BMCR 2025.12.06

Revenge, punishment, and anger in ancient Greek justice

Joe Whitchurch  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Daniela Bonanno

BMCR 2025.12.05

The orators and their treatment of the recent past

Aggelos Kapellos  / De Gruyter, 2022

Reviewed by Stephen Clarke

BMCR 2025.12.04

Was ist Residenz?

Torsten Mattern, Marcus Reuter  / Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023

Reviewed by Marie-Adeline Le Guennec

BMCR 2025.12.03

Scribes and language use in the Graeco-Roman world

Sonja Dahlgren, Martti Leiwo, Marja Vierros  / The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2024

Reviewed by Michael A. Freeman

BMCR 2025.12.02

Il mito di Atreo e Tieste nella tragedia greca frammentaria di V secolo a.C.

Tommaso Suaria  / Edizioni Quasar, 2025

Reviewed by Lucrezia Sperindio

BMCR 2025.12.01

Books received November 2025

BMCR 2025.11.42

Coping with Versnel: a roundtable on religion and magic in honour of the 80th birthday of Henk S. Versnel

Kim Beerden, Fritz Naerebout  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Joseph E. Sanzo

BMCR 2025.11.41

Constantinople through the ages: the visible city from its foundation to contemporary Istanbul

Diederik Burgersdijk, Fokke Albert Gerritsen, Willemijn Waal  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Jonas J. H. Christensen

BMCR 2025.11.40

Divided power in ancient Greece: decision-making and institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic polis

Alberto Esu  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Michele Faraguna

BMCR 2025.11.39

Magica Levantina and Defixiones Atticae

Jaime Curbera  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Christopher Faraone

BMCR 2025.11.38

Xenophon’s Socratic rhetoric: virtue, eros, and philosophy in the Symposium

Dustin A. Gish  / Lexington Books, 2022

Reviewed by Vladimir Gildin Zuckerman

BMCR 2025.11.37

Life/afterlife: revolution and reflection in the ancient Greek underworld from Homer to Lucian

Suzanne Lye  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by George Alexander Gazis

BMCR 2025.11.36

Eleusis and Enlightenment: the problem of the mysteries in eighteenth-century thought

Ferdinand Saumarez Smith  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui

BMCR 2025.11.35

Dire le décor antique: textes grecs et latins au miroir des realia (IIIe s. av.-VIIIe s. ap. J.-C.)

Nicole Blanc, Marie-Thérèse Camus, Hélène Eristov, Marie-Christine Fayant, Delphine Lauritzen  / Les Belles Lettres, 2024

Reviewed by Silvia Gazzoli

BMCR 2025.11.34

The religious history of the Roman Empire: the Republican centuries

J. A. North  / Oxford University Press, 2023

Reviewed by Yann Berthelet

BMCR 2025.11.33

Gewalt in der Antike. Religiöse Ansätze zu ihrer Legitimierung und Delegitimierung

Johannes Breuer, Jochen Walter  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Cesare Barba

BMCR 2025.11.32

Slavery and dependence in ancient Egypt: sources in translation

Jane Rowlandson, Roger S. Bagnall, Dorothy J. Thompson  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jacobo Rodríguez Garrido

BMCR 2025.11.31

Drawing lots: from egalitarianism to democracy in ancient Greece

Irad Malkin, Josine Blok  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Julie Bothorel

BMCR 2025.11.30

The Orphic hymns: poetry and genre, with a critical text and translation

Daniel Malamis  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Oscar Prieto Dominguez

BMCR 2025.11.29

Naissance du discours sur les édifices chrétiens dans la littérature latine occidentale: d’Ambroise de Milan à Grégoire de Tours

Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard  / Brepols, 2023

Reviewed by John Moorhead