Rhea Classical Reviews
@rheaclassical.bsky.social
An online, open access book review journal that prioritizes emerging and underrepresented scholarly voices in Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
Website: rheaclassicalreviews.com
Always, Ulla!
@rheaclassical.bsky.social recognises reviewing as academic labour 😊
In accordance with our mission statement, we firmly believe that writing book reviews for public consumption is academic labor and should be recognized as such. Beginning in 2026, our immediate focus shall be to provide our reviewers with a small compensation ($50) upon publication of their review.
January 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Always, Ulla!
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But we need your help in putting our principles into practice and we are currently fundraising to support these efforts. Donations can be accepted via PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, cash, or check, and donors will receive a RCR sticker and be listed on our website as “Children of Rhea.”
January 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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New year, new Rhea!
Rhea Classical Reviews is excited to share that we have officially been designated as a 501c3 organization! Obtaining this tax-free, non-profit status opens the door for us to expand, as well as apply for grants and secure funding to support our internal and external operations.
Rhea Classical Reviews is excited to share that we have officially been designated as a 501c3 organization! Obtaining this tax-free, non-profit status opens the door for us to expand, as well as apply for grants and secure funding to support our internal and external operations.
January 1, 2026 at 8:48 AM
New year, new Rhea!
Rhea Classical Reviews is excited to share that we have officially been designated as a 501c3 organization! Obtaining this tax-free, non-profit status opens the door for us to expand, as well as apply for grants and secure funding to support our internal and external operations.
Rhea Classical Reviews is excited to share that we have officially been designated as a 501c3 organization! Obtaining this tax-free, non-profit status opens the door for us to expand, as well as apply for grants and secure funding to support our internal and external operations.
We are taking our holiday break and will be back in your feed come mid-January. May all of you find some well-deserved rest and relaxation, and we hope to see those who will be at the @archaeological.org @scsclassics.bsky.social annual meeting (come find us - we'll have stickers)!
December 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
We are taking our holiday break and will be back in your feed come mid-January. May all of you find some well-deserved rest and relaxation, and we hope to see those who will be at the @archaeological.org @scsclassics.bsky.social annual meeting (come find us - we'll have stickers)!
New review to get you through the end of the semester, and check out that insightful dialogue at the end!
@bacchicxsapphic.bsky.social reviews "The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean" ed. Hannah-Marie Chidwick (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social)
@bacchicxsapphic.bsky.social reviews "The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean" ed. Hannah-Marie Chidwick (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social)
The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean
Hannah-Marie Chidwick, ed. The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 9781350240872. Reviewed by Allyson Blanck, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,…
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December 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New review to get you through the end of the semester, and check out that insightful dialogue at the end!
@bacchicxsapphic.bsky.social reviews "The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean" ed. Hannah-Marie Chidwick (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social)
@bacchicxsapphic.bsky.social reviews "The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean" ed. Hannah-Marie Chidwick (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social)
New month, new post!
Goran Đurđević reviews "Global Classics" by Jacques Bromberg (Routledge 2021)
Goran Đurđević reviews "Global Classics" by Jacques Bromberg (Routledge 2021)
Global Classics
Jacques A. Bromberg, Global Classics (New York: Routledge, 2021). ISBN 9780367549268. Reviewed by Goran Đurđević, University of Zadar, Croatia. goran.djurdjevich@gmail.com. In Global Classics, Jacq…
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December 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
New month, new post!
Goran Đurđević reviews "Global Classics" by Jacques Bromberg (Routledge 2021)
Goran Đurđević reviews "Global Classics" by Jacques Bromberg (Routledge 2021)
Thanks for the shout out, Hannah!
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November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thanks for the shout out, Hannah!
First and Last review of November (we're off for Thanksgiving in two weeks), but it's a great one with a fantastic dialogue!
Stephanie Murphy reviews "Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory" ed. Martine de Marre and Rajiv K. Bhola (Routledge 2022).
Stephanie Murphy reviews "Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory" ed. Martine de Marre and Rajiv K. Bhola (Routledge 2022).
Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory
De Marre, Martine and Rajiv K. Bhola, eds., Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory, (New York: Routledge, 2022). 9780367371449. Reviewed by Stephanie Murphy, University of North Texas, Stephaniemurphy3…
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November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
First and Last review of November (we're off for Thanksgiving in two weeks), but it's a great one with a fantastic dialogue!
Stephanie Murphy reviews "Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory" ed. Martine de Marre and Rajiv K. Bhola (Routledge 2022).
Stephanie Murphy reviews "Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory" ed. Martine de Marre and Rajiv K. Bhola (Routledge 2022).
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)
@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
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)
@medicamentislibris.bsky.social review's "Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory. An Encyclopaedic Workshop" by Anna Anguissola (Routledge 2023)
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My review of a collection of articles among which @christophersmith.bsky.social, @lbciddio.bsky.social, @sethbernard.bsky.social, @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social and others. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Wake up and smell that new book review, peeps!
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
@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 2:26 PM
My review of a collection of articles among which @christophersmith.bsky.social, @lbciddio.bsky.social, @sethbernard.bsky.social, @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social and others. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
Wake up and smell that new book review, peeps!
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
@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
Wake up and smell that new book review, peeps!
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
@ullamr.bsky.social reviews "Production, Trade, and Connectivity in Pre-Roman Italy" ed. Jeremy Armstrong and Sheira Cohen ( Routledge 2022)
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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).
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).
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
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).
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).
Adrien Mangili reviews Donato Verardi (ed.), "Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters, and Wonderworker" (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2023).
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My old teacher Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod wrote a good review!
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). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
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 9:34 PM
My old teacher Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod wrote a good review!
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). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
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
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). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod reviews Andrew Fox, "Trees in Ancient Rome. Growing an Empire in the Late Republic and Early Principate" ( @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social 2023). 🌳🌲🌴
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
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).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the 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).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
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
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).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the 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).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
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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.
“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
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!
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This looks exciting!
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.
“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
This looks exciting!
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.
“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
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.
“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025
Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.
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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
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!
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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
This week’s reading just arrived! So excited to crack into this timely new work from @platanoclassics.bsky.social
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).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
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
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).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
Thomas R. Keith reviews Boris Kayachev, "Ciris: A Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana" (Classical Press of Wales 2020).
Don't miss the author-reviewer dialogue following the review!
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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).
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).
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
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).
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).
Matthew J. Chalmers reviews Luis Alejandro Salas, "Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen’s Anatomical Experiments" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social 2020).
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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
Great post day! Can’t wait to review this for @rheaclassical.bsky.social 📚💙 #classicssky