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*Andrisano, Angela Maria (ed.). Ritmo, parola, immagine: il teatro classico e la sua tradizione. Atti del Convegno Internazionale e Interdottorale (Ferrara, 17-18 dicembre 2009). Dionysus ex machina. Palermo: Palumbo Editore, 2011. (ebook). ISBN 9788860172228.

*Arjava, Antti, Matias Buchholz, Traianos Gagos and Maarit Kaimio (edd.). The Petra Papyri IV. Amman: American Center of Oriental Research, 2011. xx, 213 p. lxxiv p. pf plates. $100.00. ISBN 9789957854355.

*Baldi, Idalgo. Gli Inni di Sinesio di Cirene: vicende testuali di un corpus tardoantico. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 299. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. 187 p. $120.00. ISBN 9783110274486.

Bearzot, Cinzia, Franca Landucci and Luisa Prandi (edd.). L'Athenaion politeia rivisitata: il punto su Pseudo- Senofonte. Contributi di storia antica, 9. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2011. 189 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9788834321263.

*Bettini, Maurizio and William Michael Short. The ears of Hermes: communication, images, and identity in the classical world (first published in Italian 2000; translated by William Michael Short). Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. xv, 278 p. $59.95. ISBN 9780814211700.

*Böhme, Hartmut, Lutz Bergemann, Martin Dönike, Albert Schirrmeister, Georg Toepfer, Marco Walter and Julia Weitbrecht (edd.). Transformation: ein Konzept zur Erforschung kulturellen Wandels. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2011. 242 p. € 19.90 (pb). ISBN 9783770552610.

*Bohne, Anke. Bilder vom Sport: Untersuchungen zur Ikonographie römischer Athleten-Darstellungen. Nikephoros. Beihefte, Bd 19. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2011. xi, 797. € 98.00. ISBN 9783615003925.

Briant, Pierre. Alexandre le Grand (seventh edition; first edition 1974). Que sais-je? 622. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2011. 127 p. € 9.00 (pb). ISBN 9782130591481.

*Bricault, Laurent and Richard Veymiers (edd.). Bibliotheca Isiaca II. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2011. 486 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356130532.

*Brockliss, William, Pramit Chaudhuri, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov and Katherine Wasdin (edd.). Reception and the classics: an interdisciplinary approach to the classical tradition. Yale classical studies, 36. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. x, 188 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521764322.

*Bryce, Trevor. The Routledge handbook of the peoples and places of ancient Western Asia: the Near East from the early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire (paperback reprint; first published 2009). London; New York: Routledge, 2012. lvi, 887 p. $74.95 (pb). ISBN 9780415692618.

*Burton, Paul J. Friendship and empire: Roman diplomacy and imperialism in the Middle Republic (353-146 BC). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xi, 395 p. $110.00. ISBN 9780521190008.

*Cain, Hans-Ulrich, Annette Haug and Yadegar Asisi (edd.). Das antike Rom und sein Bild. Transformationen der Antike, 21. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2011. xx, 291 p., [2] leaves, folded. $120.00. ISBN 9783110201314.

**Cancik, Hubert, Manfred Landfester and Helmuth Schneider (edd.). Die Rezeption der antiken Literatur: kulturhistorisches Werklexikon. Der Neue Pauly - Supplemente, Bd 7. Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2010. xviii, 638 p. € 179.95. ISBN 9783476020345.

*Cecconi, Giovanni A. and Chantal Gabrielli (edd.). Politiche religiose nel mondo antico e tardoantico: poteri e indirizzi, forme del controllo, idee e prassi di tolleranza. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze, 24-26 settembre 2009. Munera, 33. Bari: Edipuglia, 2011. 413 p. € 50.00. ISBN 9788872286227.

* Cercle d'Études Numismatiques (ed.). The Journal of Archaeological Numismatics. Volume 1 - 2011. Bruxelles: CEN. European Centre for Numismatic Studies = Centre européen d'études numismatiques, 2011. viii, 251 p. (pb).

*Collard, David, Jim Morris and Elisa Perego (edd.). Food and drink in archaeology 3: University of Nottingham Postgraduate Conference 2009. Totnes: Prospect Books, 2012. 149 p. £ 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9781903018781.

Corbel-Morana, Cécile. Le Bestiaire d'Aristophane. Collection d'études anciennes. Série grecque, 144. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. 350 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251326801.

*Dräger, Paul (ed., trans.). Euripides. Iphigenie bei den Taurern. Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, 18911. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2011. 134 p. € 3.60 (pb). ISBN 9783150189115.

*Ewans, Michael (trans., comm.). Aristophanes. Acharnians, Knights, and Peace (translated and with theatrical commentaries). Oklahoma series in classical culture, 45. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. xiii, 289 p. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806142319.

*Faucher, Thomas, Marie-Christine Marcellesi and Olivier Picard (edd.). Nomisma: la circulation monétaire dans le monde grec antique. Actes du colloque international, Athènes, 14-17 avril 2010. BCH Supplément, 53. Athène: Ecole française d'Athènes, 2011. 492 p. € 50.00 (pb). ISBN 9782869582248.

Fitzon, Thorsten, Sandra Linden, Kathrin Liess and Dorothee Elm von der Osten (edd.). Alterszäsuren: Zeit und Lebensalter in Literatur, Theologie und Geschichte. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2011. xv, 445 p. $180.00. ISBN 9783110254785.

*Forsén, Björn and Esko Tikkala (edd.). Thesprotia expedition. Papers and monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens, 16. Helsinki: Suomen Ateenan-Instituutin säätiö, 2011. iii, 392 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9789526721125.

*Freeman, Philip (trans.). Quintus Tullius Cicero. How to win an election: an ancient guide for modern politicians. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. xxv, 99 p. $9.95. ISBN 9780691154084.

*Frija, Gabrielle. Les Prêtres des empereurs: le culte impérial civique dans la province romaine d'Asie. Histoire. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012. 323 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753517387.

*Fuhrer, Therese (ed.). Rom und Mailand in der Spätantike: Repräsentationen städtischer Räume in Literatur, Architektur und Kunst. Topoi. Berlin studies of the ancient world, Bd 4. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. xx, 448 p. $120.00. ISBN 9783110222135.

*Geagan, Daniel J. Inscriptions: the dedicatory monuments. The Athenian Agora 18. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. xxx, 425 p., 80 p. of plates. $150.00. ISBN 9780876612187.

*Gherchanoc, Florence. L'Oïkos en fête: célébrations familiales et sociabilité en Grèce ancienne. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2012. 265 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782859446901.

*Goldhill, Simon. Sophocles and the language of tragedy. Onassis series in Hellenic culture. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 296 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780199796274.

*Gourevitch, Danielle. Pour une archéologie de la médecine romaine. Collection Pathographie, 8. Paris: De Boccard, 2011. 251 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701803029.

*Grandjean, Yves. Le rempart de Thasos. Etudes thasiennes, 22. Athènes: Ecole française d'Athènes, 2011. 651 p. € 120.00 (pb). ISBN 9782869582286.

*Griswold, Charles L. and David Konstan (edd.). Ancient forgiveness: classical, Judaic, and Christian. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xv, 260 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780521119481.

*Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis (edd., comm.). Plutarch's Dialogue on love: an intermediate Greek reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and commentary. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, ltd., 2011. xv, 237 p. (pb). ISBN 9780983222811.

*Herman, Gabriel (ed.). Stability and crisis in the Athenian democracy. Historia Einzelschriften 220. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 164 p. € 46.00. ISBN 9783515098670.

*Hexter, Ralph J. and David Townsend (edd.). The Oxford handbook of medieval Latin literature. Oxford handbooks. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xix, 636 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780195394016.

*Hölkeskamp, Karl-Joachim. Die Entstehung der Nobilität: Studien zur sozialen und politischen Geschichte der Römischen Republik im 4. Jh. v. Chr. 2., erweiterte Auflage (first edition published 1987). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. xxxiii, 344 p. ISBN 9783515098830.

*Holway, Richard. Becoming Achilles: child-sacrifice, war, and misrule in the Iliad and beyond. Greek studies: interdisciplinary approaches. Lanham, MD; Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2012. xiv, 255 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780739146910.

*Horn, Christoph (ed.). Platon: Symposion. Klassiker Auslegen, Bd 39. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012. ix, 239 p. € 24.80 (pb). ISBN 9783050043456.

Icks, Martijn. The crimes of Elagabalus: the life and legacy of Rome's decadent boy emperor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. xi, 276 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674064379.

*Johnson, Marguerite and Harold Tarrant (edd.). Alcibiades and the Socratic lover-educator. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2011. x, 254 p. $80.00. ISBN 9780715640869.

Johnson, Mark J., Robert Ousterhout and Amy Papalexandrou (edd.). Approaches to Byzantine architecture and its decoration: studies in honor of Slobodan ´Cur˘ci´. Farnham; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. xix, 309 p. $124.95. ISBN 9781409427407.

*Kalimtzis, Kostas. Taming anger: the Hellenic approach to the limitations of reason. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012. 224 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780715640791.

*Kovalenko, Sergei A. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Coins of the Black Sea region, Part I: Ancient coins from the Northern Black Sea Littoral. Colloquia antiqua, 3. Leuven; Paris; Walpole, MA: Peeters, 2011. xvi, 192 p. € 87.00. ISBN 9789042921375.

Landi, Licia and Luigi Scarpa (edd.). Meeting the challenge: bringing classical texts to life in the classroom. Proceedings of a SSIS conference in Venice, July 2008. Institutio, 4.1-3 (2008). Lecce: Pensa MultiMedia, 2011. (pb). ISBN 19734786.

*Laurence, Ray and David J. Newsome (edd.). Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: movement and space. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xv, 444 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199583126.

Lazaridou, Anastasia (ed.). Transition to Christianity: art of late antiquity, 3rd-7th century AD. New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2011. 191 p. $30.00 (pb). ISBN 9780981966625.

*Legras, Bernard (edd.). Transfert culturels et droits dans le monde grec et hellénistique. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2012. 508 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9782859446895.

*Lehoux, Daryn. What did the Romans know?: an inquiry into science and worldmaking. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii, 275 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780226471143.

*Lenski, Noel (ed.). The Cambridge companion to the Age of Constantine. Revised edition (first published 2006). Cambridge companions to the ancient world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xx, 471 p. $39.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107601109.

Lolos, Yannis A. Land of Sikyon: archaeology and history of a Greek city-state. Hesperia supplements, 39. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. xxviii, 635 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780876615393.

**Lykke, Anne and Friedrich Schipper (edd.). Kult und Macht: Religion und Herrschaft im syro-palästinischen RaumStudien zu ihrer Wechselbeziehung in hellenistisch-römischer Zeit. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.Reihe, 319. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. xv, 327 p. € 89.00. ISBN 9783161500671.

*Maffi, Alberto and Lorenzo Gagliardi (edd.). I diritti degli altri in Grecia e a Roma. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2011. 467 p. € 39.80 (pb). ISBN 9783896655578.

*Martelli, Matteo (ed., trans., comm.). Pseudo-Democrito. Scritti alchemici: con il commentario di Sinesio. Edizione critica del testo greco, traduzione e commento. Textes et Travaux de Chrysopoeia, 12. Paris; Milano: S.É.H.A.; Archè, 2011. xvi, 524 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9788872523193.

*Mayhew, Robert (ed., trans., comm.). Prodicus the sophist: texts, translations, and commentary. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xxix, 272 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780199607877.

*McCormick, Michael. Charlemagne's survey of the Holy Land: wealth, personnel, and buildings of a Mediterranean church between antiquity and the Middle Ages (with a critical edition and translation of the original text). Dumbarton Oaks medieval humanities. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011. xxii, 287 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780884023630.

*Meid, Wolfgang. The Celts. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Neue Folge, Bd 2. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck Bereich Sprachwissenschaft, 2010. 184 p. € 24.00. ISBN 9783851242287.

*Meyer, Susan Sauvé. Aristotle on moral responsibility: character and cause (reprint with new introduction; first published 1993). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xxv, 210 p. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199697434.

*Migliori, M., L. M. Napolitanio Valditara and A. Fermani (edd.). Inner life and soul: Psychê in Plato.. Lecturae Platonis, 7. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 359 p. € 42.00 (pb). ISBN 9783896655615.

*Minon, Sophie (ed., trans., comm.). Dion de Pruse. Ilion n'a pas été prise: Discours troyen 11. La roue à livres, 61. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. lxxvi, 120 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251339627.

*Mirto, Maria Serena. Death in the Greek world: from Homer to the classical age (first published in Italian 2007; translated by A. M. Osborne). Oklahoma series in classical culture, 44. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. x, 197 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806141879.

Mitchell, Stephen and David French (edd.). The Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Ankara (Ancyra), Vol. I: From Augustus to the end of the third century AD. Vestigia, Bd 62. München: Verkag C. H. Beck, 2012. ix, 523 p. € 118.00. ISBN 9783406621901.

*Morlet, Sébastien (ed.). Le traité de Porphyre contre les chrétiens: un siècle de recherches, nouvelles questions. Actes du colloque international organisé les 8 et 9 septembre 2009 à l'Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne. Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 190. Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 2011. 462 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782851212450.

Mouraviev, Serge N. (ed., trans., comm.). Heraclitea, IV.A. Refectio: Liber ut a nobis restitutus. A. Textus, translationes, adnotationes (second edition; first published 1991). Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2011. xxix, 206 p. € 44.00. ISBN 9783896655271.

*Munteanu, Dana LaCourse. Tragic pathos: pity and fear in Greek philosophy and tragedy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiii, 278 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521765107.

*Murray, William M. The age of titans: the rise and fall of the great Hellenistic navies. Onassis series in Hellenic culture. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xxvii, 356 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780195388640.

*Pagán, Victoria Emma (ed.). A companion to Tacitus. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. xvii, 599 p. $199.95. ISBN 9781405190329.

*Price, A. W. Virtue and reason in Plato and Aristotle. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xii, 356 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780199609611.

*Pullen, Daniel J. The early Bronze Age village on Tsoungiza Hill. Nemea Valley Archaeological Project, 1. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011. xxxix, 1047 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780876619223.

*Ray, Fred Eugene. Land battles in 5th century B.C. Greece: a history and analysis of 173 engagements. Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland, 2011. vii, 315 p. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780786467730.

**Rollinger, Robert, Martin Lang and Heinz Barta (edd.). Strafe und Strafrecht in den antiken Welten: unter Berücksichtigung von Todesstrafe, Hinrichtung und peinlicher Befragung. Philippika, 51. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012. xvi, 266 p. € 56.00. ISBN 9783447066570.

*Rollinger, Robert and Gundula Schwinghammer (edd.). Gegenwart und Altertum: 125 Jahre Alte Geschichte in Innsbruck. Akten des Kolloquiums Innsbruck 2010. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Neue Folge, Bd 3. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck Bereich Sprachwissenschaft, 2011. 195 p. € 32.00. ISBN 9783851242294.

*Rose, C. Brian and Gareth Darbyshire (edd.). The new chronology of Iron Age Gordion. Gordion special studies, 6. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2011. xiv, 181 p. $69.95. ISBN 9781934536445.

*Schetter, Barbara. Philippus Cancellarius: die Motettengedichte. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 294. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2011. xi, 428 p. $195.00. ISBN 9783110259865.

Schlesier, Renate (ed.). A different god?: Dionysos and ancient polytheism. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2011. xiv, 667 p., 68 p. of plates. $150.00. ISBN 9783110222340.

*Spawforth, A. J. S. Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. viii, 319 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107012110.

*Stavru, Alessandro. Il potere dell'apparenza: percorso storico-critico nell'estetica antica. Philosophica, 3. Casoria: Loffredo Editore, 2011. 216 p. € 14.00 (pb). ISBN 9788875645380.

*Stöger, Hanna. Rethinking Ostia: a spatial enquiry into the urban society of Rome's imperial port-town. Archaeological studies Leiden University, 24. Amsterdam: Leiden University Press, 2011. v, 315 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9789087281502.

*Tesio, Giovanni and Giulia Pennaroli (edd.). Lo sguardo offeso. Il paesaggio in Italia: storia, geografia, arte, letteratura. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi, 24-25 settembre 2008, Vercelli, 26 settembre 2008, Demonte, 27 settembre 2008, Montà. Torino: Centro Studi Piemontesi / Ca dë Studi Piemontèis, 2011. xi, 389 p. € 27.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882621742.

*Thomsen, Arne. Die Wirkung der Götter: Bilder mit Flügelfiguren auf griechischen Vasen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Image & context 9. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2011. xi, 506 p. $150.00. ISBN 9783110238983.

*Townsend, Philippa and Moulie Vidas (edd.). Revelation, literature, and community in late antiquity. Texts and studies in ancient Judaism = Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 146. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011. viii, 368 p. € 109.00. ISBN 9783161506444.

*Treuil, René (ed.). L'archéologie cognitive: techniques, modes de communication, mentalités. Cogniprisme. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2011. 285 p. € 21.00 (pb). ISBN 9782735113934.

*Van Nuffelen, Peter. Rethinking the gods: philosophical readings of religion in the post-Hellenistic period. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. viii, 273 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107012035.