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Book review , Content / 2021-10-21

Opuscula 14 is published with open access. Printed edition distributed by Eddy.se AB. Also available at Amazon.com, Adlibris, and Bokus. View volume at ERIH PLUS. Book reviews Gerald Cadogan (Independent scholar, United Kingdom) | P.M. Fischer & T. Bürge, Two Late Cypriot quarters at Hala Sultan Tekke: The Söderberg Expedition 2010–2017 (SIMA, 147), Uppsala: Astrom Editions 2018. xvi + 648 pp., 357 figs. and 148 tables. ISBN 978-91-981535-4-5. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-14-20 Vivi Saripanidi (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) | M. Blomberg, G. Nordquist, P. Roos, E. Rystedt & L. Werkström, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Sweden fascicule 5. Gustavianum—Uppsala University Museum, The Historical Museum at Lund University, The Cultural Museum of Southern Sweden, Lund, Malmö Art Museum, Lund fascicule 2—Uppsala fascicule 2, Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities 2020. 81 pp., 185 figs. and 24 pls. ISBN 978-91-88763-03-7. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-14-21 Vyron Antoniadis (National Hellenic Foundation, Greece) | N. Kourou & G. Bourogiannis, Ρυθμοί της Κυπριακής Κεραμικής. Σύντομη Επισκόπηση με βάση τη Συλλογή του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, Nicosia: Cyprus University Press 2019. 175 pp., 164 figs. ISBN 978-9925-553-22-8. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-14-22 Kristian Göransson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) | M. Jonasch, ed., The fight for Greek Sicily. Society, politics, and landscape, Oxford &…

ActaRom-4°, 64: Reading Roman emotions (2020)

Distributed by Eddy.se AB. Also available at Amazon.com, Adlibris and Bokus. Reading Roman emotions. Visual and textual interpretations Edited by Hedvig von Ehrenheim & Marina Prusac-Lindhagen This volume is a contribution to the study of culturally bound emotions and emotional response in ancient Rome. Approaches to the study of ancient emotions and how they were culturally specific, appreciated and understood have recently come to the centre of attention, but not so much in the visual as in the literary culture. When socially and affectively contextualized, the material culture of ancient Rome is a potential goldmine of information with regard to emotions. The chapters in the present volume take the reader on a tour through various cases that demonstrate how emotions were expressed through the arts. The tour starts with a fresh view of how emotion history can be used to recover feelings from the visual culture of the past. Visual culture includes animated performances, and the reader is invited to revel in Roman drama, oratory, and love poetry. Words are often clear, but can images reveal laughter and joy, sadness, grief and mourning, virtue and anger? This volume argues that yes, they can, and through the study of emotions it…

Dissertation abstracts 2017–2018

Opuscula 11 (2018) is available for purchase at Amazon.com, Adlibris, Bokus and bokorder.se. Distributed by eddy.se ab. Dissertation abstracts 2017–2018 Stella Macheridis | Waste management, animals and society: A so­cial zooarchaeological study of Bronze Age Asine, PhD thesis, Historical Osteology, Lund University 2018. http://lup.lub.lu.se/record/578f52c0-f36d-4712-92e3-a08893c41934 Nikolaos Domazakis | The neologisms in 2 Maccabees, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University 2018. http://lup.lub.lu.se/record/4f750519-6fdc-436e-ac1f-16c8bd1f8cef Claudia Zichi | Poetic Diction and Poetic References in the Preludes of Plato’s Laws, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University 2018. http://lup.lub.lu.se/record/a5d1d4ea-9eab-4154-a0f8-b65664e80afc Aske Damtoft Poulsen | Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tac­itus’ Annales: A Contextual Analysis, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University 2018. http://lup.lub.lu.se/record/930a80a9-11bf-443a-84c7-4c566f8497f6 Johan Vekselius | Weeping for the res publica. Tears in Roman political culture, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University 2018. http://lup.lub.lu.se/record/b043bd37-a010-40a0-846a-77a379ddb8b9 Bibliographical information ‘Dissertation abstracts 2017–2018’, Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome (OpAthRom) 11, Stockholm 2018, 211–213. ISSN: 2000-0898. ISBN: 978-91-977799-0-6. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-11-15