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An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.

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Last review of October (shouldn't be too spooky for you)!

@medicamentislibris.bsky.social review's "Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop" by Anna Anguissola (Routledge 2023)
Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop
Anna Anguissola, Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. ISBN 9781032056227. Reviewed by Jazz Demetrioff, University at Buffalo (S…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy
Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen, eds., Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy (London and New York: Routledge, 2022). 9780367631727.  Reviewed by Ulla Rajala, Stockholm Unive…
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October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Our latest book review!

Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker
Donato Verardi, ed., Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworkers (London, New York, and Dublin: Bloomsbury, 2023). 9781350121092. Reviewed by Ad…
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October 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Our latest book review!

Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker
Donato Verardi, ed., Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworkers (London, New York, and Dublin: Bloomsbury, 2023). 9781350121092. Reviewed by Ad…
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October 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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My old teacher Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod wrote a good review!
September 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
New book review on Rhea!

Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴

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Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate.
Andrew Fox, Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate (London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). 9781350237803. Reviewed by Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod, S…
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September 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Rhea is back with a new book review!

@eancients.bsky.social reviews @mbinzurich.bsky.social, "Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis: Beyond Light and Darkness" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2019).

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Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis: Beyond Light and Darkness
Mattias Brand, Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis: Beyond Light and Darkness, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 102 (Leiden: Brill, 2019). ISBN 9789004510296. Reviewed by…
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September 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Guys, I am SO EXCITED about Rhea's new venture Rhea Receptions!!! Want to write about Percy Jackson? Newspaper articles about discoveries at Pompeii? A cool new museum exhibit or video game? Get in contact with us and let's chat - reviews, essays, creativity encouraged!
Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!

“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025

Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
August 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!

“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025

Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
August 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!

“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025

Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
August 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Just wanted to say that @rheaclassical.bsky.social is a peer-review platform exclusively dedicated to reviews of and by alt-ac, pre-tenure, non-tenure, contingent, grad students, and folks outside of academia if anyone is interested in reviewing for us!
August 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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This week’s reading just arrived! So excited to crack into this timely new work from @platanoclassics.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Our final review of the summer on Rhea. Back in September!

Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).

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Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana
Kayachev, Boris. Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana. Introduction, Text, Apparatus Criticus, Translation and Commentary. Swansea, UK: Classical Press of Waales, 2020. ISBN 978-1-910589-81-6…
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June 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Our latest book review on Rhea!

Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments
Luis Alejandro Salas, Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments (Leiden: Brill, 2020). 9789004439184. Reviewed by Matthew J. Chalmers, Independent Scholar, mattjcha…
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June 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Our latest book review on Rhea!

Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments
Luis Alejandro Salas, Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments (Leiden: Brill, 2020). 9789004439184. Reviewed by Matthew J. Chalmers, Independent Scholar, mattjcha…
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June 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Great post day! Can’t wait to review this for @rheaclassical.bsky.social 📚💙 #classicssky
June 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
It's new book review day on Rhea!

David M. Wheeler reviews Donald H. Sanders, "From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology" (@archaeopress.bsky.social 2023).

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From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology
Donald H. Sanders, From Photography to 3D Models and Beyond: Visualizations in Archaeology (Oxford: Archeopress, 2023). 9781803276182. Reviewed by David M. Wheeler, University of California, Berkel…
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May 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Want a summer project and see a book you like on our book list??? Come write for Rhea! Even if it's your first book review and/or you're a grad student, don't be shy! We have mentorship for grad students!
CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS

See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!

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May 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS

See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!

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For Reviewers
Review Process Guidelines Books for review Review requests Book suggestions
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May 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
CALLING ALL POTENTIAL BOOK REVIEWERS

See something on our booklist you'd like to review? We'll be delighted to publish you! All the steps of the review process are laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you!

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May 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Janette Snyder reviews Gesthimani Seferiadi, "Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2022).
Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae
Gesthimani Seferiadi, Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae (Bloomsbury Academic Press:  2022). 9781350260313. Reviewed by Janette Snyder, Florida State University, js23c@fsu.edu. Despite the …
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May 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's new book review day on Rhea!

Janette Snyder reviews Gesthimani Seferiadi, "Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2022).
Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae
Gesthimani Seferiadi, Gendered Politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae (Bloomsbury Academic Press:  2022). 9781350260313. Reviewed by Janette Snyder, Florida State University, js23c@fsu.edu. Despite the …
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May 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Here's our latest book review on Rhea!

Jesse Obert reviews David A. Blome, "Greek Warfare beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States" (@cornellupress.bsky.social 2020).

Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue at the end of the review!
Greek Warfare beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States
David A. Blome, Greek Warfare beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020). 9781501747526. Reviewed by Jesse Obert, Univers…
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April 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM