This list contains all books and notifications of new books received in May 2020 by BMCR; some books listed here may already have been assigned to reviewers. To volunteer to review a book, please visit this page, where you will find a complete list of books available for review, including those still available from previous months.
Derek Attridge, The experience of poetry: from Homer’s listeners to Shakespeare’s readers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Xiii, 445 p. ISBN 9780198833154.
Andrea Beghini, [Platone], Assioco Saggio introduttivo, edizione critica, traduzione e commento. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2020. 395 p. ISBN 9783896658869. €84,00.
Claudia Beltrao da Rosa, Federico Santangelo, Cicero and Roman religion: eight studies. Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beitrage, Band 72. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. 154 p. ISBN 9783515126434. €39,00.
Adam Beresford, Aristotle. The Nicomachean Ethics. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin, 2020. 400 p. ISBN 9780140455472. $17.00.
Bettina Bohle, Platons “Gorgias”: eine Gegenüberstellung seiner modernen und seiner antiken Interpretation. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 11. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. 288 p. ISBN 9783825368098. €52,00.
Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Other natures: environmental encounters with ancient Greek ethnography. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. xiii, 270 p. ISBN 9780520343481. $95.00.
Kai Brodersen, Theodorus Priscianus. Naturheilkunde. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 384 p. ISBN 9783110694079. $57.99.
Wim Broekaert, Elena Köstner, Christian Rollinger, The ties that bind. Ancient politics and network research. Journal of historical network research, 4. Luxembourg: Université du Luxembourg, 2020. 356 p.
Peter Burian, Jenny Strauss Clay, Gregson Davis, Euphrosyne. Studies in ancient philosophy, history, and literature. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 370. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. x, 328 p. ISBN 9783110597653. $114.99.
Hubert Cancik, Stefan Rebenich, Alfred Schmid, Archäologie der Moderne: Antike und Antike-Rezeption als Paradigma und Impuls. Colloquia Raurica, Bd. 16. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2020. 340 p. ISBN 9783796541605. CHF 60.00.
Elizabeth Carney, Eurydice and the birth of Macedonian power. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 200 p. ISBN 9780190280536. $65.00.
Paolo Cecconi, Christian Tornau, Städte und Stadtstaaten zwischen Mythos, Literatur und Propaganda. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 383. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. vi, 347 p. ISBN 9783110656763. $114.99.
Angelos Chaniotis, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Volume LXV (2015). Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 65. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. ISBN 9789004409408. €199,00.
Francesca Curti, Alessandra Parrini, Iasos. La ceramica attica a figure rosse. Archaeologica, 182. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2020. $122.10.
Cynthia Damon, Joseph Farrell, Ennius’ Annals: poetry and history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii, 351 p. ISBN 9781108481724. $120.00.
P.J. Davis, Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 7. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 320 p. ISBN 9780198767190. $110.00.
Federico de Romanis, Indo-Roman trade and the Muziris papyrus Osre. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xxiv, 381 p. ISBN 9780198842347. $110.00.
Pierre Destrée, Malcolm Heath, Dana Munteanu, The poetics in its Aristotelian context. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020. xiv, 260 p. ISBN 9780367366117. $124.00.
Carol Dougherty, Travel and home in Homer’s Odyssey and contemporary literature: critical encounters and nostalgic returns. Classical Presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 175 p. ISBN 9780198814016. $85.00.
Stamatia Dova, The poetics of failure in ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, 2020. 206 p. ISBN 9781472479112. $124.00.
Fred Drogula, Cato the Younger: life and death at the end of the Roman republic. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 350 p. ISBN 9780190869021. $35.00.
Sabine Feist, Transforming sacred spaces: new approaches to Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture from the transitional period. Spätantike – Frühes Christentum – Byzanz, Band 48. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2020. 276 p. ISBN 9783954904198. €98,00.
Vega Fernández, Bacanales: el mito, el sexo y la caza de brujas. Serie Historia. Madrid: Siglo XXI España, 2018. 410 p. ISBN 9788432318993.
Stefan Feuser, Hafenstädte im östlichen Mittelmeerraum vom Hellinsmus bis in die römische Kaiserzeit: Städtebau, Funktion und Wahrnehmung. Urban spaces, 8. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. x, 391 p. ISBN 9783110580327. $137.99.
Pontani Filippomaria, Scholia graeca in Odysseam, IV, Scholia ad libros η-θ. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2020. xxxii, 216 p. ISBN 9788893594158. €38,00.
Lucia Floridi, Edilo, Epigrammi: introduzione, traduzione, testo critico e commento. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. viii, 250 p. ISBN 9783110629620. $126.99.
Marta Fogagnolo, Antimachos Colophonios. Supplementum Grammaticum Graecum, Volume 2. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. ISBN 9789004410954 €144,00.
Randolph Ford, Rome, China, and the barbarians: ethnographic traditions and the transformation of empires. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xx, 369 p. ISBN 9781108473958. $120.00.
Benedikt Forschner, Servus dotalis Der Sklave in der Ordnung des klassischen römischen Mitgiftrechts. Forschungen zur Antiken Sklaverei, Band 44. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. 280 p. ISBN 9783515125130. €49,00.
Stefan Freund, Nina Mindt, Übersetzen aus dem Lateinischen als Forschungsfeld. Aufgaben, Fragen, Konzepte. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2020. 320 p. ISBN 9783823382874. €39,00.
Myrto Garani, Andreas Michalopoulos, Sophia Papaioannou, Intertextuality in Seneca’s philosophical writings. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020. xi, 273 p. ISBN 9780367331511. $124.00.
Emma Gee, Mapping the afterlife: from Homer to Dante. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 384 p. ISBN 9780190670481. $85.00.
Coulter George, How dead languages work. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. viii, 224 p. ISBN 9780198852827. $25.00.
John Glucker, Amos Edelheit, Classics and classicists: selected essays, 1964-2000. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2020. xxi, 374 p. ISBN 9781527540880. £64.99.
Jane Grogan, Beyond Greece and Rome: reading the ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xiii, 341 p. ISBN 9780198767114. $105.00.
Stephen Harrison, Regine May, Cupid and Psyche: the reception of Apuleius’ Love Story since 1600. Trends in classics – pathways of reception, volume 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xii, 466 p. ISBN 9783110641196. $126.99.
Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Roman Republican reflections: studies in politics, power, and pageantry. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. 274 p. ISBN 9783515127035. €54,00.
G.O. Hutchinson, Motion in classical literature: Homer, Parmenides, Sophocles, Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, art. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 p. ISBN 9780198855620. $90.00.
Craig Jendza, Paracomedy: appropriations of comedy in Greek tragedy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. x, 341 p. ISBN 9780190090937. $74.00.
Alexandra Kailbach-Mehl, Künstlerfiguren als poetologische Reflexionsfiguren in der augusteischen Dichtung. Spudasmata, 186. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2020. 368 p. ISBN 9783487158754. €88,00.
Craig Kallendorf, Printing Virgil: the transformation of the classics in the Renaissance. Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, volume 23. Leiden; Brill: Brill, 2020. viii, 193 p. ISBN 9789004421349. €120,00.
Charles King, The ancient Roman afterlife: di manes, belief, and the cult of the dead. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. 304 p. ISBN 9781477320204. $55.00.
Beate Klein, Der bunte Roman: Der Farbgebrauch im antiken und christlichen Roman unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Petrons Satyrica, den Metamorphosen des Apuleius und den pseudoklementinischen Rekognitionen. Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Band 28. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. 272 p. ISBN 9783515090469. €49,00.
Alice König, Rebecca Langlands, James Uden, Literature and culture in the Roman Empire, 96-235: cross-cultural interactions. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xviii, 408 p. ISBN 9781108493932. $120.00.
David Kovacs, Oedipus the King: a new verse translation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 128 p. ISBN 9780198854845. $15.00.
Inger Kuin, After the crisis: remembrance, re-anchoring & recovery in ancient Greece and Rome. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. vi, 265 p. ISBN 9781350128552. $103.50.
Adam Lecznar, Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in twentieth-century literature and thought. Classics after antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv, 244 p. ISBN 9781108482561. $99.99.
Kenaan Lev, The ancient unconscious: psychoanalysis and the ancient text. Classics in theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 240 p. ISBN 9780198827795. $90.00.
Felicity Loughlin, Alexandre Johnston, Antiquity and Enlightenment culture: new approaches and perspectives. Metaforms: studies in the reception of classical antiquity, volume 17. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. xii, 247 p. ISBN 9789004405035. €102,00.
Katja Lubitz, Obszönes Übersetzen. Aristophanes in deutscher Sprache. Transformationen der Antike, 56. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 350 p. ISBN 9783110607499. $103.99.
Shushma Malik, The Nero-Antichrist: founding and fashioning a paradigm. Classics after antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xv, 228 p. ISBN 9781108491495. $99.99.
Sadi Maréchal, Public baths and bathing habits in late antiquity: a study of the evidence from Italy, North Africa and Palestine A.D. 285-700. Late antique archaeology (supplementary series), volume 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. xxiii, 503 p. ISBN 9789004418721. €199,00.
Jan Meister, Gunnar Seelentag, Konkurrenz und Institutionalisierung in der griechischen Archaik. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. 465 p. ISBN 9783515125055. €72,00.
Klaus Meister, Studien zur griechischen Geschichtsschreibung Von der Klassik bis zur Spätantike. Palingenesia, Band 121. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. 346 p. ISBN 9783515125918. €66,00.
Jana Norton, The tragic life story of Medea as mother, monster, and muse. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. xvii, 230 p. ISBN 9781527541306. £61.99.
Marco Palone, Le “Etiopiche” di Eliodoro: approcci narratologici e nuove prospettive. Palingenesia, Band 120. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. 239 p. ISBN 9783515126120. €54,00.
Antón Pazos, Relics, shrines, and pilgrimages: sanctity in Europe from late antiquity. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020. x, 273 p. ISBN 9780367188672. $124.00.
Tom Phillips, Untimely epic: Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 368 p. ISBN 9780198848561. $105.00.
Andrea Raggi, Pierangelo Buongiorno, Il “senatus consultum de Plarasensibus et Aphrodisiensibus” del 39 a. C. Edizione, traduzione e commento. Acta Senatus, Band 7. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. 205 p. ISBN 9783515126373. €78,00.
Stefano Rocchi, P. Annio Floro, Virgilio: Oratore o Poeta? Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Texte und Kommentare, 65. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 170 p. ISBN 9783110689761. $126.99.
Ralph Rosen, Helene Foley, Aristophanes and politics: new studies. Columbia studies in the classical tradition, volume 45. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. x, 286 p. ISBN 9789004424456. €112,00.
Montero Ruiz, Aspects of orality and Greek literature in the Roman Empire. Pierides studies in Greek and Latin literature, volume VIII. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020. 405 p. ISBN 9781527538115. £76.99.
Sara Saba, Isopoliteia in Hellenistic times. Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy, 14. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. x, 292 p. ISBN 9789004425699. €105,00.
Christina Savino, Galeni In Hippocratis Aphorismos VI commentaria, Commento agli Aforismi di Ippocrate Libro VI. Galen’s Commentary on Hippocratic Aphorisms VI: text, translation, and commentary. Testo, traduzione e note di commento. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, 5/12,6. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 270 p. ISBN 9783110656350. $149.99.
Nuria Scapin, Flower of suffering: theology, justice, and the cosmos in Aeschylus’ Oresteia and presocratic thought. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 97. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xii, 264 p. ISBN 9783110685527. $126.99.
Michael Schramm, Euripides-Rezeption in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike. Millennium-Studien, 83. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 406 p. ISBN 9783110671650. $126.99.
Benedetta Sciaramenti, Paesaggi del dramma: nelle “Metamorfosi” di Ovidio e nella pittura romana coeva. Archaeologica, 181. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2019. xiii, 203 p., xxix p. of plates. ISBN 9788876893179. $105.45.
Kristen Seaman, Rhetoric and innovation in Hellenistic art. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xv, 186 p. ISBN 9781108490917. $99.99.
Tyler Smith, The fourth Gospel and the manufacture of minds in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama. Biblical interpretation series. volume 173. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. xiv, 303 p. ISBN 9789004396036. €116,00.
Gillian Spalding-Stracey, The Cross in the visual culture of late antique Egypt. Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity, 19. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. xxiv, 242 p. ISBN 9789004411593. €164.00.
Guy Westwood, The rhetoric of the past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: oratory, history, and politics in classical Athens. Oxford classical monographs series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 432 p. ISBN 9780198857037. $115.00.
Pat Wheatley, Charlotte Dunn, Demetrius the Besieger. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 528 p. ISBN 9780198836049 $130.00.
David Yates, States of memory: the polis, panhellenism, and the Persian War. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 361 p. ISBN 9780190673543. $85.00.
James Zainaldin, Gargilius Martialis: the agricultural fragments. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 60. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 402 p. ISBN 9781108499897. $145.00.