Publications

Books received June 2026

Hubris, ancient and modern: concepts, comparisons, connections

Douglas Cairns, Nick Bouras, Eugene Sadler-Smith  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Andrew Wolpert, 

La force de la parole: les textes essentiels de l’Antiquité

Stéphane Marchand, Pierre Ponchon, André Rehbinder  / Les Belles Lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Pierre Pontier, 

Time of textiles in ancient Greece

Marie-Louise Bech Nosch  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Samuel Gartland, 

Alaudae: the original Latin text of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, with English translation and explanatory notes

Llewelyn Morgan, Michael Lombardi-Nash  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Šime Demo, 

A new history of ancient Roman theatre

Jessica Clarke  / Liverpool University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher Trinacty, 

The Penguin book of Greek and Latin lyric verse

Christopher Childers  / Penguin Classics, 2025

Reviewed by José Leonardo Sousa Buzelli, 

La cité des Delphiens: une communauté politique à l’ombre d’Apollon (VIe-Ier siecle av. J.-C.)

Nicolas Kyriakidis  / École française d’Athènes, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher J. Joyce, 

Statius: Silvae. Lateinisch – Deutsch

Gottfried Kreuz  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Laila Dell'Anno, 

Plato on comedy and tragedy: the role of drama in the pursuit of happiness

Franco V. Trivigno  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Francisco J. Gonzalez, 

Suetonius: Life of Julius Caesar

D. Wardle  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Heiko Westphal, 

Dogs in Athenian sculpture and vase painting of the archaic and classical periods

Katia Margariti  / Archaeopress, 2025

Reviewed by Christophe Chandezon, 

Polybius. Book 8

G.O. Hutchinson  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Nikos Miltsios, 

Lettres fictives d’un humaniste. L’enseignement du grec à la Renaissance

Eleanor Dickey  / Les Belles Lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Staffan Wahlgren, 

Al di qua delle Colonne d’Ercole. Scoperta e rappresentazioni del Mediterraneo

Francesco Prontera  / Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2025

Reviewed by Francesco Carriere, 

The Greek superpower: Sparta in the self-definitions of Athenians

Paul Cartledge, Anton Powell  / Classical Press of Wales, 2018

Reviewed by Pierre Pontier, 

Aristophanes: Knights

Zachary P. Biles, S. Douglas Olson  / Cambridge, 2025

Reviewed by Federico Favi, 

Valenzwörterbuch der lateinischen Verben

Bianca Liebermann, Diana Bormann  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Magnus Frisch, 

Looking at Hippolytus

David Stuttard  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Michael R. Halleran, 

Fleets and naval forces of the late Roman Mediterranean (3rd-6th centuries)

Alex Michael Elliott  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025

Reviewed by William M. Murray,