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*Accardi, Alice. Teoria e prassi del beneficium da Cicerone a Seneca. Letteratura classica, 39. Palermo: Palumbo, 2015. 262 p. € 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9788868892272.

*Ando, Clifford (ed.). Citizenship and empire in Europe 200-1900: the Antonine Constitution after 1800 years. Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 54. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. 261 p. € 52.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515111874.

*Annas, Julia and Gábor Betegh (edd.). Cicero's De finibus: philosophical approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. vii, 266 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107074835.

*Bachhuber, Christoph. Citadel and cemetery in early Bronze Age Anatolia. Monographs in Mediterranean archaeology, 13. Sheffield; Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2014. xv, 223 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781845536480.

*Bachvarova, Mary R., Dorota M. Dutsch and Ann Suter (edd.). The fall of cities in the Mediterranean: commemoration in literature, folk-song, and liturgy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvii, 277 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107031968.

*Balty, Janine and Jean-Charles Balty (edd.). Franz Cumont. Recherches sur le symbolisme funéraire des Romains. Bibliotheca Cumontiana - Scripta Maiora (BICUMA), 4. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. 549 p. € 90.00 (pb). ISBN 9789074461788.

*Biondi, Francesca. Teagene di Reggio rapsodo e inteprete di Omero. Syncrisis, 2. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2015. 140 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862277167.

*Bleckmann, Bruno and Markus Stein (edd.). Philostorgios Kirchengeschichte (2 vols.). Kleine und fragmentarische Historiker der Spätantike, E 7. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015. lxxiv, 1,057 p. € 128.00. ISBN 9783506781994.

*Bonazzi, Mauro. À la recherche des idées: Platonisme et philosophie hellénistique d'Antiochus à Plotin. Histoire des doctrines de l'Antiquité classique, 46. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2015. 176 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711625789.

*Bonfante, Larissa and Helen Nagy (edd.). Collection of antiquities of the American Academy in Rome. Memoires of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary volumes, 11. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. xx, 388 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780472119899.

*Bonnin, Grégory. De Naxos à Amorgos: l'impérialisme athénien vu des Cyclades à l'époque classique. Scripta Antiqua, 75. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2015. 371 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356131362.

*Börm, Henning, Marco Mattheis and Johannes Wienand (edd.). Civil war in ancient Greece and Rome: contexts of disintegration and reintegration. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, 58. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. 437 p. € 68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515112246.

*Boschung, Dietrich, Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp and Claudia Sode (edd.). Raum und Performanz: Rituale in Residenzen von der Antike bis 1815. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. 354 p. € 58.00. ISBN 9783515110822.

*Braund, Susanna. Seneca: Oedipus. Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. vii, 163 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9781474234788.

*Cabanes, Pierre and Faïk Drini. Corpus des inscriptions grecques d'Illyrie méridionale et d'Épire 3: inscriptions d'Albanie (en dehors des sites d'épidamne-Dyrrhachion, Apollonia et Bouthrôtos). Études Épigraphiques, 2.3. Athènes: École française d'Athènes, 2016. 336 p. € 85.00. ISBN 9782869582620.

*Carbó García, Juan Ramón. Apropriaciones de la Antigüedad: de getas, godos, Reyes Católicos, yugos y flechas. Anejos de la Revista de Historiografía, 3. Madrid: Instituto de Historiografia Julio Caro Baroja; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2015. xiv, 270 p. (pb). ISBN 9788489315891.

*Carpenter, Thomas H., Elizabeth Langridge-Noti and Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell (edd.). The consumers' choice: uses of Greek figure-decorated pottery. Selected papers on ancient art and architecture, 2. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2016. xii, 154 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9781931909327.

*Cassin, Barbara. Nostalgia: when are we ever at home? (translated from the French by Pascale-Anne Brault; first published 2013). New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. xi, 78 p. $19.00 (pb). ISBN 9780823269518.

*Cecchet, Lucia. Poverty in Athenian public discourse: from the eve of the Peloponnesian War to the rise of Macedonia. Historia-Einzelschriften, 239. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. 283 p. € 59.00. ISBN 9783515111607.

*Cerami, Cristina. Génération et substance: Aristote et Averroès entre physique et métaphysique. Scientia Graeco-Arabica 18. Boston; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. xiii, 734 p. $322.00. ISBN 9781614517771.

*Cheney, Patrick and Philip Hardie (edd.). The Oxford history of classical reception in English literature, volume 2: 1558-1660. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiv, 788 p. $215.00. ISBN 9780199547555.

*Connell, Sophia M. Aristotle on female animals: a study of the generation of animals. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xv, 437 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107136304.

*De Angelis, Franco. Archaic and classical Greek Sicily: a social and economic history. Greeks overseas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xix, 437 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780195170474.

*De Domenico, Carlo. Lateres Signati Graeci I: Athenae et Attica. Studi di Topografia e di Archeologia di Atene e dell'Attica (SATAA), 10. Atene; Paestum: Scuola Archeologia Italiana di Atene; Pandemos, 2015. 157 p. € 50.00. ISBN 9788887744637.

*Devlin, Zoë L. and Emma-Jayne Graham (edd.). Death embodied: archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse. Studies in funerary archaeology, 9. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. 174 p. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 9781782979432.

*Di Cesare, Riccardo. La città di Cecrope: ricerche sulla politica edilizia cimoniana ad Atene. Studi di Topografia e di Archeologia di Atene e dell'Attica (SATAA), 11. Atene; Paestum: Scuola Archeologia Italiana di Atene; Pandemos, 2015. 392 p. € 70.00. ISBN 9788887744415.

*Edwards, Mark. Religions of the Constantinian empire. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xi, 365 p. $49.50. ISBN 9780199687725.

*Elkins, Nathan T. Monuments in miniature: architecture on Roman coinage. Numismatic studies, 29. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2015. ix, 230 p. $100.00. ISBN 9780897223447.

*Fisher, Nick and Hans Van Wees (edd.). 'Aristocracy' in antiquity: redefining Greek and Roman elites. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2015. vii, 390 p. $110.00. ISBN 9781910589014.

*Flecker, Manuel. Römische Gladiatorenbilder: Studien zu den Gladiatorenreliefs der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit aus Italien. Studien zur Antiken Stadt, 15. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015. 312 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783954900978.

*Franklin, John C. Kinyras: the divine lyre. Hellenic studies, 70. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, trustees for Harvard University, 2015. xxxviii, 794 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780674088306.

*Galinsky, Karl and Kenneth Lapatin (edd.). Cultural memories in the Roman empire. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016. xi, 296 p. $85.00 (pb). ISBN 9781606064627.

*Gherchanoc, Florence. Concours de beauté et beautés du corps en Grèce ancienne: discours et pratiques. Scripta Antiqua, 81. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2016. 228 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356131485.

*Giangiulio, Maurizio. Democrazie greche: Atene, Sicilia, Magna Grecia. Studi Superiori, 1006. Roma: Carocci editore, 2015. 182 p. € 17.00 (pb). ISBN 9788843078301.

*Gouschin, Valerij and P. J. Rhodes (edd.). Deformations and crises of ancient civil communities. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. 194 p. € 44.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515111621.

*Grumeza, Lavinia. Sarmatian cemeteries from Banat (late 1st - early 5th centuries AD). Ad limites orbis Romani. Cluj-Napoca: Mega Publishing House, 2014. 413 p. ISBN 9786065435322.

*Halliwell, Stephen. Aristophanes: Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs. A verse translation, with introduction and notes. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xcv, 298 p. $100.00. ISBN 9780198149941.

*Harrison, James R. and L. L. Welborn (edd.). The first urban churches 1: methodological foundations. Writings from the Greco-Roman world Supplement series, 7. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015. xiii, 345 p. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9781628371024.

*Hayes, Evan and Stephen Nimis. Lucian's Dialogues of the courtesans: an intermediate Greek reader. Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2015. xix, 151 p. $13.95 (pb). ISBN 9781940997179.

*Howe, Timothy (ed.). Traders in the ancient Mediterranean. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians, 11. Chicago: Ares Publishers, 2015. ix, 236 p. $95.00 (pb). ISBN 9780890056285.

*Internationale Thesaurus-Kommission (ed.). Thesaurus linguae Latinae, Vol. XI, 2, Fasc. II: rarus - recido. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. [88] p. € 69.95 (pb). ISBN 9783110308501.

*Kistler, Erich, Birgit Öhlinger, Martin Mohr and Matthias Hoernes (edd.). Sanctuaries and the power of consumption: networking and the formation of elites in the archaic western Mediterranean world. Proceedings of the international conference in Innsbruck, 20th-23rd March 2012. Philippika, 92. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. xxxii, 554 p. € 120.00. ISBN 9783447105071.

*Koenigs, Wolf. Der Athenatempel von Priene. Archäologische Forschungen, 33. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2016. 504 p. € 110.00. ISBN 9783954900640.

*Konaris, Michael D. The Greek gods in modern scholarship: interpretation and belief in nineteenth and early twentieth century Germany and Britain. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. x, 361 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780198737896.

*Kontogeorgopoulou, Chryssa. Η βυζαντινή Αττική. Athens: Siatras, 2016. 296 p. € 48.00. ISBN 9786188111820.

*Kragelund, Patrick. Roman historical drama: the Octavia in antiquity and beyond. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiv, 475 p. $160.00. ISBN 9780198718291.

*Larmour, David H. J. The arena of satire: Juvenal's search for Rome. Oklahoma series in classical culture, 52. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. xi, 356 p. $34.95. ISBN 9780806151564.

*Lefkowitz, Mary. Euripides and the gods. Onassis series in Hellenic culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii, 294 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780199752058.

*Lenski, Noel. Constantine and the cities: imperial authority and civic politics. Empire and after. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. ix, 404 p. $79.95. ISBN 9780812247770.

*Lichtenberger, Achim and Constance von Rüden (edd.). Multiple Mediterranean realities: current approaches to spaces, resources, and connectivities. Mittelmeerstudien, 6. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink; Ferdinand Schöningh, 2015. 311 p. € 36.90. ISBN 9783770557400.

*Lin, Yii-Jan. The erotic life of manuscripts: New Testament textual criticism and the biological sciences. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xi, 203 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780190279806.

*López Férez, Juan Antonio (ed.). Galeno: lengua, composición literaria, léxico, estilo. Estudios de Filología Griega (EFG), 15. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2015. 444 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788478827435.

*Ludwig, Anja. Kameldarstellungen aus Metall im vorislamischen Südarabien: eine archäologische Fallstudie zu den Kulturkontakten zwischen Arabia felix und der Mittelmeerwelt. Jenaer Archäologische Schriften, 1. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015. 123 p. € 69.00. ISBN 9783954901210.

*Mannack, Thomas, Diana Rodriguez Pérez and Cristina Neagu. Beazley and Christ Church: 250 years of scholarship on Greek vases. Oxford: Christ Church Library, 2016. 111 p. (pb). ISBN 9781872333632.

*Marcone, Arnaldo. Augusto. Profili, 65. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 2015. 376 p. € 19.90 (pb). ISBN 9788884029966.

*Mathieson, Erica A. Christian women in the Greek papyri of Egypt to 400 CE. Studia Antiqua Australiensia, 6. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2014. xii, 311 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9782503552415.

*Mattern, Torsten. Das Herakles-Heiligtum: Architektur und Kult im Kontext. Kleonai, 1. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2015. 252 p. € 79.00. ISBN 9783954900527.

*Meier, Mischa, Christine Radtki and Fabian Schulz (edd.). Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Autor - Werk - Überlieferung. Malalas Studien, 1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. 310 p. € 58.00. ISBN 9783515110990.

*Michalopulos, Andreas N. Οβίδιος, Ηρωίδες 20-21: Ακόντιος και Κυδίππη. Εισαγωγή, Κείμενο, Μετάφραση, Σχόλια . Athens: Εκδόσεις Δημ. Ν. Παπαδήμα, 2014. 389 p. (pb). ISBN 9789602065969.

*Micheli, Maria Elisa and Anna Santucci (edd.). Lumina: Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Urbino 5-7 giugno 2013. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2015. 219 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788846743398.

*Millis, Benjamin. FrC 17 Anaxandrides. Fragmenta Comica, 17. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2015. 376 p. € 79.90. ISBN 9783938032923.

*Monaco, Maria Chiara. Halirrhothios: krenai e culti alle pendici meridionali dell'Acropoli di Atene. Studi di Topografia e di Archeologia di Atene e dell'Attica (SATAA), 2. Atene; Paestum: Scuola Archeologia Italiana di Atene; Pandemos, 2015. 326 p. € 70.00. ISBN 9788887744392.

*Nagy, Gregory. Masterpieces of metonymy: from ancient Greek times to now. Hellenic studies, 72. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, trustees for Harvard University, 2015. x, 284 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674088320.

*Nails, Debra and Harold Tarrant (edd.). Second sailing: alternative perspectives on Plato. Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 132, 2015. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica / The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 2015. xi, 366 p. ISBN 9789516534094.

*Orth, Christian. FrC 9.3 Nikochares - Xenophon. Fragmenta Comica, 9.3. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2015. 482 p. € 87.90. ISBN 9783938032947.

*Page, Sven. Der ideale Aristokrat: Plinius der Jüngere und das Sozialprofil der Senatoren in der Kaiserzeit. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 24. Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2015. 408 p. € 82.90. ISBN 9783938032954.

*Papi, Emanuele and Leonardo Bigi. Oliva revixit: oleifici, frantoi e torchi di Atene dall'antichità al periodo turco. Studi di Topografia e di Archeologia di Atene e dell'Attica (SATAA), 9. Atene; Paestum: Scuola Archeologia Italiana di Atene; Pandemos, 2015. 197 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9788887744613.

*Phillips, Tom. Pindar's library: performance poetry and material texts. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. x, 330 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780198745730.

*Pinkster, Harm. The Oxford Latin syntax, volume 1: The simple clause. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xxxii, 1430 p. $210.00. ISBN 9780199283613.

*Poignault, Rémy and Catherine Schneider (edd.). Présence de la déclamation antique (controverses et suasoires). Caesarodunum, 46-47 bis. Clermont-Derrand: Centre de Recherches A. Piganiol- Préswnce de l'Antiquité, 2015. 495 p. € 65.00 (pb). ISBN 9782900479209.

*Praet, Danny and Béatrice Bakhouche (edd.). Franz Cumont. Astrologie. Bibliotheca Cumontiana - Scripta Minora (BICUMI), 4. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. 416 p. € 75.00 (pb). ISBN 9789074461795.

*Riedweg, Christoph. Kyrill von Alexandrien I: Gegen Julian. Teil 1: Buch 1-5. Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, nF 20. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. ccxxxiii, 407 p. $168.00. ISBN 9783110359145.

*Roman, Yves. Rome, de Romulus à Constantin: histoire d'une première mondialisation (VIIIe s. av. J.-C. - IVe s. apr. J.-C.). Bibliothèque historique Payot. Paris: Éditions Payot & Rivages, 2016. 553 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9782228914369.

*Ryan, Barbara and Milette Shamir (edd.). Bigger than Ben-Hur: the book, its adaptations, and their audiences. Television and popular culture. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016. xviii, 269 p. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9780815634034.

*Salavoura, Eleni. Μυκηναϊκή Αρκαδία: Αρχαιολογική και τοπογραφική θεώρηση. ΗΟΡΟΣ Η Μεγάλη βιβλιοθήκη, 8. Athens: Ελληνική Επιγραφική Εταιρεία, 2015. xix, 697 p. € 84.40 (pb). ISBN 9789608569164.

*Santangelo, Federico. Marius. Ancients in action. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xii, 124 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9781474214711.

*Schipp, Oliver. Götter in der Provinz: eine Untersuchung der Weiheinschriften in der nördlichen Germania superior und der östlichen Gallia Belgica. Pietas, 7. Gutenberg: Computus Druck Satz & Verlag, 2016. 230 p. € 68.00. ISBN 9783940598264.

*Silvermintz, Daniel. Protagoras. Ancients in action. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xiii, 93 p. $25.95 (pb). ISBN 9781472510921.

*Sofroniew, Alexandra. Household gods: private devotion in ancient Greece and Rome. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. ix, 142 p. $25.00. ISBN 9781606064566.

*Spurling, John. Arcadian nights: the Greek myths reimagined. New York; London: Overlook Duckworth, 2015. 319 p. $29.95. ISBN 9781468311792.

*Vandorpe, Katelijn, Willy Clarysse and Herbert Verreth. Graeco-Roman archives from the Fayum. Collectanea Hellenistica - KVAB, 6. Leuven; Paris; Bristol, CT: Peeters Publishers, 2015. 496 p. € 105.00 (pb). ISBN 9789042931626.

*Vedder, Ursula. Der Koloss von Rhodos: Archäologie, Herstellung und Rezeptionsgeschichte eines antiken Weltwunders. Mainz: Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag, 2015. 168 p. € 29.90. ISBN 9783945751176.

*Vikela, Evgenia. Apollon, Artemis, Leto: eine Untersuchung zur Typologie, Ikonographie und Hermeneutik der drei Gottheiten auf griechischen Weihreliefs. Athenaia, 7. München: Hirmer Verlag, 2014. 294 p., 69 p. of plates. € 60.00 (pb). ISBN 9783777422893.

*Yli-Karjanmaa, Sami. Reincarnation in Philo of Alexandria. Studia Philonica monographs, 7. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2015. xvi, 309 p. $42.95 (pb). ISBN 9780884141204.

*Ziosi, Antonio. Didone regina di Cartagine di Christopher Marlowe: metamorfosi virgiliane nel Cinquecento. Lingue e letterature Carocci, 202. Roma: Carocci editore, 2015. 358 p. € 29.00 (pb). ISBN 9788843073283.