Month: September 2025

Books received August 2025

The Cambridge comparative history of ancient law

Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, Patrick Olivelle  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, 

Statius and Ovid: poetics, politics, and intermediality in the Thebaid

Tommaso Spinelli  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Christopher Chinn, 

The Oxford critical guide to Homer’s Iliad

Jonathan L. Ready  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Katharina Epstein, 

Cassiodors Psalmenkommentar. Exegese, Politik und die christliche Neuordnung der römischen Welt

Gerda Heydemann  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Görge K. Hasselhoff, 

Il templum pacis: scavi e restauri recenti (1998-2019)

Roberto Meneghini  / BAR Publishing, 2024

Reviewed by Dennis Trout, 

Blessures aristocratiques dans l’Antiquité romaine: du corps à l’honneur

Caroline Husquin, Cyrielle Landrea  / Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2024

Reviewed by Nathalie Barrandon, 

The ancient shore

Paul J. Kosmin  / Harvard University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Georgia L. Irby, 

Modern Hungarian culture and the classics

Péter Hajdu  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Miklós Péti, 

Dining at the end of antiquity: class, status, and identity at Roman tables

Nicholas Hudson  / University of California Press, 2024

Reviewed by Andrew Donnelly, 

Sieg und Familie im frühen Prinzipat. Eine Studie zur militärischen Repräsentation der Verwandten des Augustus

Florian Groll  / Propylaeum, 2024

Reviewed by Christiane Kunst, 

Thémistios. Tome III. Discours XIV-XIX: L’empereur espagnol

Jacques Schamp  / Les Belles Lettres, 2023

Reviewed by Jonas Roose, 

The ruins of Rome: a cultural history

Roland Mayer  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Hendrik Dey, 

Inschriften aus der Kibyratis und aus Pisidien

Thomas Corsten  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025

Reviewed by Christoph Begass, 

Antiquarianismus in Rom: 2. Jhd. v. Chr.-3. Jhd. n. Chr.

Raphael Schwitter  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Nicoletta Bruno, 

Empresses-in-waiting: female power and performance at the late Roman court

Christian Rollinger, Nadine Viermann  / Liverpool University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Robin Whelan, 

L’histoire du rémora: à quoi voulez-vous croire?

Isabelle Jouteur, Johan Fourdrinoy, Germain Rousseaux  / Classiques Garnier, 2023

Reviewed by Hélène Roelens-Flouneau, 

Body behaviour and identity construction in ancient Greek and Roman literature

Andreas Serafim  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo, 

L’Eredità di Giustiniano. L’ultima guerra dell’Italia romana

Hendrik Dey, Fabrizio Oppedisano  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2024

Reviewed by Maxime Emion, 

Classics, love, revolution: the legacies of Luigi Settembrini

Andrea Capra, Barbara Graziosi  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Anna Maria Cimino,