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Acero Pérez, Jesús, Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez. Aquae urbium: el ciclo urbano del agua en la Hispania romana. Colección historia, 417. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2025. Pp. 649. ISBN 9788447227938.
Agbamu, Samuel. Petrarch’s Africa and its afterlives: race, nation, and empire. Bloomsbury neo-Latin series: studies in early modern Latin. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781350330795.
Alexiou, Evangelos. Isocrates: Peri tou zeugous. An encomium of Alcibiades. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 204. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xiv, 348. ISBN 9783112227633.
Andrews, Margaret M. The subura of Rome: landscape and ideology from the Iron Age to the early Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 462. ISBN 9781009745819.
Aston, Emma. Blessed Thessaly: the identities of a place and its people from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic. Liverpool studies in ancient history. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. Pp. 520. ISBN 9781835530016.
Athanassaki, Lucia, André Lardinois. Greek lyric and the sacred. Studies in archaic and classical Greek song, 6. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xvi, 455. ISBN 9789004750357.
Babusiaux, Ulrike, Anne Kolb. Das römische Testament: Funktion, Archivierung und Tradition. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. vi, 468. ISBN 9783111670072.
Battezzato, Luigi, Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold. Artificial intelligence and Greek philology: an experiment. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2025. Pp. 179. ISBN 9788876428166.
Bellia, Angela. Archeologia della performance musicale e della danza in Magna Grecia e nella Sicilia greca. Rituali, spazi e contesti. Telestes, 9. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2026. Pp. 284. ISBN 9788881475551.
Bernitzki, Jacob, Niklas Holzberg. Seneca: Apocolocyntosis. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. iv, 120. ISBN 9783119149884.
Bettini, Maurizio, Manuela Giordano, Riccardo Palmisciano. Rethinking orality III: from Homer to neuroscience. Transcodification: arts, languages and media, 9. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. vii, 251. ISBN 9783111431611.
Bischeri, Mattia. Memoria e identità ai confini di Chiusi: la necropoli di Tolle tra l’Orientalizzante e l’età Arcaica. Archeologia classica – supplementi e monografie, 20. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 276. ISBN 9788891335258.
Blanco, Chiara, Allegra Hahn, Simona Martorana. Body and medicine in Latin poetry. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 183. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xiv, 240. ISBN 9783110728699.
Bohak, Gideon. The sentencing of Jesus (Gzar-dina de-Yeshu): the ‘authentic’ Jewish protocols of the trial of Jesus. Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures, 45. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2026. Pp. xxii, 593. ISBN 9781805117384.
Bonetto, Jacopo, Andrea Raffaele Ghiotto. Aquileia: a frontier colony between the Mediterranean and Europe. Archaeological histories. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781350440920.
Borg, Barbara E., Antonio Campus, Francesca D’Andrea, Daniel P. Diffendale, Consuelo Manetta, Umberto Soldovieri. (Re-)uniting city and country: new research on urban and suburban socio-topographical structures. IN-ROME, 1. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2026. Pp. 368. ISBN 9788891336354.
Boshnakov, Konstantin. Epigraphic “shades” from Hellenistic Thrace: contextualizing inscriptions in Greek from Thracian tombs. Palingenesia, 147. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 391. ISBN 9783515141000.
Bryen, Ari Z. The judgment of the provinces: the Roman empire and the origins of law and society. Studies in legal history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 452. ISBN 9781009730372.
Catenacci, Carmine, Marialuigia Di Marzio, Francesco Paolo Bianchi. Le Ecclesiazuse di Aristofane: terza giornata di studio in ricordo di Massimo Vetta. Studia comica, 28. Göttingen: Verlag Antike, 2026. Pp. viii, 296. ISBN 9783911065603.
Colombat, Bernard. Apprendre le latin et le grec en France en 1650: les Nouvelles Méthodes de Claude Lancelot. Descriptions et théories de la langue française, 9. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 460. ISBN 9782406199311.
Crubellier, Michel, Leone Gazziero. Le “Peri ideôn” d’Aristote. Aristote. Traductions et études. Leuven: Peeters, 2025. Pp. vi, 275. ISBN 9789042955332.
Davis, Brent. The undeciphered Aegean scripts: linguistic investigations into the languages they encode. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 530. ISBN 9781009562348.
De Villiers, Annemarie, Stephen Harrison, Grant Parker. Vergil and the land. Trends in classics – pathways of reception, 13. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xiv, 213. ISBN 9783111710563.
Della Calce, Elisa, Simone Mollea. Dangerous Latin literature: from antiquity to the modern age. Proceedings of the International Conference in Turin, June 30 to July 1, 2022. CICERO, 12. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xi, 458. ISBN 9783112225820.
Destrée, Pierre, Monte Ransome Johnson. Philosophical exhortation: studies of protreptic aspects of Aristotle’s works. Aristote. Traductions et études. Leuven: Peeters, 2025. Pp. xiv, 381. ISBN 9789042956988.
Donato, Marco, Francesca Scrofani, Tiziano Dorandi. Thinking through letters: studies on epistolary collections by Greek philosophers. Philosophia antiqua, 179. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. x, 322. ISBN 9789004736689.
Dozza, Vittoria. Leonida di Alessandria, Epigrammi: testo critico, traduzione e commento. Texte und Kommentare, 75. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. viii, 398. ISBN 9783112224779.
Drogula, Fred K. Spheres of control: The origins of government in early Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 2026. ISBN 9780197789810.
Esposito, Alessandra, Jason Lundock, Kaja Stemberger Flegar, David Walsh. Ritual in the Roman world: approaches to theory and practices. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 136. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 178. ISBN 9781805832294.
Faraone, Christopher A., Sofía Torallas-Tovar. New approaches to the Great Paris Magical Codex: from PGM IV to GEMF 57. Transmissions, 14. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 444. ISBN 9783111203355.
Ferritto, Roberta. Roman maritime villas: rediscovering architecture in Southern Latium and its wider context. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2026. Pp. 336. ISBN 9798888572153.
Formato, Lucia Clara. Das kaiserzeitliche Gräberfeld von Leithaprodersdorf im Burgenland (Österreich): eine Studie zu ländlichen Besiedlungsstrukturen im Hinterland von Carnuntum. BAR international series, 3259. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. xiii, 470. ISBN 9781407363097.S
Forsyth, Douglas C. Economic and social development in the Iron Age Cyclades, 1000-480 BCE. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xxvi, 273. ISBN 9783112229774.
Foster-Whiddon, Eric. John as divine romance: reading the Fourth Gospel with the ancient novel. Biblical interpretation series, 236. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xiv, 218. ISBN 9789004740532.
Fourrier, Sabine, Anna Georgiadou, Artemis Georgiou, Alexandre Rabot. Kition-Bamboula X: l’habitat de la fin du Bronze récent et du début de l’âge du Fer. Archéologie(s), 13. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2026. Pp. 380. ISBN 9782356681485.
Goldsworthy, Adrian. Athens and Sparta: the rivalry that shaped ancient Greece. New York: Basic Books, 2026. Pp. 640. ISBN 9781541619982.
Harding, Phillip. Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike. Volume 2: books 16-17: the rise of Macedon under Philip II and the conquests of Alexander III (the Great). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 464. ISBN 9781108499156.
Hoffmann, Philippe, Andrei Timotin. Études de philosophie grecque, de l’âge classique au néoplatonisme. Anagôgê, 18. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 766. ISBN 9782251457574.
Howe, Timothy, Charlotte Dunn, David Lunt. Successors to Alexander the Great: historical sources in translation. Blackwell sourcebooks in ancient history. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2026. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781119688280.
Johanson, Christopher J. Funerary spectacle: applied digital humanities in the Roman forum. California classical studies, 11. Berkeley: University of California eScholarship, 2026. Pp. xx, 253. ISBN 9781939926203.
Jones, Nathaniel B., Milette Gaifman, Jas Elsner. Relief in Greek, Roman, and late antique art. Yale classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9781009505765.
Kaçar, Turhan. The Council of Nicaea: a political and intellectual history. Ankara: Phoibos Verlag, 2026. Pp. 258. ISBN 9789751603722.
Kahlos, Maijastina. Barbarians as the religious other in the late Roman world. Edinburgh studies in religion in antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781399514446.
Kremer, Gabrielle, Robert Linke, Georg A. Plattner, Eduard Pollhammer. Colours revealed: polychrome monuments in the Roman provinces – detection, interpretation, visualisation. Sonderschriften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, 66. Vienna: Holzhausen Verlag, 2026. Pp. 256. ISBN 9783903207998.
Kuivalainen, Ilkka, Leena Pietilä-Castrén. Insula Pompeiana IX 3: the wall paintings, mosaics, and upper floors. Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 149. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2025. Pp. 358. ISBN 9789516535282.
Létoublon, Françoise. Pour une anthropologie de la parole: faire avec des mots, en Grèce et ailleurs. Chișinău: Eliva Press, 2026. Pp. 312. ISBN 9789999335720.
Licandro, Orazio, Francesca Prado. Jacques Cujas e la lettera scomparsa: una vicenda tra apocrifia e storia. Fra oriente e occidente, 13. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2026. Pp. 160. ISBN 9788891336880.
Lunsingh Scheurleer, Robert A., Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter, Elena Cuijpers. Catalogue of terracottas from Egypt dating to the late period and Graeco-Roman times: Allard Pierson – the collections of the University of Amsterdam. BAR international series, 3252. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. xx, 405. ISBN 9781407363288.
Manuwald, Gesine. Terence: Eunuchus. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 160. ISBN 9781350344051.
Menna, Marco. Liminality in the Aeneid: a study in poetic technique. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2026. Pp. 336. ISBN 9783381150410.
Moles, Francesco. Gli Sciri di Euripide. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. viii, 116. ISBN 9783112235331.
Mouze, Létitia. Le philosophe qui aimait les histoires: l’anthropologie platonicienne du fait poétique. Les Belles Lettres/essais, 57. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 688. ISBN 9782251459301.
Mulder, Tara. A womb of one’s own: lost histories of childbirth in ancient Rome. Oakland: University of California Press, 2026. Pp. 376. ISBN 9780520398740.
Murray, Jackie. Apollonius’ Argonautica and the poetics of controversy. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 210. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xxi, 184. ISBN 9783112228081.
Nasr, Mongi. Les ateliers de céramique de la Byzacène du Sud-Ouest. Roman and late antique Mediterranean pottery, 20. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 274. ISBN 9781805830269.
Nehamas, Alexander, Voula Tsouna, Riccardo Chiaradonna, Richard McKirahan. New essays on the Platonic tradition in honour of Paul Kalligas. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 35. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xx, 468. ISBN 9789004751132.
Notti, Erika. Writing in Late Bronze Age Thera: an overview of Linear A documents with epigraphic and palaeographic comments. Biblioteca di Pasiphae, 14. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9788833156835.
Ogden, Daniel. Pausanias of Sparta: from victor to traitor. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780300284768.
Ortiz, Pierre-Henri. Furor: politiques de la folie à Rome. Mondes anciens, 15. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 426. ISBN 9782251459035.
Perea-Yébenes, Sabino. Augustus and the romana religio: a time of respect for traditions and changes. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026. Pp. 306. ISBN 9781036468606.
Perruccio, Andrea. Lattanzio e la virtus: la critica a Lucilio e Cicerone nel VI libro delle Divinae Institutiones. CICERO, 13. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. viii, 254. ISBN 9783112238677.
Pintus, Martino. Politike techne in Platone: dialogo, pratica filosofica, condotta di vita. Doxai, 6. Rome: Tab Edizioni, 2026. Pp. 236. ISBN 9791256693894.
Potter, Amanda, Natalie J. Swain, Connie Skibinski. The classical reception and impact of Wonder Woman in comics and film. IMAGINES – classical receptions in the visual and performing arts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350439368.
Potter, David. Atlas of the Roman empire: battles, conquests, legions, and rulers. New York: Basic Books, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781541607316.
Pozo, Salvador F. Corpus de lucernas antiguas – bronce, plomo e hierro – halladas en la Península Iberica e Islas Baleares: ensayo de clasificación, tipología y cronología. BAR international series, 3253. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. xi, 141. ISBN 9781407363233.
Rebillard, Éric. The triumph of Christianity redescribed. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2026. Pp. 270. ISBN 9781501787096.
Reydams-Schils, Gretchen. Marcus Aurelius. How to be stoic: an ancient guide to keeping calm. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 216. ISBN 9780691244655.
Roberto Micciché, Zooarchaeology of ancient Greek sanctuaries in southwestern Sicily: faunal analysis from Selinus and Akragas as evidence of differences in the treatment of animals for ritual purposes. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 206. ISBN 9781805832478.
Romm, James S. Seneca. How to live: an ancient guide to a happy life. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 168. ISBN 9780691255224.
Schettino, Maria Teresa, Cesare Zizza. L’intelligence du texte de la Politique: lire Aristote au temps des algorithmes. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2026. Pp. 262. ISBN 9782385492090.
Schiavone, Aldo. I giuristi, Roma, la storia: scritti scelti. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 648. ISBN 9788891336682.
Schliephake, Christopher. Die Ethik des Traums in den Werken Plutarchs von Chaironeia: Wissen und Ereignis. Millennium-Studien, 118. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xiv, 422. ISBN 9783119144889.
Simonton, Matthew. Ancient Greek democracies. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 242. ISBN 9781108844543.
Tantillo, Ignazio. Le tende, il silenzio e la porpora: spazi, oggetti e rituali nel palazzo imperiale (260-400 d.C.). MUNERA, 57. Santo Spirito: Edigpuglia, 2025. Pp. 410. ISBN 9791259951359.
Tasso, Mirko. Dio, gli dèi e il divino: religione e identità nei carmina del Nord Africa. Epigrafia e antichità, 54. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2026. Pp. 362. ISBN 9788891336101.
Thonemann, Peter. Lucian, volume I. Loeb classical library, 14. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026. Pp. 624. ISBN 9780674997707.
Thonemann, Peter. Lucian, volume II. Loeb classical library, 54. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026. Pp. 640. ISBN 9780674997714.
Toscano Raffa, Alessio. Architettura e cultura materiale a Finziade (Licata-AG): i vani-cucina delle case tardo-repubblicane (II-I Sec. a.C.). Bibliotheca archaeologica, 91. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9788891336866.
Thumiger, Chiara. Caelius Aurelianus and his work: medical practices, intellectual history, textual transmission. Studies in ancient medicine, 60. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xvi, 492. ISBN 9789004750524.
Usher, M.D. How to travel: an ancient guide for the modern tourist. Herodotus and fellow travelers. Ancient wisdom for modern readers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 232. ISBN 9780691259062.
Van Oyen, Astrid. Living precariously in the Roman world: a social archaeology of inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 344. ISBN 9781009726108.
Veillard, Christelle. Cas de conscience et conflits de devoir: les origines de la casuistique d’Homère à Épictète. Anagôgê, 20. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 292. ISBN 9782251459356.
Verdan, Samuel, Sylvian Fachard, Thierry Theurillat. Reconstructing Greek sacred landscapes: dynamics and approaches from the field. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 276. ISBN 9781805832911.
Von Danckelman, Peter. Zwischen Steppe und Polis: die transkulturelle Prägung der palmyrenischen Eliten und ihrer Institutionen. Oriens et occidens, 47. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 376. ISBN 9783515141543.
Weber-Pallez, Clémence, Evan Vance. Argos through the Argive lens: a reappraisal of an ancient city. Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, Supplément, 71. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2026. Pp. 356. ISBN 9782869586772.
Weißenberger, Michael. Sophokles: Antigone. Griechische Dramen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. ix, 316. ISBN 9783110247282.
Wimmer, Benjamin. Frührömische Tierknochen aus der Neuen Residenz in Salzburg: archäozoologische Perspektiven auf die Versorgung und Romanisierung Iuvavums. BAR international series, 3257. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. 322. ISBN 9781407364001.