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Abdelwahed, Youssri Ezzat Hussein. Household violence in Greco-Roman Egypt: social, spatial, temporal, and material perspectives. BAR international series, 3275. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781407363967.
Agut-Labordère, Damien, Gilles Gorre, Brigitte Bakech, Sandra Lippert. Nec pluribus impar: mélanges en l’honneur de Michel Chauveau. Philippika, 176. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2026. Pp. xxxiv, 462. ISBN 9783447124447.
Akimoto, Shingo. À l’image de l’Antiquité: Jean Bodin et la juris prudentia dans la France des humanistes. Esprit des lois, esprit des lettres, 17. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 643. ISBN 9782406197713.
Ashkenazi, Jacob. Unveiling the ‘lay land’ of Christian Palestine in late antiquity: beyond holiness. Routledge studies in the early Christian world. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 322. ISBN 9781032979366.
Baker, Ashli J. E. Identity crises in Apuleius: the empire and the ass in ancient Rome. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2026. Pp. 216. ISBN 9780299357702.
Bangsgaard, Pernille, John Lund, Peter Pentz, Lasse Vilien Sørensen. Mediterranean horizons: archaeological studies in honour of Søren Dietz. The Danish Institute at Athens miscellanea. Havertown: Casemate, 2026. Pp. 264. ISBN 9789464264494.
Bennett, Danielle Smotherman, Guy Hedreen, SeungJung Kim, Carolyn Laferrière. Phenomenology and the painted vase. The Warren Moon series in art and archaeology. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2026. Pp. 340. ISBN 9780299355708.
Bernabé, Alberto, Michael Chase. Orphic collection. Loeb classical library, 562. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026. Pp. 672. ISBN 9780674997783.
Bey, Facundo. Permanecer junto a los griegos: ética, dialéctica y política en la filosofía temprana de Hans-Georg Gadamer. Hermenéutica. Buenos Aires: UNSAM Edita, 2026. Pp. 91. ISBN 9786316814210.
Bobovnik, Nena, Clelia V. Crialesi, Lisa Devriese. The medieval Aristotle: studies celebrating half a century of Aristoteles Latinus in Leuven, 1973-2023. Ancient and medieval philosophy – series 1. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2026. Pp. 316. ISBN 9789462705272.
Breitwieser, Rupert, Andreas Hofeneder, Rafał Matuszewski. Im Garten der Klio: Festschrift für Monika Frass. Philippika, 193. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2026. Pp. xii, 442. ISBN 9783447125345.
Brügger, Claude, Magdalene Stoevesandt, Edzard Visser. Homer’s Iliad. The Basel commentary: book II. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xvi, 358. ISBN 9783111581200.
Buè, Francesco, Giovanni Fanfani. ‘Lighting up with blazing songs’: the imagery of sound and the sound of imagery in Pindar. EIKASMÓS. Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica, studi online, 7. Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2026. Pp. 237. ISBN 9788855584807.
Butini, Enrico, Flavio Butini. Le perle rosse di Sardegna nei gioielli Castellani a Villa Giulia. Bibliotheca archaeologica, 95. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2026. ISBN 9788891338303.
Carrete, Andrés A. Antigone a la Mexicana: a discourse of heritage, resistance, and reception. Classics and the postcolonial. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 178. ISBN 9781032719740.
Corcilius, Klaus, Irmgard Männlein, Samuel Meister. Platon und die Seele/Plato and the soul. Tübinger Platon-Tage, 4. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026. Pp. 315. ISBN 9783162005052.
Courault, Christopher, Pedro Albuquerque, Javier Á. Domingo, Maria Serena Vinci, Sebastián Vargas Vázquez. Construction processes in historical western societies (5th c. BC–10th c. AD): case studies on techniques, models, and costs. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781805832256.
Dell’Oro, Francesca. Les lamelles de Styra. Eretria, fouilles et recherches, 27. Athens; Gollion: École suisse d’archéologie en Grèce; Infolio, 2025. Pp. 368. ISBN 9782889682126.
De Melo, Wolfgang David Cirilo, John Scott Scullion. The Oxford handbook of Greek and Latin textual criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 592. ISBN 9780198738121.
Draper, Kenneth. Non-lyric and lyric in Horace’s Odes: the poetics of disguise and infiltration. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 266. ISBN 9780472133727.
Draycott, Jane. Extraordinary bodies on display: humans, animals and cryptids from antiquity to the present. Routledge studies in ancient disabilities. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781032827582.
Farnsworth, Ward, Sarah van der Pas. The Latin tamer. Boston: Godine, 2026. Pp. 736. ISBN 9781567927917.
Fosalba, Eugenia. Garcilaso de la Vega: odas latinas. Biblioteca Garcilaso. Madrid: Gredos, 2026. Pp. 216. ISBN 9788424999537.
Franco San Roman, Mariana. Palabras de demagogo: su êthos discursivo según los testimonios atenienses del siglo V a.n.e. Estudios del Mediterráneo Antiguo. Buenos Aires: Mino y Davila Editores, 2025. Pp. 424. ISBN 9791387546090.
Gardner, Chelsea A. M. Tainaron in classical antiquity: a journey to the end of the world. Cities of the ancient world. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 244. ISBN 9781032701837.
García-Peláez Cruz, María Elena. El anhelo femenino de eternidad. Reproducción y embriología en las obras biológicas de Aristóteles. International Aristotle studies. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2026. Pp. 235. ISBN 9783495989074.
Gavazza, Beatrice. Menandros: Nemesis – Pallakē. Fragmenta comica, 24.6. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 232. ISBN 9783525311912.
Gillespie, Caitlin C. Livia: mother of Rome. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026. Pp. x, 223. ISBN 9780300275100.
Ginoux, Nathalie, Bernard Petit. La bataille d’Arausio (105 av. J.-C.) et son contexte: mobilités et pratiques guerrières dans l’Europe de la fin de l’âge du Fer. BAR international series, 3274. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. 268. ISBN 9781407364278.
Giovannetti, Giuliano. I porti fluviali di Roma: archeologia delle rive urbane del Tevere dall’Antichità al basso Medioevo. BAR international series, 3273. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. 220. ISBN 9781407363769.
Guo, Zilong. Commentary on the pseudonymous letters of Aeschines. Themes and forms in Graeco-Roman literature, 8. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2025. Pp. 428. ISBN 9783161646898.
Gurd, Sean Alexander. God’s lyre: musical naturalism in Greek thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780197831748.
Gürlach, Anne. Vom Mädchen zur Frau: Weihgaben als Indikatoren rituellen und kommunikativen Handelns von Frauen in griechischen Kulten. Philippika, 188. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2026. Pp. xii, 334. ISBN 9783447124751.
Hall, Edith, Rory McInnes-Gibbons, Edmund Thomas. Classical encounters in England’s North East. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 418. ISBN 9781032969183.
Hirsch-Luipold, Rainer, Reinhard Feldmeier, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Simone Seibert. SAPERE Synthesen: die religiös-philosophische Geisteswelt der römischen Kaiserzeit. SAPERE, 50. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026. Pp. 287. ISBN 9783162003379.
Holmes-Henderson, Arlene. Classics and public policy: perspectives from the United Kingdom. Routledge focus. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 156. ISBN 9781041101086.
Hunter, Richard, Rebecca Laemmle. Homer: Odyssey book XI. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781009240918.
Iancu, Alina, Kalliope Sarri. Textile records: functional analysis, interpretation and recording of textile related artefacts in the Mediterranean and beyond. Ancient textiles. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9798888572139.
Ilari, Virgilio. L’invenzione della storia militare antica 1350-1789. Fvcina di Marte, 27. Rome: Società Italiana di Storia Militare, 2026. Pp. 236. ISBN 9791282745000.
Ivanova-Anaplioti, Hristina. Die Münzprägung von Apollonia Pontike: die Bildthemen einer griechischen Polis im pontisch-thrakischen Raum. Griechisches Münzwerk. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xii, 502. ISBN 9783111647005.
Jungfleisch, Johannes. Ägäische Wandmalereien aus dem Tuthmosidenpalast von Tell el-Dab’a II: Architektursimulationen aus Palast G und ihre Wahrnehmung im ägyptischen Kontext. Contributions to the archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant, 18.2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2026. Pp. 678. ISBN 9783447125130.
Karavas, Orestis. The manipulation of poetry in the prose of the Second Sophistic. Routledge focus on classical studies. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 90. ISBN 9781032884608.
Kelley, Kathryn. Proto-Elamite: writing and society in early Iran. Cambridge elements. Writing in the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 122. ISBN 9781009614528.
Kim, Young Richard. Reimagining classics, the classroom, and community with Luis Alfaro. Classics in and out of the academy. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 200. ISBN 9781032595078.
Knoepfler, Denis. Décret du peuple d’Érétrie pour des magistrats militaires exposé dans l’Artémision. Amarynthos, fouilles et recherches, 1. Athens: École suisse d’archéologie en Grèce, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9782889681716.
Lehmann, Hilary J. C., Christine Plastow. Gender, status, and space in Athenian oratory and society. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781032493084.
Mackie, Scott D. Seeing God in Philo of Alexandria: contemplative ascent and visionary experience. SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2026. Pp. 506. ISBN 9798855808353.
Magerstädt, Sylvie. Screening Roman Britain: film and television between myth and history. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 212. ISBN 9781032755557.
Mayhew, Robert, Stefan Schorn. Critolaus of Phaselis: essays on second century BC Peripatetic philosophy. Rutgers University studies in classical humanities. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 258. ISBN 9781041219576.
Mayoral Herrera, Victorino, Juan Pedro Bellón, Ignasi Grau Mira. Urban landscapes in Iron Age Iberia: new approaches for a comparative anatomy. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 226. ISBN 9781805832072.
McBrine, Patrick. Sedulius’ Carmen Paschale. Verse translation, notes and other poems. Routledge later Latin poetry. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 302. ISBN 9781041252719.
McKeown, James, R. J. Littlewood. Ovid: Amores. Volume IV.ii. A commentary on book three, elegies 9 to 15. ARCA, classical and medieval texts, papers and monographs. Prenton: Francis Cairns, 2026. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780995461253.
Mills, Sophie. The image of classics and classicists in modern fiction: seducers, slayers and survivors. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781032256993.
Nylund, Jan H. Resolving Aristotle’s aporia on time. Palgrave pivot. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. xiii, 94. ISBN 9783031650093.
O’Hearn, Leah. Akrasia and the Catullan lover: resisting reason in republican Rome. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350583375.
Oegema, Albertina, Seth A. Bledsoe. Old age in ancient Judaism, early Christianity, and their contexts: senescence and its significations. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 244. ISBN 9781032665047.
Panegyres, Konstantine. Health, lifestyle and elite culture in Greek and Roman times. Medicine and the body in antiquity. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 268. ISBN 9781032974040.
Pedrucci, Giulia. Mothering in antiquity. Rewriting antiquity. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 578. ISBN 9781032546551.
Peprah, Stephen O. Plato on the individual, polis and political authority in Republic. Bloomsbury ancient politics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350473607.
Petrella, Erin. The legacy of botanical Latin: on naming and knowing plants and the issue of universal intelligibility. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350509665.
Rambow, George F. From mimesis to myth: Greek portraits of St. Cyprian in late antiquity. Christianity in late antiquity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2026. Pp. 250. ISBN 9780520431010.
Riso, Federica Maria, Valentina Limina, Alexandra Livarda. Roman economy and the acquisition of new tastes: interdisciplinary perspectives. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9798888571552.
Rutter, Keith. The archaic and early classical Greek world: using coins as sources. Guides to the coinage of the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781009434041.
Rutter, Keith. Coinages in the Achaemenid empire. Edinburgh studies in ancient Persia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026. Pp. 376. ISBN 9781474492713.
Saetta Cottone, Rossella. Aristophane et l’art de l’injure: poétique et pragmatique. Kaïnon – anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 34. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 373. ISBN 9782406202943.
Simpson, St. John. Gold, silver and glass: power networks, cultural identities, technology transfers and agency across the Old World (7th century BC – 1st century AD). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781805831860.
Smart, Anthony. Emperor of Rome: how the Roman empire was ruled (30 BCE to 476 CE). Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2026. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781036120856.
Smith, Robin. Aristotle: On Sophistical Refutations. Clarendon Aristotle series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780198957430.
Stockdale, Elizabeth. Female agency and virtue in the Odyssey. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 212. ISBN 9781032982526.
Sulprizio, Chiara, C.W. Marshall. Animation and the ancient world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780197800621.
Trinacty, Christopher V. Seneca: the basics. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781041089513.
Vasiliu, Anca. Toucher par la vue: Platon, Aristote, Plotin sur la lumière et le sensible. History of metaphysics: ancient, medieval, modern, 9. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xiv, 573. ISBN 9789004766358.
Vesentin, Pietro. Apuleio. Storie di magia (dalle Metamorfosi). Letteratura universale. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2026. Pp. 264. ISBN 9788829791668.
Vogel, Hannah, Cecily Bateman, Mar A. Rodda, Karl Mercer, Alexandra F. Morris. Disability activism in and out of the academy: classical studies, pedagogy and practice. Classics in and out of the academy. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 120. ISBN 9781041110972.
Wackerow, Falk. Karthago, ein hellenistisches Reich? Kontroversen über Söldner, Eigenständigkeit und soziokulturellen Status einer antiken Großmacht. Studien zur Geschichtsforschung des Altertums, 50. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac̆, 2026. Pp. 420. ISBN 9783339150349.
Whately, Conor. Ancient warfare: the basics. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 218. ISBN 9780367552626.
Witte, Bernd. Moses and Homer. Greeks, Jews and Germans: an alternative history of German culture. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 356. ISBN 9781032341378.
Zucker, Arnaud, Oliver Hellmann, Robert Mayhew. Peripatetic ethics in Theophrastus and after. Rutgers University studies in classical humanities. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 364. ISBN 9781041352433.