BMCR 2026.02.16

Voci di donne nell’epica: personaggi e modelli poetici femminili nell’Iliade e nell’Odissea

Cecilia Nobili  / Carocci Editore, 2023

Reviewed by Françoise Létoublon

BMCR 2026.02.15

Latinization, local languages, and literacies in the Roman West

Alex Mullen, Anna Willi  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jonas Osnabrügge

BMCR 2026.02.14

Decolonizing Roman imperialism: the study of Rome, romanization, and the postcolonial lens

Danielle Hyeonah Lambert  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Sarah Bond

BMCR 2026.02.13

The house of the satrap: the making of the ancient Persian empire

Rhyne King  / University of California Press, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher J. Tuplin

BMCR 2026.02.12

The buried city: unearthing the real Pompeii

Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Jamie Bulloch  / The University of Chicago Press, 2025

Reviewed by Marcello Mogetta

BMCR 2026.02.11

Ugly productions: an aesthetics of Greek drama

A. C. Duncan  / University of Michigan Press, 2025

Reviewed by Asya C. Sigelman

BMCR 2026.02.10

Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Continued. Part IV: biography and antiquarian literature. E: Paradoxography and antiquities. Fasc. 4. Antiquities [Nos. 1750-1751, 1753-1787]

David Engels, Stefan Schorn  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Tommaso Braccini

BMCR 2026.02.09

The ancient world in alternative history and counterfactual fictions

Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, Leire Olabarria  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Reviewed by Fernando Lozano

BMCR 2026.02.08

“Naturheiligtümer” im westlichen Kleinasien. Natur in sakralen Kontexten von der Archaik bis zum Ausgang des Hellenismus

Florian Schimpf  / Reichert Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Marte Zepernick

BMCR 2026.02.07

La fabrique des bébés dans l’Antiquité. Enquête sur les “biberons” gallo-romains

Sandra Jaeggi-Richoz  / Brepols, 2024

Reviewed by Alessandra Scali

BMCR 2026.02.06

Eliano. Lettere rustiche

Anna Tiziana Drago  / Pensa, 2023

Reviewed by Steven D. Smith

BMCR 2026.02.05

Ancient maritime loan contracts

Peter Candy  / University of Michigan Press, 2025

Reviewed by Peter O’Connell

BMCR 2026.02.04

Performance and imagination: dramatic space in the comedies of Menander, Plautus and Terence

Katerina Philippides  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Aidan Mahoney

BMCR 2026.02.03

Classical reception: new challenges in a changing world

Anastasia Bakogianni, Luis Unceta Gómez  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Domingo F. Sanz

BMCR 2026.02.02

Menander ‘Misoumenos’ or ‘The hated man’: introduction, translation, and commentary

William Furley  / University of London Press, 2021

Reviewed by Niall W. Slater

BMCR 2026.02.01

Books received January 2026

BMCR 2026.01.36

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: myth and history

Ory Amitay  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Jodi Magness

BMCR 2026.01.35

Die frühe Sophoklesrezeption in der griechischen Literatur

Hannah Brandenburg  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024

Reviewed by Gregory Crane

BMCR 2026.01.34

The Oxford handbook of monsters in classical myth

Debbie Felton  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Scott G. Bruce

BMCR 2026.01.33

Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world

David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro, Douglas Cairns  / Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Sara Forsdyke