Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Bryn Mawr Classical Review publishes timely open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies, including archaeology. This site is the authoritative archive of BMCR’s publications, from 1990 to the present.

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Recent Publications

BMCR 2024.11.10

Lucretius

Claudia Schindler / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Andrés Vázquez,

BMCR 2024.11.09

Medicine and the law under the Roman Empire

Claire Bubb, Michael Peachin / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Lauren Caldwell,

BMCR 2024.11.08

Philosophia translata: the development of Latin philosophical vocabulary through translation from Greek. A case study approach

Christopher J. Dowson / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Carl O'Brien,

BMCR 2024.11.07

Risk in the Roman world

Jerry Toner / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Kevin Uhalde,

BMCR 2024.11.06

Niobes. Antiquity, modernity, critical theory

Mario Telò, Andrew Benjamin / The Ohio State University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Cecilia Perczyk,

BMCR 2024.11.05

Mariangelo Accursio tra l’Italia e l’Europa: poeta, filologo, epigrafista e diplomatico

Stefano Rocchi, Stefano Andronio / Deinotera Editrice, 2023

Reviewed by William Stenhouse,

BMCR 2024.11.04

Reconstructing Empedocles’ thought

Chiara Ferella / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Tom Mackenzie,

BMCR 2024.11.03

L’enchiridion di Sesto Pomponio: una ricostruzione

Fara Nasti / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2023

Reviewed by Zachary Herz,

BMCR 2024.11.02

Power and rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical correspondence of Constantine the Great

Andrew J. Pottenger / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by John Noël Dillon,

BMCR 2024.11.01

Books received October 2024

BMCR 2024.10.48

More light from the ancient East: understanding the New Testament through papyri

Peter Arzt-Grabner, John S. Kloppenborg, Christina M. Kreinecker, Gregg Schwendner / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Lajos Berkes,

BMCR 2024.10.47

Fate and the hero in Virgil’s Aeneid: Stoic world fate and human responsibility

Graham Zanker / Cambridge University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Sergio Casali,

BMCR 2024.10.46

Tios/Tieion on the southern Black Sea in the broader context of Pontic archaeology

Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Şahin Yıldırım / Archaeopress, 2023

Reviewed by Thibaut Castelli,

BMCR 2024.10.45

Reading fear in Flavian epic: emotion, power, and stoicism

Dalida Agri / Oxford University Press, 2022

Reviewed by Esther Meijer,

BMCR 2024.10.44

The fractured voice: silence and power in imperial Roman literature

Amy A. Koenig / University of Wisconsin Press, 2023

Reviewed by Louis Autin,

BMCR 2024.10.43

Pietrabbondante. I rinvenimenti numismatici dalle campagne di scavo 1959-2019

Simone Boccardi / Giorgio Bretschneider Editor, 2023

Reviewed by Antonino Crisà,

BMCR 2024.10.42

Belisarius and Antonina: love and war in the age of Justinian

David Alan Parnell / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Jason C. Fossella,

BMCR 2024.10.41

La lex Iulia de pecuniis repetundis: nell’interpretazione dei giuristi del principato

Stefania Pietrini / LED Edizioni, 2023

Reviewed by Carolina Ferraro,

BMCR 2024.10.40

Critical notes on Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana

Gerard Boter / De Gruyter, 2023

Reviewed by N. G. Wilson,

BMCR 2024.10.39

Lateres plumbei Hispani. Production et commerce du plomb hispanique à l’époque romaine (iie siècle av. J.-C. – ier siècle apr. J.-C.)

Claude Domergue, Christian Rico / Casa de Velázquez, 2023

Reviewed by Linda R. Gosner,

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