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Anderson, Benjamin and Felipe Rojas (eds.). Antiquarianisms: Contact, conflict, comparison. Joukowsky Institute Publication, 8. Oxford: Oxbow Books 2017. xii, 226 p. $45.00 (pb). ISBN 9781785706844.

Avni, Gideon and Guy Stiebel (eds.). Roman Jerusalem: A new old city. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 105. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2015. 161 p. $99.50. ISBN 9780991373093.

Bartelmus, Alexa; Sternitzke, Katja (eds.). Karduniaš. Babylonia under the Kassites 1: The proceedings of the symposium held in Munich, 30 June to 2 July 2011. Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, 11. Boston, MA; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. xii, 312 p. $210.00. ISBN 9781501511639.

Bennett, Michael James. Deleuze and Ancient Greek physics: The image of nature. Bloomsbury studies in ancient philosophy. Bloomsbury; London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. viii, 277 p. $114.00. ISBN 9781474284684.

Berger, Frederik. Inszenierung der Antike: Präsentationskonzepte in öffentlichen Antikenmuseen des 19. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Philippika 99. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. ix, 339 p. €88,00. ISBN 9783447106979.

Billings, Drew W. Acts of the Apostles and the rhetoric of Roman imperialism. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiii, 231 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107187856.

Bittrich, Ursula. Traum - Mantik - Allegorie: Die 'Hieroi Logoi' des Aelius Aristides im weiteren Kontext der griechisch-römischen Traumliteratur. Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr., 61. Belrin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. viii, 356 p. $140.00. ISBN 9783110455748.

Bogdanovic, Jelena. The framing of sacred space: The canopy and the Byzantine church. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxxv, 411 p. $60.00. ISBN 9780190465186.

Bonamente, Giorgio, Roberto Cristofoli and Carlo Santini (eds.). Le figure del mito in Properzio: proceedings of the twentieth International Conference on Propertius, Assisi-Bevagna, 30 May-1 June 2014. Studi di poesia latina, 20. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. 437 p. €95,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503569376.

Bonnels, Pierre and Jaime Derenne. Fortunes de la philosophie cartésienne au Japon. Série Études de philosophie, 5. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017. 195 p. €32,00 (pb). ISBN 9782406058397.

Bonnet, C., N. Belayche, M. Albert-Llorca, A. Avdeeff, F. Massa and I. Slobodzianek (eds.). Puissances divines à l'épreuve du comparatisme: Constructions, variations et réseaux relationnels. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, 175. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. 500 p. €70,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503569444.

Bons, Eberhard and Karin Finsterbusch (eds.). Konstruktionen individueller und kollektiver Identität (II): Alter Orient, hellenistisches Judentum, römische Antike, Alte Kirche. Biblisch-Theologische Studien, 168. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017. vi, 240 p. €30,00. ISBN 9783788731052.

Callebat, Louis. Le De Architectura de Vitruve. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. 458 p. €45,00 (pb). ISBN 9782251446912.

Çankaya Eksen, Gaye. Spinoza et Sartre : de la politique des singularités à l'éthique de générosité. Les Anciens et les Modernes - Études de Philosophia, 28. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017. 293 p. €77,00 (pb). ISBN 9782406058007.

Châtelet, Catherine. L'offrande du collier-menit dans les temples d'époque gréco-romaine. Monographies Reine Élisabeth, 16. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. VIII, 399 p. €99,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503554662.

Christiansen, Jette. Etruria II. Collection of Antiquities. Copenhagen: NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2017. 569 p. (pb). ISBN 9788774523529.

Cioffi, Carmela (ed.). Aeli Donati quod fertur commentum ad Andriam Terenti. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2023. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. xlvii, 305 p. $112.00. ISBN 9783110515091.

Coleman, Kathleen (ed.). Albert's anthology. Loeb classical monographs, 17. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. xi, 235 p. $20.00. ISBN 9780674980549.

Conte, Gian Biagio. Stealing the club from Hercules: On imitations in Latin poetry. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. 61 p. $69.99. ISBN 9783110472202.

Cooley, M. G. L. (ed.). The Flavians. Lactor, 20. London: London Association of Classical Teachers, 2015. 425 p. $27.00 (pb). ISBN 9780903625388.

Cooley, M. G. L. (ed.). Sparta. Lactor, 21. London: The London Association of Classical Teachers, 2017. 309 p. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9780903625401.

Cordes, Lisa. Kaiser und Tyrann: Die Kodierung und Umkodierung der Herrscherrepräsentation Neros und Domitians. Philologus. Supplemente, 8. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. x, 364 p. $137.99. ISBN 9783110543186.

Cuzzotti, Claudia (ed.). Ecuba: Michelangelo il Giovane. Vici di repertorio. Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi, 2017. 280 p. €15,00 (pb). ISBN 9788865505717.

De Wet, Chris L. The unbound God: Slavery and the formation of early Christian thought. Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World. London; New York: Routledge 2017. 178 p. $140.00. ISBN 9781138201163.

Debes, Remy (ed.). Dignity: A history. Oxford philosophical concepts. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xix, 408 p. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199386000.

Denecke, Wiebke, Wai-yee Li and Xiaofei Tian (eds.). The Oxford handbook of classical Chinese literature (1000 BCE-900 CE). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv, 607 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780199356591.

d'Hoine, Pieter and Marije Martijn (eds.). All from one: A guide to Proclus. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xvi, 418 p., [4 p. of plates]. $99.00. ISBN 9780199640331.

Donahue, Joh F. The Roman community at table during the Principate: New and expanded edition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. xxxii, 361 p. $39.95 (pb). ISBN 9780472036950.

Fabbri, Lorenzo. Il papavero da oppio nella cultura e nella religione romana. Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum", 469. Firenzr: Leo S. Olschki, 2017. xii, 400 p. €34,00. ISBN 9788822265074.

Fantino, Enrica, Ulrike Muss, Charlotte Schubert and Kurt Sier (eds.). Heraklit im Kontext. Studia praesocratica, 8. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. ix, 609 p. $172.99. ISBN 9783110425888.

Favro, Diane, Fikret K. Yegül, John A. Pinto and Guy P. R. Métraux (eds.). Paradigm and progeny: Roman imperial architecture and its legacy: Proceedings of a conference held at the American Academy in Rome on 6-7 December, 2011 in honor of William L. MacDonald. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 101. Portsmouth, Rhode Island: Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C., 2015. 230 p. $109.00. ISBN 9780991373055.

Finkelberg, Aryeh. Heraclitus and Thales' conceptual scheme: a historical study. Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, 23. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2017. x, 415 p. $145.00. ISBN 9789004337992.

Finn, Jennifer. Much ado about Marduk: Questioning discourses of royalty in first millennium Mesopotamian literature. Studies in Near Eastern Records, 16. Boston, MA; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. x, 241 p. $114.99. ISBN 9871501513855.

Fontaine, Paul and Sophie Helas (eds.). Le fortificazioni arcaiche del Latium vetus e dell'Etruria meridionale (IX-VI sec. a.C.) : stratigrafia, cronologia e urbanizzazione : atti delle Giornate di Studio : Roma, Academia Belgica, 19-20 settembre 2013. Institut Historique Belge de Rome Artes, 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. 294 p. €75,00 (pb). ISBN 9789074461856.

Franconi, Tyler V. (ed.). Fluvial landscapes in the Roman world. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 104. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2015. 164 p. $89.50. ISBN 9780991373086.

Gautherie, Aurelien. Rhétorique et thérapeutique dals le De medicina de Celse. Collection dirigée par Gérard Freyburger et Luarent Pernot, 25. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 492 p. €85,00 (pd). ISBN 9782503569192.

Glazebrook, Allison and Christina Vester (eds.). Themes in Greek society and culture: An introduction to Ancient Greece. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii, 481 p. $80.00 (pb). ISBN 9780199020652.

Golden, Leon. Aristotle and the arc of tragedy: Oedipus Rex, Othello, Death of a Salesman. New York: Radius Book Group, 2017. 95 p. ISBN 9781635762600.

Goldlust, Benjamin. Corippe, Johannide, Livre 4: Introduction, édition critique, traduction et commentaire. Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 202. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 269 p. €36,00 (pb). ISBN 9782851212863.

Grocock, C. W. (ed.). Inscriptions of Roman Britain: 5th edition, fully revised. Lactor, 4. London: The London Association of Classical Teachers, 2017. 206 p. $15.00 (pb). ISBN 9780903625395.

Grose, David Frederick. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval glass from Cosa. Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 12. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. $80.00. ISBN 9780472130627.

Haas-Lebegyev, Judit and András Márton. Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Hongrie. Budapest, musée des beaux-arts: fascicule 3. Union Academique Internationale. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2017. 150 p., 62 p. of plates. €200,00. ISBN 9788891312815.

Haynes, Ian P. Blood of the provinces: The Roman auxilia and the making of provincial society from Augustus to the Severans. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii, 430 p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9780198795445.

Heimbach, Elizabeth. Word mastery through derivatives: Designed for students of latin. Mundelein: Bolchazy-Carducci Publisher, Inc., 2017. viii, 163 p. $24.00 (pb). ISBN 9780865168534.

Henke, Jan-Marc. Die zyprischen Terrakotten aus Milet: Neue Überlegungen zur Einordnung der archaischen zyprischen Terrakotten aus ostägäischen Fundkontexten und ihrer werkstattspezifischen Zuweisung. Milesische Forschungen, 7. Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. xv, 340 p., 79 p. of plates. $149.99. ISBN 9783110543810.

Herren, Michael W. The anatomy of myth: The art of interpretation from the presocratics to the church fathers. New York: University of Oxford Press, 2017. xi, 231 p. $78.00. ISBN 9780190606695.

Ioannidou, Eleftheria. Greek fragments in postmodern frames: Rewriting tragedy 1970-2005. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xi, 195 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780199664115.

Jones, Alexander. Portable cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, scientific wonder of the ancient world. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv, 287 p., [8 p. of plates]. $35.95. ISBN 9780199739349.

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. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxxi, 399 p. $39.95. ISBN 9780190253226.

Kozlovskaya, Valeriya (ed.). The northern Black Sea in antiquity: networks, connectivity, and cultural interactions. Cambridge; New York Cambridge University Press, 2017. xxvii; 366 p. $140. ISBN 9781107019515.

Lambert, Stephen. Two inscribed documents of the Athenian empire: The Chalkis decree and the tribute reassessment decree. AIO Papers, 8. Worcestershire, UK: Attic Inscriptions Online 2017. 62 p. ISSN 2054-6769.

Lefèvre, Eckard. Jakob Baldes >Expeditio Polemio-Poëtica< (1664): Eine satirische Verteidigung der lateinischen und neulateinischen Literatur. Einführung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 366. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. xii, 375 p. $114.99. ISBN 9783110528756.

Liotsakis, Vasileios. Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII: Nnarrative artistry in the account of the Ionian War. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 48. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. x, 201 p. $126.99. ISBN 9783110532074.

Lorenzo, Perilli (ed.). Galeni vocum hippocratis glossarium. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, V 13,1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. 417 p. $206.99. ISBN 9783110480726.

Lupi, Marcello. Sparta: Storia e rappresentazioni di una città greca. Quality paperbacks, 494. Rome: Carocci Editore, 2017. 222 p. €17,00 (pb). ISBN 9788843085538.

Meliadò, Claudio (ed.). Scholia in Claudii Aeliani libros de natura animalium. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2024. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. xlvi, 145 p. $68.99. ISBN 9783110401318.

Pachoumi, Eleni. The concepts of the divine in the Greek magical papyri. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 102. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017. xvi, 258 p. €79.00 (pb). ISBN 9783161540189.

Park, Johannes. Interfiguralität bei Phaedrus: Ein fabelhafter Fall von Selbstinszenierung. Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr., 66. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. viii, 258 p. $103.99. ISBN 9783110527568.

Parker, Robert. Greek gods abroad: Names, natures, and transformations. Sather classical lectures, 72. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. x, 257 p. $44.95. ISBN 9780520293946.

Platte, Ryan. Equine poetics. Hellenic studies, 74. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, trustees for Harvard University, 2017. vii, 142 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780674975705.

Potts, Daniel T. (ed.). The Oxford handbook of ancient Iran. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxx, 1021 p., [9 p. of plates]. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 9780190668662.

Puchner, Walter. Greek theatre between antiquity and independence: a history of reinvention from the third century BC to 1830. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xix, 355 p. . $99.99. ISBN 9781107059474.

Raepsaet-Charlier, Marie-Thérèse. Clarissima femina: Études d'histoire sociale des femmes de l'élite a Rome: Scripta varia. Institut historique Belge de Rome Études, 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. xviii, 384 p. €50,00 (pb). ISBN 9789074461832.

Rea, Jennifer A. and Liz Clarke. Perpetua's journey: Faith, gender, and power in the Roman Empire. Graphic history series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxi, 208 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780190238711.

Renger, Almut-Barbara and Alessandro Stavru (eds.). Pythagorean knowledge from the ancient to the modern world: askesis, religion, science. Episteme in Bewegung : Beiträge zu einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte, 4. Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. ix, 579 p. €89,00. ISBN 9783447105941.

Ridd, Stephen. Communication, love, and death in Homer and Virgil: An introduction. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, 54. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. 258 p. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806157290.

Rizos, Efthymios (ed.) New cities in Late Antiquity: Documents and archaeology. Bibliothèque de l'Ántiquité tardive, 35. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. 297 p. €80,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503555515.

Roling, Bernd, Bernhard Schirg and Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus (eds.). Apotheosis of the North: The Swedish appropriation of classical antiquity around the Baltic Sea and beyond (1650-1800). Transformationen der Antike, 48. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. viii, 246 p. $91.99. ISBN 9783110523171.

Samama, Evelyne. La médecine de guerre en Grèce ancienne. De diversis artibus, 98. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. 588 p. €90,00. ISBN 9782503566450.

Seidlmayer, Stephan J. and Daniel Polz (eds.). Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo, 72. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. 251 p. $96.99. ISBN 9783110523560.

Simonton, Matthew. Classical Greek oligarchy: A political history. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xvi, 355 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780691174976.

Smith, R. R. R., Julia Lenaghan, Alexander Sokolicek and Katherine E. Welch (eds.). Aphrodisias papers 5: Excavation and research at Aphrodisias, 2006-2012. Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series, 103. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2015. 380 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780991373079.

Sousa, Rogério. Burial assemblages from Bab el-Gasus in the geographical society of Lisbon. Monumenta Aegyptiaca, 14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. xiv, 290 p. €89,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503565750.

Steinkeller, Piotr. History, texts and art in early Babylonia: Three essays. Studies in ancient Near Eastern records, 15. Boston, MA; Berlin De Gruyter, 2017. xiii, 261 p. . $103.99. ISBN 9781501513305.

Stephens, Arthur. Pompeii: A different perspective: Via dell 'abondanza, a long road, well-traveled. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press, 2017. $49.95. ISBN 9781937040789.

Tal, Oren and Zeev Weiss (eds.). Expressions of cult in the southern Levant in the Greco-Roman period: Manifestations in text and material culture. Contextualizing the sacred, 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. xxiii, 288 p. €120,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503553351.

Troianos, Spyros N. Die Quellen des byzantinischen Rechts. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. xix, 407 p. $137.99. ISBN 9783110531244.

Tsagalis, Christos K. Early Greek epic fragments I: Antiquarian and genealogical epic. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 47. Berlin; Boston, 2017. x, 477 p. $149.99. ISBN 9783110531534.

Tuori, Kaius and Laura Nissin (eds.). Public and private in the Roman house and society. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary series, 102. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2015. 198 p. £90.00. ISBN 9780991373062.

Ullmann, Martina (ed.). 10. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: München, 29.-31. August 2014. Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft früher Hochkulturen, 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. 209 p. €48,00. ISBN 9783447194716.

Virág, Curie. The emotions in early Chinese philosophy. Emotions of the past. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii, 219 p. . $90.00. ISBN 9780190498818.

Williams, Gareth D. Pietro Bembo on Etna : the ascent of a Venetian humanist. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv, 416 p., [16 p. of plates]. $65.00. ISBN 9780190272296.