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Albertocchi, Marina, Fede Berti. Iasos. Una polis nella Caria costiera in età arcaica. Archaeologica, 185. Missione archeologica Italiana di Iasos, 9. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025. Pp. xi, 226. ISBN 9788876893520.
Anhalt, Emily Katz. Ancient wisdom for polarized times: why humanity needs Herodotus, the man who invented history. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780300272871.
Arnheim, Michael. Five thousand years of monarchy. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN 9781394154418.
Ast, Rodney, Roger S. Bagnall, Clementina Caputo, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Giovanni R. Ruffini, Günter Vittmann. Ostraka from Trimithis, volume 3. Texts mainly from the 2014 and 2015 seasons (Amheida VIII). ISAW monographs. New York: New York University Press, 2025. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781479832811.
Bakhos, Carol. Emerging Judaism, 332 BCE–600 CE. Posen library of Jewish culture and civilization, 2. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. 1360. ISBN 9780300188523.
Barringer, Judith M., Gunnel Ekroth, David Scahill. Logistics in Greek sanctuaries: exploring the human experience of visiting the gods. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 30. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 264. ISBN 9789004720893.
Bartera, Salvador, Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson. The Oxford critical guide to Tacitus. Oxford critical guides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780198967583.
Beck, Bill. The ancient scholia to Homer’s Iliad: a translation. Volume 1: books 1-2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781009547383.
Beghini, Andrea. [Chione], Lettere. Diotima. Studies in Greek philology, 13. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2025. Pp. 460. ISBN 9783495991398.
Armin F. Bergmeier, The spoliated past: heritage, antiquarianism, and Byzantine material culture across time and space. Mitteilungen zur spätantiken Archäologie und byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte, 9. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2025. Pp. 242. ISBN 9783752007725.
Brancacci, Aldo. Antisthène: ethique et epistemologie. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. xiv, 262. ISBN 9782350882192.
Brittain, Charles, James Warren. Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 214. ISBN 9781009586054.
Burns, Krishni. Bringing their mother home: Roman multiculturalism and the mother of the gods. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780472133635.
Campbell, Edward H. Germanorum Liber by Cornelius Tacitus. Vexillarius Press, 2025. Pp. 179. ISBN 9798284296547.
Cavarzeran, Jacopo. The textual tradition of Pollux’s Onomasticon: studies towards a new edition. Purism in antiquity, 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9783111581286.
Cazzadori, Leonardo. The teaching poet: knowledge and the rhetoric of Hellenistic didactic poetry. Themes and forms in Graeco-Roman literature, 5. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. Pp. ix, 281. ISBN 9783161626807.
Čelkytė, Aistė. Galen on human physiology: taking the body apart and putting it back together again. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 294. ISBN 9781009435819.
Chabod, Antoine. Chanter la loi: performances civiques et rituelles de la norme en Grèce ancienne, VIIe-Ve siècles. Kernos suppléments, 45. Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN 9782875624468.
Christensen, Kristian Kanstrup. Local and imperial culture in the Roman provinces. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350516090.
Cianciosi, Stefano. Ancient Latin epics in Girolamo Vida’s Christiad. Metaforms, 28. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. viii, 250. ISBN 9789004738669.
Corcilius, Klaus, Irmgard Männlein-Robert. Platon und die Zeit. Tübinger Platon-Tage, 3. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. Pp. x, 213. ISBN 9783161639852.
Costa, Iacopo, Gustavo Fernández Walker, Ana María Mora-Márquez, John Longeway, Matthew Wennemann. Questions on the Posterior Analytics: second redaction. Simon of Faversham. The medieval text consortium series, 2. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2025. Pp. xxii, 309. ISBN 9781805116035.
Damon, Cynthia. Caesar: Gallic War. Loeb classical library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Pp. 624. ISBN 9780674997745.
Dänzer, Tobias. Quintilians Rhetorik und die Disziplinen. Themes and forms in Graeco-Roman literature, 7. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. Pp. 445. ISBN 9783161627477.
De la Villa, Jesús, Araceli Striano, Rodrigo Verano. Advances in ancient Greek linguistics. Trends in classics – Greek and Latin linguistics, 5. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 900. ISBN 9783111633619.
Del Basso, Lavinia. L’evoluzione del ginnasio in Grecia: II sec. a.C.–IV sec. d.C. Studia archaeologica, 270. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 552. ISBN 9788891335654.
Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Ulrike, Wytse Keulen. Kommunikation und Hybridität in Frontos Spätkorrespondenz. Themes and forms in Graeco-Roman literature, 1. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. Pp. viii, 462. ISBN 9783161622311.
Ehlen, Oliver, Roderich Kirchner, Judith Steiniger, Christian Tornau. Meister, Jünger, Rebellen: Nachfolge und Widerspruch (akolouthēsis und enantiōsis) im Spiegel der Zeiten. Themes and forms in Graeco-Roman literature, 2. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. Pp. xii, 286. ISBN 9783161626234.
Ellis-Evans, Aneurin. Alexandreia Troas in the Hellenistic period: war, finance, and civic identity. Numismatic studies, 48. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2025. Pp. xxviii, 234. ISBN 9780897227438.
Ferella, Chiara, Tanja Pommerening, Ulrike Steinert. Living bodies, dead bodies, and the cosmos: culturally specific and universal concepts. Ancient cultures of sciences and knowledge, 3. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. Pp. x, 431. ISBN 9783161600852.
Ferrario, Marco. District twelve. Northeastern Central Asia from Cyrus to Antiochos: local histories of a world empire. Ancient Iran series, 19. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xvi, 393. ISBN 9789004736184.
Fögen, Thorsten, Stefano Rocchi, Alberto Canobbio. Plinius der Jüngere aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive/Plinio il Giovane da una prospettiva interdisciplinare. Themes and forms in Graeco-Roman literature, 6. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9783161634703.
Freeman, Philip. Boethius. How to cope: an ancient guide to enduring hardship. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780691259161.
Gauly, Bardo Maria, Alexander Arweiler, Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer. Eros und Mythos: Liebes- und Hochzeitsdichtung des vierten bis sechsten Jahrhunderts. Bibliothek der lateinischen Literatur der Spätantike, 4. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 332. ISBN 9783515140386.
Geitner, Philipp, Dennis Pausch, Christoph Schwameis, Rainer Wierzcholowski. Ciceronian invectives: emotions, configurations, and reactions. Emotions in antiquity, 5. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 9783161610356.
Godart, Louis, Anna Sacconi. 70° anniversario della decifrazione della Lineare B (1953-2023). Pasiphae, 18. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2025. Pp. 440. ISBN 9788833155906.
Hallof, Klaus. Die Olympiasieger der Antike. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 1130. ISBN 9783119148993.
Hamilton, John T. Without within: parenthetic interferences in reception history. Cambridge: New Alexandria Foundation, 2025. Pp. 172. ISBN 9780674301276.
Hartoch, Else. The writing tablets of Roman Tongeren (Belgium) and associated wooden finds. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 424. ISBN 9782503616872.
Holzman, Samuel. Retrospective columns: Ionic capitals and perceptions of the past in Greek architecture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9780691262550.
Hutchinson, G. O. Polybius. Book 8. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 310. ISBN 9781009265881.
Iancu, Liviu Mihail, Francesco Meo. Textiles and war in Europe and the Mediterranean from prehistory to late antiquity. Proceedings of the international conference held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilisation in Bucharest, Romania, 17-19 May 2023. Archaeopress archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 238. ISBN 9781805830801.
Kahane, Ahuvia. Epic, novel and the progress of antiquity. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 280. ISBN 9780715636770.
Kißel, Walter. Ovid als Liebhaber und als Exilant. Die Aussage der “Amores”, “Tristia” und “Epistulae ex Ponto”. Palingenesia, 143. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 150. ISBN 9783515139823.
Kolb, Anne, Michael A. Speidel. A new era of epigraphy: 40 years of epigraphic database Clauss/Slaby. New inscriptions, new readings, new interpretations of Roman inscriptions. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN 9783119145435.
Kovács, Péter. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Miliaria provinciae Pannoniae. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum XVII, 4,3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025-. Pp. xl, 296. ISBN 9783112216996.
Lanna, Sara. Lyric addresses to ancient and new gods. Mesomedes, proems – hymns – prayers. Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia, 45. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. Pp. xi, 310. ISBN 9783161540202.
Malomud, Anna. Der geographische Raum in den Werken des Nikander von Kolophon. Themes and forms in Graeco-Roman literature, 3. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. Pp. xii, 265. ISBN 9783161626197.
Maurer, Mortiz. Kosmos, Gesellschaft, Religion: Zoroastrische und manichäische Sozialordnungsdiskurse in der langen Spätantike. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, 80. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xv, 446. ISBN 9783111428406.
Merker, Raimund. Im Geiste des Dionysos: Kunst und Praxis des griechischen Theaters im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2025. Pp. 728. ISBN 9783757401634.
Mulhern, J. J. Aristotle’s political terminology. SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2025. Pp. 219. ISBN 9798855803723.
Nasel, Séverine. Du latin au grec: noms de prêtres et de dieux dans les Antiquités romaines de Denys d’Halicarnasse. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 62. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2025. Pp. 420. ISBN 9783796553486.
Neger, Margot. Plinius der Jüngere: Briefe. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 862. ISBN 9783110628005.
Pellegrin, Pierre. Aristote: Les parties des animaux. Περὶ ζῴων μορίων. Les anciens et les modernes. Études de philosophie, 67. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 610. ISBN 9782406186045.
Pelliccia, Hayden, Charles Brittain, Harvey Yunis, Jeffrey Rusten. The soldier’s choice: city and soul in the life of classical Athens. Cornell studies in classical philology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. Pp. 234. ISBN 9781501783487.
Raffarin, Anne. Flavio Biondo: Rome triomphante/Roma triumphans. Tome V: livres IX et X. Les classiques de l’humanisme, 63. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. lxiv, 362. ISBN 9782251457567.
Reeve, C. D. C., Pavlos Kontos. Aristotle: complete works. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2025. 2 vols. Pp. 2762. ISBN 9781647922160.
Ringer, Mark. Aeschylus, character, and the yoke of necessity. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781666939088.
Ritter, Max, Élodie Turquois. The imagery and aesthetics of late antique cities. Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité tardive, 44. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. x, 197. ISBN 9782503611914.
Romm, James. Demosthenes: democracy’s defender. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780300269383.
Rowe, Christopher. Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics. Philosophia antiqua, 175. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 166. ISBN 9789004722071.
Rutgers, Leonard V., Neil Christie, Robin M. Jensen, Jodi Magness. The Cambridge encyclopaedia of late antique art and archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 2 vols. Pp. 1040. ISBN 9781107037243.
Sánchez Sanz, Arturo. Amazons in the digital era: the reception of the warrior woman image. Imagines – classical receptions in the visual and performing arts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781350462175.
Sehlmeyer, Markus. Antike Migration. Enzyklopädie der griechisch-römischen Antike, 14. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. x, 275. ISBN 9783110721362.
Sheppard, Anne. Plotinus, Ennead I.8: On the Nature and Source of Evil. The Enneads of Plotinus – with philosophical commentaries. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2025. Pp. 198. ISBN 9798988320128.
Stephens, Susan A., Benjamin Acosta-Hughes. Callimachus: the epigrams. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 174. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 490. ISBN 9783110770452.
Stramaglia, Antonio. À l’aube du roman. La fiction narrative au siècle d’Auguste. Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique de la Fondation Hardt. Vandœuvres: Fondation Hardte, 2025. Pp. 382. ISBN 9782600007702.
Tamiolaki, Melina. Leadership in the ancient world: concepts, models, theories. Antiquity in global context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781009493840.
Tanaseanu-Döbler, Ilinca. Libraries, handbooks, encyclopedias: ancient and early medieval repositories of knowledge and their religious aspects. Studies in education and religion in ancient and pre-modern history in the Mediterranean and its environs, 22. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024. Pp. viii, 347. ISBN 9783161633133.
Tedesco, Paolo. Living at the margins: African peasants in an age of extremes 300-900 CE. Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, 73. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2025. Pp. 361. ISBN 9783777225135.
Thommen, Benjamin. Der schreibende Architekt: Programm, Form und Theorie von Vitruvs De architectura. Themes and forms in Graeco-Roman literature, 4. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. Pp. ix, 394. ISBN 9783161642227.
Tissot, Louis-Jean, Thibault Emonet. Protagoras le sophiste et ses réinterprétations. Freiburg: Academic Press, 2025. Pp. 223. ISBN 9782889810734.
Totelin, Laurence, Emma Perkins. Tools, techniques, and technologies: essays on ancient science and its reception in honour of Liba Taub. Trends in classics – pathways of reception, 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 380. ISBN 9783111009940.
Traill, Ariana. Plautus: Cistellaria. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781350241787.
Vergara, Claudio. [Filodemo]: [La provvidenza]. La scuola di Epicuro. Naples: Bibliopolis, 2025. Pp. 400. ISBN 9788870887372.
Waterfield, Robin, Polly Low. Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War. New York: Basic Books, 2025. Pp. 752. ISBN 9781541603387.
Watson, C. B. Cicero: Divinatio in Q. Caecilium. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 450. ISBN 9781108844079.
Watts, Edward J. The Romans: a 2,000-year history. New York: Basic Books, 2025. Pp. 736. ISBN 9781541619814.
Yli-Karjanmaa, Sami. Reincarnation in Clement of Alexandria: salvific cycles and steps of progress. Vigiliae Christianae, supplements, 189. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 418. ISBN 9789004726598.
Zeller, Peter. Klimageschichte der griechisch-römischen Antike. Enzyklopädie der griechisch-römischen Antike, 15. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 179. ISBN 9783110750164.
Zimmermann, Bernhard, Anna A. Novokhatko, Antonios Rengakos. Spott, Musik und Politik. Ausgewählte Schriften zur griechischen Komödie. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 164. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. iv, 502. ISBN 9783119148238.