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-Castrén, 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.
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.
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.
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