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Alušík, Tomáš, Pavla Alušíková Dostalíková, Milena Melfi, Conan T. Doyle, Rupert Breitwieser. Prehistoric, ancient and medieval medicine: new perspectives and challenges for the twenty-first century. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 306. ISBN 9781805832591.
Ameling, Walter, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Avner Ecker, Johannes Heinrichs, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Jonathan Price, Ada Yardeni, Ohad Abudraham, Dirk Koßmann, Ofer Pogorelski. Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume VI: the Negev and addenda, parts 1-2. Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. i, 1134. ISBN 9783112237021.
Ameling, Walter, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Avner Ecker, Johannes Heinrichs, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Jonathan Price, Ada Yardeni, Ohad Abudraham, Dirk Koßmann, Ofer Pogorelski. Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume VI: the Negev and addenda, parts 3-4. Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xiv, 958. ISBN 9783112250204.
Andújar, Rosa, Elena Giusti, Jackie Murray. The Cambridge companion to classics and race. Cambridge companions to the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge Press University, 2026. Pp. 564. ISBN 9781009295086.
Arriaza, Ariadna, Jordi Pàmias. Euripides mythographus: the mythographical impulse of Greek tragedy. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 205. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. viii, 273. ISBN 9783112237250.
Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline. Fiction and education in the Roman world: the cultivation of the reader. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 542. ISBN 9781009721646.
Azzi, Clothilde. Le Roseau dans la construction grecque et romaine. Histoire de la construction, 4. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 344. ISBN 9782406197751.
Bachmann, Martin, Jürgen Hammerstaedt, Eric Laufer. Oinoanda: Ergebnisse des Surveys 2007-2015: Bauforschung, Archäologie, Epigraphik. Istanbuler Forschungen, 57. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2025. Pp. 550. ISBN 9783752008531.
Bauer-Zetzmann, Vanessa, Sabrina Mancuso. Myth in tragic discourse: rhetorical and mythopoetic strategies in Attic tragedy. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 210. ISBN 9783525311745.
Bayliss, Andrew. Sparta: the rise and fall of an ancient superpower. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2026. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781324117513.
Beaton, Roderick. Europe: a new history. New York: Basic Books, 2026. Pp. 432. ISBN 9781541603806.
Benzi, Nicolò. Rivals in wisdom: early Greek philosophical poetry and the invention of philosophy. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781836245162.
Beresford, James. Rethinking the Greek campaign to repatriate the Parthenon Marbles: problems and complexities with contested cultural heritage. Budapest: CEU Press, 2026. Pp. 354. ISBN 9789048565009.
Bourgeois, Brigitte, Violaine Jeammet. La sculpture aux mains des peintres: terres cuites polychromes de la Grèce antique. Études méditerranéennes, 12. Athens; Rennes: École française d’Athènes; Musée du Louvre, 2026. 2 vols. Pp. 656. ISBN 9782869586291.
Brumana, Selene I.S., Michela Tardella, Francesco Verde. Studies on Philodemus’ On Signs. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 435. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. vi, 320. ISBN 9783112231241.
Carlig, Nathan, Alain Martin, Oliver Primavesi. L’Empédocle du Caire, P.Fouad inv. 218. Introduction, texte, commentaire. Papyrologica Bruxellensia, 44. Brussels: Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 2025. Pp. xvi, 189. ISBN 9789042955622.
Carrara, Laura. Il nome e il genere. Il dramma satiresco e il ‘quarto dramma’ nel teatro greco. Lexis supplementi, 61. Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2024. Pp. 598. ISBN 9788869698255.
Carter, Jane B., Carla Maria Antonaccio. The Cambridge companion to the Greek iron age. Cambridge companions to the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 612. ISBN 9781107057517.
Chiocchetti, Leonardo. Epistemology, semantics, and logic in ancient Greek grammar: exploring the philosophical underpinnings of Apollonius Dyscolus’ grammatical theory. Philosophia antiqua, 180. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xii, 616. ISBN 9789004757868.
Chiron, Pierre, Michel Patillon. Pseudo-Denys d’Halicarnasse: Art rhétorique. Leçons I-XI: Sur les discours de cérémonie, Sur les discours figurés, Sur les fautes commises dans les déclamations, Sur l’examen critique des textes. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque – Collection Budé, 588. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. xlviii, 504. ISBN 9782251006734.
Cisneros Cunchillos, Miguel. Piedras duras, gemas y vidrios: emulación y lujo desde la época antigua a la moderna. Heri, 17. Santander: Ediciones Universidad de Cantabria, 2026. Pp. 421. ISBN 9788419897282.
Cuny, Diane, Bernard Pouderon. Sophocle: fragments. Fragments, 27. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. x, 866. ISBN 9782251458595.
Desanges, Jean, Christian Robin, Jean-Baptiste Yon. Pline l’Ancien: Histoire naturelle. Livre VI, 3e partie: L’Iran, le Golfe Persique et la Mésopotamie, l’Arabie heureuse. Collection des universités de France. Série latine – Collection Budé, 447. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. xx, 860. ISBN 9782251015071.
Easterling, P.E. Studies in Greek literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 2 vols. Pp. 1125. ISBN 9781009500180.
Esposito, Paolo. Il racconto della strage: le battaglie nel Bellum civile di Lucano. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 95. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2024. Pp. 308. ISBN 9788846770837.
Faraguna, Michele. Symposion 2024: comunicazioni sul diritto greco ed ellenistico (Milano, 2-4 settembre 2024). Akten der Gesellschaft für Griechische und Hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte, 30. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2026. Pp. xiv, 552. ISBN 9783700150725.
Feuth, Amaranth. Metaliterary katabasis in the writings of Eavan Boland, Derek Walcott and Gloria Naylor: the poet and the underworld. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350536012.
Février, Caroline. Le pontife et le décemvir: la procuration romaine des prodiges. Études anciennes, 91. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 528. ISBN 9782251459332.
García González, Juan. Sertorius, the exiles of the Sullan regime and the provinces of the empire: legitimacy, morality and imperial discourse in the 70s BCE. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 91. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 214. ISBN 9783515140041.
Gehad, Basem. The early Roman necropolis of ancient Philadelphia: results from the 2019-2024 excavations. BAR international series, 3261. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. xxv, 138. ISBN 9781407363622.
Gilhaus, Lennart. Brill’s companion to war violence in the ancient Mediterranean. Brill’s companions to classical studies: warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xx, 525. ISBN 9789004760158.
Glover, Eric. The astronomy of Hipparchus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 536. ISBN 9781009607537.
Golitsis, Pantelis. Alexander of Aphrodisias: commentary on Aristotle, Metaphysics (books IV-V). Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – series academica, 3.2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xiv, 344. ISBN 9783110785777.
Guasti, Duccio. Homeric insults in context: language and society in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 206. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xiv, 185. ISBN 9783119142755.
Güremen, Refik, Mauro Bonazzi, Elisabetta Cattanei. Theôria as cognition in Plato. Brill’s Plato studies series, 22. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xii, 280. ISBN 9789004747111.
Gürsu, Isilay. Public dialogues in archaeology: new methodologies from Turkey. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350547308.
Haack, Marie-Laurence. Rouges Étrusques: Marxisme et étruscologie au XXe siècle. Actes des Journées d’études (Amiens, 8-9 novembre 2021). Biblioteca di studi etruschi, 69. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2026. Pp. xxvi, 244. ISBN 9788876893568.
Harland, Philip A. Ethnic relations in the ancient Mediterranean: social life under empire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2026. Pp. 360. ISBN 9780226848594.
Hayes, Evan, Stephen Nimis. Galen on exercise: an intermediate Greek reader. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2026. Pp. xxiii, 197. ISBN 9781940997506.
Hoffmann-Salz, Julia. The power of blood: blood and blood ties in Greek and Roman discourse. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 329. ISBN 9783525311783.
Holland, Tom. Suetonius: The Lives of the Caesars. New York: Penguin Random House, 2025. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780143107705.
Jördens, Andrea. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten: Wortindex zu Band XXX. Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, 31. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. Pp. 130. ISBN 9783447123990.
Karatas, Aynur-Michèle-Sara. The sanctuaries and cults of Demeter in Asia Minor and the islands off its western coast. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 611. ISBN 9781805832690.
Kopp-Zimmermann, Laura. Frauenbilder – Männerbilder. Genderkonstruktionen in hellenistischer Zeit. Mainzer althistorische Studien, 14. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2026. Pp. vii, 307. ISBN 9783969294727.
Korobili, Giouli, Kassandra J. Miller, Philip J. van der Eijk. Synchronizing the body in ancient medicine and philosophy. Chronoi, 22. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 191. ISBN 9783112235683.
Kotwick, Mirjam E. The ancient interpretation of dreams: early Greek hermeneutics and its sources. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780691263557.
Köstner, Elena. Von Freundinnen und Erbschleichern: Wechselspiele des Interpersonalen in letzten Willen als Form der Kontingenzbewältigung und des Zukunftshandelns. Studien zur alten Geschichte, 40. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 454. ISBN 9783911065429.
Kowalewska, Arleta, Michael Eisenberg. Hippos (Sussita) of the Decapolis: the civic basilica and the southern bathhouse. University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2026. Pp. 536. ISBN 9781646023424.
Langgut, Dafna. Climate and environment in the Southern Levant, 1300-300 BCE. Cambridge elements: the archaeology of ancient Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 98. ISBN 9781009558327.
Lengeling, Jannik. Verschwörungstheorien in der späten römischen Republik. Historia-Einzelschriften, 278. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 352. ISBN 9783515142021.
Lenfant, Dominique. L’oligarchie des Trente à Athènes (404-403 av. J.-C.): sources et histoire. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 814. ISBN 9782251458991.
Liebersohn, Yozef. Democracy under fire: a new interpretation of Plato’s Crito. Philosophia antiqua, 178. Leiden: Brill, 2026. Pp. xii, 236. ISBN 9789004751309.
Maiello, Eleonora. Poetry in the name of God: (self-) representation of clerical spiritual authority in the Carmina Latina Epigraphica of Italy (4th-5th Centuries CE). Mainzer althistorische Studien, 15. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2026. Pp. 308. ISBN 9783969295021.
Mairs, Rachel. Language and script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia. Cambridge elements: elements in writing in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 74. ISBN 9781009782142.
Martinez-Sève, Laurianne, Ariella Bollati. Fouilles d’Aï Khanoum III. Le sanctuaire du temple aux niches indentées 1. Architecture et histoire. Mémoires de la Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan, 36. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2025. 2 vols. Pp. 1112. ISBN 9782869586789.
Mehl, Véronique, Maria Patera. Laideurs grecques: usages et représentations antiques. Histoire. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2026. Pp. 226. ISBN 9791041305001.
Miller, Paul Allen, Mario Telò. Classics beyond the pleasure principle. Classical memories/modern identities. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2026. Pp. 232. ISBN 9780814216156.
Moodie, Erin K. Aristophanes: Women in the Assembly. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 200. ISBN 9781350378209.
Morgan, James M. Perceptions of the divine in Greek historiography: a hermeneutical dilemma from Herodotus to Luke. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 65. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2026. Pp 465. ISBN 9783796554957.
Papachrysostomou, Athina. Epikrates – Eriphos. Fragmenta comica, 16.4. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 280. ISBN 9783911065573.
Pavani, Anna. Names and methods: the language of dialectic in Plato’s Sophist and Statesman. Philosophical studies in ancient thought, 5. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2026. Pp. 242. ISBN 9783796554520.
Pitts, Martin, Penny Coombe, Eleri Cousins, Andrew Gardner, Lisa Lodwick. Communities, connectivity and complexity in Roman Britain: new archaeological agendas. BAR British series, 704; Archaeology of Roman Britain, 13. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. xix, 231. ISBN 9781407364155.
Post, Arjan, Geert Roskam, Stefan Schorn, Joseph Verheyden, Pietro Zaccaria. Networking through biography: constructing intellectual junctions in antiquity, the Renaissance and the Arabo-Islamic world. Lectio, 19. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 466. ISBN 9782503620008.
Ram-Prasad, Krishnan J. Relative clauses in Proto-Indo-European: a study in syntactic reconstruction. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 406. ISBN 9781009664202.
Salis, Gianfranca, Marco Rendeli, Andreina Ghiani. Al di là del mare. Etruria e Sardegna in mille anni di storia: atti dell’incontro internazionale (Baumini, 28-29 ottobre 2022). Biblioteca di Studi Etruschi. Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, 68. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025. Pp. xii, 250. ISBN 9788876893537.
Sander, Ann-Christine. Handelspatrone, Grenzkrieger, Diplomaten und Priester: die lokalen Eliten des kaiserzeitlichen Tadmors zwischen Nomadentum und Sesshaftigkeit. Oriens et occidens, 48. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 396. ISBN 9783515141550.
Schröder, Stephan. Kritisches und Exegetisches zu Menander mit einem Anhang: Addenda et Corrigenda ad PCG VI 1. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xviii, 208. ISBN 9783111191508.
Sève, Michel, Patrick Weber. Le forum de Philippes. Tome 1. L’ensemble de la place: les fouilles, les ruines, l’urbanisme. Fouilles et études, 1. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2026. 2 vols. Pp. 562. ISBN 9782869586574.
Spelman, Henry. The Cambridge companion to Pindar. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 422. ISBN 9781009100540.
Strutt, Kristian, Anna Collar, Paul Johnson, Katherine Crawford. Archaeologies of the Roman Mediterranean: papers presented in honour of Professor Simon Keay. British School at Rome archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 396. ISBN 9781805831785.
Thodis, Antonios. Beginning again with the classical orders: rhythms of justice, nature, and architecture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2026. Pp. 900. ISBN 9780674303287.
Tronzo, William. Four Mediterranean capitals: Rome, Constantinople, Palermo, Venice. Essays in architecture and visual experience. New York: Italica Press, 2026. Pp. 220. ISBN 9781599103389.
Van Dam, Raymond. Inscriptions from the age of Constantine: editions, translations, and essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 1072. ISBN 9781009474603.
Van der Meeren, Sophie. Contresens créateurs dans l’exégèse et la lecture des textes antiques. Études anciennes. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2026. Pp. 292. ISBN 9791041307982.
Von Möllendorff, Peter, Jens Gerlach. Lukian: Die Scharlatane – Satiren I. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 405. ISBN 9783110704136.
Whelan, Robin. Serving the Christian state in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 390. ISBN 9781009714709.
Whitmarsh, Tim. Nonnus: Dionysiaca. Collected imperial Greek epics. Oakland: University of California Press, 2026. Pp. 726. ISBN 9780520281301.
Woerther, Frédérique. Le commentaire moyen d’Averroès à la Poétique d’Aristote dans la version arabo-latine d’Hermann l’Allemand. Textes et traditions. Paris: Vrin, 2026. Pp. 256. ISBN 9782711632510.
Woodman, A.J. Sallust: Bellum Catilinae. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 358. ISBN 9781009371513.