BMCR 2026.08.01

Books received July 2026

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Anderson, Ralph, Pramit Chaudhuri. Belief in Greek and Roman religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 394. ISBN 9781009240987.

Bentz, Martin, Patrick Zeidler. The iconography of ‘otherness’ in pre-modern visual art: a cross-cultural approach. Dependency and slavery studies, 31. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. vi, 290. ISBN 9783112251003.

Biggs, Thomas. Plautus: Poenulus. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781350379060.

Bitto, Gregor. Statius: Achilleis. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 167. ISBN 9783111631646.

Bérard, Reine-Marie, Thierry Lucas. Megarika III, from Sicily to the Black Sea. Latest research on ancient Megarian cities. Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, supplément 72. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2026. Pp. 420. ISBN 9782869586895.

Bonisch-Meyer, Sophia, Alexander Free, Isabelle Mossong. Bilder urbaner Lebenswelten in der griechisch-romischen Antike. Philippika, 146. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. Pp. viii, 492. ISBN 9783447121668.

Braun-Angott, Peter. Pytheas von Massalia: geographische, astronomische und handelspolitische Aspekte seines Reiseberichts. Prismata, 24. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2026. Pp. xii, 352. ISBN 9783631937853.

Brun-Kyriakidis, Hélène. Fréquenter les dieux à Délos: essai pour une archéologie du culte. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 414. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2026. Pp. 307. ISBN 9782869586130.

Carsana, Chiara, Alessandro Galimberti, Laura Mecella. Dinamiche di competizione sociale a Roma tra la tarda repubblica e l’impero. Monografie del Centro Ricerche di Documentazione sull’Antichità Classica, 58. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2026. Pp. 252. ISBN 9788891337955.

Cavanagh, Christopher. The Galli priests of Cybele: ancient sexuality and identity through global cultures. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350551039.

Christoforou, Panayiotis, Bram L.H. ten Berge. Tacitus and the incomplete. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 314. ISBN 9780472133703.

Ciołek, Renata. Coinage of the Roman provinces of Moesia and Thrace: imperial or provincial? Philippika, 189. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. Pp x, 454. ISBN 9783447124898.

Dana, Dan, Csaba A. La‘da. Armée lagide et interactions culturelles: nouvelles sources, nouvelles approches. Actes de la journée d’études de Lyon (17 novembre 2022). Philippika, 185. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2026. Pp. x, 246. ISBN 9783447123587.

De Beer, Susanna, Ruben Poelstra, Louis Verreth. The return of the golden age from antiquity to the 21st century: receptions of a classical motif. Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 12. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xii, 376. ISBN 9789004762831.

D’Ercole, Maria Cecilia, Silvia D’Intino, Florence Gherchanoc. Natura: approches anciennes, enjeux contemporains. Kaïnon – anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 29. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 236. ISBN 9782406174844.

Dehner, Marco. Architektur und Architekturdekor in Petra. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2026. Pp. 450. ISBN 9783832560140.

Dutmer, Evan R.W. Cicero’s new leadership: a proto-transformational leadership theory. Jepson studies in leadership. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026. Pp. 190. ISBN 9781049403489.

Ebbinghaus, Susanne. Celtic art across the ages. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2026. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780300286380.

Eich, Peter. Geschichte der Hohen Römischen Kaiserzeit. Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte, 57. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xii, 317. ISBN 9783119147866.

Encinas Reguero, M. Carmen, Sara Macías Otero. El agua en la literatura griega. Análisis y crítica. Madrid: Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2026. Pp. 400. ISBN 9791387789688.

Fleming, Robin. Thinking with dogs in Roman Britain: lived experience, inequality, and ritual in a Roman province. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198938941.

Funke, Melissa, C. W. Marshall. Greek and Roman mime. Phoenix 79.2. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. Pp. 267. ISSN 00318299.

Gildenhard, Ingo. Teaching Dido: critical perspectives on Aeneid 4. Classics textbooks, 9. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2026. Pp. xx, 476. ISBN 9781805119470.

Gildenhard, Ingo. Virgil, Aeneid 4, with study questions, vocabulary, and commentary. Classics textbooks, 8. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2026. Pp. xxviii, 694. ISBN 9781805118831.

Gretter, Laura. Die Kunst der Beleidigung: Mechanik und Ästhetik der Invektive in den ‘Epoden’ des Horaz. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften. Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, 171. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2026. Pp. 213. ISBN 9783825397128.

Grigoraș, Bianca-Elena. Storage in the eastern and southeastern Carpathians, 1st-6th centuries AD: pits, dolia, and horrea. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 140. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781805832416.

Grosos, Philippe, Camille Riquier, Sylvain Roux. Athènes et Jérusalem face à la naissance de la philosophie. Philosophica. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2026. Pp. 224. ISBN 9791041305087.

Haan, Estelle. William Dillingham’s Aegyptus Triumphata. Bloomsbury neo-Latin series: early modern texts and anthologies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781350588226.

Hallof, Klaus. Inscriptiones Graecae VI: Elidis et Achaiae: catalogus Olympionicarum. Tituli lapidibus inscripti. Inscriptiones Graecae. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 534. ISBN 9783112234457.

Hansen, William F. Classical myth and literature in parody: ancient and modern. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781350548039.

Hemming, Laurence, Aaron Turner. Heidegger and Parmenides. New Heidegger research. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 310. ISBN 9781538186015.

Holzberg, Niklas. Xenophon von Ephesos: Anthia und Habrokomes. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 175. ISBN 9783112256701.

Ingleheart, Jennifer. A Grecian lad: A.E. Housman and the classics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781350574717.

James, Jesse. Laws of all the Greeks: international law as social reality in ancient Greece. The history and theory of international law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 458. ISBN 9780197838525.

Johnston, Alexandre. Humans and gods in Sophocles and early Greek thought: theology, epistemology and narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781009727808.

Karas, Allannah K. Coercion, ambiguity, and rhetoric in ancient Greece: the dangers of peithō. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781009656863.

Kelly, Adrian. Homer: Iliad book XXIII. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 418. ISBN 9781107150157.

Kissas, Konstantinos, Elena Walter-Karydi. Klenia bei Korinth: das Gräberfeld und das Kurospaar. Philippika, 194. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2026. Pp. x, 396. ISBN 9783447125376.

Lamouille, Stéphane. Les charpentes en Grèce ancienne: vers une nouvelle histoire. Histoire de la construction, 5. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 619. ISBN 9782406190974.

Lehmann, Christian. Dickens and the classics. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350548442.

Lucken, Michael, Malcolm DeBevoise. Japan and ancient Greece: culture and possession. Classical scholarship in translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 230. ISBN 9781009528696.

Manoledakis, Manolis. The founding of Thessaloniki: a comparison of literary, archaeological and topographical evidence. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2026. Pp. 224. ISBN 9798888572573.

Margagliotta, Giusy Maria Ausilia. Il demonico in Platone e la nascita della demonologia platonica. Brill’s Plato studies series, 23. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. x, 361. ISBN 9789004756939.

Marinatos, Nanno, Fritz Blakolmer, Lefteris Platon. Pax Minoica revisited: new research on Arthur Evans’ concept of the political expansion of Minoan Crete. Contributions to the archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant, 19. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. Pp. 254. ISBN 9783447123273.

McCarter, Stephanie. Gaius Valerius Catullus: the poems of Catullus. New York: Penguin Classics, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780143136378.

McClure, Laura. Modernist women and the Greek chorus. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780198883678.

Mihăilescu-Bîrliba, Lucrețiu. Miles ex vico: militaires recrutés du milieu rural de Mésie Inférieure (ou de Thrace) (Ier-IIIe siècles ap. J.-C.). Philippika, 184. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. Pp. xiv, 268. ISBN 9783447123570.

Militello, Chiara. Olympiodorus: on Aristotle, Meteorology 2-3. Ancient commentators on Aristotle. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781350531246.

Miller, Paul Allen. Truth and enjoyment in Cicero: rhetoric and philosophy beyond the pleasure principle. Classics in theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780198931324.

Minato, Nicolò. Tacito in corte: i libretti di Nicolo Minato su Elio Seiano (1667). Musicologie, 30. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 285. ISBN 9782406198536.

Moder, Gregor, Tanja Dominko. Antigone as political philosophy. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2026. Pp. 160. ISBN 9798899480287.

Munteanu, Dana LaCourse. Decoding the tragic in Aristotle: from involuntariness in the ethics to the puzzles of the poetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 248. ISBN 9780197836804.

Paoletti, Lorenzo. Alexander the evil: resistance and opposition to the Macedonian rule in the ancient Iranian world: witnesses, memories and impacts. Diàdema, 4. Milan: Mimesis Edizioni, 2026. Pp. 358. ISBN 9791222325439.

Paricio, Javier. Salvio Giuliano: una vita per l’impero tra diritto e politica. Scriptores iuris romani. Subsidia, 5. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2026. Pp. 338. ISBN 9788891337269.

Pérez Fernández, José María. Translation and the truth of history: Thucydides between Valla and Hobbes. Oxford textual perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780192865946.

Piovan, Dino. La democrazia ateniese: storia di un’idea dall’età classica al XXI secolo. Studi superiori. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9788829029365.

Pirovano, Luigi. Tiberius Claudius Donatus. Interpretationes Vergilianae. Book I. Bologna: Patron Editore, 2025. Pp. xxviii, 460. ISBN 9788855536587.

Piso, Ioan, Ovidiu Țentea. Les Palmyréniens en Dacie. Semitica et classica, 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 272. ISBN 9782503622408.

Race, William H. Plutarch. Moralia: volume I. Loeb classical library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026. Pp. 544. ISBN 9780674997790.

Reece, Bryan C. Aristotelian ontological priority and metaphysical grounding. Cambridge elements: ancient philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 75. ISBN 9781009547963.

Reichardt, Bettina. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Deutschland, 114. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Skulpturensammlung, 6: attisch schwarzfigurige Keramik. Munich: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2026. Pp. 136. ISBN 9783769637922.

Scafoglio, Giampiero. Andromaque dans la poésie latine: femme guerrière et mater dolorosa. Études anciennes, 90. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9782251459318.

Schillinger, Daniel. Luckless: the idea of luck in ancient Greek thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 192. ISBN 9780197690246.

Schneider, Bernhard, Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider. Serving the gods: artists, craftsmen, ritual specialists in the ancient world. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2026. Pp. viii, 348. ISBN 9783447125116.

Segev, Mor. Joseph Ibn Kaspi, Epitome of Aristotle’s Ethics and Commentaries on Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs. The Gross Library of Jewish Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 528. ISBN 9780197773048.

Silvestro, Fatima. Roman copies of classical and Hellenistic sculptural types from Macedonia. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 139. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 346. ISBN 9781805833024.

Spadini, Fabio. Le ciel sur pierre: les gemmes astrologiques romaines (Ier s. av. J.-C. – IVe s. apr. J.-C.). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 138. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 326. ISBN 9781805833048.

Tol, Gijs, Astrid Van Oyen. Roman rural archaeology: society, economy, and culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 500. ISBN 9781316510995.

Träder, Eva. Städtebau im vorrömischen Judäa und Nabatäa: zwischen einheimischer Tradition und griechisch-römischen Einflüssen. Philippika, 186. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. Pp. xiv, 502. ISBN 9783447123914.

Tsitsiridis, Stavros. Ευριπίδη, Τρωάδες: αναγνώσεις. Herakleion: Crete University Press, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN 9786182301469.

Vandiver, Elizabeth. Richard Aldington’s modernist antiquity: classics, imagism, and the Great War. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780198958598.

Vitale, Marco. Trankopfer und Speererwerb: Symbolhandlungen im Kontext von Alexanders Reichsbildung. Philippika, 182. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. Pp. x, 290. ISBN 9783447123464.

Vassallo, Christian. Fragments of the early Stoics. Volume 4.1: the school of Chrysippus: Zeno of Tarsus and Diogenes of Babylon. Fragments of the early Stoics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. lxxxvii, 738. ISBN 9783111426952.

Yoshitake, Ryuichi. The theatre at Messene: an architectural study. Athenaia, 15. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2025. Pp. 318. ISBN 9783752008333.

Zink, Stephan, Frederik Grosser. Colour and space. Interfaces of ancient architecture and sculpture. Proceedings of the 10th International Round Table on Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture. Tagungen und Kongresse, 4. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2025. Pp. 364. ISBN 9783752008609.

Zuchtriegel, Gabriel. L’Apollo di Pompei: ricostruzione di un capolavoro classico. Florence: Giunti Editore, 2026. Pp. 128. ISBN 9791223234372.

Zuppke, Fabian. Anceps via – aeterna domus: Chronotopik und Metaphorologie in Ciceros rhetorisch-politischer Philosophie. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften. Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, 170. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2026. Pp. 450. ISBN 9783825397258.