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 2024.12.31

Personal experience and material devotion in ancient Greek religion

K. A. Rask / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge,

BMCR 2024.12.30

The lost history of Sextus Aurelius Victor

Justin Stover, George Woudhuysen / Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Alessio Mancini,

BMCR 2024.12.29

The Latin love elegists

Hunter H. Gardner / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Peter E. Knox,

BMCR 2024.12.28

Critical ancient world studies: the case for forgetting classics

Mathura Umachandran, Marchella Ward / Routledge, 2023

Reviewed by Hannah Čulík-Baird,

BMCR 2024.12.27

From the Palatine to Pirro Ligorio: architectural, sculptural and antiquarian studies in memory of Amanda Claridge, 1949-2022

Glynn J. C. Davis, Janet DeLaine, Zena Kamash, Charlotte R. Potts / Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2023

Reviewed by Allison B. Kidd,

BMCR 2024.12.26

Langue idéale, langue réelle: description et normalisation des langues classiques du IIIe s. av. J.-C. au XIIe s. de notre ère

Lionel Dumarty / Brepols, 2024

Reviewed by Leonardo Chiocchetti,

BMCR 2024.12.25

Roman love elegy and the eros of empire

Phebe Lowell Bowditch / Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Reviewed by R. Gillian Glass,

BMCR 2024.12.24

Archaeological ambassadors: a history of archaeological gifts in New York City

Elizabeth R. Macaulay / Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Reviewed by Louise Blanke,

BMCR 2024.12.23

Religion in Roman Phrygia: from polytheism to Christianity

Robert Parker / University of California Press, 2023

Reviewed by Corinne Bonnet,

BMCR 2024.12.22

Pox romana: the plague that shook the Roman world

Colin Elliott / Princeton University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Rocco Palermo,

BMCR 2024.12.21

Polibio e Roma, l’alba di un impero

Filippo Battistoni / Carocci Editore, 2022

Reviewed by François Santoni,

BMCR 2024.12.20

The new documents in Mycenaean Greek

John Killen / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Anna P. Judson,

BMCR 2024.12.19

Térence. Comédies. Tome I: Andrienne, Hécyre

Benjamin Victor, Jules Marouzeau / Les Belles Lettres, 2023

Reviewed by Giuseppe Pezzini,

BMCR 2024.12.18

Statues and busts

Amanda Claridge, Eloisa Dodero / Brepols, 2023

Reviewed by Julia Lenaghan,

BMCR 2024.12.17

Turpitudinum notae: la caratterizzazione dell’usurpatore nei Panegyrici Latini tardoantichi

Massimo Lolli / Schwabe Verlag, 2023

Reviewed by Sergio Audano,

BMCR 2024.12.16

Soutènements et périboles de Delphes: construits en pierres travaillées

Évangélia Trouki / École française d’Athènes, 2023

Reviewed by Eric W. Driscoll,

BMCR 2024.12.15

Representing the dynasty in Flavian Rome: the case of Josephus’ Jewish War

Jonathan Davies / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Jan Willem van Henten,

BMCR 2024.12.14

Capua. Tombe orientalizzanti. Necropoli Fornaci

Elena Marazzi, Mattia Maturo / Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022

Reviewed by Ulla Rajala,

BMCR 2024.12.13

Facing down the furies: suicide, the ancient Greeks, and me

Edith Hall / Yale University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Lidia Gambon,

BMCR 2024.12.12

Valuing labour in Greco-Roman antiquity

Kim Bowes, Miko Flohr / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Jane Sancinito,

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