Richard Lim

Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity

Readings in Ancient History

The "Tribunus Voluptatum" in the Later Roman Empire

Christianization, Secularization, and the Transformation of Public Life

Libanius the Sophist. Rhetoric, reality, and religion in the fourth century. By Rafaella Cribiore. (Townsend Lectures/Cornell Studies in Classical Philology.) Pp. x + 260 incl. frontispiece. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2013.

49.95. 978 0 8014 5207 9

Philip Wood. The Chronicle of Seert: Christian Historical Imagination in Late Antique Iraq.

The hippodrome of Constantinople: shaping Byzantine civilization and its cultural imagination. GILBERT DAGRON, L’HIPPODROME DE CONSTANTINOPLE: JEUX, PEUPLE ET POLITIQUE (Bibliothèque des Histoires; Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2011). Pp. 439, pls. 29 (colour). ISBN 978-2-07-013378-9. EUR. 29.

Riot in Alexandria. Tradition and group dynamics in late antique pagan and Christian communities. By Edward J. Watts. (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 46.) Pp. xvi+290 incl. 1 map and 5 figs. Berkeley–London: University of California Press, 2010. £37.95. 978 0 420 26207 2

Augustine and Roman Public Spectacles