{"title":"VALENTINA ARENA and JONATHAN PRAG with assistant editor ANDREW STILES (EDS), A COMPANION TO THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). Hoboken, NJ and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2022. Pp. xix + 595. <scp>isbn</scp> 9781444339659. £135.00.","authors":"Frédéric Hurlet","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000497","url":null,"abstract":"VALENTINA ARENA and JONATHAN PRAG with assistant editor ANDREW STILES (EDS), A COMPANION TO THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). Hoboken, NJ and Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2022. Pp. xix + 595. isbn 9781444339659. £135.00.","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136354669","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":"BETTINA REITZ-JOOSSE, BUILDING IN WORDS: THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION IN LATIN LITERATURE (Classical culture and society). New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 271, illus. isbn 978019761068. US$99.00.","authors":"Jared Hudson","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45241659","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":"YULIYA MINETS, THE SLOW FALL OF BABEL: LANGUAGES AND IDENTITIES IN LATE ANTIQUE CHRISTIANITY. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi + 418. isbn 9781108833462. £90.00.","authors":"J. Clackson","doi":"10.1017/s007543582300045x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s007543582300045x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46120241","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":"E. H. SHAW, SALLUST AND THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE AT ROME (Historiography of Rome and its empire 13). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. x + 506. isbn 9789004501713. €132.00.","authors":"J. Master","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000515","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41865190","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":"HENDRIKUS A. M. VAN WIJLICK, ROME AND THE NEAR EASTERN KINGDOMS AND PRINCIPALITIES, 44–31 BC: A STUDY OF POLITICAL RELATIONS DURING CIVIL WAR (Impact of empire 38). Leiden and Boston: 2021. Pp. xii + 307, illus. isbn 9789004441743. €119.00.","authors":"Margherita Facella","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000461","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48745937","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":"MARIAN HELM, KAMPF UM MITTELITALIEN: ROMS UNGERADER WEG ZUR GROßMACHT (Hermes Einzelschrift 122). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. Pp. 450. isbn 9783515131131. €82.00.","authors":"Seth Bernard","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41622959","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":"RICHARD P. SALLER, PLINY’S ROMAN ECONOMY: NATURAL HISTORY, INNOVATION, AND GROWTH. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. viii + 198. isbn 9780691229546. £28.00.","authors":"D. Rathbone","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45197207","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":"KATELL BERTHELOT, JEWS AND THEIR ROMAN RIVALS: PAGAN ROME'S CHALLENGE TO ISRAEL. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xxi + 519. isbn 9780691199290. £35.00.","authors":"Seth Schwartz","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000539","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47418835","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":"Taxing Wealth in the Just City: Cicero and the Roman Census","authors":"A. Monson","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000436","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Cicero claims that states were created for the protection of property, so a statesman should try to avoid levying property taxes. A contrary principle holds that, as long as the state is common to all, those who benefit from it most should compensate those who benefit least to maintain distributive justice. With this frame of reference, the article asks two related questions. First, to what extent does Cicero differ from Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Livy, and the Stoics, who describe compensation or common ownership as a principle of fiscal fairness? Second, how does Cicero's political theory reflect the misgivings of wealthy Romans about state power and redistribution in the absence of compensatory taxation from 167 to 43 b.c.e.? I argue that his interpretation of the Servian census entrenches the ‘pre-fiscal’ distribution of property in the Roman constitution, which compromises the impartiality of the state and weakens its ability to respond to fiscal crises.","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44455935","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":"EVELYN ADKINS, DISCOURSE, KNOWLEDGE, AND POWER IN APULEIUS’ METAMORPHOSES. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 277. isbn 9780472133055. $80.00.","authors":"J. Soldo","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000412","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45912047","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}