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Ambühl, Annemarie. Krieg und Bürgerkrieg bei Lucan und in der griechischen Literatur: Studien zur Rezeption der attischen Tragödie und der hellenistischen Dichtung im Bellum civile. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 225. Berlin; München; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xii, 484 p. € 119.95. ISBN 9783110222074.

Amigues, Suzanne. Théophraste, Les causes des phénomènes végétaux. Tome II, livres III et IV. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 513. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015. xvi, 224 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005973.

Anson, Edward M. Eumenes of Cardia: a Greek among Macedonians. Second edition (first edition 2004). Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 383. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. xvii, 286 p. € 126.00. ISBN 9789004297159.

Anzalone, Rosario Maria. Gortina VII: città e territorio dal protogeometrico all'età classica. Monografie della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente, 22. Atene: Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, 2015. 321 p. (pb). ISBN 9789609559058.

Bader, Bernd. Fragmenta Gissensia: antike lateinische Literatur in Handschriftenfragmenten der UB Gießen. Berichte und Arbeiten aus der Universitätsbibliothek und dem Universitätsarchiv Gießen, 63. Gießen: Universitätsbibliothek, 2015. 264 p. Available as Open Access eBook. ISBN 9783944682044.

Beltrán, Alejandro, Inés Sastre and Miriam Valdés (edd.). Los espacios de la esclavitud y la dependencia desde la antigüedad: Homenaje a Domingo Plácido. Actas del XXXV coloquio del GIREA. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté; Institut des sciences et des techniques de l'Antiquité, 2015. 822 p. € 49.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848675213.

Bitner, Bradley J. Paul's political strategy in 1 Corinthians 1-4: constitution and covenant. Society for New Testament Studies monograph series, 163. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 358 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107088481.

Boschung, Dietrich, Alan Shapiro and Frank Waschek (edd.). Bodies in transition: dissolving the boundaries of embodied knowledge. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015. 320 p. € 44.90 (pb). ISBN 9783770558087.

Bouchet, Christian and Pascale Giovannelli-Jouanna (edd.). Isocrate: entre jeu rhétorique et enjeux politiques. Collection Études et Recherches sur l'Occident Romain - CEROR, 47. Lyon: CEROR, 2015. 414 p. € 36.00 (pb). ISBN 9782364420571.

Brandt, Ulrike. Kommentar zu Epiktets Encheiridion. Wissenschaftliche Kommentare zu griechischen und lateinischen Schriftstellern. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 411 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783825364779.

Bridel, Philippe. Le sanctuaire de la Grange des Dîmes à Avenches: les temples et le péribole - étude des architectures (2 vols.). Cahiers d'archéologie romande, 156; Aventicum, XX. Lausanne: Cahiers d'archéologie romande, 2015. 256p.; 1 volume of plans. CHF 98.00 (pb). ISBN 9782880281567.

Brindle, Tom, Martyn Allen, Emma Durham and Alex Smith (edd.). TRAC 2014: proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, which took place at The University of Reading, 27-30 March 2014. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. vi, 121 p. $60.00 (pb). ISBN 9781785700026.

Brüggemann, Nora. Kult im archaischen Tiryns: eine Analyse neuer Befunde und Funde. Tiryns, XVIII. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2015. xv, 342 p., 25 p. of plates. € 68.00. ISBN 9783954900473.

Callataÿ, François de (ed.). Quantifying the Greco-Roman economy and beyond. Pragmateiai, 27. Bari: Edipuglia, 2014. 260 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9788872287446.

Cankardeş-Şenol, Gonca. Lexicon of eponym dies on Rhodian amphora stamps, volume 1, eponyms A. Études Alexandrines, 33. AmphorAlex, 3. Alexandrie: Centre d'Études Alexandrines, 2015. 608 p. € 40.00. ISBN 9782111390225.

Christopoulos, Menelaos and Machi Païzi-Apostolopoulou (edd.). Έγκλημα και τιμωρία στην ομηρική και την αρχαϊκή ποίηση: Από τα Πρακτικά του ΙΒ' Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου για την Οδύσεια. Ιθάκη, 3-7 Σεπτεμβρίου 2013 / Crime and punishment in Homeric and archaic epic: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on the Odyssey. Ithaca, September 3-7, 2013. Ithaca: Centre for Odyssean Studies, 2014. 410 p. (pb). ISBN 9789608509375.

Colakis, Marianthe. Lectiones memorabiles, volume I: selections from Catullus, Cicero, Livy, Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, and Vergil. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2015. xii, 341 p. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865168299.

Compton-Engle, Gwendolyn. Costume in the comedies of Aristophanes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv, 198 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107083790.

Cosmopoulos, Michael B. Bronze Age Eleusis and the origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvii, 227 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107010994.

Coutelle, Éric. Properce, Élégies, livre IV. Collection Latomus, 348. Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2015. 1,021 p. € 125.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042932418.

Cyrino, Monica S. (ed.). Rome season two: trial and triumph. Screening antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. xviii, 253 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781474400275.

Demesticha, Stella (ed.). PER TERRAM, PER MARE: seaborne trade and the distribution of Roman amphorae in the Mediterranean. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature, PB 180. Uppsala: Åströms förlag, 2015. xxii, 298 p. € 64.00. ISBN 9789170812156.

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Madrid (ed.). Madrider Mitteilungen 55 (2014). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2015. 612 p. € 110.00. ISBN 9783954900855.

Devillers, Olivier (ed.). Autour de Pline le Jeune: en hommage à Nicole Méthy. Scripta antiqua, 74. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2014. 321 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356131324.

Diamond, Eli. Mortal imitations of divine life: the nature of the soul in Aristotle's De Anima. Rereading ancient philosophy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015. xiii, 333 p. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9780810131781.

Dow, Jamie. Passions and persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric. Oxford Aristotle studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ix, 248 p. $66.00. ISBN 9780198716266.

Eastman, David L. The ancient martyrdom accounts of Peter and Paul. Writings from the Greco-Roman world, 39. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015. xxv, 469 p. $59.95 (pb). ISBN 9781628370904.

Fejfer, Jane, Mette Moltesen and Annette Rathje (edd.). Tradition: transmission of culture in the Ancient World. Danish studies in classical archaeology. Acta Hyperborea, 14. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2015. 493 p. $69.00 (pb). ISBN 9788763542586.

Finglass, P. J. and Adrian Kelly (edd.). Stesichorus in context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii, 220 p. $110.00. ISBN 9781107069732.

Frenkel, Luise Marion. Theodotus of Ancyra's homilies and the Council of Ephesus (431). Studia Patristica supplement, 4. Leuven; Bristol, CT: Peeters, 2015. ix, 286 p. € 76.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042931473.

Galli, Maria Teresa and Gabriella Moretti (edd.). Sparsa colligere et integrare lacerata: centoni, pastiches e la tradizione greco-latina del reimpiego testuale. Labirinti, 155. Trento: Università degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, 2014. 233 p. (pb). ISBN 9788884435705.

García Ruiz, María Pilar and Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas (edd.). Praising the otherness. Linguistic and cultural alterity in the Roman Empire: historiography and panegyrics. TALANTA: proceedings of the Dutch Arcaeological and Historical Society, 45 (2013). Amsterdam: Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society, 2014. 175 p. (pb). ISBN 9789072067173.

Gauger, Barbara and Jörg-Dieter Gauger. Die Fragmente der Historiker: Ephoros von Kyme (FGrHist 70) und Timaios von Tauromenion (FGrHist 566). Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur, Bd 77. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2015. vi, 368 p. € 198.00. ISBN 9783777215068.

Gazzarri, Tommaso. Plauto, Poenulus Truculentus. Classici Greci e Latini, 172. Milano: Mondadori Libri, 2015. lii, 275 p. € 15.00 (pb). ISBN 9788804649953.

Gherchanoc, Florence (ed.). L'histoire du corps dans l'Antiquité: bilan historiographie. Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, supplément, 14. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté; Institut des sciences et des techniques de l'Antiquité, 2015. 196 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848675268.

Gilardeau, Éric. Les grands procès politiques de l'Antiquité. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015. 286 p. € 28.50 (pb). ISBN 9782343064321.

Gray, Christa. Jerome, Vita Malchi: introduction, text, translation, and commentary. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xv, 365 p. $115.00. ISBN 9780198723721.

Griffin, Michael J. Aristotle's Categories in the early Roman Empire. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii, 283 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780198724735.

Guimier-Sorbets, Anne-Marie, André Pelle and Mervat Seif el-Din. Renaître avec Osiris et Perséphone: Alexandrie, les tombes peintes de Kôm el-Chougafa. Antiquités Alexandrines, 1. Alexandrie: Centre d'Études Alexandrines, 2015. 177 p. € 40.00. ISBN 9782111298583.

Günther, Hans-Christian (ed.). Virgilian studies: a miscellany dedicated to the memory of Mario Geymonat (26.1.1941 - 17.2.2012). Studia classica et mediaevalia, Bd 10. Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2015. 526 p. € 90.00. ISBN 9783959480215.

Hadavas, C. T. Lucian, True stories: an intermediate ancient Greek reader. C. T. Hadavas, 2015. xxxiii, 262 p. (pb). ISBN 9781514147122.

Haverling, Gerd V. M. (ed.). Latin linguistics in the early 21st century: acts of the 16th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistic, Uppsala, June 6th-11th, 2011. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studias Latina Upsaliensia, 35. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2015. x, 652 p. (pb). ISBN 9789155492717.

Hayes, Christine. What's divine about divine law?: early perspectives. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. xv, 412 p. $39.50. ISBN 9780691165196.

Hekster, Olivier. Emperors and ancestors: Roman rulers and the constraints of tradition. Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xxxii, 395 p. $135.00. ISBN 9780198736820.

Hillner, Julia. Prison, punishment and penance in late antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xx, 422 p. $115.00. ISBN 9780521517515.

Hochscheid, Helle. Networks of stone: sculpture and society in archaic and classical Athens. Cultural interactions: studies in the relationship between the arts, 35. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2015. xviii, 506 p. $97.95. ISBN 9783034309929.

Howe, Timothy, E. Edward Garvin, Graham Wrightson and Waldemar Heckel (edd.). Greece, Macedon and Persia: studies in social, political and military history in honour of Waldemar Heckel. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. xiv, 214 p. $80.00. ISBN 9781782979234.

Jenkins, Thomas E. Antiquity now: the classical world in the contemporary American imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. viii, 253 p. $99.99. ISBN 9780521196260.

Kerner, Susanne, Rachael J. Dann and Pernille Bangsgaard (edd.). Climate and ancient societies. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2015. 351 p. $52.00. ISBN 9788763541992.

Kritzinger, Peter, Frank Schleicher and Timo Stickler (edd.). Studien zum römischen Zollwesen. Reihe Geschichte, Bd 7. Duisburg: Wellem Verlag, 2015. vi, 266 p.; 1 CD-ROM. € 59.00. ISBN 9783941820142.

Lapatin, Kenneth. Luxus: the sumptuous arts of Greece and Rome. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. xi, 291 p. $74.95. ISBN 9781606064221.

Le Quéré, Enora. Les Cyclades sous l'Empire romain: histoire d'une renaissance. Histoire. Série Histoire ancienne. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015. 455 p. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753540453.

Leão, Delfim F. and P. J. Rhodes. The Laws of Solon: a new edition with introduction, translation and commentary. Library of classical studies, 7. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 2015. xiii, 210 p. $115.00. ISBN 9781780768533.

Levick, Barbara. Claudius. Second edition (first edition 1990). Roman imperial biographies. London; New York: Routledge, 2015. xxiv, 262 p. $145.00. ISBN 9780415703574.

Liebeschuetz, Wolf. East and West in late antiquity: invasion, settlement, ethnogenesis and conflicts of religion. Impact of empire, 20. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. € 168.00. ISBN 9789004282926.

McConnell, Sean. Philosophical life in Cicero's letters. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. viii, 260 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781107040816.

Montoya Rubio, Bernat. L'esclavitud en l'economia antiga: fonaments discursius de la historiografia moderna (Segles XV-XVIII). Institut des sciences et techniques de l'Antiquité. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2015. 577 p. € 39.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848675107.

Natali, Carlo and Cristina Viano (edd.). Aitia II avec ou sans Aristote: le debat sur les causes a l'age hellenistique et imperial. Aristote. Traductions et Études, 33. Leuven: Peeters, 2014. 254 p. € 76.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042930933.

Ortisi, Salvatore. Militärische Ausrüstung und Pferdegeschirr aus den Vesuvstädten. Palilia, 29. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2015. 280 p. € 39.90 (pb). ISBN 9783954900213.

Papadopoulos, John K., Sarah P. Morris, Lorenc Bejko and Lynne A. Schepartz. The excavation of the prehistoric burial tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania (2 vols.). Monumenta archaeologica, 34. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2014. xxxvii, 1,118 p. $169.00. ISBN 9781938770005.

Pepe, Cristina and Gabriella Moretti (edd.). Le parole dopo la morte: forme e funzioni della retorica funeraria nella tradizione greca e romana. Labirinti, 158. Trento: Università degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, 2014. 379 p. (pb). ISBN 9788884436030.

Pfeiffer, Stefan. Griechische und lateinische Inschriften zum Ptolemäerreich und zur römischen Provinz Aegyptus. Einführungen und Quellentexte zur Ägyptologie, Bd 9. Münster; Berlin; Wien; Zürich; London: LIT Verlag, 2015. vi, 376 p. € 34.90 (pb). ISBN 9783643130969.

Pickup, Sadie, Marianne Bergeron and Jennifer M. Webb. Cypriote antiquities in Reading: the Ure Museum at the University of Reading and the Reading Museum (Reading Borough Council). Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, XX: 30; Corpus of Cypriote antiquities, 30. Uppsala: Åströms förlag, 2015. vii, 55 p. € 24.00. ISBN 9789170812019.

Pontier, Pierre (ed.). Xénophon et la rhétorique. Hellenica. Paris: Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, 2014. 392 p. € 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840509240.

Potter, David. Constantine the Emperor (paperback reprint of 2013 edition). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xv, 368 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9780190231620.

Power, Henry. Epic into novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian satire, and the consumption of classical literature. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiv, 232 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780198723875.

Prauscello, Lucia. Performing citizenship in Plato's Laws. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2014. ix, 272 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781107072886.

Pritchard, David M. Public spending and democracy in Classical Athens. Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. xvi, 191 p. $50.00. ISBN 9780292772045.

Rebillard, Éric and Jörg Rüpke (edd.). Group identity and religious individuality in late antiquity. CUA studies in early Christianity. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015. viii, 331 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780813227436.

Rimell, Victoria. The closure of space in Roman poetics: empire's inward turn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xi, 358 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107079267.

Roselaar, Saskia T. (ed.). Processes of cultural change and integration in the Roman world. Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 382. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. x, 314 p. € 115.00. ISBN 9789004294547.

Saldutti, Vittorio. Cleone: un politico ateniese. Documenti e studi, 60. Bari: Edipuglia, 2014. 221 p. € 35.00 (pb). ISBN 9788872287309.

Salway, Peter. Roman Britain: a very short introduction. Second edition (first published 1984). Very short introductions, 17. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xv, 122 p. $11.95 (pb). ISBN 9780198712169.

Schemmel, Nicole. Ῥωμαίων κράτιστος: die Rezeption des Pompeius in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Reihe Geschichte, Bd 8. Duisburg: Wellem Verlag, 2015. xii, 473 p.; 1 CD-ROM. € 59.00. ISBN 9783941820173.

Schüren, Ute, Daniel Marc Segesser and Thomas Späth (edd.). Globalized antiquity: uses and perceptions of the past in South Asia, Mesoamerica, and Europe. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2015. 352 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9783496016007.

Smith, Adam T. Political machine: assembling sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus. The Rostovtzeff Lectures. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. xv, 242 p. $39.50. ISBN 9780691163239.

Steinhauer, Julietta. Religious associations in the post-classical polis. Postdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, Bd 50. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 189 p. € 52.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515106467.

Taoka, Yasuko. Lectiones memorabiles, volume II: selections from Horace, Lucretius, Seneca, Suetonius, and Tacitus. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2015. xi, 157 p. € 29.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865168305.

Tribulato, Olga. Ancient Greek verb-initial compounds: their diachronic development within the Greek compound system. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xxiv, 454 p. € 129.95. ISBN 9783110415766.

Tziatzi, Maria, Margarethe Billerbeck, Franco Montanari and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou (edd.). Lemmata: Beiträge zum Gedenken an Christos Theodoridis. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. xvi, 575 p. € 129.95. ISBN 9783110354287.

Valenti, Veronica Ariel. Elogio dell'anima: uno studio sull'Odissea. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2014. 188 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846739070.

Vance, Norman and Jennifer Wallace (edd.). The Oxford history of classical reception in English literature, volume 4: 1790-1880. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiv, 746 p. $225.00. ISBN 9780199594603.

Weber, Ekkehard. Augustus, Meine Taten / Res gestae divi Augusti. Lateinisch-griechisch-deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 193 p. € 39.95. ISBN 9783110367614.

Weber, Gregor (ed.). Artemidor von Daldis und die antike Traumdeutung: Texte - Kontexte - Lektüren. Colloquia Augustana, 33. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. 392 p. € 79.95. ISBN 9783110407259.

Weeda, Leendert. Vergil's political commentary in the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid. Warsaw; Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2015. viii, 175 p. € 69.95. ISBN 9783110426410.

Wiater, Nicolas. Dionysius von Halikarnass. Römische Frühgeschichte, Band 1: Bücher 1 bis 3. Bibliothek der griechischen Literatur, Bd 75. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2014. viii, 365 p. € 194.00. ISBN 9783777214047.

Zurbach, Julien (ed.). La main-d'oeuvre agricole en Méditerranée archaïque: statuts et dynamiques économiques. Actes des journées "Travail de la terre et statuts de la main-d'oeuvre en Grèce et en Méditerranée Archaïques", Athènes, 15 et 16 décembre 2008. Scripta antiqua, 73. Athènes; Bordeaux: École française d'Athènes; Ausonius Éditions, 2015. 263 p. € 25.00. ISBN 9782869582552.

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