Academic Journal
Q1Journal of Roman Studies
About Journal of Roman Studies
Journal of Roman Studies is a scholarly journal published by Cambridge University Press. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 0.217 and H-index of 58.
Coverage: 1911-1922, 1924-2026. Research categories: Classics (Q1); History (Q1); Literature and Literary Theory (Q1); Visual Arts and Performing Arts (Q1); Archeology (Q2); Archeology (arts and humanities) (Q2).
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Topics in published research
Classical Antiquity Studies; Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History; Historical and Religious Studies of Rome; Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies; Archaeology and Historical Studies; Historical and Architectural Studies.
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3,550.00 USD; 2,460.00 GBP
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REBEKKA SCHIRNER, Epic Fear. Affekt und Emotion in den Argonautica des Valerius Flaccus (Orbis antiquus 58). Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2023. Pp. ix + 881. isbn 9783402144718 (pbk): €79.00. 9783402144725 (pdf).
Daniela Galli
2026-09-25 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101841Horace’s poetics of conspiracy: history and lyric in the odes to a Licinius ( Ode 2.10) and a Virgil ( Ode 4.12)
Elena Giusti
2026-09-24 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101646The House of Kybele and the last pagans of Aphrodisias
Ine Jacobs, R. R. R. Smith
2026-09-24 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101853Jewish Studies and Roman studies: law and empire
Kimberley Czajkowski
2026-09-23 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101828Exulis uox : Epistolography, fiction and exile in Ovid’s Ex Ponto
Irene Peirano Garrison
2026-09-23 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101816Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end
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2026-09-16 · DOI: 10.1017/s007543582610183xPalladas, Praxiteles’ Parian Eros and Constantine’s transformation of pagan images in Constantinople
Kevin W. Wilkinson
2026-09-16 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101865VALÉRIE NAAS, Anecdotes artistiques chez Pline l’Ancien: la constitution d’un discours romain sur l’art. Rome et ses renaissances. Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses, 2023. Pp. 399. ISBN 9791023107432 (pbk): €28.00.
Nicola Barham
2026-09-16 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101774JAMES Q. WHITMAN, From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World (Studies in Legal History). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. lx + 440. isbn 9781009497534 (hbk): £35.00. 9781009497565 (pbk). 9781009497541 electronic book.
Carlo Pelloso
2026-08-11 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101750TERESA DE ROBERTIS, ANTONELLA GHIGNOLI AND STEFANO ZAMPONI (Eds), Il papiro di Vicenza (P.Vic.): un nuovo papiro latino del VI secolo (Edizioni dell’Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli 15). Florence: Firenze University Press, 2024. Pp. x + 184; colour plate, colour illus., fac. isbn 9791221503319 (pbk): €24.90.
Ella Kirsh
2026-08-07 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101798MARGARET GRAVER, Seneca: The Literary Philosopher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xii + 305. isbn 9781107164048. $123.
Carey Seal
2026-07-22 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101786KEITH BRADLEY, Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian: Writing the Life of a Roman Emperor (Phoenix Supplementary volume 62). Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2024. Pp. xvi + 451; illus. isbn 9781487548810 (hbk): £90.00.
Fiona Mairi Cox
2026-07-17 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101737ANKE WALTER, Festivals in Latin Literature: The Poetics of Celebration. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 315. isbn 9780198931454. £99.00/US$130.00.
Molly Pasco-Pranger
2026-07-16 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101762CRISTINA ROSILLO-LÓPEZ and SILVIA LACORTE (Eds), Cives Romanae : Roman Women as Citizens during the Republic (Colección Libera res publica 12). Zaragoza and Seville: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza and Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2024. Pp. 506; illus., maps. isbn 9788413408040 (Zaragoza), 9788447225576 (Seville) (hbk): €36.00.
Sophie Chavarria
2026-06-18 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101749MATTHEW M. MCCARTY, Religion and the Making of Roman Africa: Votive Stelae, Traditions, and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xx + 460, figs, tables. isbn 9781107020184: £120
Veronika Egetenmeyr
2026-06-16 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101725ELENA MUÑIZ-GRIJALVO and ROSARIO MORENO SOLDEVILA (Eds), Understanding Integration in the Roman World (Impact of Empire 47). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. 257. isbn 9789004545618 (hbk); 9789004545632 (ebook). €138.43.
Saskia T. Roselaar
2026-06-16 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101695Love in a time of bankruptcy: Catullus and the literature of debt
James Uden
2026-06-16 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101683HENNING OHST, Die Epistulae ad familiares des Kaisers Augustus: Studien zur Textgeschichte in der Antike, Edition und Kommentar (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 152). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xii + 322. isbn 9783111191515 (hbk). £105.00.
Janja Soldo
2026-06-04 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101713JEREMY HARTNETT, The Remarkable Life, Death, and Afterlife of an Ordinary Roman: A Social History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x + 194; illus., plans. isbn 9781009536066 (hbk): £75.00; 9781009536097 (pbk).
Emanuel Mayer
2026-06-04 · DOI: 10.1017/s007543582610166xWILLIAM LEWIS, Division of Empire: The Reign of the Sons of Constantine (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity). New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xi + 227, illus., genealogical table. ISBN 9780197745144 (hbk), 9780197745168 (epub): £78.00.
Muriel Moser
2026-06-04 · DOI: 10.1017/s0075435826101701Reviews
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