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Ambury, James M. Neoplatonic pedagogy and the Alcibiades I: crafting the contemplative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 254. ISBN 9781009100212.
Anderson, Daniel, Pascale Derron. Les espaces du savoir dans l’antiquité: introduction et huit exposés suivis de discussions. Entretiens sur l’antiquité classique, 69. Vandœuvres: Fondation Hardt, 2024. Pp. 410. ISBN 9782600007696.
Anderson, Emily S. K. Minoan zoomorphic culture: between bodies and things. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 430. ISBN 9781009452038.
Anderson, Merrick. Just prospering? Plato and the sophistic debate about justice. British Academy monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780197267660.
Arnson Svarlien, Diane, Ian C. Storey. Aristophanes. Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs. Hackett classics. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2024. Pp. 416. ISBN 9781647921859.
Aultman-Moore, J. Antigone. Sophokles. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781554815869.
Badoud, Nathan. The Colossus of Rhodes: archaeology of a lost wonder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198903734.
Becht, Stefanie. Aere clusa. Bronzene Rahmen, Profile und Zierleisten im römischen Italien und den nordwestlichen Provinzen. BAR international series, 3181. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2024. Pp. viii, 232. ISBN 9781407361017.
Beine, Julia Jennifer. Das doppelte Spiel des “servus callidus.” Eine poetologische und gesellschaftliche Reflexionsfigur auf den europäischen Bühnen der Frühen Neuzeit. Studia Comica, 23. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 562. ISBN 9783911065092.
Bell, Sinclair, Dorian Borbonus, Rose MacLean. Freed persons in the Roman world: status, diversity, and representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 308. ISBN 9781009438537.
Betegh, Gábor, Voula Tsouna. Conceptualising concepts in Greek philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 506. ISBN 9781009369572.
Blomley, Anna Magdalena. The bronze coins of eastern Mount Ossa in the Thessalian perioikic region of Magnesia: Homolion, Eureai, Eurymenai, and Meliboia. Numismatic notes and monographs, 173. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2024. Pp. xxiv, 224. ISBN 9780897223942 / 9780897223959.
Boers, Kay, Becca Grose, Rebecca Usherwood, Guy Walker. Erasure in late antiquity. Sylloge. Budapest: Trivent, 2024. Pp. 293. ISBN 9786156696250.
Brillet-Dubois, Pascale, Boris Nikolsky, Anne-Sophie Noel. Poétique et politique chez Euripide. Kaïnon, 27. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 538. ISBN 9782406171317.
Bronstein, David, Thomas Kjeller Johansen, Michail Peramatzis. Aristotelian metaphysics: essays in honour of David Charles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 432. ISBN 9780198908678.
Brutti, Massimo, Valerio Marotta, Fara Nasti, Aldo Schiavone, Emanuele Stolfi, Jeremy Carden, Philip Ditchfield. Roman jurists at work: four portraits. Scriptores iuris Romani. Subsidia, 4. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 220. ISBN 9788891332592.
Cahanier, Simon. “J’ai combattu en Hispanie”: la mémoire culturelle des guerres de Rome dans la péninsule Ibérique (fin du IIIe s. a.C. – début du Ve s. p.C.). Scripta antiqua, 180. Polemica, 2. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 680. ISBN 9782356136039.
Caltot, Pierre-Alain. Vox vatis: poétique de la prophétie dans la Pharsale de Lucain. Rome et ses renaissances. Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses, 2024. Pp. 486. ISBN 9791023107722.
Capra, Andrea, Barbara Graziosi. Classics, love, revolution: the legacies of Luigi Settembrini. Postclassical interventions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780198865445.
Casali, Giovanna, Alessia Zangrando, Paola Dessì. Suoni e strumenti musicali nel mondo antico: per un sistema disciplinare e metodologico integrato. Studia archaeologica, 265. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 280. ISBN 9788891331403.
Clerc, Didier. Théodore Métochite, Comparaison de Démosthène et d’Aristide. Sapheneia, 24. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2024. Pp. 464. ISBN 9783796549991.
Courtil, Jean-Christophe, Estelle Galbois, François Ripoll, Sylvie Rougier-Blanc. Déchéance et réhabilitation dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine: espaces, personnes, objets. Scripta antiqua, 176. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 450. ISBN 9782356135995.
Cupcea, George. Latin inscriptions from the legionary fortress of Apulum. Tyche Supplementband, 16. Vienna: Holzhausen Verlag, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9783903207752.
De Chaisemartin, Nathalie. Les frises à guirlandes d’Aphrodisias de Carie. L’Atelier du sculpteur, 4. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 605. ISBN 9782356135858.
Demoulin, Hubert. Epiménide de Crète. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 222. ISBN 9782350882154.
Douglas, Robin, Francis Young. Paganism persisting: a history of European paganisms since antiquity. Exeter new approaches to legend, folklore and popular belief. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2024. Pp. 228. ISBN 9781804131237.
Edmondson, Jonathan, Milagros Navarro Caballero. Onomastique, société et identité culturelle en Lusitanie romaine (ADOPIA I) / Onomástica, sociedad e identidad cultural en Lusitania romana (ADOPIA I). Scripta Antiqua, 178. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 956. ISBN 9782356136015.
Falcon, Andrea. The architecture of the science of living beings: Aristotle and Theophrastus on animals and plants. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 270. ISBN 9781009426343.
Faville, James, Michael Francis, Joseph DiProperzio, Steven Merola. Animalia: a Latin reader. Oxford, OH: American Classical League, 2024. Pp. viii, 136. ISBN 9798990267404.
Fedeli, Giacomo, Henry Spelman. Writing literary history in the Greek and Roman world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 398. ISBN 9781009464529.
Fredriksen, Paula. Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780691157696.
Gabriel, Yiannis. Greek myths for a post-truth world. Classical studies and archaeology. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 312. ISBN 9781350376564.
Gale, Monica R., Anna Chahoud. The Augustan space: the poetics of geography, topography and monumentality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 278. ISBN 9781009176071.
Gehrke, Hans-Joachim, Christian Mann, Kai Trampedach. Historische Landeskunde und Geographie. Ausgewählte Schriften, 4. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 423. ISBN 9783515137713.
Gilles, Greg, Karolina Frank, Christine Plastic, Lewis Webb. Female agency in the ancient Mediterranean world. Women in ancient cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. Pp. 264. ISBN 9781802071856.
Gimatzidis, Stefanos. Greek Iron Age pottery in the Mediterranean world: tracing provenance and socioeconomic ties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 544. ISBN 9781009474856.
Godwin, John. Roman verse satires: spleen and ideal. Greece and Rome live. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. Pp. 184. ISBN 9781802074697.
Graf, Chiara. Seneca’s affective cosmos: subjectivity, feeling, and knowledge in the Natural Questions and beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198907008.
Hardwick, Lorna, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver. Greek and Roman antiquity in First World War poetry: making connections. Oxford classical reception commentaries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9780198907886.
Hardwick, Lorna, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver. Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen: classical connections. Oxford classical reception commentaries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780192856678.
Hemingway, Seán. Cycladic art: the Leonard N. Stern collection on loan from the Hellenic Republic. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024. Pp. 112. ISBN 9781588397874.
Hladký, Vojtěch. On the gods and the world: Orpheus and the Presocratics in the Derveni papyrus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780192873156.
Hullmeine, Paul. Ptolemy’s cosmology in Greek and Arabic. The background and legacy of the Planetary Hypotheses. Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus – texts, 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 479. ISBN 9782503607177.
Humfress, Caroline, David Ibbetson, Patrick Olivelle. The Cambridge comparative history of ancient law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 744. ISBN 9781107035164.
Kosmadaki, Polina. Christian Zervos au miroir de la Grèce. Mondes Méditerranéens et Balkaniques, 19. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9782869586253.
Kosmin, Paul J. The ancient shore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780674296244.
Lacaze, Guy. Les mots grecs de la médecine. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 592. ISBN 9782251456027.
Lecznar, Adam. Wole Soyinka: tragic classicism. Classical receptions in twentieth-century writing. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781350249042.
Malhomme, Florence. Musique et juste milieu à l’âge humaniste et classique. Bibliothèque de la Renaissance, 84. Classiques Garnier: Paris, 2024. Pp. 510. ISBN 9782406172765.
Malkin, Irad, Josine Blok. Drawing lots: from egalitarianism to democracy in ancient Greece. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 536. ISBN 9780197753477.
Marcotte, Didier. Eschyle. Les Perses. Classiques. Paris: Livre de Poche, 2024. Pp. 320. ISBN 9782253242918.
Mastrorosa, Ida Gilda, Élisabeth Gavoille. La villa et ses ressources naturelles, de l’Antiquité à la première modernité / La villa e le sue risorse naturali fra antichità e prima età moderna. Scripta receptoria, 27. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 268. ISBN 9782356136077.
Meier, Christian, Wilfried Nippel, Stefan Rebenich. Zur römischen Geschichte. Ausgewählte Schriften, 1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 388. ISBN 9783515136594.
Miller, Peter J. In praise of Greek athletes: echoes of the herald’s proclamation in epinikian and epigram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 218. ISBN 9781009365956.
Murphy, James Bernard. Deification in classical Greek philosophy and the Bible. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 378. ISBN 9781009392921.
Pearson, Giles. Aristotle on what emotions are. Oxford Aristotle studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780198879343.
Pérez Hurtado, Laia, César Sierra Martin. Diaphorá. Alteridad y construcción cultural de la diferencia en el mundo clásico. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité (ISTA). Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2024. Pp. 220. ISBN 9782385491253.
Poliziano, Angelo, Lorenzo Vespoli. Commento inedito alle Bucoliche di Virgilio. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Angelo Poliziano. Testi, X.3. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2024. Pp. xxxii, 154. ISBN 9788822269416.
Preud’homme, Nicolas. À la porte des mondes: histoire de l’Ibérie du Caucase (IIIe siècle a.C. – VIIe siècle p.C.). Scripta antiqua, 181. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 564. ISBN 9782356136084.
Ringe, Don. The linguistic roots of ancient Greek. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780198879022.
Rives, J. B. Animal sacrifice in the Roman Empire (31 BCE-395 CE): power, communication, and cultural transformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780197648919.
Rollinger, Christian, Nadine Viermann. Empresses-in-waiting: female power and performance at the late Roman court. Women in ancient cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781802075939.
Roubekas, Nickolas P., Demetres Xygalatas, Luther H. Martin, Donald Wiebe. Studying religion, past and present: essays in honor of Panayotis Pachis. Scientific studies of religion: inquiry and explanation. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781350339996.
Ruiz Arzálluz, Iñigo. El comentario “Legitur” a Terencio. Millennio medievale, 129. Testi, 36. Firenze: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2024. Pp. lxxviii, 232. ISBN 9788892902466.
Russo, Martina. Flattery in Seneca the Younger: theory and practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780192858115.
Sánchez Moreno, Eduardo, Enrique García Riaza. The materiality of diplomacy in the Hellenistic-Roman Mediterranean. Gifts, bribes, offerings. Edinburgh studies in Hellenistic history and culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9781399530385.
Saumarez Smith, Ferdinand. Eleusis and enlightenment: the problem of the mysteries in eighteenth-century thought. Brill’s studies in intellectual history, 351. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. viii, 252. ISBN 9789004547544.
Sassatelli, Giuseppe. Gli Etruschi nella Valle del Po. Atti del XXX Convegno di Studi Etruschi ed Italici Bologna 23-25 giugno 2022. Atti di Convegni – Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, 30. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2024. 2 vols. Pp. 1006. ISBN 9788876893452.
Shaw, J. Clerk. Plato’s Gorgias: a critical guide. Cambridge critical guides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781108492218.
Shawcross, Teresa. Wisdom’s house, heaven’s gate: Athens and Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. New approaches to Byzantine history and culture. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Pp. xxxv, 479. ISBN 9783031352621.
Shields, Christopher. Fractured goodness: Aristotle’s response to Plato’s form of the good. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780198915690.
Sierksma-Agteres, Suzan. Paul and the philosophers’ faith: discourses of pistis in the Graeco-Roman world. Ancient philosophy and religion, 12. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 826. ISBN 9789004549081.
Spinelli, Tommaso. Statius and Ovid: poetics, politics, and intermediality in the Thebaid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781009282215.
Stowers, Stanley. History and the study of religion: the ancient Mediterranean as a test case. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 400. ISBN 9780197775677.
Taylor, Helena. Women writing antiquity: gender and learning in early modern France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 304. ISBN 9780192870445.
Vázquez, Daniel. Suspension of belief. Elements in ancient philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 78. ISBN 9781009500739.
Viti, Carlotta. Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the ancient Mediterranean. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2024. Pp. 460. ISBN 9783823385851.
Wagner, Julian. Orphic voice(s): a narratological commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses 10.1-11.84. Mnemosyne, supplements. Brill’s narratological commentaries on ancient texts, 483. Boston: Brill, 2024. Pp. xii, 366. ISBN 9789004701533.
Wander, Steven H. Flavius Josephus and artwork of Roman antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. Pp. 238. ISBN 9783752007916.
Waterfield, Robin. Aesop’s Fables: a new translation. New York: Basic Books, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9781541604841.
Whitchurch, Joe. Revenge, punishment, and anger in ancient Greek justice. Bloomsbury classical studies monographs. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781350451544.
Van Regenmortel, Charlotte. Soldiers, wages, and the Hellenistic economies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 276. ISBN 9781009408981.