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Rahel C. Ackermann, Andreas Fischer, Reto Marti, Michael Nick, Markus Peter, Der Büechlihau bei Füllinsdorf. Ein heiliger Ort der Kelten und Römer. Schriften der Archäologie Baselland, 56. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 264. ISBN 9783796550317.
Anna Albrektson, Fiona Macintosh, Mapping Medea: revolutions and transfers 1750-1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780192884190.
Giulio Amara, Archeologia del culto a Siracusa. Depositi votivi e pratiche rituali intorno all’Athenaion di Ortigia. Archeologia e Arte antica. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2023. Pp. 482. ISBN 9788855131193.
Enrico Maria Ariemma, Valentino D’Urso, Nicola Lanzarone, Studi sull’epica latina in onore di Paulo Esposito. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 90. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2023. Pp. 648. ISBN 9788846767158.
Jeremy Armstrong, Arthur J. Pomeroy, David Rosenbloom, Money, warfare and power in the ancient world: studies in honour of Matthew Freeman Trundle. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. xviii, 286. ISBN 9781350283763.
Peter Arzt-Grabner, Letters and letter writing. Papyri and the New Testament, 2. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxx, 455. ISBN 9783506790484.
Peter Arzt-Grabner, John S. Kloppenborg, Christina M. Kreinecker, Gregg Schwendner, More light from the ancient East: understanding the New Testament through papyri. Papyri and the New Testament, 1. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xl, 237. ISBN 9783506790415.
Fabrizio Baldassarri, Craig Martin, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: natural philosophy in the sixteenth century. Bloomsbury studies in the Aristotelian tradition. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. xiii, 250. ISBN 9781350325142.
Marc Baratin, Priscien: Grammaire. Livre VIII: le verbe. Histoire des doctrines de l’antiquité classique, 58. Paris: Vrin, 2023. Pp. 376. ISBN 9782711631322.
William M. Barton, Stephen Harrison, Gesine Manuwald, Bobby Xinyue, An anthology of neo-Latin poetry by classical scholars. Bloomsbury neo-Latin series. Early modern texts and anthologies. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 344. ISBN 9781350379442.
Freerk Jan H. Berghuis, Celsus and Origen on divine descent: rhetoric, linguistics and philosophical theology in Origen, Contra Celsum 4.1-22. Ancient philosophy and religion, 10. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xii, 514. ISBN 9789004545977.
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin, La nécropole des vivants: les marqueurs de tombe dans les paysages funéraires d’Italie méridionale du Ve au IIIe av. n. è. Études, 14. Naples: Centre Jean Bérard, 2023. Pp. 330. ISBN 9782380500394.
Edward Bispham, J. Alison Rosenblitt, Violence, justice, and law in classical antiquity: collected papers of Andrew Lintott. Impact of empire, 46. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiv, 801. ISBN 9789004543027.
Giorgio Bonamente, Roberto Cristofoli, Carlo Santini, Luoghi, ambienti, immagini: il paesaggio in Properzio. Proceedings of the twenty-third international conference on Propertius, Assisi – Trevi, 27-29 May 2021. Studi di poesia latina, 23. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 392. ISBN 9782503605814.
Megan E. Bowen, Mary H. Gilbert, Edith G. Nally, Believing ancient women: feminist epistemologies for Greece and Rome. Intersectionality in classical antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 344. ISBN 9781399512053.
Emma Bridges, Warriors’ wives: ancient Greek myth and modern experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198843528.
Vittorio Bufacchi, Why Cicero matters. Why philosophy matters. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. xii, 180. ISBN 9781350376670.
Maria Letizia Caldelli, Falsi e falsari nell’epoca di internet false testimonianze: copie, contraffazioni, manipolazioni e abusi del documento epigrafico antico. Atti del convegno conclusivo PRIN 2015, Roma, 22-23 aprile 2022. Studi miscellanei, 42. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 150. ISBN 9788891331519.
Amanda Claridge, Eloisa Dodero, Statues and busts. The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: antiquities and architecture, 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 448. ISBN 9781912554577.
Paul Colrat, Platon, sauver la cité par la philosophie. Kaïnon, 25. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 347. ISBN 9782406158059.
Altay Coşkun, Richard Wenghofer, Seleukid ideology: creation, reception and response. Seleukid perspectives, 1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 390. ISBN 9783515134781.
Richard Davies, The hedonism of Eudoxus of Cnidus. Elements in ancient philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 74. ISBN 9781009462600.
Irene J.F. de Jong, Miguel John Versluys, Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman spolia: objects, appropriation and cultural change. Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 5. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xv, 283. ISBN 9789004682696.
Norbert Ehrhardt, Olivia Jeske, Ivonne Kaiser, Karoline Lölhöffel, Alexandra von Miller, Bettina Reichardt, Der archaische Heiligtumsbefund vom Taxiarchis-Hügel in Didyma. Teilband 2: das Fundmaterial aus den archaischen Kontexten des Taxiarchis-Hügels, Teil 1. Didyma, III.6. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2023. Pp. 1380. ISBN 9783752007572.
Iole Fargnoli, Diritto, religione, politica: temi di legislazione imperiale tra decio e Teodosio I. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2023. Pp. 238. ISBN 9788855131247.
Hunter H. Gardner, The Latin love elegists. Brill research perspectives in classical poetry. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. viii, 94. ISBN 9789004688148.
Tommaso Ghezzani, Il platonico innamorato: poesia, amore, magia in Francesco Patrizi da Cherso. Pansophia. Testi e studi sulla modernità, 13. Firenze: Editrice Leo S. Olschki, 2023. Pp. xxxviii, 262. ISBN 9788822268938.
Julian Gieseke, Vom äußersten Westen der Welt: die Griechische Ethnographie und die Völker Iberiens und der Keltiké im Schatten der römischen Expansion (2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. – 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr.). Geographica historica, 45. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 486. ISBN 9783515134620.
Michaël Girardin, Fiscalités antiques: aux origines de l’administration provinciale romaine. Bibliotheca aperta, 3. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 212. ISBN 9788891327246.
Hossein Habibi, Socioeconomic transformation in the Sasanian empire: late antique central Zagros. Edinburgh studies in ancient Persia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 408. ISBN 9781474475563.
Christiane Hackel, August Boeckh: Encyclopädie der Philologie. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2023. 3 vols. Pp. 1217. ISBN 9783787343157.
Linda Jones Hall, The poems of Optatian: puzzling out the past in the time of Constantine the Great. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781350374379.
Emily Hanscam, John Karavas, The Roman lower Danube frontier: innovations in theory and practice. Roman frontier studies. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 168. ISBN 9781803276625.
John North Hopkins, Unbound from Rome: art and craft in a fluid landscape, ca. 650-250 BCE. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9780300270037.
Martin Hose, Annamaria Peri, Tobias Thum, Formen und Funktionen griechisch-römischer Literatur. Aufsätze zur Literaturgeschichte und Literaturgeschichtsschreibung. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. xii, 634. ISBN 9783515134118.
Jesper Tae Jensen, George Hinge, Aspects of ancient Greek cult II. Sacred architecture, sacred space, sacred objects: an international colloquium in honor of Erik Hansen. Acta archaeologica, 93.1. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. vi, 338.
Deborah Kamen, Greek slavery. Trends in classics, 4. Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xii, 147. ISBN 9783110637595.
Amy A. Koenig, The fractured voice: silence and power in imperial Roman literature. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Pp. 228. ISBN 9780299345303
Lynne A. Kvapil, Kim Shelton, Brill’s companion to warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean. Brill’s companions to classical studies: warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world, 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xviii, 512. ISBN 9789004684041.
Silvio La Paglia, Memorabilia Pompeiana: antichità da Pompei nelle collezioni europee (1748-1830). Studi e ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, 49. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. xvii, 326. ISBN 9788891331960.
Antonio La Penna, Stefano Grazzini, Giovanni Niccoli, Filologia e studi classici in Italia tra Ottocento e Novecento. Volume primo: orientamenti, istituzioni, temi. Pisa: Della Porta Editori, 2023. Pp. 592. ISBN 9788896209462.
Christian Laes, Irina Metzler, ‘Madness’ in the ancient world: innate or acquired? From theoretical concepts to daily life. Antiquité et sciences humaines, 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 360. ISBN 9782503601908.
Francis Larran, Le siècle de Gorgias. Histoire comparée d’un cluster ancien. Histoire culturelle, 23. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 430. ISBN 9782406159193.
D. S. Levene, Livy: the fragments and Periochae. Volume I: fragments, citations, testimonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780192871220.
D. S. Levene, Livy: the fragments and Periochae. Volume II: Periochae 1-45. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 816. ISBN 9780192871237.
M. David Litwa, Early Christianity in Alexandria: from its beginnings to the late second century. Cambridge; NewYork: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009449557.
Carmelo Malacrino, Angela Bellia, Patrizia Marra, Per gli dei e per gli uomini. Musica e danza nell’antichità. Sagep cataloghi. Genoa: Sagep Editori, 2023. Pp. 432. ISBN 9791255900412.
Anna Marmodoro, Properties in ancient metaphysics. Elements in ancient philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 78. ISBN 9781009475730.
Rea Matsangou, The Manichaeans of the Roman east: Manichaeism in Greek anti-Manichaica and Roman imperial legislation. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 105. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxii, 580. ISBN 9789004542846.
Blanka Misic, Abigail Graham, Senses, cognition, and ritual experience in the Roman world. Ancient religion and cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 242. ISBN 9781009355544.
Francis M. Morris, Martin Biddle, Venta Belgarum: prehistoric, Roman, and post-Roman Winchester. Pre-Roman and Roman Winchester, 1. Winchester studies, 3.1. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 1410. ISBN 9781803276809.
Peter Morton, Slavery and rebellion in second-century BC Sicily: from Bellum Servile to Sicilia Capta. Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781399515733.
Melissa Mueller, Sappho and Homer: a reparative reading. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781108491709.
Zahra Newby, The material dynamics of festivals in the Graeco-Roman East. Oxford studies in ancient documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 340. ISBN 9780192868794.
Sarah Nooter, Mario Telò, Radical formalisms: reading, theory and the boundaries of the classical. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 312. ISBN 9781350377431.
Matthias Nöth, Die Befestigungsanlagen der Karischen Chersones: eine Untersuchung ihrer Formen, Funktion und Entwicklung von der geometrischen bis in die klassische Epoche auf Grundlage der Forschungen in Loryma und Bybassos. Forschungen auf der Karischen Chersones, 2. Marburg: Eigenverlag des Archäologischen Seminars der Philipps-Universität, 2023. Pp. xiii, 336. ISBN 9783818505691.
Tuomo Nuorluoto, Roman female cognomina. A study on the personal names of Roman women. Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 146. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2023. Pp. 334. ISBN 9789150628586.
David Paniagua Aguilar, Forme di accesso al sapere in età tardoantica e altomedievale VII. Bibliotheca classica Biblion. Milan: Biblion Edizioni, 2023. Pp. 334. ISBN 9788833832890.
Marilù Papandreou, Aristotle’s ontology of artefacts. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781009340502.
Giovanni Parmeggiani, Ephorus of Cyme and Greek historiography. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 500. ISBN 9781108831185.
Stefania Pietrini, La lex Iulia de pecuniis repetundis: nell’interpretazione dei giuristi del principato. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2023. Pp. 70. ISBN 9788855131278.
Adam Ployd, Rafał Toczko, Αugustine and rhetoric: argumentative strategies in early Christianity. Mnemosyne supplements, 479. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. viii, 263. ISBN 9789004683594.
Melanie Racette-Campbel, Aven McMaster, Toxic masculinity in the ancient world. Intersectionality in classical antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 332. ISBN 9781399520539.
Michael Rathmann, Orbis terrarum 20 (2022). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 345. ISBN 9783515134392.
Roger Rees, A commentary on Panegyrici Latini II(12): an oration delivered by Pacatus Drepanius before the emperor Theodosius I in the senate at Rome, AD 389. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781107155046.
Rebecca Robinson, Imperial cults: religion and politics in the early Han and Roman Empires. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780197666043.
Dirk Rohmann, Psychologie in der hellenistischen Geschichtsschreibung. Palingenesia, 137. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 240. ISBN 9783515134736.
Elina M. Salminen, Age, gender and status in Macedonian society, 550-300 BCE: intersectional approaches to mortuary archaeology. Intersectionality in classical antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Pp. 328. ISBN 9781399524445.
Pierre Sánchez, Foedus ictum: les rites de sanction des traités romains sous la République et les Julio-Claudiens. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 60. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 324. ISBN 9783796549618.
Jane Sancinito, The reputation of the Roman merchant. Law and society in the ancient world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780472133482.
Donald H. Sanders, From photography to 3D models and beyond: visualizations in archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 200. ISBN 9781803276182.
Pawel Sawinski, Adam Ziolkowski, Germanicus Caesar: history and memory. Studies in ancient monarchies, 8. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 170. ISBN 9783515134408.
Matthew A. Sears, Sparta and the commemoration of war. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781316519455.
Bert Smith, Christian Niederhuber, Commodus: the public image of a Roman emperor. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9783752007640.
Peter Stewart, Gandharan art and the classical world: a short introduction. Oxford: Archaeopress, Pp. 2023. Pp. 94. ISBN 9781803276946.
Laurens van der Wiel, An opaque mirror for Trajan: a literary analysis and interpretation of Plutarch’s Regum et Imperatorum Apophthegmata. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2024. Pp. 520. ISBN 9789462703902.
Katherine D. van Schaik, How to be healthy: an ancient guide to wellness. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780691206271.
Marchella Ward, Blindness and spectatorship in ancient and modern theatres: towards new ways of looking and looking back. Classics after antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781009372770.
Colin Webster, Tools and the organism: technology and the body in ancient Greek and Roman medicine. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780226828770.
Tedd A. Wimperis, Constructing communities in Vergil’s Aeneid: cultural memory, identity, and ideology. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. Pp. 242. ISBN 9780472133499.
Froma I. Zeitlin, The retrospective muse: pathways through ancient Greek literature and culture. Myth and poetics II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. Pp. 426. ISBN 9781501772962.
Fabian Zogg, Vergils Oeuvre: die Trias und ihre Appendices. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 61. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 444. ISBN 9783796549250.