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Adams, Matthew J., Melissa S. Cradic, Israel Finkelstein. Megiddo VII: the Shmunis excavations of a monumental Middle Bronze tomb and its environs. Monograph series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, 43. University Park, PA; Tel Aviv: Eisenbrauns; Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, The Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, 2025. Pp. 422. ISBN 9781646023172.
Alvarez, Laura Elisabeth. Le miroir en Égée à l’âge du bronze récent: formes, fonctions, usages et trajectoires entre le XVIe et le XIe siècle. Aegaeum, 48. Leuven: Peeters, 2023. Pp. 426. ISBN 9789042951778.
Atanassova, Vessela, Laurent Bricault. Egyptian cults on the Black Sea coast. Études méditerranéennes, 6. Athens; Sofia: École française d’Athènes; Institute of Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2024. Pp. 194. ISBN 9782869586307.
Avramidou, Amalia. Sanctuary of Parthenos at ancient Neapolis (Kavala). Volume I: incised and painted ceramic inscriptions from the sanctuary and in Aegean Thrace. Studies in classical archaeology, 15. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xvi, 188. ISBN 9782503614809.
Baltzly, Dirk, Michael Share. Hermias: on Plato, Phaedrus 257C-279C, with ‘Syrianus’: Introduction to Hermogenes on Styles. Ancient commentators on Aristotle. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781350363762.
Bassani, Maddalena, Ria Berg. Locus horridus: ansie romane verso il mondo naturale. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 52. Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9788854915534.
Beck, Hans, Sebastian Scharff. Beyond mysteries: the local world of ancient Eleusis. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 199. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xvi, 478. ISBN 9789004719613.
Bonazzi, Mauro. Il demone della nostalgia. L’invenzione della Grecia da Nietzsche a Arendt. Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2025. Pp. xii, 276. ISBN 9788806256487.
Bottenberg, Laura. Friendship and otherness in Lucian’s Toxaris: a literary commentary. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 162. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 392. ISBN 9783111625591.
Braccesi, Lorenzo. I Persiani di Eschilo. L’Eredità dell’antico. Passato e presente, 20. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 112. ISBN 9788891335296.
Braund, David. Amazons: the history behind the legend. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 318. ISBN 9781108834490.
Bruno, Nicoletta. Archaeologies, origins, antiquities: narrating early cultural history in ancient Greece and Rome. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 421. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. iv, 320. ISBN 9783119149839.
Burkardt, Albrecht, Laurence Bernard-Pradelle, François Brizay. Enfants d’Hermès. Voyage, altérités et réception de l’antique. Rencontres, 659. Histoire, 16. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 514. ISBN 9782406177159.
Canevaro, Mirko, Cesare Zizza. Aristotele, La Politica: guida. Aristotele, La Politica, 7. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 356. ISBN 9788891335098.
Carter, David, Rachel Foxley, Liz Sawyer. Brill’s companion to the legacy of Greek political thought. Brill’s companions to philosophy, 8. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. x, 499. ISBN 9789004679337.
Chrystal, Paul. Miracula: weird and wonderful stories of ancient Greece and Rome. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. Pp. 472. ISBN 9781836390497.
Corcilius, Klaus, Andrea Falcon, Robert Roreitner. Aristotle on the essence of human thought. Oxford Aristotle studies series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198921790.
Cover, Michael. Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names. Philo of Alexandria commentary series, 8. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxxiv, 630. ISBN 9789004687431.
Crisà, Antonino. Archaeology, cultural heritage and World War II: Italy, Greece, France and Finland as historical contexts. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 324. ISBN 9789004696365.
Croissant, Francis, Anthi Balitsari, Philippe Baeriswyl, Gilles Touchais. Argos. Les fouilles de l’Aphrodision, I. Le site et les fouilles, les niveaux antérieurs au sanctuaire. Études Péloponnésiennes, 16. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 616. ISBN 9782869586451.
Derbew, Sarah, Daniel Orrells, Phiroze Vasunia. Classics and race. A historical reader. London: UCL Press, 2025. Pp. 490. ISBN 9781800088108.
Devriese, Lisa. De coloribus. Translationes Bartholomaei de Messana et Guillelmi de Morbeka. Aristoteles Latinus, XVIII.1-2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. lxxviii, 57. ISBN 9782503614632.
Duban, Jeffrey. Homer’s Iliad: in a classical translation. West Hoathly: Clairview Books, 2025. Pp. 672. ISBN 9781912992652.
Eberle, Lisa Pilar, Myles Lavan. Unrest in the Roman empire: a discursive history. Frankfurt; New York: Campus Verlag, 2024. Pp. 250. ISBN 9783593519326.
Enenkel, Karl A. E. Theatre of sexual attraction and psychological destruction: the myth of Hercules and Omphale in the visual arts, 1500-1800. Intersections, 91. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xlvi, 482. ISBN 9789004694644.
Engels, David, Stefan Schorn. Biography and antiquarian literature. IV.E: Paradoxography and antiquities. Fasc. 4. Antiquities [Nos. 1750-1751, 1753-1787]. Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker continued, 4. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xiv, 1306. ISBN 9789004514652.
Ferenczi, Attila, Dániel Kozák, Andrew Zissos. Inconsistency in Flavian epic. Pierides. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025. Pp. 225. ISBN 9781036414962.
Flohr, Miko, Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Teun L. Tieleman. Anchoring science and technology in Greco-Roman antiquity. Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 7. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xii, 334. ISBN 9789004714878.
Friesen, Courtney J.P., David Lincicum, David T. Runia. The reception of Philo of Alexandria. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 688. ISBN 9780198836223.
Gallo, Alessandro. Pompei I 7: la casa dell’Efebo a Pompei e il suo prestigioso arredo. Studi e ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei, 51. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. xiv, 184. ISBN 9788891334435.
Gersh, Stephen. Marsilio Ficino as reader of Plotinus: the Enneads commentary. History of metaphysics: ancient, medieval, modern, 5. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 576. ISBN 9789004701113.
Hamilton, John T., Evina Sistakou, Martin Vöhler. Parentheses of reception. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 185. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiii, 493. ISBN 9783111678610.
Hanaghan, Michael. Future knowledge and imperial acceptance in late antique historiography and epideictic rhetoric: from Constantine to Honorius. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 20. Boston: Brill, 2024. Pp. 300. ISBN 9789004714786.
Horn, Fabian. Metaphors of the ancient world: conceptual metaphor theory and ancient sources. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 181. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 296. ISBN 9783111631929.
Jaupaj, Lavdosh. Populations et interactions culturelles en aire illyro-épirote: du VIIe au IIIe siècle av. J.-C. Recherches archéologiques franco-albanaises, 6. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 476. ISBN 9782869586260.
Kampakoglou, Alexandros. Callimachus: select longer fragments and epigrams. Aris and Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 696. ISBN 9781802078619.
Kanellou, Maria. Erotic Greek epigram: a diachronic approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198816140.
Karla, Grammatiki A., David Konstan. Life of Aesop the Philosopher. Writings from the Greco-Roman world, 50. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2024. Pp. 260. ISBN 9781628373271.
King, Colin Guthrie, Venanzio Raspa. Aristotle’s Organon in old and new logic. 1800–1950. Bloomsbury studies in the Aristotelian tradition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781350372184.
Kletter, Karen M., Paul C. Hilliard. A companion to Josephus in the medieval west. Brill’s companions to the Christian tradition, 106. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xiv, 279. ISBN 9789004379978.
Kłodziński, Karol. Officium a rationibus: the office and officials responsible for the imperial treasury. Journal of Juristic Papyrology supplements, 46. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. xvi, 403. ISBN 9789042953499.
Lavan, Luke. Burial and memorial in late antiquity. Late antique archaeology, 13/1-2. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 956. ISBN 9789004688162.
Lindblom, Michael. The shaft graves and other Late Helladic I and II remains. Lerna, 10. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2025. Pp. 514. ISBN 9780876613108.
Loewe, Michael, T. Corey Brennan, Michael Nylan. Imperial institutions in ancient Rome and early China: a comparative analysis. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781350445116.
Loschiavo, Luca. The civilian legacy of the Roman army: military models in the post-Roman world. History of warfare, 144. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xiv, 520. ISBN 9789004693470.
López-Ruiz, Carolina. Greek mythology: from creation to first humans. World mythology in theory and everyday life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780190944803.
Martigny, Cassandre. Devenir Jocaste. Naissances et renaissances du personnage, de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Perspectives comparatistes, 149. Classique/Moderne, 17. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 846. ISBN 9782406182740.
Massetti, Laura. Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: a linguistic commentary and a comparative study. Ancient languages and civilizations, 6. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxxii, 248. ISBN 9789004688070.
Matthews, John. From Byzantium to Constantinople: an urban history. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 280. ISBN 9780197585498.
McCabe, Mary Margaret, Simon Trépanier. Rereading Plato’s Republic. Edinburgh Leventis studies, 11. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 520. ISBN 9781399546836.
McConnell, Tom. Chronology, dialect, and style in early Greek hexameter poetry. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780198932314.
Miączewska, Anna Beata. Edicta munerum: advertising and promotion of gladiatorial games in ancient Pompeii. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 22. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xiv, 346. ISBN 9789004720213.
Morandi, Alessandro. Specchi etruschi: riflessi di una civiltà. Studia archaeologica, 268. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9788891335272.
Nassichuk, John. The comparative poetics of Homeric literary imitation from antiquity to Renaissance France: Aphrodite’s charm. Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, 29. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xiv, 518. ISBN 9789004720862.
Németh, Attila, Dániel Schmal. The self in ancient and early modern philosophy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781350380370.
Nicolai, Roberto, Maurizio Sonnino. Euripide: prospettive di ricerca. Quaderni di Seminari Romani di cultura greca, 35. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2025. Pp. 264. ISBN 9788854915831.
Ntanou, Eleni. Εpic pastures: reshaping epic and pastoral in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 180. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 298. ISBN 9783111529134.
Pernot, Laurent, Matteo Di Franco. Aelius Aristide. En l’honneur de Rome (discours 26). Collection des universités de France. Série grecque – Collection Budé, 582. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. cclxv. ISBN 9782251006673.
Philippides, Katerina. Performance and imagination: dramatic space in the comedies of Menander, Plautus and Terence. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 186. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 204. ISBN 9783111707198.
Pietruczuk, Katarzyna. Chasing the idea of completeness: great book collections in the Roman world. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 182. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 242. ISBN 9783111634388.
Pina Polo, Francisco. Cursus honorum: pathways to rank and power in the Roman republic. Libera res publica. Sevilla; Zaragoza: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2025. Pp. 386. ISBN 9791387705138.
Pullen, Daniel J. Social groups and production in Mycenaean economies: papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 24-25 February 2023. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2025. Pp. 172. ISBN 9789464263336.
Raja, Rubina. The Oxford handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. Oxford handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 944. ISBN 9780190858155.
Ranocchia, Graziano. Cinquant’anni di papirologia. Atti della conferenza internazionale in onore di Rosario Pintaudi. Philosophical papyri. Papers, 1. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2025. Pp. 464. ISBN 9788881475476.
Reese, Bettina. Tiere als Opfer. Die Diskussion um die Schlachtopfer der traditionellen Kulte vom 2.–5. Jh. n. Chr. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 422. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiii, 471. ISBN 9783119149570.
Rumscheid, Frank, Natalia Toma. Unfertigkeit in antiker Architektur: Definitionen und Ursachen. Beiträge einer Sektion des neunzehnten internationalen Kongresses für klassische Archöologie in Köln und Bonn am 23. Mai 2018. Beihefte der Bonner Jahrbücher, 61. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Philipp von Zabern, 2022. Pp. viii, 148. ISBN 9783805353649.
Sauron, Gilles. Auguste. L’emprise des signes. Mondes anciens, 13. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. 506. ISBN 9782251457055.
Scheidel, Walter. What is ancient history? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780691236650.
Shakeshaft, Hugo. Beauty and the gods: a history from Homer to Plato. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 528. ISBN 9780691250205.
Sorensen, Anders Dahl. ‘Anonymus Iamblichi’. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 68. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 255. ISBN 9781009538794.
Stothard, Peter. Horace: poet on a volcano. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780300256581.
Taufer, Matteo. Il vino nell’antichità e nella Bibbia. Studia comica, 24. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 146. ISBN 9783911065245.
Toma, Paraskevi, Péter Bara. Latin translations of Greek texts from the 11th to the 13th century. The medieval Mediterranean, 143. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxii, 476. ISBN 9789004707566.
van Beek, Lucien. Language change in epic Greek and other poetic traditions. Leiden studies in Indo-European, 25. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 278. ISBN 9789004537019.
Vargas, Miguel. The Oniad sibyl: how a Greek prophetess became a revolutionary mouthpiece for Egyptian Jews. Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha, 29. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 196. ISBN 9789004722668.
Varner, Eric R. Golden excess: art and the aesthetics of the incredible in Neronian Rome. Brill’s studies on art, art history, and intellectual history, 76. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xx, 616. ISBN 9789004702967.
Vassallo, Christian, Pia De Simone, Kilian Josef Fleischer. Brill’s companion to Crantor of Soli. Brill’s companions to philosophy, 9. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xii, 285. ISBN 9789004708761.
Vervaet, Frederik Juliaan, David Rafferty, Christopher J. Dart. How republics die: creeping authoritarianism in ancient Rome and beyond. Studies in ancient civil war, 4. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xv, 540. ISBN 9783111650272.
Villa, Eugenio. La tradizione manoscritta del De incredibilibus di Palefato. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 424. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xvi, 364. ISBN 9783111589428.
Walmsley, Louise, Sylvain Delcomminette. Pathos kai nomos: le traitement des affections dans les Lois de Platon. Brill’s Plato studies series, 19. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 226. ISBN 9789004726758.
Zuchtriegel, Gabriel, Jamie Bulloch. The buried city: unearthing the real Pompeii. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780226839608.
Zucker, Arnaud, Claire Le Feuvre, Maria Chriti. Ancient and medieval Greek etymology: theory and practice II. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 178. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 469. ISBN 9783111572505.