BMCR 2026.01.30

The scientific sublime in imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna

Patrick Glauthier  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Liam Preston

BMCR 2026.01.29

A social and cultural history of the Hellenistic world

Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2025

Reviewed by Elizabeth Kosmetatou

BMCR 2026.01.28

Was ist Zeit? Altertumswissenschaftliche Aufsätze

Frank Görne, Marian Nebelin  / LIT Verlag, 2025

Reviewed by Rogier E. M. van der Heijden

BMCR 2026.01.27

Myth and history in ancient Persia: the Achaemenids in the Iranian tradition

Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee  / Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Rhyne King

BMCR 2026.01.26

Reading Quintilian: didactic authority in the Institutio Oratoria

Laura Loporcaro  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Benjamin A. Jerue

BMCR 2026.01.25

Contextualizing imperial disruption and upheavals and their associated research challenges

Jane E. Francis, Michael J. Curtis  / Oxbow Books, 2024

Reviewed by Brice Erickson

BMCR 2026.01.24

Der Senat im frühen Rom. Die Entwicklung des Ratsgremiums von der Königszeit bis zur lex Ovinia

Florian Rudolf Forster  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025

Reviewed by Clément Bur

BMCR 2026.01.23

Propertius and the Virgilian sensibility: elegy after 19 BC

Donncha O'Rourke  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by John Godwin

BMCR 2026.01.22

Diverse slaveries: slaving strategies and experiences of slavery in classical Athens

Jason Douglas Porter  / Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher J. Joyce

BMCR 2026.01.21

Sur les traces de l’empire des grands rois: enquête historiographique

Pierre Briant  / Les Belles Lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Orestis Belogiannis

BMCR 2026.01.20

The self in ancient and early modern philosophy

Attila Németh, Dániel Schmal  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher Gill

BMCR 2026.01.19

From Byzantium to Constantinople: an urban history

John Matthews  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Kevin Feeney

BMCR 2026.01.18

Contemplation and civic happiness in Plato and Aristotle

Dominic Scott  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Cesare Simone Astorino

BMCR 2026.01.17

Cretan hieroglyphic

Matilde Civitillo, Silvia Ferrara, Torsten Meissner  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Cassandra M. Donnelly

BMCR 2026.01.16

Inconsistency in Flavian epic

Attila Ferenczi, Dániel Kozák, Andrew Zissos  / Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025

Reviewed by John Jacobs

BMCR 2026.01.15

Roman Empire: a handbook

Sven Günther  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Marco Ferrario

BMCR 2026.01.14

The god of this house: Christian domestic cult before Constantine

Caroline Johnson Hodge  / The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Vladimir Ivanovici

BMCR 2026.01.13

Selections from Petronius, The Satyrica: The Tales of Eumolpus

Debra Freas, Andrew Zissos  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Marcos Carmignani

BMCR 2026.01.12

Hannibal and Scipio: parallel lives

Simon Hornblower  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jeff Tatum

BMCR 2026.01.11

L’aristocrazia senatoria e l’egemonia del Mediterraneo. Uno studio sulle forme dell’imperialismo romano nel II secolo a.C.

Manfredi Zanin  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Michele Bellomo