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Mauro Abate, Bovillae Risorge. Topografia del Teatro e del sito dei Sodales Augustales e loro tutela. Antichita’ Romane, 38. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 68. ISBN 9788831341387. €12,00.
Marco Arizza, Tra ostentazione e austerità: le tombe di Veio tra VI e IV sec. a.C. Bibliotheca etrusca, 3. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 436, 7 p. of plates. ISBN 9788831341127. €45,00.
Nicholas Baechle, Aesthetic response and traditional social valuation in Euripides’ “Electra”: tragic “Kunstsprache” and the kharaktēr of heroes. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 379. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. 162. ISBN 9783110613100. $91.99.
Beate Beer, Aulus Gellius und die Noctes Atticae: die literarische Konstruktion einer Sammlung. Millennium-Studien, 88. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. viii, 306. ISBN 9783110695007. $114.99.
Anne-Elisabeth Beron, Stefan Weise, Hyblaea avena: Theokrit in römischer Kaiserzeit und Früher Neuzeit. Palingenesia, 122. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 216. ISBN 9783515127080. €52,00.
Kai Brodersen, Christiane Brodersen, Planudes. Rechenbuch: griechisch – deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. 240. ISBN 9783110711929. $45.99.
René Brouwer, Emmanuele Vimercati, Fate, providence and free will: philosophy and religion in dialogue in the early imperial age. Ancient philosophy and religion, volume 4. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. viii, 335. ISBN 9789004435667. $161.00.
Pierangelo Buongiorno, “Senatus consultum ultimum” e stato di eccezione: fenomeni in prospettiva. Acta Senatus Reihe B, 8. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 195. ISBN 9783515126472. €78,00.
Andrew Burnett, “The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Island.” A history of numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Royal Numismatic society special publication, no. 58. London: Spink & Son, 2020. Pp. xxxvi, 566. ISBN 9780901405361. £150.00.
Gualtiero Calboli, Cornifici seu Incerti Auctoris ›Rhetorica ad C. Herennium‹: Prolegomena, edizione, traduzione, commento e lessico. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare (SWC). Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xxvi, 1790. ISBN 9783110557091. $290.00.
Maria Caldelli, Cecilia Ricci, City of encounters: public spaces and social interaction in ancient Rome. RomeScapes. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2020. Pp. 279. ISBN 9788854910577. €35,00.
Peter Caligari, Il Mausoleo di Giuliu Cesare a Roma. Ricerche storiche e topografiche. Antichita’ Romane, 35. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 62. ISBN 9788831341141. €18,00.
Luigi Caliò, Maria Kopsacheili, Gian Gerogiannis, Fortificazioni e società nel Mediterraneo occidentale. Albania e Grecia settentrionale. Atti del Convegno di Archeologia, organizzato dall’Università di Catania, dal Politecnico di Bari e dalla University of Manchester, Catania-Siracusa 14-16 febbraio 2019. Cronache. Monografie. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 428. ISBN 9788854910430. €36,00.
Tiziana Capriotti, L’Adriatico medio-occidentale: coste, approdi e luoghi di culto nell’antichità. Italian research on ancient world, 5. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 403. ISBN 9788894820867. €65,00.
Romina Carboni, Nora: le terrecotte votive dell’ex area militare. Scavi di Nora, 8. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 152. ISBN 9788854910560. €30,00.
Filip Coppens, Hana Vymazalová, 11. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: the discourse between tomb and temple. Prague, May 24-27, 2017. Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft früher Hochkulturen, 3,6. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. 332. ISBN 9783447114295. €68,00.
Paola Cotticelli-Kuras, Word, phrase, and sentence in relation: ancient grammars and contexts. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 99. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. vii, 217. ISBN 9783110687965. $114.99.
Eleri Cousins, The sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 238. ISBN 9781108493192. $110.00.
Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray, The reception of Plato’s “Phaedrus” from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 384. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. vi, 286. ISBN 9783110683639. $126.99.
Massimiliano Di Fazio, I Volsci: un popolo “liquido” nel Lazio antico. Prima Italia, 1. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2020. Pp. vii, 221. ISBN 9788854910362. €20,00.
Martin Dinter, Charles Guérin, Marcos Martinho dos Santos, Reading Roman declamation. Seneca the Elder. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 384. ISBN 9780198746010. $115.00.
Pasquale Ferrara, Μαινάς: studio sulle menadi nella statuaria greca e romana. IRAW, 8. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 294. ISBN 9788831341349. €65,00.
Kilian Fleischer, Original verses of Apollodorus’ Chronica: edition, translation and commentary on the first iambic didactic poem in the light of new evidence. Sozomena, 19. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xi, 303. ISBN 9783110703382. $137.99.
Richard Flower, Morwenna Ludlow, Rhetoric and religious identity in late antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198813194. $100.00.
Alexandra Forst, Q. Aurelius Symmachus. Amtliche Schreiben relationes: lateinisch-deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. 308. ISBN 9783110609042. $34.99.
Almut Fries, Dimitrios Kanellakis, Ancient Greek comedy: genre – texts – reception. Essays in honour of Angus M. Bowie. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, volume 101. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xi, 356. ISBN 9783110645095. $149.99.
Magnus Frisch, Psychomachia: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Texte und Kommentare, 62. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. x, 519. ISBN 9783110628432. $149.99.
Mark Fullerton, Art and archaeology of the Roman world. London: Thames & Hudson, 2020. Pp. 408. ISBN 9780500051931. £45.00.
María Elisa García Barraco, Larvae conviviales. Gli scheletri da banchetto nell’antica Roma. Antichita’ Romane, 35. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 82. ISBN 9788831341226. €18,00.
Laurentino García y García, Ludus gladiatorius: la caserma dei gladiatori a Pompei: notizie archeologiche, storiche e iconografiche. Collana “Militaria”, 9. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 114. ISBN 9788831341103. €28,00.
Fabio Gatti, Un ciceroniano nella Controriforma. Giovanni Pelliccioli e i classici greci e latini. Collana di studi e fonti, 3. Bergamo: Archivio Bergamasco, 2020. Pp. 361. ISBN 9788899755249. €20,00.
Heike Grieser, Heide Frielinghaus, Sebastian Grätz, Ludger Körntgen, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Doris Prechel, Der Herrscher als Versager?! Vergleichende Perspektiven auf vormoderne Herrschaftsformen. Kraftprobe Herrschaft, Band 1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2019. Pp. 320. ISBN 9783847110507. €37,99.
Jonathan Groß, Antike Mythen im schwäbischen Gewand: Gustav Schwabs Sagen des klassischen Altertums und ihre antiken Quellen. Rezeption der Antike, Band 6. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht, 2020. Pp. 358. ISBN 9783946317432. €59,99.
Philip Hardie, Valentina Prosperi, Diego Zucca, Lucretius poet and philosopher: background and fortunes of “De rerum natura”. Trends in classics, volume 90. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. x, 402. ISBN 9783110673470. $149.99.
Torsten Hitz, Theorie und Praxis in der Philosophie der Antike: Demokrit, die Sokratiker, Platon und Aristoteles. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2020. Pp. 511. ISBN 9783770563937. $101.00.
Claudia Horst, Der Alte Orient und die Entstehung der Athenischen Demokratie. Classica et Orientalia, 21. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. xxii, 218. ISBN 9783447112840. €58,00.
Bettany Hughes, Venus and Aphrodite: a biography of desire. New York: Basic Books, 2020. Pp. v, 188. ISBN 9781541674233. $26.00.
Mattia Ippoliti, Tra il Tevere e la via Appia: caratteri e sviluppo di un paesaggio suburbano di Roma antica tra IX secolo a.C. e VI secolo d.C.. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2020. Pp. 316, 28 p. of plates. ISBN 9788854910218. €36,00.
Bruno Jacobs, Ancient information on Persia re-assessed: Xenophon’s “Cyropaedia”. Proceedings of a conference held at Marburg in honour of Christopher Tuplin, December 1-2, 2017. Classica et Orientalia, 22. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. xxxii, Pp. 408. ISBN 9783447112833. €98,00.
Artemis Karnava, Massimo Perna, Inscriptiones Graecae: Inscriptiones Amathuntis, Curii, Marii. Inscrptiones Cypri syllabicae. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. x, 286. ISBN 9783110670820. $340.00.
Hans Kloft, Studien zur Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Rezeptionsgeschichte der Antike. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. vii, 513. ISBN 9783110628425. $137.99.
Annelies Lannoy, Corinne Bonnet, Danny Praet, Annelies Lannoy, “Mon cher Mithra …”: La correspondance entre Franz Cumont et Alfred Loisy, (2 vols.). Mémoires de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 55. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. Pp. lx, 448; Pp. vi, 647. ISBN 9782877543743. €120,00.
Silvio Leone, Polis, Platz und Porträt die Bildnisstatuen auf der Agora von Athen im Späthellenismus und in der Kaiserzeit (86 v. Chr.-267 n. Chr.). Urban spaces, Band 9. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. x, 276. ISBN 9783110652833. $137.99.
Liliane Lopez-Rabatel, Virginie Mathé, Jean-Charles Moretti, Dire la ville en grec aux époques antique et byzantine. Actes du colloque de Créteil, 10-11 juin 2016. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2020. Pp. 348. ISBN 9782356680648. €45,00.
Giuseppe Lugli, Barraco García, Il Circo Massimo e le strutture adiacenti. Guida archeologica. Antichità romane, 17. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 142. ISBN 9788897805830. €25,00.
Jaap Mansfeld, David Runia, Aëtiana, (4 vols.). Philosophia antiqua, volume 153. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. vol. 1: Pp. xxii, 717; vol. 2: Pp. xviii, 628; vol. 3: Pp. xviii, 711; vol. 4: Pp. vi, 259. ISBN 9789004428386. $756.00.
Maurizio Martinelli, Cultura del cibo tra Etruria e Mediterraneo. Bibliotheca etrusca, 2. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2019. Pp. 360. ISBN 9788894820966. €45,00.
Attilio Mastrocinque, Joseph Sanzo, Marianna Scapini, Ancient magic: then and now. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitraege, 74. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 451. ISBN 9783515127967. €82,00.
Sebastian Matzner, Gail Trimble, Metalepsis: ancient texts, new perspectives. Classics in theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198846987. $105.00.
Jan Bernhard Meister, “Adel” und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung im archaischen und frühklassischen Griechenland. Historia, 263. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 443. ISBN 9783515127158. €80,00.
Vladimir Mihajlovic, Marko Jankovic, Pervading empire: relationality and diversity in the Roman provinces. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitraege, 73. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 332. ISBN 9783515127165. €60,00.
Eric Moormann, Nerone, Roma e la Domus Aurea. Conferenze, 33. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 94. ISBN 9788831341134. €25,00.
Hildegund Müller, Augustinus. Enarrationes in Psalmos 61-70. Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 94. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. viii, 360. ISBN 9783110671599. $126.99.
Dominique Mulliez, Les actes d’affranchissement. Volume 1: prêtrises I à IX (nos 1-722). Corpus des Inscriptions de Delphes, V. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2020. Pp. 657, 11 p. of plates. ISBN 9782869583177. €150,00.
Matthew Novenson, Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman antiquity. Novum testamentum, supplements, volume 180. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. Pp. xiv, 360. ISBN 9789004437975. $149.00.
Charles Ortloff, The hydraulic state: science and society in the ancient world. Routledge studies in archaeology. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 414. ISBN 9780367858087. $128.00.
Richard Payne, Rhyne King, The limits of empire in ancient Afghanistan: rule and resistance in the Hindu Kush, circa 600 BCE-600 CE. Classica et orientalia, Band 24. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. xxi, 270. ISBN 9783447114530. €68,00.
Pierre Pellegrin, Anthony Preus (trans.), Endangered excellence: on the political philosophy of Aristotle. SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York, 2020. Pp. 432. ISBN 9781438479576. $95.00.
Francisco Pina Polo, The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformations. Libera Res Publica, Monografías sobre la República romana, 1. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2020. Pp. 512. ISBN 9788413400969. €24,04.
Egert Pöhlmann, Georg Heldmann, Ancient music in antiquity and beyond: collected essays (2009-2019). Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 381. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. xvi, 306. ISBN 9783110664218. $114.99.
François Queyrel, La sculpture hellénistique. Royaumes et cités. Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2020. Pp. 450. ISBN 9791037001627. €62,00.
Duane Roller, New directions in the study of ancient geography. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians series. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2020. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781734003116. $99.95.
David Sansone, Plato. Menexenus. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 202. ISBN 9781108730563. $34.99.
Christopher Schliephake, Natascha Sojc, Gregor Weber, Nachhaltigkeit in der Antike: Diskurse, Praktiken, Perspektiven. Geographica Historica, 42. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 265. ISBN 9783515127332. €50,00.
Raimund Schulz, Als Odysseus staunte: die griechische Sicht des Fremden und das ethnographische Vergleichen von Homer bis Herodot. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, Band 29. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht, 2020. Pp. 391. ISBN 9783946317685. €50,00.
Kenneth Sheedy, Gillan Davis, Metallurgy in numismatics 6. Mines, metals, and money: ancient world studies in science, archaeology and history. Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication, no. 56. London: Spink & Son, 2020. Pp. xii, 326. ISBN 9780901405375. £50.00.
Cornago Simón, Iscrizioni Romane. Messaggi millenari nella città eterna: Progetto public epigraphy in ancient Italy (III-I BC). Epigraphein, 1. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 50. ISBN 9788831341264. €10,00.
Michele Solitario, L’ Ermotimo di Luciano: introduzione, traduzione e commento. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Band 136. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. viii, 646. ISBN 9783110609516. $149.99.
Michael Sommer, Inter duo Imperia: Palmyra between east and west. Oriens et occidens: Studien zu antiken Kulturkontakten und ihrem Nachleben, Band 31. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 167. ISBN 9783515127745. €40,00.
Christian Thomsen, Politics of association in Hellenistic Rhodes. New approaches to ancient Greek institutional history. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 178. ISBN 9781474452557. £80.00.
Rafał Toczko, Crimen Obicere: forensic rhetoric and Augustine’s anti-Donatist correspondence. Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, volume 120. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2020. Pp. 233. ISBN 9783525567227.
Natalia Toma, Marmor – Maße – Monumente. Vorfertigung, Standardisierung und Massenproduktion marmorner Bauteile in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Philippika, 121. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. Pp. xvi, 568. ISBN 9783447110099. €148,00.
Kai Trampedach, Alexander Meeus, The legitimation of conquest: monarchical representation and the art of government in the empire of Alexander the Great. Studies in ancient monarchies, 7. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. Pp. 363. ISBN 9783515127813. €68,00.
Rossella Valastro, Grecismi a Roma. Impurità linguistiche nel Latino: Ennio, Catone, Lucilio e Catullo. Ipazia, 29. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020. Pp. 98. ISBN 9788831341288. €15,00.
Miguel Versluys, Beyond Egyptomania: objects, style and agency. Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus, Band 21. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. 361. ISBN 9783110564259. $79.99.
Thomas Watkins, L. Munatius Plancus: serving and surviving in the Roman Revolution. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 222. ISBN 9780367588984. $38.36.
Richard Whitaker, Douglas Reid Skinner, Gaius Valerius Catullus. Selected lyric poems: translated with an introduction and notes. Cape Town: uHlanga Press, 2020. Pp. 86. ISBN 9780620888387.
Fabian Zogg, Appendix Vergiliana: lateinisch-deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Pp. 346. ISBN 9783110468052. $57.99.
Loriano Zurli, Il limen (sottile) tra congettura e restituzione: Sulla validità delle congetture ritenute palmari. 2a edizione ampliata. Anthologiarum Latinarum Parerga, VIII. Hildesheim: Weidmannsche Hildesheim, 2020. Pp. 224. ISBN 9783615004441. €58,00.