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J. N. Adams, Anna Chahoud, Giuseppe Pezzini, Charlie Kerrigan, Early Latin: constructs, diversity, reception. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 900. ISBN 9781108476584.
Laura M. Banducci, Mattia D’Acri, Gabii through its artefacts. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 218. ISBN 9781803276045.
Graeme Barker, Tom Rasmussen, In the footsteps of the Etruscans: changing landscapes around Tuscania from prehistory to modernity. British School at Rome studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781009230025.
Javier Bermejo Meléndez, Juan M. Campos Carrasco, Renato Sebastiani, Portus, investigaciones geoarqueológicas en el muelle este-oeste. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 105. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 200. ISBN 9781803276304.
Jean-François Bernard, Alain Bouet, Jean-Claude Golvin et l’art de la restitution. Mémoires, 63. Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions, 2023. Pp. 374. ISBN 9782356135629.
Seth Bernard, Historical culture in Iron Age Italy: archaeology, history, and the use of the past, 900-300 BCE. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 312. ISBN 9780197647462.
Pierre Bersuire, Frank T. Coulson, Justin Haynes, The moralized Ovid. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 82. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. Pp. 848. ISBN 9780674290846.
Julie Bernini, “Plaise au peuple.” Pratique et lieux de la décision démocratique en Ionie et en Carie hellénistiques. Scripta antiqua, 173. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9782356135834.
Margarethe Billerbeck, Dionysios von Byzanz, Anaplus Bospori. Die Fahrt auf dem Bosporos. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 59. Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 184. ISBN 9783796548468.
Joshua Billings, Christopher Moore, The Cambridge companion to the sophists. Cambridge companions to philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781108494687.
Alba Boscà Cuquerella, La ‘gnome’ en Eurípides. Estudio formal. Bern: Peter Lang, 2023. Pp. 498. ISBN 9783034347365.
Phebe Lowell Bowditch, Roman love elegy and the eros of empire. The new antiquity. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pp. xv, 330. ISBN 9783031147999.
Michael W. Brinkman, The path to easy mastery of Latin’s conjugations: how to identify the mood and tense denoted without memorizing paradigms. Ann Arbor: Michigan Muse, 2023. Pp. 68. ISBN 9798987487716.
Helga Bumke, Der archaische Heiligtumsbefund vom Taxiarchis-Hügel in Didyma. Teilband 1: Grabungsstratigraphie, archäologischer Kontext und topographische Einbindung. Didyma III, 6. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. xii, 312. ISBN 9783447118361.
Karen Eva Carr, Shifting currents: a world history of swimming. London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 472. ISBN 9781789145786.
Sergio Castagnetti, Lucius Neratius Priscus: Membranarum libri VII. Scriptores iuris Romani, 19. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 190. ISBN 9788891328441.
Giovanni Colzani, Clemente Marconi, Fabrizio Slavazzi, Greek and Roman small size sculpture. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. vi, 294. ISBN 9783110740790.
Andrea Cucchiarelli, A commentary on Virgil’s Eclogues. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 592. ISBN 9780198827764.
David-Artur Daix, Monique Trédé-Boulmer, Démosthène. Sur les forfaitures de l’ambassade. Scripta antiqua, 170. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 1000. ISBN 9782356135711.
Touraj Daryaee, Robert Rollinger, Matthew P. Canepa, Iran and the transformation of ancient Near Eastern history: the Seleucids (ca. 312-150 BCE). Classica et orientalia, 31. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. x, 338. ISBN 9783447120562.
Jonathan Davies, Representing the dynasty in Flavian Rome: the case of Josephus’ Jewish War. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198882992.
Manuel de Souza, Autour de Néron. Mélanges en hommage à Yves Perrin. Scripta antiqua, 172. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 409. ISBN 9782356135797.
Lucia Di Cintio, Archivio di Babatha: un’esperienza ai confini dell’impero romano. Atti e contratti (II secolo d.C.). Fra oriente e occidente, 11. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 236. ISBN 9788891332394.
Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Fabio Dei, “Il coro disvela una legge segreta.” James G. Frazer fra antropologia, studi classici e letteratura. I tempi e le forme, 20. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2023. Pp. 344. ISBN 9788829018840.
Alejandro Díaz Fernández, Después de Mantinea: el mundo griego y Oriente ante el ascenso de Macedonia. Arqueología. Manresa: Bellaterra, 2023. Pp. 371. ISBN 9788418723667.
Christopher J. Dowson, Philosophia translata: the development of Latin philosophical vocabulary through translation from Greek. A case study approach. Mnemosyne supplements, 477. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiv, 398. ISBN 9789004677937.
Raphaëla Dubreuil, Theater and politics in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. Brill’s Plutarch studies, 13. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 302. ISBN 9789004681736.
Guillaume Ducoeur, Claire Muckensturm-Poulle, Mondes grec et indien, d’Alexandre le Grand à Kaniṣka. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1609. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023. Pp. 236. ISBN 9782848679822.
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Carolina López-Ruiz, Sofía Torallas Tovar, Magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world: studies in honor of Christopher A. Faraone. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 396. ISBN 9781032341262.
Steven J.R. Ellis, Allison L.C. Emmerson, Kevin D. Dicus, The Porta Stabia neighborhood at Pompeii. Volume I: structure, stratigraphy, and space. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 784. ISBN 9780192866943.
Sandra Erker, Platons “Sophistes.” Bild und Wissen im Dialog. Episteme in Bewegung, 31. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. xii, 240. ISBN 9783447120333.
Michael Erler, Jan Erik Hessler, Federico M. Petrucci, Authority and authoritative texts in the Epicurean tradition. Epicurea, 5. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 302. ISBN 9783796548543.
Seth Estrin, Grief made marble: funerary sculpture in classical Athens. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780300269369.
Nicolas Faelli, La Méditerranée et l’Atlantique: la réception de l’histoire des colonies grecques aux Temps modernes. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2023. Pp. 236. ISBN 9782766302628.
Daniel Fallmann, Der Rand der Welt. Die Vorstellungen der Griechen von den Grenzen der Welt in archaischer und klassischer Zeit. Hypomnemata, 220. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 501. ISBN 9783525302408.
Peter Funke, Von Städten, Staatenbünden und Bundesstaaten. Ausgewählte Schriften zur griechischen Geschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. xviii, 485. ISBN 9783949189456.
Marco Virgilio García Quintela, Étienne Helmer, Arnaud Macé, Noémie Villacèque, Les lieux de savoir dans l’Athènes démocratique. Dialogues d’histoire ancienne, 27. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023. Pp. 504. ISBN 9782848679877.
Eleonora Gasparini, Dimore della Cirenaica: Abitare a Cirene e a Tolemaide durante l’età imperiale. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 107. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 422. ISBN 9781803275512.
Tibor Grüll, Representations of writing materials on Roman funerary monuments: text, image, message. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 104. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 210. ISBN 9781803275666.
Irene Han, Plato and the metaphysical feminine: one hundred and one nights. Classics in theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780192849588.
Ella Haselswerdt, Sara H. Lindheim, Kirk Ormand, The Routledge handbook of classics and queer theory. Routledge handbooks. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 532. ISBN 9781032026794.
Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard, Naissance du discours sur les édifices chrétiens dans la littérature latine occidentale: d’Ambroise de Milan à Grégoire de Tours. Bibliothèque de l’antiquité tardive, 41. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. xxvii, 478. ISBN 9782503594453.
John North Hopkins, Scott McGill, Forgery beyond deceit: fabrication, value, and the desire for ancient Rome. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 464. ISBN 9780192869586.
Solinda Kamani, Neglected architectural decoration from the late antique city: public porticoes, small baths, shops/workshops, and ‘middle class’ houses in the east Mediterranean. Late antique archaeology, 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 9789004520165.
John W.I. Lee, The first black archaeologist: a life of John Wesley Gilbert. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780197578995.
Anna Lefteratou, The Homeric centos: Homer and the Bible interwoven. Oxford studies in late antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780197666555.
Hartmut Leppin, Kathrin Luddecke, The early Christians: from the beginnings to Constantine. Classical scholarship in translation. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 484. ISBN 9781316517239.
Mark Letteney, The Christianization of knowledge in late antiquity: intellectual and material transformations. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009363389.
Bruce W. Longenecker, David E. Wilhite, The Cambridge history of ancient Christianity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 725. ISBN 9781108427395.
Jesus Lopez Zamora, “Cum adulescens litteris Graecis operam darem.” El manuscrito latino de Giovanni Bartolomeo Marliano de Hesiodo, Opera et Dies. Edicion critica del ms. Ang. lat. 240 (Roma, Biblioteca Angelica). Collection Latomus, 367. Textes médio- et néo-Latins, 2. Brussels: Latomus, 2023. Pp. iv, 150. ISBN 9789042949102.
Thierry Lucas, L’organisation militaire de la confédération béotienne (447-171 av. J.-C.). Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 401. Athens: Éditions de l’EFA, 2023. Pp. 398. ISBN 9782869586000.
Stéphane Marchand, Épistémologie épicurienne. Cahiers philosophiques, 173.2. Paris: Vrin, 2023. Pp. 182. ISBN 9782711660261.
Andreas Merkt, Tobias Nicklas, Harald Buchinger, Provokateure, Tabubrüche und Denkabenteuer: Grenzüberschreitungen im frühen und spätantiken Christentum. Gedenkschrift für Thomas Karmann. Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, 125. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 348. ISBN 9783525500255.
Andy Merrills, War, rebellion and epic in Byzantine North Africa: a historical study of Corippus’ Iohannis. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781009391986.
Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo, Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Understanding integration in the Roman world. Impact of empire, 47. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiii, 257. ISBN 9789004545618.
Valérie Naas, Marie-Pierre Noël, Fabien Pepino, Écritures des savoirs: dans l’Antiquité aux premiers siècles de notre ère. Rencontres, 593. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 456. ISBN 9782406149491.
Krzysztof Nawotka, The nourisher of Apollo: Miletos from Xerxes to Diocletian. Philippika, 169. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. Pp. x, 294. ISBN 9783447120210.
Julien M. Ogereau, Early Christianity in Macedonia: from Paul to the late sixth century. Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 119. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xx, 446. ISBN 9789004681194.
Robin Osborne, The Oxford history of the archaic Greek world. Vol. II: Athens and Attica. Oxford history of the archaic Greek world. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 456. ISBN 9780197644423.
Nicoletta Palmieri, Images et analogies dans les textes médicaux Latins: antiquité et moyen age. Collection antiquités. Saint-Étienne: Presses universitaires de Saint-Étienne, 2023. Pp. 348. ISBN 9782862727769.
Robert Parker, Religion in Roman Phrygia: from polytheism to Christianity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 266. ISBN 9780520395480.
Jeroen Poblome, Documenting ancient Sagalassos: a guide to archaeological methods and concepts. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2023. Pp. 250. ISBN 9789462703834.
Jean-François Pradeau, Porphyre. Lettre à Marcella. Philosophia antiqua, 169. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 148. ISBN 9789004685345.
Jonathan L. Ready, Immersion, identification, and the Iliad. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780192870971.
Eleonora Rocconi, Music: antiquity and its legacy. Ancients and moderns. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781350193826.
Denis Rousset, Pascale Derron, Les concepts de la géographie grecque: huit exposés suivis de discussions. Entretiens sur l’Antiquite classique de la Fondation Hardt, 68. Vandœuvres: Fondation Hardt, 2023. Pp. 468. ISBN 9782600007689.
Peter Sarris, Justinian: emperor, soldier, saint. New York: Basic Books, 2023. Pp. 544. ISBN 9781541601338.
Islème Sassi, Fortuna durior: Gewalt und Macht im Goldenen Esel des Apuleius. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 436. ISBN 9783796549311.
Stefan Schorn, Robert Mayhew, Historiography and mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia. Rutgers University studies in classical humanities. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 310. ISBN 9781032569505.
Valérie Schram, L’arbre et le bois dans l’Egypte gréco-romaine. Studia papyrologica et Aegyptiaca parisina, 5. Paris: Amis du Centre d’histoire et de civilisation de Byzance, 2023. Pp. 570. ISBN 9782916716947.
Naomi Scott, Jokes in Greek comedy: from puns to poetics. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781350248489.
Antonino Sorci, La condition narrative: la fable de l’aristotélisme. Théorie de la littérature, 30. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 335. ISBN 9782406151449.
C. Luke Soucy, Ovid’s Metamorphoses: a new translation. World literature in translation. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 680. ISBN 9780520394858.
Sven Straumann, Peter-Andrew Schwarz, Insulae in context: proceedings of the international colloquium in Basel and Augusta Raurica, September 25th – 28th 2019. Forschungen in Augst, 57. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 328. ISBN 9783796548482.
Giovanna Summerfield, Rosario Pollicino, Unframing and reframing Mediterranean spaces and identities. Cultural interactions in the mediterranean, 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiv, 234. ISBN 9789004678859.
Arnaud Suspène, Maryse Blet-Lemarquand, Frédérique Duyrat, Sylvia Nieto-Pelletier, AUREUS. Le pouvoir de l’or. Scripta antiqua, 171. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 556. ISBN 9782356135780.
Helena Taylor, Fiona Cox, Ovid in French: reception by women from the Renaissance to the present. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780192895387.
Erik Timmerman, The Roman impact on the economy of the Lower Germanic Limes region. Impact of empire, 48. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiv, 318. ISBN 9789004682207.
M.D. Usher, How to care about animals: an ancient guide to creatures great and small. Porphyry and friends. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. xvi, 232. ISBN 9780691240435.
Pieter van den Broek, Narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica. The language of classical literature, 38. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xviii, 309. ISBN 9789004685826.
Henrik Vollbracht, Sympathielenkung in der griechischen Tragödie. Performativität und Sprachgestaltung in Aischylos’ Agamemnon. DRAMA – Studien zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, 24. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2023. Pp. 360. ISBN 9783823385660.
Sören vom Schloß, Orte des Schreibens, Landschaften des Denkens. Die römische Villa als “secessus litterarius” und ihre Rezeption im deutschen 18. Jahrhundert. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 24. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2023. Pp. 265. ISBN 9783825395629.
Scott Weiss, The Neronian grotesque. Image, text, and culture in classical antiquity. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 220. ISBN 9780367478193.
Jennifer Whiting, Body and soul: essays on Aristotle’s hylomorphism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780197666005.
Jennifer Whiting, Living together: essays on Aristotle’s ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780199969678.
Jeroen W. P. Wijnendaele, Late Roman Italy: imperium to regnum. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 520. ISBN 9781399518024.
Isobel Williams, Switch: the complete Catullus. Manchester: Carcanet, 2023. Pp. 220. ISBN 9781800173392.
Chiara Zampieri, Martina Piperno, Bart Van den Bossche, Modern Etruscans: close encounters with a distant past. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2023. Pp. 188. ISBN 9789462703797.