Pittenger, Miriam R. Pelikan (2008) Contested triumphs: politics, pageantry, and performance in Livy's Republican Rome. Berkeley etc.: University of California Press. XIII, 365 p. ISBN 978-0-520-24139-8 (cloth). Price: $60.00.

Feeney, Denis (2007) Caesar's calendar: ancient time and the beginnings of history. (Sather classical lectures; 65.) Berkeley etc.: University of California Press. XIV, 372 p. ISBN 978-0-520-25119-9 (cloth). Price: £32.50.

Penella, Robert J. (2007) Man and the word: the orations of Himerius. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Robert J. Penella. Berkeley etc.: University of California Press. (The transformation of the classical heritage; 43.) XIV, 312 p. ISBN 978-0-520-25093-2. Price: £32.95.

Clarke, John R. (2007) Looking at laughter: humor, power, and transgression in Roman visual culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley etc.: University of California Press. XI, 322 p. ISBN 978-0-520-23733-9. Price: £32.95.