BMCR 2026.07.18

Galien. Tome IX: Des habitudes

Véronique Boudon-Millot  / Les Belles Lettres, 2026

Reviewed by Konstantine Panegyres

BMCR 2026.07.17

Wine and ecstasy in Plato: a metaphor of sorts and its early reception

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides  / State University of New York Press, 2025

Reviewed by Nicholas R. Baima

BMCR 2026.07.16

Tharros: a Sardinian treasure in the ancient Mediterranean

Barbara Faedda, Paolo Carta  / Columbia University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Linda R. Gosner

BMCR 2026.07.15

Plautus: Cistellaria

Ariana Traill  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Catherine Tracy

BMCR 2026.07.14

Ennius beyond epic

Jesse Hill, C.W. Marshall  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by John Godwin

BMCR 2026.07.13

The visual preservation of Roman Stabiae: the Villa Arianna survey and the study of frescoes in their physical context

Joseph C. Williams  / BAR Publishing, 2025

Reviewed by Léa Narès

BMCR 2026.07.12

Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian

Matthew R. Crawford, Aaron P. Johnson  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Zachary T. Hedges

BMCR 2026.07.11

Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike. Books 21-40: from the battle of Ipsos (301 BC) to the Catilinarian conspiracy (62 BC)

Duane W. Roller  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Charles E. Muntz

BMCR 2026.07.10

Poppaea Sabina: the life and afterlife of a Roman empress

Neil W. Bernstein  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Frances Myatt

BMCR 2026.07.09

Sophocles’ Nausicaa

Leonardo Bononcini  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2025

Reviewed by P. J. Finglass

BMCR 2026.07.08

Ciceronian invectives: emotions, configurations, and reactions

Philipp Geitner, Dennis Pausch, Christoph Schwameis, Rainer Wierzcholowski  / Mohr Siebeck, 2023

Reviewed by Lucia Galli

BMCR 2026.07.07

Living at the margins: African peasants in an age of extremes 300-900 CE

Paolo Tedesco  / Hiersemann, 2025

Reviewed by David J. Mattingly

BMCR 2026.07.06

Classical myth in medieval Ireland

Brigid Ehrmantraut  / D.S. Brewer, 2025

Reviewed by Craig Davis

BMCR 2026.07.05

L’anomalie nécessaire. Femmes dangereuses, idéologie de la polis et gynécophobie à Athènes

Marcella Farioli  / Edizioni Ca'Foscari, 2024

Reviewed by Stefania De Vido

BMCR 2026.07.04

Kaiser Julian, Auf die Göttermutter: Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar

Michael Schramm  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Jeremy Swist

BMCR 2026.07.03

Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts

Andrés D. Pelavski  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Konstantine Panegyres

BMCR 2026.07.02

Cicero: a very short introduction

Yelena Baraz  / Oxford University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Catherine Steel

BMCR 2026.07.01

Books received June 2026

BMCR 2026.06.33

Hubris, ancient and modern: concepts, comparisons, connections

Douglas Cairns, Nick Bouras, Eugene Sadler-Smith  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Andrew Wolpert

BMCR 2026.06.32

La force de la parole: les textes essentiels de l’Antiquité

Stéphane Marchand, Pierre Ponchon, André Rehbinder  / Les Belles Lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Pierre Pontier