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

BMCR 2026.08.09

Coins of the Ptolemaic empire, part 2: Ptolemy V through Cleopatra VII

Catharine C. Lorber  / American Numismatic Society, 2025

Reviewed by Robyn L. Le Blanc

BMCR 2026.08.08

The kingdom of Pylos: warrior-princes of Mycenaean Greece

Sharon R. Stocker, Claire L. Lyons, Jack L. Davis, Evangelia Militsi-Kechagia  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2025

Reviewed by Vassilis Petrakis

BMCR 2026.08.07

Combattre les dieux: le théomaque chez Nonnos de Panopolis

Halima Benchikh-Lehocine  / UGA Éditions, 2025

Reviewed by Laura Miguélez-Cavero

BMCR 2026.08.06

Retrospective columns: Ionic capitals and perceptions of the past in Greek architecture

Samuel Holzman  / Princeton University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Max Peers

BMCR 2026.08.05

Delicati and delicia in the Roman empire: a study of epigraphic and literary sources

Valeria La Monaca  / BAR Publishing, 2025

Reviewed by Ulrike Roth

BMCR 2026.08.04

Timaeus in paradise: metaphors and beauty from Plato to Dante and beyond

Piero Boitani  / Princeton University Press, 2025

Reviewed by David Marsh

BMCR 2026.08.03

Military households of Roman auxiliary commanders in western Europe and north Africa: Latin inscriptions, Vindolanda letters, and praetorium archaeology

Claire Millington  / BAR Publishing, 2024

Reviewed by Thomas Heide

BMCR 2026.08.02

From Midas to Cyrus and other stories: papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers

Catherine M. Draycott, Scott Branting, Joseph W. Lehner, Yasemın Özarslan  / British Institute at Ankara, 2023

Reviewed by Jana Mokrišová

BMCR 2026.08.01

Books received July 2026

BMCR 2026.07.28

The triumph of Christianity redescribed

Éric Rebillard  / Cornell University Press, 2026

Reviewed by James J. O'Donnell

BMCR 2026.07.27

La Gaule devant César: ce que révèle l’archéologie

Michel Reddé  / Les Belles Lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Joseph Reisdoerfer

BMCR 2026.07.26

Callimachus: the epigrams

Susan A. Stephens, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Paul Ojennus

BMCR 2026.07.25

Egeria: theological and ecclesial knowledge between eastern and western traditions

Anni Maria Laato  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Alessandra Baldoncini

BMCR 2026.07.24

Ancient Latin epics in Girolamo Vida’s Christiad

Stefano Cianciosi  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by John Jacobs

BMCR 2026.07.23

Direct speech in Greek and Latin epic: expanding the methods and canon

Christopher W. Forstall, Berenice Verhelst  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Wayne Rimmer