Publications

The ancient world in alternative history and counterfactual fictions

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

Reviewed by Fernando Lozano, 

“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, 

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

Sandra Jaeggi-Richoz  / Brepols, 2024

Reviewed by Alessandra Scali, 

Eliano. Lettere rustiche

Anna Tiziana Drago  / Pensa, 2023

Reviewed by Steven D. Smith, 

Ancient maritime loan contracts

Peter Candy  / University of Michigan Press, 2025

Reviewed by Peter O’Connell, 

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

Katerina Philippides  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Aidan Mahoney, 

Classical reception: new challenges in a changing world

Anastasia Bakogianni, Luis Unceta Gómez  / De Gruyter, 2024

Reviewed by Domingo F. Sanz, 

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

William Furley  / University of London Press, 2021

Reviewed by Niall W. Slater, 

Books received January 2026

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: myth and history

Ory Amitay  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Jodi Magness, 

Die frühe Sophoklesrezeption in der griechischen Literatur

Hannah Brandenburg  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024

Reviewed by Gregory Crane, 

The Oxford handbook of monsters in classical myth

Debbie Felton  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Scott G. Bruce, 

Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world

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

Reviewed by Sara Forsdyke, 

Belief and unbelief in the ancient world

Taylor O. Gray, Ethan R. Johnson, Martina Vercesi  / Eerdmans, 2025

Reviewed by Justin M. Rogers, 

Callimachus: select longer fragments and epigrams

Alexandros Kampakoglou  / Liverpool University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono, 

The scientific sublime in imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna

Patrick Glauthier  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Liam Preston, 

A social and cultural history of the Hellenistic world

Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2025

Reviewed by Elizabeth Kosmetatou, 

Was ist Zeit? Altertumswissenschaftliche Aufsätze

Frank Görne, Marian Nebelin  / LIT Verlag, 2025

Reviewed by Rogier E. M. van der Heijden, 

Myth and history in ancient Persia: the Achaemenids in the Iranian tradition

Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee  / Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Rhyne King, 

Reading Quintilian: didactic authority in the Institutio Oratoria

Laura Loporcaro  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Benjamin A. Jerue,