Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View journal at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Pergamos. An unexplored fortified site in north-eastern Greece By Patrik Klingborg (Uppsala University), Georgia Galani (Swedish Institute at Athens), Jesper Blid (Independent scholar), Stavroula Dadaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Kavala) & Penelope Malama (Ephorate of Antiquities of Kavala) Abstract The aim of this article is to present the first results of a project investigating the hitherto unexplored site of Pergamos, located on a hill known as Koules/Alonaki just to the south of modern Moustheni in the Pieria valley. The site has a long history, with the earliest traces of human activity dating to the Late Bronze Age and the first visible architectural remains—impressive and well-preserved fortifications built in a stack-work technique—originating in the Late Archaic period. Following this, surface finds testify to activity and habitation throughout the centuries until a substantial strengthening of the defensive walls during Late Roman or medieval times, before the site was abandoned at a currently unknown point. To achieve the aim the article begins with an introduction to the site…

Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View journal at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Book reviews Vassilis Petrakis | J.C. Wright & M. Dabney with contributions by P. Acheson, S.E. Allen, K.M. Forste, P. Halstead, S.M.A. Hoffmann, A. Karabatsoli, K. Kaza-Papageorgiou, B. Lis, R. Mersereau, H. Mommsen, J.B. Rutter, T. Theodoropoulou & J.E. Tomlinson, The Mycenaean settlement on Tsoungiza Hill (Nemea Valley Archaeological Project, 3), Princeton, New Jersey: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2020. xlii + 1,191 pp., 503 b/w figs, 150 tables. ISBN 978-0-87661-924-7 (cloth). https://doi.org/10.2972/j.ctv22wtqv8 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-16-12 Jenifer Neils | E. Rystedt, Excursions into Greek and Roman imagery (Classical Foundations), Abingdon: Routledge 2023. 272 pp. 90 b/w illus. ISBN 979-0-414-40906-3 (pb). https://doi.org/10.4324/b22992 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-16-13 Georgia Galani | V. Evangelidis, The archaeology of Roman Macedonia. Urban and rural environments, Oxbow Books: Oxford & Philadelphia 2022, 223 pp., ISBN 978-1-78925-801-1. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2v6pckz https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-16-14 Anas Al Khabour | S. Minna, ed., Challenges, strategies and high-tech applications for saving the cultural heritage of Syria. Proceedings of the workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016 (Oriental and European Archaeology, 21), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences 2022, 247 pp. ISBN: 978-3-7001-8374-7. https://doi.org/10.1553/978oeaw83747 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-16-15 Bibliographical information ‘Book reviews’, Opuscula. Annual…

Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View journal at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Dissertation abstracts 2020–2022 Samuel Douglas | Scripta Imagine. Buildings, transformations, and rhetorical ekphrasis in Statius’ Silvae, Uppsala University 2022. ISBN 978-91-506-2938-5. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-470916 Georgia Galani | Imprints of Roman Imperium. Bronze coinages in the Republican eastern provinces, Stockholm University 2022. ISBN 978-91-7911-722-1. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-199245 Fanny Kärfve | Greeting the visitor. A contextualising study of fauces-mosaics in Pompeii, Lund University 2022. ISBN 978-91-89415-13-3. https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/publications/greeting-the-visitor-a-contextualising-study-of-ifauces-imosaics- Tuomo Nuorluoto | Roman female cognomina. Studies in the nomenclature of Roman women, Uppsala University 2021, ISBN 978-91-506-2858-6. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-429760 Christopher Nuttall | Seascape dialogues. Human-sea inter­action in the Aegean from Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age, Uppsala University 2021. ISBN 978-91-506-2910-1. https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-457245 Hampus Olsson | Cultural and socio-political development in south Etruria. The Biedano region in the 5th to 1st centuries BC, Lund University 2021. ISBN 978-91-89213-91-3. https://portal.research.lu.se/sv/publications/cultural-and-socio-political-development-in-south-etruria-the-bie Cecilia Sandström | Encountering environments. Natural conditions for subsistence and trade at Monte Polizzo, Sicily, 650–550 BC, Gothenburg University 2021. ISBN 978-91-8009-406-1. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/67599 Fredrik Sixtensson | Dēmokratia.The prehistory of a word in relation to the Greek typology of constitutions, Uppsala University 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-455670 Oda Elisabeth Wiese Tvedt | Plato’s Republic on democracy….

Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, with the aid of a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. View journal at ERIH PLUS. All content available with open access. Book reviews Troels Myrup Kristensen (Aarhus University, Denmark) | J. Siapkas, Från Olympia till Leonidas (Antikvetenskapens teoretiska landskap, 2), Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2018. 368 pp. ISBN 978-91-88661-69-2. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-13-10 Filmo Verhagen (Uppsala University, Sweden) | W. Scheidel, Escape from Rome. The failure of empire and the road to prosperity, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2019. xvii + 670 pp., 56 figures and 5 tables. ISBN 978-0-6911721-8-7. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691198835 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-13-11 Georgia Galani (Stockholm University, Sweden) | V. di Napoli, F. Camia, V. Evangelidis, D. Grigoropoulos, D. Rogers, S. Vlizos (eds.), What’s new in Roman Greece? Recent work on the Greek Mainland and the islands in the Roman period. Proceedings of a conference held in Athens, 8–10 October 2015 (ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ, 80), National Hellenic Research Foundation/Institute of Historical Research: Athens 2018. 646 pp.,16 pls. ISBN 978-960-9538-79-4. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-13-12 Johannes Siapkas (Stockholm University, Sweden) | L.M. Andersen Funder, T. Myrup Kristensen, & V. Nørskov, Classical heritage and European identities. The imagined landscapes of Danish classicism. Abingdon: Routledge 2019. 125 pp. ISBN: 978-1-138-31750-5. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429455179 https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-13-13 Åke Engsheden (Stockholm University,…