Year: 2026

Books received December 2025

Latin inscriptions from the legionary fortress of Apulum

George Cupcea  / Holzhausen Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Donato Fasolini, 

The muse of history: the ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the present

Oswyn Murray  / Harvard University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Reviel Netz, 

Luxuria. Storie di banchetti, ville e altri eccessi nell’antica Roma

Francesca Romana Berno  / Salerno Editrice, 2025

Reviewed by Jane Sancinito, 

Sextus Empiricus Against the Arithmeticians

Lorenzo Corti  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Sebastiano Molinelli, 

The late Geometric and early Archaic north-eastern Aegean through the emergence, distribution and consumption of ‘G 2-3 ware’

Petya Velichkova Ilieva  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Maguelone Bastide, 

The human tragicomedy: the reception of Apuleius’ Golden Ass in the twentieth and twenty-first century

Mateusz Stróżyński  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Donato Fasolini, 

Classics and race. A historical reader

Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia  / UCL Press, 2025

Reviewed by Jeremy LaBuff, 

Narratives at play in Aeschylus: perspectives on genre and poetics

Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Anne Morvan, 

Visualising glocalization: villas, architectural spaces and pavements in Hispania Baetica (2nd Century AD – 4th Century AD)

Rubén Montoya González  / Archaeopress, 2024

Reviewed by Carlos Enríquez de Salamanca, 

L’aristocrazia senatoria e l’egemonia del Mediterraneo. Uno studio sulle forme dell’imperialismo romano nel II secolo a.C.

Manfredi Zanin  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Michele Bellomo, 

Hannibal and Scipio: parallel lives

Simon Hornblower  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jeff Tatum, 

Selections from Petronius, The Satyrica: The Tales of Eumolpus

Debra Freas, Andrew Zissos  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Marcos Carmignani, 

The god of this house: Christian domestic cult before Constantine

Caroline Johnson Hodge  / The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Vladimir Ivanovici, 

Roman Empire: a handbook

Sven Günther  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Marco Ferrario, 

Inconsistency in Flavian epic

Attila Ferenczi, Dániel Kozák, Andrew Zissos  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025

Reviewed by John Jacobs, 

Cretan hieroglyphic

Matilde Civitillo, Silvia Ferrara, Torsten Meissner  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Cassandra M. Donnelly, 

Contemplation and civic happiness in Plato and Aristotle

Dominic Scott  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Cesare Simone Astorino, 

From Byzantium to Constantinople: an urban history

John Matthews  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Kevin Feeney, 

The self in ancient and early modern philosophy

Attila Németh, Dániel Schmal  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher Gill,