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Anstey, Peter R., David Bronstein. Definition and essence from Aristotle to Kant. Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 314. ISBN 9781032787466.
Arnal, William, Erin K. Vearncombe. Religious inventions: ancient Mediterranean practice and the study of religion. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 6. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025. Pp. 438. ISBN 9780228024453.
Ausbüttel, Frank M. Der Senat von Rom. Politische Kontinuität und Wandel in der Zeit von 235 bis 757. Millennium-Studien, 113. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xii, 262. ISBN 9783111355481.
Avezzù, Guido. Euripide: Elettra. Scrittori greci e latini. Milan: Mondadori, 2025. Pp. 640. ISBN 9788804795056.
Balaskas, Vasileios. Revivals of classical drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s): theatre in the realm of ideology. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780198929895.
Benedetti, Lisa. Sintesi di storia della letteratura latina. Strumenti e sintesi, 13. Milan: LED Online, 2025. Pp. 122. ISBN 9788855131988.
Bennet, John, Artemis Karnava, Torsten Meißner, KO-RO-NO-WE-SA: proceedings of the 15th international colloquium on Mycenaean studies, September 2021. Ariadne supplement, 5. Herakleion; Athens: Crete University Press, 2024. Pp. 633. ISBN 9786188549692.
Braund, Susanna Morton. Translating Virgil: a cultural history of the Western tradition from the eleventh century to the present. Classics after antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 1022. ISBN 9781108470612.
Bréhier, Émile, Jared C. Bly, Ryan J. Johnson, Michael James Bennett, Thomas Bénatouïl. The theory of incorporeals in ancient Stoicism: logic, expression, materialism. Cycles. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781399545549.
Brockkötter, Philipp. Die imitatio Augusti in der frühen Kaiserzeit. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 39. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 591. ISBN 9783911065153.
Burckhardt, Leonhard, Michael A. Speidel. Greek and Roman military history. Brill’s new Pauly – supplements, 11. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. lxiii, 570. ISBN 9789004339347.
Cairns, Douglas L., Pia Campeggiani. Mixed feelings: an interdisciplinary phenomenology. Ancient emotions V. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 187. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. x, 208. ISBN 9783111390543.
Canfora, Luciano. La Germania di Tacito: da Engels al nazismo. Storie, 4. Roma: Officina libraria, 2024. Pp. 88. ISBN 9788833670720.
Casapulla, Vincenzo. Commento al libro XXIX di Tito Livio. Huelva classical monographs, 16. Huelva: Editorial Universidad de Huelva, 2025. Pp. 331. ISBN 9788410326507.
Cipolla, Nicholas, Anne F. LaGatta, Candace Weddle Livingston, Peter J.M. Schertz, Ambra Spinelli, Sarah K. Yeomans. Why ancient objects matter: Greek and Roman art and materiality from antiquity to the present. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xvi, 546. ISBN 9783111151823.
Clifford, Emily. Figuring death in classical Athens: visual and literary explorations. Visual conversations in art and archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780198947905.
Dawson, Terence. Orpheus and Eurydice in myth, history, and analytical psychology: loss, longing, and self-awareness. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 206. ISBN 9781032857312.
De Cesaris, Giulia. Speusippus: a forgotten voice of Platonism. Issues in ancient philosophy. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781032874180.
Del Freo, Maurizio, Julien Zurbach, Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A. Supplément 1. Études crétoises, 21.6. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 255. ISBN 9782869586420.
Dickey, Eleanor. Lettres fictives d’un humaniste. L’enseignement du grec à la Renaissance. Fragments, 25. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. cxlii, 218. ISBN 9782251457093.
Donnelly, Cassandra M. Too much writing, too few scribes: extra-scribal writing in the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean (1650-1100 BCE). Archaeopress ancient Near Eastern archaeology, 13. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781803279954.
Drago, Anna Tiziana. Eliano. Lettere rustiche. Satura, 21. Lecce: Pensa, 2023. Pp. 258. ISBN 9791255680963.
Drake, H.A. The wisdom of the ancients: four ideas that changed the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 176. ISBN 9780197777374.
Duncan, Anne. Tyranny and theater in the ancient world: command performances. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781350426542.
Dyck, Andrew R. Cicero: the man and his works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 1117. ISBN 9781107085640.
Economou, Emmanouil M. L. The economy of classical Athens: organization, institutions and society. Routledge explorations in economic history. London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 362. ISBN 9781032561547.
Falke, Anna Klara, Florian Neitmann, Aleksandar Simić. Bridges in the ancient Mediterranean. Mittelmeerstudien, 26. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xx, 350. ISBN 9783506797131.
Fargnoli, Iole. Lo stadio, il circo, l’arena. Aspetti del fenomeno sportivo in diritto romano. Scritti Milanesi. Collana della Rivista di Diritto Romano. Milan: LED, 2025. Pp. 238. ISBN 9788855132015.
Fehr, Burkhard, Panagiotis Roilos. Mythogenesis, interdiscursivity, ritual: studies presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis. Brill’s studies in intellectual history, 354. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxii, 488. ISBN 9789004679733.
Fewster, Gregory P. The authentic Paul: critical scholarship and the making of a Christian book. Studies in Christianity and Judaism. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025. Pp. xii, 260. ISBN 9780228024194.
Forster, Florian Rudolf. Der Senat im frühen Rom. Die Entwicklung des Ratsgremiums von der Königszeit bis zur lex Ovinia. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 246. ISBN 9783911065122.
Gardner, Chelsea A.M., Sabrina C. Higgins. Ancient pasts for modern audiences: public scholarship and the Mediterranean world. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781032647937.
Gendry, Cyril. Achille et Patrocle, un mythe du couple masculin. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 741. ISBN 9782406177753.
Giardina, Giovanna R. Aristotle on the continuum in presocratic thought. Issues in ancient philosophy. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 186. ISBN 9781032834238.
Gołyźniak, Paweł, Ulf R. Hansson, Hadrien J. Rambach. Philipp von Stosch: collecting, drawing, studying and publishing engraved gems. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 29. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxx, 342. ISBN 9789004712539.
Griffith-Williams, Brenda. Greek orators IX: Isaeus orations 5 and 11. Aris and Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781836243403.
Hall, Edith. Sophocles: a very short introduction. Very short introductions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 176. ISBN 9780192897800.
Harrison, James R., Bradley J. Bitner. New documents illustrating early Christianity 11A: texts from Ephesus and 11B: essays on Ephesus. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 942. ISBN 9781628375817.
Harrison, Stephen. Horatian readings: poetic and literary texture. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 189. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 272. ISBN 9783111678627.
Harvey, Brian K., Sarah M. Harvey. Encyclopedia of Roman imperial chronology. Routledge handbooks. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 716. ISBN 9780367745776.
Hauser, Emily. Penelope’s bones: a new history of Homer’s world through the women written out of it. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780226839684.
Helmer, Étienne. Platon, Xénophon, Aristote, Philodème de Gadara et autres auteurs. Penser l’économie en Grèce ancienne. Naissance de l’economie politique, 20. Geneva: Slatkine, 2025. Pp. 150. ISBN 9782051029551.
Holton, David, Iō Manōlessou. The Greek language after antiquity: advances and challenges in historical linguistics. British School at Athens – Modern Greek and Byzantine studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781032427348.
Holzberg, Niklas. Menander: Komödien. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 592. ISBN 9783111634890.
Jansen, Laura. Susan Sontag’s tangential classics. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 192. ISBN 9780192870698.
Kelly, Leslie. Philosophers, Jews, and Christians in the Roman empire: authority, text, and tradition. Routledge focus on classical studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 114. ISBN 9781032904214.
Kidd, Stephen E. Lucian on reading, performing, and the difference: living life as fiction. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 206. ISBN 9781032936499.
King, Rhyne. The house of the satrap: the making of the ancient Persian empire. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. Pp. 334. ISBN 9780520416123.
Klein, Jacob, Nathan Powers. The Oxford handbook of Hellenistic philosophy. Oxford handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 762. ISBN 9780190695170.
Kondo, Tomohiko, Koji Tachibana. Aristotle in Japan: reception, interpretation and application. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 200. ISBN 9781032008745.
Leonard, Miriam, Tim Whitmarsh. Thinking with classical matter. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 204. ISBN 9780197267868.
Lévy, Carlos, Terence Hunt, Ermanno Malaspina, Veronica Revello. Cicéron. Les Académiques: Tome I. Collection des universités de France. Série latine – Collection Budé, 444. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. cdii, 222. ISBN 9782251015040.
Lithari, Argyro. Proclus, Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum. Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures, 16. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xxvi, 723. ISBN 9783111512846.
Lopez, Francesco. The historical landscape of ancient Kalabría: Balkan and Aegean linguistic influences. Ancient languages and civilizations, 10. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9789004547766.
Loporcaro, Laura. Reading Quintilian: didactic authority in the Institutio Oratoria. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198911500.
MacDonald, Carolyn. Encounters with Greek art: image, text, and the invention of identities in Rome and Roman Italy, 146 BCE to 117 CE. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781032894539.
Machaira, Vasiliki. Λισός. Το ιερό του Ασκληπιού. Τα γλυπτά και οι βάσεις τους. Research Centre for Antiquity, 10. Athens: Academy of Athens, 2024. Pp. 92, 89 pp. plates. ISBN 9789604044344.
Mann, Christian. Griechische Athleten. Eine Sozialgeschichte. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 413. ISBN 9783515139564.
Manolea, Christina-Panagiota, François Renaud, Harold Tarrant. Reassessing Homer in the Platonic tradition. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 426. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. vi, 321. ISBN 9783111673097.
Margariti, Katia. Dogs in Athenian sculpture and vase painting of the archaic and classical periods. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 422. ISBN 9781803279978.
Mercuri, Luca. La propaganda dei re. Quando i dinasti di Pergamo trasformarono Atene. Studia archaeologica, 269. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 212. ISBN 9788891334084.
Natali, Carlo. La Sagesse d’Aristote. Les anciens et les modernes. Études de philosophie, 64. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 345. ISBN 9782406180777.
Neuerburg, Fabia. Erzählte Reisen: griechische Philosophen und Wissenschaftler unterwegs. Eine narratologische und motivgeschichtliche Untersuchung. AKAN – Einzelschriften, 15. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9783989400740.
Oer de Almeida, Samuel. Die Münzprägung von Tralleis in der frühen und mittleren Kaiserzeit. Urbane Kultur, regionale Konnektivität und mediale Kommunikation. Tübinger numismatische Studien, 2. Tübingen: Tübingen University Press, 2025. Pp. 224. ISBN 9783989450141.
Ornaghi, Massimiliano. Chronology and history of the Attic theatre: origins, fifth century, fourth-century (and later) reception. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 179. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xvii, 422. ISBN 9783111621388.
Pappas, Vasileios. Non-elegiac Latin love poetry of late antiquity. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 427. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 282. ISBN 9783111709864.
Pelling, Christopher. Plutarch: Alexander. Clarendon ancient history series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 592. ISBN 9780192865182.
Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane. Daimôn: modalités de l’action des dieux en Grèce ancienne. Docet omnia, 10. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. 340. ISBN 9782251457277.
Pizzigoni, Attilio. The Athena Pronaia tholos at Delphia and the architecture of Theodorus Phoceaus: a redesigning theory. Studia archaeologica, 266. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 228. ISBN 9788891334251.
Prontera, Francesco. Al di qua delle Colonne d’Ercole. Scoperta e rappresentazioni del Mediterraneo. Biblioteca di “Geographia Antiqua”, 7. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2025. Pp. viii, 266. ISBN 9788822269461.
Rabel, Robert J. Maxwell Anderson and the classical tradition: the muses in America. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781032782836.
Reggiani, Nicola. Papiri da Tebtynis pubblicati dal Seminario di Papirologia dell’Università di Parma (P.Tebt. VI). California classical studies, 10. Berkeley: California Classical Studies, 2025. Pp. xii, 276. ISBN 9781939926180.
Richards, Candace, Elizabeth Minchin. Mediterranean collections in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: perspectives from afar. Global perspectives on ancient Mediterranean archaeology. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 380. ISBN 9781032735238.
Ross, Alberto, Daniel Vázquez. Cause and explanation in ancient philosophy. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781032307459.
Rover, Chiara. Lucrezio e il criterio di verità epicureo. CICERO, 11. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 341. ISBN 9783111594118.
Savani, Giacomo. Rural baths in Roman Britain: a colonisation of the senses. Studies in Roman space and urbanism. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 220. ISBN 9781032282749.
Schramm, Michael. Kaiser Julian, Auf die Göttermutter: Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 161. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. x, 439. ISBN 9783111621395.
Scodel, Ruth. A companion to Apollonius of Rhodes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780472133604.
Sharma, Ravi. Plato’s Hippias Minor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780192895233.
Shedd, Martin, Sean Tandy, Jeremy M. Schott. Remembering Nicaea: the Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus. Writings from the Greco-Roman world. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2024. Pp. xvi, 323. ISBN 9781628375855.
Singer, P. N. Galen: an anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 592. ISBN 9780190641399.
Stewart, Peter. Classical art and ancient India: proceedings of the workshop held in Oxford, 21-22 March 2023. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 194. ISBN 9781803279633.
Tellegen-Couperus, Olga, Jan Willem Tellegen. The regula as a rhetorical device in Roman law. Legal history library, 71. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9789004711013.
Tsetskhladze, Gocha R., James Hargrave, Manolis Manoledakis. The Black Sea: hub of peoples and cultures (8th century BC–5th/6th century AD): proceedings of the seventh international congress on Black Sea antiquities (Thessaloniki, 26–30 September 2022). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 502. ISBN 9781803279336.
Tuominen, Miira. Living with justice: a philosophical study of Porphyry’s On Abstinence. Philosophy from imperial times to the end of antiquity. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2025. Pp. 351. ISBN 9783495991176.
Vopřada, David, Markéta Dudziková, Viacheslav V. Lytvynenko. The pattern and the image: insights from the Alexandrian exegetical tradition. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 164. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 289. ISBN 9783111562124.
Whitman, James Q. From masters of slaves to lords of lands: the transformation of ownership in the Western world. Studies in legal history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. ix, 440. ISBN 9781009497534.
Zimmermann, Markus. Entscheidungsfindung und Machtausübung bei Xenophon. KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge, 40. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. vii, 236. ISBN 9783111586144.
Ziosi, Antonio. Il fantasma del modello: Seneca, Ovidio, Virgilio e la tragedia di Amleto. Testi e manuali per l’insegnamento universitario del latino, 138. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2024. Pp. 172. ISBN 9788855533881.