BMCR 2026.09.04

A new era of epigraphy: 40 years of epigraphic database Clauss/Slaby

Anne Kolb, Michael A. Speidel  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Matthäus Heil

BMCR 2026.09.03

The Cambridge companion to Lucian

Simon Goldhill  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jenni Glaser

BMCR 2026.09.02

Scavi di Ostia XIX. Il tempio dei Fabri Navales (III, II, 1-2) e la fullonica sottostante

Claire de Ruyt  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2025

Reviewed by Francesca Licordari

BMCR 2026.09.01

Books received August 2026

BMCR 2026.08.32

Roman comedy against the subject

Mario Telò  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Emilia A. Barbiero

BMCR 2026.08.31

Five thousand years of monarchy

Michael Arnheim  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2025

Reviewed by Stefan Rebenich

BMCR 2026.08.30

Boèce: Consolation de Philosophie

Jean-Yves Guillaumin  / Les Belles Lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Álvaro Cancela Cilleruelo

BMCR 2026.08.29

Orality and narration: performance and mythic-ritual poetics in the ancient world

Anton Bierl, David Bouvier, Ombretta Cesca  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Richard P. Martin

BMCR 2026.08.28

Reading the Odyssey: a guide to Homer’s narrative

Jonas Grethlein, Sabrina Stolfa  / Princeton University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Françoise Létoublon

BMCR 2026.08.27

Plato’s Seventh Letter

James M. Redfield  / Hackett, 2026

Reviewed by Colin C. Smith

BMCR 2026.08.26

Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta

George W. M. Harrison  / Bloomsbury, 2026

Reviewed by Hannah Jorsh

BMCR 2026.08.25

Honour in Aristotle’s Ethics

Kleanthis Mantzouranis  / Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Jerry Green

BMCR 2026.08.24

Miracula: weird and wonderful stories of ancient Greece and Rome

Paul Chrystal  / Reaktion Books, 2025

Reviewed by Floris Overduin

BMCR 2026.08.23

Galen on human physiology: taking the body apart and putting it back together again

Aistė Čelkytė  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Malina Buturovic

BMCR 2026.08.22

Rereading Plato’s Republic

Mary Margaret McCabe, Simon Trépanier  / Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher C. Raymond

BMCR 2026.08.21

The Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria: second sun and seventh wonder of antiquity

Andrew Michael Chugg  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by J. Z. Van Rookhuijzen

BMCR 2026.08.20

Sofocle, Niobe. Introduzione, testo critico, commento e traduzione

Leyla Ozbek  / Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2023

Reviewed by Hannah Brandenburg

BMCR 2026.08.19

Memories of antiquity: classical reception and memory studies

Madeleine Scherer, Jakob Schneider, Benjamin Eldon Stevens  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Gabrielle Stecher Woodward

BMCR 2026.08.18

Learning and power in late antique Gaul: classical education and the end of Roman rule

Alison John  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Bruno Rochette

BMCR 2026.08.17

Ilias Latina. Introduction, text, translation, and commentary

Steven J. Green  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Maria Jennifer Falcone