Archives: Reviews

Isocrates: Peri tou zeugous. An encomium of Alcibiades

Evangelos Alexiou  / De Gruyter, 2026

Reviewed by Tobias Hirsch, 

The trading and consumption of Roman glass in Britain 43–500 CE

David Lindsay Marsh  / BAR Publishing, 2025

Reviewed by Luke Platt, 

The travels of Odysseus

Jonathan S. Burgess  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Fabian Horn, 

Platonic autonomy: self-determination, unity, and cooperation

Olof Pettersson, Pauliina Remes  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Octavian Gabor, 

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, 

After transformation: a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity

Maia Kotrosits  / Duke University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Alberto J. Quiroga, 

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

Harry Tanner  / Bloomsbury, 2026

Reviewed by Eleni Avdoulou, 

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

Elizabeth D. Carney, Sabine Müller  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Caitlin Gillespie, 

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, 

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

Bruce W. Longenecker  / Baylor University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Daniel E. An, 

Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman temple building

Mantha Zarmakoupi  / University of Wisconsin Press, 2026

Reviewed by Julius Roch, 

Latin poetry across languages: adventures in allusion, translation and classical tradition

Stephen Hinds  / Cambridge University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Joshua P. Ziesel, 

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

Brett Kaufman  / Oxford University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Christopher Stedman Parmenter, 

Martin the Epicurean

Martin Ferguson Smith  / Silverwood Books, 2026

Reviewed by Christopher Stray, 

In praise of Constantius: Greek panegyric in late antiquity

Alan J. Ross  / Oxford University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Gabriel Gabbardo, 

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, 

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

Julia C. Fischer  / Routledge, 2024

Reviewed by Anne F. LaGatta, 

Latin lineages: a family tree from Catullus to today

Regine May, Catherine Conybeare  / De Gruyter, 2025

Reviewed by Jamie Wheeler Cessna, 

Sidonius Apollinaris: selected letters

Joop van Waarden  / Cambridge University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Thomas Miller, 

The lives of Roman freedwomen in the Latin west: an epigraphic study

Tatjana Sandon  / Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga,