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Ambühl, Annemarie (ed.). War of the senses – the senses in war: interactions and tensions between representations of war in classical and modern culture. thersites: Journal for Transcultural Presences and Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 4 (2016). http://www.thersites.uni- mainz.de/index.php/thr/issue/view/4. ISSN 2364-7612.

Antonopoulou, Theodora (ed.). Mercurius Grammaticus, Opera iambica. Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca, 87. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. lxxii, 118 p. € 125.00. ISBN 9782503564579.

Bakker, Egbert (ed.). Authorship and Greek song: authority, authenticity, and performance. Studies in archaic and classical Greek song, 3. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017. x, 295 p. $132.00. ISBN 9789004339699.

Baragwanath, Emily and Edith Foster (ed.). Clio and Thalia: Attic comedy and historiography. Histos Supplement, 6. Newcastle: Histos, 2017. iv, 259 p. http://research.ncl.ac.uk/histos/SV6ClioandThalia.html.

Baron, Carlin A. and Daniel Boyarin. Imagine no religion: how modern abstractions hide ancient realities. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. 325 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780823271207.

Bénatouïl, Thomas, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat and Michel Narcy (edd.). Causalités aristotéliciennes. Philosophie antique, 16. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2016. 240 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782757414729.

Bouloux, Nathalie, Anca Dan and Georges Tolias (edd.). Orbis disciplinae: hommages en l'honneur de Patrick Gautier Dalché. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. 841 p. € 127.36. ISBN 9782503567051.

Brann, Eva, Peter Kalkavage and Eric Salem. Plato. Symposium, or, Drinking party. Translated with introduction, glossary, essay, and appendices. Focus philosophical library. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2017. xv, 122 p. $12.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585105977.

Brocato, Paolo, Monica Ceci and Nicola Terrenato (edd.). Ricerche nell'area dei templi di Fortuna e Mater Matuta (Roma). Richerche - Collana del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione Archeologia, 10. Arcavacata di Rende: Università della Calabria, 2016. 236 p. € 65.00 (pb). ISBN 9788898197064.

Cazzato, Vanessa, Dirk Obbink and Enrico Emanuele Prodi (edd.). The cup of song: studies on poetry and the symposion. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvii, 329 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780199687688.

Charalambidou, Xenia and Catherine Morgan (edd.). Interpreting the seventh century BC: tradition and innovation. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017. viii, 460 p. £ 65.00. ISBN 9781784915728.

Chrubasik, Boris. Kings and usurpers in the Seleukid Empire: the men who would be king. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii, 308 p. $125.00. ISBN 9780198786924.

Chrystal, Paul. Women at war in the classical world. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2017. xxi, 249 p. $39.95. ISBN 9781473856608.

Ciccolella, Federica and Luigi Silvano (edd.). Teachers, students, and schools of Greek in the Renaissance. Brill's studies in intellectual history, 264. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017. xv, 471 p. $172.00. ISBN 9789004338036.

Collard, Christopher and James Morwood (edd.). Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis (2 vols.). Aris & Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. 656 p. £ 95.00. ISBN 9781911226468.

Dan, A. and É. Nodet. Cœlé-Syrie: Palestine, Judée, Pérée. Cahiers de le Revue Biblique, 86. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2017. iv, 144 p. € 48.00. ISBN 9789042933866.

Danner, Marcel. Wohnkultur im spätantiken Ostia. Kölner Schriften zur Archäologie, 1. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017. x, 323, [12] p. € 78.00. ISBN 9783954901289.

De Luna, Maria Elena, Cesare Zizza and Michele Curnis (edd.). Aristotele. La politica, Libri V-VI. Aristotele. La politica, 5. Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2011. 689 p. € 200.00. ISBN 9788891308573.

Delignon, Bénédicte, Nathalie Dauvois and Line Cottegnies (edd.). L'invention de la vie privée et le modèle d'Horace. Rencontres, 261; Colloques, congrès et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne, 93. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017. 477 p. € 73.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406059134.

Derda, Tomasz, Jennifer Hilder and Jan Kwapisz (edd.). Fragments, holes, and wholes: reconstructing the ancient world in theory and practice. JJP Suplement, 30. Warszawa: Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2017. xv, 406 p. € 60.00. ISBN 9788394684808.

Drews, Robert. Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe. London; New York: Routledge, 2017. 284 p. $149.95. ISBN 9781138282728.

Freibert, Beatrix. Die aristotelische Logik - erklärt von ihren antiken Interpreten. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 10. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag WINTER, 2017. 393 p. € 48.00. ISBN 9783825367275.

García Vivas, Gustavo. Ronald Syme: el camino hasta la revolución romana (1928-1939). Instrumenta, 54. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. 280 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788447540624.

Gartland, Samuel D. (ed.). Boiotia in the fourth century B.C. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. vii, 240 p. $65.00. ISBN 9780812248807.

Gasparini, Valentino (ed.). Vestigia: miscellanea di studi storico-religiosi in onore di Filippo Coarelli nel suo 80° anniversario. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 55. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. 786 p. € 94.00. ISBN 9783515107471.

Gavrielatos, Andreas (ed.). Self-presentation and identity in the Roman world. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. 290 p. £ 52.99. ISBN 9781443899833.

Gill, Christopher. Plato's Atlantis story. Text, translation and commentary. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017. 216 p. £ 19.95 (pb). ISBN 9781786940155.

Guidetti, Fabio (ed.). Poesia delle stelle tra antichità e medioevo. Seminari e convegni, 46. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2016. 412 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788876425844.

Haake, Matthias and Ann-Cathrin Harders (edd.). Politische Kultur und soziale Struktur der Römischen Republik: Bilanzen und Perspektiven. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. 567 p. € 82.00. ISBN 9783515115988.

Harrison, Stephen (ed.). Horace: Odes Book II. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ix, 267 p. $34.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107600904.

Helmer, Étienne. Diogène le cynique. Figures du savoir, 62. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. 213 p. € 19.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251446561.

Hölkeskamp, Karl-Joachim. Libera res publica: die politische Kultur des antiken Rom - Positionen und Perspektiven. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. 400 p. € 59.00. ISBN 9783515117296.

Johnson, Kimberly (trans.). Hesiod, Theogony and Works and days. A new bilingual edition. Northwestern world classics. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2017. xix, 151 p. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 9780810134874.

Johnston, Patricia A., Attilio Mastrocinque, Edit Krahling and László Takács (edd.). Acta Antiqua, Tomus LV, fasciculi 1-4 (2015), special issue: [Augustus]. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. 514 p. (pb). ISBN 9770044597002.

Kopp, Hans. Das Meer als Versprechen: Bedeutung und Funktion von Seeherrschaft bei Thukydides. Thoukydideia, 1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017. 303 p. € 90.00. ISBN 9783525253243.

Korhonen, Tua and Erika Ruonakoski. Human and animal in ancient Greece: empathy and encounter in classical literature. Library of classical studies, 15. London: I. B. Tauris, 2017. ix, 262 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781784537616.

Kreuzer, Bettina. Panathenäische Preisamphoren und rotfigurige Keramik aus dem Heraion von Samos. Samos, 23. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017. 168 p. € 58.00. ISBN 9783954902125.

Krewet, Michael. Vernunft und Religion bei Herodot. Studien zu Literatur und Erkenntnis, 8. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag WINTER, 2017. xii, 786 p. € 66.00. ISBN 9783825363321.

Kröss, Katja. Die politische Rolle der stadtrömischen Plebs in der Kaiserzeit. Impact of empire, 24. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017. xv, 366 p. $127.00. ISBN 9789004259041.

Liebert, Rana Saadi. Tragic pleasure from Homer to Plato. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ix, 218 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107184442.

Marco Simón, Francisco, Francisca Pina Polo and José Remesal Rodríguez (edd.). Autorretratos: la creación de la imagen personal en la Antigüedad. Instrumenta, 53. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona Edicions, 2016. 257 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788447540679.

Meier, Christian. Res publica amissa: eine Studie zu Verfassung und Geschichte der späten römischen Republik (fourth edition). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. 392 p. € 54.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515116428.

Merrills, Andy. Roman geographies of the Nile: from the late Republic to the early Empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xvi, 338 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107177284.

Montero Herrero, Santiago. La escoba y el barrido ritual en la religión romana. Mikrá, 10. Madrid; Salamanca: Signifer Libros, 2017. 118 p. € 12.00 (pb). ISBN 9788416202133.

Morelli, Anna Lina and Erica Filippini (edd.). Moneta e identità territoriale: dalla polis antica alla civitas medievale. Atti del III Incontro internazionale di studio del Lexicon Iconographicum Numismaticae. Semata e signa, 8. Calabria: Falzea Editore, 2016. 334 p. € 33.00 (pb). ISBN 9788882964641.

Neumann, Jeanne Marie. Lingua latina: a companion to Roma aeterna. Based on Hans Ørberg's instructions, with vocabulary and grammar. Indianapolis; Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2017. xli, 463 p. $31.00 (pb). ISBN 9781585108411.

Ogden, Daniel. The legend of Seleucus: kingship, narrative and mythmaking in the ancient world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiv, 386 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107164789.

Opitz, Rachel, Marcello Mogetta and Nicola Terrenato (edd.). A Mid-Republican house from Gabii. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Online resource. DOI: 10.3998/mpub.9231782. $150.00. ISBN 9780472999002.

Paniagua, David. Sexto Julio Frontino. De aquaeductu urbis Romae / Las canalizaciones de agua de la ciudad de Roma. Estudio introductorio, traducción y notas. Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico, 2016. 360 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788479561598.

Pappas, Nickolas. The philosopher's new clothes: The Theaetetus, the Academy, and philosophy's turn against fashion. London; New York: Routledge, 2016. 234 p. $148.00. ISBN 9781138929562.

Perinić, Ljubica. The nature and origin of the cult of Silvanus in the Roman provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 19. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2016. vi, 125 p. £ 24.00. ISBN 9781784915124.

Rohde, Erwin. Psyché: le culte de l'âme chez les grecs et leur croyance à l'immortalité. Traduction française d'Auguste Reymond; édition revue, corrigée et augmentée par Alexandre Marcinowski; traduction du grec et du latin par Paul Gaillardon; avant-propos par André Hirt. Encre marine. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. xxx, 794 p. € 39.00. ISBN 9782350881119.

Rollason, N. K. Gifts of clothing in late antique literature. London; New York: Routledge, 2016. viii, 203 p. $149.95. ISBN 9781472435736.

Roscalla, Fabio. Dalla tribuna al pulpito: la retorica del verosimile. Scientifica. Pavia: Pavia University Press, 2017. 132 p. € 15.00 (pb). ISBN 9788869520440.

Rupprecht, Hans-Albert and Andrea Jördens (edd.). Beiträge zur Juristischen Papyrologie. Kleine Schriften. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. xiii, 408 p. € 68.00. ISBN 9783515116848.

Schneider, Jan. Ländliche Siedlungstrukturen im Römischen Spanien: das Becken von Vera und das Camp de Tarragona - zwei Mikroregionen im vergleich. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 22. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017. vi, 214 p. £ 35.00. ISBN 9781784915544.

Schrader, Jessica. Gespräche mit Göttern: die poetologische Funktion kommunikativer Kultbilder bei Horaz, Tibull und Properz. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 58. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. 314 p. € 54.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515117005.

Squitieri, Andrea. Stone vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian period (c. 1200-330 BCE. Archaeopress ancient Near Eastern archaeology, 2. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2017. iv, 284 p. £ 45.00. ISBN 9781784915520.

Takács, László and Attila Tuhári (edd.). Two Renaissance commentaries on Perseus: Bartholomaeus Fontius' and Ioannes Britannicus' commentaries on Persius. Studia philologica, 4; Commentarii en Persii Satiras saeculorum XIV-XVI, 1. Piliscsaba; Budapest: Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies; Szent István Társulat, 2015. xxviii, 310 p. ISBN 9789632775241.

Tarrant, Harold. Proclus. Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, volume VI, Book 5: Proclus on the gods of generation and the creation of humans. Translated with an introduction and notes. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xiii, 282 p. $125.00. ISBN 9781107032644.

Taub, Liba. Science writing in Greco-Roman antiquity. Key themes in ancient history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xv, 193 p. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521130639.

Tsipopoulou, Metaxia. Petras, Siteia: the pre- and proto-palatial cemetery in context. Acts of a two-day conference held at the Danish Institute at Athens, 14-15 February 2015. Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 21. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2017. 446 p. kr. 499.95. ISBN 9788771841572.

Winiarczyk, Marek. Diagoras of Melos: a contribution to the history of ancient atheism. Translated from Polish by Witold Zbirohowski-Kościa. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 350. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. xviii, 224 p. $126.00. ISBN 9783110443776.

Worthington, Ian. Ptolemy I: king and pharaoh of Egypt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiv, 253 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780190202330.

Zissos, Andrew (ed.). A companion to the Flavian age of imperial Rome. Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2016. xxi, 602 p. $195.00. ISBN 9781444336009.