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Alušík, Tomáš, Pavla Alušíková Dostalíková. Otto Rubensohn’s excavations on Paros I: the sanctuaries on Kounados Hill. Access archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 112. ISBN 9781805830160.
Amitay, Ory. Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: myth and history. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 220. ISBN 9780198929529.
Barrios-Lech, Peter. Plautus: Casina. Aris and Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781835535646.
Biles, Zachary P., S. Douglas Olson. Aristophanes: Knights. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 67. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2025. Pp. 720. ISBN 9781108479998.
Bousdroukis, Apostolos. D’Alexandre à Kanishka: interactions culturelles dans les fondations des successeurs d’Alexandre, du Proche-Orient à la vallée de l’Indus, aux époques hellénistique, romaine et arsacide. MDAFA, 35. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2025. 2 vols. Pp. 1375. ISBN 9782869586499.
Bruzzone, Rachel. Commentary on Thucydides, book 3. Michigan classical commentaries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025. Pp. 410. ISBN 9780472077489.
Bur, Clément, Thibaud Lanfranchi, Ghislaine Stouder, Alexandre Vincent. Faire carrière: ascension politique et mobilité sociale dans le monde romain à l’époque républicaine. Libera res publica. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2025. Pp. 510. ISBN 9791387705664.
Camassa, Giorgio. Statuto del corpo e annuncio di salvezza, II: dalle memorie di Gesù agli apporti dei primi maestri neoplatonici. Problemi e ricerche di storia antica, 39. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9788891335333.
Christopher, Jordan Thomas. The pioneer kingdoms of Macedon and Qin: a triumph of the periphery. Antiquity in global context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781009534895.
Costache, Doru. Nature contemplation in Clement of Alexandria: elements of the method. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 202. ISBN 9781032785547.
Currás Refojos, Brais X., Inés Sastre Prats. Las caras del imperio: mecanismos de control y estrategias de resistencia. Actas del XLI Coloquio internacional del GIREA. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2025. Pp. 634. ISBN 9782385491666.
Daniel, Robert W., Alexander Hollmann. Magica Levantina (Mag. Lev.). Sonderreihe der Abhandlungen Papyrologica Coloniensia, 52. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxvi, 372. ISBN 9783506797773.
Danon, Bart. Wealth, office and rank in Roman Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 306. ISBN 9781009496964.
David, Isabelle. La fabrique du personnage dans la comédie de Plaute: étude sur le masque et la gestuelle. Erga: littératures et représentations de l’Antiquité et du Moyen âge, 18. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2025. Pp. 592. ISBN 9782383773009.
Deligiannis, Ioannis. Herodoti Historia per Matthiam Palmierum Pisanum e Graeco in Latinum versa / The Latin Translation of Herodotus’ Histories by Mattia Palmieri. Transmissions, 13. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 740. ISBN 9783110682311.
Diosono, Francesca, Dominik Maschek. Living in a world of change: new perspectives on cultural exchange and transfer in the Hellenistic Mediterranean. Material appropriation processes in antiquity, 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2025. Pp. 259. ISBN 9783752007855.
Farmer, Matthew C., Jeremy B. Lefkowitz. A companion to Aristophanes. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. Pp. 464. ISBN 9781119622888.
Fellmann Brogli, Regine, Christine Meyer Freuler. Forschende Frauen und Vindonissa: ein Blick auf Werdegang und Wirken von Elisabeth Schmid, Elisabeth Ettlinger, Victorine von Gonzenbach, Verena Bodmer-Gessner und Madeleine Sitterding. Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft Pro Vindonissa, 31. Basel: Librum, 2025. Pp. 144. ISBN 9783907662014.
Fendel, Victoria B. Giving gifts and doing favours: literary classical Attic Greek support-verb constructions. Brill’s studies in historical linguistics, 24. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xviii, 657. ISBN 9789004730519.
Flückiger, Anna, Jan Bemmann. Coining values: bronze between money and scrap in late Roman and early medieval Europe. Limes und Legion, 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. Pp. 224. ISBN 9783752008166.
Galoppin, Thomas. Les bestiaires des mages. Animaux, savoirs et pouvoir rituel sous l’Empire romain. Histoire ancienne et médiévale. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9791035110260.
Galvani, Giampaolo. Metrica greca oggi. Prospettive di ricerca. Biblioteca di “quaderni urbinati di cultura classica”, 17. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2025. Pp. 140. ISBN 9788833156330.
Grawehr, Matthias, Johannes Lipps. Colour schemes in Roman architecture: aesthetics, semantics, and regional appropriation. Material appropriation processes in antiquity, 4. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9783752008548.
Gray, Taylor O., Ethan R. Johnson, Martina Vercesi. Belief and unbelief in the ancient world. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780802878977.
Greig, Jonathan, Joshua Robinson, Dragos Calma. Nicholas of Methone, reader of Proclus in Byzantium: context and legacy. History of metaphysics: ancient, medieval, modern, 7. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. vi, 454. ISBN 9789004512894.
Günther, Sven. Roman Empire: a handbook. Empires through the ages in global perspective, 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. x, 542. ISBN 9783110617979.
Guthrie, Julius, Henry Anderson, Emma Nicholson, Stranger-kingship in antiquity. Routledge studies in ancient history. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. Pp. viii, 150. ISBN 9781032685830.
Harpham, John Samuel. The intellectual origins of American slavery: English ideas in the early modern Atlantic world. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780674278370.
Hartnett, Jeremy. The remarkable life, death, and afterlife of an ordinary Roman: a social history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 204. ISBN 9781009536066.
Hirsch, Tobias. Die Briefe des Isokrates. Politische Ratschläge und soziale Netzwerke im vierten Jahrhundert v. Chr. Hypomnemata, 223. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 779. ISBN 9783525303368.
Hodge, Caroline Johnson. The god of this house: Christian domestic cult before Constantine. Inventing Christianity. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025. Pp. 202. ISBN 9780271099873.
Huelsenbeck, Bart. Profiles in Roman rhetoric: an expanding hand. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 172. ISBN 9781032903637.
Huitink, Luuk, Vlad Glǎveanu, Ineke Sluiter. Social psychology and the ancient world: methods and applications. Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 8. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xviii, 405. ISBN 9789004731288.
Irby, Georgia L. Greco-Roman waters: a sourcebook. Routledge sourcebooks for the ancient world. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. xx, 470. ISBN 9781032569314.
Kaumanns, Lena. Funktionswandel im Stadtzentrum des spatantiken Ostia. Eine Neuuntersuchung der Casa della Basilica und der Aula del Buon Pastore. London: Golden House Publications, 2025. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781906137908.
Kelly, Peter. Ovid and Plato: disturbing realities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781009601511.
Kimmel, Joseph L. Power in the name: a comparative analysis of onomastic invocations. Ekstasis: religious experience from antiquity to the middle ages, 15. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 235. ISBN 9783111360287.
Kloss, Gerrit. Aristophanes: Wolken. Griechische Dramen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 263. ISBN 9783110344523.
König, Alice, Nicolas Wiater. Visualising war across the ancient Mediterranean: interplay between conflict narratives in different media and genres. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 340. ISBN 9781032977980.
Kosmopulos, Michael B. The world of Homer: archaeology, social memory, and the emergence of Greek epic poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xix, 350. ISBN 9781009582889.
Kreuz, Gottfried. Statius: Silvae. Lateinisch – deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 681. ISBN 9783110631388.
Lesnes, Élisabeth, Randall W. Younker. San Miceli: an early Christian rural settlement in western Sicily. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. xx, 456. ISBN 9788891335166.
Lev Kenaan, Vered, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer. Classics transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian receptions. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780198878964.
Lewis, David, Mirko Canevaro, Douglas Cairns. Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world. Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 312. ISBN 9781399514569.
Lomas, Kathryn. The world of the western Greeks. Routledge worlds. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 810. ISBN 9781138347854.
Longfellow, Brenda. The lives and deaths of women in ancient Pompeii. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781477331231.
Mallan, Christopher. Studies in Byzantine epitomes and the Greek epitomizing tradition. Mnemosyne supplements, late antique literature, 493. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 242. ISBN 9789004731820.
Marciak, Michał. Alexander the Great and the campaign of Gaugamela: new research on topography and chronology. IAMNI (Italian Archaeological Mission to Northern Iraq), 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xviii, 110. ISBN 9782503616261.
de Martin, Sara. Prokleides – Xenarchos. Fragmenta comica, 16.8. Göttingen: Verlag Antike, 2025. Pp. 599. ISBN 9783911065306.
Massa, Francesco, Maureen Attali, Caroline Bridel, Dario Cellamare, Gaetano Spampinato, Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann. Religions et interactions religieuses dans l’empire romain tardo-antique. Outils et documents. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2025. Pp. 696. ISBN 9783796553103.
Melone, Mattia. Res publico usui destinatae. I beni di interesse pubblici a Roma. Studia juridica, 92. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 390. ISBN 9788891335449.
Menmuir, Rebecca. Medieval responses to Ovid’s exile. Classics after antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 262. ISBN 9781009553926.
Mitsios, Ioannis. The west pediment of the Parthenon: iconography and iconology. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 31. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xiv, 140. ISBN 9789004721883.
Mosconi, Gianfranco. Mare. Le parole degli antichi, 8. Rome: Inschibboleth Edizioni, 2025. Pp. 276. ISBN 9788855295383.
Murray, Oswyn. The muse of history: the ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the present. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. Pp. 528. ISBN 9780674297456.
Nervegna, Sebastiana. The performance reception of Greek tragedy in ancient theatres. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 438. ISBN 9781107111370.
Nickel, Rainer. Gegen die Stoiker. Plutarchs Moralia, 1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 400. ISBN 9783525363966.
Occhipinti, Egidia. Reading Greek historians through papyri. A selection on Sicily. Supplementi a “Kókalos”, 25. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9788833156453.
Pettersson, Olof, Pauliina Remes. Platonic autonomy: self-determination, unity, and cooperation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 282. ISBN 9781009520485.
Pitcher, Luke. Appian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198923923.
Ramsey Neugebauer, Gillian. A social and cultural history of the Hellenistic world. Wiley Blackwell social and cultural histories of the ancient world. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781119043201.
Rühl, Meike, Gabriel Siemoneit. Literarische Fiktionalität in der Vormoderne. Beiträge zu Problemen und Perspektiven. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 151. ISBN 9783515138321.
Salles, Ricardo. The Stoic cosmos: conflagration, cosmogony, and recurrence in early Stoicism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xv, 300. ISBN 9781009422796.
Seibert, Felix. “Sermo iuvenilis”: Studien zum Sprachstil der “adulescens”-Figur in der lateinischen Literatur der Antike von Plautus bis Petron. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 163. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xii, 291. ISBN 9783111706412.
Sekita, Karolina, Katherine Southwood. Death imagined: ancient perceptions of death and dying. Liverpool studies in ancient history. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9781802077582.
Skinner, Joseph, Vicky Manolopoulou, Christina Tsouparopoulou. Identities in antiquity. Rewriting antiquity. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 590. ISBN 9781138545168.
Straumann, Benjamin. The just state: Greek and Roman theories of justice and their legacy in western thought. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781118634691.
Tabolli, Jacopo, Edoardo Vanni. Lungo il corso del fiume Paglia. Archeologia, mobilità e mediazione culturale nell’antichità. Quaderni di Otium, 8. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025. Pp. viii, 377. ISBN 9788876893490.
Thein, Karel. Plato on soul and agency. Brill’s Plato studies series, 20. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 231. ISBN 9789004727052.
Trompeter, Julia. Galen on ethics and human nature. Philosophia antiqua, 174. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 275. ISBN 9789004727809.
Winzenrieth, Justin. Histoire du texte des “Parva naturalia” d’Aristote. Prolégomènes à une édition critique. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, 12. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. x, 696. ISBN 9783119148795.
Zarghamee, Reza Shaghaghi. Myth and history in ancient Persia: the Achaemenids in the Iranian tradition. Edinburgh studies in ancient Persia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9781399530989.
Zingano, Marco. Aristotle and the rehabilitation of homonymy: a metaphysical journey through words and things. Philosophia antiqua, 173. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. 540. ISBN 9789004712188.