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Monika Amsler, Knowledge construction in late antiquity. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 142. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. x, 306. ISBN 9783110997637.
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Ken Parry, Later Platonists and their heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Texts and studies in eastern Christianity, 27. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xvii, 550 pages. ISBN 9789004450264.
Mariachiara Angelucci, Polemone di Ilio: i frammenti degli scritti periegetici. Introduzione, testo greco, traduzione e commento. Geographica historica, 37. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022. Pp. 301. ISBN 9783515117890.
Javier Aoiz, Marcelo D. Boeri, Theory and practice in Epicurean political philosophy: security, justice and tranquility. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. ix, 242. ISBN 9781350346543.
Konstantinos Arampapaslis, Antony Augoustakis, Stephen Froedge, Clayton Schroer, Dynamics of marginality: liminal characters and marginal groups in Neronian and Flavian literature. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 143. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. x, 176. ISBN 9783111061580.
Michael Patrick Barber, The historical Jesus and the temple: memory, methodology, and the Gospel of Matthew. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009210850.
Hans Beck, Julia Kindt, The local horizon of ancient Greek religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. vii, 408. ISBN 9781009301848.
Riccado Bellé, Pier Daniele Napolitani, Beatrice Sisana, Archimedea. Tomus A: opera Archimedis ex traditione Maurolyci. Tomus B: De momentis. Edizione nazionale dell’opera matematica di Francesco Maurolico, 7. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2022. Pp. lxxiv, 474. ISBN 9788833154763.
Seth Bernard, Lisa Marie Mignone, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Making the middle Republic: new approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCE. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 348. ISBN 9781009327985.
Clara Berrendonner, Le peuple et l’argent: administration et représentations du trésor public dans la Rome républicaine (509-49 av. J.-C.). Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome, 404. Rome: École française de Rome, 2022. Pp. 588. ISBN 9782728315598.
John Butcher, Paola Megna, Nigel Wilson, Studi sulla riscoperta umanistica di Omero. Città di Castello: Nuova Prhomos, 2023. Pp. 230. ISBN 9788868537012.
Bradley Buszard, Greek translations of Roman gods. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xii, 324. ISBN 9783111071794.
Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Christian Rollinger, The Tetrarchy as ideology: reconfigurations and representations of an imperial power. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, 64. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 382. ISBN 9783515134002.
Katerina Carvounis, Andreas Gavrielatos, Grammatiki Karla, Amphilochios Papathomas, Cyprus in texts from Graeco-Roman antiquity. Mnemosyne supplements, 467. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xviii, 407. ISBN 9789004529489.
Paul Christesen, Charles H. Stocking, A cultural history of sport in antiquity. The cultural histories series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781350023963.
Simone Ciambelli, I collegia e le relazioni clientelari: studio sui legami di patronato delle associazioni professionali nell’Occidente romano tra I e III sec. d.C. Collana studi di storia della Rivista storica dell’antichità, 22. Bologna: Pàtron editore, 2022. Pp. 396. ISBN 9788855535656.
Jessica Clementi, Mariateresa Curcio, Rachele Dubbini, Un atleta venuto dal mare: criticità e prospettive di un ritorno. Adrias, 9. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 220. ISBN 9788891320452.
Paola Radici Colace, Giuseppe Solaro, I classici e la nascita della scienza europea. Dizionario delle scienze e delle tecniche di Grecia e Roma, 3. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2023. Pp. xxviii, 592. ISBN 9788833153636.
Kate Cooper, Queens of a fallen world: the lost women of Augustine’s Confessions. New York: Basic Books, 2023. Pp. ix, 290. ISBN 9781541646001.
Madalina Dana, La correspondance privée dans la Méditerranée antique: sociétés en miroir. Scripta antiqua, 168. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 348. ISBN 9782356135636.
Alexandra Dardenay, Laurent Bricault, Gods in the house. Anthropology of Roman housing II. Antiquité et sciences humaines, 9. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 9782503601694.
Jack L. Davis, Sharon R. Stocker, A Greek state in formation: the origins of civilization in Mycenaean Pylos. Sather classical lectures, 75. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 166. ISBN 9780520387249.
Morgan Dickson, Véronique Dominguez, Marie-Laurence Haack, Dominique Paris-Poulain, Philippe Sénéchal, L’oeuvre en mouvement. De l’Antiquité au XVIIIe siècle. Scripta receptoria, 24. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 380. ISBN 9782356135254.
Justine Diemke, Forschungen zur Gewalt in der römischen Antike. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 24. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 284. ISBN 9783515134316.
Walter Eder, Kurt A. Raaflaub, Walter Eder: Bürger und Staat im griechisch-römischen Altertum. Gesammelte Schriften. Historia – Einzelschriften, 271. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 746. ISBN 9783515133739.
Yaron Z. Eliav, A Jew in the Roman bathhouse: cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 392. ISBN 9780691243436.
Darja Šterbenc Erker, Ambiguity and religion in Ovid’s Fasti: religious innovation and the imperial family. Mnemosyne supplements, 466. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xvi, 297. ISBN 9789004527034.
Joseph Farrell, John F. Miller, Damien P. Nelis, Alessandro Schiesaro, Ovid, death and transfiguration. Mnemosyne supplements, 465. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiv, 445. ISBN 9789004528819.
Marco Alviz Fernández, David Hernández de la Fuente, Shaping the “divine man”: holiness, charisma and leadership in the Graeco-Roman world. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 84. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 378. ISBN 9783515133982.
Silvia Forti, Lucerne di Leptis Magna: dall’età ellenistica all’età tardoantica. Monografie di archeologia Libica, 45. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 1098. ISBN 9788891318527.
Vassiliki Gaggadis-Robin, Guillaume Biard, Nicolas de Larquier, Les mille visages de l’honneur. Actes des IIIes rencontres autour de la sculpture romaine. L’atelier du sculpteur, 3. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 356. ISBN 9782356135230.
Edoardo Galfré, Storia di un esule: l’evoluzione della poesia dell’esilio di Ovidio dai Tristia alle Epistulae ex Ponto. Palingenesia, 135. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. Pp. 242. ISBN 9783515133715.
Myrto Garani, David Konstan, Gretchen Reydams-Schils, The Oxford handbook of Roman philosophy. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xvii, 625. ISBN 9780199328383.
Jonathan M. Hall, James F. Osborne, The connected Iron Age: interregional networks in the eastern Mediterranean, 900-600 BCE. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Pp. viii, 263. ISBN 9780226819044.
Stephen Halliwell, Christopher Stray, Scholarship and controversy: centenary essays on the life and work of Sir Kenneth Dover. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781350333451.
Niklas Holzberg, Der Goldene Esel, oder, Metamorphosen: Lateinisch – deutsch. Mit einer griechisch-deutschen Ausgabe von (Ps.?-)Lukian, Lukios oder Der Esel. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. 732. ISBN 9783111000589.
Simon Hornblower, Lykophron: Alexandra. Oxford world’s classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xlv, 138. ISBN 9780198863342.
Catherine Kearns, The rural landscapes of archaic Cyprus: an archaeology of environmental and social change. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xix, 354. ISBN 9781316513125.
Emily Kearns, Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xi, 330. ISBN 9781107041806.
Hannes Kerber, Svetozar Y. Minkov, Leo Strauss on Plato’s Euthyphro: the 1948 notebook, with lectures and critical writings. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9780271095318.
Audrey Lacroix, L’Antiquité est une fête. B@lades, 2. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 149. ISBN 9782356135001.
Anne-Marie Lewis, Celestial inclinations: a life of Augustus. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780197599648.
Ana Lóio, Editing and commenting on Statius’ Silvae. Mnemosyne supplements, 464. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiii, 257. ISBN 9789004528413.
Barbora Machajdíková, Ludmila Eliášová Buzássyová, Greek – Latin – Slavic: aspects of linguistics and grammatography. Sprachvergleich, 3. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2022. Pp. 275. ISBN 9783823385271.
David Machek, The life worth living in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 260. ISBN 9781009257879.
Jesper Majbom Madsen, Andrew G. Scott, Brill’s companion to Cassius Dio. Brill’s companions to classical studies. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xiii, 524. ISBN 9789004524170.
Émeline Marquis, Epistolary fiction in ancient Greek literature. Philologus. Supplementary volumes, 19. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. viii, 243. ISBN 9783110996241.
Sadi Maréchal, Bathing at the edge of the Roman Empire: baths and bathing habits in the north-western corner of continental Europe. The archaeology of northern Europe, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023. Pp. 304. ISBN 9782503600666.
Ida Gilda Mastrorosa, Élisabeth Gavoille, Enjeux environnementaux et souci de la nature, de la Rome ancienne à la Renaissance. Questioni ambientali e senso della natura da Roma antica al Rinascimento. Scripta receptoria, 26. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 290. ISBN 9782356135599.
Adrienne Mayor, Greek fire, poison arrows, and scorpion bombs: unconventional warfare in the ancient world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xxxvi, 384. ISBN 9780691217819.
Eleni Milka, Mortuary differentiation and social structure in the Middle Helladic Argolid, 2000-1500 B.C. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 422. ISBN 9781789696257.
Peter Franz Mittag, Geschichte des Hellenismus. Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte, 51. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. Pp. xiii, 333. ISBN 9783110648591.
Tomasz Mojsik, Orpheus in Macedonia: myth, cult and ideology. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. Trans. Grzegorz Kulesza. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781350213180.
Dominique Mulliez, Les actes d’affranchissement. Volume 2: prêtrises X à XXXV (nos 723-1273) et appendice (nos 1274-1341). Corpus des inscriptions de Delphes, 5. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2023. Pp. 755. ISBN 9782869585805.
Sarah C. Murray, Male nudity in the Greek Iron Age: representation and ritual context in Aegean societies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xxv, 322. ISBN 9781316510933.
Jacobo Myerston, Language and cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781009289924.
Emma Nicholson, Philip V of Macedon in Polybius’ Histories: politics, history, and fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. viii, 391. ISBN 9780192866769.
Sarah Nooter, Greek poetry in the age of ephemerality. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781009320351.
Robin Osborne, A cultural history of objects in antiquity. The cultural histories series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781474298650.
Maciej Paprocki, Gary Patrick Vos, David John Wright, The staying power of Thetis: allusion, interaction, and reception from Homer to the 21st century. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 140. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xii, 524. ISBN 9783110678352.
Dennis Pausch, Zeitmontagen in Vergils Aeneis: Anachronismen als literarische Technik. Hypomnemata, 215. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 162. ISBN 9783525311523.
Julia Pfefferkorn, Platons tanzende Stadt: Moralpsychologie und Chortanz in den Nomoi. Brill’s Plato studies series, 11. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xv, 376. ISBN 9789004525610.
Alessandro Pierattini, The origins of Greek temple architecture. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781108499477.
Thibaud Poigt, De poids et de mesure. Les instruments de pesée en Europe occidentale durant les âges des Métaux (XIVe-IIIe s. a.C.). Conception, usages et utilisateurs. Dan@, 8. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022. Pp. 433. ISBN 9782356134165.
Mirella Romero Recio, Jesús Salas Álvarez, Laura Buitrago, Pompeya y Herculano entre dos mundos: la recepción de un mito en España y América. Hispania antigua. Serie historica, 13. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 422. ISBN 9788891328205.
James Robson, Aristophanes: Lysistrata. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. xiii, 184. ISBN 9781350090309.
Simona Rota, Frammenti delle orazioni di Cassiodoro: edizione, traduzione, commento. Saggi di storia antica, 43. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2023. Pp. 268. ISBN 9788891327376.
Michel Roux, La colonisation militaire en Phrygie (IV siècle avant-IIIe siècle après J.-C.). Tome 1: Synthèse. Histoire & Épigraphie, 3. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2023. Pp. 564. ISBN 9782356680808.
Maren Elisabeth Schwab, Anthony Grafton, The art of discovery: digging into the past in Renaissance Europe. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii, 308. ISBN 9780691237145.
Folker Siegert, Frieder Lötzsch, Johann Maier, Rechtsgeschichtlicher Kommentar zum Neuen Testament. Band 1: Einleitung, Arbeitsmittel und Voraussetzungen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xiii, 720. ISBN 9783110656060.
Morris Silver, The purpled world: marketing haute couture in the Aegean Bronze Age. Hellenic studies series, 92. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. Pp. 516. ISBN 9780674272569.
Robert Holschuh Simmons, Demagogues, power, and friendship in Classical Athens: leaders as friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781350214484.
Anna M. Sitz, Pagan inscriptions, Christian viewers: the afterlives of temples and their texts in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean. Cultures of reading in the ancient Mediterranean. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xxv, 321. ISBN 9780197666432.
John C. Stephens, Between three worlds: spiritual travelers in the western literary tradition. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2023. Pp. 172. ISBN 9781666758740.
John Storey, Tacitus, Annals XIV: a selection. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 120. ISBN 9781350162358.
Estelle Strazdins, Fashioning the future in Roman Greece: memory, monuments, texts. Oxford studies in ancient culture & representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xx, 368. ISBN 9780192866103.
Richard J.A. Talbert, World and hour in Roman minds: exploratory essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xviii, 308. ISBN 9780197606346.
Polina Tambakaki, Brill’s companion to classical reception and modern world poetry. Brill’s companions to classical reception, 26. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. ix, 442. ISBN 9789004529250.
Harold Tarrant, The second Alcibiades: a Platonist dialogue on prayer and on ignorance. Platonica minora, dubia et spuria. The unknown Plato: shorter, dubious, and spurious works in the Platonic corpus. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2023. Pp. 259. ISBN 9781733535786.
Raffaele Tondini, Origenes brevior. Studi sulla tradizione del Commento a Matteo (con l’edizione dei libri 12 e 13). Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 193. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. ix, 452. ISBN 9783110997866.
Marco Toste, Petrus de Alvernia: questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. A critical edition and study. Ancient and medieval philosophy, 61. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. Pp. xviii, 902. ISBN 9789462703186.
Gilles Touchais, Sylvian Fachard, Argos: les fouilles de l’Aspis. I. Les occupations d’époque historique (VIIIe – IIe siècles av. J.-C.). Études péloponnésiennes, 15. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2023. 2 vols. Pp. 919. ISBN 9782869585898.
Cagla Umsu-Seifert, Olympiodors Kommentar zu Platons Alkibiades: Untersuchung, Text, Übersetzung und Erläuterungen. Classica Monacensia, 59. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2023. Pp. 690. ISBN 9783823385905.
Franziska van Buren, Aristotle and the ontology of St. Bonaventure. Ancient and medieval philosophy, 63. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2023. Pp. 226. ISBN 9789462703568.
Robert Vinkesteijn, Philosophical perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: four case-studies on human nature and the relation between body and soul. Philosophia antiqua, 166. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. vi, 357. ISBN 9789004520875.
Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan, Ana Konestra, Anamarija Eterović Borzić, Roman pottery and glass manufactures: production and trade in the Adriatic region and beyond: proceedings of the 4th international archaeological colloquium (Crikvenica, 8-9 November 2017). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 94. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022. Pp. ii, 375. ISBN 9781803273686.
Katharina Wesselmann, Homer’s Iliad: the Basel commentary, book VII. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xii, 237. ISBN 9783110687637.
David Wharton, A cultural history of color in antiquity. The cultural histories series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781474273275.
Hamish Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien’s utopianism and the classics. Classical receptions in twentieth-century writing. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781350241459.
Étienne Wolff, Les jeux sur les mots, les lettres et les sons dans les textes latins. Scripta receptoria, 25. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2023. Pp. 460. ISBN 9782356135582.
Graham Zanker, Fate and the hero in Virgil’s Aeneid: Stoic world fate and human responsibility. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781009319874.