BMCR 2026.10.15

Isocrates: Peri tou zeugous. An encomium of Alcibiades

Evangelos Alexiou  / De Gruyter, 2026

Reviewed by Tobias Hirsch, 

BMCR 2026.10.14

The queer thing about sin: why the west came to hate queer love

Harry Tanner  / Bloomsbury, 2026

Reviewed by Eleni Avdoulou, 

BMCR 2026.10.13

Platonic autonomy: self-determination, unity, and cooperation

Olof Pettersson, Pauliina Remes  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Octavian Gabor, 

BMCR 2026.10.12

The materiality of early Christ devotion: artistic innovation at four archaeological sites

Bruce W. Longenecker  / Baylor University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Daniel E. An, 

BMCR 2026.10.11

After transformation: a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity

Maia Kotrosits  / Duke University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Alberto J. Quiroga, 

BMCR 2026.10.10

Brill’s companion to ancient women and war in the Mediterranean world

Elizabeth D. Carney, Sabine Müller  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Caitlin Gillespie, 

BMCR 2026.10.09

Phoenicia, Carthage, and popular government in the pre-classical Mediterranean: the other democracy

Brett Kaufman  / Oxford University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Christopher Stedman Parmenter, 

BMCR 2026.10.08

Latin lineages: a family tree from Catullus to today

Regine May, Catherine Conybeare  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Jamie Wheeler Cessna, 

BMCR 2026.10.07

Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman temple building

Mantha Zarmakoupi  / University of Wisconsin Press, 2026

Reviewed by Julius Roch, 

BMCR 2026.10.06

Relativism and the frontiers of empire: critical perspectives on Roman soldiers, communities and military landscapes

Anna Walas, Andrew Birley  / Archaeopress, 2025

Reviewed by Katrina Knight, 

BMCR 2026.10.05

The meaning of myth in uncertain times: how classical mythology helps us navigate a world in crisis

Evelien Bracke  / Routledge, 2025

Reviewed by James J. Clauss, 

BMCR 2026.10.04

Power and propaganda in the large imperial cameos of the early Roman empire

Julia C. Fischer  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by Anne F. LaGatta, 

BMCR 2026.10.03

Palmyra, the Roman empire, and the third century crisis: zooming in and scaling up from the evidence

Rubina Raja, Eivind Heldaas Seland  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025

Reviewed by Marco Ferrario, 

BMCR 2026.10.02

Martin the Epicurean

Martin Ferguson Smith  / Silverwood Books, 2026

Reviewed by Christopher Stray, 

BMCR 2026.10.01

Books received September 2026

BMCR 2026.09.31

Sidonius Apollinaris: selected letters

Joop van Waarden  / Cambridge University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Thomas Miller, 

BMCR 2026.09.30

Ancient Greek oracular texts: form, content, context

Michael Lipka  / Routledge, 2026

Reviewed by Daniel J. Crosby, 

BMCR 2026.09.29

The Roman world war: from the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s suicide

Giusto Traina, Malcolm DeBevoise  / Princeton University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Jon Manley, 

BMCR 2026.09.28

The ignorance of the philosopher: why did Plato not write the “unwritten doctrine”?

Rafael Ferber  / Verlag Karl Alber, 2025

Reviewed by Carl Sean O'Brien, 

BMCR 2026.09.27

An enchanted world: the shared religious landscape of late antiquity

Michael L. Satlow  / Princeton University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Ryan Denson,