BMCR 2026.06.09

Le style de Platon

Stéphane Marchand  / Vrin, 2025

Reviewed by Paul O'Mahoney

BMCR 2026.06.08

The rule of law in ancient Rome

Eleanor Cowan, Kit Morrell, Andrew Pettinger, Michael Sevel  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Zachary Herz

BMCR 2026.06.07

Roman readings: Latin poetry from Lucretius to Ovid

Stephen Harrison  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Lucrezia Sperindio

BMCR 2026.06.06

I poemi omerici nella cultura greca: dalla pittura su vaso alle rappresentazioni teatrali (secoli VII-V a.C.)

Isabella Nova  / Carocci editore, 2024

Reviewed by Jason S. Nethercut

BMCR 2026.06.05

Architectural networks in the north Aegean: Thasos, Samothrace, and the formation of Hellenistic design

William Aylward, Jacques des Courtils, Bonna D. Wescoat  / The University of Wisconsin Press, 2025

Reviewed by Carlos F. Ortuño Pérez

BMCR 2026.06.04

The role of ex-consuls in Republican Rome, 218-31 BCE

Francisco Pina Polo  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Connor Beattie

BMCR 2026.06.03

Ovid and Plato: disturbing realities

Peter Kelly  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Rachel Philbrick

BMCR 2026.06.02

Greek and Roman military history

Leonhard Burckhardt, Michael A. Speidel  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Benjamin M. Sullivan

BMCR 2026.06.01

Books received May 2026

BMCR 2026.05.25

Performing justice in the later Roman Empire

Peter Van Nuffelen  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Ari Bryen

BMCR 2026.05.24

Medicine and practical ethics in Galen

Sophia Xenophontos  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Teun Tieleman

BMCR 2026.05.23

Revivals of classical drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s): theatre in the realm of ideology

Vasileios Balaskas  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Christina Filippaki

BMCR 2026.05.22

The God and the bureaucrat: Roman law, imperial sovereignty, and other stories

Zachary Herz  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Jacobo Rodríguez Garrido

BMCR 2026.05.21

Sur la route du devoir: le καθῆκον dans la pensée des stoïciens romains

Gabriele Flamigni  / Brepols, 2025

Reviewed by Peter Osorio

BMCR 2026.05.20

Locus horridus: ansie romane verso il mondo naturale

Maddalena Bassani, Ria Berg  / Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2024

Reviewed by Paola Francesca Moretti

BMCR 2026.05.19

Shadow of an ass: philosophical choice and aesthetic experience in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Jeffrey P. Ulrich  / University of Michigan Press, 2024

Reviewed by Pietro Vesentin

BMCR 2026.05.18

Fiscalità ed epigrafia nel mondo romano: nuove ricerche

Michaël Girardin, Sven Günther, Cristina Soraci  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2024

Reviewed by Antonio Leo de Petris

BMCR 2026.05.17

I trattati divinatori greci e il dinamismo della società tardoantica e bizantina: papiri, epigrafi e fonti letterarie

Salvatore Costanza, Amphilochios Papathomas  / Holzhausen, 2023

Reviewed by Sandra Muñoz Martínez

BMCR 2026.05.16

Reconstruire Rome: la restauration comme politique urbaine de l’antiquité à nos jours

Bruno Bonomo, Charles Davoine, Cécile Troadec  / École française de Rome, 2024

Reviewed by Pier Luigi Tucci

BMCR 2026.05.15

Platon, Xénophon, Aristote, Philodème de Gadara et autres auteurs. Penser l’économie en Grèce ancienne

Étienne Helmer  / Slatkine, 2025

Reviewed by Sven Günther