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Acerbi, Fabio. Les Prolégomènes à l’Almageste. Mathematica Graeca antiqua, 6. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editora, 2025. Pp. 480. ISBN 9788833156545.
Amendola, Davide, Cristina Carusi, Francesca Maltomini, Emilio Rosamilia. Text, layout, and medium: documents from the Greco-Roman world between epigraphy and papyrology. Edizioni dell’Istituto papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2024. Pp. 426. ISBN 9791221504552.
Antela-Bernárdez, Borja. Alexander the Great in love: desire, violence and gender in the conquest of Asia. Studia historica, 134. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 204. ISBN 9788891335609.
Barchiesi, Alessandro. A commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 3 vols. Pp. 1956. ISBN 9781009326452.
Baumann, Mario, Adam M. Kemezis, Maria-Eirini Zacharioudaki. Herodian: historiography and literature at the end of the high empire. Millennium-Studien, 112. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 380. ISBN 9783111706658.
Begass, Christoph. Zwischen Stadt und Stadion. Die Agonothesie der griechisch-römischen Welt in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, 68. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 312. ISBN 9783515138482.
Belfiore, Stefano. Molti peripli ho letto e compulsato: Marciano di Eraclea geografo editore. Parva historica. Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis Edizioni, 2025. Pp. 580. ISBN 9791222321769.
Bettini, Maurizio. L’antropologia del mondo antico. Vie della civiltà. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2025. Pp. 552. ISBN 9788815391636.
Buonfiglio, Marialetizia, Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio, Rita Volpe. Gli edifici dello spettacolo a Roma. Giornata di studi in ricordo di Paola Ciancio Rossetto. Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Supplementi, 32. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 286. ISBN 9788891335234.
Bur, Tatiana. Technologies of the marvellous in ancient Greek religion. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 322. ISBN 9781009331685.
Cartledge, Paul, Paul Christesen. The Oxford history of the archaic Greek world. Vol. VI: Rhodes to western Sicily. Oxford history of the archaic Greek world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 904. ISBN 9780199383535.
Cecchet, Lucia, Chiara Lasagni. Citizenship practised, citizenship imagined: multiple ways of experiencing citizenship in the Greek world. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 87. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 316. ISBN 9783515137591.
Childers, Christopher. The Penguin book of Greek and Latin lyric verse. London; New York: Penguin Classics, 2025. Pp. 1008. ISBN 9780141392134.
Colley, John. Humanism, English literature, and the translation of Greek, 1430-1560. Oxford English monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198952534.
Creamer, Paul. The essential introduction to Greek and Roman mythology. Solana Beach: Cognella, 2025. Pp. 370. ISBN 9781793540072.
Draycott, Jane. Fulvia: the woman who broke all the rules in ancient Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9780300278040.
Duchêne, Pauline, Phoebe Garrett. Suetonius: the fragments. Translated texts from antiquity. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9781836243427.
Dyck, Andrew R. Cicero: orations. Pro Quinctio, Pro Roscio Amerino, Pro Roscio Comoedo, Pro Tullio, De Lege Agraria. Loeb classical library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Pp. 624. ISBN 9780674997677.
Eich, Peter. Geschichte der Frühen Römischen Kaiserzeit. Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte, 56. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiii, 301. ISBN 9783110648553.
Fabrizi, Virginia. Space, narrative, and historical imagination in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 21. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9789004733190.
Fredericksen, Erik Pugh. The environmental poetry of Augustan Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 316. ISBN 9781009476171.
Furtak, Rick Anthony. Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the meaning of life. Elements in the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 64. ISBN 9781009616089.
Futter, Dylan B. Socrates’ search for wisdom: an exegetical theory. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 300. ISBN 9780367408633.
Gasparini, Valentino, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Corinne Bonnet. My name is your name: anthroponyms as divine attributes in the Greco-Roman world. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xxi, 473. ISBN 9783111646992.
Gatto, Martina. Licurgo di Sparta nella letteratura greca e latina. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 423. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 483. ISBN 9783119149822.
Gianni, Gaia. All in the family: childhood and fictive kinship in Roman society. Law and society in the ancient world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025. Pp. 302. ISBN 9780472133611.
Gooch, Emma. Experiencing childhood in ancient Athens: material culture, iconography, burials, and social identity in the 9th to 4th centuries BCE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 362. ISBN 9780198949138.
Green, Steven J. Ilias Latina: introduction, text, translation, and commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780198870777.
Harrison, Stephen. Roman readings: Latin poetry from Lucretius to Ovid. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 188. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 228. ISBN 9783111678719.
Haug, Annette. Die antike Stadt als Gefühlsraum: Rom und Pompeji als Orte der Liebe, Erotik und Sexualität. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 326. ISBN 9783111710655.
Hayes, Evan, Stephen Nimis. Lucian’s Sale of Lives and The Dead Come to Life: an intermediate Greek reader. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2025. Pp. 175. ISBN 9781940997452.
Hayes, Evan, Stephen Nimis. Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris: an intermediate Greek reader. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2025. Pp. 251. ISBN 9781940997445.
Herz, Zachary. The God and the bureaucrat: Roman law, imperial sovereignty, and other stories. Studies in legal history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 420. ISBN 9781009629959.
Irby, Georgia. Pomponius Mela: Geography of the World. Translated texts from antiquity. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 448. ISBN 9781836243397.
Kress, Bianca Larissa. Die Akropoliskoren von Athen. Archaeopress archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 168. ISBN 9781805830542.
Kyriakidi, Natalia. Aristophanes, Testimonia. Fragmenta comica, 10.2. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 263. ISBN 9783911065337.
Laato, Anni Maria. Egeria: theological and ecclesial knowledge between eastern and western traditions. Cambridge elements: early Christian literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 78. ISBN 9781009616225.
Larsen, Matthew D. C., Mark Letteney. Ancient Mediterranean incarceration. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. Pp. 258. ISBN 9780520422605.
Laspe, Dewid. Marathon und Salamis: die Entscheidungsschlachten der Perserkriege. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 211. ISBN 9783525311653.
Leunissen, Mariska. Aristotle’s gynecology: facts, evidence, and early medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780197790397.
Liddel, Peter. Greek inscriptions. Ancient scripts. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2025. Pp. 112. ISBN 9781606069615.
Marinescu, Rareș Ilie. Proclus on Aristotle on Plato: a case study on motion. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 257. ISBN 9781009527620.
Mertsching, Maria. Ein Blick über den Bühnenrand. Zentrale Randfiguren und ihre dramaturgische Funktion in der römischen Komödie. Classica Monacensia. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2025. Pp. 300. ISBN 9783381133611.
Modini, Francesca. Aelius Aristides and the poetics of lyric in imperial Greek culture. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 327. ISBN 9781009518246.
Morgan, Rosemary. Spectacle benefaction and the politics of appreciation: case studies from Italy, Gallia Narbonensis and Africa Proconsularis. Antiquité et sciences humaines, 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 358. ISBN 9782503613703.
Murphy, Elizabeth A. The pottery industries of the Roman East: craft communities and working practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 263. ISBN 9781009514606.
Mylona, Dimitra, Thomas M. Brogan, Melissa Eaby, Maria Iacovou. Porphyra: the materiality of purple dye production and use in Cyprus and the Aegean from prehistory to the late Roman period. Aegis, 30. Louvain-La-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9782390615781.
Nowicki, Krzysztof. Settlement in Crete during the Bronze to Iron Age transition: the crisis, collapse and reconstruction, ca. 1230-900 BC. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 350. ISBN 9783111116815.
Partida, Elena C., Constanze Graml. Ergasteria: premises and processes of creation in antiquity. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 436. ISBN 9781803278254.
Peek, Philip S. Ancient Greek: a 21st-century approach. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2021; 2025. 2 vols. Pp. 1454. ISBN 9781800642553.
Pina Polo, Francisco. The role of ex-consuls in Republican Rome, 218-31 BCE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 260. ISBN 9781009597371.
Roreitner, Robert. Aristotle on the nature and causes of perception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 284. ISBN 9781009533812.
Russell, Amy, Hans Beck, Kathrin Lüddecke. The Roman Republic and political culture: German scholarship in translation. Classical scholarship in translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 422. ISBN 9781009515108.
Russo, Alfonsina, Patrizia Fortini. Comitium Niger Lapis. Il comizio dei re e della res publica. Bibliotheca archaeologica, 87. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 520. ISBN 9788891331342.
Seaford, Richard. Aggregation and antithesis in ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781009517577.
Schmitz, Christine. Mythen und kein Ende. Zum Umgang mit Mythen in der lateinischen Literatur der Spätantike. Standorte in Antike und Christentum, 13. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2025. Pp. 257. ISBN 9783777223124.
Schutrumpf, Eckart. The completion of the philosophy of human affairs in Aristotle’s Politics: analyses – interpretations. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 425. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 369. ISBN 9783119149846.
Sellars, John. The Cambridge companion to Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 322. ISBN 9781108832168.
Stocker, Sharon R., Claire L. Lyons, Jack L. Davis, Evangelia Militsi-Kechagia. The kingdom of Pylos: warrior-princes of Mycenaean Greece. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9781606069677.
Summerer, Lâtife, Peri Johnson, Julia M. Koch. Contextualizing Pompeiopolis: urban development in Roman Anatolia from a comparative perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 714. ISBN 9783111706436.
Torre Miguel, Begona. Teoría y práctica del “spolium”. Los sarcófagos de la Antigüedad reutilizados en los reinos cristianos medievales de la Península Ibérica. Iberica selecta, 4. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9783515135290.
Trachsel, Alexandra, Hendrik Müller. Claudius Aelianus: quotation practices and literary skills of an imperial collector of knowledge. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 32. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 189. ISBN 9783515137997.
Van der Meulen-Van der Veen, Berber S. Cultural transformations in Germania Secunda: a holistic approach to ‘barbarian’ migrations. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 128. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 250. ISBN 9781803279916.
Van Nuffelen, Peter. Performing justice in the later Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 164. ISBN 9781009603669.
Walter, Anke. Festivals in Latin literature: the poetics of celebration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198931454.
Wardle, D. Suetonius: Life of Julius Caesar. Clarendon ancient history series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 544. ISBN 9780198942900.
Weise, Stefan. Griechischhumanismus des 16. Jahrhunderts: Lorenz Rhodoman im Kontext und digital. Palingenesia, 142. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 422. ISBN 9783515138574.
Wohl, Victoria. The poetry of being and the prose of the world in early Greek philosophy. Sather classical lectures. Oakland: University of California Press, 2025. Pp. 252. ISBN 9780520422643.
Woodard, Roger D. Myth, ritual, and society in Mycenaean Anatolia: identifying Asian influences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xiv, 325. ISBN 9781009424516.
Yegül, Fikret, Diane Favro. The temple of Artemis at Sardis: the Hellenistic temple tradition in Asia Minor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 340. ISBN 9781009532167.
Zachhuber, Johannes, Anna Marmodoro. Gregory of Nyssa: on the Hexaemeron. Library of early Christian philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198897088.
Zgoll, Christian. Mysterientexte. Die orphisch-bakchischen Goldplättchen. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 420. ISBN 9783119148788.