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Abbattista, Alessandra, Chiara Blanco, Maria Haley, Giacomo Savani. Tereus through the ages: reassembling the myth of Tereus. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 265. ISBN 9783110728705.
Alston, Richard. Classicism and the construction of capital cities: London, Athens and Rome in the nineteenth century. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350445314.
Amzallag, Nissim. Forgerons et héros civilisateurs: métallurgie, croyances et sociétés à l’Âge du Bronze. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. 368. ISBN 9782251456744.
Anselmino Balducci, Lucilla, Clementina Panella, Carlo Pavolini. Cartagine: scavi italiani 1973-1977. Studi miscellanei, 41. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 444. ISBN 9788891332349.
Arbo, Alessandro, Agnès Molinier Arbo. La musique et les animaux dans la pensée antique. Musicologie, 21. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 249. ISBN 9782406185819.
Arnold, Stefan, Klaus Müller, Henner von Hesberg. Das römische Theater von Minturnae. Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Rom, 28. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. Pp. xiv, 174. ISBN 9783447122283.
Arrington, Nathan T., Domna Terzopoulou, Marina Tasaklaki, Thomas F. Tartaron. The Molyvoti, Thrace, archaeological project 1: landscape, architecture, and material culture. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2025. Pp. 792. ISBN 9780876615560.
Auer, Martin. Municipium Claudium Aguntum. Das Macellum. Ager Aguntinus. Historisch-archäologische Forschungen, 6. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2025. Pp. 305. ISBN 9783447121699.
Aylward, William, Jacques des Courtils, Bonna D. Wescoat. Architectural networks in the north Aegean: Thasos, Samothrace, and the formation of Hellenistic design. The Warren Moon series in art and archaeology. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780299350109.
Barry, Jennifer. Gender violence in late antiquity: male fantasies and the Christian imagination. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. Pp. 246. ISBN 9780520423510.
Bay, Carson, Anthony Ellis, Judith Mania, Sara Moscone, Lena Tröger. The medieval afterlife of Hellenistic Judaism: reception and reinvention in western Europe. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2025. Pp. 460. ISBN 9783796552595.
Beck, Hans, Kaja Harter-Uibopuu. Ancient Greek law: vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy. Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht/Legal Unity and Pluralism, 4. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 272. ISBN 9783412533120.
Bernstein, Neil W. Poppaea Sabina: the life and afterlife of a Roman empress. Women in antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. xiii, 178. ISBN 9780197678268.
Bierl, Anton, David Bouvier, Ombretta Cesca. Orality and narration: performance and mythic-ritual poetics in the ancient world. Mnemosyne, 495. Orality and literacy in the ancient world, 12. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. viii, 264. ISBN 9789004736900.
Boldrer, Francesca. Ars iocandi: studi sull’umorismo latino in prosa e in poesia nel i secolo a.C. Studia comica, 25. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 219. ISBN 9783911065214.
Borghetti, Laura, Thomas Arentzen. Ecologizing late ancient and Byzantine worlds. Sera tela: studies in late antique literature and its reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350505926.
Brody, Lisa, Anne Hunnell Chen. Dura-Europos: past, present, future. Studies in classical archaeology, 16. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xvi, 245. ISBN 9782503616049.
Cartledge, Paul, Paul Christesen. The Oxford history of the archaic Greek world, volume III: Cumae to Cyprus. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 856. ISBN 9780199383511.
Cassan, Melania, Barbara Castellani, Francesca Masi. Episteme e ratio. Doxai, 4. Rome: Tab Edizioni, 2025. Pp. 492. ISBN 9791256691937.
Cole, Emma. Experiencing immersion in antiquity and modernity: from narrative to virtual reality. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781350419094.
Danzig, Gabriel. Socrates at play: the social virtues in the Symposia of Plato and Xenophon. Socratic studies, 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xii, 311. ISBN 9783111517001.
De Petris, Antonio Leo. Ricerche sul servus pignori datus. Collana della Rivista di Diritto Romano. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2025. Pp. 164. ISBN 9788855132183.
Dorandi, Tiziano. Ioannes Stobaeus. Anthologii libri duo priores. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xlv, 603. ISBN 9783111388250.
Dorandi, Tiziano. Stobaeana altera. Tradizione manoscritta e storia del testo dei libri 3-4 dell’Antologia di Giovanni Stobeo. Diotima. Studies in Greek philology. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2025. Pp. 210. ISBN 9783495990704.
Ellis, Abbey L. R., Emma M. Payne. Ancient plaster: casting light on a forgotten sculptural material. Proceedings of the British Academy. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 418. ISBN 9781836245940.
Finkelstein, Israel, Thomas Römer. Kiriath-jearim: the Shmunis family excavations. Monograph series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology. University Park, PA; Tel Aviv: Eisenbrauns; The Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781646023295.
Franek, Juraj. Solomonica magica: Solomon, Sisinnius, and the holy rider on Greek-inscribed amulets from late antiquity and early Byzantium. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 201. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xx, 744. ISBN 9789004735262.
Galdi, Giovanbattista, Simon Aerts, Alessandro Papini. Varietate delectamur: multifarious approaches to synchronic and diachronic variation in Latin. Latin vulgaire – Latin tardif, 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 792. ISBN 9782503606798.
Galoppin, Thomas. Entre le plomb et les pierres: rites et magiciens dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2025. Pp. 272. ISBN 9782204161787.
Gartland, Samuel, Robin Osborne. Reassessing the Peloponnesian War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 408. ISBN 9781009461528.
Haklai, Merav. Money in imperial Rome: legal diversity and systemic complexity. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780198912002.
Hallager, Birgitta P. LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia. ActaAth-4°, 61. Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens, 2025. Pp. 184. ISBN 9789179160715.
Hauser, Emily, Helena Taylor. Women creating classics: a retrospective. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781350444379.
Hodges, Richard, Nevila Molla. Butrint 8: the late Roman and middle Byzantine archaeology of Butrint, its enclave, Saranda and Santi Quaranta. Butrint archaeological monographs. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2025. Pp. 416. ISBN 9798888571323.
Holton, John. Alexander’s successors and the creation of Hellenistic kingship. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350399020.
Holton, John. Royal traditions and the consolidation of power by Alexander’s successors. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350399112.
Hope, Valerie M. The Roman mourner: funeral rites, gender and the body. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781350320796.
Hoyos, Dexter. Scipio Africanus: the first imperator. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781836390992.
Jordan, Alley Marie. Classical taste in the architectural world of Thomas Jefferson. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781350428508.
Kim, Patricia Eunji. The art of queenship in the Hellenistic world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009502122.
Lichtenberger, Achim, Oren Tal. Hellenistic Nysa-Scythopolis I: the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba excavation project, the 2019-2020 seasons. Monograph series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology. University Park, PA; Tel Aviv: Eisenbrauns; The Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, 2025. Pp. 394. ISBN 9781646023288.
Liebermann, Bianca, Diana Bormann. Valenzwörterbuch der lateinischen Verben. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 795. ISBN 9783111623184.
López-Gómez, José Carlos, Antón Alvar Nuño. Religion in rural late antique Iberia. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 314. ISBN 9781032594194.
Maksimczuk, José, Luigi Orlandi. Mesótēs: at the intersection of textuality and materiality. Papers on textual criticism, manuscript studies, and scholarly practices. Transmissions, 12. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xxvi, 808. ISBN 9783119149853.
Marchand, Stéphane. Le style de Platon. Cahiers philosophiques. Paris: Vrin, 2025. Pp. 148. ISBN 9782711660346.
Marchand, Stéphane, Pierre Ponchon, André Rehbinder. La force de la parole: les textes essentiels de l’Antiquité. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. 440. ISBN 9782251457529.
Martens, Brian. The Athenian Agora XXXIX: marble statuettes of the Roman period. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2025. Pp. 704. ISBN 9780876612392.
Maurizio, Giangiulio, Giorgia Proietti. Karl-J. Hölkeskamp. Memoria e storia. Quaderni della Rivista Storica Italiana, 7. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9788849558401.
Messenger, Jenny. Kathleen Raine: classics and consciousness. Classical receptions in twentieth-century writing. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781350260542.
Morgan, Llewelyn, Michael Lombardi-Nash. Alaudae: the original Latin text of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, with English translation and explanatory notes. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 328. ISBN 9781350334496.
Oberhelman, Steven M. Manuscripts, plants, remedies in the Mediterranean traditions: studies across disciplines for Alain Touwaide. Medical traditions, 6-1-3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. 3 vols. Pp. 1510. ISBN 9783110777215.
Oliver, Ian. The audiences of Herodotus: oral performance and the major battle narratives. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2025. Pp. 204. ISBN 9781666936209.
Osti, Andrea. Il modello iconico: teoria e pratiche dell’immagine in Platone. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. iv, 400. ISBN 9783119149396.
Padilla Peralta, Dan-el. Classicism and other phobias. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. xxi, 189. ISBN 9780691266183.
Rubulotta, Gabriella. Aelius Aristide et Xénophon: regards d’un orateur greco-romain sur un classique de l’hellenisme. Recherches sur les rhétoriques religieuses, 40. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 294. ISBN 9782503617213.
Ruden, Sarah. Perpetua: the woman, the martyr. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. xiv, 191. ISBN 9780300273717.
Salgarella, Ester. Writing in Bronze Age Crete: ‘Minoan’ Linear A. Elements in writing in the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 84. ISBN 9781009520027.
Santocchini Gerg, Stefano. Dal Tirreno al mare sardo: studi per Marco Rendeli. Atti dell’Incontro internazionale di studi, Roma 10-11 novembre 2023. Istituto nazionale di studi etruschi ed italici: biblioteca di “studi etruschi”, 67. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025. Pp. lxx, 672. ISBN 9788876893513.
Schwameis, Christoph. Silius Italicus, Punica 15 und 16: Einleitung, Text und Kommentar. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xxii, 1414. ISBN 9783111388809.
Serafim, Andreas, Rafał Toczko. The art of violence: reapproaching invective in ancient Greek literature. Classica et Mediaevalia, supplement 3. Pp. 208. ISSN 01065815.
Shepardson, Christine. A memory of violence: Syriac Christianity and the radicalization of religious difference in late antiquity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. Pp. 332. ISBN 9780520413535.
Stone, Damien. The secret sacred: mystery cults in ancient Greece and Rome. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781836391098.
Tracy, Catherine. ‘Casina’ by Plautus: an annotated Latin text, with a prose translation. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2025. Pp. viii, 229. ISBN 9781805116745.
Tsiampokalos, Theofanis, Georg Wöhrle. Archelaos von Athen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 410. ISBN 9783119147880.
Van der Spek, R. J., Irving L. Finkel, Reinhard Pirngruber, Kathryn Stevens. Babylonian chronographic texts from the Hellenistic period. Writings from the ancient world. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2025. Pp. xlv, 1127. ISBN 9781628375886.
Van Nuffelen, Peter, Lieve Van Hoof. The fragmentary Greek chronicles after Eusebius: edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 704. ISBN 9781108420280.
Wallensten, Jenny, Gunnel Ekroth. “The pen fell from my hand when I was in my eighty-sixth year”: revisiting the work of Martin P. Nilsson. ActaAth-8°, 24. Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens, 2024. Pp. 158. ISBN 9789179160708.
Zito, Nicola, Helmut Seng. Theocritea: Frankfurter Theokrit-Treffen 21-22 April 2023. Hellenica, 113. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2025. Pp. vi, 218. ISBN 9788836135127.