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Plekos is an online review journal, established in 1998/1999.

It is currently published by Balbina Bäbler, Konstantin Klein, Ulrich Lambrecht, and Peter Riedlberger. Plekos is an online review journal, established in 1998/1999, which publishes reviews of new publications in the following fields: Classical Philology, Ancient History, Byzantine Studies, Patristics and Church History, as well as Roman, Late Antique, and Byzantine Art History, Archaeology, Philo

sophy, Epigraphy, and Numismatics. It is currently published and edited by Balbina Bäbler (Göttingen), Konstantin Klein (Bamberg), Ulrich Lambrecht (Koblenz), and Peter Riedlberger (Bamberg).

24/11/2021

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15/10/2021

Review of: Stefan Rebenich/Hans-Ulrich Wiemer (Hrsgg.): A Companion to Julian the Apostate. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2020 (Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World 5).
Reviewed by: Ulrich Lambrecht, Koblenz [15 Oct 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-rebenich_wiemer.pdf
Language: German | Deutsch

30/09/2021

Review of: Alberto Cafaro: Governare l’impero. La praefectura fabrum fra legami personali e azione politica (II sec. a.C. – III sec. d.C.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2021 (Historia-Einzelschriften 262).
Reviewed by: Richard Westall, Rome [30 Sep 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-cafaro.pdf
Language: English

25/09/2021

Review of: Jutta Günther: Musik als Argument spätantiker Kirchenväter. Untersuchungen zu Laktanz, Euseb, Chrysostomos und Augustinus. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2019 (Philippika 132).
Reviewed by: Markus Stachon, Mainz [25 Sep 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-guenther.pdf
Language: German | Deutsch

22/09/2021

Review of: Catherine Ware (ed. and tr.): A Literary Commentary on Panegyrici Latini VI(7). An Oration Delivered before the Emperor Constantine in Trier, ca. AD 310. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021.
Reviewed by: Adrastos Omissi, Glasgow [22 Sep 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-ware.pdf
Language: English

13/09/2021

Review of: Patrick Brimioulle: Das Konzil von Konstantinopel 536. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2020 (Roma Aeterna 8).
Reviewed by: Maria Constantinou, Nicosia [12 Sep 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-brimioulle.pdf
Language: English

01/09/2021

Review Article: The Great Palace in Constantinople and Late Antique Palatine Architecture
1. Nigel Westbrook: The Great Palace in Constantinople. An Architectural Interpretation. Turnhout: Brepols 2019 (Architectural Crossroads. Studies in the History of Architecture 2).
2. Lynda Mulvin/Nigel Westbrook (eds.): Late Antique Palatine Architecture. Palaces and Palace Culture: Patterns of Transculturation. Turnhout: Brepols 2019 (Architectural Crossroads. Studies in the History of Architecture 5).
Reviewed by: Emanuel Mayer, Singapore
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-mulvin_westbrook.pdf
Language: English

26/08/2021

Review of: Hiltrud Merten: Die frühchristlichen Inschriften aus St. Maximin bei Trier. Mit einem Anhang der paganen Steindenkmäler. Ausgrabungen des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier 1978–1990. Trier: Selbstverlag des Museums am Dom Trier 2018 (Kataloge und Schriften des Museums am Dom Trier 8).
Reviewed by: Antonio Enrico Felle, Bari [26 Aug 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-merten.pdf
Language: Italian | Italiano

18/08/2021

Review of: Anita Di Stefano/Marco Onorato (eds.): Lo specchio del modello. Orizzonti intertestuali e Fortleben di Sidonio Apollinare. Napoli: Paolo Loffredo Editore 2020 (Studi latini n.s. 94).
Reviewed by: Sara Fascione, Naples [18 Aug 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-distefano_onorato.pdf
Language: English

12/08/2021

Review of: Alessandro Garcea/Michela Rosellini/Luigi Silvano (eds.): Latin in Byzantium I. Late Antiquity and Beyond. Turnhout: Brepols 2019 (Corpus Christianorum. Lingua Patrum 12).
Reviewed by: Tommaso Mari, Rome [12 Aug 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-garcea_rosellini_silvano.pdf
Language: English

10/08/2021

Review of: Rocco Palermo: On the Edge of the Empires. North Mesopotamia during the Roman Period (2nd–4th c. CE). London/New York: Routledge 2019 (Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East).
Reviewed by: Leonardo Gregoratti, Durham [10 Aug 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-palermo.pdf
Language: English

28/07/2021

Review of: Sara Fascione: Gli ‘altri’ al potere. Romani e barbari nella Gallia di Sidonio Apollinare. Bari: Edipuglia 2019 (Biblioteca tardoantica 12).
Reviewed by: Giulia Marolla, Bari [28 Jul 2021]
Read in PDF:https://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2021/r-fascione.pdf
Language: English

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