Xerxes: A Persian Life, by Richard Stoneman Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones appreciates a nuanced biography of a complex ruler whose achievements are often ignored By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 27 August
Sophist Kings: Persians as Others in Herodotus, by Vernon L. Provencal Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on the complex thesis emerging from a study of the Histories By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 6 August
Classical Masculinity and the Spectacular Body on Film: The Mighty Sons of Hercules, by Daniel O’Brien Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on a study of the muscle and myth movies of the 1950s and 1960s By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 8 January
