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*Antikythera Mechanism Research Project. The inscriptions of the Antikythera Mechanism. Almagest: international journal for the history of scientific ideas, 7.1, March 2016. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. 319 p. € 33.00 (pb). ISSN 17922593.

*Aygon, Jean-Pierre. Ut scaena, sic vita: mise en scène et dévoilement dans les oeuvres philosophiques et dramatiques de Sénèque. Chorégie: études, 1. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2016. 395 p. € 59.00 (pb). ISBN 9782701804255.

*Benitez, Rick and Keping Wang (edd.). Reflections on Plato's poetics: essays from Beijing. Berrima: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2016. ix, 245 p. $145.00. ISBN 9780994541802.

*Berzon, Todd S. Classifying Christians: ethnography, heresiology, and the limits of knowledge in Late Antiquity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xiv, 302 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780520284265.

*Bettenworth, Anja. "Hoc satis in titulo ...": Studien zu den Inschriften in der römischen Elegie. Orbis antiquus, 44. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2016. vi, 470 p. € 63.00 (pb). ISBN 9783402144466.

Brizzi, Giovanni. 70 d.C. La conquista di Gerusalemme. I Robinson/Letture. Roma: Bari, 2015. xi, 426 p. € 24.00. ISBN 9788858119792

Brown, B. K. M. The mirror of epic: The Iliad and history. Berrima: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2016. xi, 403 p. $175.00. ISBN 9780994541826.

*Cairns, Francis and Roy Gibson (edd.). Greek and Roman poetry; the Elder Pliny. Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar, 16 2016. Prenton: Francis Cairns, 2016. vi, 337 p. $80.00. ISBN 9780905205595.

*Calabi, Francesca, Olivier Munnich, Gretchen Reydams-Schils and Emmanuele Vimercati (edd.). Pouvoir et puissances chez Philon d'Alexandrie. Monothéismes et philosophie. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015. xxx, 388 p. € 65.00 (pb). ISBN 9782503566375.

Canevaro, Lilah Grace. Hesiod's Works and days: how to teach self-sufficiency. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiii, 269 p. $89.95. ISBN 9780198729549.

*Collard, Hélène. Montrer l'invisible: rituel et présentification du divin dans l'imagerie attique. Kernos. Supplément, 30. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2016. 362 p. € 40.00 (pb). ISBN 9782875620965.

Coşkun, Altay and Alex McAuley (edd.). Seleukid royal women: creation, representation and distortion of hellenistic queenship in the Seleukid Empire. Historia - Einzelschriften, 240. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. 322 p. € 62.00. ISBN 9783515112956.

*Cullen, Henry and John Taylor. Latin to GCSE: Part 1. OCR. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xviii, 250 p. $25.95 (pb). ISBN 9781780934402.

*Cullen, Henry and John Taylor. Latin to GCSE: Part 2. OCR. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xv, 304 p. $25.95 (pb). ISBN 9781780934419.

**Derda, Tomasz, Adam Łajtar and Jakub Urbanik (edd.). Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw 29.07-3.08 2013 (3 vols.). JJP supplement, 28. Warszawa: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2016. 2,100 p. € 180.00. ISBN 9788393842582.

Dolata, Jens. Römische Ziegelstempel aus Mainz. Teil I: Militärische Ziegelstempel des 1. Jahrhunderts (Materialvorlage). Mainzer Archäologische Schriften, 13. Mainz: Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe, Direktion Landesarchäologie, 2014. xi, 420 p. € 85.00. ISBN 9783935970167. *Dressler, Alex. Personification and the feminine in Roman philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiii, 312 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107105966.

Eidinow, Esther, Julia Kindt and Robin Osborne (edd.). Theologies of ancient Greek religion. Cambridge classical studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvii, 423 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107153479.

*Fane-Saunders, Peter. Pliny the Elder and the emergence of Renaissance architecture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xxiii, 491 p. $135.00. ISBN 9781107079861.

*Fittschen, Klaus and Johannes Bergemann (edd.). Katalog der Skulpturen der Sammlung Wallmoden. Göttinger Studien zur Mediterranen Archäologie, Bd 6. München: Biering & Brinkmann Verlag, 2015. 336 p. € 148.00. ISBN 9783930609611.

**Gilhaus, Lennart, Stephanie Kirsch, Isabelle Mossong, Franziska Reich and Sebastian Wirz (edd.). Elite und Krise in antiken Gesellschaften / Élites et crises dans les sociétés antiques. Collegium Beatus Rhenanus, 5. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. 182 p. € 42.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515113106.

*González Ponce, Francisco J., F. Javier Gómez Espelosín and Antonio L. Chávez Reino (edd.). La letra y la carta: descripción verbal representación gráfica en los diseños terrestres grecolatinos. Estudios en honor de Pietro Janni. Monografías de GAHIA, 1. Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá, 2016. xxxiii, 376 p. € 22.00. ISBN 9788447218356.

**Haensch, Rudolf (ed.). Recht haben und Recht bekommen im Imperium Romanum: das Gerichtswesen der romischen Kaiserzeitt... und seine dokumentarische Evidenz. JJP supplement, 24. Warszawa: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2016. 790 p. € 70.00. ISBN 9788393842537.

**Hartmann, Elke. Ordnung in Unordnung: Kommunikation, Konsum und Konkurrenz in der stadtrömischen Gesellschaft der frühen Kaiserzeit. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. 255 p. € 52.00. ISBN 9783515113625.

Hau, Lisa Irene. Moral history from Herodotus to Diodorus. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. viii, 312 p. £ 80.00. ISBN 9781474411073.

*Hawkins, Cameron. Roman artisans and the urban economy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xi, 307 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107115446.

*Heinemann, Alexander. Der Gott des Gelages: Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Image & context, 15. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. xiv, 787 p. $182.00. ISBN 9783110222234.

**Heldmann, Konrad. Europa und der Stier oder der Brautraub des Zeus: die Entführung Europas in den Darstellungen der griechischen und römischen Antike. Hypomnemata, 204. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. 227 p. € 90.00. ISBN 9783525208724.

**Heyn, Maura K. and Ann Irvine Steinsapir (edd.). Icon, cult, and context: sacred spaces and objects in the classical world. Monographs, 82. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2016. 224 p. $60.00 (pb). ISBN 9781938770067.

Jacobs, Andrew S. Epiphanius of Cyprus: a cultural biography of late antiquity. Christianity in late antiquity 2. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xiv, 335 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780520291126.

*Johnson, William A. The essential Herodotus: translation, introduction, and annotations. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii, 264 p. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9780199897957.

*Kästner, Ursula and David Saunders (edd.). Dangerous perfection: ancient funerary vases from southern Italy. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016. 212 p. $60.00. ISBN 9781606064764.

**Kintrup, Carola. Die attischen Sarkophage, Zweiter Faszikel: Amazonomachie - Schlacht - Epinausimachie. Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, Bd 9. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2016. 484 p. € 128.00. ISBN 9783786127550.

Kunisch, Norbert. Die Attische Importkeramik. Milet: Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen seit dem Jahr 1899, Bd. 5: Funde aus Milet, Teil 3. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. x, 220 p., 15 p. of illustrations, 130 p. of plates. $182.00. ISBN 9783110454895.

*Lanni, Adriaan. Law and order in ancient Athens. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii, 226 p. $99.99. ISBN 9780521198806.

*Latham, Jacob A. Performance, memory, and processions in ancient Rome: the pompa circensis from the Late Republic to Late Antiquity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xxii, 345 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107130715.

Longo, Angela and Daniela Patrizia Taormina (edd.). Plotinus and Epicurus: matter, perception, pleasure. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xviii, 236 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107124219.

*Melville, Sarah C. The campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721-705 B.C. Campaigns and commanders, 55. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. xvi, 300 p. $32.95. ISBN 9780806154039.

Moscati Castelnuovo, Luisa (ed.). Solone e Creso: variazioni letterarie, filosofiche e iconografiche su un tema erodoteo. Macerata: EUM Edizioni Università di Macerata, 2016. 237 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788860564603.

Poignault, Rémy and Catherine Schneider (edd.). Fabrique de la déclamation antique (controverses et suasoires). Collection de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 55; Série littéraire et philosophique, 21. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée - Jean Pouilloux, 2016. 443 p. € 43.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356680594.

Popkin, Maggie L. The architecture of the Roman triumph: monuments, memory, and identity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiv, 271 p., [8] p. of plates. $99.99. ISBN 9781107103573.

*Pucci, Pietro. Euripides's revolution under cover: an essay. Cornell studies in classical philology. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2016. vii, 235 p. $59.95. ISBN 9781501700613.

Rahe, Paul A. The Spartan regime: its character, origins, and grand strategy. Yale library of military history. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2016. xviii, 212 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780300219012.

Riesbeck, David J. Aristotle on political community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii, 322 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107107021.

**Scharff, Sebastian. Eid und Außenpolitik: Studien zur religiösen Fundierung der Akzeptanz zwischenstaatlicher Vereinbarungen im Vorrömischen Griechenland. Historia - Einzelschriften, 241. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. 389 p. € 68.00. ISBN 9783515112031.

*Shear Jr., T. Leslie. Trophies of victory public building in Periklean Athens. Princeton: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press, 2016. xxiii, 475 p. $65.00 (pb). ISBN 9780691170572.

*Shelton, Jo-Ann. Pliny the Younger: Selected letters. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2016. xxx, 264 p. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865168404.

*Sigelman, Asya C. Pindar's poetics of immortality. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. x, 200 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107135017.

*Silvestrelli, Francesca and Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry. A Greek settlement at Sant'Angelo Vecchio. The Chora of Metaponto, 6. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. xviii, 659 p. $75.00. ISBN 9781477309476.

Stephenson, Paul. The Serpent Column: a cultural biography. Onassis series in Hellenic culture. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxii, 275 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780190209063.

Strong, Anise K. Prostitutes and matrons in the Roman world. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. ix, 304 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107148758.

Struck, Peter T. Divination and human nature: a cognitive history of intuition in classical antiquity. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. x, 288 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780691169392.

*van der Blom, Henriette. Oratory and political career in the late Roman republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiii, 377 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107051935.

Vasiliu, Anca. Divines techniques: arts et langage homérique à la fin de l'Antiquité. Kaïnon, 4. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016. 168 p. € 29.00 (pb). ISBN 9782812438066.