Serinity Young, Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females, Oxford University Press, New York 2018. From the asparas of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women-some with wings, others with clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses-reveal both fascination with Read more…
Barbara K. Gold, Perpetua: Athlete of God, Oxford University Press, New York 2018. Perpetua was an early Christian martyr who died in Roman Carthage in 203 CE, along with several fellow martyrs, including one other woman, Felicitas. She has attracted great interest for two main reasons: she was one Read more…
Christian H. Bull, The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus. The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom, Brill, Leiden 2018. In The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian H. Bull argues that the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus reflect the spiritual exercises and ritual practices of loosely organized brotherhoods in Read more…
David Konstan, In the Orbit of Love: Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome, Oxford University Press, New York 2018. This book is about love in the classical world – not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but Read more…
Alexandra K. Bartzoka, Le Tribunal de L’Héliée: Justice et Politique Dans l’Athènes du VIe Au IVe Siècles Avant J. -C., Peter Lang, 2018. Le tribunal de l’Héliée est une des institutions les plus importantes de la démocratie athénienne aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C. Au début de chaque année, Read more…
The book series “Berlin Studies of the Ancient World”, issued by the Excellence Cluster Topoi, brings together contributions from all fields of classical studies, from pre- and early history and classical archeology to ancient philosophy, theory of science and theology. Monographs and volumes which present the research results of the Read more…
David E. Nyström, The Apology of Justin Martyr: Literary Strategies and the Defence of Christianity, Mohr Siebeck, 2018. In his Apologia pro Christianis, Justin Martyr uses some major apologetic strategies to defend and promote Christianity. These are here identified as the ‘logos doctrine’, the ‘theft theory’, the ‘proof from prophecy’ Read more…
Wilbert P. Stelzer, A New Reconstruction of the Text of 2 Corinthians in Pelagius’ Commentary on the Pauline Epistles, Gorgias Press, 2018. What sort of Latin biblical text did Pelagius have when he wrote his commentary on the Pauline Epistles? Did he use an Old Latin text, a Vulgate Read more…
Julian Barr, Tertullian and the Unborn Child: Christian and Pagan Attitudes in Historical Perspective, Routledge, London 2017. Tertullian of Carthage was the earliest Christian writer to argue against abortion at length, and the first surviving Latin author to consider the unborn child in detail. This book is the first comprehensive Read more…
David Wheeler-Reed, Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the early Christians,Yale University Press, New Haven – London, 2017. A New Testament scholar challenges the belief that American family values are based on “Judeo-Christian” norms by drawing unexpected comparisons between ancient Christian theories and modern discourses. Challenging Read more…