BMCR 2026.11.09

Decoding the Osirian myth: a transcultural reading of Plutarch’s narrative

Panagiota Sarischouli  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Ian S. Moyer, 

BMCR 2026.11.08

Heroines of Greek and Roman myth: an intermediate Latin reader

Maxwell Teitel Paule  / Open Book Publishers, 2026

Reviewed by Amy Skillicorn, 

BMCR 2026.11.07

Pomponii Laeti in Vergilii Aeneidem commentarius, libri I et II

Fabio Stok, Nicola Lanzarone  / Edizioni ETS, 2025

Reviewed by Frances Muecke, 

BMCR 2026.11.06

Debating Cyrus: leadership in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

David M. Johnson, Gabriel Danzig, Rodrigo Illarraga  / De Gruyter, 2026

Reviewed by Andrew T. Alwine, 

BMCR 2026.11.05

Julius Caesar: a reference guide to his life and works

Tom Stevenson  / Bloomsbury, 2026

Reviewed by Timothy Smith, 

BMCR 2026.11.04

Les usages du possible. L’héritage aristotélicien

David Lefebvre, Kristell Trego  / Peeters, 2023

Reviewed by Anna Marmodoro, 

BMCR 2026.11.03

Flavius Josephus: translation and commentary. Volume 8: Judean Antiquities, books 18-20

Daniel R. Schwartz  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Carson Bay, 

BMCR 2026.11.02

Eustathius of Thessalonica: commentary on the Odyssey. Volume III: commentary on rhapsodies 9-12

S. Douglas Olson, Eric Cullhed  / Brill, 2026

Reviewed by Anna Busetto, 

BMCR 2026.11.01

Books received October 2026

BMCR 2026.10.38

Visiting the oracle at Dodona: contexts of unknowing in ancient Greek religion

Hugh Bowden, Esther Eidinow  / Cambridge University Press, 2026

Reviewed by James Flynn, 

BMCR 2026.10.37

¿Defensores del pueblo romano? Historia del tribunado de la plebe

Thibaud Lanfranchi  / Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2024

Reviewed by Eric J. Kondratieff, 

BMCR 2026.10.36

Bridges in the ancient Mediterranean

Anna Klara Falke, Florian Neitmann, Aleksandar Simić  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Andrew Farinholt Ward, 

BMCR 2026.10.35

Die ‘Punica’, ihr ‘poeta’ Silius Italicus und ‘princeps’ Domitian: Fürsten- und Dichterspiegel für die flavische Zeit

Clara Nüßlein  / De Gruyter, 2026

Reviewed by Theodore Antoniadis, 

BMCR 2026.10.34

Alexander’s successors

John Holton  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Caroline Kreutzer, 

BMCR 2026.10.33

Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War

Robin Waterfield, Polly Low  / Basic Books, 2025

Reviewed by Wayne Rimmer, 

BMCR 2026.10.32

Gender violence in late antiquity: male fantasies and the Christian imagination

Jennifer Barry  / University of California Press, 2025

Reviewed by Victoria Leonard, 

BMCR 2026.10.31

Ancient pasts for modern audiences: public scholarship and the Mediterranean world

Chelsea A.M. Gardner, Sabrina C. Higgins  / Routledge, 2025

Reviewed by Alexander J. Smith, 

BMCR 2026.10.30

Cycladic art: the Leonard N. Stern collection on loan from the Hellenic Republic

Seán Hemingway  / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2026

Reviewed by David W. J. Gill, 

BMCR 2026.10.29

Stranger-kingship in antiquity

Julius Guthrie, Henry Anderson, Emma Nicholson  / Routledge, 2025

Reviewed by Jasmin Lukkari, 

BMCR 2026.10.28

Misanthrop im Dialog. Annäherungen an eine abgewandte Figur

Yasmin Temelli, Manuel Baumbach  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025

Reviewed by René Bloch,