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Aguado-Cantabrana, Oskar, Tomás Aguilera Durán, Paloma Martín-Esperanza Montilla, Antonio Duplá Ansuátegui. Héroes y heroínas de la antigüedad en los imaginarios contemporáneos. Madrid: Silex Ediciones, 2025. Pp. 280. ISBN 9791387694128.
Alexandridou, Alexandra, Alexander Mazarakis Ainian. The academy before Plato: a contribution to the study of early Athens. Athens: Academy of Athens, 2024. 2 volumes, pp. 821. ISBN 9789604044160.
Antoniou, Alex A., Kimberley Webb, Timothy Smith. The Roman censorship: perceptions and realities. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 407. ISBN 9783111085326.
Beck, Hans, Christy Constantakopoulou, Jeremy McInerney. The Oxford history of the classical Greek world. Vol. I: the environment and resources. Oxford history of the classical Greek world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780197670958.
Bellucci, Nikola D., Maria-Leena Hänninen, Anu Kaisa Koponen. Egypt in Roman eyes: approaches to ancient material culture. Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 54. Rome: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 2026. Pp. 184. ISBN 9788854917330.
Bernard, Elisa. The shape of change: negotiating institutional identity in modern Italy’s art and archaeology museums. BAR international series, 3276. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. xv, 144. ISBN 9781407363547.
Bregenzer, Leonard D. Seneca on wisdom and philosophy as arts. Philosophia Romana, 8. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2026. Pp. 222. ISBN 9783825396787.
Brélaz, Cédric. De l’assemblée des citoyens au peuple de Dieu: la démocratie grecque sous la domination de Rome (200 a.C.–500 p.C.). Titre courant, 84. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2026. Pp. 744. ISBN 9782600005845.
Briant, Pierre. Alexandre dans l’ombre de Darius. Docet omnia, 11. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 200. ISBN 9782251460246.
Capponi, Matteo, Pierre Voelke. Le corps acteur dans le théâtre antique. Cahiers du théâtre antique, 8. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2026. Pp. 330. ISBN 9782385492007.
Cardete del Olmo, María Cruz. Identidades en la Grecia antigua: construyendo a los griegos. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2026. Pp. xxx, 566. ISBN 9783631950319.
Cartledge, Paul. Pericles: statesman, demagogue, eccentric. Great lives of the ancient world. London: Reaktion Books, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781836392002.
Cefalo, Generoso, Alessandro Magnani. Le regalità ibride in Oriente da Alessandro ai Sasanidi. Urbino: Urbino University Press, 2026. Pp. 289. ISBN 9791257650353.
Cefalo, Generoso, Francesco Muraca, Storia istituzionale, storia amministrativa e interculturalità nel mondo greco e romano: atti dei seminari Ricerche a Confronto XIII, Bologna 2018. Urbino: Urbino University Press, 2024. Pp. 199. ISBN 9788831205658.
Chrystal, Paul. The Romans: a people’s history. London: Reaktion Books, 2026. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781836392644.
Cinquantaquattro, Teresa Elena. Aegyptiaca e contesti funerari a Pithekoussai (scavi Buchner, 1965-1982). Notizie degli scavi di Antichità. Nuova serie, supplemento 5. Rome: Bardi Edizioni, 2026. Pp. 142. ISBN 9788821812842.
Cioffi, Carmela. Anonymi: Expositio totius mundi et gentium. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. xxxiii, 90. ISBN 9783111636252.
Clay, Jenny Strauss, Athanassios Vergados. Studies in early Greek theology. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026. Pp. 379. ISBN 9783161595707.
Craik, Elizabeth. Hippocrates: man, medic, myth. Great lives of the ancient world. London: Reaktion Books, 2026. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781836392750.
Coda, Elisa. Themistius and the power of words: philosophy and rhetoric on the crossroad of ages and languages. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 442. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. vi, 446. ISBN 9783111650470.
Cusset, Christophe, Marie-Christine Fayant. Nonnos de Panopolis: Paraphrase de l’Evangile selon Jean. Tome II: chants VII à XII. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque – Collection Budé, 589. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. xii, 604. ISBN 9782251006741.
Del Reguero González, Jorge, Lluís Pons Pujol, El expediente Vives y Escudero (1912-1921): estudio historiográfico sobre la necrópolis púnica del Puig des Molins (Ibiza). BAR international series, 3278. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. xiv, 240. ISBN 9781407364773.
Dikaios, Gregory. Plato’s waking state ὕπαρ: interweaving the Republic, the Statesman, and the Laws. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 26. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2025. Pp. 287. ISBN 9783825397067.
Doyle, Siobhan Marie. Kierkegaard and Plotinus: the dialectical movement to the absolute principle. New Kierkegaard research. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781666959413.
Ecca, Giulia. Lo scritto ippocratico De Medico. Current issues in ancient medicine, 2. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2026. Pp. 188. ISBN 9783796552694.
Fentress, Elizabeth, Adam Rabinowitz. Slaving states: from West Africa to the ancient Mediterranean. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. xvii, 395. ISBN 9780691288062.
Fischerová, Sylva, Jirí Starý. Ancient weeds: contours of popular and trash literature in ancient and medieval times. Prague: Karolinum Press, 2025. Pp. 544. ISBN 9788024654720.
Fowler, Robert L. Myth, mythography, and historiography: studies in Herodotus, his contemporaries, and others. Themes and forms in Graeco-Roman literature, 9. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026. Pp. 419. ISBN 9783161613340.
Franklinos, T. E., Rino Modonutti. Sicco Polenton, Lives of the Famous Latin Authors: a selection. Bloomsbury Neo-Latin series: Early Modern texts and anthologies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350408760.
Ganter, Angela. Die römische Gesellschaft. Enzyklopädie der griechisch-römischen Antike. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 320. ISBN 9783110695731.
Gołąb, Hanna. Songs and stones: the post-classical Greek chorus and the power of placemaking. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780197834039.
Green, F. Mira. Mastering the body: daily life, inequality, and slavery in Roman homes and society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2026. Pp. 246. ISBN 9781501788871.
Hanses, Mathias. Black Cicero: W.E.B. Du Bois and the ancient Romans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780192862297.
Hellings, Benjamin D. R., Marguerite Spoerri Butcher, Chris Howgego. Roman coin hoards across frontiers. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780198986447.
Helzle, Martin, Wilfried Lingenberg. Ovids Epistulae ex Ponto: Buch III-IV. Wissenschaftliche Kommentare zu griechischen und lateinischen Schriftstellern. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2026. Pp. 507. ISBN 9783825397227.
Højte, Jakob Munk, Poul Pedersen. The Zephyrion Peninsula in Halikarnassos: investigations and observations 1990-2024. Halicanassian studies, 7. Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2026. Pp. 796. ISBN 9788740836547.
Holzberg, Niklas. Augusteische Klassik: Vergil – Horaz – Ovid. Eine Einführung. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 205. ISBN 9783112257807.
Jackson, Heather. The pottery of the Governor’s Palace at Seleucid Jebel Khalid-on-the-Euphrates. Ancient Near Eastern studies supplement series, 66. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2026. Pp. xxvi, 356. ISBN 9789042951334.
Jenkyns, Richard. The path from Aulis: a study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350534483.
Junkiert, Maciej. After the fall: classical antiquity in Polish intellectual history, 1795-1825. Brill research perspectives in early modern cultures of the younger Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. vi, 108. ISBN 9789004692886.
Kaster, Robert A. Cicero: Tusculan Disputations. Oxford classical texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 448.
Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda, Pablo Alvarez, Julia Miller. A catalogue of Greek manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, volume 2. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 420. ISBN 9780472133697.
Lanoue, André. Platonische Hermeneutik: dramaturgische Form und philosophischer Inhalt. Beiträge zur Philosophie. Neue Folge. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2026. Pp. 353. ISBN 9783825397319.
Lee, Jaehyun. Das Allgemeine bei Alexander von Aphrodisias: ein Nachweis seiner dreifachen Differenzierung. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 28. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2026. Pp. 306. ISBN 9783825397616.
Mack, Rosanagh. Equine currency: Thessalian coinage and the horse in the classical and Hellenistic periods. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 190. ISBN 9781805833628.
Madden, Thomas F. The fall of republics: a history from ancient Carthage to the American Constitution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2026. Pp. 448. ISBN 9780691195827.
Manuwald, Gesine, Cédric Scheidegger Lämmle. Cleophilus’ De Coetu Poetarum and Iustus Lipsius’ Somnium: dreaming of the literary tradition. Bloomsbury Neo-Latin series: early modern texts and anthologies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781350468740.
Matić, Uros, Vladimir Mihajlović, Aftermath of war in ancient societies. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2026. Pp. 184. ISBN 9798888572467.
Mazzilli, Francesca, Rubén Montoya González, Lukasz Sokolowski. The global, the local and the glocal: recent approaches in Roman archaeology. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781350398429.
McKeane, John. Sarah Kofman and ancient thought: learning to live at last. Classics in theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198898177.
Ménard, Hélène. Ad bestias: condamner aux bêtes dans la Rome antique. Mondes anciens, 16. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2026. Pp. 298. ISBN 9782251459752.
Mendes Venturott, Thiago. Die ápa- √yaj-Konstruktion: Untersuchungen zum exozentrischen Resultativum im Indoiranischen, Griechischen und Lateinischen. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2026. Pp. 548. ISBN 9783752009576.
Micaletti, Vincenzo, Fabrizio Lusani, Fabiana Rosaci. L’altra faccia di Marte: sconfitti e donne nella guerra del mondo antico. Urbino: Urbino University Press, 2025. Pp. 349. ISBN 9788831205931.
Minetti, Alessandra. Pittura etrusca: problemi e prospettive, II. Atti del Convegno di Studi (Sarteano, 14 ottobre 2023). Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, Biblioteca di Studi Etruschi, 70. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2026. Pp. xvi, 158. ISBN 9788876893575.
Moore, Kenneth Royce. The intersectional Alexander the Great: receptions and representations in Greece and the wider Hellenistic continuum. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350468306.
Mougeolle, Pascale. Achille tuant: pour une étude transmédiale du motif. Perspectives comparatistes, 161. Classique/Moderne, 18. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 170. ISBN 9782406209287.
Mouzala, Melina G. Cognition in ancient Greek philosophy and its reception: interdisciplinary approaches. Academia philosophical studies. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2024. Pp. 375. ISBN 9783985721740.
Muich, Rebecca, Omar Ali. Africans in the ancient Mediterranean world: primary sources from classical antiquity. Primary sources from classical antiquity. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2026. Pp. 344. ISBN 9781647922900.
Murnaghan, Sheila. Sharing in the action: the choral plot of classical Athenian tragedy. Myth and poetics II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2026. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781501787256.
Nawotka, Krzysztof, Agnieszka Wojciechowska. Ancient epigraphic culture on the Aegean and Ionian islands. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350447653.
Oakley, S. P., Alessandro Schiesaro. Latin hexameter poetry and its reception: essays in honour of Philip Hardie. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 208. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. viii, 362. ISBN 9783119141864.
Oppeneer, Thierry, Arjan Zuiderhoek. Popular political participation from archaic Greece to the late Hellenistic period: the assemblies of the Greek cities beyond Athens. Bloomsbury ancient politics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781350358461.
Pentericci, Caterina. Ad inferos: Catabasi infernali e altri viaggi. Urbino: Urbino University Press, 2025. Pp. 176. ISBN 9788831205849.
Pittia, Sylvie, Elena Torregaray Pagola. Résolution des conflits par la conciliation et l’intermédiation durant la République romaine et le Principat. Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2026. Pp. 314. ISBN 9782385492205.
Plantzos, Dimitris. Συνέβη στην Αθήνα: Αρχαιολογία, κληρονομιά, αστικές μεταμορφώσεις. Athens: Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou, 2026. Pp. 298. ISBN 9786185868253.
Portillo-Sotelo, José Luis. Cerámica común romana y ciclo haliéutico: análisis de los contextos de las cetariae de Iulia Traducta. Roman and late antique Mediterranean pottery, 21. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 444. ISBN 9781805833369.
Poulter, John. New insights into the planning of the Antonine Wall. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2026. Pp. 66. ISBN 9781805833543.
Rathmayr, Elisabeth, Veronika Scheibelreiter-Gail. Inschriften in Wohnhäusern 2: Türkei und Zypern. Veröffentlichungen zur Epigraphik, 3. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 565. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2026. Pp. 1143. ISBN 9783700150640.
Reith, Manuel. Die Fabel bei Horaz: Studien zur literarischen Funktion und Tradition. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 27. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2025. Pp. 319. ISBN 9783825396084.
Ritter, Max, Elodie Turquois, Marlena Whiting. Fashioning sixth-century Constantinople: text, translation and commentary of Book I of the Buildings by Prokopios of Kaisareia. Studies in Byzantine cultural history. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 552. ISBN 9781032407067.
Ruiz, Julio C., Marta Nicolás-Muelas. Iconography of war in the ancient Mediterranean world. BAR international series, 3282. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2026. Pp. 182. ISBN 9781407364612.
Sariaydin, Berkan. Ekphrasis in Vergils Aeneis und Ovids Metamorphosen. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften. Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, 168. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2025. Pp. 525. ISBN 9783825396923.
Saggini, Tamara. Céramique en contextes: Erétrie au tournant des époques archaïque et classique. Eretria, fouilles et recherches, 26. Athens; Gollion: École suisse d’archéologie en Grèce; Infolio, 2025. 2 vols. Pp. 608. ISBN 9782889681709.
Shanahan, Emily G. Penelope and her maids. Cornell studies in classical philology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2026. Pp. 222. ISBN 9781501789380.
Shoshitaishvili, Boris. Our planetary mirror: Earth science and the reimagining of humanity. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780226852133.
Telò, Mario. Edward Said and the late animal: classics, negative dialectics, and the limits of humanism. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 358. ISBN 9780198952695.
Torello-Hill, Giulia, Andrew J. Turner. Jodocus Badius Ascensius’ Praenotamenta to Terence. Bloomsbury Neo-Latin series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781350454187.
Torrance, Isabelle. Irish migrations and classical antiquity. Classical diaspora. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. Pp. 400. ISBN 9781350430426.
Trapp, Michael. Aelius Aristides: Orations, volume III. Loeb classical library, 563. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026. Pp. 560. ISBN 9780674997806.
Tsirtsoni, Zoï. Le temps et ses noms: construire une chronologie égéo-balkanique du 7e au 4e millénaire avant J.-C. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 419. Athènes: Ecole française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 516. ISBN 9782869586093.
Valdés Guía, Miriam, María Cruz Cardete del Olmo, Fernando Echeverría Rey, Chiara M. Mauro, Aida Fernández Prieto. Pobreza, marginación y exclusión en la Antigüedad clásica. Actas del XLIV Coloquio Internacional del GIREA. Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2026. Pp. 704. ISBN 9782385492175.
Vertedor Ballesteros, Borja. El campamento romano: un centro de administración en la república media. Libera Res Publica. Zaragoza; Sevilla: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza; Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2026. Pp. 334. ISBN 9791370141059.
Von Hesberg, Henner, Johannes Lipps. Vatikanische Museen. Museo Gregoriano Profano ex Lateranense Bauornamentik und Architekturglieder. Monumenta Artis Romanae, 43. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2026. Pp. 552. ISBN 9783752006131.
Warwick, Celsiana. Gendered voices in the Iliad: lament and heroic glory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780197902257.
Worthington, Ian. Macedonia under the Argead kings: the rise and fall of an ancient superpower. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780197667972.
Zingg, Emanuel. Die Pachtinscriften von Hyadi und Olymos (Mylasa/Milas). Asia Minor Studien, 108. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. x, 412. ISBN 9783112226063.