The role of violence as a social and cultural phenomenon in the ancient world has received significant attention in recent years. Gale and Scourfield’s Texts and Violence in the Roman World adds to this growing area of scholarship by examining the myriad ways in which violence is depicted in Latin literature from Plautus to Prudentius. This is an excellent book full of exciting contributions to the study of Roman literary violence. I am sure that it will prove invaluable to scholars working on any aspect of violence in the ancient world. Though the scope of the book is wide, and the texts and genres covered numerous, the relationship between literary violence and issues of narrative, gender, power, and status form a common thread throughout many of the contributions, and chapters often have much to say that is applicable beyond the chosen author or genre. Due to the limits of space, I shall discuss only a selection of the chapters here, but, suffice to say, all make interesting contributions to their respective fields.