BMCR 2026.09.15

Herodotus and the Greek poetic tradition

Charles C. Chiasson  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Ennio Biondi

BMCR 2026.09.14

Counterfeits, imitations, and copies of Roman imperial denarii: making and faking coins on both sides of the Limes

Arkadiusz Dymowski, Kyroylo Myzgin  / Brepols, 2025

Reviewed by Benjamin Hellings

BMCR 2026.09.13

“The pen fell from my hand when I was in my eighty-sixth year”: revisiting the work of Martin P. Nilsson

Jenny Wallensten, Gunnel Ekroth  / Swedish Institute at Athens, 2024

Reviewed by Jan N. Bremmer

BMCR 2026.09.12

Space, narrative, and historical imagination in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita

Virginia Fabrizi  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Kieran Blewitt

BMCR 2026.09.11

The importance of being gorgeous: gender and Christian imperial rule in late antiquity

Susanna Elm  / University of California Press, 2025

Reviewed by Ellen Muehlberger

BMCR 2026.09.10

From the Pseudopythagorica to the Neopythagoreans: further studies on the texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

Constantinos Macris, Tiziano Dorandi, Luc Brisson  / Verlag Karl Alber, 2025

Reviewed by Cristian Tolsa

BMCR 2026.09.09

From the Adriatic to the Alps: transport and trade networks in Roman and late antique northern Italy

James Page  / Archaeopress, 2025

Reviewed by Justin Leidwanger

BMCR 2026.09.08

The power of naming: studies in the epicletic language of Hellenistic honours

Stefano G. Caneva  / Presses universitaires de Liège, 2023

Reviewed by Matthias Haake

BMCR 2026.09.07

How to listen: an ancient guide to learning from others. Plutarch

Jeffrey Beneker  / Princeton University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Luisa Lesage Gárriga

BMCR 2026.09.06

Dynamics of monotheism in late antiquity

Guy G. Stroumsa  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Matthew Kraus

BMCR 2026.09.05

A companion to Apollonius of Rhodes

Ruth Scodel  / University of Michigan Press, 2025

Reviewed by Manos Tsakiris

BMCR 2026.09.04

A new era of epigraphy: 40 years of epigraphic database Clauss/Slaby

Anne Kolb, Michael A. Speidel  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Matthäus Heil

BMCR 2026.09.03

The Cambridge companion to Lucian

Simon Goldhill  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jenni Glaser

BMCR 2026.09.02

Scavi di Ostia XIX. Il tempio dei Fabri Navales (III, II, 1-2) e la fullonica sottostante

Claire de Ruyt  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2025

Reviewed by Francesca Licordari

BMCR 2026.09.01

Books received August 2026

BMCR 2026.08.32

Roman comedy against the subject

Mario Telò  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Emilia A. Barbiero

BMCR 2026.08.31

Five thousand years of monarchy

Michael Arnheim  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2025

Reviewed by Stefan Rebenich

BMCR 2026.08.30

Boèce: Consolation de Philosophie

Jean-Yves Guillaumin  / Les Belles Lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Álvaro Cancela Cilleruelo

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