BMCR 2026.08.29

Orality and narration: performance and mythic-ritual poetics in the ancient world

Anton Bierl, David Bouvier, Ombretta Cesca  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Richard P. Martin

BMCR 2026.08.28

Reading the Odyssey: a guide to Homer’s narrative

Jonas Grethlein, Sabrina Stolfa  / Princeton University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Françoise Létoublon

BMCR 2026.08.27

Plato’s Seventh Letter

James M. Redfield  / Hackett, 2026

Reviewed by Colin C. Smith

BMCR 2026.08.26

Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta

George W. M. Harrison  / Bloomsbury, 2026

Reviewed by Hannah Jorsh

BMCR 2026.08.25

Honour in Aristotle’s Ethics

Kleanthis Mantzouranis  / Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Jerry Green

BMCR 2026.08.24

Miracula: weird and wonderful stories of ancient Greece and Rome

Paul Chrystal  / Reaktion Books, 2025

Reviewed by Floris Overduin

BMCR 2026.08.23

Galen on human physiology: taking the body apart and putting it back together again

Aistė Čelkytė  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Malina Buturovic

BMCR 2026.08.22

Rereading Plato’s Republic

Mary Margaret McCabe, Simon Trépanier  / Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher C. Raymond

BMCR 2026.08.21

The Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria: second sun and seventh wonder of antiquity

Andrew Michael Chugg  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by J. Z. Van Rookhuijzen

BMCR 2026.08.20

Sofocle, Niobe. Introduzione, testo critico, commento e traduzione

Leyla Ozbek  / Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2023

Reviewed by Hannah Brandenburg

BMCR 2026.08.19

Memories of antiquity: classical reception and memory studies

Madeleine Scherer, Jakob Schneider, Benjamin Eldon Stevens  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Gabrielle Stecher Woodward

BMCR 2026.08.18

Learning and power in late antique Gaul: classical education and the end of Roman rule

Alison John  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Bruno Rochette

BMCR 2026.08.17

Ilias Latina. Introduction, text, translation, and commentary

Steven J. Green  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Maria Jennifer Falcone

BMCR 2026.08.16

Vergil and the trinity: appropriation, revision, and distortion of Rome’s greatest poet

Thomas W. Dilbeck  / Routledge, 2026

Reviewed by Scott McGill

BMCR 2026.08.15

Lyric addresses to ancient and new gods. Mesomedes, proems – hymns – prayers

Sara Lanna  / Mohr Siebeck, 2025

Reviewed by Hanna Gołąb

BMCR 2026.08.14

Children of Mars: the origins of Rome’s empire

Jeremy Armstrong  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Connor Beattie

BMCR 2026.08.13

Iasos. Una polis nella Caria costiera in età arcaica

Marina Albertocchi, Fede Berti  / Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025

Reviewed by Jana Mokrišová

BMCR 2026.08.12

The body and the senses in Greek tragedy

Afroditi Angelopoulou  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Orestis Karatzoglou

BMCR 2026.08.11

Un empire, plusieurs langues. Aspects du plurilinguisme dans le monde romain

Bernard Bortolussi, Étienne Wolff  / Ausonius Éditions, 2025

Reviewed by María José Estarán Tolosa

BMCR 2026.08.10

Following nature’s lead: ancient ways of living in a dying world

M.D. Usher  / Princeton University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Joel Alden Schlosser