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Erica Angliker, Ilaria Bultrighini, New approaches to the materiality of text in the ancient Mediterranean: from monuments and buildings to small portable objects. Archaeology of the Mediterranean world, 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 262. ISBN 9782503601564.
Michael Arnheim, Why Rome fell: decline and fall, or drift and change? Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2022. Pp. 496. ISBN 9781119691372.
Nadine Bernard, Être vieux dans le monde grec. De Solon à Philopœmen. VIe-IIe siècles a.C. Scripta antiqua, 169. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 440. ISBN 9782356135643.
Luca Bettarini, ΦΙΛΟΤΗΤΙ. Studi in ricordo di Bruna Marilena Palumbo Stracca. Quaderni della Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale, 23. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023. Pp. 184. ISBN 9788833154893.
Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja, Palmyrene sarcophagi. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 1003. ISBN 9782503604664.
Véronique Boudon-Millot, Vieux, un Grec ne peut pas l’être. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 9782251454511.
Nicolas Boichot, Les amphores Lamboglia 2 de production adriatique et campanienne. Une étude à partir des épaves Qaitbay 1 (Alexandrie) et Sa Nau Perduda (Catalogne). Études alexandrines, 53. Alexandria: Centre d’Études Alexandrines, 2021. Pp. 342. ISBN 9782490128167.
Gunnar Brands, Hans Rupprecht Goette, Neue Ansätze zur Erforschung spätantiker Ideal- und Portraitplastik: Stilkritik, Kontexte, naturwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen. Beiträge eines Workshops an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg 13.-16. Juni 2018. Tagungen und Kongresse, 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2023. Pp. 196. ISBN 9783752007282.
Claire Bubb, Michael Peachin, Medicine and the law under the Roman Empire. Oxford studies in Roman society and law. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 9780192898616.
Felix Budelmann, Ineke Sluiter, Bob Corthals, Minds on stage: Greek tragedy and cognition. Cognitive classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780192888938.
Álvaro Cancela Cilleruelo, Epistula Consolatoria olim De Consolatione in Adversis (CPL 999). Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina, 102. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. lii, 346. ISBN 9782503600970.
Sergio Casali, Virgilio: guida all’Eneide. Bussole. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2023. Pp. 144. ISBN 9788829020676.
Silvia Castelli, Ineke Sluiter, Agents of change in the Greco-Roman and early modern periods: ten case studies in agency in innovation. Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 4. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. 262. ISBN 9789004680005.
Claire Catenaccio, Monody in Euripides: character and the liberation of form in late Greek tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. x, 217. ISBN 9781009300124.
Panayiotis Christoforou, Imagining the Roman emperor: perceptions of rulers in the high empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781009362498.
Angela Cinalli, ΠΤΑΝΟΙΣ ΠΟΣΙΝ. Poeti vaganti, musici e conferenzieri di eta ellenistica. Parte I – Delo e le Cicladi. Quaderni dei seminari romani di cultura greca, 31. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2022. Pp. 388. ISBN 9788854913332.
Emily Clifford, Xavier Buxton, The imagination of the mind in classical Athens: forms of thought. Image, text, and culture in classical antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 344. ISBN 9780367706685.
Malcolm Davies, The hero’s life choice. Studies on Heracles at the crossroads, the judgement of Paris, and their reception: ‘verbalising the visual and visualising the verbal’. Metaforms, 24. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xviii, 271. ISBN 9789004678941.
Henri de Riedmatten, Fabio Gaffo, Mathilde Jaccard, Restoration as fabrication of origins: a material and political history of Italian Renaissance art. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. 190. ISBN 9783111072272.
Denise Demetriou, Phoenicians among others: why migrants mattered in the ancient Mediterranean. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xx, 204. ISBN 9780197634851.
Valentin Decloquement, Philostrate: Vie d’Apollonios de Tyane. La roue à livres, 99. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023. Pp. 624. ISBN 9782251454603.
Tiziano Dorandi, Stobaeana: tradizione manoscritta e storia del testo dei primi due libri dell’Antologia di Giovanni Stobeo. Diotima, 9. Baden-Baden: Academia, 2023. Pp. 279. ISBN 9783985720958.
James C. Ford, Atheism at the agora: a history of unbelief in ancient Greek polytheism. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 218. ISBN 9781032492995.
Rune Frederiksen, Søren Handberg, The ancient theatre at Kalydon in Aitolia. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 24. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 692. ISBN 9788772192826.
Francesca Fulminante, The rise of early Rome: transportation networks and domination in central Italy, 1050-500 BC. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781316516805.
Marta García Morcillo, Cristina Rosillo-López, The real estate market in the Roman world. Routledge explorations in economic history. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 310. ISBN 9781032035338.
Tommaso Gazzarri, Jesse Weiner, Searching for the cinaedus in ancient Rome. Mnemosyne supplements, 475. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 316. ISBN 9789004548374.
T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, Christopher B. Polt, Didactic literature in the Roman world. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xii, 202. ISBN 9781032456508.
Lloyd P. Gerson, Plato’s moral realism. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 266. ISBN 9781009329989.
Pantelis Golitsis, Damascius’ philosophy of time. Chronoi, 7. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 120. ISBN 9783111053189.
J.J. Hall, The meteorology of Posidonius. Issues in ancient philosophy. London; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiv, 236. ISBN 9780367023720.
Tom Hawkins, Hacking classical forms in Haitian literature. Classics and the postcolonial. London; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 278. ISBN 9780367410292.
Tim Helmke, Exemplarisches Krisenwissen: Gender in Narrativ und Narration des frühen Prinzipats. Hypomnemata, 217. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 329. ISBN 9783525302286.
R. Bruce Hitchner, A companion to North Africa in antiquity. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2022. Pp. 496. ISBN 9781444350012.
Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Theater der Macht: die Inszenierung der Politik in der römischen Republik. Historische Bibliothek der Gerda Henkel Stiftung. München: C.H. Beck, 2023. Pp. 710. ISBN 9783406806933.
Susan R. Holman, Chris L. de Wet, Jonathan L. Zecher, Disability, medicine, and healing discourse in early Christianity: new conversations for health humanities. Religion, medicine and health in late antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 194. ISBN 9780367521004.
Olimpia Imperio, Aristophanes fr. 305-391. Fragmenta comica, 10.6. Göttingen: Verlag Antike, 2023. Pp. 409. ISBN 9783949189784.
Giulio Iovine, Latin military papyri of Dura-Europos (P.Dura 55-145): a new edition of the texts, with introduction and notes. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 450. ISBN 9781009183130.
David Jennings, Jan Szaif, Studies on Plato’s Lysis. Archai 32: supplementum. Archai: The Origins of Western Thought UNESCO Chair, 2022. Pp. 179. E-ISSN 1984-249X.
Caroline Johnson Hodge, Timothy A. Joseph, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Divided worlds? Challenges in classics and New Testament studies. Semeia studies, 100. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2023. Pp. 401. ISBN 9781628375459.
Sarah Iles Johnston, Gods and mortals: ancient Greek myths for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii, 477. ISBN 9780691199207.
Alison Keith, Micah Y. Myers, Vergil and elegy. Phoenix supplementary volumes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. Pp. 516. ISBN 9781487547950.
Viktor Kókai-Nagy, Ádám Vér, Peace and war in Josephus. Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies, 52. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiii, 227. ISBN 9783111146034.
Joel Korytko, Death of the Covenant Code: capital punishment in old Greek Exodus in light of Greco-Egyptian law. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 211. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xii, 362. ISBN 9789004682030.
Xavier Lafontaine, Hellénisme et prophétie. Les Oracles sibyllins juifs et chrétiens. Semitica & classica supplementa, 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 9782503607962.
Laura S. Lieber, Staging the sacred: theatricality and performance in late ancient liturgical poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 512. ISBN 9780190065461.
Rita Lizzi Testa, Giulia Marconi, The Collectio Avellana and the development of notarial practices in Late Antiquity. Giornale Italiano di Filologia – bibliotheca, 31. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 672. ISBN 9782503588360.
Veronika Lütkenhaus, And with the Teian lyre imitate Anacreon: the reception of Anacreon and the Carmina Anacreontea in Horace’s lyric and iambic poetry. Hypomnemata, 217. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 213. ISBN 9783525311516.
Pauline Maillard, Kition-Bamboula IX. Les cultes des Salines à Kition: étude des terres cuites d’époque classique. Archéologie(s), 9. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2023. Pp. 652. ISBN 9782356680815.
Daniele F. Maras, Laura Maria Michetti, Christopher J. Smith, Elena Tassi Scandone, Fontes antiqui Sabinorum. I Sabini e la Sabina nelle fonti letteraie greche e latine. Acta Flaviana, 4. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. xiv, 643. ISBN 9788891327437.
Francesca Martelli, Giulia Sissa, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the environmental imagination. Ancient environments. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350268944.
Francesca Masi, Pierre-Marie Morel, Francesco Verde, Epicureanism and scientific debates. Antiquity and late reception, volume I: language, medicine, meteorology. Ancient and medieval philosophy series 1, 64. Leuven University Press: Leuven, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9789462703735.
Francesco Massa, Maureen Attali, Shared religious sites in late antiquity: negotiating cultural and ritual identities in the eastern Roman Empire. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 266. ISBN 9783796547287.
Lina G. Mendoni, Sophia B. Zoumbaki, Roman names in the Cyclades. Part II. Meletemata, 84. Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, 2023. Pp. 504. ISBN 9789603710776.
Caspar Meyer, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, Drawing the Greek vase. Visual conversations in art and archaeology. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780192856128.
Christopher Moore, The virtue of agency: sôphrosunê and self-constitution in classical Greece. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780197663509.
Melina G. Mouzala, Ancient Greek dialectic and its reception. Topics in ancient philosophy, 10. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiv, 525. ISBN 9783110744064.
Maria Nilsson, Adrienn Almásy-Martin, John Ward, Greek inscriptions on the East Bank. The Swedish expedition to Gebel el-Silsila, 1. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xvi, 356. ISBN 9789004540682.
Katharine R. O’Reilly, Caterina Pellò, Ancient women philosophers: recovered ideas and new perspectives. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xv, 272. ISBN 9781316516188.
S.P. Oakley, Studies in the transmission of Latin texts. Volume II: Vitruvius, Cato, De Agricultura and Varro, De Re Rustica, Porphyrio, and Priscian, Periegesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780198848738.
Silvia Onori, L’auriga dal breve destino. Commento critico-esegetico ai frammenti del Fetonte di Euripide. DRAMA. Studien zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, 25. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2023. Pp. 360. ISBN 9783381107612.
Victoria Emma Pagán, The Tacitus encyclopedia. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 1312. ISBN 9781444350258.
David Alan Parnell, Belisarius and Antonina: love and war in the age of Justinian. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 264. ISBN 9780197574706.
Annamária-Izabella Pázsint, Private associations in the Pontic Greek cities (6th century BC-3rd century AD). Colloquia antiqua, 35. Leuven: Peeters, 2022. Pp. xx, 387. ISBN 9789042947184.
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Byzanz: das neue Rom und die Welt des Mittelalters. Geschichte der Antike. München: C.H. Beck, 2023. Pp. 352. ISBN 9783406806803.
Oliver Primavesi, Christof Rapp, Benjamin Morison, Aristotle: De Motu Animalium. Text and translation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198874461.
Michael Putnam, Antony Augoustakis, Carole Newlands, The poetic world of Statius’ Silvae. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780192869272.
Paul A. Rahe, Sparta’s Sicilian proxy war: the grand strategy of classical Sparta, 418-413 B.C. New York: Encounter Books, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781641773379.
David Sansone, Plato: Republic. Book I. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781108833455.
Markus Schauer, Triumvirat: der Kampf um das Imperium Romanum. München: C.H. Beck, 2023. Pp. 429. ISBN 9783406806452.
Malcolm Schofield, How Plato writes: perspectives and problems. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781108483087.
Birgit Schönau, Die Geheimnisse des Tibers: Rom und sein ewiger Fluss. München: C.H. Beck, 2023. Pp. 319. ISBN 9783406808371.
Pierre Siegenthaler, Les Aenigmata de Symposius: jeux et dissimulations. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 56. Berlin; Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 476. ISBN 9783796547317.
Björn Sigurjónsson, Sic notus Achilles? Episches Narrativ und Intertextualität in Statius’ Achilleis. Classica Monacensia, 61. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2023. Pp. 314. ISBN 9783381107216.
Janina Stahl, Innerlichkeit und Gefühl in der Ilias. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 23. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2023. Pp. 309. ISBN 9783825399511.
Tim Stover, Valerius Flaccus and imperial Latin epic. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780192870919.
Laura Swift, A companion to Greek lyric. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2022. Pp. 608. ISBN 9781119122623.
Liba Taub, Ancient Greek and Roman science: a very short introduction. Very short introductions. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 176. ISBN 9780198736998.
Franco Trabattoni, From death to life: key themes in Plato’s Phaedo. Brill’s Plato studies series, 14. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. vi, 190. ISBN 9789004538221.
Spyridon Tzounakas, The reception of ancient Cyprus in Roman sources and beyond: eleven studies. The seeds of Triptolemus. Rome: Deinotera Editrice, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9788889951446.
Emmanuelle Valette, Stéphanie Wyler, Spectateurs grecs et romains: corps, régimes de présence, modalités d’attention. Histoire et archéologie. Paris: Les Éditions Hermann, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9791037022929.
Henner von Hesberg, Die Tötung der Typhon – Figürlich geschmückte Tonaltäre des 6. Jh. v. Chr. aus Selinunt. Trierer Winckelmannsprogramme, 29. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. 52. ISBN 9783447119948.
David A. Warburton, Ancient urban globalisation and economic development. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. Pp. 605. ISBN 9781527593336.
Karl-Wilhelm Weeber, Die bissigsten Spottgedichte Martials. Ditzingen: Reclam, 2023. Pp. 183. ISBN 9783150144275.
Raphael Woolf, Plato’s Charmides. Cambridge studies in the dialogues of Plato. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. x, 271. ISBN 9781009308199.