Pub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1017/s0075435823000400
C. Schmieder
{"title":"LEA K. CLINE and NATHAN T. ELKINS (EDS), THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ROMAN IMAGERY AND ICONOGRAPHY (Oxford handbooks). New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii, 578, illus. isbn 9780190850326. £97.00.","authors":"C. Schmieder","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46164513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1017/s0075435823000254
Federico De Romanis
{"title":"PETER CANDY and EMILIA MATAIX FERRÁNDIZ (EDS), ROMAN LAW AND MARITIME COMMERCE. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. Pp. x + 204, illus. isbn 9781474478144. £85.00.","authors":"Federico De Romanis","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41604546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1017/s0075435823000230
J. Banaji
{"title":"EMILIO ZUCCHETTI and ANNA MARIA CIMINO (EDS), ANTONIO GRAMSCI AND THE ANCIENT WORLD (Routledge monographs in classical studies). London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. xiv + 387. isbn 9780367193140. £120.00.","authors":"J. Banaji","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47341359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1017/s0075435823000266
J. Glancy
{"title":"CHRIS L. DE WET, MAIJASTINA KAHLOS and VILLE VUOLANTO (EDS), SLAVERY IN THE LATE ANTIQUE WORLD, 150–700 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx + 359, illus. isbn 9781108476225. £90.00.","authors":"J. Glancy","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000266","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44078377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1017/s0075435823000229
Thomas Runeckles
This article examines the important roles played by gods in the friezes of the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius and argues that they are treated in a distinctive ‘documentary’ style, comparable in certain ways to accounts of divine action in Roman historiography and designed to produce a compelling narrative effect. First, the Columns and the deities they depict are discussed. The article then looks at cognate descriptions of gods in historiographical texts. Finally, other contemporary monuments that portray the gods are briefly examined to bring out further the distinctive character of the gods on the Columns. This analysis will be seen to have wider implications for our understanding of ‘historical narrative reliefs’ and imperial representation.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1017/s0075435823000278
Matthias Haake
{"title":"SOPHIA BÖNISCH-MEYER, DIALOGANGEBOTE: DIE ANREDE DES KAISERS JENSEITS DER OFFIZIELLEN TITULATUR (Impact of empire 39). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. x + 625. isbn 9789004443730. €125.00.","authors":"Matthias Haake","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000278","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47931992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.1017/s0075435823000308
C. Trinacty
{"title":"ERICA M. BEXLEY, SENECA'S CHARACTERS: FICTIONAL IDENTITIES AND IMPLIED HUMAN SELVES (Cambridge classical studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. x + 388. isbn 9781108477604. £90.00.","authors":"C. Trinacty","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47460576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.1017/s007543582300028x
Jason König
{"title":"JARED SECORD, CHRISTIAN INTELLECTUALS AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE: FROM JUSTIN MARTYR TO ORIGEN. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 202. isbn 9780271087078. £79.95/US$112.95.","authors":"Jason König","doi":"10.1017/s007543582300028x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s007543582300028x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47909153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.1017/s0075435823000291
Thea Ravasi
{"title":"CHRISTOPHER SIWICKI, ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION AND HERITAGE IN IMPERIAL ROME (Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 301, illus. isbn 9780198848578. £90.00.","authors":"Thea Ravasi","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49307721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}