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Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin. The laurel and the olive: collected essays on archaic and Hellenistic poetry. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 152. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xix, 598. ISBN 9783110787504.
Apostolakis, Kostas, Ioannis M. Konstantakos. The play of language in ancient Greek comedy: comic discourse and linguistic artifices of humour, from Aristophanes to Menander. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 154. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 437. ISBN 9783111294490.
Becker, Eve-Marie, Henriette van der Blom, Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Jacob P. B. Mortensen. Cicero, Paul, and Seneca as transformational leaders in their letter writing: comparative readings. Epistula – studies on ancient letter writing, 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. x, 700. ISBN 9783111388137.
Bercea-Bocskai, Natalia. Le corpus signé Hélisenne de Crenne: entre Virgile et la grande rhétorique. Bibliothèque de la Renaissance, 85. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 495. ISBN 9782406175636.
Biglino, Fabrizio. The war economy of the Roman Republic (406-100 BCE): the system that built an empire. Mnemosyne, 487. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xii, 327. ISBN 9789004714281.
Bozia, Eleni. Politics of language: foreign nativeness and identity in the Roman empire. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781350430273.
Braccesi, Lorenzo. Tyrrhēnikòs kólpos: Spina, il problema storico. Hesperia, 45. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 88. ISBN 9788891334176.
Brandenburg, Hannah. Die frühe Sophoklesrezeption in der griechischen Literatur. Hypomnemata, 221. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 531. ISBN 9783525302781.
Brice, Lee L., Elizabeth M. Greene. Women and the army in the Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 360. ISBN 9781107068575.
Brown, Mitch. Menander and the birth of domestic drama. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. Pp. 216. ISBN 9780299349608.
Burkert, Walter, Christoph Riedweg. Walter Burkert. Kleine Schriften IX. Addenda zu den Bänden I–VIII. Hypomnemata, 2.9. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. xxv, 1271. ISBN 9783525302231.
Burnett, Andrew. The Roman provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE: using coins as sources. Guides to the coinage of the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 406. ISBN 9781009420136.
Cabrillana, Concepción. Recent trends and findings in Latin linguistics. Volume I: syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Volume II: semantics and lexicography; discourse and dialogue. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. xxvi, 708. ISBN 9783110721669.
Cairns, Francis. The Greek poetry of summons and invitation: from Homer to the Hellenistic age. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 171. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xvi, 447. ISBN 9783111481067.
Carbone, Mariateresa. Giovanissimi colpevoli? Studi sulla responsabilità penale degli impuberi in Roma antica. Collana della Rivista di Diritto Romano. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2024. Pp. 200. ISBN 9788855131667.
Cohen-Skalli, Aude. Strabon. Géographie. Tome XI: Livre XIV. Collection des universités de France, série grecque – Collection Budé, 579. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. cxii, 580. ISBN 9782251006659.
Coşkun, Altay, Benjamin Edidin Scolnic. The Seleukids at war: recruitment, composition, and organization. Seleukid perspectives, 2. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 359. ISBN 9783515137737.
De Martin, Sara, Anna Lucia Furlan. Wisdom discourse in the ancient world. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. Pp. x, 225. ISBN 9781032778587.
Devine, A. M., Laurence D. Stephens. Latin elegiac verse: a theory of very free word order. Trends in classics – Greek and Latin linguistics, 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. ix, 320. ISBN 9783111385914.
Di Bartolo, Giuseppina, Daniel Kölligan. Postclassical Greek: problems and perspectives. Trends in classics – Greek and Latin linguistics, 4. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 321. ISBN 9783111069098.
D’Urso, Valentino. P. Papinius Statius. Ecloga ad Claudiam uxorem (Silv. 3, 5). Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 94. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2024. Pp. 364. ISBN 9788846770769.
Edwards, Rebecca. Tiberius and the charisma of Augustus: the principate enshrined. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781009476676.
Eidinow, Esther, Christopher Schliephake. Conversing with chaos in Graeco-Roman antiquity: writing and reading environmental disorder in ancient texts. Ancient environments. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350344198.
Favi, Federico, Virginia Mastellari. Treasuries of literature: anthologies, lexica, scholia and the indirect tradition of classical texts in the Greek world. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 160. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. vi, 220. ISBN 9783111385976.
Frey, Jon, Rubina Raja. Trends in archive archaeology: current research on archival material from fieldwork and its implications for archaeological practice. Archive archaeology, 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. xii, 166. ISBN 9782503611747.
Furley, William. Myths, muses and mortals: the way of life in ancient Greece. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781789149173.
Futás, Nicolai. Von der Liturgie zur Euergesie. Die Transformation der athenischen Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Vestigia, 79. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2024. Pp. ix, 653. ISBN 9783406813832.
Gamberin, Diletta. Le parole per l’immagine della sofferenza. I letterati rinascimentali alla prova del Laocoonte. Biblioteca dell’ “Archivum Romanicum”. Serie I: storia, letteratura, paleografia, 544. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2024. Pp. xxii, 178. ISBN 9788822269386.
Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. A commentary on Plautus’ Curculio. Michigan classical commentaries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. Pp. 244. ISBN 9780472077069.
Giannakis, Georgios K., Theodore D. Papanghelis, Antonios Rengakos. The future of the past: why classical studies still matter. Athenian dialogues IV. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 173. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xiii, 355. ISBN 9783111337142.
Greensmith, Emma. The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek epic. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 570. ISBN 9781316514696.
Guerra, Christian, Markus Kersten, Ann-Kathrin Stähle. The dynamics of paratextuality in late antique literature: stumbling texts. Sera tela: studies in late antique literature and its reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781350434882.
Gysembergh, Victor. Eudoxe de Cnide. Témoignages et fragments. Collection des universités de France, série grecque – Collection Budé, 578. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. cclxxii, 592. ISBN 9782251006628.
Hayes, Evan, Stephen Nimis. Apollonius of Rhodes’s The Voyage of Argo: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 399. ISBN 9798337830353 and 9798337861579.
Hayes, Evan, Stephen Nimis. Menander’s Dyskolos: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2024. Pp. 141. ISBN 9798337843605.
Hayes, Evan, Stephen Nimis. Plautus’ Truculentus: an intermediate Latin reader. Latin text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2024. Pp. 155. ISBN 9798338522073.
Jamieson, Andrew, Caroline Tully, Louise Hitchcock. Plague in antiquity. Ancient Near Eastern studies. Supplement, 65. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. xiv, 264. ISBN 9789042950689.
Kazantzidis, Georgios. Lucretian receptions in prose. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 167. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 220. ISBN 9783111443669.
Kelly, Adrian, Henry Spelman. Texts and intertexts in archaic and classical Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 362. ISBN 9781108840118.
Konijnendijk, Roel. The economics of war in ancient Greece. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781350471788.
Kuhn-Treichel, Thomas. Metaleptische Bilder des Erzählens. Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Narratologia, 89. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 250. ISBN 9783111317366.
Lagia, Anna, Sofia Voutsaki. Social inequality and difference in the ancient Greek world: bioarchaeological perspectives. Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2024. Pp. 432. ISBN 9781683404606.
Lewis, William. Division of empire: the reign of the sons of Constantine. Oxford studies in late antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780197745144.
Lye, Suzanne. Life/afterlife: revolution and reflection in the ancient Greek underworld from Homer to Lucian. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780197690208.
Marks, Raymond. Off the beaten path: Ovidian journeys in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 161. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xv, 233. ISBN 9783111403045.
Marks, Raymond. Transgressive heroism: gender, genre, and Ovid in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 175. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 290. ISBN 9783111562544.
McCarty, Matthew M. Religion and the making of Roman Africa: votive stelae, traditions, and empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 482. ISBN 9781107020184.
McNelis, Charles. Statius. Achilleid. Oxford commentaries on Flavian poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 464. ISBN 9780198871453.
Mollea, Simone. “Humanitas” in the imperial age: from Pliny the Younger to Symmachus. Lumina, 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xviii, 379. ISBN 9783111500881.
Montanari, Franco, Theodore Papanghelis, Bernhard Zimmermann, Evanthia Sistakou. In the mists of time: negotiating the past in ancient literature. Studies in honor of Antonios Rengakos. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. ix, 281. ISBN 9783111500638.
Myers, K. Sara. Ancient Roman literary gardens: gender, genre, and geopoetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 312. ISBN 9780197773208.
Niehoff, Maren, Francesco Zanella. Das frühe Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum (RAC) und der Nationalsozialismus. Leiden; Paderborn: Brill; Schöningh, 2024. Pp. xvi, 374. ISBN 9783506790293.
Oade, Stephanie. Catullus in twentieth-century music: lyrics and lyricism. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780198918684.
Pagkalos, Manolis E., Andrea Scarpato. New perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese: history, politics and material culture. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781350228900.
Parmenter, Christopher Stedman. Racialized commodities: long-distance trade, mobility, and the making of race in ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xvi, 384. ISBN 9780197757116.
Pérez Cañizares, Pilar. Hippocratis. De affectionibus. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 1/2,6. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. cxlviii, 204. ISBN 9783111000299.
Polansky, Ronald. Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia: text, translation, and commentary. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 924. ISBN 9783111235745.
Prost, Francis, Jean-Manuel Roubineau, Didier Viviers. Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C. PUR-Référence. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024. Pp. 752. ISBN 9782753595736.
Reitzenstein-Ronning, Christian. Exil und Raum im antiken Rom. Vestigia, 76. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2023. Pp. ix, 486. ISBN 9783406799440.
Salcedo González, Cristina. The Persephone myth in young adult fiction: from girl to woman. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781350401198.
Schliephake, Christopher, Gregor Weber. Deutungskämpfe um die antike Divination im Spiegel spätrepublikanischer und kaiserzeitlicher Texte. Historische Zeitschrift / Beihefte, 81. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 250. ISBN 9783110728170.
Schopf, Nele. “Sächsische Antike”? Antikerezeption und regionenbezogene Sinnstiftung in der modernen sächsischen Landes- und Regionalgeschichtsschreibung. Regionale Antikerezeption / Regional receptions of antiquity, 003. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9783525302712.
Schropp, Jack W. G. Pugna litterarum: Studien zur kompetitiven Geschichtsschreibung in der griechisch-römischen Literaturelite der Kaiserzeit. Vestigia, 77. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2023. Pp. viii, 439. ISBN 9783406806766.
Schwartz, Daniel R. Flavius Josephus: translation and commentary. Volume 8: Judean Antiquities, books 18-20. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 386. ISBN 9789004703681.
Speriani, Silvia, Stephen Harrison. Polytropos Ajax: roots, evolution, and reception of a multifaceted hero. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 168. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. x, 221. ISBN 9783111450353.
Stergiopoulou, Katerina. Modernist Hellenism: Pound, Eliot, H.D., and the translation of Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 504. ISBN 9781009371483.
Strohmaier, Gotthard. Galeni in Hippocratis De Aere Aquis Locis commentariorum I–IV versio Arabica. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 6. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. cxlvi, 574. ISBN 9783111212739.
Stróżyński, Mateusz. Plotinus on the contemplation of the intelligible world: faces of being and mirrors of intellect. Cambridge studies in religion and Platonism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 382. ISBN 9781009494861.
Szántó, Zsuzsanna. The Jews of Ptolemaic Egypt: the history of a diaspora community in light of the papyri. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xiv, 293. ISBN 9783111425047.
Stuttard, David. Looking at Greek drama: origins, contexts and afterlives of ancient plays and playwrights. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350320857.
Taufer, Matteo. Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus I. Nuovo testo critico con apparato sulla base di collazioni complete dei codici superstiti. Paradeigmata. Baden-Baden: Rombach Wissenschaft, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9783988580252.
Taufer, Matteo. Aeschyli Prometheus Vinctus II. Studî sulla tradizione manoscritta. I parte: dal Mediceo alla famiglia η. Paradeigmata. Baden-Baden: Rombach Wissenschaft, 2024. Pp. 357. ISBN 9783988580276.
Ungvary, David. Converting verse: the poetics of asceticism in late Roman Gaul. Oxford studies in late antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780197600740.
Vega Navarrete, Natalia. Die Papyrusbriefe zwischen Eltern und Kindern. Eine generationsübergreifende Beziehung. Sonderreihe der Abhandlungen Papyrologica Coloniensia, L. Leiden; Paderborn: Brill; Schöningh, 2024. Pp. xxvi, 202. ISBN 9783506796370.
Wojciechowska, Agnieszka. Metropoleis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt from the early Ptolemaic age to Septimius Severus. Philippika, 170. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. Pp. xii, 224. ISBN 9783447120227.
Woodard, Roger D. Aeolic and Aeolians: origins of an ancient Greek language and its community of speakers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 648. ISBN 9781009424400.