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Aiello, Francesca, Antonella Amico, Simona Inserra, Orazio Licandro, Egidia Occhipinti, Caterina Papetheu, Orazio Portuese, Francesca Prado, Gioacchino Strano. Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz e la nascita della papirologia: il giurista tra filologia, storia antica e fascismo. Tomo I (1914-1956). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2026. Pp. 360.
Arnold, Henrike, Diego De Brasi, Brigitte Kappl. Auf unberührten Wegen? Die Klassische Philologie vor neuen Herausforderungen. Studia Comica, 29. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 269. ISBN 9783525311905.
Barr, Judith, Nicole Budrovich, David Saunders. Provenance research for Mediterranean antiquities: methods and resources. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2026. Pp. viii, 243. ISBN 9798887120218.
Beta, Simone. Riddles, oracles, and dreams in ancient culture: the labyrinth of the word. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780198881643.
Bianchi, Edoardo. Pyrrhus’ legacy: socio-political interactions, mobility, and identity formation in south Italy. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 434. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xi, 319. ISBN 9783112236598.
Bloomer, W. Martin. Evoking the dead: Roman books of memory. Cultural histories of the ancient world. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781421454856.
Boatwright, Mary T. Agrippina the Younger: a dangerous woman in Rome’s early empire. Women in antiquity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 248. ISBN 9780190945824.
Brioni, Giacomo, Giuseppe Nastasi, Silvio Nastasi, Gabriele Tringale, Giovanni Trovato. Esegesi e forme del sapere dall’Antichità al Medioevo. (Dis)ordini. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2025. Pp. 328. ISBN 9788846773159.
Carriere, Francesco. Strabo’s Cappadociae (12.1–3 C 533–563). Roman relations, 4. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xii, 244. ISBN 9783112237281.
Clark, Jessica H. Women in fragments: alternative histories of the Roman Republic. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2026. Pp. 218. ISBN 9780299357801.
Coen, Samuele. Hypomnemata on papyrus: forms and functions of ancient commentaries. Trends in Classics – supplementary volumes, 211. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xiv, 317. ISBN 9783119142779.
Corvasce, Simone. Pindaro e le teorie antiche sul paradigma. Diotima. Studies in Greek philology, 15. Baden-Baden: Karl Alber Verlag, 2026. Pp. 329. ISBN 9783495988770.
Daly, Alastair, Lisa Doyle, Jeremy Lam. Argo crossing: studies in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica and its reception. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 209. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. ix, 490. ISBN 9783111385891.
D’Amico, Davide, Luca Valle Salazar. Monstrum in fabula: monsters and monstrosities in ancient contexts. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 207. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. vi, 360. ISBN 9783112244098.
Däne, Stefanie. Von der Symmachie zur Arché und zurück. Die Entwicklungsphasen des Ersten Attischen Seebundes (478/7-404 v. Chr.). Historia-Einzelschriften, 279. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 406. ISBN 9783515141185.
Debrosse, Anne, Isabelle Jouteur, Marie Saint Martin. Figures féminines merveilleuses de l’Antiquité. Imaginaires et représentations à travers les siècles. La Licorne. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2026. Pp. 370. ISBN 9791041304431.
Denson, Ryan. A zoobiography of the ancient sea monster. Ancient environments. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. xiv, 211. ISBN 9781350451872.
Dettori, Emanuele. Paralipomena Hellenistica: dal lavoro sul Supplementum Hellenisticum Novum. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. ix, 210. ISBN 9783112245200.
Devecka, Martin. Citizen beast: the place of animals in the Roman Empire. Animals, history, culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026. Pp. viii, 244. ISBN 9781421455181.
Devlin, Rebecca A. Bishops, community and authority in late Roman society: northwestern Hispania, c. 370-470 CE. Late antique and early medieval Iberia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. Pp. 410. ISBN 9789463729154.
Duarte, Ricardo, Maria Cristina Pimentel, Nuno Simões Rodrigues. What more can we say about Seneca? Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 201. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. vi, 353. ISBN 9783119142236.
Alexandra Eckert, Der oligarchische Schatten der Demokratie: zum Spannungsfeld zwischen Demokratie und Oligarchie im Athen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 166. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xi, 376. ISBN 9783112246894.
Evans, Matthew P. The senses in ancient Greek athletics: exploring the body, society and culture through a sensory lens. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781350438392.
Farmer, Matthew C. Lost plays of old comedy. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781350378926.
Forschner, Maximilian. Die Philosophie Ciceros. Eine Interpretation seiner philosophischen Werke. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xvi, 370. ISBN 9783111717357.
Fouquet, Johannes. Das Bild der Schrift in der griechischen Plastik: Materialität und Intermedialität schrifttragender statuarischer Monumente von archaischer bis hellenistischer Zeit. Image and context, 27. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xii, 580. ISBN 9783112205518.
Fox, Peta Ann. Sophoclean sisters: reconsidering Antigone and Ismene. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350562486.
Freeman, Philip. Aristotle: the first teacher. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026. Pp. 160. ISBN 9780300279948.
Fugmann, Joachim. Ps.-Aurelius Victor: die berühmten Männer der Stadt Rom. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 500. ISBN 9783119148399.
Gillespie, Caitlin C. Women and resistance in the Annals of Tacitus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2026. Pp. x, 226. ISBN 9781501786150.
Giorgianni, Franco, Andrzej M. Kaniowski, Florian Steger. Ancient medicine and philosophy: health and disease from Hippocrates to Byzantium. Ancient medicine and its reception, 2. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 272. ISBN 9783515134606.
Glauthier, Patrick, Jeffrey P. Ulrich. The sublime under empire. Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 48. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xii, 329. ISBN 9789004763845.
Hulme, Emily. Plato, technē, and philosophy as a profession. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781009724234.
Iglesias Zoido, Juan Carlos. The narrative setting of historiographical speeches: classical antiquity and the medieval and early modern Iberian world. International studies in the history of rhetoric, 19. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xiv, 464. ISBN 9789004767607.
Johanning, Karsten. Language and power in the Roman Empire and early India: hierarchy, ambiguity, and the art of reading the signs in cosmopolitan cultures. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 92. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 257. ISBN 9783515141536.
Kistler, Erich, Christian Heitz, Birgit Öhlinger, Peter Van Dommelen. Locality and agency in the Iron Age Mediterranean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 504. ISBN 9781009743822.
Klünker, Annegret. Concordia, Felicitas, Fortuna: Münzbilder politischer Gottheiten und Herrschaft in Rom. Image and context, 26. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xvi, 482. ISBN 9783111335322.
Köckert, Charlotte, Hans-Ulrich Wiemer. Imperium und Oikumene: Universale Horizonte und partikulare Kontexte in der hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Millennium-Studien/Millennium Studies, 120. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xi, 452. ISBN 9783112249741.
Kubiak-Schneider, Aleksandra, Rubina Raja, Julia Steding, Jean-Baptiste Yon. The Palmyrene banqueting tesserae: an updated corpus. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. viii, 211. ISBN 9782503609584.
Lemke, Martin. The military geography of Moesia Inferior: terrain, logistics, strategy. Warsaw studies in archaeology, 18. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 268. ISBN 9782503620909.
Lucarini, Carlo M. Geographi veteres vel minores vel quorum tantum fragmenta exstant: accedunt M. Terenti Varronis antiquitatum humanarum quae supersunt. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. cii, 965. ISBN 9783110217506.
Marien, Bruno. Recommendation letters of Libanius and other late antique letter writers: wielding power and influence through letter writing. Mnemosyne, supplements, 505. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. 480. ISBN 9789004765139.
Mattusch, Carol C. Bronze sculpture in the classical world: from text to context to technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. xiv, 464. ISBN 9781009474276.
Merritt, Melissa. Kant’s transformation of Stoic philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781009684026.
Monti, Dario. Inner Sabina before Rome: landscape, settlement, and society in the central Apennines. Papers of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, 75. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2026. Pp. 382. ISBN 9788854917446.
Moss, Candida. Marcion the Enslaver: the rhetoric and realities of human trafficking in the Roman Mediterranean. Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesungen, 24. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xii, 36. ISBN 9783112261378.
Nisbet, Gideon. A book of Greek life: the ancient world through epigram. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198994756.
Pedrucci, Giulia, Francesca Fulminante, Martina Seifert. Inside out: gender and ageing agency in urban and non-urban religious spaces in antiquity. Women of the past, 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 373. ISBN 9782503617060.
Pinheiro, Joaquim, Laurens Van der Wiel. Plutarch’s ‘politikos’: between opportunism and pragmatism. Plutarchea hypomnemata. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2026. Pp. 196. ISBN 9789462705326.
Ramelli, Ilaria L.E. Origen, the philosophical theologian: new research in anthropology and ethics: selected studies/kleine Schriften. Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 169. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. ix, 742. ISBN 9783112233542.
Sebillotte Cuchet, Violaine, Jody Gladding. Queen, warrior, captain: the story of Artemisia of Halicarnassus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026. Pp. 376. ISBN 9780300270761.
Simmons, Jeremy A. Sea of treasures: a cultural history of ancient Indian Ocean trade. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 392. ISBN 9780691280141.
Spence, Charlotte. Appeals to the supernatural in ancient curse tablets: the dead and the divine. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350515949.
Tuplin, Christopher J., Fiona Hobden, Alexei V. Zadorojnyi. Xenophon the historian: historiography, historical experience and the uses of history. Xenophon studies, 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. vi, 516. ISBN 9783119142250.
Von Möllendorff, Peter, Jens Gerlach. Lukian: in guter Gesellschaft? – Satiren II. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 530. ISBN 9783110704143.
Walter, Denis. Plato’s Parmenides. A constructive reading: hierarchy of forms, definitions, mathematics, idiopragy, participation, and teleology. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 37. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. x, 271. ISBN 9789004743588.
Waterfield, Robin. Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. New York: Basic Books, 2026. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781541604872.
Weise, Franziska. Heilung und ihr Preis. Zur Ökonomie attischer Heilkulte. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 36. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 414. ISBN 9783515140195.
Whitaker, Richard, William Kentridge. African pastoral: versions of Virgil’s Eclogues. Santa Barbara: Punctum Books, 2026. Pp. 174. ISBN 9781685713515.
Whittington, Leah. Antiquity made whole: supplements, completions, and the recreation of the classical past in Renaissance literary culture. Singleton Center books in premodern Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026. Pp. 520. ISBN 9781421455013.
Woodard, Roger D. Aeschylus: aspects of power and violence. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 213. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xi, 297. ISBN 9783112244159.