force and the intensity with which it was feared. While we tend to think of schadenfreude as a passive, private, unexpressed, and unconfessed emotion, the Greeks often endowed it with an active power. They were also freer to show it because they ignored the love commandment; on the contrary, to rejoice in an enemy's misfortune was common practice and even met with approval. But at the same time, Greek authors ask the questions: when is schadenfreude acceptable? How much of it? Shouldn't we refrain from displaying it, if not from feeling it, in certain cases, for instance at the expense of a dead individual, even if the individual was an enemy? This book seeks to map the Greek answers to these and related questions.

Morgan, Rosemary, Spectacle Benefaction and the Politics of Appreciation: Case Studies from Italy, Gallia Narbonensis and Africa Proconsularis. (Antiquite et sciences humaines 12) 310 pp. 2025:5 (Brepols, BE) <747-1596>
ISBN 978-2-503-61370-3 paper ¥21,037.- (税込) EUR 85.00

Nyord, Rune, Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife. 320 pp. 2025:3 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1597>
ISBN 978-0-226-83823-6 hard ¥24,414.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83825-0 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.50 *

How our understanding of the ancient Egyptian afterlife was shaped by Christianity. Many of us are familiar with the ancient Egyptians' obsession with immortality and the great efforts they made to secure the quality of their afterlife. But, as Rune Nyord shows, even today, our understanding of the Egyptian afterlife has been formulated to a striking extent in Christian terms. Nyord argues that this is no accident, but rather the result of a long history of Europeans systematically retelling the religion of ancient Egypt to fit the framework of Christianity. The idea of ancient Egyptians believing in postmortem judgment with rewards and punishments in the afterlife was developed during the early modern period through biased interpretations that were construed without any detailed knowledge of ancient Egyptian religion, hieroglyphs, and sources. As a growing number of Egyptian images and texts became available through the nineteenth century, these materials tended to be incorporated into existing narratives rather than being used to question them. Against this historical background, Nyord argues that we need to return to the indigenous sources and shake off the Christian expectations that continue to shape scholarly and popular thinking about the ancient Egyptian afterlife.

Przybyla, Marcin / Dziegielewski, Karol (eds.), Inheritance, Social Networks, Adaptation: Bronze and Early Iron Age Societies North of the Western Carpathians. 820 pp. 2025:3 (Brepols, BE) <747-1599>
ISBN 978-2-503-61677-3 hard ¥28,462.- (税込) EUR 115.00

Ritter, Max / Turquois, Elodie (eds.), The Imagery and Aesthetics of Late Antique Cities. (Bibliotheque de l'Antiquite tardive 44) 308 pp. 2025:8 (Brepols, BE) <747-1600>
ISBN 978-2-503-61191-4 hard ¥30,937.- (税込) EUR 125.00

シュメールと海
Romano, Licia (ed.), Sumer and the Sea: Deltas, Shoreline, and Urban Water Management in 3rd Millennium Mesopotamia. Proceedings of the 1st Arwa International Research Workshop (Rome, 2-4 June 2021). (ARATTA 3) 172 pp. 2025:5 (Brepols, BE) <747-1601>
ISBN 978-2-503-61468-7 paper ¥23,512.- (税込) EUR 95.00

Ross, Alan J., In Praise of Constantius: Greek Panegyric in Late Antiquity. (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity) 336 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <747-1602>
ISBN 978-0-19-782754-3 hard ¥28,023.- (税込) US$ 132.00

In Praise of Constantius offers historical and literary analysis of eight Greek panegyrics composed by Libanius, Themistius, and Julian in the 340s and 350s CE, and addressed to Constantius II and his wife, the empress Eusebia. Its central concerns are the role that the composition, performance, and dissemination of imperial panegyric played in establishing the careers of the three most prominent Greek pagans of the fourth century; and their development of Greek epideictic literature in an era beyond the Second Sophistic. The book deftly exposes the rich intertextual dynamics between these eight speeches, other contemporary works, and canonical works of Greek political literature. It revises standard interpretations of panegyric's communicative function, and treats the orator less as a vector for others' messaging and instead as an active agent in political discourse in pursuit of his own ends. The volume substantially re-writes the early careers of each of its subjects, emphasizing their precarity and the utilization of performed paideia in managing moments of personal and political upheaval.

Tafaro, Alessandra, Inscribing Flavian Rome: Epigraphic Strategies in Martial's Epigrams. 272 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <747-1604>
ISBN 978-0-19-896251-9 hard ¥28,640.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00

Inscribing Flavian Rome offers the first systematic investigation of Martial's dynamic engagement with the full range of Roman epigraphic habits. Breaking new ground in the study of Roman epigram, it establishes a new interpretation of early imperial writing culture which reconsiders literary and epigraphic modes of communications as inter-permeable. The volume argues for conceptualizing epigrammatic poetry and epigraphic writing as complementary cultural activities that involve not only thematic and generic interactions, but also intersecting audiences and interconnected socio-cultural phenomena, such as Saturnalian carnival and damnatio memoriae. Sitting at the juncture between Latin literature and Roman epigraphy, Inscribing Flavian Rome examines the nature, functioning, and critical consequences of the relationship between literary epigrams and epigraphic texts, reshaping our understanding of the production, consumption, and circulation of poetry across different media. This book offers a transformative reading of Martial's poetic project and a thorough reconsideration of the value of epigraphic texts as central to the understanding of Roman literary culture. With its interdisciplinary approach, it demonstrates that what we distinctly perceive as 'literary' and 'epigraphic', 'poetry of the book' and 'poetry of the street', engage in a mutual, expansive dialogue. Through a series of close comparative analyses of literary epigrams and a range of Roman writing practices such as monumental inscriptions, epitaphs, and graffiti, this volume makes a timely intervention in the debates surrounding the interaction between literature and epigraphy. Martial's epigrammatic corpus is examined in its wider cultural, literary, and historical contexts, integrating philological and historical analysis, close reading of epigrams and on-site investigation of epigraphic texts. By exploring key concerns about literary materiality and monumentality, authorship and plagiarism, parallel techniques of intertextual allusions, this book offers a pioneering analysis of epigraphic strategies in Martial's corpus, including the construction of anonymous readers as travellers passing by epitaphs inscribed upon tombs, and the power of epigrams and inscriptions to transform the ideological connotations of monumental spaces in the context of damnatio memoriae.

古代知識の図書館－メソポタミアと近現代世界の形成
Wisnom, Selena, The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World. 400 pp. 2025:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1605>
ISBN 978-0-226-82255-6 hard ¥6,369.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

〔英訳〕真のポンペイの発掘
Zuchtriegel, Gabriel, The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii. Tr. by J. Bulloch. 256 pp. 2025:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-1606>
ISBN 978-0-226-83960-8 hard ¥5,307.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

Dello Russo, Jessica, A Jewish Archaeology: The Christian Discovery of Jewish Catacombs in Rome. (Jews, Judaism, and the Arts 6) 295 pp. 2025:8 (Brill, NE) <747-167>
ISBN 978-90-04-53291-5 hard ¥33,412.- (税込) EUR 135.00

This study examines how various catacomb networks in Rome were eliminated and subsequently restored to the historical record as specifically Jewish sites. By exploring the evolution, interpretation and presentation of these catacombs from ancient times to the present, it offers fresh insights into their historical significance and the impact they have had on later generations. Understanding how this situation relates to the broader context of archaeological activity in Rome also highlights important changes in the study of catacombs during the nineteenth century that led to the identification of additional Jewish catacombs and other material evidence of Jews in Ancient Rome.

Bobou, Olympia / Raja, Rubina / Stamatopoulou, Maria (eds.), Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge. (Archive Archaeology 6) 475 pp. 2025:5 (Brepols, BE) <747-1274>
ISBN 978-2-503-61685-8 paper ¥40,837.- (税込) EUR 165.00

我々の起源の考古学を理解する
Dominguez-Rodrigo, Manuel / Baquedano, Enrique (eds.), Traces of the Distant Human Past: Understanding the Archaeology of our Origins. 350 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <747-1275>
ISBN 978-1-009-67059-3 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Traces of the Distant Human Past offers a critical examination of early human behavior by challenging traditional narratives and pushing for a more scientific, theoretically informed approach to archaeology. Emphasizing the importance of understanding early humans within their environmental context, the contributors to this volume propose a shift towards theoretical frameworks and ecological perspectives in archaeological research. They highlight the scarcity of well-preserved archaeological sites, making a strong case for high-resolution analyses and the need for new methodologies, including the use of artificial intelligence in taphonomy. By questioning the scientific rigor of current practices and advocating for hypothesis-driven research, this volume not only informs but also inspires a reevaluation of the approaches that can be applied to an interpretation of the evidence for human evolution in the archaeological record. It will be an essential resource for those interested in advancing the field and gaining a deeper understanding of human origins.

Shelach-Lavi, Gideon / Maran, J. / Davidovich, U. (eds.), Rituals, Memory, and Societal Dynamics: Contributions to Social Archaeology: A Collection of Essays in Memory of Sharon Zuckerman. (LEMA 5) 301 pp. 2025:7 (Brepols, BE) <747-1279>
ISBN 978-2-503-61292-8 paper ¥34,650.- (税込) EUR 140.00

Pedersen, Unn / Moen, Marianne / Skogstrand, Lisbeth (eds.), Gendering the Nordic Past: Dialogues Between Perspectives. (Women of the Past 4) 280 pp. 2025:7 (Brepols, BE) <747-1362>
ISBN 978-2-503-60887-7 paper ¥27,225.- (税込) EUR 110.00

Dardeniz, Gonca / Arikan, Buelent (eds.), Resourcescape and Human Impact in Southwest Asia. (LEMA 6) 220 pp. 2025:7 (Brepols, BE) <747-1050>
ISBN 978-2-503-61668-1 paper ¥22,275.- (税込) EUR 90.00

Ferrario, Marco, District Twelve: Northeastern Central Asia From Cyrus to Antiochos: Local Histories of a World Empire. (Ancient Iran Series 19) 590 pp. 2025:8 (Brill, NE) <747-1052>
ISBN 978-90-04-73618-4 hard ¥39,600.- (税込) EUR 160.00

This book offers, at the same time, an imperial history of a region (Northeastern Central Asia under the Achaemenids) and the regional history of an Empire (how the Persians adapted their strategies of governmentality to a geographically challenging, ethnically diverse, and politically impervious space). Bringing together evidence from literary texts, archaeology, and ethnohistory, it crafts a new narrative of Central Asian history in which local actors in and outside the imperial territory are given as much, if not (at times) more agency than the King of Kings and his satraps in heralding Central Asia's first Age of Empires.