Archives: Reviews

Roman comedy against the subject

Mario Telò  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Emilia A. Barbiero, 

Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta

George W. M. Harrison  / Bloomsbury, 2026

Reviewed by Hannah Jorsh, 

Five thousand years of monarchy

Michael Arnheim  / Wiley-Blackwell, 2025

Reviewed by Stefan Rebenich, 

Reading the Odyssey: a guide to Homer’s narrative

Jonas Grethlein, Sabrina Stolfa  / Princeton University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Françoise Létoublon, 

Boèce: Consolation de Philosophie

Jean-Yves Guillaumin  / Les Belles Lettres, 2025

Reviewed by Álvaro Cancela Cilleruelo, 

Rereading Plato’s Republic

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

Reviewed by Christopher C. Raymond, 

Miracula: weird and wonderful stories of ancient Greece and Rome

Paul Chrystal  / Reaktion Books, 2025

Reviewed by Floris Overduin, 

Plato’s Seventh Letter

James M. Redfield  / Hackett, 2026

Reviewed by Colin C. Smith, 

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, 

The kingdom of Pylos: warrior-princes of Mycenaean Greece

Sharon R. Stocker, Claire L. Lyons, Jack L. Davis, Evangelia Militsi-Kechagia  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2025

Reviewed by Vassilis Petrakis, 

Retrospective columns: Ionic capitals and perceptions of the past in Greek architecture

Samuel Holzman  / Princeton University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Max Peers, 

Coins of the Ptolemaic empire, part 2: Ptolemy V through Cleopatra VII

Catharine C. Lorber  / American Numismatic Society, 2025

Reviewed by Robyn L. Le Blanc, 

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

Aistė Čelkytė  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Malina Buturovic, 

Children of Mars: the origins of Rome’s empire

Jeremy Armstrong  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Connor Beattie, 

Honour in Aristotle’s Ethics

Kleanthis Mantzouranis  / Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Jerry Green, 

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

Andrew Michael Chugg  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by J. Z. Van Rookhuijzen, 

The body and the senses in Greek tragedy

Afroditi Angelopoulou  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Orestis Karatzoglou, 

Un empire, plusieurs langues. Aspects du plurilinguisme dans le monde romain

Bernard Bortolussi, Étienne Wolff  / Ausonius Éditions, 2025

Reviewed by María José Estarán Tolosa, 

Lyric addresses to ancient and new gods. Mesomedes, proems – hymns – prayers

Sara Lanna  / Mohr Siebeck, 2025

Reviewed by Hanna Gołąb, 

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

Leyla Ozbek  / Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2023

Reviewed by Hannah Brandenburg,