All in all, the book is excellently written and takes up several interesting parallels between Romanos' way of describing the Virgin Mary in his songs and his pre-Christian predecessors, thus contextualising the work in the Byzantine and Greek world where it belongs.

Thomas Arentzen. The Virgin in Song: Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist. Divinations: Rereading late ancient religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Evy Johanne Håland, Independent Researcher