Archives: Reviews

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

Tatjana Sandon  / Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, 

The Oxford critical guide to Tacitus

Salvador Bartera, Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by David Woods, 

Evolving perspectives on digital classics

Clelia R. LaMonica, Anna Foka  / Routledge, 2026

Reviewed by Camille Marrou, 

Counterfeits, imitations, and copies of Roman imperial denarii: making and faking coins on both sides of the Limes

Arkadiusz Dymowski, Kyroylo Myzgin  / Brepols, 2025

Reviewed by Benjamin Hellings, 

[Filodemo]: [La provvidenza]

Claudio Vergara  / Bibliopolis, 2025

Reviewed by Eleni Avdoulou, 

Galen on the atomists: anti-teleologism, theory of matter and medical corpuscularism

Ambra Serangeli  / Routledge, 2025

Reviewed by Jeffrey M. Hunt, 

From the Adriatic to the Alps: transport and trade networks in Roman and late antique northern Italy

James Page  / Archaeopress, 2025

Reviewed by Justin Leidwanger, 

Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art According to the Greeks. Critical edition with translation and commentary

Eleni Pachoumi  / Leiden, 2024

Reviewed by Álvaro Fernández Fernández, 

Dynamics of monotheism in late antiquity

Guy G. Stroumsa  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Matthew Kraus, 

Myths on the edge of empire: how classical mythology spread throughout Roman Britain

Steven Paul Turner  / Archaeopress, 2025

Reviewed by Craig Davis, 

The Cambridge companion to Lucian

Simon Goldhill  / Cambridge University Press, 2024

Reviewed by Jenni Glaser, 

Plautus’ Persa: introduction and commentary

Joseph Conlon  / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025

Reviewed by Fabio Forti, 

From the Pseudopythagorica to the Neopythagoreans: further studies on the texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

Constantinos Macris, Tiziano Dorandi, Luc Brisson  / Verlag Karl Alber, 2025

Reviewed by Cristian Tolsa, 

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, 

The power of naming: studies in the epicletic language of Hellenistic honours

Stefano G. Caneva  / Presses universitaires de Liège, 2023

Reviewed by Matthias Haake, 

Herodotus and the Greek poetic tradition

Charles C. Chiasson  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Ennio Biondi, 

The importance of being gorgeous: gender and Christian imperial rule in late antiquity

Susanna Elm  / University of California Press, 2025

Reviewed by Ellen Muehlberger, 

Mirrors and masks in the Roman empire: encounter, performance and metamorphosis

Shelley Hales  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2026

Reviewed by Pascale Paré-Rey, 

“The pen fell from my hand when I was in my eighty-sixth year”: revisiting the work of Martin P. Nilsson

Jenny Wallensten, Gunnel Ekroth  / Swedish Institute at Athens, 2024

Reviewed by Jan N. Bremmer, 

How to listen: an ancient guide to learning from others. Plutarch

Jeffrey Beneker  / Princeton University Press, 2026

Reviewed by Luisa Lesage Gárriga,