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Antoniadis, Theodore. No more heroes: Neronian readings of Silius Italicus’ Punica. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 199. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 174. ISBN 9783119145244.
Bär, Silvio. Diachronic narratology in Greek myth. Elements in Greek and Roman mythology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 72. ISBN 9781009474986.
Bennett Jr., Emmett L., José L. Melena, Dimitri Nakassis, Jean-Pierre Olivier, Thomas G. Palaima. The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in western Messenia. Vol. IV: the inscribed documents. Part 1, documents 1–616. Part 2, Documents 622–1589. Columbus, GA: Lockwood Press, 2025. 2 vols, pp. 830. ISBN 9781957454825.
Blitz, Mark. Aristotle’s political philosophy: an inquiry into the Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Rhetoric. Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 2026. Pp. 220. ISBN 9780268210984.
Blömer, Michael, Dilek Çobanoğlu, Torben Schreiber, Eva Strothenke-Koch. Kommagene und Kleinasien: Beiträge zu Geschichte, Archäologie und Landschaft. Festschrift für Engelbert Winter. Asia Minor Studien, 107. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xvii, 413. ISBN 9783119146029.
Bowden, Hugh, Esther Eidinow. Visiting the oracle at Dodona: contexts of unknowing in ancient Greek religion. Ancient religion and cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 262. ISBN 9781009632249.
Bowie, Ewen, Calum Maciver. The fabric of Hellenism: Hellenic culture and civic identity in the imperial Greek world. Edinburgh Leventis studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026. Pp. 744. ISBN 9781399552455.
Breunesse, Merlijn. Demonstrative reference in Plautus. The language of classical literature, 42. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xiv, 274. ISBN 9789004745391.
Briguglio, Stefano, Barbara Del Giovane, Tommaso Ricchieri. Seneca dopo Seneca: percorsi della ricezione senecana dall’età flavia ad Apuleio. Testi e manuali per l’insegnamento universitario del latino. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2025. Pp. 220. ISBN 9788855536714.
Buckl, Philipp, Stefan Freund. Vestigia Iuvenci: Rezeptionsspuren des ersten Bibelepikers. Studia Montana. Wuppertal: Polyphem Verlag, 2025. Pp. 468. ISBN 9783969540114.
Canevaro, Mirko. L’Atene dei diritti. Storia e società. Bari: Editori Laterza, 2026. Pp. 232. ISBN 9788858159477.
Coogan, Jeremiah, Candida R. Moss, Joseph A. Howley. Writing, enslavement, and power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE. Cultures of reading in the ancient Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 382. ISBN 9780197769966.
Cosh, Stephen R. Mosaics in Britannia. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781805832331.
Cruz Andreotti, Gonzalo, Encarnación Castro-Páez. La literatura latina y la geografía antigua de Iberia/Hispania. Biblioteca di geographia antiqua, 9. Florence: Olschki Editore, 2025. Pp. xii, 198. ISBN 9788822295002.
Csapo, Eric, Peter Wilson. A social and economic history of the theatre to 300 BC. Volume 1: the theatre festivals of Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 1072. ISBN 9780521765527.
Daubner, Frank, Patrick Reinard, Christian Rollinger. The Attic empire. The Athenians and their allies in the fifth century: a handbook. Empires through the ages in global perspective, 5. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xx, 709. ISBN 9783111019154.
Diamanti, Charikleia. Late antique stamped amphorae as evidence for imperial policy: the Halasarna workshop, Cos Island. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. vi, 128. ISBN 9781803278575.
Dobson, Mike. Roman Republican sieges: operations in Gaul and Hispania. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 267. ISBN 9781805832171.
Doherty, Lillian E. Approaches to teaching Homer’s Odyssey. Approaches to teaching world literature. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2026. Pp. 238. ISBN 9781603297097.
Elm, Susanna, Kristina Sessa. War and community in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 422. ISBN 9781009603614.
Foster, John Bellamy. Breaking the bonds of fate: Epicurus and Marx. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2025. Pp. 327. ISBN 9781685901233.
Garambois-Vasquez, Florence, Daniel Vallat. Masculin et féminin en poésie latine. Voix, stratégies, mises en scène. Collection antiquités. Saint-Étienne: Presses universitaires de Saint-Étienne, 2026. Pp. 258. ISBN 9782862728155.
Gobsch, Wolfram, Thomas Land. The Aristotelian Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 310. ISBN 9781009530484.
Grund, Simon. Exzess ohne Boden: Balance und Ambiguität in Ovids Tristien. Palingenesia, 146. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 420. ISBN 9783515141475.
Hemingway, Seán, Sarah Lepinski, Vinzenz Brinkmann. Chroma: sculpture in color from antiquity to today. Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025. Pp. 260. ISBN 9781588397966.
Henry, Richard. Fractured Britannia: the twilight of Roman Britain. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology, 137. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 290. ISBN 9781805832454.
Hinds, Stephen. Latin poetry across languages: adventures in allusion, translation and classical tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 335. ISBN 9781108835800.
Hulot, Sophie. Corpora et arma: la violence de guerre dans le monde romain (218 a.C.–96 p.C.). Scripta antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2026. Pp. 530. ISBN 9782356137661.
Idà, Livio. Le latomie costiere della Sicilia Sud-Orientale: aspetti tecnici, trasporto e titolarità della risorsa lapidea. BAR international series, 3229. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781407362755.
Inwood, Brad. Plato’s Crito. Cambridge studies in the dialogues of Plato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 100. ISBN 9780521768153.
Kaufman, Brett. Phoenicia, Carthage, and popular government in the pre-classical Mediterranean: the other democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780198867685.
Keith, Alison. Sulpicia: life, love, and literature in ancient Rome. Women in antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 216. ISBN 9780197606964.
Kirby, Jeremy. Aristotle’s biosphere: substance, design, politics, and culture. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 168. ISBN 9781666937015.
Kitching, Paul. Questioning Hadrian’s Wall: a case study of evidential reasoning in archaeology. BAR British series, 703. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. xiii, 172. ISBN 9781407363806.
Konrádová, Veronika, Jakub Jinek. Non-citizens in the city: dilemmas of belonging and exclusion in ancient political theory. Collegium politicum. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2026. Pp. 227. ISBN 9783495991893.
Kontokosta, Anne Hrychuk. The Roman arch: architecture, politics, and the commemoration of victory in Rome (196 BCE to 43 CE). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 424. ISBN 9780197815076.
Kontos, Pavlos, Mariska Leunissen. The art of assemblage: studies on Plato and Aristotle. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2026. Pp. 312. ISBN 9781647922702.
Lehmann, Gustav Adolf, Bruno Bleckmann. Forschungen zur Alten Geschichte. Bd. 3. Kleine Schriften. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 296. ISBN 9783515139526.
Leonard, Victoria, Elisa Manzo, Cameron Wachowich, Orosius through the ages. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 68.1. London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2025. Pp. 123. ISSN 00760730.
Liske, Michael-Thomas. Aristoteles: Band 15, Teil II/1. Metaphysik Buch IV, V, VI. Aristoteles Werke. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xviii, 1322. ISBN 9783112220351.
Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth R. Ancient fantasies and modern power: neo-antique architecture at American world’s fairs, 1893–1915. Classics after antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 406. ISBN 9781009407137.
Maltby, Robert. Fragmentary Republican Latin: Pacuvius, minor tragic poets, unidentified dramatists. Loeb classical library, 559. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026. Pp. 656. ISBN 9780674997738.
Marina-Sáez, Rosa, Almudena Domínguez-Arranz, Adrián Gordón-Zan. Proyectando la diversidad familiar desde la Antigüedad. Entre la vulnerabilidad y el empoderamiento. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 186. ISBN 9781805831945.
Marshall, Alistair. Catuvellaunia and Rome: economic and political relations during the final decades pre-conquest. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 518. ISBN 9781805832492.
Migliario, Elvira, Giulia Vettori. Le dinamiche della romanizzazione. Conflitti e negoziazioni nell’Italia antica. Geographia antiqua, 8. Florence: Olschki Editore, 2025. Pp. vi, 412. ISBN 9788822269959.
Mosconi, Gianfranco. Antico & IA. Intelligenze artificiali e didattica del mondo antico: riflessioni e proposte. Fuori collana. Cassino: Edizioni Università di Cassino, 2025. Pp. 194. ISBN 9788883171420.
Nimis, Stephen, Evan Hayes. Aelius Aristides, five prose Hymns: an intermediate Greek reader. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2026. Pp. 210. ISBN 9781940997490.
Nüßlein, Clara. Die ‘Punica’, ihr ‘poeta’ Silius Italicus und ‘princeps’ Domitian: Fürsten- und Dichterspiegel für die flavische Zeit. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 433. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 438. ISBN 9783112226094.
Osanna, Massimo, Marco Fabbri. Pompei Regio V 3a. La Casa del Giardino. I risultati di una ricerca multidisciplinare. Studi e ricerche del Parco Archeologico di Pompei. Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2026. Pp. 382. ISBN 9788891334473.
Pelucchi, Marco. Gli epigrammi di Platone. Studio introduttivo, edizione e commento. Consonanze, 39. Milan: Milano University Press, 2026. Pp. 486. ISBN 9791255103493.
Pillinger, Emily, Miranda Stanyon. Music as classical reception: amplifying antiquity. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780198957997.
Pirson, Felix, Stéphane Verger. Hellenistic funerary culture in Pergamon and the Aeolis: a collection of current approaches and new results. Pergamenische Forschungen, 20. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2025. Pp. viii, 300. ISBN 9783752008586.
Pyy, Elina. Ancient rape cultures: sexual violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian world. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 53. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2025. Pp. 303. ISBN 9788854916425.
Quarantotto, Arianna, Giampiero Scafoglio. Guido delle Colonne, Historia Destructionis Troiae. Roma: Aracne, 2025. Pp. 752. ISBN 9791221821925.
Satlow, Michael L. An enchanted world: the shared religious landscape of late antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. xiii, 343. ISBN 9780691256597.
Schein, Seth L. Homer. Iliad: Book IV. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 260. ISBN 9781009225724.
Selbach, Alina. Sedulius, Carmen Paschale 1: Einleitung, Text mit Übersetzung und Kommentar. Studia Montana. Wuppertal: Polyphem Verlag, 2025. Pp. 534. ISBN 9783969540121.
Severy-Hoven, Beth Andrea. Octavia: the life of a Roman matron between Antony and Augustus. Women in antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780197518939.
Smith, Martin Ferguson. Martin the Epicurean. Bristol: Silverwood Books, 2026. Pp. 311. ISBN 9781800423244.
Smith, Martin Ferguson. Urbi et orbi: the Epicurean inscription and prescription of Diogenes of Oinoanda. Doxai. Testi e studi di filosofia antica. Rome: Tab Edizioni, 2026. Pp. 176. ISBN 9791256693443.
Steel, Catherine, Lewis Webb. Women, wealth and power in the Roman Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 410. ISBN 9781009691802.
Steinmann, Kurt, Anton Bierl. Sophokles: Die Trachinierinnen. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2026. Pp. 180. ISBN 9783796554209.
Stok, Fabio, Nicola Lanzarone. Pomponii Laeti in Vergilii Aeneidem commentarius, libri I et II. Studi e testi neolatini, 1. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2025. Pp. 196. ISBN 9788846775023.
Stróżyński, Mateusz. Plato and Jesus, not Caesar: metaphysics of freedom and tyranny in younger Europe. Brill’s studies in intellectual history. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xiii, 301. ISBN 9789004736627.
Tamiolaki, Melina, Markus Zimmermann. The concept of crisis in antiquity: interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. Trends in classics, 202. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. viii, 335. ISBN 9783119144346.
Traina, Giusto, Malcolm DeBevoise. The Roman world war: from the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s suicide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 248. ISBN 9780691257877.
Verhasselt, Gertjan, Katharina Epstein. Aristotle in fragments: studies on Aristotle’s lost works. Philosophie der Antike, 46. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 444. ISBN 9783119143196.
Volpe, Enrico. Dio, intelletto, anima: la figura del demiurgo in Numenio e Plotino. Alber philosophical studies, 88. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2025. Pp. 176. ISBN 9783495991817.
West, Martin Litchfield, Anton Bierl, Marina Coray, Martha Krieter-Spiro. Homers Ilias. Gesamtkommentar (Basler Kommentar /BK) Band XV, 11 Gesang. Faszikel 1: Text und Übersetzung. Faszikel 2: Kommentar. De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 627. ISBN 9783110784855.
Zarmakoupi, Mantha. Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman temple building. Warren Moon series in art and archaeology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026. Pp. 340. ISBN 9780299355203.
Zilioli, Ugo, Jan Westerhoff. Ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist philosophers on reality and selfhood. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350460362.