The Indices for previous years can be found here:

2016: 2017: 2018: 2019: 2020: 2021: 2022

Contact Dr Peter Jones on [email protected] with any queries.

All the books reviewed in the Reading Room during 2023 are listed here.

Recent Additions:

Bathrellou, E. and Vlassopoulos, K. Greek and Roman Slaveries

Van Schaik, K. D. (trans.) How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness – Galen

Kreimer, J. (selected, trans. and intro.)  How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction - John Cassian

Freeman, P. Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor 

Blum-Sorensen, J. Epic Ambition: Hercules and the Politics of Emulation in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 

Alphabetical Listing (2023):

Adler, E. The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today

Barringer, J.M. and Lissarrague, F. Images at the Crossroads: Media and Meaning in Greek Art 

Bartsch, S. Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism

Bathrellou, E. and Vlassopoulos, K. Greek and Roman Slaveries

Beard, M. Emperor of Rome

Billows, R.A. The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble: How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective

Blum-Sorensen, J. Epic Ambition: Hercules and the Politics of Emulation in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 

Bowie, E. Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Volume 1: Greek Poetry before 400 BC

Bowie, E. Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Volume 2, Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels

Brennan, T.C. The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol

Brown, Peter Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

Cambridge Latin Course Book II (5th Edition)

Cartledge, P. and Atack, C. (eds.) A Cultural History of Democracy in Antiquity

Cohen, E.E. Roman Inequality: Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions

Cucchiarelli, A. A Commentary on Virgil’s Eclogues 

Dover, K. (author), edited by Halliwell, S. and Stray, C. Sir Kenneth Dover:Marginal Comment. A Memoir Revisited

Economou, M.L., Kyriazis, N.C., and Platias, A. (eds.) Democracy and Salamis: 2500 Years after the Battle that Saved Greece and the Western World 

Filotas, Z. Aristotle and the Ethics of Difference, Friendship, and Equality: The Plurality of Rule

Fischer-Bovet, C. and von Reden, S. (eds.) Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires: Integration, Communication and Resistance

Freeman, C. The Children of Athena 

Freeman, P. Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor 

Freudenburg, K. Virgil's Cinematic Art: Vision as Narrative in the Aeneid 

Geue T. and Giusti, E. (eds.) Unspoken Rome: Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception 

Goldberg, S.M. (Ed., with Intro. and Notes) Terence: Andria

Halliwell, S. (ed.) Pseudo-Longinus: On The Sublime

Halliwell, S. and Stray, C. (eds.) Scholarship and Controversy: Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover

Hammond, M. (trans.) with Intro. and Notes by Atack, C. Xenophon: Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology

Holland, T. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Holland, T. and Cockcroft, J. (illustrator) The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods: a Tale of the Persian Wars

James, S. L. (ed.) Golden Cynthia: Essays on Propertius

Johnston, S.I. Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers 

Kaster, R.A. How To Do The Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly - Seneca

Kearns, E. (ed.) Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris

Konstan, D. The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity

Kreimer, J. (selected, trans. and intro.)  How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction - John Cassian

Lane Fox, R. Homer and his Iliad

Lefteriatou, A. The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven

Meyer, C. and Petsalis-Diomidis, A. (eds.) Drawing the Greek Vase

Meyer, S. S. How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well - Aristotle

Monti, G. Alexander The Great: Letters – A Selection

Mount, F. Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson

Neils, J. and Rogers, D.K. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens

Netz., R. A New History of Greek Mathematics

Rayor, D.J. (ed. and trans.) and Lardinois, A. (ed. with intro. and notes) Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

Rohland, R.A. Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature

Roubineau, Jean-Manuel (tr. by Malcolm DeBevoise and ed. by Phillip Mitsis) The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic

Samuelson, S. Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour

Sansone, D. Plato Republic Book 1

Sidebottom, P. The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

Soucy, C. Luke (trans. and ed.) Ovid's Metamorphoses A New Translation

Southern, P. Rome's Empire: How the Romans Acquired and Lost Their Provinces

Southon, E. A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

Spawforth, T. What The Greeks Did for Us

Stocking, C.H. and Stephens, S.A. Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation

Stoppard, T. Penelope

Stothard, P. Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars

Syed, Y. Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary Discourse

Tatum, W.J. A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

Upson-Saia, Marx, H. and Secord, J. Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE): A Sourcebook

Van Schaik, K. D. (trans.) How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness – Galen

Waterfield, R. Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy

Webster, C. Tools And The Organism: Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine  

Węcowski, M. Athenian Ostracism &its Original Purpose: A Prisoner's Dilemma

Williams, I. Switch: The Complete Catullus

Wilson, A., Ray, N. and Trentacoste, A. (eds.) The Economy of Roman Religion

Wilson, E. (tr.) Homer: The Iliad

Wilson, S.C. The House of Atreus: Clytemnestra’s Bind 

Wiseman, P. Catullan Questions Revisited