{"title":"CRISTINA ROSILLO-LÓPEZ AND MARTA GARCÍA MORCILLO (EDS), MANAGING INFORMATION IN THE ROMAN ECONOMY (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies). Pp. xiv + 339. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. isbn 9783030540999. £109.99.","authors":"Barbara Abatino, G. Dari‐Mattiacci","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000879","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48705885","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}
{"title":"Roman Failure: Privilege and Precarity at Early Imperial Podere Marzuolo, Tuscany","authors":"Astrid Van Oyen","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000958","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The case of the early imperial small rural settlement of Marzuolo, in south-central Etruria, paints a micro-history of arrested developments: a couple of decades into the site's existence, an abandoned wine-production facility was converted into a blacksmithing workshop, which in turn burnt down and was abandoned soon after. But were both these endings failures? This article uses the concept of failure as an epistemic lens to examine inequality: who could fail in the Roman world, and for whom was failure not an option? It argues that failure was tied up with particular notions of the future, which were not equally distributed. Yet in contrast to modern paradigms, in the Roman world even the privileged seem not to have embraced failure as a stepping-stone towards growth.","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49146238","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}
{"title":"ANDREW FELDHERR, AFTER THE PAST: SALLUST ON HISTORY AND WRITING HISTORY (Blackwell/Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition). Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2021. Pp. x + 318. isbn 9781119076704. £35.99.","authors":"C. Krebs","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000892","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49213557","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}
{"title":"ROSAMOND MCKITTERICK, ROME AND THE INVENTION OF THE PAPACY: THE LIBER PONTIFICALIS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii + 271. isbn 9781108836821. £29.99.","authors":"J. Curran","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000867","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49606202","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}
{"title":"SERAINA RUPRECHT, UNTER FREUNDEN: NÄHE UND DISTANZ IN SOZIALEN NETZWERKEN DER SPÄTANTIKE (Vestigia 74). Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2021. Pp. viii + 360. isbn 9783406773990. €59.90.","authors":"Lieve Van Hoof","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000934","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45168487","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}
{"title":"YELENA BARAZ, READING ROMAN PRIDE (Emotions of the past). New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii + 325. isbn 9780197531594. £47.99.","authors":"R. R. Caston","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000855","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45265666","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}
{"title":"MATTIAS P. GASSMAN, WORSHIPPERS OF THE GODS: DEBATING PAGANISM IN THE FOURTH-CENTURY ROMAN WEST. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp xi + 236, illus. isbn 259780190082444. £55.00.","authors":"Stefan W. Metz","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000910","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43166783","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}
{"title":"BARNABY TAYLOR, LUCRETIUS AND THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE (Oxford classical monographs). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. x + 223. isbn 9780198754909. £60.00.","authors":"D. Sedley","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000922","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48421105","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}
{"title":"AMY RUSSELL and MONICA HELLSTRÖM (EDS), THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF ROMAN IMPERIAL IMAGERY. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xvi + 292, illus. isbn 9781108835121. £75.00.","authors":"M. Mccarty","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000909","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"46 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41316138","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}
{"title":"JANJA SOLDO (ED.), SENECA, EPISTULAE MORALES BOOK 2: A COMMENTARY WITH TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND INTRODUCTION. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxxviii + 346, illus. isbn 9780198854340. £120.00.","authors":"H. Hine","doi":"10.1017/s0075435822000880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435822000880","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47810745","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}