BMCR 2026.05.12

Visualising war across the ancient Mediterranean: interplay between conflict narratives in different media and genres

Alice König, Nicolas Wiater  / Routledge, 2025

Reviewed by Michael J. Taylor

BMCR 2026.05.11

Imperial institutions in ancient Rome and early China: a comparative analysis

Michael Loewe, T. Corey Brennan, Michael Nylan  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

BMCR 2026.05.10

The function argument in Aristotle’s ethics: happiness and the human good

Jakub Jirsa  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by John J. Mulhern

BMCR 2026.05.09

Plautus: Casina

Peter Barrios-Lech  / Liverpool University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Goran Vidović

BMCR 2026.05.08

Giving gifts and doing favours: literary classical Attic Greek support-verb constructions

Victoria B. Fendel  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Lucía Madrigal Acero

BMCR 2026.05.07

Aristotle’s gynecology: facts, evidence, and early medicine

Mariska Leunissen  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Konstantine Panegyres

BMCR 2026.05.06

Unfertigkeit in antiker Architektur: Definitionen und Ursachen

Frank Rumscheid, Natalia Toma  / Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Philipp von Zabern, 2022

Reviewed by Samuel Holzman

BMCR 2026.05.05

Divine music in archaic and classical Greek art: seeing the songs of the gods

Carolyn M. Laferrière  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Sylvain Perrot

BMCR 2026.05.04

Aeschylus, character, and the yoke of necessity

Mark Ringer  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Natasha Ferreira

BMCR 2026.05.03

Plinius der Jüngere aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive/Plinio il Giovane da una prospettiva interdisciplinare

Thorsten Fögen, Stefano Rocchi, Alberto Canobbio  / Mohr Siebeck, 2025

Reviewed by Dennis Pausch

BMCR 2026.05.02

Plutarch: Alexander

Christopher Pelling  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Peter Hunt

BMCR 2026.05.01

Books received April 2026

BMCR 2026.04.39

Nicomaco di Gerasa, Manuale di Armonica. Edizione critica, traduzione, commento

Sofia Di Mambro  / Fabrizio Serra, 2025

Reviewed by Anne Weddigen

BMCR 2026.04.38

The Seleukids at war: recruitment, composition, and organization

Altay Coşkun, Benjamin Edidin Scolnic  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Benjamin Pedersen

BMCR 2026.04.37

Living with justice: a philosophical study of Porphyry’s On Abstinence

Miira Tuominen  / Verlag Karl Alber, 2025

Reviewed by Chiara Di Serio

BMCR 2026.04.36

Identities in antiquity

Joseph Skinner, Vicky Manolopoulou, Christina Tsouparopoulou  / Routledge, 2025

Reviewed by Jeremy McInerney

BMCR 2026.04.35

A companion to Aristophanes

Matthew C. Farmer, Jeremy B. Lefkowitz  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2024

Reviewed by Bianca Mazzinghi Gori

BMCR 2026.04.34

Horatian readings: poetic and literary texture

Stephen Harrison  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Robert A. Rohland

BMCR 2026.04.33

Amazons: the history behind the legend

David Braund  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Maria Beatrice Bittarello

BMCR 2026.04.32

Justice in Plato’s Republic: the lessons of Book 1

Roslyn Weiss  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Ryan M. Brown