A round up of books not yet acquired

A favorite ritual of the AIA/SCS is to survey the book tables for material relevant to current or future research and teaching.

Teaching

After Alexander

FLOODED PASTS: UNESCO, NUBIA, AND THE RECOLONIZATION OF ARCHAEOLOGY by WILLIAM CARRUTHERS

Pre-Islamic Arabia: Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities during Late Antiquity by Valentina A. Grasso

CITY and EMPIRE in the AGE of the SUCCESSORS: URBANIZATION AND SOCIAL RESPONSE IN THE MAKING OF THE HELLENISTIC KINGDOMS by RYAN ВОЕНМ

Ancient Africa: a Global History, to 300 CE by Christopher Ehret

Sex and Gender

FERTILITY, IDEOLOGY, AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION AT ROME by Angela Hug

MEDICINE, HEALTH, & HEALING in the ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN 500 ВСЕ-600 СЕ a Sourcebook by KRISTI UPSON-SAIA, HEIDI MARX, & JARED SECORD (parts only but good for college library collection period)

Research

ROMA TRAVERSATA Tracing Historic Pathways through Rome by Allan Ceen [maybe relevant to Dionysius chapter on city of Rome]

THE VOICES OF THE CONSUL: THE RHETORICS OF CICERO’S DE LEGE AGRARIA I AND II by BRIAN A. KROSTENKO

Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome Edited by Martin T. Dinter and Charles Geurin [I’d have bought this on the spot but it was already sold]

The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium Sacrifice and the Materiality of Roman Religion by Claudia Moser [super relevant for contextualizing coins as votives and evolution of cult practice; another one that was sold before I saw it]

A Culture of Civil War? Bellum civile and political communication in Late Republican Rome Edited by Henning Börm, Ulrich Gotter and Wolfgang Havener [regretting not buying this one – toc in photos]

A book on spoils of which I got photos of the toc but not cover… smh

Poetics of the First Punic War by Thomas Biggs [first three chapters hyper relevant]

GABII THROUGH ITS ARTEFACTS Edited by Laura M. Banducci and Mattia D’Acri [must ILL coin chapter]

The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Akrai/Acrae, Sicily Edited by Roksana Chowaniec and Marta Fitula [ill seals chapter]

Coins and Economy in Magdala/Taricheae by BRUNO CALLEGHER

CROSSING THE POMERIUM:The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine by MICHAEL KOORTBOJIAN – only really relevant for first sections— ILL

Translations and Commentaries

XENOPHON The Shorter Writings EDITED BY GREGORY A. McBRAYER

Cicero ON DUTIES TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND INDEXES BY BENJAMIN PATRICK NEWTON

CICERO, De haruspicum responsis, INTRODUCTION, TEXT, TRANSLATION, & COMMENTARY by Anthony Corbeill

LIVY The Fragments & Periochae Edited with an Introduction, Translation, & Commentary by D. S. LEVENE ***

A Commentary on Cicero De Divinatione II by ANDREW R. DYCK

SERVIUS COMMENTAIRE SUR L’ÉNÉIDE DE VIRGILE LIVRE VIII [bude]

Polybius Book 1 A Commentary David D. Phillips

General interest

Theater and SPECTACLE in THE ART OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE By KATHERINE M. D. DUNBABIN — many many lovely illustrations!

ON ROMAN RELIGION: LIVED RELIGION AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN ANCIENT ROME by JÖRG RÜPKE – short and useful

THE ALTERNATIVE AUGUSTAN AGE Edited by KIT MORRELL, JOSIAH OSGOOD, and KATHRYN WELCH

LIVING THEATRE in the ANCIENT ROMAN HOUSE: Theatricalism in the Domestic Sphere By RICHARD C. BEACHAM And HUGH DENARD

Aphrodisias XIII: Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias by Michael Crawford

Collecting and Collectors from Antiquity to Modernity, Alexandra Carpino, Tiziana D’Angelo, Maya Muratov & David Saunders (eds.) – good content on gems

PLINY’S ROMAN ECONOMY: Natural History, Innovation, and Growth by RICHARD P. SALLER

UNBOUND FROM ROME: ART AND CRAFT inA FLUID LANDSCAPE ca. 650-250 ВСЕ by JOHN NORTH HOPKINS

DI MANES, BELIEF & THE CULT OF THE DEAD

The Ancient Roman afterlife by CHARLES W. KING

SAECULUM: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman thought by Paul Hay