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Almásy-Martin, Adrienn, Yanne Broux. Greek personal names in Egypt. Oxford studies in ancient documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198947011.
Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva. Wine and ecstasy in Plato: a metaphor of sorts and its early reception. SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2025. Pp. 466. ISBN 9798855804850.
Andújar, Rosa. Playing the chorus in Greek tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009653602.
Ballériaux, Omer, Jacques Schamp. Thémistios: Discours. Tome IV: discours XX-XXV, discours personnels. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque – Collection Budé, 583. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. 528. ISBN 9782251006680.
Bononcini, Leonardo. Sophocles’ Nausicaa. Fragmentary Greek drama, 4. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 128. ISBN 9788891335555.
Boyle, A. J. Seneca: Phoenissae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780198889168.
Chaldekas, Matthew, Irmgard Männlein. The poetics of Greek ekphrasis: from the Hellenistic period to late antiquity. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 194. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xii, 388. ISBN 9783119147224.
Clay, Jenny Strauss, Athanassios Vergados. Hesiod: Theogony. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 420. ISBN 9781107097384.
Compatangelo-Soussignan, Rita. Spartacus, les mille visages du gladiateur rebelle: de l’Antiquité au monde contemporain. Biographies et mythes historiques. Paris: Éditions Ellipses, 2025. Pp. 387. ISBN 9782340108097.
Connolly, Serena. Learned emperors: science, technology, and power at the Roman imperial court. Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures, 18. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 253. ISBN 9783119145329.
De Ruyt, Claire. Scavi di Ostia XIX. Il tempio dei Fabri Navales (III, II, 1-2) e la fullonica sottostante. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 306. ISBN 9788891334374.
Di Marco, Massimo. Ermesianatte di Colofone. Testimonianze e frammenti. Quaderni di Seminari Romani di cultura greca, 36. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2025. Pp. 428. ISBN 9788854916562.
Faedda, Barbara, Paolo Carta. Tharros: a Sardinian treasure in the ancient Mediterranean. Columbiana. New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. Pp. 192. ISBN 9780231220637.
Flower, Harriet I. Intellectual property: learned slaves and educated freedmen in Republican Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 264. ISBN 9780691266169.
Fromentin, Valérie, Marion Bellissime, Henri Etcheto. Dion Cassius. Histoire romaine. Fragments des livres 11, 12 et 13. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque – Collection Budé, 586. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. cci, 291. ISBN 9782251006710.
Gallo, Annarosa, Donato Sabina. Potentia romana. Ancient cities, 4. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 152. ISBN 9788891331601.
Gargano, Ivan. Dacia Ripensis: topografia e cristianizzazione di una provincia danubiana nella Tarda Antichità. Rome and after in Central and Eastern Europe, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 404. ISBN 9782503609997.
Gasti, Helen, Vasileios Pappas, Stella Alekou. Audience response in ancient Greek and Latin literature. ICONIC, 1. Turhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 390. ISBN 9782503618852.
Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. Plautus: Epidicus. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 184. ISBN 9781350416222.
Giuli, Alessandro. Venne la magna madre: i riti il culto e l’azione di Cibele romana. Storia delle religioni, 20. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 248. ISBN 9788891335593.
Goldlust, Benjamin, Tristan Isaac, Nicole Belayche, Yann Berthelet. Macrobe. Saturnales. Tome I: introduction générale. Livre I. Collection des universités de France. Série latine – Collection Budé, 445. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. clxxi, 645. ISBN 9782251015057.
Graverini, Luca. Reader immersion in Latin prose and verse narrative. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 368. ISBN 9780198956457.
Guillaumin, Jean-Yves. Boèce: Consolation de Philosophie. Collection des universités de France. Série latine – Collection Budé, 446. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. lxxii, 435. ISBN 9782251015064.
Hales, Shelley. Mirrors and masks in the Roman empire: encounter, performance and metamorphosis. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350412675.
Hill, Jesse, C. W. Marshall. Ennius beyond epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 348. ISBN 9781009586160.
Holzberg, Niklas. Achilleus Tatios: Leukippe und Kleitophon. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 412. ISBN 9783119148207.
Isépy, Peter. A study on the manuscript transmission of Aristotle, “De partibus animalium” I. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, 13. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 217. ISBN 9783119146258.
Knight, Jayne. Anger and politics in ancient Rome: from the late Republic to the early empire. History of emotions. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350561267.
Lamari, Anna, Edmund Stewart. Departing the polis: travel and travellers in the extant plays and fragments of Greek drama. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 195. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. x, 272. ISBN 9783119146302.
Lanier, John, et al. Alesia. A Latin text of Caesar’s Gallic War VII 63-90 with running vocabulary and commentary. Williamsburg, VA: Pixelia, 2025. Pp. 131. ISBN 9781737033073.
Lemser, Marie. Beobachten, beschreiben, vergleichen. Ethnographische Praktiken griechischer Autoren von den Alexanderzügen bis ins zweite vorchristliche Jahrhundert. Geographica historica, 47. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 246. ISBN 9783515139595.
Longenecker, Bruce W. The materiality of early Christ devotion: artistic innovation at four archaeological sites. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2025. Pp. 349. ISBN 9781481321631.
Lozano, Fernando, Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo. Narratives of the Roman empire: how to make Rome with words and rituals. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 192. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 376. ISBN 9783111706931.
López Barja, Pedro, Maria Letizia Caldelli. Libertos y esclavos en la ciudad romana: de Ostia a Augusta Emérita. Serie arqueológica, 21. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2025. Pp. 206. ISBN 9788400114343.
Madigan, Arthur. Contemporary Aristotelian ethics: Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Spaemann. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. Pp. 284. ISBN 9780268207595.
Marsh, David Lindsay. The trading and consumption of Roman glass in Britain 43–500 CE. BAR British series, 691. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. xix, 189. ISBN 9781407361710.
McGill, Scott, Susannah Wright. Virgil. The Aeneid. New York: Norton, 2025. Pp. 512. ISBN 9781324096436.
Mitropoulos, Giorgos. Ο Νέρωνας και η Ελλάδα. Το παιχνίδι των ρόλων / Nero and Greece: the game of roles. Herakleion: Crete University Press, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9786182301463.
Mordvintseva, Valentina, Anna Ivanova, Svyatoslav Smirnov. Greeks and barbarians networking on the shores of the Black Sea and beyond. ἘΠΙΣΚΎΘΙΣΟΝ: studies presented to Askold Ivantchik on his sixtieth birthday, May 2, 2025. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xx, 321. ISBN 9789004206649.
Newson, Paul. Imperialism and appropriation in rural Roman Syria. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 278. ISBN 9781032573472.
Nisa Cáceres, Daniel, Rosario Moreno Soldevila. Classical reception and the rewriting turn in contemporary women’s fiction. Rome: Roma Tre, 2025. Pp. 159. ISBN 9791259775306.
Nurpetlian, Jack, Georges Abou Diwan. Ancient coins from central Beirut. Felix Berytus. Marburg: Eigenverlag des Archäologischen Seminars, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9753818505813.
Overtoom, Nikolaus Leo. The Parthians at war: combat, logistics, reputation, and the first war with Rome. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 360. ISBN 9781666936148.
Pellegrino, Carmine. Scrivere a Pontecagnano: epigrafi e contesti da un centro etrusco-sannitico della Campania. Monumenti etruschi. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. xviii, 464. ISBN 9788876893544.
Redon, Bérangère. Sur les routes du désert Oriental égyptien. De la piste ptolémaïque d’Edfou à Bérénice au réseau des praesidia romains. Archéologie(s), 12. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9782356680914.
Rossi, Gabriela. Aristóteles. Acerca de las refutaciones sofísticas. Clásicos del pensamiento. Madrid: Tecnos, 2025. Pp. 384. ISBN 9788430993734.
Sandon, Tatjana. The lives of Roman freedwomen in the Latin west: an epigraphic study. Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781399553414.
Sassu, Rita. Hadrian’s wall: gods in relief. Studia archaeologica, 273. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 246. ISBN 9788891336200.
Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara, Eleanor Dickey, Lucia C. Colella. Corpus of Latin texts on papyrus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 6 vols. Pp. 2832. ISBN 9781108868709.
Scherer, Madeleine, Jakob Schneider, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. Memories of antiquity: classical reception and memory studies. Media and cultural memory, 45. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. vi, 183. ISBN 9783111349855.
Schröter, Jens, Konrad Schwarz. Early Christianity in Rome: literary, historical, and archaeological traditions. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 272. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 408. ISBN 9783111645643.
Scrofani, Francesca. Enquête sur un dialogue du corpus de Platon: Minos ou Sur la loi. Kaïnon – anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 32. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 349. ISBN 9782406190110.
Silva Reneses, Luis. Mastia Tarseion revisited: the geographical limits of Polybius’ second Romano-Carthaginian treaty. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 63. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2025. Pp. 201. ISBN 9783796554162.
Spinazzi-Lucchesi, Chiara. Threads of contact: tracing the relationship between Egypt and the Southern Levant through textile tools. Ancient textiles. Oxford: Oxbow, 2025. Pp. 192. ISBN 9798888571477.
Stephens, William O. Marcus Aurelius: philosopher-king. Great lives of the ancient world. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781836391166.
Sweetman, Rebecca J. The archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and late antique periods: globalization, Christianization and resilience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 292. ISBN 9781009563475.
Swist, Jeremy. Julian Augustus: Platonism, myth, and the refounding of Rome. Oxford studies in late antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9780197787519.
Telò, Mario. Roman comedy against the subject. Postclassical interventions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780198920090.
Williams, Joseph C. The visual preservation of Roman Stabiae: the Villa Arianna survey and the study of frescoes in their physical context. BAR international series, 3212. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 340. ISBN 9781407361994.
Zanin, Lorena. Alpine connections: Aquileia and Noricum. Roman relations, 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 493. ISBN 9783111710457.