Archives: Reviews

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

Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee  / Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Rhyne King, 

Contextualizing imperial disruption and upheavals and their associated research challenges

Jane E. Francis, Michael J. Curtis  / Oxbow Books, 2024

Reviewed by Brice Erickson, 

A social and cultural history of the Hellenistic world

Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2025

Reviewed by Elizabeth Kosmetatou, 

Der Senat im frühen Rom. Die Entwicklung des Ratsgremiums von der Königszeit bis zur lex Ovinia

Florian Rudolf Forster  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025

Reviewed by Clément Bur, 

From Byzantium to Constantinople: an urban history

John Matthews  / Oxford University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Kevin Feeney, 

Narratives at play in Aeschylus: perspectives on genre and poetics

Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Anne Morvan, 

Reading Quintilian: didactic authority in the Institutio Oratoria

Laura Loporcaro  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Benjamin A. Jerue, 

Sextus Empiricus Against the Arithmeticians

Lorenzo Corti  / Brill, 2023

Reviewed by Sebastiano Molinelli, 

Cretan hieroglyphic

Matilde Civitillo, Silvia Ferrara, Torsten Meissner  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Cassandra M. Donnelly, 

L’aristocrazia senatoria e l’egemonia del Mediterraneo. Uno studio sulle forme dell’imperialismo romano nel II secolo a.C.

Manfredi Zanin  / Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024

Reviewed by Michele Bellomo, 

Luxuria. Storie di banchetti, ville e altri eccessi nell’antica Roma

Francesca Romana Berno  / Salerno Editrice, 2025

Reviewed by Jane Sancinito, 

Sur les traces de l’empire des grands rois: enquête historiographique

Pierre Briant  / Les Belles Lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Orestis Belogiannis, 

The muse of history: the ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the present

Oswyn Murray  / Harvard University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Reviel Netz, 

The human tragicomedy: the reception of Apuleius’ Golden Ass in the twentieth and twenty-first century

Mateusz Stróżyński  / Brill, 2024

Reviewed by Donato Fasolini, 

Visualising glocalization: villas, architectural spaces and pavements in Hispania Baetica (2nd Century AD – 4th Century AD)

Rubén Montoya González  / Archaeopress, 2024

Reviewed by Carlos Enríquez de Salamanca, 

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

Patrick Glauthier  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Liam Preston, 

Hannibal and Scipio: parallel lives

Simon Hornblower  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jeff Tatum, 

The self in ancient and early modern philosophy

Attila Németh, Dániel Schmal  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Christopher Gill, 

Classics and race. A historical reader

Sarah Derbew, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia  / UCL Press, 2025

Reviewed by Jeremy LaBuff, 

The god of this house: Christian domestic cult before Constantine

Caroline Johnson Hodge  / The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Vladimir Ivanovici,