Vol. 59 (2025)

All articles and book reviews published in Arctos 59 (2025) are licensed with Creative commons license standard CC BY-NC, now commonly used in scientific publishing.

Published: 2026-07-08

Articles

Interpreting Emerging Poverty Demographic Growth and Growing Economic Inequality in the Later Roman East

Arttu Alaranta

9–44
The Reception of Classical Authors in Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis

Antti Ijäs

45–84
Geological Approaches to Roman Brick Provenance A Forgotten Expedition of the Late 1960s

Janne Ikäheimo

85–106
Painted Swords Black- and Red-Figure Pottery as a Basis for Archaic and Classical Period Sword Typology

Nikolai Paukkonen

107–132
Sappho and the Meta-Aesthetics of poikilia

Pieta Päällysaho

133–162
Reframing Pompeii Population Debates and Inequality beyond Conventional Models

Samuli Simelius

163–196
Analecta epigraphica 353

Heikki Solin

197–204
Cicero Buying Art at Auction? An Alternative Reading of the Letter Cic. fam. 7,23

Kai Tainio

205–226

Vol. 59 (2025)

Articles

Interpreting Emerging Poverty Demographic Growth and Growing Economic Inequality in the Later Roman East

The Reception of Classical Authors in Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis

Geological Approaches to Roman Brick Provenance A Forgotten Expedition of the Late 1960s

Painted Swords Black- and Red-Figure Pottery as a Basis for Archaic and Classical Period Sword Typology

Sappho and the Meta-Aesthetics of poikilia

Reframing Pompeii Population Debates and Inequality beyond Conventional Models

Analecta epigraphica 353

Cicero Buying Art at Auction? An Alternative Reading of the Letter Cic. fam. 7,23

De novis libris iudicia

Review: Sara Chiarini: Devotio malefica. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne 15. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2021

Review: Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Vol. IV: Inscriptiones parietariae Pompeianae Herculanenses Stabianae, Suppl. 4, Fasc. 3

Review: Michael Crawford: Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias. Aphrodisias XIII. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2023

Review: Alexander Free: Polis und Metropolis im römischen Ägypten: Städtisches Selbstverständnis in Hermupolis Magna. Klio, Beihefte, N.F., Band 39. De Gruyter, Berlin – Boston 2024

Review: Wolfgang Günther: Inschriften von Didyma. Supplement unter Mitwirkung von Rudolf Haensch. Didyma III,7. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2023

Review: Malte Helfberend: Ciceros Rede pro L. Cornelio Balbo: Einleitung und Kommentar. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft, Beihefte N.F. 13. De Gruyter, Berlin – Boston 2022

Review: Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Volumen V: Indices. Composuit Ian C. Cunningham. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker Band 11/5. De Gruyter, Berlin – Boston 2023

Review: Inscriptiones Graecae. Vol. X, Pars II, Fasc. II, Sectio II: Inscriptiones in vallibus fluviorum Axii, Astibi, Strumicae inventae. Edidit Slavica Babamova. De Gruyter, Berlin – Boston 2024

Review: Hilmar Klinkott – Norbert Kramer (Hrsg.): Zwischen Assur und Athen: Altorientalisches in den Historien Herodots. Alte Geschichte: SpielRäume der Antike 4. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2017

Review: Frédéric Lambert – Guillaume Bonnet (éds.): Apollonius Dyscole et Priscien: Transmettre, traduire, interpréter. Éléments d’une histoire problématique. Corpus Christianorum – Lingua Patrum XIII. Brepols, Turnhout 2021

Review: Rita Lizzi Testa – Giulia Marconi (eds.): The Collectio Avellana and the Development of Notarial Practices in Late Antiquity. With the assistance of Alessandra Giomma. Giornale Italiano di Filologia: Bibliotheca 31. Brepols, Turnhout 2023

Review: Daniele F. Maras – Laura Maria Michetti – Christopher J. Smith – Elena Tassi Scandone (a cura di): Fontes Antiqui Sabinorum. Acta Flaviana 4. “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, Roma – Bristol (CT) 2023

Review: Attilio Mastrocinque – Joseph E. Sanzo – Marianne Scapini (eds.): Ancient Magic: Then and Now. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 74. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2020

Review: Chris Mowat: Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 75. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2021

Review: Alessandro Pagliara (a cura di): Antichistica italiana e leggi razziali: Atti del convegno in occasione dell'ottantesimo anniversario del Regio Decreto Legge n. 1779. Athenaeum Edizioni Universitarie, Parma 2020

Review: Sitta von Reden – Kai Rufiing (Hrsg.): Handbuch Antike Wirtschaft. Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin – Boston 2023

Review: Antonio Sartori – Federico Gallo (a cura di): L'errore in epigrafia. Ambrosiana Graecolatina 10. Biblioteca Ambrosiana – Centro Ambrosiano, Milano 2019

Review: R. R. R. Smith – Christian Niederhuber: Commodus: The Public Image of a Roman Emperor. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2023

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