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Amon, Hermann. The Roman empire third century “crisis”. Brill research perspectives in humanities and social sciences. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. viii, 156. ISBN 9789004746282.
Angelopoulou, Afroditi. The body and the senses in Greek tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780197777060.
Armstrong, Jeremy. Children of Mars: the origins of Rome’s empire. Ancient warfare and civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780197584972.
Avramidou, Amalia. The sanctuary of Parthenos at ancient Neapolis (Kavala), volume II: pottery, stone inscriptions, and small finds. Studies in classical archaeology, 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xviii, 272. ISBN 9782503617671.
Bang, Peter Fibiger. The Roman empire and world history. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 254. ISBN 9781316516102.
Barbato, Matteo, Mirko Canevaro, Alberto Esu. Rediscovering Greek institutions: new institutionalist approaches to ancient Greek history. New approaches to ancient Greek institutional history. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781399533287.
Barrett, Anthony A., Pierre-Luc Brisson. Rome brûle: Néron et l’incendie qui a mis fin à une dynastie. Itinéraires romains. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2025. Pp. 464. ISBN 9782763756318.
Belfiore, Valentina. La scultura preromana in area centro-italica. Problemi archeologici, tecnologici ed epigrafici del terzo millennio. Reports, excavations and studies of the Archaeological Unit of the University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, 5. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 358. ISBN 9781803279596.
Benchikh-Lehocine, Halima. Combattre les dieux: le théomaque chez Nonnos de Panopolis. Lire l’Antiquité. Grenoble: UGA Éditions, 2025. Pp. 316. ISBN 9782377475353.
Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Connie, Edith Hall. Time, tense, and genre in ancient Greek literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780192858498.
Bobou, Olympia, Rubina Raja, Maria Stamatopoulou. Turning the page: archaeological archives and entangled knowledge. Archive archaeology, 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xx, 486. ISBN 9782503616858.
Bost-Pouderon, Cécile, Bernard Pouderon. Dion de Pruse dit Dion Chrysostome: oeuvres. Discours aux Rhodiens (Or. XXXI). Collection des universités de France, série grecque – Collection Budé, 585. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. lxxv, 189. ISBN 9782251006703.
Bortolussi, Bernard, Étienne Wolff. Un empire, plusieurs langues. Aspects du plurilinguisme dans le monde romain. Scripta antiqua, 189. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2025. Pp. 244. ISBN 9782356136312.
Boswell, Brad. The narrative conflict of traditions in the late antique world: Cyril versus Julian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009493949.
Briquel, Dominique, Charles Guittard. Tite-Live. Histoire romaine. Tome IX: Livre IX. Collection des universités de France, série latine – Collection Budé, 443. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. cl, 370. ISBN 9782251015033.
Buccheri, Alessandro. Penser les humains à travers les plantes: métaphores botaniques du corps et de la parenté dans la poésie grecque archaïque et classique. Horos. Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2024. Pp. 416. ISBN 9782841374342.
Burgess, Jonathan S. The travels of Odysseus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198891499.
Chiasson, Charles C. Herodotus and the Greek poetic tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xii, 746. ISBN 9781009503693.
Conlon, Joseph. Plautus’ Persa: introduction and commentary. Studia comica, 26. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 214. ISBN 9783911065368.
Cowan, Eleanor, Kit Morrell, Andrew Pettinger, Michael Sevel. The rule of law in ancient Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9780198959328.
Crawford, Matthew R., Aaron P. Johnson. Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 662. ISBN 9781108485692.
Cutrofello, Andrew. The one and the others: metaphysics, poetry, and the antinomies of Plato’s Parmenides. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9780810149380.
De Vos, Benjamin M. J. The pseudo-Clementine tradition: the hermeneutics of late-ancient Sophistic Christianity. Cambridge elements in early Christian literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 102. ISBN 9781009506700.
Ehrmantraut, Brigid. Classical myth in medieval Ireland. Studies in Celtic history, 49. Martlesham: D.S. Brewer, 2025. Pp. 206. ISBN 9781843847564.
Elliott, Alex Michael. Fleets and naval forces of the late Roman Mediterranean (3rd–6th centuries). Historia – Einzelschriften, 277. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 245. ISBN 9783515139960.
Elm, Susanna. The importance of being gorgeous: gender and Christian imperial rule in late antiquity. Transformation of the classical heritage. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. Pp. 338. ISBN 9780520425675.
Enache, Cătălin. Thales, Hippias, Aristotle, and the beginnings of Greek philosophy. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2025. Pp. viii, 187. ISBN 9783031811555.
Fabian, Lara, Kathrin Leese-Messing, Eli J. S. Weaverdyck, Lauren Morris, Mamta Dwivedi. Economies of the edge: frontier zone processes at regional, imperial, and global scales (300 BCE-300 CE). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2025. Pp. 269. ISBN 9783968223278.
Favi, Federico, Andrea Pellettieri, Olga Tribulato. New approaches to Phrynichus’ Praeparatio Sophistica. Purism in antiquity, 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 300. ISBN 9783111579900.
Ferber, Rafael. The ignorance of the philosopher: why did Plato not write the “unwritten doctrine”?. International Plato studies, 43. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2025. Pp. 171. ISBN 9783495991831.
Fittock, Matthew. Fragile gods: pipeclay figurines and related objects in Roman Britain. BAR British series, 699. Archaeology of Roman Britain, 12. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. xx, 296. ISBN 9781407362281.
García Vélez, Juan Jesús. Los conflictos de Aquiles. Un análisis pragmático, retórico y pragmadialéctico de la embajada de los aqueos en la Ilíada IX. Lingüística, 92. Seville: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9788447226207.
Garés-Molero, Alejandro, Diana Rodríguez Pérez, Agustín A. Diez-Castillo. Over land and sea: the long-distance trade, distribution and consumption of ancient Greek pottery. BAR international series. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 207. ISBN 9781407362373.
Gartland, Samuel, Constanze Güthenke. Aristophanes and the current moment: the politics of comedy. Bloomsbury ancient politics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350475083.
Harrison, Stephen. Kingship and empire under the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great and the early Seleucids. Edinburgh studies in ancient Persia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 328. ISBN 9781474466387.
Hedin, Jakob W. Athena et Arachne: a Latin reader. Jakob W. Hedin, 2025. Pp. 38. ISBN 9798993234502.
Hellings, Benjamin D. R. Coin finds and monetization in the Roman northwest. Numismatic notes and monographs, 174. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2025. Pp. xvi, 172. ISBN 9780897224314.
Husquin, Caroline, Hugues Berthelot. Vulnérabilités civiques: le soin de la cité au prisme du corps. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9782385491680.
James, Dylan, Stephen Harrison. Theorising comparative history for the ancient Mediterranean: asking new questions of old evidence. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781835537497.
Jirsa, Jakub. The function argument in Aristotle’s ethics: happiness and the human good. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350511750.
Karla, Grammatiki, Corinne Jouanno. Vie d’Esope (Recension G). Collection des universités de France, série grecque – Collection Budé, 584. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. ccxi, 461. ISBN 9782251006697.
Kopp, Peter, Cornelia Römer, Rita Hartmann, Cäcilia Fluck, Mary F. Ownby, Daniela Rosenow. The village gymnasium at Philoteris/Watfa in the Fayum. Archäologische Veröffentlichungen, 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. Pp. ix, 150. ISBN 9783447123532.
Kotrosits, Maia. After transformation: a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2025. Pp. 162. ISBN 9781478029328.
Kuin, Inger N. I. Diogenes: the rebellious life and revolutionary philosophy of the original cynic. New York: Basic Books, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781541606470.
Kyriakidis, Nicolas. La cité des Delphiens: une communauté politique à l’ombre d’Apollon (VIe-Ier siecle av. J.-C.). Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 416. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 572. ISBN 9782869586208.
La Monaca, Valeria. Delicati and delicia in the Roman empire: a study of epigraphic and literary sources. BAR international series, 3233. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781407362779.
Lanoue, André, Maurizio Migliori, Arianna Fermani. Plato and the ideas: a very complicated story. Brill’s Plato studies series, 21. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. 248. ISBN 9789004722163.
Lo Casto, Claudia, Stefano Maso. Dibattiti antichi: ontologia, fisica e metafisica. Cinque studi. Studi di storia della filosofia antica. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2025. Pp. xii, 124. ISBN 9791256930258.
Macris, Constantinos, Tiziano Dorandi, Luc Brisson. From the Pseudopythagorica to the Neopythagoreans: further studies on the texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. Alber philosophical studies, 83. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2025. Pp. 856. ISBN 9783495991930.
Merkt, Andreas. Rund um den Tod. Wie der Tod christlich wurde. Regensburg: Schnell and Steiner, 2025. Pp. 408. ISBN 9783795438111.
Millington, Claire. Military households of Roman auxiliary commanders in western Europe and north Africa: Latin inscriptions, Vindolanda letters, and praetorium archaeology. BAR international series, 3201. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2024. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781407361437.
Moatti, Claudia. Sur la politique: cinq grandes leçons romaines. Lectures méditerranéennes. Rome: École française de Rome, 2025. Pp. 308. ISBN 9782728318490.
Muehlberger, Ellen. Things unseen: essays on evidence, knowledge, and the late ancient world. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. Pp. 196. ISBN 9780520423572.
Negrini, Claudio. La Romagna tra VII e III secolo a.C. Storia ed archeologia di una anticaregione italiana. PHERSU. Etrusko-italische Studien, 3. Vienna: Holzhausen Verlag, 2025. Pp. 620. ISBN 9783903207875.
Nelson, Thomas J., Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani. Pergamon and Rome: culture, identity, and influence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 544. ISBN 9780198912040.
Nicholson, Nigel. Victory and celebration: an introduction to Greek athletics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780197626320.
O’Brien, Carl Séan. Plato’s unwritten doctrines. Cambridge elements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 80. ISBN 9781009506175.
Pascual Valderrama, Ignacio M. La primera confederación Aquea: distritos, federalismo y polis (ss. VIII a III a.C.). Estudios helénicos. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2025. Pp. 518. ISBN 9788483449776.
Pecchioli, Laura, Alessandro D’Alessio, Roberto Meneghini, David A. Holmes. Hazard and disaster risk in Ostia: between hypothesis and reality. BAR international series, 3210. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. vi, 276. ISBN 9781407362069.
Pieper, Christoph, Verena Schulz. Forgetting and power in Greek and Latin literature. Palingenesia, 145. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 317. ISBN 9783515140201.
Potter, David. Master of Rome: a life of Julius Caesar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780190867188.
Quaresma, José Carlos. An urban Roman dump from 270+ AD (Tarraco – Carrer de Castaños, 1): analysis of the content (pottery, glass, coins, and fauna). BAR international series, 3228. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 223. ISBN 9781407362212.
Raja, Rubina. Palmyra, the Mediterranean and beyond. Mediterranean studies in antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781009532082.
Reddé, Michel. La Gaule devant César: ce que révèle l’archéologie. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. 294. ISBN 9782251457895.
Roller, Duane W. Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike. Books 21-40: from the battle of Ipsos (301 BC) to the Catilinarian conspiracy (62 BC). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781009277495.
Ruiz Darasse, Coline. Écrire à Ensérune: étude des inscriptions retrouvées sur l’oppidum (IVe s. av. J.-C.-Ier s. apr. J.-C.). Mondes anciens. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2024. Pp. 274. ISBN 9782367815039.
Russo, Alessandro. La tragedia latina in streaming: Padre Pellegrino Ernetti tra fantascienza e fake news. Un giallo filologico. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 96. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9788846772923.
Schipp, Oliver. Frühe Franken. Leben am Limes. Reiche der Alten Welt – Ethnien, Länder, Dynastien. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2025. Pp. 344. ISBN 9783170394438.
Stroumsa, Guy G. Dynamics of monotheism in late antiquity. Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780198973386.
Stuttard, David. Looking at Hippolytus. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781350429024.
Trivigno, Franco V. Plato on comedy and tragedy: the role of drama in the pursuit of happiness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781009360135.
Valdés Guía, Miriam. The thetes of Athens: dynamics and developments of the Athenian lower classes (seventh to fourth centuries BC). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2025. Pp. 460. ISBN 9783631932216.
Van Veldhuizen, Michiel. Divining disaster: signs of catastrophe in ancient Greek culture. Mnemosyne, 496. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 421. ISBN 9789004738560.
Venuti, Martina. Il calamo della memoria. Riuso di testi e mestiere letterario nella tarda antichità X-2023. Polymnia: collana di scienze dell’Antichità. Studi di filologia classica. Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2024. Pp. ix, 272. ISBN 9788855115483.
Von Alvensleben, Jörg. Symphonisches Mysterium. Einheit und Vielfalt der Darstellung in der Theologia Platonica des Proklos (Buch I-III). Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte, 11. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 603. ISBN 9783525540930.
Von Alvensleben, Oda. Die verborgene Form. Rhythmus in römischer Prosa nach der Theorie von Cicero, Aristoteles und Aristoxenos. Palingenesia, 144. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 423. ISBN 9783515140171.