Review of Franz Cumont: Studia Pontica II

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Franz Cumont: Studia Pontica II.

Daniela Bonanno, Corinne Bonnet, Omar Coloru, Annick Fenet, Ted Kaiser,Franz Cumont: Studia Pontica II. Voyage d'exploration archéologique dans le Pont et la Petite Arménie. Études syriennes. Fouilles de Doura-Europos (1922-1923). Bibliotheca Cumontiana. Scripta maiora, 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. viii, 288. ISBN 9789062810512

Review by
Beatriz Pañeda Murcia, Lund University. beatriz.paneda_murcia@klass.lu.se

This book is the sixth volume of the series Scripta Maiora of the Bibliotheca Cumontiana, a collection launched in 2006 by the Academia Belgica in Rome as an editorial project for the critical reedition of the books (reprinted in the Scripta Maiora series) and articles (compiled thematically in the parallel Scripta Minora) of the influential historian of religions Franz Cumont (1868–1947). This project offers in-depth historiographical introductions to each of Cumont’s major works or collection of essays, which aim at deepening our understanding of the formation of his historical thinking and his research methods by examining, on the basis of the author’s archives in the Belgian Academy, the political, sociocultural and intellectual contexts of the production of his studies.

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The volume has lots of material on Dura-Europos and Palmyra.

For more on the work of Franz Cumont, see here and here.

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