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Aerts, Simon. Latin tense and aspect in 3D: a revision of verbal categories in antiquity and beyond. Routledge advances in functional linguistics. New York: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781032354071.
Aupert, Pierre, Claire Balandier. Amathonte VIII. Les fortifications, les constructions associées et avoisinantes. Études Chypriotes, 22. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 738. ISBN 9782869586314.
Barca, Natale. Aquileia: lo scudo di Roma. Studia historica, 135. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 444. ISBN 9788891336088.
Bassani, Maddalena. Adriatico salutifero, 1. Archeologia del termalismo al Fons Timavi e al Fons Aponi. ΑΔΡΙΑΣ, 11. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 274. ISBN 9788891336187.
Bowes, Kim. Surviving Rome: the economic lives of the ninety percent. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 512. ISBN 9780691273334.
Breeze, David J., Mark B. Richards, Tony Gates. Hadrian’s Wall and its trees. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 244. ISBN 9781805830986.
Cairns, Douglas, Nick Bouras, Eugene Sadler-Smith. Hubris, ancient and modern: concepts, comparisons, connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 318. ISBN 9781009461399.
Campbell, Brian. The state, the law, and the people in the Roman empire: a sourcebook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 532. ISBN 9781107163164.
Carey, Chris. Herodotus: Histories book VII. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 550. ISBN 9780521474153.
Castro García, María del Mar, Jesús Acero Pérez, Davide Gangale Risoleo, Catarina Felício. Ancient water supply and management systems in the western Mediterranean: construction and operation. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 131. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 226. ISBN 9781805830924.
Chaplin, Jane D., Irene Peirano Garrison, Christopher Stray. Commenting on the past: essays in honor of Christina Shuttleworth Kraus. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 193. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 330. ISBN 9783110777819.
Ciolfi, Lorenzo Maria. Un Rinascimento da favola. L’Esopo dei Medici. Quaderni Antico e Moderno, 16. Palio Faliro: ETP Books, 2025. Pp. 644. ISBN 9786185752484.
Clarke, Jessica. A new history of ancient Roman theatre. Liverpool studies in ancient history. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781836245193.
Cline, Eric H. Love, war, and diplomacy: the discovery of the Amarna letters and the Bronze Age world they revealed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780691274089.
Consolino, Franca Ela. Musico stilo: aspects of the poetry of Ennodius. Studi e testi tardoantichi, 24. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 309. ISBN 9782503611129.
Corsi, Cristina. La via Aurelia da Roma a Cosa. Biografia di un sistema di comunicazione tra età romana e primo medioevo. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781805831884.
Cuny, Diane, Arnaud Perrot. Suites d’Homère de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance. Recherches sur les réceptions de l’Antiquité, 11. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 371. ISBN 9782503607559.
Dal Monte, Luca. Il foro di Augusto: architettura e decorazione architettonica dei portici e delle esedre. Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Supplementi, 33. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 268. ISBN 9788891335463.
Dozier, Curtis. The white pedestal: how white nationalists use ancient Greece and Rome to justify hate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780300272734.
Dymowski, Arkadiusz, Kyroylo Myzgin. Counterfeits, imitations, and copies of Roman imperial denarii: making and faking coins on both sides of the Limes. Warsaw studies in archaeology, 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 222. ISBN 9782503612447.
Eidinow, Esther. Metamorphosis, landscape, and trauma in Greco-Roman myth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198807735.
Espinosa Espinosa, David, Carlos Pereira, Estela García Fernández, Ángel Morillo. Military presence and civic integration in Hispania Ulterior from Sertorius to Caesar. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 135. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 204. ISBN 9781805832119.
Facella, Margherita, Federico Santangelo, Giusto Traina. Pompey’s new order in the Mediterranean east (67–61 BCE). Roman relations, 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 418. ISBN 9783111380476.
Finglass, P. J. Euripides and the myth of Perseus: two lost Greek tragedies illuminated by a new papyrus. Sozomena. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. x, 167. ISBN 9783111381695.
Flemmig, Gerd. Pseudo-Caesar: Bellum Alexandrinum/Bellum Africum/Bellum Hispaniense. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 390. ISBN 9783111215846.
Francis, Jane E. Greek and Roman pottery from Sphakia, south-west Crete: from the White Mountains to the deep blue sea. Cretan studies: new approaches and perspectives in the study of Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine Crete, 2. Oxford: Oxbow, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9798888570500.
Gärtner, Ursula, Lukas Spielhofer. Ancient fables and the literary genres: texts, contexts, interactions. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 198. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 458. ISBN 9783111179889.
Gaullier-Bougassas, Catherine. Nouvelles traductions et réceptions indirectes de la Grèce ancienne. Recherches sur les réceptions de l’Antiquité, 9–10. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2025. 2 vols. Pp. 633. ISBN 9782503606859.
Giannella, Nicole J. The Mind of the slave: the limits of ownership in Roman law and society. Empire and after. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780472133659.
Giardini, Alessandro. Wonder and the marvelous in Hellenistic literature. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 197. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 256. ISBN 9783119145053.
Ginestí Rosell, Anna, Felix John. Große Männer? Biographisches Erzählen in der griechischen und römischen, der frühjüdischen und der frühchristlichen Literatur. Millennium-Studien, 117. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 208. ISBN 9783119146357.
Gontijo Leite, Priscilla, Ian Worthington. Fearmongering in Greek and Roman literature and beyond. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 370. ISBN 9781032544335.
Grassigli, Gian Luca, Niccolò Cecconi, Benedetta Sciaramenti. Urvinum Hortense (scavi 2017-2019, 2021). Quaderni di otium, 9. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025. Pp. x, 94. ISBN 9788876893551.
Harvey, Craig A., Emanuele Ettore Intagliata, Rubina Raja. Khirbet al-Khalde: final publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023. The archaeology and history of Western Asia (300 BCE-750 CE), 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xii, 238. ISBN 9782503618623.
Heinze, Lars. Spätklassische und frühhellenistische Gefässkeramik aus Priene. Formuntersuchung, Kontext und soziokulturelle Interpretation. Archäologische Forschungen, 45. Priene, 6. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2025. Pp. 584. ISBN 9783752008562.
Hietanen, Mika. Classical rhetorical argumentation for the rhetorical critic. Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 162. ISBN 9781032612539.
Hines, Caitlin. Rome’s visceral reactions: politics and poetics in flesh and blood. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 246. ISBN 9780472133666.
Johansen, Thomas Kjeller. Aristotle: Metaphysics Alpha and alpha. Clarendon Aristotle series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198954286.
Kakoschke, Andreas. Die Personennamen in der römischen Provinz Gallia Lugdunensis. Hannover: Ibidem Verlag, 2025. Pp. 790. ISBN 9783838221939.
Kakoschke, Andreas. Die Personennamen in der römischen Provinz Aquitania. Hannover: Ibidem Verlag, 2025. Pp. 888. ISBN 9783838221922.
Kindt, Julia. Personal religion in the ancient Greek world: a cultural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 562. ISBN 9781009628839.
Köster, Isabel K. Stealing from the gods: temple robbery in the Roman imagination. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 258. ISBN 9780472133673.
Luginbühl, Josy. Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung: zur Literalität der Frauen in den westlichen Provinzen des römischen Reiches. BAR international series, 3235. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 394. ISBN 9781407362311.
Marra, Ilaria. Le Costituzioni di Antonino Caracalla. Equità negoziale, diritti dei cittadini e politica sociale nella giurisprudenza del principe. Minima epigraphica et papyrologica separata, 8. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 440. ISBN 9788891336644.
Matijević, Krešimir, Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke. Caesar’s visions and impact on the Roman empire: revisiting the archaeological and historical record of the 40s BC. Rome studies, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. x, 236. ISBN 9782503619309.
Maurice, Lisa. Televising ancient Rome in the twenty-first century. Greece and Rome live. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781836245155.
May, Regine, Catherine Conybeare. Latin lineages: a family tree from Catullus to today. Trends in classics – pathways of reception, 11. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. vi, 349. ISBN 9783111707174.
Merkt, Andreas. Die religiöse Verwandlung der Welt: die Anfänge “moderner” Religion in der Spätantike. Freiburg: Verlag Herder, 2024. Pp. 832. ISBN 9783451396328.
Mulligan, Bret, et al. Westonia: selected works of Elizabeth Jane Weston. Experrecta. Williamsburg: Pixelia Publishing, 2025. Pp. xiii, 304. ISBN 9781737033080.
Murray, Peter Durno, Estelle Strazdins, Elisabeth Louise Thomas. Friedrich Nietzche. The Greek worship of the gods. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 275. ISBN 9783110773446.
Nichols, Marden Fitzpatrick. How to make a home: an ancient guide to style and comfort. Vitruvius and guests. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780691249124.
Nosch, Marie-Louise Bech. Time of textiles in ancient Greece. Chronoi, 15. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 151. ISBN 9783119142014.
Nouet, Rachel. Bases de statues en contexte. Approches croisées dans le monde grec antique. Études méditerranéennes, 16. Rennes; Athens: Presses universitaires de Rennes; École française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 224. ISBN 9782869586819.
Novokhatko, Anna A., Antonios Rengakos, Jonas Grethlein. Playing in the sun: ancient theatre between disciplines. Essays on the 70th Birthday of Bernhard Zimmermann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 493. ISBN 9783111594194.
Panoussi, Vassiliki, William Hutton. Memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 190. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiv, 446. ISBN 9783111197319.
Pastor, Simone. Trajan: the making of the Princeps Optimus. Studia archaeologica, 276. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 212. ISBN 9788891336453.
Paule, Maxwell Teitel. Heroines of Greek and Roman myth: an intermediate Latin reader. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2026. Pp. xvi, 164. ISBN 9781805117339.
Pelavski, Andrés D. Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781009616591.
Peltonen, Jaakkojuhani, Elina Pyy, Jussi Rantala. War and masculinity in Roman and medieval culture. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 218. ISBN 9781032840994.
Pernigotti, Carlo. Scrittore epicureo anonimo: Index Epicureorum. Papyri Graecae Herculanenses, 2. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 382. ISBN 9789004730694.
Pfaff-Reydellet, Maud, Maryse Schilling. Le charme du concret: le détail révélateur du savoir dans l’Antiquité. Recherches sur les rhétoriques religieuses, 38. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 262. ISBN 9782503608808.
Pierre, Maxime, Marie Saint Martin. Corinthe et ses ailleurs: voyages de Médée au théâtre, d’Euripide au contemporain. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité (ISTA). Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2025. Pp. 183. ISBN 9782385491932.
Piquero, Juan. Mycenaean religion through Linear B evidence: concepts, practices, objects. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 196. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xii, 163. ISBN 9783119145527.
Potter, Paul. Hippocrates. Volume III: Wounds in the Head. In the Surgery. Fractures. Joints. Instruments of Reduction. Loeb classical library. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2025. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780674997684.
Pritchard, David M., Ian Worthington. Waging war in fourth-century Athens: new appraisals. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 364. ISBN 9781032892306.
Queyrel Bottineau, Anne, Régine Utard. Flatterie et flatteurs dans les sociétés antiques. Pratiques, acteurs, morales. Kaïnon, 33. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 639. ISBN 9782406189589.
Ritter-Schmalz, Cornelia. Elegie als Medienfiktion. Selbstreflexion in der Buchdichtung des Properz. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 64. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2026. Pp. 354. ISBN 9783796554629.
Ross, Alan J. In praise of Constantius: Greek panegyric in late antiquity. Oxford studies in late antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 360. ISBN 9780197827543.
Russotti, Ambra. Per la storia del testo di Marziale. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 165. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 350. ISBN 9783111713960.
Stramaglia, Antonio, Aldo Corcella. Apuleius: fragmentary works (Apulei Madaurensis Operum deperditorum reliquiae). Oxford classical texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 160. ISBN 9780198940081.
Strunk, Thomas E. The lives of Cato the Younger from ancient Rome to modern America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 276. ISBN 9780472133642.
Von Möllendorff, Peter, Jens Gerlach. Lukian: Bilder der Bildung. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 575. ISBN 9783110704129.
Walas, Anna, Andrew Birley. Relativism and the frontiers of empire: critical perspectives on Roman soldiers, communities and military landscapes. Roman frontier studies. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 236. ISBN 9781805830689.
Willi, Andreas, Philomen Probert. Perceptions and social uses of the ancient Greek dialects. Trends in classics – Greek and Latin linguistics, 7. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiv, 474. ISBN 9783111678740.
Zanker, Andreas T. José Rizal, the Philippines, and Greco-Roman antiquity. Classics and the postcolonial. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 276. ISBN 9781032737935.
Zhao, Yurong. Early Christian widows and their social-economic situation, support, and contribution to the church. The library of New Testament studies. London: Bloomsbury, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780567721358.