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Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere “La Colombaria,” Union Académique Internationale, Unione Accademica Nazionale. Per i quarant’anni del “corpus dei papiri filosofici.” Atti del convegno e altri studi. Studi e testi per il corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini, 19. Florence: Olschki, 2024. Pp. vi, 236. ISBN 9788822269713.
Adamo, Sara. Epeo, mitologia di un artigiano. Economie della montagna, economia del legno nella Grecia antica. Clio: Saggi di scienze storiche, archeologiche e storico-artistiche. Naples: FedOA – Federico II University Press, 2024. Pp. 189. ISBN 9788868872489.
Aloumpi, Myrto, Antony Augoustakis. LUX: studies in Greek and Latin literature in honor of Lucia Athanassaki. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 166. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xv, 812. ISBN 9783111447681.
Anson, Edward M. Brill’s companion to the campaigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. Brill’s companions to classical studies, 10. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 605. ISBN 9789004715035.
Antonopoulos, Andreas P., Stylianos Chronopoulos, Panagiota Taktikou, Anastasia Psomiadou, Aikaterini Giakimtsouki-Magaraki. Greek fragmentary tragedians online. Patras: University of Patras Press, 2020-2024. ISSN 30574013. https://fragtrag1.upatras.gr/exist/apps/fragtrag/index.html
Autin, Louis. Sur les lèvres de la foule: sociologie politique des rumeurs et écriture de l’histoire chez Tacite. Scripta antiqua, 185. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2025. Pp. 506. ISBN 9782356136220.
Bassett, Sarah. Style and meaning in late antique art: ancients and moderns on seeing and thinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 257. ISBN 9781009466325.
Beerden, Kim, Fritz Naerebout. Coping with Versnel: a roundtable on religion and magic in honour of the 80th birthday of Henk S. Versnel. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 200. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. x, 390. ISBN 9789004538443.
Bentz, Martin, Patrick Zeidler. Dependency and social inequality in pre-Roman Italy. Dependency and slavery studies, 13. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. vi, 402. ISBN 9783111344089.
Bergdorf, K.A. The Confessions of Saint Augustine: a Latin reader’s edition. Books I-IX. Steubenville: Emmaus Academic, 2024. Pp. 314. ISBN 9781645853886.
Besl, Marco. Augustus als Programm: eine Rezeptionsgeschichte des ersten Princeps (14-500 n. Chr.). Historia, 276. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9783515137942.
Bews, Elizabeth A., Kathryn E. Marklein. Roman bioarchaeology: interdisciplinary perspectives on life and death in the Roman world. Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local regional and global perspectives. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2024. Pp. 298. ISBN 9781683404774.
Briggs, Ward, Danuta Shanzer, Sonja Schreiner. Professing classics: between Germanosphere and Anglosphere (mid-19th–21st C.). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. vi, 334. ISBN 9783111432793.
Bruschetti, Paolo, Luana Cenciaioli, Alberto Trombetta. La necropoli di Strozzacapponi (Perugia – Corciano). Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. Monumenti Etruschi, 16. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2024. Pp. xii, 365. ISBN 9788876893469.
Budin, Stephanie Lynn, Caroline J. Tully. A century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough: shaking the tree, breaking the bough. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 354. ISBN 9781032695631.
Buonocore, Marco. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Vol IX: inscriptiones Calabriae, Apuliae, Samnii, Sabinorum, Piceni Latinae. Supplementum. Pars 1: regio Italiae quarta. Fasc. 5: addenda et corrigenda (CIL IX 9005–9133). Indices. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. lxviii, 344. ISBN 9783111582320.
Bur, Tatiana, Maria Gerolemou, Isabel Ruffell. Technological animation in classical antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780192857552.
Burdorff, Sara. Maternity, monstrosity, and heroic (im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare. Monsters and marvels. Alterity in the medieval and early modern worlds. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9789463728980.
Bussi, Silvia. Les temples égyptiens à l’épreuve des Ptolémées et des Romains: richesse, gestion, adaptation. Studi e ricerche. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2025. Pp. 460. ISBN 9788855131797.
Campanile, Domitilla, Anne Gangloff. La corruzione del potere a Roma e i suoi precedenti. Atti del Convegno di Studi, Pisa 26-27 maggio 2023. Nuova biblioteca di Studi Classici Orientali, 11. Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2024. Pp. 388. ISBN 9791256080168.
Cariou, Morgane, Nicola Zito. Màrturi mytho: poésie, histoire et société aux époques imperiale et tardive. Hellenica, 111. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2024. Pp. xxvi, 574. ISBN 9788836135066.
Cartledge, Paul, Paul Christesen. The Oxford history of the archaic Greek world. Vol. IV: Cyrene to Metapontion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 864. ISBN 9780199383559.
Chaniotis, Angelos, Thomas Corsten, Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Eftychia Stavrianopoulou, Michael Wesley Zellmann-Rohrer, Jan-Mathieu Carbon. Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum, volume LXIX (2019). Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 798. ISBN 9789004719040.
Christopoulos, Menelaos, Marion Meyer, Athina Papachrysostomou. Unveiling the hidden face of antiquity: mysteries and cryptic cults. Vienna: Phoibos Verlag, 2023. Pp. 284. ISBN 9783851613001.
Cohen, David Omar. Mother becomes Electra: Idiolekte und sprachliche Charakterisierung in drei attischen Tragödien. Palingenesia, 139. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 136. ISBN 9783515137768.
Cordes, Lisa, Marco Formisano, Janja Soldo Blaney. Italo Calvino and classics: lightness – quickness – multiplicity. Mnemosyne supplements, 488. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 363. ISBN 9789004715080.
Corsten, Thomas. Inschriften aus der Kibyratis und aus Pisidien. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, 67. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9783515138345.
Dahlgren, Sonja, Martti Leiwo, Marja Vierros. Scribes and language use in the Graeco-Roman world. Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 147. Helsinki: The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2024. Pp. 285. ISBN 9789516535206.
Elia, Diego, Eleni Hasaki, Marco Serino. Technology, crafting and artisanal networks in the Greek and Roman world: interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ceramics. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. ix, 385. ISBN 9783111154619.
Falco, Giacinto. Ps.-Demostene, Contro Timoteo. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xii, 422. ISBN 9783111390345.
Fausto, Montana. Didimo Calcentero fra Alessandria e Roma. Pleiadi, 30. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2024. Pp. x, 162. ISBN 9788893599443.
Felton, Debbie. The Oxford handbook of monsters in classical myth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 640. ISBN 9780192896506.
Floridi, Lucia. Voci e silenzi di Briseide: da Omero a Pat Barker. Edizioni e saggi universitari di filologia classica, 73. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2024. Pp. 190. ISBN 9788855536431.
Forisek, Péter, Péter Kovács, Ádám Szabó. The Danubian region and the Balkans during the Roman Empire in military inscriptions. Studia epigraphica Pannonica, supplementum 2. Vienna: Phoibos Verlag, 2024. Pp. 220. ISBN 9783851613148.
Funke, Peter, György Németh, András Patay-Horváth, Josef Wiesehöfer. Xerxes against Hellas: an iconic conflict from different perspectives. Oriens et occidens, 44. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 407. ISBN 9783515137744.
García-Peláez, María-Elena. Voices and echoes of early Greek philosophy. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 419. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 393. ISBN 9783119149938.
Gardelli, Paolo. Villa Arianna at Stabiae: history, art and architecture of a Roman villa in the Bay of Naples. Urban spaces, 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xvi, 436. ISBN 9783111338989.
Geerts, Roderick C.A., Philip Bes. Roman pottery in the low countries: past research, current state, future directions. PALMA, 32. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2025. Pp. 150. ISBN 9789464262896.
Gowers, Emily. The small stuff of Roman antiquity. Sather classical lectures. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. Pp. 191. ISBN 9780520413146.
Graham, Sarah V. In search of the Dioskouroi: image, myth and cult. A ‘periegesis’. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 292. ISBN 9781803278230.
Grawehr, Matthias, Markus Kersten. A second gaze: intertextuality and transient meaning in Roman texts and objects. Created world. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2024. Pp. vii, 440. ISBN 9783969293751.
Grey, Cam. Living with risk in the late Roman world. Critical studies in risk and disaster. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9781512827392.
Grund, Simon, Robert Kirstein, Julian Wagner. Ambiguity and narratology: interdisciplinary perspectives and diachronic case studies. Narratologia, 92. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 276. ISBN 9783111495835.
Guggisberg, Martin A., Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann. Light and splendour. Edelmetall als Medium ritueller und sozialer Interaktion in der Spätantike. Basel: Librum, 2025. Pp. 252. ISBN 9783906897882.
Hahmann, Andree, Michael Vazquez. Cicero as philosopher: new perspectives on his philosophy and its legacy. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. vi, 412. ISBN 9783111591179.
Hähnel, Caroline. Studien zur narrativen Technik des Dionysios von Halikarnass. Classica monacensia. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2024. Pp. 294. ISBN 9783381120918.
Harris, Edward M., Alberto Esu. Keeping to the point in Athenian forensic oratory: law, character and rhetoric. New approaches to ancient Greek institutional history. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781399523875.
Hettinger, Jasmin, Janine Lehmann. Fluide Räume. Schlaglichter auf Hispaniens Flusstäler. Iberica selecta, 2. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 392. ISBN 9783515138291.
Holder, Paul. Roman military diplomas VI. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies supplements, 147. London: University of London Press, 2025. Pp. 356. ISBN 9781915249654.
Karakantza, Efimia D., Alexandros Velaoras, Marion Meyer. Ancient necropolitics: maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Greek antiquity. Mnemosyne, 492. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 255. ISBN 9789004718432.
Karanika, Andromache. Wedding, gender, and performance in ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198884576.
King, Helen. Immaculate forms: a history of the female body in four parts. New York: Basic Books, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN 9781541606531.
Kuhn, Christina T. The Julio-Claudian principate: tradition and transition. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 236. ISBN 9783515137485.
Kühne, Sebastian. Kommunikation, Konsens und Konflikt. Neuere Untersuchungen zu den persisch-griechischen Beziehungen. Oriens et occidens, 43. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 615. ISBN 9783515133135.
Le Cadet, Nicolas. “Révérence de l’antiquaille.” Les diverses formes de transmission du patrimoine textuel antique à la Renaissance. Rencontres, 655. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 268. ISBN 9782406175179.
Lefebvre, David. The science of life in Aristotle and the early Peripatos. Philosophia antiqua, 171. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxvii, 373. ISBN 9789004711686.
Linderborg, Otto H. Socrates and his demise: an examination of the historical figure. Routledge focus on classical studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 96. ISBN 9781032915609.
Mainberger, Sabine. “Charis” oder riskante Reziprozität: Versuche über Gaben und Künste. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. vii, 370. ISBN 9783111552965.
Mauduit, Christine, Guillaume Navaud, Olivier Renaut. Brill’s companion to the reception of Aristotle’s Poetics. Brill’s companions to classical reception, 28. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xviii, 658. ISBN 9789004681002.
McClure, Laura. Phryne of Thespiae: courtesan, muse, and myth. Women in antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 214. ISBN 9780197580844.
McKirahan, Richard. The sophists. Ancient philosophies. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 220. ISBN 9781138902794.
Montlahuc, Pascal. Prince et citoyen: essai sur le charisme de l’empereur Romain, d’Auguste à Sévère Alexandre. Suppléments francophones de la Revue Phoenix, 3. Quebec City: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2024. Pp. 382. ISBN 9782766306015.
Morris, Alexandra F. Disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic world: Plato’s stepchildren. Routledge studies in ancient disabilities. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 236. ISBN 9781032590875.
Morrison, James V. Comedy in literature and popular culture: from Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 244. ISBN 9781032763248.
Mark Munn, Hellenistic monarchies in the Mediterranean world: building a new world order? Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2024. Pp. xii, 211. ISBN 9783658450892.
Murray, Sarah C., Seth Bernard. Models, methods, and morality: assessing modern approaches to the Greco-Roman economy. Palgrave studies in ancient economies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. xxii, 488. ISBN 9783031582097.
Musacchio, Pierfrancesco. La ricezione del Marius di Plutarco nelle comunità culturali dell’Impero romano. LABIRINTI, 198. Trento: Università degli Studi di Trento, 2024. Pp. 477. ISBN 9788855410823.
Oosthout, Arthur. Proclus on whole and part: a reappraisal of mereology in Neoplatonic metaphysics. Philosophia antiqua, 172. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 255. ISBN 9789004721753.
Osborne, Alfred. The origins of Christianity in the Calendar Wars of the second century BCE. Studia traditionis theologiae, 60. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 325. ISBN 9782503613062.
Osgood, Josiah. Lawless republic: the rise of Cicero and the decline of Rome. New York: Basic Books, 2025. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781541604254.
Papaioannou, Sophia, Thomas Tsartsidis. Early Christian writers in the West and the classical literary tradition: stylistic and literary perspectives. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 177. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 207. ISBN 9783111027432.
Papakonstantinou, Néphélé. L’émergence du ‘crimen raptus’ à Rome: le système du Pseudo-Quintilien entre rhétorique judiciaire et ‘ius’. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 418. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiv, 418. ISBN 9783111544052.
Payen, Pascal. L’antiquité et ses réceptions: un nouvel objet d’histoire. Antiquité et sciences humaines, 11. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 515. ISBN 9782503613468.
Pola, Angela. La più antica produzione ceramica falisca a figure rosse. Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. Monumenti Etruschi, 15. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2024. Pp. 1190. ISBN 9788876893506.
Quatember, Ursula. Die Architektur des römischen Kleinasien. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Archäologie der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 19. Vienna: Phoibos Verlag, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9783851613124.
Riemenschneider, Jakob. Prokop und der soziale Kosmos der Historiographie. Exkurse, Diskurse und die römische Gesellschaft der Spätantike. Millennium-Studien, 108. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. x, 261. ISBN 9783111546865.
Romano, Carman. Theologies of fear in early Greek epic. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781032689890.
Sage, Michael. Rome in the third century: a troubled empire. Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Military, 2024. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781399063128.
Sarkissian, Alena, Eliška Kubartová, Hallie Marshall. Re-embodying and rethinking Greek and Roman drama in modern times. Metaforms, 27. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxii, 357. ISBN 9789004695283.
Schall, Ina. Plotinus on individuation: a study of Ennead V.7 [18]. Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2025. Pp. 274. ISBN 9789462704428.
Schomber, Saskia, Aldo Tagliabue. Prolepsis in ancient Greek narrative: definitions, forms and effects. Language of classical literature, 40. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 259. ISBN 9789004715523.
Schumann, Florian. Der Behinderung einen Sinn verleihen: über die Interpretation von Seh- und Gehbehinderungen bei Figuren des antiken Mythos. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. ix, 365. ISBN 9783111381794.
Serafim, Andreas. Body behaviour and identity construction in ancient Greek and Roman literature. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781032288581.
Tarwacka, Anna. The censors as guardians of public and family life in the Roman Republic. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781032781990.
Temelli, Yasmin, Manuel Baumbach. Misanthrop im Dialog. Annäherungen an eine abgewandte Figur. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 331. ISBN 9783515138772.
Tribulato, Olga, Federico Favi, Lucia Prauscello. Ancient Greek purism. 1: the roots of Atticism. Purism in antiquity, 1/1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xvi, 621. ISBN 9783111350752.
Von Möllendorff, Peter, Jens Gerlach. Sämtliche Werke IV: Lukian. Die Toten / Die Lahmen / Die Narren. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 418. ISBN 9783110704112.
Zamora Calvo, José María. Guía Comares de Neoplatonismo. Guía Comares, 16. Granada: Comares, 2024. Pp. 492. ISBN 9788413698816.