Actualities: "New" books about Roman Religion

• Jaillard, Dominique; Waldner, Katharina (Hrsg.), La divination dans l’antiquité. Une enquête comparatiste, Cahiers Glotz 16, 2005 [Sammelpublikation von Tagunsbeiträten, erschienen 2007].
• Kunz, H. Sicilia. Religionsgeschichte des römischen Sizilien, Tübingen 2006, Mythos 2 n.s. (2008) 166-167.
• Kleine Leute und große Helden in Homers Odyssee und Kallimachos’ Hekale, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 274, De Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2010
• CLARK, A., Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome, 2007
• NOGALES, T. and J. GONZÁLEZ (Eds), Culto imperial: política y poder, 2007
• BONNET, C., S. RIBICHINI and D. STEUERNAGEL (Eds), Religioni in contatto nel Mediterraneo antico. Modalità di diffusione e processi di interferenza. Atti del 3 colloquio “Le Religioni Orientali nel Mondo Greco e Romano, 2008
• BOWES, K., Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity,2008
•  FRANGOULIDIS, S., Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, 2008
• GARDNER, G. and K. OSTERLOH (Eds), Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World ,2008
• Marie Ver Eecke, La République et le roi: le mythe de Romulus à la fin de la République romaine. De l'archéologie à l'histoire. Paris: 2008. Pp. 588
• VAN ANDRINGA, W. (Ed.), Sacrifices, marché de la viande et pratiques alimentaires dans les cités du monde romain, 2008 
• KROPP, A., Magische Sprachverwendung in vulgärlateinischen Fluchtafeln (Defixiones), 2008 
• HIRSCH-LUIPOLD, R., H. GÖRGEMANNS and M. VON ALBRECHT (Eds), Religiöse Philosophie und philosophische Religion der frühen Kaiserzeit: Literaturgeschichtliche Perspektiven, 2009 
• Steve Mason, Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins: Methods and Categories. Peabody, MA: 2009. Pp. xx, 443.
• Jörg Ulrich, Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Maijastina Kahlos, Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Christian Apologetics. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 5. Frankfurt am Main: 2009. Pp. 130
• John Bodel, Mika Kajava, Dediche sacre nel mondo greco-romano: diffusione, funzioni, tipologie = Religious Dedications in the Greco-Roman World: Distribution, Typology, Use. Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, American Academy in Rome, 19-20 aprile, 2006. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae 35. Roma: 2009. Pp. 420.
• Maria Xagorari-Gleißner, Meter Theon: die Göttermutter bei den Griechen. Peleus Bd 40. Ruhpolding: 2009. Pp. 175
• Philip Kiernan, Miniature Votive Offerings in the North-west Provinces of the Roman Empire. Mentor Bd. 4. Mainz/Ruhpolding: 2009. Pp. vi, 300
• Tesse Dieder Stek, Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy: A Contextual Approach to Religious Aspects of Rural Society after the Roman Conquest. Amsterdam Archaeological Studies 14. Amsterdam: 2009. Pp. x, 263
• Philip A. Harland, Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians: Associations, Judeans, and Cultural Minorities. New York: 2009. Pp. xii, 239
• Feyo L. Schuddeboom, Greek Religious Terminology – Telete & Orgia: A Revised and Expanded English Edition of the Studies by Zijderveld and Van der Burg. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 169. Leiden/Boston: 2009. Pp. xxii, 285.

• Fritz Graf, Apollo. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World.   London/New York:  Routledge, 2009.  Pp. xviii,190.

• Antonella Pautasso, Stipe votiva del santuario di Demetra a Catania, 2: la ceramica greco-orientale. Studi e materiali di archeologia greca 9. Catania: 2009. Pp. 154; 23 p. of plates
• Martino Menghi, L'etica della temperanza: fortuna di un ideale nella società antica. Temi metafisici e problemi del pensiero antico 116. Milano: 2009. Pp. vii, 204
• Dorothee Elm, Thorsten Fitzon, Kathrin Liess, Sandra Linden, Alterstopoi: das Wissen von den Lebensaltern in Literatur, Kunst und Theologie. Berlin/New York: 2009. Pp. vi, 346.
• Agnès Bérenger, Éric Perrin-Saminadayar, Les entrées royales et impériales: histoire, représentation et diffusion d'une cérémonie publique, de l'Orient ancien à Byzance. de l'archéologie à l'histoire. Paris: 2009. Pp. 292.
• Mariangela Puglisi, La Sicilia da Dionisio I a Sesto Pompeo: circolazione e funzione della moneta. Pelorias 16. Messina: 2009. Pp. 519
•  Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Jörg Ulrich, David Brakke, Critique and Apologetics: Jews, Christians, and Pagans in Antiquity. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 4. Frankfurt am Main: 2009. Pp. 327.
•  Sarah Hitch, King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad. Hellenic Studies 25. Washington, DC: 2009. Pp. ix, 235
• Giovanni Casadio, Patricia A. Johnston, Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia. Austin: 2009. Pp. xv, 372
• Cristina Mazzoni, She-wolf: The Story of a Roman Icon. Cambridge/New York: 2010. Pp. xiv, 282
• Amar Annus, Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World. Oriental Institute Seminars, no 6. Chicago, IL: 2010. Pp. viii, 351.
• Maria Grazia Lancellotti, Dea Caelestis: studi e materiali per la storia di una divinità dell'Africa romana. Collezione di studi fenici 44. Pisa/ Roma: 2010. Pp. 143
•  Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos Bakirtzis, Steven J. Friesen, From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikê: Studies in Religion and Archaeology. Harvard Theological Studies 64. Cambridge, MA: 2010. Pp. xiv, 437
• Paolo Liverani, Giandomenico Spinola, The Vatican Necropoles: Rome's City of the Dead. Turnhout: 2010. Pp. 352.
• Heike Bartel, Anne Simon, Unbinding Medea: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Classical Myth from Antiquity to the 21st Century. London: 2010. Pp. xvi, 336
• Jan N. Bremmer, Jitse H. F. Dijkstra, J. E. A. Kroesen, Y. Kuiper, Myths, Martyrs, and Modernity : Studies in the History of Religions in Honour of Jan N. Bremmer. Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions, 127. Leiden/Boston: 2010. Pp. lvi, 701
•  Nikolaos Arvanitis, Il santuario di Vesta. La casa delle vestali e il tempio di Vesta, VIII sec. a.C.-64 d.C. Rapporto preliminare. Workshop di archeologia classica 3. Pisa/Roma: 2010. Pp. 110.
•   Bezalel Bar-Kochva, The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period. Hellenistic Culture and Society 51. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: 2010. Pp. xiv, 606
• Karen K. Hersch, The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity. Cambridge/New York: 2010. Pp. xii, 341
•  L. Bouke van der Meer, Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion: Proceedings of the International Colloquium Leiden, May 29 and 30, 2008. BABesch Annual Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology, Supplement 16. Leuven/Paris/Walpole, MA: 2010. Pp. vii, 164
• Luc Brisson, Jean-François Pradeau, Plotin. Traités 51-54; Porphyre. Vie de Plotin. GF 1444. Paris: 2010. Pp. 384
• Elizabeth Keitel, Jane W. Crawford, Cicero: Pro Caelio. Focus Classical Commentary. Newburyport, MA: 2010. Pp. viii, 123.
• Thorsten Burkard, Markus Schauer, Claudia Wiener, Vestigia Vergiliana: Vergil-Rezeption in der Neuzeit. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft Bd 3. Berlin/New York: 2010. Pp. x, 473
• Eric M. Orlin, Foreign Cults in Rome: Creating a Roman Empire. Oxford/New York: 2010. Pp. xi, 248
• Jan N. Bremmer, Andrew Erskine, The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations. Edinburgh Leventis Studies 5. Edinburgh: : 2010. Pp. xxi, 528.
• Giulio Guidorizzi, Ai confini dell'anima: i Greci e la follia. Scienza e idee. Milano: 2010. Pp. 225.
•  Elias K. Petropoulos, Alexander A. Maslennikov, Ancient Sacral Monuments in the Black Sea. Thessaloniki: 2010. Pp. 576
• Markus Bockmuehl, The Remembered Peter: In Ancient Reception and Modern Debate. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 262. Tübingen: 2010. Pp. xii, 263.
• Lisa Kaaren Bailey, Christianity's Quiet Success: The Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon Collection and the Power of the Church in Late Antique Gaul. Notre Dame, IN: 2010. Pp. x, 278.
• A. T. Fear, Orosius. Seven Books of History against the Pagans. Translated Texts for Historians 54. Liverpool: 2010. Pp. 456
• D. Vincent Twomey, Janet E. Rutherford, The Holy Spirit in the Fathers of the Church: The Proceedings of the Seventh International Patristic Conference, Maynooth, 2008. Dublin: 2010. Pp. 203.
• Blossom Stefaniw, Mind, Text, and Commentary: Noetic Exegesis in Origen of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus. Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 6. Frankfurt am Main: 2010. Pp. 416
• David Brakke, The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity. Cambridge, MA/London: 2010. Pp. xiii, 164
• John F. Shean, Soldiering for God: Christianity and the Roman Army. History of Warfare 61. Leiden/Boston: 2010. Pp. xviii, 452.
• Bonnet Corinne, Carlo Ossola, John Scheid, Rome et ses religions : culte, morale, spiritualité. En relisant Lux Perpetua de Franz Cumont. Supplemento a Mythos 1 n.s. 2010. Caltanissetta: 2010. Pp. Pp. ix, 145
• Ralf Krumeich, Christian Witschel, Die Akropolis von Athen im Hellenismus und in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Wiesbaden: 2010. Pp. x, 445, 81 p. of plates.
• Magali Bailliot, Magie et sortilèges dans l'Antiquité romaine: archéologie des rituels et des images. Paris: 2010. Pp. 212; xix p. of plates.
• Athanassia Zografou, Chemins d'Hécate: portes, routes, carrefours et autres figures de l'entre-deux. Kernos. Supplément 24. Liège: 2010. Pp. 369.
•  Stephen Newmyer, Animals in Greek and Roman Thought: A Sourcebook. Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World. London/New York: 2010. Pp. 142
•  Emma Scioli, Christine Walde, Sub imagine somni: Nighttime Phenomena in Greco-Roman Culture. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 46. Pisa: 2010. Pp. xvii, 313.
• Maria Cruz Cardete del Olmo, Paisaje, identidad y religión: imágenes de la Sicilia antigua. Colección dirigida por M.a Eugenia Aubet. Barcelona: 2010. Pp. 224
• Paula Fredriksen, Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism. New Haven/London: 2010. Pp. xxiii, 488
• Bremmer, Ian M./ Formisano, Marco (Hrsg.), Perpetua’s Passions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010 
  
• ohn A. MacPhail, Jr., Porphyry's Homeric Questions on the Iliad: Text, Translation, Commentary. Texte und Kommentare, Bd 36. Berlin/New York: 2011. Pp. 310.
• Olga Palagia, Bonna D. Wescoat, Samothracian Connections: Essays in Honor of James R. McCredie. Oxford/Oakville, CT: 2010. Pp. vi, 242
• Matthew Robinson, A Commentary on Ovid's Fasti, Book 2. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford/New York: 2011. Pp. xiii, 5
• Sergio Audano, Giovanni Cipriani, Aspetti della Fortuna dell'Antico nella Cultura Europea: atti della settima giornata di studi, Sestri Levante, 19 marzo 2010. Echo, 1. Foggia: 2011. Pp. 111. 
• David Mankin, Cicero, De oratore Book III. Cambridge: 2011. Pp. xii, 348.
• Robert Shorrock, The Myth of Paganism: Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity. Classical Literature and Society. London: 2011. Pp. ix, 181
• Valerie M. Hope, Janet Huskinson, Memory and Mourning: Studies on Roman Death. Oxford/Oakville, CT: 2011. Pp. xxiv, 200.
• Philip A. Harland, Travel and Religion in Antiquity. Studies in Christianity and Judaism/Études sur le christianisme et le judaisme, 21. Waterloo: 2011. Pp. xii, 289.
• Steven Snape, Ancient Egyptian Tombs: the Culture of Life and Death. Blackwell ancient religions. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: 2011. Pp. xvi, 289.
• Alan Cameron, The Last Pagans of Rome. Oxford; New York: 2011. Pp. xi, 878
• EAD. et al. (Hg.), Allmacht und Ohnmacht. Antike Vorstellungen über das Verhältnis von Göttern, Schicksal und Menschen. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011
• Walter Burkert, Kleine Schriften III: Mystica, Orphica, Pythagorica (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2006). - IV/V: Mythica, Ritualia, Religiosa 1/2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht, 2011).  

Actualities: Living trough the Dead

Living through the Dead - burial and commemoration in the Classical World (2011., Oxbow Books,209. p.) by Maureen Carroll and Jane Rempel (editors) is a part of the series of Studies of Funerary Archaeology edited by the Oxbow Books, specializing on funerary archaeology from Prehistory to modern archaeological techniques used in this field. The monograph by two leading scholars of the field from the Sheffield University is the result of a Conference held in 2006 at the same University. From the papers presented in the volume, the article of Carroll about the damnatio memoriae on the tombstones of ordinary people as a sociological, religious and cultural phenomena is a quite new topic in the field of funerary religion and concepts. Another article from Roman rituals is about the so called resectum, the retaining a piece of bone of the dead as an act of mos maiorum.
About the book: "This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific sets of data, this volume instead focuses on a series of topical connections that highlight important facets of death and commemoration significant to the larger Classical world. Living through the deadinvestigates the subject of death and commemoration from a diverse set of archaeologically informed approaches, including visual reception, detailed analysis of excavated remains, landscape, and post-classical reflections and draws on artefactual, documentary and pictorial evidence. The nine papers present recent research by some of the leading voices on the subject, as well as some fresh perspectives. Case studies come from Thermopylae, the Bosporan kingdom, Athens, Republican Rome, Pompeii and Egypt. As a collected volume, they provide thematically linked investigations of key issues in ritual, memory and (self)presentation associated with death and burial in the Classical period. As such, this volume will be of particular interest to postgraduate students and academics with specialist interests in the archaeology of the Classical world and also more broadly, as a source of comparative material, to people working on issues related to the archaeology of death and commemoration" (loc. cit.) 

Review of the book at Bryn Mawr: HERE  

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