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Adamo, Sara. Epeo, mitologia di un artigiano. Economie della montagna, economia del legno nella Grecia antica. Clio: Saggi di scienze storiche, archeologiche e storico-artistiche. Naples: FedOA – Federico II University Press, 2024. Pp. 189. ISBN 9788868872489. http://www.fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedoapress/catalog/book/580

Adams, Matthew J., Melissa S. Cradic, Israel Finkelstein. Megiddo VII: the Shmunis excavations of a monumental Middle Bronze tomb and its environs. Monograph series of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, 43. University Park, PA; Tel Aviv: Eisenbrauns; Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, The Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, 2025. Pp. 422. ISBN 9781646023172. https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-1-64602-317-2.html

Alušík, Tomáš, Pavla Alušíková Dostalíková. Otto Rubensohn’s excavations on Paros I: the sanctuaries on Kounados Hill. Access archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 112. ISBN 9781805830160. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830160

Antoniou, Alex A. Roman priests from republic to empire: values, expectations, representations. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9780198983699. https://academic.oup.com/book/6161

Arcenas, Scott Lawin. Political violence in ancient Greece: quantitative and qualitative approaches to stasis, 500301 BCE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 364. ISBN 9781009522885. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/political-violence-in-ancient-greece/F3E38D5D93C7F51E327D66E8C6DEA900

Backler, Katherine. Athena’s sisters: reclaiming the women of classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 424. ISBN 9781009672320. https://www.cambridge.org/ca/universitypress/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-history/athenas-sisters-reclaiming-women-classical-athens#about-the-authors

Beltrame, Carlo, Stefano Medas, Paolo Mozzi. Le lagune nel mondo antico. Introduzione alle dinamiche insediative, infrastrutture, ambiente. Fuori collana. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2024. Pp. 160. ISBN 9788876893483. https://www.bretschneider.it/libro/9788876893483

Bews, Elizabeth A., Kathryn E. Marklein. Roman bioarchaeology: interdisciplinary perspectives on life and death in the Roman world. Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local regional and global perspectives. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2024. Pp. 298. ISBN 9781683404774. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683404774

Bodnaruk, Mariana. An empire of elites: the self-representation of the senatorial aristocracy in the later Roman state in the fourth century AD. Routledge research in Byzantine studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 326. ISBN 9781032360089. https://www.routledge.com/An-Empire-of-Elites-The-Self-Representation-of-the-Senatorial-Aristocracy-in-the-Later-Roman-State-in-the-Fourth-Century-AD/Bodnaruk/p/book/9781032360089

Borron, Emilie. Pan a franchi le Rubicon: recherches sur le dieu-bouc romain. Bibliothèque de l’École des Hautes Études, sciences religieuses, 208. Turnhout: Brepols, 2026. Pp. 452. ISBN 9782503618487. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503618487-1

Brody, Lisa, Anne Hunnell Chen. Dura-Europos: past, present, future. Studies in classical archaeology, 16. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xvi, 245. ISBN 9782503616049. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503616049-1

Bruno, Nicoletta. Archaeologies, origins, antiquities: narrating early cultural history in ancient Greece and Rome. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 421. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. iv, 320. ISBN 9783119149839. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111592640/html?lang=en

Castro García, María del Mar, Jesús Acero Pérez, Davide Gangale Risoleo, Catarina Felício. Ancient water supply and management systems in the western Mediterranean: construction and operation. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 131. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 226. ISBN 9781805830924 .https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830924

Cherstich, Luca. The Southern Necropolis of Cyrene. Reports, excavations and studies of the Archaeological Unit of the University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, 4. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 500. ISBN 9781803275499. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803275499

Chugg, Andrew Michael. The Pharos lighthouse in Alexandria: second sun and seventh wonder of antiquity. Routledge monographs in classical studies. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 230. ISBN 9781032569369. https://www.routledge.com/The-Pharos-Lighthouse-In-Alexandria-Second-Sun-and-Seventh-Wonder-of-Antiquity/Chugg/p/book/9781032569376

Crisà, Antonino. Archaeology, cultural heritage and World War II: Italy, Greece, France and Finland as historical contexts. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 324. ISBN 9789004696365. https://brill.com/display/title/69860?language=en

Croissant, Francis, Anthi Balitsari, Philippe Baeriswyl, Gilles Touchais. Argos. Les fouilles de l’Aphrodision, I. Le site et les fouilles, les niveaux antérieurs au sanctuaire. Études Péloponnésiennes, 16. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 616. ISBN 9782869586451. https://editions.efa.gr/?r=publication&id=1060

Dal Monte, Luca. Il foro di Augusto: architettura e decorazione architettonica dei portici e delle esedre. Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma. Supplementi, 33. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 268. ISBN 9788891335463. https://www.lerma.it/libro/9788891335463 

Diemke-Horst, Justine. Vorkommen und Bewertung von Depressionen in der griechisch-römischen Antike. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 35. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 454. ISBN 9783515140621. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Vorkommen-und-Bewertung-von-Depressionen-in-der-griechisch-roemischen-Antike/9783515140621

Dogaer, Nico. Industry, trade and the state in Ptolemaic Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. Pp. 398. ISBN 9781009413374. https://www.cambridge.org/ca/universitypress/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-history/industry-trade-and-state-ptolemaic-egypt

Dymowski, Arkadiusz, Kyroylo Myzgin. Counterfeits, imitations, and copies of Roman imperial denarii: making and faking coins on both sides of the Limes. Warsaw studies in archaeology, 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 222. ISBN 9782503612447. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503612447-1

Ellis, Abbey L. R., Emma M. Payne. Ancient plaster: casting light on a forgotten sculptural material. Proceedings of the British Academy. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 418. ISBN 9781836245940. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836245940

Fabian, Lara, Kathrin Leese-Messing, Eli J. S. Weaverdyck, Lauren Morris, Mamta Dwivedi. Economies of the edge: frontier zone processes at regional, imperial, and global scales (300 BCE-300 CE). Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2025. Pp. 269. ISBN 9783968223278. https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1582

Fellmann Brogli, Regine, Christine Meyer Freuler. Forschende Frauen und Vindonissa: ein Blick auf Werdegang und Wirken von Elisabeth Schmid, Elisabeth Ettlinger, Victorine von Gonzenbach, Verena Bodmer-Gessner und Madeleine Sitterding. Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft Pro Vindonissa, 31. Basel: Librum, 2025. Pp. 144. ISBN 9783907662014. https://librum-publishers.com/forschende-frauen-und-vindonissa-gpv-xxxi/

Fittock, Matthew. Fragile gods: pipeclay figurines and related objects in Roman Britain. BAR British series, 699. Archaeology of Roman Britain, 12. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. xx, 296. ISBN 9781407362281. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/fragile-gods/

Flückiger, Anna, Jan Bemmann. Coining values. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. ISBN 9783752008166. https://reichert-verlag.de/en/keywords/monetary_economics_keyword/9783752008166_coining_values-detail

Gallo, Annarosa, Donato Sabina. Potentia romana. Ancient cities, 4. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 152. ISBN 9788891331601. https://en.lerma.it/libro/9788891331601

Gardelli, Paolo. Villa Arianna at Stabiae: history, art and architecture of a Roman villa in the Bay of Naples. Urban spaces, 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. xvi, 436. ISBN 9783111338989. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111343501/html 

Garés-Molero, Alejandro, Diana Rodríguez Pérez, Agustín A. Diez-Castillo. Over land and sea: the long-distance trade, distribution and consumption of ancient Greek pottery. BAR international series. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 207. ISBN 9781407362373. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/over-land-and-sea/

Gargano, Ivan. Dacia Ripensis: topografia e cristianizzazione di una provincia danubiana nella Tarda Antichità. Rome and after in Central and Eastern Europe, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 404. ISBN 9782503609997. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503609997-1

Geerts, Roderick C.A., Philip Bes. Roman pottery in the low countries: past research, current state, future directions. PALMA, 32. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2025. Pp. 150. ISBN 9789464262896. https://www.sidestone.com/books/roman-pottery-in-the-low-countries 

Gooch, Emma. Experiencing childhood in ancient Athens: material culture, iconography, burials, and social identity in the 9th to 4th centuries BCE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 362. ISBN 9780198949138. https://academic.oup.com/book/59835

Grassigli, Gian Luca, Niccolò Cecconi, Danilo Nati. Gubbio Guastuglia. Quaderni di Otium. Collana di studi di archeologia e antichità classiche, 7. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2024. Pp. 146. ISBN 9788876893414. https://www.bretschneider.it/libro/9788876893414

Grassigli, Gian Luca, Niccolò Cecconi, Benedetta Sciaramenti. Urvinum Hortense (scavi 2017-2019, 2021). Quaderni di otium, 9. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025. Pp. x, 94. ISBN 9788876893551. https://www.bretschneider.it/libro/9788876893551

Grawehr, Matthias, Johannes Lipps. Colour schemes in Roman architecture: aesthetics, semantics, and regional appropriation. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. ISBN 9783752008548. https://medialibrary.reichert-verlag.de/en/9783752003253_colour_schemes_in_roman_architecture/

Guggisberg, Martin A., Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann. Light and splendour. Edelmetall als Medium ritueller und sozialer Interaktion in der Spätantike. Basel: Librum, 2025. Pp. 252. ISBN 9783906897882. https://librum-publishers.com/light-and-splendour-edelmetall-als-medium-ritueller-und-sozialer-interaktion-in-der-spaetantike/

Harlan, Deborah. Photographing Hellenism: the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies photographic collection, 1870s1960s. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781805830825. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830825

Haysom, Matthew, Maria Mili, Jenny Wallensten. The stuff of the gods. The material aspects of religion in ancient Greece. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen/Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae 4.59. Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Athen, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9789179160685. https://ecsi.bokorder.se/en-US/article/5090/the-stuff-of-the-gods

Heinze, Lars. Spätklassische und frühhellenistische Gefässkeramik aus Priene. Formuntersuchung, Kontext und soziokulturelle Interpretation. Archäologische Forschungen, 45. Priene, 6. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2025. Pp. 584. ISBN 9783752008562. https://reichert-verlag.de/de/schlagworte/altertumswissenschaften_schlagwort/9783752008562_spaetklassische_und_fruehhellenistische_gefaesskeramik_aus_priene-detail 

Hellings, Benjamin D. R. Coin finds and monetization in the Roman northwest. Numismatic notes and monographs, 174. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2025. Pp. xvi, 172. ISBN 9780897224314. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9780897224314-1

Hettinger, Jasmin, Janine Lehmann. Fluide Räume. Schlaglichter auf Hispaniens Flusstäler. Iberica selecta, 2. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 392. ISBN 9783515138291. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Fluide-Raeume/9783515138376

Hoer, Alexander. Die Höhenbefestigungen Samniums vom 4.–1. Jh. v. Chr. Eine landschafts- und siedlungsarchäologische Analyse. Zürcher archäologische Forschungen, 12. Basel; Frankfurt am Main: Librum, 2024. Pp. 288. ISBN 9783906897936. https://librum-publishers.com/die-hoehenbefestigungen-samniums-vom-4-1-jh-v-chr-eine-landschafts-und-siedlungsarchaeologische-analyse/

Intagliata, Emanuele Ettore. The Pal.M.A.I.S. Syro-Italian Joint Project: selected essays on the southwest quarter and the Peristyle Building of Palmyra in memory of Prof. Maria Teresa Grassi. Studies in Palmyrene archaeology and history, 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. xix, 190. ISBN 9782503607238. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503607238-1

Jaeggi-Richoz, Sandra. La fabrique des bébés dans l’Antiquité. Enquête sur les “biberons” gallo-romains. Generation, 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024. Pp. 745. ISBN 9782503599144. https://www.brepols.net/products/978-2-503-59914-4

Kaumanns, Lena. Funktionswandel im Stadtzentrum des spatantiken Ostia. London: Golden House Publications, 2025. ISBN 9781906137908. https://www.casemateacademic.com/9781906137908/funktionswandel-im-stadtzentrum-des-spatantiken-ostia/

Kopp, Peter, Cornelia Römer, Rita Hartmann, Cäcilia Fluck, Mary F. Ownby, Daniela Rosenow. The village gymnasium at Philoteris/Watfa in the Fayum. Archäologische Veröffentlichungen, 10. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. Pp. ix, 150. ISBN 9783447123532. https://publications.dainst.org/books/dai/catalog/book/2157

Kress, Bianca Larissa. Die Akropoliskoren von Athen. Archaeopress archaeology. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 168. ISBN 9781805830542. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830542

Laferriere, Carolyn M. Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art: Seeing the Songs of the Gods; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 302. ISBN 9781009315906. $110.00. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/divine-music-in-archaic-and-classical-greek-art/B2DB9258B92CE5BCFEED3E061F9CC933#fndtn-information

Limoncelli, Massimo, Laura Schepis. Virtual Restoration 3.1. Architecture: Principles and Methods for Virtual Archaeological Reconstruction of Ancient Monuments. Studia archaeologica, 263. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2024. Pp. 386. ISBN 9788891333308. https://en.lerma.it/libro/9788891333308

Luginbühl, Josy. Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung: zur Literalität der Frauen in den westlichen Provinzen des römischen Reiches. BAR international series, 3235. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 394. ISBN 9781407362311. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/grabfunde-als-spiegel-der-bildung/ 

Marantou, Eleni. Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese: Cults and Sacred Places. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 306. ISBN 9781803277714. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803277714

Martens, Brian. The Athenian Agora XXXIX: marble statuettes of the Roman period. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2025. Pp. 704. ISBN 9780876612392. https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/publications/book/?i=9780876612392

Mascia, Leah. The transition from traditional cults to the affirmation of Christian beliefs in the city of Oxyrhynchus. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 34. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2026. Pp. 621. ISBN 9783515139946. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/index.php/detail/8733bba248db55d3894592bdf63e2462

Marsh, David Lindsay. The trading and consumption of Roman glass in Britain 43–500 CE. BAR British series, 691. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. xix, 189. ISBN 9781407361710. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/the-trade-and-consumption-of-roman-glass-in-britain-43-ce-500-ce/

Millington, Claire. Military households of Roman auxiliary commanders in western Europe and north Africa: Latin inscriptions, Vindolanda letters, and praetorium archaeology. BAR international series, 3201. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2024. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781407361437. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/military-households-of-roman-auxiliary-commanders-in-western-europe-and-north-africa/

Mitsios, Ioannis. The west pediment of the Parthenon: iconography and iconology. Leiden: Brill, 2025. ISBN 9789004721883. https://brill.com/display/title/71733?rskey=pzI2a4&result=1

Müller, Laura. Die Darstellung und Selbstdarstellung der kaiserlichen Familie im römischen Ägypten: eine Untersuchung von Octavian-Augustus bis Hadrian (30 v. Chr.–138 n. Chr.). Mainzer althistorische Studien, 13. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025. Pp. x, 356. ISBN 9783969293997. https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/catalog/book/1636

Murphy, Elizabeth A. The pottery industries of the Roman East: craft communities and working practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 263. ISBN 9781009514606. The Pottery Industries of the Roman East | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Mylona, Dimitra, Thomas M. Brogan, Melissa Eaby, Maria Iacovou. Porphyra: the materiality of purple dye production and use in Cyprus and the Aegean from prehistory to the late Roman period. Aegis, 30. Louvain-La-Neuve: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9782390615781. https://dial.uclouvain.be/PUL/object/pul%3A29303100956590

Nouet, Rachel. Bases de statues en contexte. Approches croisées dans le monde grec antique. Études méditerranéennes, 16. Rennes; Athens: Presses universitaires de Rennes; École française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 224. ISBN 9782869586819. https://www.pur-editions.fr/product/10663/bases-de-statues-en-contexte

Partida, Elena C., Constanze Graml. Ergasteria: premises and processes of creation in antiquity. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 436. ISBN 9781803278254. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803278254

Pecchioli, Laura, Alessandro D’Alessio, Roberto Meneghini, David A. Holmes. Hazard and disaster risk in Ostia: between hypothesis and reality. BAR international series, 3210. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. vi, 276. ISBN 9781407362069. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/hazard-and-disaster-risk-in-ostia/

Pola, Angela. La più antica produzione ceramica falisca a figure rosse. Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. Monumenti Etruschi, 15. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2024. Pp. 1190. ISBN 9788876893506. https://www.bretschneider.it/libro/9788876893506

Serangeli, Ambra. Galen on the atomists: anti-teleologism, theory of matter and medical corpuscularism. Global perspectives on the history of natural philosophy. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 202. ISBN 9781032869087. https://www.routledge.com/Galen-on-the-Atomists-Anti-teleologism-Theory-of-Matter-and-Medical-Corpuscularism/Serangeli/p/book/9781032869087

Soneira-Martínez, Ramón. Relational atheism: studying unbelief in ancient Greece. Religionswissenschaft heute, 17. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2026. Pp. 233. ISBN 9783170471863. https://elibrary.kohlhammer.de/book/10.17433/978-3-17-047187-0

Spinazzi-Lucchesi, Chiara. Threads of contact: tracing the relationship between Egypt and the Southern Levant through textile tools. Ancient textiles. Oxford: Oxbow, 2025. Pp. 192. ISBN 9798888571477. https://www.oxbowbooks.com/9798888571477/threads-of-contact/

Summerer, Lâtife, Peri Johnson, Julia M. Koch. Contextualizing Pompeiopolis: urban development in Roman Anatolia from a comparative perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 714. ISBN 9783111706436. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111706962/html?lang=en

Tabolli, Jacopo, Edoardo Vanni. Lungo il corso del fiume Paglia. Archeologia, mobilità e mediazione culturale nell’antichità. Quaderni di Otium, 8. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025. Pp. viii, 377. ISBN 9788876893490. https://www.bretschneider.it/libro/9788876893490

Torre Miguel, Begona. Teoría y práctica del “spolium”. Los sarcófagos de la Antigüedad reutilizados en los reinos cristianos medievales de la Península Ibérica. Iberica selecta, 4. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 352. ISBN 9783515135290. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Teoria-y-practica-del-spolium/9783515135290

Unwin, Christina. Design and archaeology: the social imaginary in Iron Age and early Roman Europe. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 296. ISBN 9781350443846. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/design-and-archaeology-9781350443853/

Van der Meulen-Van der Veen, Berber S. Cultural transformations in Germania Secunda: a holistic approach to ‘barbarian’ migrations. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 128. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 250. ISBN 9781803279916. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803279916

Wagner, Martin. Das Fenster in der römischen Architektur. Zur Funktion und Bedeutung eines architektonischen Bauteils in der Wohn- und Thermenarchitektur von der Republik bis zum 3. Jh. n. Chr. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2024. pp. 416. ISBN: 9789464280661.https://www.sidestone.com/books/das-fenster-in-der-roemischen-architektur 

Watson, Gary. The role of the army in the government of the Roman Near East, 64 BC–AD 285: state building and provincial development. Impact of empire, 51. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxx, 336. ISBN 9789004749375. https://brill.com/display/title/73534

Williams, Joseph C. The visual preservation of Roman Stabiae: the Villa Arianna survey and the study of frescoes in their physical context. BAR international series, 3212. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 340. ISBN 9781407361994. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/the-visual-preservation-of-roman-stabiae/

Zanin, Lorena. Alpine connections: Aquileia and Noricum. Roman relations, 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 493. ISBN 9783111710457. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111711737/html

History & Epigraphy

Alimi, Toni. Slaves of god: Augustine and other Romans on religion and politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780691244235. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244235/slaves-of-god

Almásy-Martin, Adrienn, Yanne Broux. Greek personal names in Egypt. Oxford studies in ancient documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198947011. https://academic.oup.com/book/60852?searchresult=1

Amendola, Davide, Cristina Carusi, Francesca Maltomini, Emilio Rosamilia. Text, layout, and medium: documents from the Greco-Roman world between epigraphy and papyrology. Edizioni dell’Istituto papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2024. Pp. 426. ISBN 9791221504552. https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/text-layout-and-medium/14830

Amon, Hermann. The Roman empire third century “crisis”. Brill research perspectives in humanities and social sciences. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. viii, 156. ISBN 9789004746282. https://brill.com/display/title/73347?srsltid=AfmBOoqO_HMh5oXh0p8ZPgYFYVDlI3EZH8XCAI83PEX68I41VdAVVo63

Atanassova, Vessela, Laurent Bricault. Egyptian cults on the Black Sea coast. Études méditerranéennes, 6. Athens; Sofia: École française d’Athènes; Institute of Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2024. Pp. 194. ISBN 9782869586307. https://editions.efa.gr/?r=publication&id=1048

Barbato, Matteo, Mirko Canevaro, Alberto Esu. Rediscovering Greek institutions: new institutionalist approaches to ancient Greek history. New approaches to ancient Greek institutional history. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 384. ISBN 9781399533287. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-rediscovering-greek-institutions.html

Belfiore, Valentina. La scultura preromana in area centro-italica. Problemi archeologici, tecnologici ed epigrafici del terzo millennio. Reports, excavations and studies of the Archaeological Unit of the University G. d’Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, 5. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 358. ISBN 9781803279596. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803279596

Besl, Marco. Augustus als Programm: eine Rezeptionsgeschichte des ersten Princeps (14-500 n. Chr.). Historia, 276. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9783515137942. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Augustus-als-Programm/9783515137942 

Bhalla, A. S. Art of ancient India and the Aegean: fortuitous parallels or cultural contacts? Oxford: Archaeopress, 2024. Pp. 166. ISBN 9781803277615. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803277615

Bur, Clément, Thibaud Lanfranchi, Ghislaine Stouder, Alexandre Vincent. Faire carrière. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2025. ISBN 9791387705664. https://puz.unizar.es/3167-faire-carriere-ascension-politique-et-mobilite-sociale-dans-le-monde-romain-a-lepoque-republicaine.html

Christopher, Jordan Thomas. The pioneer kingdoms of Macedon and Qin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. ISBN 9781009534895. https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-history/pioneer-kingdoms-macedon-and-qin-triumph-periphery

Chrystal, Paul. Miracula: weird and wonderful stories of ancient Greece and Rome. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. Pp. 472. ISBN 9781836390497. https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/miracula

Clarke, Jessica. A new history of ancient Roman theatre. Liverpool studies in ancient history. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781836245193. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836245193

Cowan, Eleanor, Kit Morrell, Andrew Pettinger, Michael Sevel. The rule of law in ancient Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 296. ISBN 9780198959328. https://academic.oup.com/book/61402

Currás Refojos, Brais X., Inés Sastre Prats. Las caras del imperio. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2025. ISBN 9782385491666. https://pufc.univ-fcomte.fr/las-caras-del-imperio-mecanismos-de-control-y-estrategias-de-resistencia.html

Danon, Bart. Wealth, office and rank in Roman Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. ISBN 9781009496964. https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-history/wealth-office-and-rank-roman-italy?format=HB

De Petris, Antonio Leo. Ricerche sul servus pignori datus. Collana della Rivista di Diritto Romano. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2025. Pp. 164. ISBN 9788855132183. https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Rivista-diritto-romano/pages/view/cdr-37-servus-pignori-datus

Diemke, Justine, Tobias Mörtz. Kriegerinnen im Altertum. IPHIS – Gender studies in den Altertumswissenschaften, 14. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2025. Pp. 222. ISBN 9783989400894. https://www.wvttrier.de/p/kriegerinnen-im-altertum

Duchêne, Pauline, Phoebe Garrett. Suetonius: the fragments. Translated texts from antiquity. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9781836243427. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836243427

Eberle, Lisa Pilar, Myles Lavan. Unrest in the Roman empire: a discursive history. Frankfurt; New York: Campus Verlag, 2024. Pp. 250. ISBN 9783593519326. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/unrest_in_the_roman_empire-18170.html

Elliott, Alex Michael. Fleets and naval forces of the late Roman Mediterranean (3rd–6th centuries). Historia – Einzelschriften, 277. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 245. ISBN 9783515139960. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Fleets-and-Naval-Forces-of-the-Late-Roman-Mediterranean-3rd-6th-Centuries/9783515139960

Escosura Balbás, Cristina de la, Anamarija Kurilč, Giuseppe Eugenio Rallo. Name and identity: selected studies on ancient anthroponymy through the Mediterranean. BAR international series, 3161. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2024. Pp. viii, 216. ISBN 9781407360973. https://www.barpublishing.com/name-and-identity.html

Fabrizi, Virginia. Space, narrative, and historical imagination in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 21. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9789004733190. https://brill.com/display/title/72459?language=en

Farioli, Marcella. L’anomalie nécessaire. Femmes dangereuses, idéologie de la polis et gynécophobie à Athènes. Antichistica, 39. Filologia e letteratura, 7. Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2024. Pp. 678. ISBN 9788869698262. https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-806-4/

Flückiger, Anna, Jan Bemmann. Coining values: bronze between money and scrap in late Roman and early medieval Europe. Limes und Legion, 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2024. Pp. 224. ISBN 9783752008166. https://reichert-verlag.de/en/keywords/monetary_economics_keyword/9783752008166_coining_values-detail

Franek, Juraj. Solomonica magica: Solomon, Sisinnius, and the holy rider on Greek-inscribed amulets from late antiquity and early Byzantium. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 201. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xx, 744. ISBN 9789004735262. https://brill.com/display/title/72570?rskey=ARZfsR&result=1

Freidin, Anna Bonnell. Birthing Romans: Childbearing and its Risks in Imperial Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780691226279. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226279/birthing-romans

Galoppin, Thomas. Les bestiaires des mages. Animaux, savoirs et pouvoir rituel sous l’Empire romain. Histoire ancienne et médiévale. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9791035110260. http://www.editionsdelasorbonne.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=28405100099590 

Galoppin, Thomas. Entre le plomb et les pierres: rites et magiciens dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2025. Pp. 272. ISBN 9782204161787. https://www.editionsducerf.fr/librairie/livre/21055/Entre-le-plomb-et-les-pierres

Gatto, Martina. Licurgo di Sparta nella letteratura greca e latina. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 423. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 483. ISBN 9783119149822. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111592688/html?recommended=sidebar

Giannella, Nicole J. The Mind of the slave: the limits of ownership in Roman law and society. Empire and after. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780472133659. https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Mind-of-the-Slave

Gianni, Gaia. All in the family: childhood and fictive kinship in Roman society. Law and society in the ancient world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025. Pp. 302. ISBN 9780472133611. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111592688/html?recommended=sidebar

Gorton, Luke. Tracing the origins of wine in the ancient Mediterranean. Global perspectives on ancient Mediterranean archaeology. London: Routledge, 2026. Pp. 182. ISBN 9781032939551. https://www.routledge.com/Tracing-the-Origins-of-Wine-in-the-Ancient-Mediterranean/Gorton/p/book/9781032939551?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23516140042&gbraid=0AAAAACWuhHV71eHeJfJ_ihfbP4ejUqjgM

Glas, Eelco. Flavius Josephus’ Self-Characterisation in First-Century Rome. A Historiographical Analysis of Autobiographical Discourse in the Judaean War. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 19. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 285. ISBN

Groll, Florian. Sieg und Familie im frühen Prinzipat. Eine Studie zur militärischen Repräsentation der Verwandten des Augustus. Mainzer althistorische Studien, 12. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2024. Pp. viii, 278. ISBN 9783969293072. https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/catalog/book/1372

Hahn, Michael. Laici religiosi. Überwachung, soziale Kontrolle und christliche Identität in der Spätantike. Vestigia, 78. München: C.H. Beck, 2024. Pp. 667. ISBN 9783406815713. https://www.chbeck.de/hahn-laici-religiosi/product/36497749

Haklai, Merav. Money in imperial Rome: legal diversity and systemic complexity. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 416. ISBN 9780198912002. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/money-in-imperial-rome-9780198912002

Harpham, John Samuel. The intellectual origins of American slavery: English ideas in the early modern Atlantic world. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. Pp. 328. ISBN 9780674278370. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278370

Herz, Zachary. The God and the bureaucrat: Roman law, imperial sovereignty, and other stories. Studies in legal history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 420. ISBN 9781009629959. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/god-and-the-bureaucrat/795EB401BD1A755FEC3F1BC2244AE848

Hines, Caitlin. Rome’s visceral reactions: politics and poetics in flesh and blood. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 246. ISBN 9780472133666. https://press.umich.edu/Books/R/Rome-s-Visceral-Reactions2 

Hoffmann-Salz, Julia, Matthäus Heil, Holger Wienholz. The Eastern Roman Empire Under the Severans. Old Connections, New Beginnings? Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2024. Pp. 368. ISBN 9783525302514. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/altertumswissenschaft/alte-geschichte/58865/the-eastern-roman-empire-under-the-severans

Horn, Fabian. Metaphors of the ancient world: conceptual metaphor theory and ancient sources. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 181. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 296. ISBN 9783111631929. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111632704/html?lang=en

Hoyos, Dexter. Scipio Africanus: the first imperator. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781836390992. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo258381755.html

James, Dylan, Stephen Harrison. Theorising comparative history for the ancient Mediterranean: asking new questions of old evidence. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781835537497. https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781835537497

Jansen, Lukas. Vertrauen und Misstrauen in Zeiten des politischen Umbruchs: Herrscherwechsel im römischen Principat. Studien zur Geschichtsforschung des Altertums, 48. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2026. Pp. 678. ISBN 9783339146663. https://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-339-14666-3.htm#tab-beschreibung

Jaupaj, Lavdosh. Populations et interactions culturelles en aire illyro-épirote: du VIIe au IIIe siècle av. J.-C. Recherches archéologiques franco-albanaises, 6. Athens: École française d’Athènes, 2025. Pp. 476. ISBN 9782869586260. https://editions.efa.gr/?r=publication&id=1055

John, Alison. Learning and power in late antique Gaul: classical education and the end of Roman rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. ix, 277. ISBN 9781009543446. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/learning-and-power-in-late-antique-gaul/755EE154C7281B8CE0668866BDAC6A91

Kakoschke, Andreas. Die Personennamen in der römischen Provinz Gallia Lugdunensis. Hannover: Ibidem Verlag, 2025. Pp. 790. ISBN 9783838221939. https://www.ibidem.eu/Fachgebiete/Geschichte/vor-1918/Die-Personennamen-in-der-roemischen-Provinz-Gallia-Lugdunensis.html?noloc=1

Kakoschke, Andreas. Die Personennamen in der römischen Provinz Aquitania. Hannover: Ibidem Verlag, 2025. Pp. 888. ISBN 9783838221922. https://www.ibidem.eu/Fachgebiete/Geschichte/vor-1918/Die-Personennamen-in-der-roemischen-Provinz-Aquitania.html

Kim, Patricia Eunji. The art of queenship in the Hellenistic world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009502122. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/art-of-queenship-in-the-hellenistic-world/55383E640B1CF61D4592BE901E4BD5CC

Kłodziński, Karol. Officium a rationibus: the office and officials responsible for the imperial treasury. Journal of Juristic Papyrology supplements, 46. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. Pp. xvi, 403. ISBN 9789042953499. https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042953499&series_number_str=46&lang=en

Kotrosits, Maia. After transformation: a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2025. Pp. 162. ISBN 9781478029328. https://www.dukeupress.edu/after-transformation

Kreßner, Rebecca. Männliche Mobilität, weibliche Handlungsmacht. Soziale Organisation und ökonomische Praxis an der Ostadriaküste in hellenistischer und römischer Zeit. TRANSMARE, 2. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. Pp. 350. ISBN 9783111561318. https://www-degruyterbrill-com.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/document/doi/10.1515/9783112215234/html

La Monaca, Valeria. Delicati and delicia in the Roman empire: a study of epigraphic and literary sources. BAR international series, 3233. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 252. ISBN 9781407362779. https://www.barpublishing.com/book/delicati-and-delicia-in-the-roman-empire/

Laspe, Dewid. Marathon und Salamis: die Entscheidungsschlachten der Perserkriege. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 211. ISBN 9783525311653. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/altertumswissenschaft/alte-geschichte/59839/marathon-und-salamis

Lefebvre, Benoît. Combattre de loin chez les Romains. Réalités et représentations culturelles (Ier siècl a.C.-IIIe siècle p.C.). Scripta antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 328. ISBN 9782356136022. https://www.decitre.fr/livres/combattre-de-loin-chez-les-romains-9782356136022.html

Lemser, Marie. Beobachten, beschreiben, vergleichen. Ethnographische Praktiken griechischer Autoren von den Alexanderzügen bis ins zweite vorchristliche Jahrhundert. Geographica historica, 47. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 246. ISBN 9783515139595. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Beobachten-beschreiben-vergleichen/9783515139595

Linderborg, Otto H. Socrates and his demise: an examination of the historical figure. Routledge focus on classical studies. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 96. ISBN 9781032915609. https://www.routledge.com/Socrates-and-his-Demise-An-Examination-of-the-Historical-Figure/Linderborg/p/book/9781032915609

López-Gómez, José Carlos, Antón Alvar Nuño. Religion in rural late antique Iberia. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 314. ISBN 9781032594194. https://www.routledge.com/Religion-in-Rural-Late-Antique-Iberia/LopezGomez-AlvarNuno/p/book/9781032594194

Maiuro, Marco, Jane Botsford Johnson. The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000—49 BCE). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 880. ISBN 9780199987894. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-pre-roman-italy-1000–49-bce-9780199987894

Massa, Francesco, Maureen Attali, Caroline Bridel, Dario Cellamare, Gaetano Spampinato, Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann. Religions et interactions religieuses dans l’empire romain tardo-antique. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2025. ISBN 9783796553103. https://schwabe.ch/Religions-et-interactions-religieuses-dans-l-empire-romain-tardo-antique-978-3-7965-5310-3

Melone, Mattia. Res publico usui destinatae. I beni di interesse pubblici a Roma. Studia juridica, 92. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 390. ISBN 9788891335449. https://en.lerma.it/libro/9788891335449

Miączewska, Anna Beata. Edicta munerum: advertising and promotion of gladiatorial games in ancient Pompeii. Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 22. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xiv, 346. ISBN 9789004720213. https://brill.com/display/title/71584?language=en

Mitropoulos, Giorgos. Ο Νέρωνας και η Ελλάδα. Το παιχνίδι των ρόλων / Nero and Greece: the game of roles. Herakleion: Crete University Press, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9786182301463. https://cup.gr/book/o-neronas-kai-i-ellada/

Moreno Escobar, Maria del Carmen. Patrones de asentamiento en la Bética romana. Un estudio sobre la romanización desde el análisis arqueológico espacial. BAR international series, 3214. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2025. Pp. 310. ISBN 9781407358208. https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/gq67jv45s

Morgan, Rosemary. Spectacle benefaction and the politics of appreciation: case studies from Italy, Gallia Narbonensis and Africa Proconsularis. Antiquité et sciences humaines, 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. 358. ISBN 9782503613703. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503613703-1

Nelson, Thomas J., Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani. Pergamon and Rome: culture, identity, and influence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 544. ISBN 9780198912040. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/pergamon-and-rome-culture-identity-and-influence-9780198912040?cc=us&lang=en&#

Pascual Valderrama, Ignacio M. La primera confederación Aquea: distritos, federalismo y polis (ss. VIII a III a.C.). Estudios helénicos. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2025. Pp. 518. ISBN 9788483449776. https://editorial.us.es/es/detalle-libro/720661/la-primera-confederacion-aquea-distritos-federalismo-y-polis-ssviii-a-iii-ac

Papakonstantinou, Néphélé. L’émergence du ‘crimen raptus’ à Rome: le système du Pseudo-Quintilien entre rhétorique judiciaire et ‘ius’. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 418. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiv, 418. ISBN 9783111544052. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111544656/html?lang=en

Pastor, Simone. Trajan: the making of the Princeps Optimus. Studia archaeologica, 276. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 212. ISBN 9788891336453. https://www.routledge.com/Trajan-Optimus-Princeps/Bennett/p/book/9780415241502

Peltonen, Jaakkojuhani, Elina Pyy, Jussi Rantala. War and masculinity in Roman and medieval culture. London: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 218. ISBN 9781032840994. https://www.routledge.com/War-and-Masculinity-in-Roman-and-Medieval-Culture/Peltonen-Pyy-Rantala/p/book/9781032840994

Queyrel Bottineau, Anne, Régine Utard. Flatterie et flatteurs dans les sociétés antiques. Pratiques, acteurs, morales. Kaïnon, 33. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 639. ISBN 9782406189589. https://classiques-garnier.com/flatterie-et-flatteurs-dans-les-societes-antiques-pratiques-acteurs-morales.html 

Ramsey Neugebauer, Gillian. A social and cultural history of the Hellenistic world. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2025. ISBN 9781119043201. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Social+and+Cultural+History+of+the+Hellenistic+World-p-9781119043249

Reese, Bettina. Tiere als Opfer. Die Diskussion um die Schlachtopfer der traditionellen Kulte vom 2.–5. Jh. n. Chr. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 422. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xiii, 471. ISBN 9783119149570. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111633459/html?lang=en

Riemenschneider, Jakob. Prokop und der soziale Kosmos der Historiographie. Exkurse, Diskurse und die römische Gesellschaft der Spätantike. Millennium-Studien, 108. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. x, 261. ISBN 9783111546865. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111547640/html

Ruden, Sarah. Perpetua: the woman, the martyr. Ancient lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025. Pp. xiv, 191. ISBN 9780300273717. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273717/perpetua/

Salgarella, Ester. Writing in Bronze Age Crete: ‘Minoan’ Linear A. Elements in writing in the ancient world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 84. ISBN 9781009520027. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/writing-in-bronze-age-crete/5D5094CF9E6B118C94AD0554E3D9762A

Sandon, Tatjana. The lives of Roman freedwomen in the Latin west: an epigraphic study. Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9781399553414. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-lives-of-roman-freedwomen-in-the-latin-west.html

Schipp, Oliver. Frühe Franken. Leben am Limes. Reiche der Alten Welt – Ethnien, Länder, Dynastien. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2025. Pp. 344. ISBN 9783170394438. https://www.fnac.com/livre-numerique/a22413315/Oliver-Schipp-Fruhe-Franken

Silva Reneses, Luis. Mastia Tarseion revisited: the geographical limits of Polybius’ second Romano-Carthaginian treaty. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 63. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2025. Pp. 201. ISBN 9783796554162. https://schwabe.ch/luis-silva-reneses-mastia-tarseion-revisited-978-3-7965-5416-2

Swist, Jeremy. Julian Augustus: Platonism, myth, and the refounding of Rome. Oxford studies in late antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 376. ISBN 9780197787519. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519

Tafaro, Alessandra. Inscribing Flavian Rome: epigraphic strategies in Martial’s Epigrams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 288. ISBN 9780198962519. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/inscribing-flavian-rome-9780198962519

Trompeter, Julia. Galen on ethics and human nature. Leiden: Brill, 2025. ISBN 9789004727809. https://brill.com/display/title/70219

Villemur, Patrick. Le monnayage du municipe romain d’Utique (Afrique proconsulaire). Numismatica antiqua. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024. Pp. 197. ISBN 9782356135919. https://www.afpu-diffusion.fr/ouvrage/le-monnayage-du-municipe-romain-dutique-afrique-proconsulaire

Van Veldhuizen, Michiel. Divining disaster: signs of catastrophe in ancient Greek culture. Mnemosyne, 496. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 421. ISBN 9789004738560. https://brill.com/display/title/72798?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOor2dKNTbwJ_W2rdk2LcDAFzb0FTv-GGtMItVfb8oI78kW4hBNA_

Walas, Anna, Andrew Birley. Relativism and the frontiers of empire: critical perspectives on Roman soldiers, communities and military landscapes. Roman frontier studies. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2025. Pp. 236. ISBN 9781805830689. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781805830689

Zanin, Manfredi. L’aristocrazia senatoria e l’egemonia del Mediterraneo. Uno studio sulle forme dell’imperialismo romano nel II secolo a.C. Historia, 274. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 568. ISBN 9783515136310. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/L-aristocrazia-senatoria-e-l-egemonia-del-Mediterraneo/9783515136310

Zarghamee, Reza Shaghaghi. Myth and history in ancient Persia: the Achaemenids in the Iranian tradition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025. ISBN 9781399530989. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-myth-and-history-in-ancient-persia.html

Zhao, Yurong. Early Christian widows and their social-economic situation, support, and contribution to the church. The library of New Testament studies. London: Bloomsbury, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780567721358. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/early-christian-widows-and-their-socialeconomic-situation-support-and-contribution-to-the-church-9780567721372/

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Abbattista, Alessandra, Chiara Blanco, Maria Haley, Giacomo Savani. Tereus through the ages: reassembling the myth of Tereus. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 265. ISBN 9783110728705. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110728804/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopWaHOoIbQXgDA-X68vVnXg8QUHcDdLjfCWcmeRT-fqRGNRPbU5

Aerts, Simon. Latin tense and aspect in 3D: a revision of verbal categories in antiquity and beyond. Routledge advances in functional linguistics. New York: Routledge, 2025. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781032354071. https://www.routledge.com/Latin-Tense-and-Aspect-in-3D-A-Revision-of-Verbal-Categories-in-Antiquity-and-Beyond/Aerts/p/book/9781032354071

Angelopoulou, Afroditi. The body and the senses in Greek tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780197777060. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-body-and-the-senses-in-greek-tragedy-9780197777060?cc=us&lang=en&

Arrighini, Andrea. Querolus siue Aulularia. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Lexis supplement, 19. Fonti, testi e commenti, 4. Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2025. Pp. 495. ISBN 9791257420109. https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-971-9/

Balot, Ryan K. Tragedy, philosophy, and political education in Plato’s Laws. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xiv, 425. ISBN 9780197647226. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tragedy-philosophy-and-political-education-in-platos-laws-9780197647226?cc=us&lang=en&

Bartoš, Hynek, Vojtěch Linka. Aristotle reads Hippocrates. Studies in ancient medicine, 59. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. x, 434. ISBN 9789004703537. https://brill.com/display/title/70617?language=en

Bednarek, Bartłomiej. Dionysus’ victim: the Pentheus myth beyond Euripides.  Mnemosyne, 499. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 286. ISBN 9789004743861. https://brill.com/display/title/73159

Benchikh-Lehocine, Halima. Combattre les dieux: le théomaque chez Nonnos de Panopolis. Lire l’Antiquité. Grenoble: UGA Éditions, 2025. Pp. 316. ISBN 9782377475353. https://books.openedition.org/ugaeditions/50926?lang=en

Bergdorf, K.A. The Confessions of Saint Augustine: a Latin reader’s edition. Books I-IX. Steubenville: Emmaus Academic, 2024. Pp. 314. ISBN 9781645853886. https://stpaulcenter.com/product/the-confessions-of-saint-augustine-a-latin-readers-edition-books-i-ix/

Bertini, Paolo. La lunga notte di Alcinoo. Come e perché è fatta l’Odissea. Riccò del Golfo: Il Filo di Ariana, 2024. Pp. 154. ISBN 9791254750407. https://www.ilfilodiariannaedizioni.eu/?product=la-lunga-notte-di-alcinoo-come-e-perche-e-fatta-lodissea

Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Connie, Edith Hall. Time, tense, and genre in ancient Greek literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780192858498. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/time-tense-and-genre-in-ancient-greek-literature-9780192858498?cc=us&lang=en&

Bononcini, Leonardo. Sophocles’ Nausicaa. Fragmentary Greek drama, 4. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2025. Pp. 128. ISBN 9788891335555. https://en.lerma.it/libro/9788891335555

Boswell, Brad. The narrative conflict of traditions in the late antique world: Cyril versus Julian. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009493949. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/narrative-conflict-of-traditions-in-the-late-antique-world/4B7B4922DA4DB7C3727832BB53B338CB

Bournot, Magdalena. Étrangère chez soi: un tournant latino-américain dans les réécritures de Médée. Etudes sur le théâtre et les arts de la scène, 44. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 442. ISBN 9782406197591. https://classiques-garnier.com/etrangere-chez-soi-un-tournant-latino-americain-dans-les-reecritures-de-medee.html

Bruzzone, Rachel. Commentary on Thucydides, book 3. Michigan classical commentaries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025. Pp. 410. ISBN 9780472077489. https://press.umich.edu/Books/C/Commentary-on-Thucydides-Book-32

Buccheri, Alessandro. Penser les humains à travers les plantes: métaphores botaniques du corps et de la parenté dans la poésie grecque archaïque et classique. Horos. Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2024. Pp. 416. ISBN 9782841374342. https://www.millon.fr/livres/477-histoire-horos-buccheri-alessandro-penser-les-humains-à-travers-les-plantes.html

Burdorff, Sara. Maternity, monstrosity, and heroic (im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare. Monsters and marvels. Alterity in the medieval and early modern worlds. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9789463728980. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728980/maternity-monstrosity-and-heroic-im-mortality-from-homer-to-shakespeare

Cariou, Morgane, Nicola Zito. Màrturi mytho: poésie, histoire et société aux époques imperiale et tardive. Hellenica, 111. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2024. Pp. xxvi, 574. ISBN 9788836135066. https://www.ediorso.it/marturi-mytho.html

Cassan, Melania, Barbara Castellani, Francesca Masi. Episteme e ratio. Doxai, 4. Rome: Tab Edizioni, 2025. Pp. 492. ISBN 9791256691937. https://www.tabedizioni.it/shop/product/episteme-e-ratio-1707

Castelnuovo, Elena. Lesbium servate pedem: il metro saffico tra Orazio, Prudenzio e l’innodia medievale. Testi e studi di cultura classica, 99. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2025. Pp. 304. ISBN 9788846773494. https://www.edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n=9788846773494

Chaintreuil, Ulysse. L’Unité de la forme. L’ontologie d’Aristote et le défi de la complexité. Les anciens et les modernes – études de philosophie, 60. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 380. ISBN 9782406167860. https://classiques-garnier.com/l-unite-de-la-forme-l-ontologie-d-aristote-et-le-defi-de-la-complexite.html

Childers, Christopher. The Penguin book of Greek and Latin lyric verse. London; New York: Penguin Classics, 2025. Pp. 1008. ISBN 9780141392134. The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse

Ciolfi, Lorenzo Maria. Un Rinascimento da favola. L’Esopo dei Medici. Quaderni Antico e Moderno, 16. Palio Faliro: ETP Books, 2025. Pp. 644. ISBN 9786185752484. https://www.etpbooks.com/en/home/248-un-rinascimento-da-favola-l-esopo-dei-medici.html 

Codispoti, Andrea. Pherekrates: Agathoi – Graes (frr. 1–42). Fragmenta comica, 5.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 479. ISBN 9783911065504. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/altertumswissenschaft/graezistik/60343/frc-5-1-pherekrates

Cohen, David Omar. Mother becomes Electra: Idiolekte und sprachliche Charakterisierung in drei attischen Tragödien. Palingenesia, 139. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 136. ISBN 9783515137768. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Mother-Becomes-Electra/9783515137768

Colley, John. Humanism, English literature, and the translation of Greek, 1430-1560. Oxford English monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 256. ISBN 9780198952534. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/humanism-english-literature-and-the-translation-of-greek-14301560-9780198952534?cc=us&lang=en&

David, Isabelle. La fabrique du personnage dans la comédie de Plaute: étude sur le masque et la gestuelle. Erga: littératures et représentations de l’Antiquité et du Moyen âge, 18. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2025. Pp. 592. ISBN 9782383773009. https://www.pubp.fr/litterature-antique-et-medievale/5734-1219-la-fabrique-du-personnage-dans-la-comedie-de-plaute-9782383773009.html#/27-format-livre_papier

Devriese, Lisa. De coloribus. Translationes Bartholomaei de Messana et Guillelmi de Morbeka. Aristoteles Latinus, XVIII.1-2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2025. Pp. lxxviii, 57. ISBN 9782503614632. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503614632-1

de Martin, Sara. Prokleides – Xenarchos. Fragmenta comica, 16.8. Göttingen: Verlag Antike, 2025. ISBN 9783911065306. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/altertumswissenschaft/graezistik/59939/frc-16-8-prokleides-xenarchos

De Vos, Benjamin M. J. The pseudo-Clementine tradition: the hermeneutics of late-ancient Sophistic Christianity. Cambridge elements in early Christian literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 102. ISBN 9781009506700. https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/pseudoclementine-tradition/996D8CA36521C899D54197E20BB9DDBD

Ehrmantraut, Brigid. Classical myth in medieval Ireland. Studies in Celtic history, 49. Martlesham: D.S. Brewer, 2025. Pp. 206. ISBN 9781843847564.  https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/classical-myth-in-medieval-ireland-9781843847564/

Falco, Giacinto. Ps.-Demostene, Contro Timoteo. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xii, 422. ISBN 9783111390345. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111393117/html

Favi, Federico, Andrea Pellettieri, Olga Tribulato. New approaches to Phrynichus’ Praeparatio Sophistica. Purism in antiquity, 3. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 300. ISBN 9783111579900. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111580319/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoq2yHrQSTklOuc_HEqjcy5N8E82U53A7uu32PefYmyMcYD8E3nr

Felisi, Claudio. Hadès aux multiples noms: histoire onomastique d’un dieu grec d’Homère à Platon. Kaïnon – anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 31. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2026. Pp. 669. ISBN 9782406187684. https://classiques-garnier.com/hades-aux-multiples-noms-histoire-onomastique-d-un-dieu-grec-d-homere-a-platon.html

Ferré, Barbara, Emmanuel Brochier. Thomas D’Aquin. Commentaire du Traité du Ciel d’Aristote. Sagesses médiévales, 27. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 678. ISBN 9782251455747. ​​https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251455747/commentaire-du-traite-du-ciel-daristot

Flemmig, Gerd. Pseudo-Caesar: Bellum Alexandrinum/Bellum Africum/Bellum Hispaniense. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 390. ISBN 9783111215846. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111215976/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoq3JJvZDg5CGDEdWaRoF0t1HL5LIvSk1P7eWuFIWIRsL-2GjIjx

Ford, Thomas. The Alexandrian edition of Alcaeus. Sonderreihe der Abhandlungen Papyrologica Coloniensia, 51. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 386. ISBN 9783506798183. https://brill.com/display/title/72152?language=en

Fredericksen, Erik Pugh. The environmental poetry of Augustan Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 316. ISBN 9781009476171. https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/environmental-poetry-augustan-rome

Fromentin, Valérie, Marion Bellissime, Henri Etcheto. Dion Cassius. Histoire romaine. Fragments des livres 11, 12 et 13. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque – Collection Budé, 586. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2025. Pp. cci, 291. ISBN 9782251006710. https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251006710/histoire-romaine-fragments-des-livres-11-12-13

Galoppin, Thomas. Les bestiaires des mages. Animaux, savoirs et pouvoir rituel sous l’Empire romain. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2025. ISBN 9791035110260. http://www.editionsdelasorbonne.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=28405100099590

Galzerano, Manuel. La fine del mondo nel “De rerum natura” di Lucrezio. Cicero, 2. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. Pp. xxix, 392. ISBN 9783110659627. Open Access. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23228

García Vélez, Juan Jesús. Los conflictos de Aquiles. Un análisis pragmático, retórico y pragmadialéctico de la embajada de los aqueos en la Ilíada IX. Lingüística, 92. Seville: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2024. Pp. 272. ISBN 9788447226207. https://editorial.us.es/es/detalle-libro/720592/los-conflictos-de-aquiles

Gärtner, Ursula, Lukas Spielhofer. Ancient fables and the literary genres: texts, contexts, interactions. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 198. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. ix, 458. ISBN 9783111179889. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111181936/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOorT370YTG9c1oR8GXR8MqchmCtoI_6t2V4WKS697ZN4O-1EkVH5

Gawley, James. Allusions Across the Language Barrier: The Poetic Techniques of Voltaire and Vergil. Cultures et pratiques savantes du numérique, 3. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 340. https://www.fabula.org/actualites/121452/james-gawley-allusions-across-the-language-barrier-the-poetic-techniques-of-voltaire-and-vergil.html

Giardini, Alessandro. Wonder and the marvelous in Hellenistic literature. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 197. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 256. ISBN 9783119145053. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783112214435/html?srsltid=AfmBOopJltSIIhQs_WZiTYix1uHKvAvFnTaKfCSJ7iZiYrNZk4Ukj2h8

Grund, Simon, Robert Kirstein, Julian Wagner. Ambiguity and narratology: interdisciplinary perspectives and diachronic case studies. Narratologia, 92. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. viii, 276. ISBN 9783111495835. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111502618/html

Guthrie, Julius, Henry Anderson, Emma Nicholson. Stranger-kingship in antiquity. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. ISBN 9781032685830. https://www.routledge.com/9781032685830

Herbaux, François. Pythéas. Explorateur du Grand Nord. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024. Pp. 248. ISBN 9782251455280. https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251455280/pytheas

Hill, Jesse, C. W. Marshall. Ennius beyond epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 348. ISBN 9781009586160. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ennius-beyond-epic/0F81760A80CAFA95BD016A71662B46B3

Hirsch, Tobias. Die Briefe des Isokrates. Politische Ratschläge und soziale Netzwerke im vierten Jahrhundert v. Chr. Hypomnemata, 223. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 779. ISBN 9783525303368. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/altertumswissenschaft/graezistik/59838/die-briefe-des-isokrates

Hirschi, Solmeng-Jonas. Epicurus’ human beings: beyond person and self. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 264. ISBN 9780192874962. https://academic.oup.com/book/62294

Huelsenbeck, Bart. Profiles in Roman rhetoric: an expanding hand. London: Routledge, 2025. ISBN 9781032903637. https://www.routledge.com/Profiles-in-Roman-Rhetoric-An-Expanding-Hand/Huelsenbeck/p/book/9781032903637?srsltid=AfmBOoq14_SBC-Qi8e-cvL9aaAnLbY4V32F8MsDtrZ1L0yC5y6IlFoR1

Ioannidou, Kyriaki A. Menandros: Achaioi – Thais (frr. 89–169). Fragmenta comica, 24.4. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 376. ISBN 9783911065535. https://www-degruyterbrill-com.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/document/isbn/9783911065535/html

Kanellou, Maria. Erotic Greek epigram: a diachronic approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 336. ISBN 9780198816140. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/erotic-greek-epigram-9780198816140?cc=us&lang=en&#

Kelly, Peter. Ovid and Plato: disturbing realities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. ISBN 9781009601511. https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/ovid-and-plato-disturbing-realities

Kimmel, Joseph L. Power in the name: a comparative analysis of onomastic invocations. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. ISBN 9783111360287. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111362298/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopFzi9l3gywubplUs2q3dCLzbULiwpJ99UBoi1ruR6bBt69LIqy

Köster, Isabel K. Stealing from the gods: temple robbery in the Roman imagination. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 258. ISBN 9780472133673. https://press.umich.edu/Books/S/Stealing-from-the-Gods 

Krauss, Katherine. Exemplarity and allusion in Macrobius’ Saturnalia. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 210. ISBN 9780198926672. https://academic.oup.com/book/61876

Kyriakidi, Natalia. Aristophanes, Testimonia. Fragmenta comica, 10.2. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 263. ISBN 9783911065337. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/altertumswissenschaft/graezistik/60078/frc-10-2-aristophanes-testimonia

Laato, Anni Maria. Egeria: theological and ecclesial knowledge between eastern and western traditions. Cambridge elements: early Christian literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 78. ISBN 9781009616225. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/egeria/894D2E6B99B70BD4B696C804A32D100F

Lanier, John, et al. Alesia. A Latin text of Caesar’s Gallic War VII 63-90 with running vocabulary and commentary. Williamsburg, VA: Pixelia, 2025. Pp. 131. ISBN 9781737033073. https://pixeliapublishing.org/alesia/

Loizelet, Guillaume. Traditions du Livre des hypothèses. Ordonner et mesurer les astres de Ptolémée à al-Bīrūnī (IIe-XIe siècles). Histoire et philosophie des sciences, 31. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024. Pp. 553. ISBN 9782406171379. https://classiques-garnier.com/traditions-du-livre-des-hypotheses-ordonner-et-mesurer-les-astres-de-ptolemee-a-al-brn-iie-xie-siecles.html

Mantzouranis, Kleanthis. Honour in Aristotle’s Ethics. The Edinburgh history of honour in the ancient Greek world. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781399532259. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-honour-in-aristotle-s-ethics.html

Marinescu, Rareș Ilie. Proclus on Aristotle on Plato: a case study on motion. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 257. ISBN 9781009527620. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/proclus-on-aristotle-on-plato/FBC05D2CE9E55B1058A1D5165E8942C7

Martigny, Cassandre. Devenir Jocaste. Naissances et renaissances du personnage, de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Perspectives comparatistes, 149. Classique/Moderne, 17. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 846. ISBN 9782406182740. https://classiques-garnier.com/devenir-jocaste-naissances-et-renaissances-du-personnage-de-l-antiquite-a-nos-jours.html

de Martin, Sara. Prokleides – Xenarchos. Fragmenta comica, 16.8. Göttingen: Verlag Antike, 2025. ISBN 9783911065306. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/altertumswissenschaft/graezistik/59939/frc-16-8-prokleides-xenarchos

Massetti, Laura. Fashioning immortality: comparative studies in three Pindaric odes. MythosEikonPoiesis, 20. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xxii, 290. ISBN 9783119147699. https://www-degruyterbrill-com.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/de/document/doi/10.1515/9783112208243/html

Massetti, Laura. Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: a linguistic commentary and a comparative study. Ancient languages and civilizations, 6. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. xxxii, 248. ISBN 9789004688070. https://brill.com/display/title/69449?language=en

McConnell, Tom. Chronology, dialect, and style in early Greek hexameter poetry. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780198932314. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/chronology-dialect-and-style-in-early-greek-hexameter-poetry-9780198932314?cc=us&lang=en&

McConnell, Tom. Chronology, dialect, and style in early Greek hexameter poetry. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 320. ISBN 9780198932314. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/chronology-dialect-and-style-in-early-greek-hexameter-poetry-9780198932314?cc=us&lang=en&

McGill, Scott, Susannah Wright. Virgil. The Aeneid. New York: Norton, 2025. Pp. 512. ISBN 9781324096436. https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324096436

Menmuir, Rebecca. Medieval responses to Ovid’s exile. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. ISBN 9781009553926. https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/medieval-responses-ovids-exile#about-the-authors

Mertsching, Maria. Ein Blick über den Bühnenrand. Zentrale Randfiguren und ihre dramaturgische Funktion in der römischen Komödie. Classica Monacensia. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2025. Pp. 300. ISBN 9783381133611. https://www.narr.de/ein-blick-%C3%BCber-den-b%C3%BChnenrand-1336-1/

Modini, Francesca. Aelius Aristides and the poetics of lyric in imperial Greek culture. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 327. ISBN 9781009518246. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/aelius-aristides-and-the-poetics-of-lyric-in-imperial-greek-culture/E9461075203D2AD9F0BBE34690ACD74E

Nelis, Basil L. P. Revenge in Seneca’s tragedies: anger, philosophy, and the feminine. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. Pp. 294. ISBN 9780198993278. https://academic.oup.com/book/62298

Neola, Benedetto. Drunk the potion, no whit charmed: the doctrine of pure and perfect souls from Iamblichus to Damascius. Beiträge zur europäischen Religionsgeschichte, 12. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2026. Pp. 528. ISBN 9783525502419. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/theologie-und-religion/religionswissenschaft/60114/drunk-the-potion-no-whit-charmed

Nervegna, Sebastiana. The performance reception of Greek tragedy in ancient theatres. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 438. ISBN 9781107111370. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/performance-reception-of-greek-tragedy-in-ancient-theatres/91D7B3DDC304B34DF4B006CC5E8E878D#fndtn-information

Nickel, Rainer. Gegen die Stoiker. Plutarchs Moralia, 1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 400. ISBN 9783525363966. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/literatur-sprach-und-kulturwissenschaften/philosophie/60007/gegen-die-stoiker?srsltid=AfmBOopbjZ1r4wYEezwUgsy_87MCxq4wzJg1uw11pKgCrAioiXUgMDim

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Ntanou, Eleni. Εpic pastures: reshaping epic and pastoral in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 180. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xi, 298. ISBN 9783111529134. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111531472/html?lang=en

Occhipinti, Egidia. Reading Greek historians through papyri. A selection on Sicily. Supplementi a “Kókalos”, 25. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2025. Pp. 208. ISBN 9788833156453. https://www.libraweb.net/index.php?dettagliononpdf=1&chiave=3914&valore=sku&name=9788833156477.JPG&h=838&w=600&fbclid=IwY2xjawL7NT9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFmZzdjUkdoT2U1NG10b2l6AR7zoBVIpkdy7wRkGLnzvLvh6oeW1XmL-J6QcOMQz7IH7FyEjFvkBUrj4xFR0g_aem_BlPWOyKUNdVa2YN1xZoO7w

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Oosthout, Arthur. Proclus on whole and part: a reappraisal of mereology in Neoplatonic metaphysics. Philosophia antiqua, 172. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 255. ISBN 9789004721753. https://brill.com/display/title/71075

Paoli, Caterina. Greek tragedy in 20th-century Italian literature: translations by Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad. Bloomsbury studies in classical reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Pp. x, 238. ISBN 9781350186163. https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/greek-tragedy-in-20thcentury-italian-literature-9781350186170/

Pelavski, Andrés D. Impaired consciousness in ancient medical texts. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781009616591. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/impaired-consciousness-in-ancient-medical-texts/E0D42E50616280A47BA5CD689D816ABE 

Peluso, Lavinia. Contro Atene. La democrazia nelle Leggi di Platone. International Plato studies, 44. Baden-Baden: Verlag Karl Alber, 2025. Pp. 159. ISBN 9783495989234. https://www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/contro-atene-gr-978-3-495-98923-4

Pernigotti, Carlo. Scrittore epicureo anonimo: Index Epicureorum. Papyri Graecae Herculanenses, 2. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 382. ISBN 9789004730694. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9789004730700/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoofccXiR6-ZeNwArFQr-YWO8TCYp1ba8Sw8WDAzagYTou0ltGLk 

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Pietruczuk, Katarzyna. Chasing the idea of completeness: great book collections in the Roman world. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 182. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. 242. ISBN 9783111634388. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111634616/html?lang=en

Pontoropoulos, Antonios. Writing herstory through ancient Greek letters: representations of women in fictional epistolography. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781350401754. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-herstory-through-ancient-greek-letters-9781350401778/

Pothecary, Sarah. Strabo’s Geography: A Translation for the Modern World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 1104. ISBN 9780691243139. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691243139/strabos-geography

Ritter-Schmalz, Cornelia. Elegie als Medienfiktion. Selbstreflexion in der Buchdichtung des Properz. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 64. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2026. Pp. 354. ISBN 9783796554629. https://schwabe.ch/cornelia-ritter-schmalz-elegie-als-medienfiktion-978-3-7965-5462-9 

Romano, Carman. Theologies of fear in early Greek epic. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 232. ISBN 9781032689890. https://www.routledge.com/Theologies-of-Fear-in-Early-Greek-Epic/Romano/p/book/9781032689890

Roreitner, Robert. Aristotle on the nature and causes of perception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 284. ISBN 9781009533812. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/aristotle-on-the-nature-and-causes-of-perception/3ADF9BAC7346E420E6E6E33758E8166C

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Schall, Ina. Plotinus on individuation: a study of Ennead V.7 [18]. Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2025. Pp. 274. ISBN 9789462704428. https://lup.be/book/plotinus-on-individuation/

Schomber, Saskia, Aldo Tagliabue. Prolepsis in ancient Greek narrative: definitions, forms and effects. Language of classical literature, 40. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 259. ISBN 9789004715523. https://brill.com/display/title/71341

Schumann, Florian. Der Behinderung einen Sinn verleihen:über die Interpretation von Seh- und Gehbehinderungen bei Figuren des antiken Mythos. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. ix, 365. ISBN 9783111381794.  https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111384030/html

Scrofani, Francesca. Enquête sur un dialogue du corpus de Platon: Minos ou Sur la loi. Kaïnon – anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 32. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2025. Pp. 349. ISBN 9782406190110. https://classiques-garnier.com/enquete-sur-un-dialogue-du-corpus-de-platon-minos-ou-sur-la-loi-en.html

Seibert, Felix. “Sermo iuvenilis”: Studien zum Sprachstil der “adulescens”-Figur in der lateinischen Literatur der Antike von Plautus bis Petron. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 163. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xii, 291. ISBN 9783111706412. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111706702/html?srsltid=AfmBOoqXfU0bExZs0YRr_6afk_4aPU289Spk0vtPOr7IK-iNGSDSOhB4 

Sellars, John. The Cambridge companion to Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. 322. ISBN 9781108832168. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-marcus-aurelius-meditations/36243C0EA3099B4E0774E43D765D431E

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Stone, Damien. The secret sacred: mystery cults in ancient Greece and Rome. London: Reaktion Books, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781836391098. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo258381763.html

Stuttard, David. Looking at Hippolytus. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Pp. 216. ISBN 9781350429024. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/looking-at-hippolytus-9781350429031/

Swain, Natalie J. Narrative in Ovid’s Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and Segmentary Narrative. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781350407244. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/narrative-in-ovids-amores-9781350407244/

Toma, Paraskevi, Péter Bara. Latin translations of Greek texts from the 11th to the 13th century. The medieval Mediterranean, 143. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xxii, 476. ISBN 9789004707566. https://brill.com/display/title/70834?language=en

Trachsel, Alexandra, Hendrik Müller. Claudius Aelianus: quotation practices and literary skills of an imperial collector of knowledge. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 32. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. Pp. 189. ISBN 9783515137997. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Claudius-Aelianus/9783515137997

van Beek, Lucien. Language change in epic Greek and other poetic traditions. Leiden studies in Indo-European, 25. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. xii, 278. ISBN 9789004537019. https://brill.com/display/title/64153?language=en

Von Möllendorf, Peter, Saskia Schomber. Dionysios von Halikarnass. Über die Wortführung. Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur, 95. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 2026. Pp. 268. ISBN 9783777225197. https://www.hiersemann.de/Ueber-die-Wortfuegung-9783777225197

Villa, Eugenio. La tradizione manoscritta del De incredibilibus di Palefato. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 424. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. xvi, 364. ISBN 9783111589428. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111589527/html?lang=en

Von Alvensleben, Jörg. Symphonisches Mysterium. Einheit und Vielfalt der Darstellung in der Theologia Platonica des Proklos (Buch I-III). Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte, 11. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2025. Pp. 603. ISBN 9783525540930. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/theologie-und-religion/religionswissenschaft/59974/symphonisches-mysterium?srsltid=AfmBOooFZovbZIIL740V4iq4mAfYkvt_Gs2cpvYMsYdTfErffgzg7ac2

Walmsley, Louise, Sylvain Delcomminette. Pathos kai nomos: le traitement des affections dans les Lois de Platon. Brill’s Plato studies series, 19. Leiden: Brill, 2025. Pp. x, 226. ISBN 9789004726758. https://brill.com/display/title/71931?language=en

Warhover, Emma. Humor in the historical works of Tacitus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. Pp. 204. ISBN 9780472133680. https://press.umich.edu/Books/H/Humor-in-the-Historical-Works-of-Tacitus

Weiss, Adrian. ‘Naso Tomitanus’: intratextuelle Transformationen in Ovids ‘Epistulae ex Ponto’. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, neue Folge, 2. Reihe, 167. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2025. Pp. 303. ISBN 9783825396282. https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-9628-2/Weiss_Naso_Tomitanus/

Weiten, Katharina. Lateinische Umgangssprache von Plautus bis Egeria. Submersion und Kontinuität. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 430. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. Pp. viii, 187. ISBN 9783119142229. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9783112222089/html

Winzenrieth, Justin. Histoire du texte des “Parva naturalia” d’Aristote. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. ISBN 9783119148795. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111709536/html#contents

Zhao, Jingyi Jenny. Aristotle and Xunzi on shame, moral education, and the good life. Emotions of the past. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. xiii, 178. ISBN 9780197773161. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/aristotle-and-xunzi-on-shame-moral-education-and-the-good-life-9780197773161?cc=us&lang=en&

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Fendel, Victoria B. Giving gifts and doing favours. Leiden: Brill, 2025. ISBN 9789004730519. https://brill.com/display/title/72251

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