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Amigues, Suzanne (ed., trans.). Théophraste. Les causes des phénomènes végétaux, Tome III: Livres V et VI. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 529. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. xxxiv, 259 p. € 55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251006147.

Anhalt, Emily Katz. Enraged: why violent times need ancient Greek myths. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2017. xiv, 268 p. $30.00. ISBN 9780300217377.

Belayche, Nicole and Yves Lehmann (edd.). Religions de Rome: dans le sillage des travaux de Robert Schilling. Recherches sur les rhétoriques religieuses, 21. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. 328 p. € 75.00 (pb). ISBN 9782503569338.

Biraud, Michèle and Michel Briand (edd.). Roman grec et poésie: dialogue des genres et nouveaux enjeux du poétique. Actes du colloque international, Nice, 21-22 mars 2013. Collection de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 56; Série littéraire et philosophique, 22. Lyon: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée - Jean Pouilloux, 2017. 388 p. € 39.00 (pb). ISBN 9782356680600.

Bobonich, Christopher (ed.). The Cambridge companion to ancient ethics. Cambridge companions. Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne; Delhi; Singapore: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xi, 395 p. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107652316.

Bocciolini Palagi, Laura. La musa e la furia: interpretazione del secondo proemio dell'Eneide. Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del latino, n.s., 135. Bologna: Pàtron editore, 2016. 135 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788855533683.

Bogucki, Peter. The barbarians. Lost civilizations. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. 248 p. $25.00. ISBN 9781780237183.

Bollack, Jean. The art of reading: from Homer to Paul Celan (translated by Catherine Porter and Susan Tarrow, with Bruce King; edited by Christoph Koenig, Leonard Muellner, Gregory Nagy, and Sheldon Pollock). Hellenic studies series, 73. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, trustees for Harvard University, 2016. xxxiv, 404 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674660199.

Casali, Sergio. Virgilio, Eneide 2. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. Syllabus, 1. Pisa: Edizione della Normale, 2017. 390 p. € 25.00 (pb). ISBN 9788876425721.

Danckaert, Lieven. The development of Latin clause structure: a study of the extended verb phrase. Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics, 24. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii, 356 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780198759522.

Diouf, Mame Sow. Le Médecin hippocratique: aux sources de la médecine moderne. Études anciennes. Série grecque, 155. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. 196 p. € 27.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251447018.

Falcon, Andrea. Aristotelismo. Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi. Mappe, 65. Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore, 2017. ix, 150 p. € 18.00 (pb). ISBN 9788806231125.

Formicola, Crescenzo. P. Ovidio Nasone: Epistulae ex Ponto, Libro III. Iintroduzione, testo, traduzione e commento. Vichiana, 1. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2017. 275 p. € 58.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862279451.

Fressura, Marco. Vergilius Latinograecus: corpus dei manoscritti bilingui dell'Eneide. Parte prima (1-8). Studi di egittologia e di papirologia, 13. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2017. 184 p. € 140.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862279420.

Garner, John V. The emerging good in Plato's Philebus. Rereading ancient philosophy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2017. xii, 180 p. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9780810135604.

Gianvittorio, Laura (ed.). Choreutika: performing and theorising dance in Ancient Greece. Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica, 13. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2017. 252 p. € 78.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862279505.

Goulet-Cazé, Marie-Odile. Le cynisme, une philosophie antique. Textes et traditions, 29. Paris: Labrairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2017. 702 p. € 55.00 (pb). ISBN 9782711627639.

Günther, Hans-Christian. Zwei Liebesgedichte vom Ausgang der lateinischen Antike: Ausonius' Bissula und das Pervigilium Veneris. Studia Classica et Mediaevalia, 15. Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2017. 95 p. € 25.00. ISBN 9783959482622.

Harrison, Stephen. Victorian Horace: classics and class. Classical inter/faces series. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. ix, 200 p. $114.00. ISBN 9781472583918.

Hunt, Jeffrey M., R. Alden Smith and Fabio Stok. Classics from papyrus to the internet: an introduction to transmission and reception. Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. xi, 344 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9781477313022.

Kaldellis, Anthony. Streams of gold, rivers of blood: the rise and fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade. Onassis series in Hellenic culture. New York: Oxford University press, 2017. xxxi, 399 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780190253226.

Keesling, Catherine M. Early Greek portraiture: monuments and histories. Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne; Delhi; Singapore: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xvii, 309 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107162235.

Knapp, Robert. The dawn of Christianity: people and gods in a time of magic and miracles. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. xvi, 303 p., [16] p. of plates. $29.95. ISBN 9780674976467.

Lawton, Carol L. Votive reliefs. The Athenian Agora: results of excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 38. Princeton, NJ: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2017. xxv, 150 p., 60 p. of plates. $150.00. ISBN 9780876612385.

Lentano, Mario. La declamazione a Roma: breve profilo di un genere minore. Letteratura classica, 42. Palermo: Palumbo, 2017. 112 p. € 17.00 (pb). ISBN 9788868893972.

Leroi, Armand Marie. The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science. New York: Viking, 2014. 512 p. $44.99. 9780670026746.

Long, Tracey and Annette Højen Sørensen (edd.). Positions and profession in Palmyra. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 4 vol. 9; Palmyrene studies, 2. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2017. 136 p. 200.00 DKK (pb). ISBN 9788773044049.

Mainardis, Fulvia (ed.). 'Voce concordi': scritti per Claudio Zaccaria. Antichità Altoadriatiche, 85. Trieste: Editreg, 2016. xxix, 775 p. € 80.00 (pb). ISBN 9788897557944.

Natoli, Bartolo A. Silenced voices: the poetics of speech in Ovid. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison; London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. x, 227 p. $69.95. ISBN 9780299312107.

O'Hogan, Cillian. Prudentius and the landscapes of late antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. viii, 197 p. $100.00. ISBN 9780198749226.

Panayotou, Anna and Giovanbattista Galdi (edd.). Hellènikes dialektoi ston archaio kosmo: Actes du VIe colloque international sur les dialectes grecs anciens (Nicosie, université de Chypre, 26-29 septembre 2011). Bibliothèque des cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique de Louvain (BCILL), 137. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2017. xxvi, 391 p. € 87.00. ISBN 9789042931930.

Papaioannou, Stratis (ed., trans.). Christian novels from the Menologion of Symeon Metaphrastes. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 45. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2017. xxvi, 318 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674975064.

Riggs, Christina. Egypt. Lost civilizations. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. 216 p. $25.00. ISBN 9781780237268.

Roberts, Michael (ed., trans.). Venantius Fortunatus: Poems. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 46. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2017. xx, 910 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674974920.

Rosillo López, Cristina. Public opinion and politics in the late Roman Republic. Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne; Delhi; Singapore: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xi, 270 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107145078.

Sarti, Gabriele. Un libro ravennate di spiritualità monastica dell'inizio del secolo VIII nell'Archivio Storico Diocesano di Ravenna-Cervia: studio codicologico, trascrizione, traduzione, commento linguistico. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2017. 220 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788880639671.

Smith, Justin E. H. (ed.). Embodiment: a history. Oxford philosophical concepts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xv, 365 p. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780190490454.

Susanetti, Davide. La via degli dei: sapienza greca, misteri antichi e percorsi di iniziazione. Frecce, 236. Roma: Carocci editore, 2017. 262 p. € 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9788843088065.

Vincenti, Valentina. Mosaici antichi in Italia: regione quarta. Pavimenti musivi e cementizi di Villa Adriana. Mosaici antichi in Italia, 4. Pisa; Roma: Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2017. 428 p., lxxiv p. of plates. € 495.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862278003.

Wear, Sarah Klitenic. Plotinus on beauty and reality: a reader for Enneads I.6 and V.1. Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2017. li, 302 p. $29.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865168428.