Dear Society for Late Antiquity Member,

LATE ANTIQUITY NEWSLETTER 3.1 (2005)

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L.A.N. THE LATE ANTIQUITY NEWSLETTER

Volume 3 no.1

January, 2005

From the Editor

Dear Society for Late Antiquity Member,

Greetings! I'm sending you the first issue of a new series of the Late Antiquity Newsletter, which Ralph Mathisen first published in 1996-97 and which I've agreed to revive. My plan is to disseminate via email a quarterly Newsletter containing information about conferences, programs, workshops, new books, museum exhibits and other items of interest to Society members. If you organize (or even know of) a conference or exhibit, workshop or seminar, please let me know so that I can serve as a clearing house for such information. The Newletter's usefulness will depend in part on members willingness to pass information along. It will be especially helpful if UK and Continental colleagues share information, particularly about upcoming conferences. In this first issue, I've included only conference announcements and a new books section, and already the Newsletter is too long! I welcome your views on what could usefully be included, either via email or in person at the Shifting Frontiers VI conference in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois in March (www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/sf6reg.htm).

Best wishes for a New Year,

Scott Bradbury

SBRADBUR@email.smith.edu

Editor, Late Antiquity Newletter

Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures

Smith College

Conferences in 2005

17–19 February 2005. "Feast, Famine, and Fasting: Food and Material Consumption in Medieval and Renaissance Culture," the Eleventh Annual Interdisciplinary Conference of ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), at Arizona State University.Conference URL: http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/conferences.html.

17-20 March 2005. "Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World." The Sixth Biennial SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY CONFERENCE, University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign.Conference URL: http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/sf6reg.htm

19-20 March 2005. Late Antique Archaeology 2005: "The Religion of the 'Rest': Heresy, Apathy and Popular Piety in Late Antiquity," Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK. The conference will seek to broaden perspectives on late antique religious life, by considering religious currents that provided an alternative to orthodox Christianity and Judaism. Heretics, Samaritans, syncretic magic and popular piety will be explored, alongside religious apathy and the secular. Later Paganism will be the theme of a 2nd meeting later in the year.Conference URL: http://www.lateantiquearchaeology.com.

30 March-1 April 2005. The Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies will host a multidisciplinary residential conference on King Edgar to mark the retirement of Donald Scragg. Call for papers: topics covered may be his wives, sons, bishops, relations with his neighbours, or the art history, literature, language, history, geography, archaeology of the period. Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2004, to Donald Scragg, Dir., Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, Dept. of English, Univ. of Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. (d.g.scragg@man.ac.uk)

31 March–2 April 2005. Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, in Miami Beach.Conference URL: http://www.medievalacademy.org/annualmeetings/annualmeetingcurrent.htm

31 March-5 April 2005. The Roman Archaeology / Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference will be held at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.Conference URL: http://www.iaa.bham.ac.uk/rac.htm.

18-19 April 2005. "Discovery of the School of Alexandria by Polish Archaeologists, 2004". Conference at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, UK. The school of Alexandria in the fifth to sixth centuries AD was the centre of rhetorical and philosophical training for the Mediterranean world. The great philosopher Ammonius was there with all the best philosophers of the late fifth and the sixth centuries, most of whom were his pupils…. There are two accounts of life in the Alexandrian school by one of Ammonius' Christian pupils, Zacharias. One account, called Ammonius, purports to describe a philosophical discussion of the Christian view of the Creation in Ammonius' classroom, with Ammonius being refuted by his Christian pupils. Another, the Life of Severus, surviving in Syriac with French translation, tells of the riots which arose in the school run by the pagan Horapollo, when another pagan philosopher, Asclepiodotus, came to consult Egyptian priests on how to cure his childlessness. From these two accounts we get a picture of academic life in Alexandria…. Now in 2004 a Polish archaeology team claims to have discovered 15 identical lecture rooms such as Zacharias describes, with a larger hall near the colonnades. Each of the 15 lecture rooms has seats for 30 students in a horeshoe, with the professor's seat out at the end of the horseshoe. We plan to learn about and assess this potentially very important discovery, hearing from the Director of the Polish dig, Professor Majchereki, and from a scholar of Alexandrian architecture, Judith Mckenzie, and a scholar of ancient schools, Rafaella Cribiore. Professor Roger Bagnall has offered generous support to the conference. The following day will be devoted to schools in the ancient world generally, discussing how different disciplines were organised in different places. Booking details will be available in January. Please contact Dr Kim Ayodeji at the Institute (kim.ayodeji@sas.ac.uk).

21-23 April 2005. "Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective," York UK. Fourth York Cultural History Conference.Violence is an inescapable theme in human history. War, violent crime, personal conflict and aggression appear to be constant features of the human condition. Has violence been codified, tamed and suppressed by a ‘civilizing process’, which forged the modern, rational, bourgeois self? Is civilization opposed to or predicated upon violence? This conference aims to test these assumptions by examining interpersonal violence below the level of the state from Classical Antiquity to the 21st Century.Full description at URL: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi? ID=138338&keyword=Late&keyword=Antiquity

22–24 April 2005. "Urban and Rural Settlement in Anatolia and the Levant, 500-1000: New Evidence from Archaeology." Dumbarton Oaks Program in Byzantine Studies annual spring symposium. Keynote lecture by Prof. Cyril Mango scheduled for 5:30 p.m., Thursday, 21 April, this lecture will be open to the public. Contact: Caitlin McGurk (202-339-6940; byzantine@doaks.org; http://www.doaks.org/conferences.html).

5-8 May, 2005. 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamzoo, Michigan.Conference URL: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/

2-4 June 2005. North American Patristics Society Eighteenth Annual Meeting, Loyola University, Chicago. Abstracts due 15 Jan. 2005.Conference URL: http://moses.creighton.edu/NAPS/Conference/conference.html.

10–11 June 2005. "Travel and Movement in Medieval Italy c. 500–1500," at the University of Limerick, Irish Republic. The deadline for paper proposals is 31 January 2005. To propose a paper or for further information, contact Christine Meek, Dept. of Medieval History, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Irish Republic (cmeek@tcd.ie).

16–18 July 2005. "Prosopography Approaches & Applications," at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, England. The conference seeks to bring together a wide range of scholars encompassing all chronological periods for an opportunity to meet others and to discuss the history and uses of the prosopographical method in history. It is being organized by researchers in prosopography at the Modern History Research Unit, Oxford, who will be launching their Guide to the Principles and Practice of Prosopography at the conference. Suggested themes include: working towards definition, prosopography vs. collective biography; why prosopography?; intersections: prosopography & onomastics, place-names, source criticism; the future of prosopography; teaching techniques; prosopography & computing; database construction; text encoding; and network analysis. Call for papers: scholars and students working on prosopographical projects are invited to submit proposals for papers, consisting of no more than 250 words, by 1 November 2004, for non-U.K. scholars, by 1 December for U.K. scholars. Contact: Katharine Keats-Rohan, Modern History Research Unit, Block 11-2, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE, U.K. (prosop@history.ox.ac.uk).

19-21 August 2005. "AGING, OLD AGE AND DEATH PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES II", University of Tampere, Finland. The second international symposium on ancient and medieval way of life will focus on the final period of individual's life course. The aim is to bring together scholars from various fields of study to discuss the continuities and changes which happened both in understanding and experiencing the mature age, old age, and in facing death. The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically (from Hellenistic world to Middle Ages), but also geographically (from East and West Mediterranean to the coasts of the North Sea) and disciplinary (all the branches of Classical and Medieval Studies). Those who wish to present papers are asked to submit a one-page abstract (setting out thesis and conclusions) as an e-mail attachment to Mr. Jussi Rantala (Conference Secretary), passages@uta.fi. The deadline for abstracts is February 28, 2005.Fuller description at URL: http://agricola.utu.fi/nyt/tapahtuu/ilmot/2373.html

22–25 September 2005. "Conversion." The Medieval Colloquium of Harvard University's English Department is organizing this interdisciplinary conference, the first of a triennial series of conferences. The Morton Bloomfield Memorial Lecture will begin the conference proceedings. Speakers may consider the following themes: the experience of radical historical change within societies and within selves; the nature and imperatives of religious persuasion, both internal and external; the relation of individual and political transformations; textuality and conversion; conversion and power. We intend the geographical focus to be primarily on the British Isles, although with some continental European, and non-European, perspectives. The chronological span is broad, from Late Antiquity to the Reformation. Inquiries may be sent to any one of the following: Dan Donoghue (dgd@wjh.harvard.edu), James Simpson (jsimpson@fas.harvard.edu), and Nicholas Watson (nwatson@fas.harvard.edu).

28–29 October 2005. "Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods." Thirty-Fifth Medieval Workshop, sponsored by the Committee for Medieval Studies, at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. The scope of the conference will match that of J. Brian Harley and David Woodward (eds.), The History of Cartography, vol. 1. Eighteen years after the publication of that seminal work this conference will offer a unique forum to highlight, distill and reflect upon the remarkable progress made in so many areas since 1987, thereby honouring the memory of the joint editors, and in particular David Woodward, deceased 25 August 2004. Looking to the future, the conference is also specifically designed to foster closer interaction between scholars of antiquity and of the Middle Ages who engage with maps. Call for papers, proposals are especially welcome which discuss recent discoveries, the value of fresh perspectives and methodologies, insights gained from the exploitation of new technology, relationships between ancient and medieval cartography, and significant current work in progress. Graduate students in Canadian institutions and elsewhere are welcome to submit proposals. Papers are not to exceed 20 minutes. All proposals, including abstracts of 500 words maximum, should be sent by e-mail to Richard Talbert (UNC, Chapel Hill; talbert@email.unc.edu) and Richard W. Unger (UBC; richard.unger@ubc.ca) to arrive no later than 20 March, 2005. Decisions will be made by 15 May 2005. Some financial support may be available to assist participation in the conference.

15 November 2005. The Idea of the "Self" in Different Cultures (Professor Richard Sorabji and Professor Gwen Griffith-Dickson), Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, London, UK. A one day conference exploring the notion of the self in different philosophical and religious cultures. Following on from our investigation into the Self in Indian religions and philosophers and Islam, we continue with an examination of concepts of the Self in Greek and Roman philosophy, early and modern Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Reservations are required for this event. Please contact Gresham College.

19-22 November 2005. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Abstracts due 1 March 2005.Conference URL: http://www.aarweb.org/annualmeet/.

5–8 January 2006. "Center and Periphery in Medieval Latin Studies," a panel of the Medieval Latin Studies Group at the meeting of the American Philological Association, in Montreal. Call for papers, submit abstracts (500–800 words) by 1 February 2005 to Michael Meckler, MLSG Sec'y-Treas., Epigraphy/ Palaeography, Ohio State Univ., 190 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH 43210-1002. Contact: Ralph Hexter (Ralph_Hexter@ls.berkeley.edu; http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mlsg).

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Some New Books of 2003-04:

Thuno, Erik. Image and Relic: Mediating the Sacred in Early Medieval Rome. (AnalRom Suppl. 32.) Pp. 216, b/w pls. 133, color pls. 8. "L'ERMA" di Bretschneider, Rome 2002. ISBN 88-8265-217-3 (paper).

Sauer, Eberhard. The Archaeology of Religious Hatred in the Roman and Early Medieval World. Pp. 192, figs. 73, color pls. 27. Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire 2003. £17.99. ISBN 0-7524-2530-7 (paper).

Tarpin, Michel. 'Vici' et 'Pagi' dans l'Occident Romain. (Collection de l'École Française de Rome 299.) Pp. xv + 484, figs. 8, pls. 8, maps 14. École Française de Rome, Rome 2002. € 62. ISSN 0223-5099. ISBN 2-7283-0582-X (paper).

Ward-Perkins, J.B., and R.G. Goodchild. Joyce Reynolds, ed. Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica. Pp. xxxvii + 462, figs. 378. Society for Libyan Studies 2003. ISBN 1-900-97101-1 (cloth).

Yon, Jean-Baptiste. Les Notables de Palmyre. (Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique 163.) Pp. 378, figs. 87, pls. 8, tables 16, maps 2. Institut Français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient, Beyrouth 2002. € 48,00. ISBN 2-912738-19-9 (paper).

Gourdouba, Maria, Leena Pietilä-Castr&eacuten, and Esko Tikkal eds. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Periods. (Papers and Monographs of the Finish Institute at Athens 9.) Pp. i + 98, figs. 49. Finish Institute at Athens, Helsinki 2004. ISSN 1237-2684; ISBN 951-908806-3-1 (paper).

Arthur, Paul. Naples: From Roman Town to City-State. (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 12.) Pp. xv + 197, figs. 86. The British School at Rome, London 2002. £27.95. ISBN 0-904152-38-3 (paper).

McNally, Sheila. Shaping Community: The Art and Archaeology of Monasticism. (BAR-IS 941.) Pp. viii + 189, figs. 91, tables 4. Archeopress, Oxford 2001. £32.00. ISBN 1-84171-233-7 (paper).

Setala, Paivi, Ria Berg, Riikka Halikka, Minerva Keltanen, Janne Polonen, and Ville Vuolanto, Women, Wealth, and Power in the Roman Empire. (ActInstRomFin 25.) Pp. 321, figs. 32, tables 12. Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rome 2002. Euro 41.00. ISSN 0538-2270. ISBN 952-5323-02-1 (paper).

Van Andringa, William. La Religion en Gaule romaine: Piété et politique (Ier-IIIe siècle apr. J.-C.). (Collection des Hesperides.) Pp. 335, figs. 100, tables 6, maps 2. Editions Errance, Paris 2002. Euro 29.00; 190.23 FF. ISBN 2-87772-228-7 (paper).

Carr, Karen Eva. Vandals to Visigoths: Rural Settlement Patterns in Early Medieval Spain. Pp. xiii + 242, figs. 37, tables 13. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2002. $54.50. ISBN 0-472-10891-3 (cloth).

Cooley, Alison E., ed. Becoming Roman, Writing Latin? Literacy and Epigraphy in the Roman West. (JRASuppl. Series 48.) Pp.188, figs. 61, tables 4. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth 2002. $69.50. ISBN 1-887829-48-2 (cloth).

Fowler, Peter. Farming in the First Millennium A.D.: British Agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conquerer. Pp. xviii + 393, figs. 21, pls. 42, tables 3. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003. $38.00. ISBN 0-521-89056-X (paper).

Lenski, Noel. Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 34.) Pp. xix + 454, figs. 22. University of California Press, Berkeley 2002. $75.00. ISBN 0-520-23332-8 (cloth).

Adams, Colin, and Ray Laurence, eds. Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire. Pp. x+202, figs. 48. Routledge, London & New York 2001. $75.00. ISBN 0-415-23034-9 (cloth).

Kamil, Jill. Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs: The Coptic Orthodox Church. Pp. xxi + 311, figs. 121, maps 4. Routledge, London 2002. $55.00. ISBN 0-415-24253-3 (cloth).

Kirchhainer, Karnen, and Guntram Koch, ed. Akten des Symposiums "Frühchristiliche Sarkophage." (Sarkophag-Studien 2.) Pp. viii + 258, b/w pls 80, color pls 7. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2002. Euro 92.50. ISBN 38053-2880-X (cloth).

Bertinelli, Maria Gabriella Angeli, and Angela Donati. Serta antiqua et mediaevalia, 6. Usi e abusi epigrafici. Atti del colloquio internazionale di epigfrafia latina (Genova 20-22 settembre 2001). (Storia Antica 3.) Pp. 534, figs. 69. Giorgio Bretschneider editore, Rome 2003. € 100. ISBN 88-7689-197-8 (paper)

Burns, Thomas S. Rome and the Barbarians, 100 B.C.-A.D. 400. Pp. xiv + 463, figs. 12, maps 6. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2003. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-7306-1 (cloth).

Crawford, Gregory A. Petra and the Nabataeans: A Bibliography. (ATLA Bibliography Series 49.) Pp. 304. Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD 2003. $65. ISBN 0-8108-4846-5 (cloth).

Fredrick, David, ed. The Roman Gaze: Vision, Power, and the Body. Pp. x + 334, figs. 36. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2002. $45 (cloth). ISBN 0-8018-6961-7 (cloth).

Haack, Marie-Laurence. Les haruspices dans le monde romain. (Scripta Antiqua 6.) Pp. 273. Ausonius, Paris 2003. $36. ISBN 2-910023-38-9 (paper).

Corbeill, Anthony. Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome. Pp. 202, figs. 19, table 1. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2004. $37.50. ISBN 0-691-07494-1 (cloth).

Grossmann, Peter, and H.G. Severin. Frühchristliche und byzantinische Bauten im südöstlichen Lykien: Ergebnisse zweiter Surveys. (Istanbuler Forschungen 46.) Pp. xii + 236, figs. 42, pls. 36. Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 2003. ISSN 0723-4333; ISBN 3-8030-1767-X (cloth).

Magness, Jodi. The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine. Pp. xii + 233, figs. 9, CD-ROM with map. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake 2003. $49.50. ISBN 1-57506-070-1 (cloth).

Garofalo, Ivan and Amneris Roselli (edd.), Galenismo e medicina tardoantica. Fonti greche, latine e arabe. Atti del Seminario Internazionale di Siena, Certosa di Pontignano, 9 e 10 settembre 2002. Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 2003. Pp. 354. ISSN 1128-7217.

Hall, Linda Jones (ed.), Confrontation in Late Antiquity. Imperial Presentation and Regional Adaptation. Cambridge: Orchard Academic, 2003. Pp. 181. ISBN 1-903283-08-6.

Recchia, Vincenzo, Lettera e profezia nell'esegesi di Gregorio Magno. Quaderni di "Invigilata Lucernis", 20. Bari: Edipuglia, 2003. Pp. 155. EUR 18.00 (pb). ISBN 88-7228-382-5.

Bowen, Anthony and Peter Garnsey (trans.), Lactantius: Divine Institutes. Translated Texts for Historians, 39. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2003. Pp. 472. £20.00 (pb). ISBN 0-85323-988-6.

Ferguson, Everett, Backgrounds of Early Christianity. Third Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003. Pp. 662; ills. 95. $36.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8028-2221-5.

Fitzgerald, John T., Thomas H. Olbricht, and L. Michael White (edd.), Early Christianity and Classical Culture. Comparative Studies in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe. Supplements to Novum Testamentum, 110. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. 740. EUR 169.00. ISBN 90-04-13022-5.

Rebillard, Éric, Religion et sépulture. L'Église, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquité tardive. Collection Civilisations et sociétés. Paris: Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2003. Pp. 243. EUR 22.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7132-1792-X.

Bradbury, Scott (trans.), Selected Letters of Libanius from the Age of Constantius and Julian. Translated Texts for Historians, 41. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004. Pp. 289; map. £16.50 (pb). ISBN 0-85323-509-0.

Brisson, Luc, Jean-François Pradeau et al. (trans.), Plotin. Traités 1-6. GF Flammarion. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2002. Pp. 292. €8.00 (pb). ISBN 2-08-071155-5.

Brisson, Luc, Jean-François Pradeau et al. (trans.), Plotin. Traités 22-26. GF Flammarion. Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2004. Pp. 258. €9.50 (pb). ISBN 2-08-071198-9.

Constable, Olivia Remie, Housing the Strangers in the Mediterranean World. Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 427. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-81918-0.

Dagron, Gilbert, Emperor and Priest. The Imperial Office in Byzantium. Past & Present Publications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-80123-0.

Leader-Newby, Ruth E., Silver and Society in Late Antiquity. Functions and Meanings of Silver Plate in the Fourth to Seventh Centuries. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. 240. $89.95. ISBN 0-7546-0728-3.

Meier, Mischa, Justinian. Herrschaft, Reich und Religion. C.H.Beck Wissen. München: C.H. Beck, 2004. Pp. 128; ills. 11; maps 2. €7.90 (pb). ISBN 3-406-50832-4.

Rajak, Tessa, The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome. Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. 578. $53.00 (pb). ISBN 0-391-04133-9.

Balch, David L. and Carolyn Osiek (edd.), Early Christian Families in Context. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003. Pp. 412. $28.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8028-3986-X.

Braund, Susanna and Glenn W. Most (edd.), Ancient Anger. Perspectives from Homer to Galen. Yale Classical Studies 32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 325. $65.00. ISBN 0-521-82625-X.

Dillon, John and Lloyd P. Gerson, Neoplatonic Philosophy. Introductory Readings. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2004. Pp. 373. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 0-87220-707-2.

Evers, Cécile and Athena Tsingarida (edd.), Rome et ses provinces. Genèse et diffusion d'une image du pouvoir. Hommages à Jean-Charles Balty. Lucernae Novantiquae. Bruxelles: Le Livre Timperman, 2002. Pp. 302. £44.50 (pb). ISBN 90-71868-56-7.

Freely, John and Ahmet S. Cakmak, Byzantine Monuments of Istanbul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 322. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-77257-5.

Kaldellis, Anthony, Procopius of Caesarea. Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 320. $49.95. ISBN 0-8122-3787-0.

Koester, Helmut (ed.), Ephesos. Metropolis of Asia. An Interdisciplinary Approach to its Archaeology, Religion, and Culture. Harvard Theological Studies, 41. First published in 1995. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 357; map. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01349-2.

Sehlmeyer, Markus (trans.), Origo Gentis Romanae. Texte zur Forschung, 82. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgessellschaft, 2004. Pp. 176. €34.90. ISBN 3-534-16433-4.

Reydellet, Marc (ed.), Venance Fortunat. Poèmes. Tome III. Livres IX-XI. Appendice: In laudem sanctae Mariae. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 214. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-01434-9.

Tuilier, André, Guillaume Bady and Jean Bernardi (edd.), Saint Grégoire de Nazianze. Oeuvres poétiques. Tome I. 1re partie. Poèmes personnels. II, 1, 1-11. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. ccxviii, 209. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00516-1.

Jacobs, Andrew S., Remains of the Jews. The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity. Series "Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion." Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. 249. $55.00. ISBN 0-8047-4705-9.

Lamoureux, Jacques and Noël Aujoulat (edd.), Synésios de Cyrène. Tome IV. Opuscules I. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 347. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00517-6.

Rees, Roger, Diocletian and the Tetrarchy. Debates and Documents in Ancient History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004. Pp. 219. £16.99. ISBN 0-7486-1661-6.

Swain, Simon and Mark Edwards (edd.), Approaching Late Antiquity. The Transformation from Early to Late Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 487. $145.00. ISBN 0-19-926714-6.

Talbert, Richard and Kai Brodersen (edd.), Space in the Roman World. Its Perception and Presentation. Antike Kultur und Geschichte, 5. Münster: LIT, 2004. Pp. 141; figs. 19. €14.90 (pb). ISBN 3-8258-7419-2.

Chausson, François and Étienne Wolff (edd.), Consuetudinis amor. Fragments d'histoire romaine (IIe-VIe siècles) offerts à Jean-Pierre Callu. Saggi di storia antica, 19. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2003. Pp. 456. ISBN 88-8265-216-5.

Halporn, James W. (trans.), Cassiodorus. Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning and 'On the Soul.' With an introduction by Mark Vessey. Translated Texts for Historians, 42. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004. Pp. 315; map. £18.50 (pb). ISBN 0-86323-998-3.

Hankinson, R.J. (trans.), Simplicius. On Aristotle's On the Heavean 1.5-9. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. 181. $69.95. ISBN 0-8014-4212-5.

Hartney, Aideen M., John Chrysostom and the Transformation of the City. London: Duckworth, 2004. Pp. 222. £45.00. ISBN 0-7156-3193-4.

Millar, Fergus, Rome, the Greek World, and the East. Vol. 2: Government, Society & Culture in the Roman Empire. Edited by Hannah M. Cotton & Guy M. Rogers. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. 470. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8078-5520-0.

Porena, Pierfrancesco, Le origini della prefettura del pretorio tardoantica. Saggi di storia antica, 20. Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 2003. Pp. 633. ISBN 88-8265-238-6.

Reeve, M.D. (ed.), Vegetius. Epitoma rei militaris. Oxford Classical Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 240. $72.00. ISBN 0-19-926464-3.

Gourdouba, Maria, Leena Pietilä-Castrén, and Esko Tikkala (edd.), The Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Periods. Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, vol. IX. Helsinki, 2004. Pp. 98; figs. 49. ISBN 951-98806-3-1.

Lieu, Judith M., Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 320. $99.00. ISBN 0-19-926289-6.

Loverance, Rowena, Byzantium. British Museum Paperbacks. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 96; color ills. 64, halftones 40, maps 2. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01389-1.

Narcy, Michel and Éric Rebillard (edd.), Hellénisme & Christianisme. Collection "Mythes, Imaginaires, Religions". Villeneuve d'Ascq: Septentrion, 2004. Pp. 198. €21.00 (pb). ISBN 2-85939-825-2.

Butcher, Kevin, Roman Syria and the Near East. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2004. Pp. 472; ills. 130, maps 2. $55.00. ISBN 0-89236-715-6.

Drews, Robert, Early Riders. The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 218. $90.00. ISBN 0-415-32624-9.

El Cheikh, Nadia Maria, Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs. Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, 36. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 271. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-932885-30-6.

Hines, Brian, Return to the One. Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization. A Modern Exposition of an Ancient Classic, the Enneads. Bloomington, IN: Unlimited Publishing, 2004. Pp. 369. $16.99 (pb). ISBN 1-58832-100-2.

Ousager, Asger, Plotinus on Selfhood, Freedom, and Politics. Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity, VI. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2004. Pp. 397; ills. DKK 318.00. ISBN 87-7934-098-9

Stanton, Graham N., Jesus and Gospel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 239. $23.99 (pb). ISBN 0-521-00802-6.

Barchiesi, Alessandro, Jörg Rüpke, and Susan Stephens (edd.), Rituals in Ink. A Conference on Religion and Literary Production in Ancient Rome, held at Stanford University in February 2002. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 10. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. viii, 182. EUR 43.00 (pb). ISBN 3-515-08526-2.

Clark, Elizabeth A., History, Theory, Text. Historians and the Linguistic Turn. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 325. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01584-3.

Connor, Carolyn L., Women of Byzantium. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. 416. $45.00. ISBN 0-300-09957-6.

Dräger, Paul (trans.), Ausonius. Mosella. Lateinisch-Deutsch. Tusculum Studienausgaben. Düsseldorf: Artemis & Winkler, 2004. Pp. 130. EUR 8.95 (pb). ISBN 3-7608-1380-1.

Feichtinger, Barbara and Helmut Seng (edd.), Die Christen und der Körper. Aspekte der Körperlichkeit in der christlichen Literatur der Spätantike. BzA 184. München/Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 2004. Pp. 212. EUR 88.00. ISBN 3-598-77736-1.

Johnson, William A., Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus. Studies in Book and Print Culture Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. 371; pls. $85.00. ISBN 0-8020-3734-8.

Moralee, Jason, "For Salvation's Sake". Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, and Epigraphic Production in the Roman and Late Antique Near East. Studies in Classics Series. London/New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 244. $65.00. ISBN 0-415-96778-3.

Boatwright, Mary T., Daniel J. Gargola, and Richard J.A. Talbert, The Romans from Village to Empire. A History of Ancient Rome from Earliest Times to Constantine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 516. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 0-19-511876-6.

Boustan, Ra'anan S., and Annette Yoshiko Reed (edd.), Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 335. $80.00. ISBN 0-521-83102-4.

Burridge, Richard A., What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography. Second Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans 2004. Pp. xiv, 366. $34.00 (pb). ISBN 0-8028-0971-5.

Cameron, Alan, Greek Mythography in the Roman World. APA American Classical Studies, 48. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 346. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-517121-7.

Christie, Neil (ed.), Landscapes of Change. Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. 324. $84.95. ISBN 1-84014-617-6.

Gruen, Erich S., Diaspora. Jews amidst Greek and Romans. First published in 2002. Paperback edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 386. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01606-8.

Kessler, Edward, Bound by the Bible. Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 222. $75.00. ISBN 0-521-83542-9.

Salzman, Michele Renee, The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire. First published in 2002. Paperback edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 354. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01603-3.

Penner, Todd, In Praise of Christian Origins. Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic Historiography. Emory Studies in Early Christianity. New York: T & T Clark, 2004. Pp. 400. $65.00. ISBN 0-5670-2620-5.

Bayliss, Richard, Provincial Cilicia and the Archaeology of Temple Conversion. BAR International Series 1281. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004. Pp. 243. £35.00 (pb). ISBN 1-84171-634-0.

Brisson, Luc, How Philosophers Saved Myths. Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology. Originally published in German as Einführung in die Philosophie des Mythos, vol. 1: Antike, Mittelalter und Renaissance (1996). Translated from the French edition Introduction à la philosophie du mythe, vol. 1: Sauver les mythes (1996), by Catherine Tihanyi. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. 224. $30.00. ISBN 0-226-07535-4.

Kelly, Christopher, Ruling the Later Roman Empire. Revealing Antiquity, 15. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 341. $35.00. ISBN 0-674-01564-9.

Kulikowski, Michael, Late Roman Spain and Its Cities. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 489. $55.00. ISBN 0-8018-7978-7.

Wyrick, Jed, The Ascension of Authorship. Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian Traditions. Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, 49. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 508. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 0-674-01662-9.

Borgeaud, Philippe, Mother of the Gods. From Cybele to the Virgin Mary. Originally published as La Mère des dieux: De Cybele à la Vierge Marie (1996). Translated by Lysa Hochroth. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. 186. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-7985-X.

Habermehl, Peter, Perpetua und der Ägypter oder Bilder des Bösen im frühen afrikanischen Christentum. Ein Versuch zur Passio sanctarum Perpetua et Felicitatis. 2., überarbeitete Auflage. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, Bd. 140. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. 341. €91.59. ISBN 3-11-018184-3.

Johnston, Sarah Iles, Religions of the Ancient World. A Guide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 697. $49.95. ISBN 0-674-01517-7.

Krueger, Derek, Writing and Holiness. The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 296. $59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3819-2.

Simon, Bernadette, Nonnos de Panopolis. Les Dionysiaques. Chants XLIV-XLVI. Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2004. Pp. 260. €46.00 (pb). ISBN 2-251-00521-8.

Arce, Javier, ed. Centcelles: El Monumento Tardoromano. (Bibliotheca Italica, Monografias de la Escuela Espanola de Historia y Arqueologia en Roma 25.) Pp. xi + 122, figs. 67, maps 1. "L'ERMA" di Bretschneider, Rome 2002. Euro 78.00. ISBN 88-8265-169-X (paper).

Guzzo, Maria Giulia Amadasi, and Eugenia Equini Schneider. Petra (trans. Lydia G. Cochrane). Pp. ix + 197, b&w figs. 37, color figs. 3, color pls. 189, b&w pls. 25, tables 2, maps 3. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2002. $45.00. ISBN 0-226-31125-2 (cloth)

Drews, Robert. Early Riders: The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe. Pp. xi + 218, figs. 31. Routledge, New York 2004. ISBN 0-415-32624-9 (paper).

Dunand, Françoise, and Christiane Zivie-Coche. Gods and Men in Egypt, 3000 BCE to 395 CE (trans. David Lorton). Pp. xviii + 378, figs. 23, maps 4. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2004. ISBN 0-8104-4165-X (cloth).

Faulkner, Neil. The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain. Pp. 288, figs. 37. Trafalgar Square Publishing, North Pomfret VT 2004. $22.95. ISBN 0-7524-2573-0 (paper).