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Albiero, Roberta, Maddalena Bassani, Giuseppe D’Accunto, Fantina Madricardo. Venezia e i paesaggi costieri adriatici fra antico e contemporaneo. Venetia/Venezia, 14. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 470. ISBN 9788891334558.
Amiri, Bassir, Guy Labarre, Christian Stein. Soignés et guéris par les dieux: actes du colloque international de Besançon 17-18 novembre 2022. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2025. Pp. 318. ISBN 9782385491550.
Ancori, Bernard. Figures du tiers et consensus monétaire en Grèce ancienne. Bibliothèque de l’économiste, 65. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 569. ISBN 9782406177388.
Aneziri, Sophia. Greek endowments in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, 69. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 559. ISBN 9783515139168.
Armstrong, Richard H., Alexandra Lianeri, A companion to the translation of classical epic. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2025. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781119094265.
Bakker, Egbert J. Homer: Odyssey Book IX. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 271. ISBN 9781107074286.
Baumann, Helge, Leon Schmieder. The senses on edge? Overstrained and fading sensory perception in Graeco-Roman literature. Palingenesia, 141. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 272. ISBN 9783515138499.
Beck, Hans, Griet Vankeerberghen. Place and performance in ancient Greece, Rome, and China. Antiquity in global context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 486. ISBN 9781009390026.
Berno, Francesca Romana. Luxuria. Storie di banchetti, ville e altri eccessi nell’antica Roma. Piccoli saggi. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2025. Pp. 184. ISBN 9788869738470.
Borgia, Emanuela. South-eastern Anatolia at a crossroads: a multicultural Mediterranean area from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine period. Access archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781789695755.
Briant, Pierre. Sur les traces de l’empire des grands rois: enquête historiographique. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. 1156. ISBN 9782251456706.
Campbell, Duncan B. Phantom horsemen: exploding the myth of the emperor Gallienus’ battle cavalry. Glasgow: Bocca della Verità, 2025. Pp. xvi + 177. ISBN 9798315057833.
Cañizares Ferriz, Patricia. Las traducciones de Iriarte y Samaniego del Arte Poética de Horacio: texto, original latino y paratextos. Hitos. Madrid: Guillermo Escolar, 2024. Pp. 190. ISBN 9788419782649.
Cankardeş-Şenol, Gonca. Lexicon of fabricant dies on Rhodian amphora stamps. Volume 3, fabricants H to M. Études méditerranéennes, 10. Athens: Éditions de l’EFA, 2025. Pp. 456. ISBN 9782869586550.
Claveria, Montserrat, Markus Trunk. Conditoria provinciarum. Roman sarcophagi in the provinces / El sarcófago romano en las provincias. Iberica Selecta, 3. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 423. ISBN 9783515138819.
Comtois, Nicolas. “Apprendre à lire”: l’art de l’interprétation chez Pierre Hadot. Zêtêsis. Textes et essais. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2025. Pp. 422. ISBN 9782766305773.
Coulié, Anne. La céramique milésienne et apparentée à l’époque archaïque. Actes du colloque international, 27-28 novembre 2019, auditorium du Louvre, C2RMF. Cahiers du corpus vasorum antiquorum France, 3. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2024. Pp. vi, 259. ISBN 9782877547086.
Davies, Philip, Judith Mossman. Sparta in Plutarch’s Lives. Sparta and its influence. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2023. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781910589854.
De Giorgi, Andrea U. Antioch on the Orontes: history, society, ecology, and visual culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 577. ISBN 9781108833998.
de Harven, Vanessa. The unity of Stoic metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 560. ISBN 9780198930167.
Deremetz, Alain. Les voies de l’interprétation des Métamorphoses d’Apulée. Littératures. Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2025. Pp. 220. ISBN 9782757442838.
Dillon, John. Perspectives on Plotinus: the collected essays of John Dillon. Chepstow: The Prometheus Trust, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781898910749.
Di Virgilio, Loredana. Aristofane, Tesmoforiazuse. I Canti. I Canti del teatro greco, 11. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2025. Pp. 284. ISBN 9788833156194.
Donnelly, Cassandra M. Cypro-Minoan and its writers: at home and overseas. Elements in writing in the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 94. ISBN 9781009517294.
Drews, Friedemann. Zeitkonstitution, Psychologie, Selbsterkenntnis – und Autofiktionalität? Augustins Confessiones. Würzburg: Königshausen et Neumann, 2024. Pp. 840. ISBN 9783826089831.
Duplouy, Alain, Nikolaos Arvanitis, Mariana Silva Porto. Athens and Attica from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the archaic period: the spatial roots of politics and society. Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente. Supplemento, 13. Athens: Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, 2024. Pp. 366. ISBN 9789609559423.
Dyck, Andrew R. A commentary on Cicero, De Natura Deorum II. Michigan classical commentaries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025. Pp. 422. ISBN 9780472074839.
Escobar, Ángel, María Díez Yáñez. Conexiones europeas del aristotelismo español medieval y humanístico: Francia, Inglaterra, Italia y Portugal. Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico, 2024. Pp. 200. ISBN 9788479562304.
Fabbri, Fabiana, Alessandro Sebastiani. Sacred landscapes in central Italy: votive deposits and sanctuaries (400 BC – AD 400). MediTo – archaeological and historical landscapes of Mediterranean central Italy, 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 372. ISBN 9782503613666.
Flamigni, Gabriele. Sur la route du devoir: le καθῆκον dans la pensée des stoïciens romains. Philosophie hellénistique et romaine, 18. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 340. ISBN 9782503614052.
Freund, Stefan, Wolfram Schröttel, Wolfram Winger. Laktanz: “Divinae institutiones”. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen. Litterae Christianorum, 1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. 2 vols. Pp. viii, 1086. ISBN 9783515132534.
Garland, Robert. What to expect when you’re dead: an ancient tour of death and the afterlife. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. xiv, 330. ISBN 9780691266176.
Geue, Tom. Major corrections: an intellectual biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro. London: Verso, 2025. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781804293775.
González Estrada, Lidia. El culto a Juno Sóspita en el Lacio antiguo: discursos e imágenes en torno a la diosa. Instrumenta, 87. Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2024. Pp. 380. ISBN 9788410500914.
Görne, Frank, Marian Nebelin. Was ist Zeit? Altertumswissenschaftliche Aufsätze. Antike Kultur und Geschichte. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9783643251060.
Gregori, Gian Luca, Estela Garcia Fernández. Onomastica romana e stato giuridico. Hispania e Nord Italia a confronto: alcuni casi di studio. Studi miscellanei, 43. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 184. ISBN 9788891334756.
Grethlein, Jonas, Sabrina Stolfa. Reading the Odyssey: a guide to Homer’s narrative. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780691182490.
Guez, Jean-Philippe, Florence Klein, Jocelyne Peigney, Évelyne Prioux. Dictionnaire des images du poétique dans l’antiquité. Dictionnaires et synthèses, 26. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. 2 vols. Pp. 2292. ISBN 9782406158301.
Hartz, Jens. Krankenpflege in der griechisch-römischen Antike. Zwischen Arztassistenz, familiärer Fürsorge und christlicher Wohltätigkeit. Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte – Beihefte, 84. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 264. ISBN 9783515137898.
Hau, Lisa Irene. Rethinking Hellenistic historiography: the immersive histories of Duris, Phylarchus and Agatharchides. Edinburgh studies in Hellenistic history and culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781474475600.
Herrmann, Mathias, Marian Nebelin. Museumsleitung im Gespräch: Antike und Antikerezeption in sächsischen Museen. Regionale Antikerezeption, 1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 339. ISBN 9783525302309.
Herrmann, Mathias. Antike und Antikerezeption in sächsischen Museen: Bestandsentwicklung – Ausstellungsgeschichte – Technologiewandel. Regionale Antikerezeption, 2. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 277. ISBN 9783525302293.
Huismann, Tyler. Aristotle on accidental causation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 276. ISBN 9781009491440.
Kayachev, Boris. Dirae. A poem from the Appendix Vergiliana. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2024. Pp. 217. ISBN 9871914535413.
Keane, Catherine T. More than a church: late antique ecclesiastical complexes in Cyprus. Late antique archaeology, 8. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xvi, 339. ISBN 9789004697874.
Kirkland, Sean D. Aristotle and tragic temporality. Cycles. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781399536455.
Knapp, A. Bernard. Cyprus and Ugarit: connecting material and mercantile worlds. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2024. Pp. 104. ISBN 9789464263053.
Konstantinidis, Panagiotis. Γυναικείοι δυναστικοί εικονιστικοί ανδριάντες αυτοκρατορικής περιόδου από την Ελλάδα (τέλη 1ου αι.π.Χ – 5ος αι. μ.Χ.) [Female dynastic portrait statues of the imperial period from Greece (late 1st c. BCE – 5th c. CE)]. Saripoleion bequest, 142. Athens: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2024. Pp. 684. ISBN 9789605260507.
Kulawiak-Cyrankowska, Joanna, Dagmara Lata. Utilitas in Roman jurists’ legal interpretation. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 88. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 262. ISBN 9783515136686.
Kunz, Melissa. Der Traum in der griechischen Philosophie. Von der archaischen Zeit bis zum frühen Hellenismus. Hypomnemata, 222. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 548. ISBN 9783525302996.
L’Erario, Aldo. Grasping the essence: Aristotle’s epistemological and psychological conception of the knowledge of essences. Symposion. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2024. Pp. 334. ISBN 9783495992531.
Lebreton, Sylvain. Zeus d’Athènes: polythéisme et paysages onomastiques. Kernos supplement, 44. Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN 9782875624390.
Lerouxel, François. La banque privée et l’économie monétaire égyptienne (IIIe s. a.C. – IVe s. p.C.). Studia hellenistica, 66. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. viii, 248. ISBN 9789042951938.
Lorber, Catharine C. Coins of the Ptolemaic empire. Numismatic studies, 46. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2025. 3 vols. Pp. 946. ISBN 9780897224024.
Luce, Jean-Marc. Observateurs et spectateurs dans l’art et la littérature de l’antiquité au XVIIe siècle. Interférences. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025. Pp. 380. ISBN 9782753597853.
Maas, Michael. The conqueror’s gift: Roman ethnography and the end of antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 456. ISBN 9780691259024.
Mayer, Roland. The ruins of Rome: a cultural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 394. ISBN 9781009430104.
Metcalf, Christopher. Three myths of kingship in early Greece and the ancient Near East: the servant, the lover, and the fool. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. vii, 292. ISBN 9781009481496.
Mihăilescu-Bîrliba, Lucrețiu, Radu Ardevan, Rada Varga, Florian Matei-Popescu, Ovidiu Țentea. Studia epigraphica et historica in honorem Ioannis Pisonis. Philippika, 181. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. Pp. xxviii, 560. ISBN 9783447122092.
Miller, Fred D. Aristotelian statecraft: studies in the political philosophy of Aristotle. Aristote. Traductions et études. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. xvi, 457. ISBN 9789042950757.
Nabel, Jake. The Arsacids of Rome: misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian relations. Iran and the ancient world. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. Pp. 283. ISBN 9780520413061.
O’Rourke, Donncha. Propertius and the Virgilian sensibility: elegy after 19 BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xv, 485. ISBN 9781108481731.
Pacciani, Elsa. A dramatic event in late Roman Florence: the anomalous burial site discovered beneath the Uffizi Gallery. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 124. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2025. Pp. 156. ISBN 9781803279312.
Page, James. From the Adriatic to the Alps: transport and trade networks in Roman and late antique northern Italy. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 125. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781803279732.
Porter, Jason Douglas. Diverse slaveries: slaving strategies and experiences of slavery in classical Athens. Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781399526746.
Purpura, Valentina. Instrumentum navis. Le àncore litiche e plumbee della Soprintendenza del Mare della Regione Siciliana. Access archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 194. ISBN 9781803279374.
Riccardi, Chiara. Tradurre dal greco e dal latino. Strumenti e sintesi, 10. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2025. Pp. 110. ISBN 9788855131865.
Scott, Dominic. Contemplation and civic happiness in Plato and Aristotle. Elements in ancient philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 74. ISBN 9781009539326.
Sommer, Michael, Stefano Magnani, Antonietta Castiello. Palmyrenes abroad: diasporas from Rome to Mesopotamia and beyond. Oriens et occidens, 45. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 302. ISBN 9783515138710.
Straumann, Benjamin. The just state: Greek and Roman theories of justice and their legacy in Western thought. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2025. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781118634684.
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.
Talbert, Richard J. A. The Kieperts’ Asia Minor ancient and Ottoman: capstones of route-based cartography. History of classical scholarship supplementary volumes, 10. Newcastle upon Tyne and Venice, 2025. Pp. viii, 108. ISBN 9781838001896.
Tanfield, Christopher. A companion to the Aeneid in translation. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 3 vols. Pp. 1208. ISBN 9781350499485.
van Reeth, Jan M. F. Le berceau minoen de la religion hellénique. Le labyrinthe des abeilles. Histoire, 14. Brussels: Éditions Safran, 2025. Pp. 432. ISBN 9782874571480.
Wagner, Martin. Das Fenster in der römischen Architektur: zur Funktion und Bedeutung eines architektonischen Bauteils in der Wohn- und Thermenarchitektur von der Republik bis zum 3. Jh. n. Chr. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2024. Pp. 419. ISBN 9789464280678.
Weiss, Roslyn. Justice in Plato’s Republic: the lessons of Book 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 218. ISBN 9781009466523.
Zainaldin, James L. The artes and the emergence of a scientific culture in the early Roman empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 474. ISBN 9781009501637.