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Andrade, Nathanael, Rubina Raja. Invisible labour in antiquity: visualizing obscure work in the ancient Mediterranean and West Asia. The archaeology and history of western Asia (300 BCE–750 CE), 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 395. ISBN 9782503619835.
Antoniou, Alex A. Roman priests from republic to empire: values, expectations, representations. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780198983699.
Arcenas, Scott Lawin. Political violence in ancient Greece: quantitative and qualitative approaches to stasis, 500–301 BCE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 364. ISBN 9781009522885.
Austin, William L., J. Michael Padgett, Bailey K. Benson. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. U.S.A., 41. Princeton University Art Museum, 1. Athenian red-figure amphorae, loutrophoroi, pelikai, dinos, kraters, hydriai, oinochoai, askoi, pyxis, lekanis. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2025. Pp. 143. ISBN 9780943012568.
Backler, Katherine. Athena’s sisters: reclaiming the women of classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 424. ISBN 9781009672320.
Beneker, Jeffrey. How to listen: an ancient guide to learning from others. Plutarch. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 152. ISBN 9780691265582.
Bentein, Klaas, Marja Vierros. Rays of language: linguistic perspectives on non-literary papyri and related sources. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2025. Pp. 442. ISBN 9789523691391.
Bodnaruk, Mariana. An empire of elites: the self-representation of the senatorial aristocracy in the later Roman state in the fourth century AD. Routledge research in Byzantine studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 326. ISBN 9781032360089.
Bonamente, Giorgio, Roberto Cristofoli, Carlo Santini. Il viaggio poetico in Properzio tra illusione e realtà. Proceedings of the twenty-fourth International Conference on Propertius, Assisi, 25–28 May 2023. Studi di poesia latina, 24. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 364. ISBN 9782503618531.
Boudon-Millot, Véronique. Galien. Tome IX: Des habitudes. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque – Collection Budé, 587. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. cxlii, 164. ISBN 9782251006727.
Boudon-Millot, Véronique. L’Invention de la médecine de la Grèce à la Chine: regards croisés entre l’Orient et l’Occident. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 358. ISBN 9782251458793.
Bournot, Magdalena. Étrangère chez soi: un tournant latino-américain dans les réécritures de Médée. Etudes sur le théâtre et les arts de la scène, 44. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 442. ISBN 9782406197591.
Bowman, Alan K., Charles V. Crowther, Simon Hornblower, Rachel Mairs, Kyriakos Savvopoulos. Corpus of Ptolemaic inscriptions. Part I: Greek, bilingual, and trilingual inscriptions from Egypt. Volume 2: the Fayum and the Valley (nos. 207–409). Oxford studies in ancient documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 816. ISBN 9780198868309.
Bracke, Evelien. The meaning of myth in uncertain times: how classical mythology helps us navigate a world in crisis. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781041028680.
Bruun, Christer. Ostia-by-the-Sea: society, population, and identities in Rome’s port. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 1104. ISBN 9780197635353.
Bur, Clément, Thibaud Lanfranchi. Palingenesia senatus consultorum. Vol. 1: senatus consultorum ab anno 509 ad annum 367 a. Chr. n. factorum fragmenta et testimonia quae supersunt. Acta Senatus – Reihe A, 1.1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. xii, 493. ISBN 9783515126168.
Carney, Elizabeth D., Sabine Müller. Brill’s companion to ancient women and war in the Mediterranean world. Brill’s companions to classical studies. Warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world, 11. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxiv, 620. ISBN 9789004743175.
Castelnuovo, Elena. Lesbium servate pedem: il metro saffico tra Orazio, Prudenzio e l’innodia medievale. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 99. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9788846773494.
Chaintreuil, Ulysse, Alice de Fornel. Contre la nature: nouvelles perspectives sur la normativité naturelle chez Aristote. Rencontres, 707. Études de philosophie, 20. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 284. ISBN 9782406200369.
Chilton, Bruce. Berenice: queen in Roman Judea. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026. Pp. 216. ISBN 9780300274257.
Christensen, Joel P. The Oxford critical guide to Homer’s Odyssey. Oxford critical guides. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 368. ISBN 9780192844101.
Connell, Sophia M. Aristotle’s Parts of Animals: a critical guide. Cambridge critical guides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 356. ISBN 9781316516119.
De Jong, Irene J. F. A narratological commentary on Herodotus’ Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 678. ISBN 9781108470988.
Diemke-Horst, Justine. Vorkommen und Bewertung von Depressionen in der griechisch-römischen Antike. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 35. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 454. ISBN 9783515140621.
Diggle, James. Euripides: Fabulae. Tomus II: Supplices, Electra, Hercules, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion. Oxford classical texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780198865612.
Diggle, James. Last thoughts on Euripides: a companion to the revised edition of the second volume of the Oxford classical text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780198932901.
Dogaer, Nico. Industry, trade and the state in Ptolemaic Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 398. ISBN 9781009413374.
Déderix, Sylviane, Maguelone Bastide. Pencil and dust: women who shaped archaeology in Greece and the Greek world. Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, supplément 74. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2026. Pp. 563. ISBN 9782869586734.
Dudziński, Andrzej. Carthaginians and Sicily: empire by inertia. Routledge studies in ancient history. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 170. ISBN 9781032256764.
Fabbri, Fabiana. Etruscan and Roman Hellenistic anatomical ex voto: reassessing popular religious expressions in central Italy. MediTo – archaeological and historical landscapes of Mediterranean central Italy, 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 285. ISBN 9782503612362.
Felisi, Claudio. Hadès aux multiples noms: histoire onomastique d’un dieu grec d’Homère à Platon. Kaïnon – anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 31. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 669. ISBN 9782406187684.
Finn, Jenn. Brill’s companion to courage and cowardice in ancient warfare. Brill’s companions to classical studies. Warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world, 12. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xx, 728. ISBN 9789004743199.
Frankfurter, David. Magic, charisma and violence in late antiquity: essays in religion. Edinburgh studies in religion in antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026. Pp. 488. ISBN 9781399526784.
Gargola, Daniel J. Calendar, cult, and law in Rome to the age of Augustus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 308. ISBN 9781009623223.
Gassman, Mattias P. Citizens of the earth: pagans and their gods in Augustine’s North Africa. Oxford studies in late antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780197805633.
Heiden, Bruce. The Iliad: creatively translated by Bruce Heiden. Mount Pleasant: Palmetto Publishing, 2026. Pp. 582. ISBN 9798822984714.
Hermannstädter, Klaus. Spott und Lachen bei Homer und im Iambos: Studien zu ihren sozialen und literarischen Funktionen. Classica Monacensia. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2026. Pp. 384. ISBN 9783381145010.
Huttner, Ulrich. Early Christianity on the lower Maeander between Ignatius and Apollo: Greek cities in the interplay of religious authorities. Early Christianity in Asia Minor. Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 122. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xviii, 520. ISBN 9789004725287.
Hyland, John O. Persia’s Greek campaigns: kingship, war, and spectacle on the Achaemenid frontier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 480. ISBN 9780197660485.
Johnson, David M., Gabriel Danzig, Rodrigo Illarraga. Debating Cyrus: leadership in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. Xenophon studies, 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 302. ISBN 9783119146050.
Jones, Prudence J. Cleopatra: a reference guide to her life and works. Significant figures in world history. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781538145203.
Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski, Radosław. Apsaros: a Roman fort on the Colchis coast. Warsaw studies in archaeology, 15. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 293. ISBN 9782503618579.
Karavas, Orestis, Vasileios Liotsakis. Generic interplays in imperial Greek literature. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 191. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. viii, 333. ISBN 9783119147514.
Karila-Cohen, Karine. Conflits et portraits de famille chez les Bousélides: essai de visualisation croisée sur la fabrique généalogique (Athènes, IVe siècle a.C.). Scripta antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2026. Pp. 450. ISBN 9782356136367.
Kelly, Gavin, Aaron Pelttari. The Cambridge history of later Latin literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 2 vols. Pp. 1828. ISBN 9781009540643.
Kennedy, Duncan F. The emergence of ontological styles of thinking in ancient Greece. Classics in theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198985051.
Korobili, Giouli, Teun Tieleman. Meteorology beyond borders: ancient and modern reflections. Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 10. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xx, 580. ISBN 9789004747098.
Kovacs, David. Euripides: Electra. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780192867131.
Krasne, Darcy A. Structuring the cosmos in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 464. ISBN 9780198850748.
Krauss, Katherine. Exemplarity and allusion in Macrobius’ Saturnalia. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 210. ISBN 9780198926672.
Lanérès, Nicole. Inscriptions laconiennes des hautes époques (VIIe–IIIe s. av. J.-C.). Hautes études du monde gréco-romain, 65. Geneva: Droz, 2026. Pp. 368. ISBN 9782600057592.
Lombardo, Stanley, Cynthia C. Polsley, Tara Welch. Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2025. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781647922306.
MacDonald, Eve. Carthage: a new history. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2026. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781324123279.
Mascia, Leah. The transition from traditional cults to the affirmation of Christian beliefs in the city of Oxyrhynchus. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 34. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 621. ISBN 9783515139946.
Mastellari, Virginia. Greek New Comedy beyond Menander. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 200. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. viii, 370. ISBN 9783119144285.
Michelakis, Pantelis. Encounters with the plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides. Classics in theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780198844105.
Mol, Eva. Style and assemblage in Roman archaeology: Egypt at Pompeii. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198912804.
Molina Zorrilla, Isidro, Nuno Simões Rodrigues, Vasileios Balaskas. Graeco-Roman horror and its modern reception: unleashing classical dread. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 286. ISBN 9781041132233.
Nelis, Basil L. P. Revenge in Seneca’s tragedies: anger, philosophy, and the feminine. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 294. ISBN 9780198993278.
Olson, S. Douglas, Eric Cullhed. Eustathius of Thessalonica: commentary on the Odyssey. Volume III: commentary on rhapsodies 9–12. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. 655. ISBN 9789004727946.
Pantin, Isabelle, Sandra Provini. Tolkien et la mémoire de l’Antiquité. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. 384. ISBN 9782251457024.
Platt, Verity. Epistemic impressions: making and mediating classical art and text. Classics in theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780192846587.
Pulpito, Massimo. Tempo ed eternità in Parmenide. Supplementa Eleatica, 4. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2025. Pp. 190. ISBN 9783985720880.
Raja, Rubina, Eivind Heldaas Seland. Palmyra, the Roman empire, and the third century crisis: zooming in and scaling up from the evidence. Oriens et occidens, 46. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 323. ISBN 9783515140218.
Redfield, James M. Plato’s Seventh Letter. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2026. Pp. 128. ISBN 9781647922566.
Rees, Owen. The far edges of the known world: life beyond the borders of ancient civilization. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2025. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781324036524.
Reid, Heather L., Phillip Mitsis. How to compete: an ancient guide to the virtues of sports. Lucian. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780691281407.
Romm, James. Plato and the tyrant: the fall of Greece’s greatest dynasty and the making of a philosophic masterpiece. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2025. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781324130574.
Rosillo López, Cristina. Romanas: voces rescatadas. Historia antigua. Madrid: Desperta Ferro Ediciones, 2026. Pp. 384. ISBN 9791399078855.
Roumpou, Angeliki-Nektaria. Silius Italicus: Punica, book 17. Oxford commentaries on Flavian poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198865902.
Rüpke, Jörg. Studies on Roman priests and priesthoods. Fasti sacerdotum IV. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 90. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 198. ISBN 9783515140126.
Saltzman, Benjamin A. Turning away: the poetics of an ancient gesture. Thinking literature. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2026. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780226847214.
Schmitt, Johanna Helene. Sextus Empiricus on fallacies and expert knowledge. Philosophical studies in ancient thought, 4. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2026. Pp. 110. ISBN 9783796554865.
Serangeli, Ambra. Galen on the atomists: anti-teleologism, theory of matter and medical corpuscularism. Global perspectives on the history of natural philosophy. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 202. ISBN 9781032869087.
Soneira-Martínez, Ramón. Relational atheism: studying unbelief in ancient Greece. Religionswissenschaft heute, 17. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2026. Pp. 233. ISBN 9783170471863.
Städele, Alfons. Herodian: das Kaisertum nach Mark Aurel. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 514. ISBN 9783112224274.
Stevenson, Tom. Julius Caesar: a reference guide to his life and works. Significant figures in world history. New York: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9798881804305.
Stuttard, David. Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the invention of Athens. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780674258471.
Svoboda, Marie, Caroline R. Cartwright. Mummy portraits of Roman Egypt. Volume 2: emerging research from the APPEAR Project. Los Ángeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2026. Pp. 250. ISBN 9781606069967.
Tuck, Steven L. Escape from Pompeii: the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius and its survivors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780197678220.
Vergados, Athanassios, Anke Walter. Ἀρχή and origo: the power of origins. Antiquité et sciences humaines, 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 415. ISBN 9782503596556.
Volk, Katharina. How to find happiness: an ancient guide to the good life. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780691263397.
Warhover, Emma. Humor in the historical works of Tacitus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 204. ISBN 9780472133680.
Watson, Gary. The role of the army in the government of the Roman Near East, 64 BC–AD 285: state building and provincial development. Impact of empire, 51. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxx, 336. ISBN 9789004749375.
Weiss, Adrian. ‘Naso Tomitanus’: intratextuelle Transformationen in Ovids ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, neue Folge, 2. Reihe, 167. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2025. Pp. 303. ISBN 9783825396282.
Wilkinson, Toby. The last dynasty: ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2024. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781324052036.
Williams, Thomas. Augustine’s Confessions: a critical guide. Cambridge critical guides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 258. ISBN 9781316511107.
Yasin, Ann Marie. Rebuilding histories in the Roman world: architectural restoration and temporality from Augustus to Justinian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 542. ISBN 9781009564700.
Zampieri, Eleonora. In ambitione artifices: electioneering and elections in the Roman republic. Libera res publica. Zaragoza; Seville: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza; Editorial de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9791370140632.