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Abrach, Luisina, Radcliffe Guest Edmonds III, Anne-France Morand. Discovering Dionysus in the hexameters of Sinai Palimpsest Ar NF 66. Sozomena, 23. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. vi, 308. ISBN 9783111629612.
Ambros, Gabriele. Die Gottheiten Zyperns: androgyne Figurinen – Aphrodite und Apollon – Theos Hypsistos. Vienna: Verlag Holzhausen, 2025. Pp. 393. ISBN 9783903207813.
Ancona, Ronnie. Martha Graham’s Greek myth-based dances and her collaboration with Isamu Noguchi. IMAGINES – classical receptions in the visual and performing arts. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781350160163.
Arrighini, Andrea. Querolus siue Aulularia. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Lexis supplement, 19. Fonti, testi e commenti, 4. Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2025. Pp. 495. ISBN 9791257420109.
Avlami, Chryssanthi, Michael D. Konaris. The multiple antiquities of Greek modernity (19th–21st Century). Mondes méditerranéens et balkaniques, 20. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2026. Pp. 456. ISBN 9782869586536.
Baldwin Bowsky, Martha W. Roman names on Crete: immigration, enfranchisement, integration. Meletemata, 90. Athens: National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, 2026. Pp. 594. ISBN 9789603711032.
Baraz, Yelena. Cicero: a very short introduction. Very short introductions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 160. ISBN 9780192885807.
Barrandon, Nathalie, Isabelle Pimouguet-Pédarros. Violences extrêmes et transgression en temps de guerre. Dialogue entre mondes anciens et contemporains. Histoire. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9791041302833.
Bartol, Krystyna, Jerzy Danielewicz. The dynamic quality of late Greek non-Christian poetry. Mnemosyne, 501. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xii, 193. ISBN 9789004748101.
Baumbach, Manuel. Co-authorship. Collaboration, multiple authorship and the melding of minds in literature, arts and sciences: papers in honour of Glenn W. Most. Mnemosyne, 498. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. vi, 360. ISBN 9789004738577.
Bednarek, Bartłomiej. Dionysus’ victim: the Pentheus myth beyond Euripides. Mnemosyne, 499. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 286. ISBN 9789004743861.
Bentein, Klaas, Metin Bağrıaçık. From Greece to Cappadocia: ancient and modern Greek language studies in honour of Mark Janse. Trends in classics – Greek and Latin linguistics, 8. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xv, 513. ISBN 9783111182889.
Bexley, Erica M. Pseudo-Seneca: Octavia. Bloomsbury companions to Greek and Roman tragedy. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781350121843.
Bobou, Olympia, Ilaria Bucci, Rubina Raja. Nurturing the elite: representations of drinking, eating, and religious vessels in Palmyrene funerary iconography. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. xxvii, 513. ISBN 9782503617800.
Boitani, Piero. Timaeus in paradise: metaphors and beauty from Plato to Dante and beyond. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. xxiii, 363. ISBN 9780691276144.
Bolotin, David. Aristotle: On the Generation of Animals. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2026. Pp. 232. ISBN 9780881469905.
Borron, Emilie. Pan a franchi le Rubicon: recherches sur le dieu-bouc romain. Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, sciences religieuses, 208. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 452. ISBN 9782503618487.
Boys-Stones, George. Apuleius on the Cosmos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 282. ISBN 9780198896340.
Brandi Cordasco Salmena, Giovanni. Si quadrupes pauperiem fecisse dicatur: il regime romano del danno cagionato dall’animale. Studia juridica, 93. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 300. ISBN 9788891336392.
Brill, Sara, Catherine McKeen. The Routledge handbook of women and ancient Greek philosophy. Routledge handbooks in philosophy. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 666. ISBN 9780367498719.
Busetto, Anna. La vita è come un cetriolo: una raccolta di aforismi greci. Classici smarriti, 4. Rome: Inschibboleth Edizioni, 2025. Pp. 254. ISBN 9788855295734.
Carbon, Jan-Mathieu, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. La norme rituelle de Marmarini: essais d’interprétation. Kernos suppléments, 46. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2025. Pp. 266. ISBN 9782875624796.
Carrive, Mathilde. Habiter le décor. Peinture murale et architecture domestique en Italie centrale (fin Ier–fin IIIe s. p.C.). Pictor, 13. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2025. Pp. 708. ISBN 9782356136350.
Chugg, Andrew Michael. The Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria: second sun and seventh wonder of antiquity. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 230. ISBN 9781032569369.
Codispoti, Andrea. Pherekrates: Agathoi – Graes (frr. 1–42). Fragmenta comica, 5.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 479. ISBN 9783911065504.
Conybeare, Catherine. Augustine the African. New York: Liveright, 2025. Pp. xx, 268. ISBN 9781631498527.
Curzer, Howard J. Difficult virtues: an Aristotelian perspective. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 270. ISBN 9781032515373.
Davenport, Caillan. Behind Caesar’s back: rumor, gossip, and the making of the Roman emperors. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026. Pp. 392. ISBN 9780300276459.
De Bakker, Mathieu P. Speech, narrative, and authority in Herodotus’ Histories. The language of classical literature, 41. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xviii, 563. ISBN 9789004749535.
De Luca, Ludovica, Stefano Mecci. The world as a city: a philosophical image between the ancient world and the three monotheisms. Ancient philosophy and religion, 13. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 412. ISBN 9789004741881.
Diemke, Justine, Tobias Mörtz. Kriegerinnen im Altertum. IPHIS – Gender studies in den Altertumswissenschaften, 14. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2025. Pp. 222. ISBN 9783989400894.
Dilbeck, Thomas W. Vergil and the trinity: appropriation, revision, and distortion of Rome’s greatest poet. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 160. ISBN 9781032968742.
Endreffy, Kata, Christopher A. Faraone, Hans Rupprecht Goette. Everything is illuminated: studies on Graeco-Roman iconography in honour of Árpád M. Nagy. Studia archaeologica, 274. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 500. ISBN 9788891336248.
Ferris, Iain. The domesticity of their darkness: snapshots of the enslaved in Roman art. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 130. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 342. ISBN 9781805831150.
Fischer, Julia C. Power and propaganda in the large imperial cameos of the early Roman empire. Routledge research in art history. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781032324883.
Ford, Thomas. The Alexandrian edition of Alcaeus. Sonderreihe der Abhandlungen Papyrologica Coloniensia, 51. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 386. ISBN 9783506798183.
Forstall, Christopher W., Berenice Verhelst. Direct speech in Greek and Latin epic: expanding the methods and canon. The language of classical literature, 43. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxii, 481. ISBN 9789004746800.
Frielinghaus, Heide, Christine Walde. Jenseits von Unterhaltung. Theater und Schauspiel im Römischen Reich. Studien zum Theater in der Römischen Kaiserzeit. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 204. ISBN 9783111704524.
Gorton, Luke. Tracing the origins of wine in the ancient Mediterranean. Global perspectives on ancient Mediterranean archaeology. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 182. ISBN 9781032939551.
Harlan, Deborah. Photographing Hellenism: the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies photographic collection, 1870s–1960s. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781805830825.
Harrison, George W. M. Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta. Bloomsbury companions to Greek and Roman tragedy. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781350205659.
Hayes, Evan, Stephen Nimis. Lucian’s The Rooster and Prometheus: an intermediate Greek reader. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2025. Pp. 169. ISBN 9781940997476.
Hayes, Evan, Stephen Nimis. Lucian, The Lover of Lies and Slander: an intermediate Greek reader. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2025. Pp. 156. ISBN 9781940997469.
Hirschi, Solmeng-Jonas. Epicurus’ human beings: beyond person and self. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 264. ISBN 9780192874962.
Horster, Marietta, Richard Flower, Frédéric Hurlet, Ralph Mathisen. Brill’s companion to Roman prosopography. Brill’s companions to classical studies. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xviii, 564. ISBN 9789004748576.
Huemoeller, Katharine P. D. The child follows the womb: gender, reproduction, and Roman slavery. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780300284867.
Intagliata, Emanuele Ettore. The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project: selected essays on the southwest quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xix, 190. ISBN 9782503607238.
Ioannidou, Kyriaki A. Menandros: Achaioi – Thais (frr. 89–169). Fragmenta comica, 24.4. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 376. ISBN 9783911065535.
Jansen, Lukas. Vertrauen und Misstrauen in Zeiten des politischen Umbruchs: Herrscherwechsel im römischen Principat. Studien zur Geschichtsforschung des Altertums, 48. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2026. Pp. 678. ISBN 9783339146663.
John, Alison. Learning and power in late antique Gaul: classical education and the end of Roman rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. ix, 277. ISBN 9781009543446.
Kapantais, Doukas, George Karamanolis. Αριστοτέλης. Αναλυτικά πρότερα I.1–22. Η Αριστοτελική συλλογιστική [Aristotle. Prior Analytics I.1–22. Aristotelian syllogistic]. Athens: Academy of Athens, Research Center for Greek Philosophy, 2025. Pp. 416. ISBN 9789604044368.
King, R. A. H., Pavlos Kontos. Patterns of evil in ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781032884448.
Kreßner, Rebecca. Männliche Mobilität, weibliche Handlungsmacht. Soziale Organisation und ökonomische Praxis an der Ostadriaküste in hellenistischer und römischer Zeit. TRANSMARE, 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 350. ISBN 9783111561318.
LaMonica, Clelia R., Anna Foka. Evolving perspectives on digital classics. Digital research in the arts and humanities. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 230. ISBN 9781032899824.
Leonard, Miriam. Revolution: modern uprisings in ancient time. Critical antiquities. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2025. Pp. ix, 140. ISBN 9780226843032.
Levitan, William. SoulStrife: the psychomachia of Aurelius Prudentius Clemens. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2025. Pp. 182. ISBN 9798893721102.
Lipka, Michael. Ancient Greek oracular texts: form, content, context. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 302. ISBN 9781032892269.
Malagardis, Nassi, Alain Pasquier. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. France, 44. Musée du Louvre, 30. Céramique attique archaïque, skyphoi à figures noires. Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2025. Pp. ix, 217. ISBN 9782877547260.
Manolea, Christina-Panagiota, François Renaud. Brill’s companion to the reception of Homer from Byzantium to the Enlightenment. Brill’s companions to classical reception, 29. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xvi, 452. ISBN 9789004749085.
Mantzouranis, Kleanthis. Honour in Aristotle’s Ethics. The Edinburgh history of honour in the ancient Greek world. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781399532259.
Massetti, Laura. Fashioning immortality: comparative studies in three Pindaric odes. MythosEikonPoiesis, 20. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xxii, 290. ISBN 9783119147699.
Montiglio, Silvia. Schadenfreude and its wicked delights in ancient Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198981466.
Moreau, Dominic, Radu Petcu, Slavtcho Kirov. A Danubio ad Gothiam. La christianisation du nord-ouest de la mer Noire dans l’Antiquité tardive. Rome and after in Central and Eastern Europe, 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9782503604749.
Moreno Escobar, Maria del Carmen. Patrones de asentamiento en la Bética romana. Un estudio sobre la romanización desde el análisis arqueológico espacial. BAR international series, 3214. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 310. ISBN 9781407358208.
Müller, Laura. Die Darstellung und Selbstdarstellung der kaiserlichen Familie im römischen Ägypten: eine Untersuchung von Octavian-Augustus bis Hadrian (30 v. Chr.–138 n. Chr.). Mainzer althistorische Studien, 13. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025. Pp. x, 356. ISBN 9783969293997.
Neola, Benedetto. Drunk the potion, no whit charmed: the doctrine of pure and perfect souls from Iamblichus to Damascius. Beiträge zur europäischen Religionsgeschichte, 12. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 528. ISBN 9783525502419.
Nobili, Cecilia. La poesia femminile nella Grecia antica: voci e contesti dalle origini all’età classica. Studi superiori. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2025. Pp. 412. ISBN 9788829032006.
Olivier-Trottenberg, Yasmin. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Deutschland, 113. München, Antikensammlungen, ehemals Museum Antiker Kleinkunst, 22. Attisch schwarzfigurige Kyathoi. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2025. Pp. 92. ISBN 9783769637915.
Orlandi, Luigi. Galeni. Methodus medendi: libros V–VI. Corpus medicorum Graecorum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. lxvi, 230. ISBN 9783111630489.
Ossendrijver, Mathieu. Conceptions of cyclicity in Babylonian and Greco-Roman scholarship. Chronoi, 18. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 106. ISBN 9783119142045.
Peluso, Lavinia. Contro Atene. La democrazia nelle Leggi di Platone. International Plato studies, 44. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2025. Pp. 159. ISBN 9783495989234.
Pontoropoulos, Antonios. Writing herstory through ancient Greek letters: representations of women in fictional epistolography. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781350401754.
Proietti, Giorgia, Jeremy McInerney. Memory, space and mindscapes in ancient Greece. Mnemosyne, 500. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xx, 445. ISBN 9789004749900.
Ramos Martínez, Francisco. Cerámica de importación y rutas comerciales en época ibérica plena (ss V–III a.n.e.) en la Región de Murcia. BAR international series, 3227. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. xi, 99. ISBN 9781407362939.
Ricci, Cecilia, Giorgio Crimi. Tituli reliqui militares, CIL VI: sistemazione, interpretazione e valorizzazione. Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum. Auctarium, series nova, 11. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 320. ISBN 9783112234839.
Saetta Cottone, Rossella. Clémence Ramnoux, entre mythes et philosophie. Dumézil, Freud, Bachelard. Figures normaliennes, 12. Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9782728808861.
Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara. Latin texts on papyrus and the study of classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 502. ISBN 9781009586597.
Scott, Michael. Themistocles: the rise and fall of Athens’s naval mastermind. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780300256598.
Swain, Natalie J. Narrative in Ovid’s Amores: comics theory, elegy, and segmentary narrative. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781350407244.
Szabó, Csaba, Christian Gugl. Sanctuaries in the Danubian provinces: interdisciplinary studies in the archaeology of religion. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, 32. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xviii, 216. ISBN 9789004743700.
Tafaro, Alessandra. Inscribing Flavian Rome: epigraphic strategies in Martial’s Epigrams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780198962519.
Tanner, Harry. The queer thing about sin: why the west came to hate queer love. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781399422291.
Tsagalis, Christos. Early Greek epic fragments IV. Choirilos: Persika. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 203. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 216. ISBN 9783112227602.
Turner, Steven Paul. Myths on the edge of empire: how classical mythology spread throughout Roman Britain. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 132. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 244. ISBN 9781805831433.
Unwin, Christina. Design and archaeology: the social imaginary in Iron Age and early Roman Europe. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781350443846.
Usher, M. D. Following nature’s lead: ancient ways of living in a dying world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 232. ISBN 9780691249209.
Von Möllendorf, Peter, Saskia Schomber. Dionysios von Halikarnass. Über die Wortführung. Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur, 95. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2026. Pp. 268. ISBN 9783777225197.
Weiten, Katharina. Lateinische Umgangssprache von Plautus bis Egeria. Submersion und Kontinuität. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 430. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 187. ISBN 9783119142229.
Wiseman, T. P. The lost history of Roman theatre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780691273235.
Wozniak, Monika, Maria Wyke. Audio-visual Roman women: gender, history and screen media. IMAGINES – classical receptions in the visual and performing arts. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781350461833.
Van Waarden, Joop. Sidonius Apollinaris: selected letters. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 326. ISBN 9781316514504.