BMCR 2026.05.19

Shadow of an ass: philosophical choice and aesthetic experience in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Jeffrey P. Ulrich  / University of Michigan Press, 2024

Reviewed by Pietro Vesentin

BMCR 2026.05.20

Locus horridus: ansie romane verso il mondo naturale

Maddalena Bassani, Ria Berg  / Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2024

Reviewed by Paola Francesca Moretti

BMCR 2026.05.15

Platon, Xénophon, Aristote, Philodème de Gadara et autres auteurs. Penser l’économie en Grèce ancienne

Étienne Helmer  / Slatkine, 2025

Reviewed by Sven Günther

BMCR 2026.05.22

The God and the bureaucrat: Roman law, imperial sovereignty, and other stories

Zachary Herz  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Jacobo Rodríguez Garrido

BMCR 2026.05.18

Fiscalità ed epigrafia nel mondo romano: nuove ricerche

Michaël Girardin, Sven Günther, Cristina Soraci  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2024

Reviewed by Antonio Leo de Petris

BMCR 2026.05.09

Plautus: Casina

Peter Barrios-Lech  / Liverpool University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Goran Vidović

BMCR 2026.05.21

Sur la route du devoir: le καθῆκον dans la pensée des stoïciens romains

Gabriele Flamigni  / Brepols, 2025

Reviewed by Peter Osorio

BMCR 2026.05.08

Giving gifts and doing favours: literary classical Attic Greek support-verb constructions

Victoria B. Fendel  / Brill, 2025

Reviewed by Lucía Madrigal Acero

BMCR 2026.05.11

Imperial institutions in ancient Rome and early China: a comparative analysis

Michael Loewe, T. Corey Brennan, Michael Nylan  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

BMCR 2026.05.17

I trattati divinatori greci e il dinamismo della società tardoantica e bizantina: papiri, epigrafi e fonti letterarie

Salvatore Costanza, Amphilochios Papathomas  / Holzhausen, 2023

Reviewed by Sandra Muñoz Martínez

BMCR 2026.05.10

The function argument in Aristotle’s ethics: happiness and the human good

Jakub Jirsa  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by John J. Mulhern

BMCR 2026.05.04

Aeschylus, character, and the yoke of necessity

Mark Ringer  / Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Reviewed by Natasha Ferreira

BMCR 2026.05.14

The Athena Pronaia tholos of Theodorus Phoceaus at Delphi: a redesigning theory

Attilio Pizzigoni  / L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2025

Reviewed by Tarryn Andrews

BMCR 2026.05.23

Revivals of classical drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s): theatre in the realm of ideology

Vasileios Balaskas  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Christina Filippaki

BMCR 2026.05.03

Plinius der Jüngere aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive/Plinio il Giovane da una prospettiva interdisciplinare

Thorsten Fögen, Stefano Rocchi, Alberto Canobbio  / Mohr Siebeck, 2025

Reviewed by Dennis Pausch

BMCR 2026.05.16

Reconstruire Rome: la restauration comme politique urbaine de l’antiquité à nos jours

Bruno Bonomo, Charles Davoine, Cécile Troadec  / École française de Rome, 2024

Reviewed by Pier Luigi Tucci

BMCR 2026.05.25

Performing justice in the later Roman Empire

Peter Van Nuffelen  / Cambridge University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Ari Bryen

BMCR 2026.05.13

Julian Augustus: Platonism, myth, and the refounding of Rome

Jeremy Swist  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Lea Niccolai

BMCR 2026.05.02

Plutarch: Alexander

Christopher Pelling  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Peter Hunt

BMCR 2026.05.12

Visualising war across the ancient Mediterranean: interplay between conflict narratives in different media and genres

Alice König, Nicolas Wiater  / Routledge, 2025

Reviewed by Michael J. Taylor