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Jeremy Armstrong, Aaron Rhodes-Schroder, Adoption, adaptation, and innovation in pre-Roman Italy: paradigms for cultural change. Archaeology of the Mediterranean world, 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 282. ISBN 9782503602325.
David L. Balch, Jesus, Paul, Luke-Acts, and 1 Clement: studies in class, ethnicity, gender, and orientation. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2023. Pp. 382. ISBN 9781532659577.
Costanza Barbieri, Gli astri benigni di Agostino Chigi: Peruzzi, Sebastiano e Raffaello nella Loggia della Galatea. L’ErmArte, 33. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 274. ISBN 9788891319845.
Anthony A. Barrett, J.C. Yardley, The emperor Caligula in the ancient sources. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198854579.
Dominic Bärsch, Mundus ecce nutat et labitur: Weltuntergangskonzepte in der griechischen und lateinischen Literatur. Hypomnemata, 218. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 397. ISBN 9783525302217.
Deborah Beck, The stories of similes in Greek and Roman epic. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 277. ISBN 9781108481793.
Edoardo Benati, [Platone], Horoi. Saggio introduttivo, edizione critica, traduzione e commento. Diotima, 10. Baden-Baden: Academia, 2023. Pp. 327. ISBN 9783985720972.
Ria Berg, Il mundus muliebris a Pompei: specchi e oggetti da toletta in contesti domestici. Studi e ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, 48. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. xii, 566. ISBN 9788891327406.
Edith Binder, Gerhard Binder, Marion Giebel, Vergil: Aeneis. Die berühmtesten Stellen. Ditzingen: Reclam, 2023. Pp. 120. ISBN 9783150143933.
Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Martin Goodman, Essays on Jews and Christians in late antiquity in honour of Oded Irshai. Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, 40. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 308. ISBN 9782503602455.
Annkatrin Blank, Die Grabinschrift des Aberkios: ein Kommentar. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2023. Pp. 352. ISBN 9783795438609.
Ruby Blondell, Helen of Troy in Hollywood. Martin classical lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780691229621.
Gerard Boter, Critical notes on Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 317. ISBN 9783111243658.
Ewen Bowie, Essays on ancient Greek literature and culture. Volume 2: comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry, the novels. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 750. ISBN 9781107058125.
Aaron Brody, Michal Artzy, Tel Akko area H: from the Middle Bronze Age to the Crusader period. Studies in the archaeology and history of the Levant, 10. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 652. ISBN 9789004522985.
Peter Brown, Journeys of the mind: a life in history. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xv, 713. ISBN 9780691242286.
Manuel Buess, Amiternum 1. Untersuchungen zur Siedlungs- und Wirtschaftsstruktur im zentralen Abruzzenraum in römischer Zeit. Kölner Schriften zur Archäologie, 3. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2023. Pp. 496. ISBN 9783954903207.
Francesca Bugliani Knox, Ronald Knox’s lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid. With introduction and critical essays. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781350118287.
Claude Calame, Humans and their environment: beyond the nature/culture opposition. Environmental humanities series, 1. London: Transnational Press, 2023. Pp. 101. ISBN 9781801351843.
Lilah Canevaro, Theocritus and things: material agency in the Idylls. Ancient cultures, new materialisms. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781399517492.
Laura Carrara, Rolando Ferri, Enrico Medda, Il mito degli Atridi dal teatro antico all’epoca contemporanea. Lexis supplementi, 12. Studi di letteratura greca e latina, 8. Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2023. Pp. 214. ISBN 9788869697364.
Riccardo Chiaradonna, Ontology in early Neoplatonism: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, 9. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vii, 237. ISBN 9783110997514.
Jacqueline R. Clarke, Daniel King, Han Baltussen, Pain narratives in Greco-Roman writings: studies in the representation of physical and mental suffering. Studies in ancient medicine, 58. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiv, 312. ISBN 9789004549487.
Edward E. Cohen, Roman inequality: affluent slaves, businesswomen, legal fictions. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780197687345.
Federico Condello, Lucia Floridi, Lukas Holste, Pseudo-Filone di Bisanzio, Le Sette Meraviglie del Mondo: introduzione, testo critico, traduzione, note esegetiche e testuali. Texte und Kommentare, 72. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vii, 221. ISBN 9783111166469.
Lesley Dean-Jones, Historia Animalium book X: Aristotle’s endoxon, topos and dialectic on On Failure to Reproduce. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 61. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 9781107015159.
Eleanor Dickey, Latin loanwords in ancient Greek: a lexicon and analysis. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 700. ISBN 9781108841009.
Elena L. Dugan, The apocalypse of the birds: 1 Enoch and the Jewish revolt against Rome. Edinburgh studies in religion in antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781399508650.
Athanasios Efstathiou, Jakub Filonik, Christos Kremmydas, Eleni Volonaki, Friendship in ancient Greek thought and literature: essays in honour of Chris Carey and Michael J. Edwards. Mnemosyne supplements, 474. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiv, 470. ISBN 9789004546332.
Fadi El Hage, Une occasion manquée: la réédition de l’Histoire de Polybe commentée par Folard (1753). Histoire du livre et de l’édition, 1. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 196. ISBN 9782406147817.
Mariangela Esposito, The realm of mimesis in Plato: orality, writing, and the ontology of the image. Brill’s Plato studies series, 13. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xiv, 173. ISBN 9789004533110.
Kilian Josef Fleischer, Philodem, Geschichte der Akademie: Einführung, Ausgabe, Kommentar. Papyri graecae herculanenses, 1. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xvi, 1105. ISBN 9789004546530.
Valeria Fontanella, Die Iliasglossare auf Papyrus: Unterschungen zu einer Textkategorie. Sonderreihe der Abhandlungen Papyrologica Coloniensia, 48. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 351. ISBN 9783506791399.
Andrew Fox, Trees in ancient Rome: growing an empire in the late Republic and early Principate. Ancient environments. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781350237803.
Maria Gerolemou, George Kazantzidis, Body and machine in classical antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 348. ISBN 9781316514665.
Christian Girard, L’homme sans dualité: la question du sujet — le “nous” chez Plotin. Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique. Paris: Vrin, 2023. Pp. 352. ISBN 9782711630684.
William Guast, Greek declamation and the Roman Empire. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 238. ISBN 9781009297127.
Evy Johanne Håland, Women, pilgrimage, and rituals of healing in modern and ancient Greece: a comparison. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2023. Pp. 657. ISBN 9781527593176.
Roland Hampe, Marion Giebel, Homer: Odyssee. Die berühmtesten Stellen. Ditzingen: Reclam, 2023. Pp. 131. ISBN 9783150143926.
Philip Hardie, Selected papers on ancient literature and its reception. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 148. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xxx, 1512. ISBN 9783110792423.
Annette Haug, Adrian Hielscher, Anna-Lena Krüger, Neighbourhoods and city quarters in antiquity: design and experience. Decorative principles in late Republican and early Imperial Italy (Decor), 7. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vii, 176. ISBN 9783111238029.
Paul Hay, Saeculum: defining historical eras in ancient Roman thought. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781477327395.
Maura Heyn, Rubina Raja, Odds and ends: unusual elements in Palmyrene iconography. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 9. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. xiv, 180. ISBN 9782503603964.
Leah R. Himmelhoch, Aeschylus: Agamemnon. Bloomsbury Greek texts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 408. ISBN 9781350154896.
Sanne Hoffmann, Between deity and dedicator: the life and agency of Greek votive terracotta figurines. Image & context, 23. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xi, 347. ISBN 9783110768879.
André Hurst, Quatuor d’Alexandrins: poètes grecs d’époque hellénistique et leur écho. Recherches et rencontres, 38. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2023. Pp. 184. ISBN 9782600064507.
Isabelle Jouteur, Johan Fourdrinoy, Germain Rousseaux, L’histoire du rémora: à quoi voulez-vous croire? Études et essais sur la Renaissance, 131. Libido sciendi, 2. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 238. ISBN 9782406148807.
Selen Kılıç Aslan, Lycian families in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. A regional study of inscriptions: towards a social and legal framework. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 19. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xii, 402. ISBN 9789004548411.
Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Rubina Raja, Sine Grove Saxkjær, Caesar, Rome, and beyond: new research and recent discoveries. Rome studies, 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. xvi, 234. ISBN 9782503603445.
Gregory Kirk, Joseph Arel, Aristotle on human nature: the animal with logos. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. vi, 225. ISBN 9781350348318.
Christopher B. Krebs, Caesar: Bellum Gallicum book VII. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781009177122.
Bernhard Lang, Handbook of the Vulgate Bible and its reception. Vulgata in dialogue. Berlin: The Vulgate Institute, 2023. Pp. 778. ISSN 25045156.
John Lanier, Elizabeth Cross, Katherine Cross, Lian E, Zachary Shepherd Haarz, Fiona Lee, Peter Olmeda, Clara Grey Peters, Marilia Chiu Serôdio, AVARICVM: a Latin text of Caesar’s Gallic War VII 1-28 with running vocabulary and commentary. Williamsburg: Pixelia Publishing, 2023. Pp. 142. ISBN 9781737033035.
J.L. Lightfoot, Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica. Books four, one, and five. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 1168. ISBN 9780192868473.
Pedro López Barja, Carla Masi Doria, Ulrike Roth, Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire. Vol. 1: history, law, literature. Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781399507462.
Daniele Malfitana, Antonino Mazzaglia, Catania. La città antica e quella del futuro: archeologia, topografia, urbanistica per la riqualificazione dello spazio urbano. Studia archaeologica, 257. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 474. ISBN 9788891328717.
Anna Marmodoro, Forms and structure in Plato’s metaphysics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 232. ISBN 9780197577158.
Steve Mason, Jews and Christians in the Roman world: from historical method to cases. Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 116. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 691. ISBN 9789004543874.
David J. Mattingly, Between Sahara and sea: Africa in the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. Pp. 744. ISBN 9780472133451.
James C. McKeown, R. Joy Littlewood, Ovid: Amores. Text, prolegomena, and commentary. Volume IV.i: a commentary on book three, Elegies 1 to 8. Arca, 57, 4.1. Liverpool; Wolfeboro: Francis Cairns, 2023. Pp. xxviii, 305. ISBN 9780995461239.
Agnès Molinier Arbo, Jean-Luc Vix, Catherine Notter, Figures exemplaires de pouvoir sous l’Empire dans la littérature gréco-latine. Recherches sur les rhétoriques religieuses, 35. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 345. ISBN 9782503595719.
John Monfasani, Liber Defensionum contra Obiectiones in Platonem: Cardinal Bessarion’s own Latin translation of his Greek defense of Plato against George of Trebizond. Byzantinisches Archiv – Series Philosophica, 6. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xxviii, 242. ISBN 9783111246352.
Carlos Morais, Fiona Macintosh, Maria de Fátima Silva, Maria das Graças de Moraes Augusto, Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa, Greek mythic heroines in Brazilian literature and performance. Metaforms, 23. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xx, 642. ISBN 9789004678460.
Felix Florian Müller, Transformierte Intimitäten: Liebe und Freundschaft in mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Übertragungen der Aeneis. Transformationen der Antike, 67. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 255. ISBN 9783110651140.
J.A. North, The religious history of the Roman Empire: the Republican centuries. Oxford readings in classical studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780199644063.
Douglas Olson, Eric Cullhed, Eustathius of Thessalonica, commentary on the Odyssey. Volume II: commentary on rhapsodies 5-8. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxvi, 511. ISBN 9789004548701.
Alessandra Palla, La seconda epistola ad Ammeo di Dionigi di Alicarnasso: studi sulla tradizione manoscritta. Serta Graeca, 36. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2023. Pp. 200. ISBN 9783954905379.
Dennis Pausch, Christoph Pieper, The scholia on Cicero’s speeches: contexts and perspectives. Mnemosyne supplements, 476. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. viii, 287. ISBN 9789004516434.
Zacharoula Petraki, Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato. MythosEikonPoiesis, 17. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiv, 351. ISBN 9783111178196.
Christoph Poetsch, Conceptual patterns in Plato’s Parmenides. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2023. Pp. 204. ISBN 9783465002925.
Vassiliki Pothou, Thukydides second-hand bei Flavius Josephus: zur Rezeption thukydideischer Motive im Bellum Judaicum. Mnemosyne supplements, 473. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxvi, 255. ISBN 9789004545861.
Erik Pulz, Laevius – ein altlateinischer Liebesdichter: Studien, Text und Interpretationskommentar. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 153. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiii, 315. ISBN 9783111236438.
Roshdi Rashed, Écrits d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences. Volumes I-IV. Scientia Graeco-Arabica. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. lxiv, 2836. ISBN 9783111201085.
Bryan C. Reece, Aristotle on happiness, virtue, and wisdom. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781108486736.
Patrick Reinard, Christian Rollinger, Cum magna fide? Vertrauen und die antike Wirtschaft. Scripta Mercaturae Beihefte, 3. Gutenberg: Scripta Mercaturae, 2023. Pp. 404. ISBN 9783895901850.
Courtney Ann Roby, The mechanical tradition of Hero of Alexandria: strategies of reading from antiquity to the early modern period. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781316516232.
Marco Rocco, I pretoriani: soldati e cospiratori nel cuore di Roma. Piccoli saggi, 76. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2021. Pp. 204. ISBN 9788869735783.
Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou, Ritual and the poetics of closure in Flavian literature. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 147. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 252. ISBN 9783110770469.
David T. Runia, Philo of Alexandria: collected studies 1997-2021. Texts and studies in ancient Judaism, 187. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. Pp. xiii, 555. ISBN 9783161618765.
Gabriel Sanz Casanovas, Rabies indomita: representación del bárbaro y violencia contra los no romanos en las Res Gestae de Amiano Marcelino. Colección Ciencias sociales, 162. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2022. Pp. 424. ISBN 9788413404479.
Maria Teresa Schettino, Marcus Licinius Crassus: pratique et conception du pouvoir. Monografie del Centro Ricerche di Documentazione sull’Antichità Classica, 55. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 360. ISBN 9788891328366.
Alessandro Sebastiani, Ancient Rome and the modern Italian state: ideological placemaking, archaeology, and architecture, 1870-1945. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009354103.
Phoebe A. Sheftel, The bone and ivory objects from Gordion. Museum monographs, 159. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2023. Pp. 584. ISBN 9781949057171.
Nathan Sidoli, R.S.D. Thomas, The spherics of Theodosios. Scientific writings from the ancient and medieval world. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xxi, 532. ISBN 9780367557300.
Charles H. Stocking, Homer’s Iliad and the problem of force. Classics in theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780192862877.
Bram L.H. ten Berge, Writing imperial history: Tacitus from Agricola to Annales. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. Pp. 424. ISBN 9780472133437.
Frances B. Titchener, Alexei V. Zadorojnyi, The Cambridge companion to Plutarch. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 502. ISBN 9780521766227.
Raf Van Rooy, New ancient Greek in a neo-Latin world: the restoration of classical bilingualism in the early modern low countries and beyond. Brill research perspectives in humanities and social sciences. Brill research perspectives in Latinity and classical reception in the early modern period. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 178. ISBN 9789004547872.
Donato Verardi, Aristotelianism and magic in early modern Europe: philosophers, experimenters and wonderworkers. Bloomsbury studies in the Aristotelian tradition. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350357167.
Hélène Vial, Genres et formes poétiques de la colère: de l’Antiquité au XXIe siècle. Rencontres, 561. Lectures de la Renaissance latine, 17. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 467. ISBN 9782406142355.
Uwe Walter, Hellas und das große Ganze: die alten Griechen in “Weltgeschichten” zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft, Buchverlagen und historischer Bildung. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 36. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, 2023. Pp. 166. ISBN 9783949189722.
Hartmut Wulfram, Gregor Schöffberger, Katharina-Maria Schön, Der lateinische Alexanderroman des Iulius Valerius: Sprache, Erzählung, Kontext. Millennium-Studien, 101. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vi, 234. ISBN 9783111085586.
Nicholas Zair, Orthographic traditions and the sub-elite in the Roman Empire. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xviii, 295. ISBN 9781009327664.