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Adorno, Francesco, Guido Bastianini and Gábor Betegh (ed.). Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini (CPF): testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina Parte 4,2 Tavole (II.2-II.3). Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2018. xxxiv, 82 p. €280,00. ISBN 9788822265708.

Agusta-Boularot, Sandrine, Sandrine Huber and William Van Andringa (ed.). Quand naissent les dieux. Fondation des sanctuaires antiques: motivations, agents, lieux. Collection de l'Ecole française de Rome, 534. Rome: École française de Rome, 2018. 427 p. €57,00. ISBN 9782728312665.

Année, Magali. Tyrtée et Kallinos: la diction des anciens chants parénétiques (édition, traduction et interprétation). Kaïnon-Anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 9. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2017. 1360 p. €98,00 (pb). ISBN 9782406065463.

Barletta, Barbara A. The sanctuary of Athena at Sounion. Ancient art and architecture in context, 4. Princeton: ASCSA Publications, 2017. 360 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780876619674.

Beck, Hans, Benedikt Eckhardt, Christoph Michels and Sonja Richter (ed.). Von Magna Graecia nach Asia Minor: Festschrift für Linda-Marie Günther zum 65. Geburtstag. Philippika, 116. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. xxiv, 376 p. Ú74,00. ISBN 9783447109079.

Ben-Dov, Jonathan and Lutz Doering (ed.). The construction of time in antiquity: ritual, art, and identity. Camrbidge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xii, 296 p. £75.00. ISBN 9781107108967.

Breed, Brian W., Elizabeth E. Keitel and Rex Wallace (ed.). Lucilius and satire in second-century BC Rome. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiii, 319 p. £75.00. ISBN 9781107189553.

Brennan, Brian. Herculaneum: a Roman town reborn. New South Wales: Ancient History Seminars, 2018. vi, 234 p. $26.00 (pb). ISBN 9780975696385.

Brøns, Cecilie and Marie-Louise Nosch. Textiles and cult in the ancient Mediterranean. Ancient textiles series 31. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017. 320 p. $80.00. ISBN 9781785706721.

Brown, Amelia Robertson. Corinth in late antiquity: a Greek, Roman and Christian city. Library of classical studies, 17. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xiv, 341 p., [10 p. of plates]. $120.00. ISBN 9781784538231.

Callipo, Manuela. Verso la frase ben construita: il primo libro della Sintassi di Apollonio Discolo. Multa paucis, 15. Roma: Bonanno Editore, 2017. 501 p. €35,00 (pb). ISBN 9788863181180.

Capra, Raymond L., Ines Angeli Murzaku and Douglas J. Milewski (ed., trans.). The life of Saint Neilos of Rossano. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 47. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. xxii, 361 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780674977044.

Carter, Joseph Coleman and Keith Swift. The chora of Metaponto 7: the Greek sanctuary at Pantanello, (3 vols.). Institute of Classical archaeology series on rural settlements in the chora of Metaponto, 7. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. 1800 p. $200.00. ISBN 9781477314234.

Casagrande-Kim, Roberta, Samuel Thrope and Raquel Ukeles (ed.). Romance and reason. Islamic transformations of the classical past. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 144 p. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780691181844.

Cuomo, Andrea Massimo and Erich Trapp (ed.). Toward a historical sociolinguistic poetics of medieval Greek. Studies in Byzantine history and civilization (SBHC), 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. viii, 233 p. €65,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503577135.

de Jáuregui, Miguel Herrero (ed.). Focílides de Mileto. Sentencias: anexo con la traducción castellana de Francisco de Quevedo. Madrid: Abada Editores, 2018. 137 p. €15,00 (pb). ISBN 9788417301019.

De Sanctis, Dino. Il canto e la tela: le voci di Elena in Omero. Biblioteca di studi antichi, 98. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2018. 307 p. €95,00 (pb). ISBN 9788833151038.

Delcomminette, Sylvain. Aristote et la nécessité. Tradition de la pensée classique. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2018. 645 p. €45,00 (pb). ISBN 9782711627363.

Effros, Bonnie and Guolong Lai (ed.). Unmasking ideology in imperial and colonial archaeology: vocabulary, symbols, and legacy. Ideas, debates, and perspectives, 8. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2018. xxxi, 467 p. $85.00 (pb). ISBN 9781938770135.

Elliott, Susan M. Family empires, Roman and Christian. Roman family empires, 1. Salem: Polebridge Press, 2018. xii, 337 p. $27.00 (pb). ISBN 9781598152074.

Faraone, Christopher A. The transformation of Greek amulets in Roman imperial times. Empire and after. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. xvi, 486 p. $89.95. ISBN 9780812249354.

Fernández, Juan Martos (ed.). Gayo Salustio Crispo. Obras. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2018. 662 p. €21,20 (pb). ISBN 9788437638010.

Galgano, Nicola Stefano. I precetti della dea: non essere e contraddizione in Parmenide di Elea. Bologna: Diogene, 2017. 253 p. €22,00 (pb). ISBN 9788893630863.

Garcia-Ventura, Agnès, Claudia Tavolieri and Lorenzo Verderame (ed.). The study of musical performance in antiquity: arcchaeology and written sources. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xii, 260 p. £61.99. ISBN 9781527506589.

Geue, Tom. Juvenal and the poetics of anonymity. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiii, 352 p. £75.00. ISBN 9781108416344.

Glaesser, Roland. Lucan lesen - ein Gang durch das Bellum Civile. Sprachwissenschaftliche Studienbücher. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. 202 p. €19,00 (pb). ISBN 9783825368791.

Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith. Hadrian's Wall. New York: Basic Books, 2018. xx, 169 p. $25.00. ISBN 9781541644427.

Green, Peter. Homer. The Odyssey. Philadelphia: University of California Press, 2018. xiv, 522 p. $29.95. ISBN 9780520293632.

Grethlein, Jonas. Aesthetic experiences and classical antiquity: the significance of form in narratives and pictures. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiv, 301 p. £75.00. ISBN 9781107192652.

Hadavas, C. T. Cebes' Tablet and Prodicus' "Choice of Heracles": an intermediate ancient Greek reader. [Beloit, WI]: C. T. Hadavas, 2018. xvi, 208 p. ISBN 9781985703780.

Hales, Shelley and Anne-Marie Leander Touati (ed.). Returns to Pompeii: interior space and decoration documented and revived 18th-20th century. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom. Serie in 4°, 62. Stockholm: Svenska institutet i Rom, 2016. 307 p. ISBN 9789170421839.

Harte, Verity and Raphael Woolf (ed.). Rereading ancient philosophy: old chestnuts and sacred cows. Cambridge; New York: Camrbidge University Press, 2017. xiii, 307 p. £75.00. ISBN 9781107194977.

Hobden, Fiona and Amanda Wrigley (ed.). Ancient Greece on British television. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 272 p. £75.00. ISBN 9781474412599.

Hölscher, Fernande. Die Macht der Gottheit im Bild: archäologische Studien zur griechischen Götterstatue. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 581 p. €90,00. ISBN 9783946317159.

Hoyer, Daniel. Money, culture, and well-being in Rome's ecomomic development, 0-275 CE. Mnemosyne, supplements, 412. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xiii, 215 p. $114.00. ISBN 9789004358270.

Iossif, P. P., Fr. de Callataÿ and R. Veymiers (ed.). TYPOI. Greek and Roman coins seen through their images: noble issuers, humble users?. Série histoire, 3. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2018. 526 p., lxxi p. of plates. €42,50 (pb). ISBN 9782875621573.

Kenyon, Erik. Augustine and the dialogue. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xi, 250 p. £67.00. ISBN 9781108422901.

Kortmann, Jan Robinson Telg Genannt. Hannibal ad portas: Silius Italicus, 'Punica' 12,507-752. Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. 405 p. €78,00. ISBN 9783825368685.

Lacaze, Grégoire. Turba Philosophorum: congrès pythagoricien sur l'art d'Hermès. Philosophia antiqua, 150. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xiii, 663 p. $349.00. ISBN 9789004360327.

Lefebvre, David. Dynamis: sens et genèse de la notion aristotélicienne de puissance. Bibliothèque d'histoire de la philosophie. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2018. 607 p. €39,00 (pb). ISBN 9782711627653.

Leroy, Pierre-Olivier (trans., comm.). Arrien. L'art tactique, Histoire de la succession d'Alexandre. La roue à livres, 81. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. 192 p. €21,00 (pb). ISBN 9782251447247.

Lingenberg, Wilfried (ed.). Sabini Epistulae: mit Übersetzung und kritischem Kommentar. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. 107 p. €25,00. ISBN 9783825368548.

Manakidu, Eleni P. Frauentänze für Dionysos: in der spätarchaischen Vasenmalerei Athens. Akanthiskos, 2. Kilchberg: Akanthus Verlag, 2017. 120 p. ISBN 9783905083347.

Mansfeld, Jaap and David T. Runia (ed.). Aëtiana IV. Philosophia antiqua, 148. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xii, 527 p. $304.00. ISBN 9789004361454.

Massaro, Flavio (ed.). Agoni poetico-musicali nella Grecia antica. Vol. 3: Sparta. Testi e commenti 31. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2018. 232 p. €148,00 (pb). ISBN 9788862279932.

Mattingly, D. J., V. Leitch, C. N. Duckworth, A. Cuénod, M. Sterry and F. Cole (ed.). Trade in the ancient Sahara and beyond. Trans-Saharan archaeology. Camrbidge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xviii, 449 p. £90.00. ISBN 9781107196995.

Miles, Graeme. Philostratus: interpreters and interpretation. Image, text and culture in classical antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 2018. 186 p. $115.96. ISBN 9781138219458.

Mineo, Bernard and Guiseppe Zecchini (ed.). Justin. Abrégé des Histoires philippiques de Trogue Pompée: Tome II, Livres XI-XXIII. Collection des universités de France. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2018. 277 p. €59,00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014791.

Murnaghan, Sheila and Ralph Mark Rosen (ed.). Hip sublime: beat writers and the classical tradition. Classical memories/modern identities. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2018. x, 292 p. $79.95. ISBN 9780814213551.

O'Daly, Gerard J. P. (trans., comm.). Plotinus. Ennead I.1: what is the living thing? What is man?. The Enneads of Plotinus with philosophical commentaries. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2017. 215 p. $42.00 (pb). ISBN 9781930972988.

O'Hara, James J. Virgil. Aeneid book 8. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2018. ix, 195 p. $17.95 (pb). ISBN 9781585108800.

Oller, Marta, Jordi Pàmias i Massana and Carlos Varias (ed.). Tierra, territorio y población en la Grecia antigua: aspectos institucionales y míticos, (2 vols.). Mering: Utopica, 2017. xxii, 244 p.; vii, 256 p. ISBN 9783944735009 9783944735016.

O'Meara, Dominic J. Cosmology and politics in Plato's later works. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xii, 157 p. £75.00. ISBN 9781107183278.

Pangle, Thomas L. The Socratic way of life: Xenophon's Memorabilia. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. xi, 288 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780226516899.

Papadopoulos, John K. and Evelyn Lord Smithson. The early Iron Age: the cemeteries. The Athenian Agora, 36. Princeton: ASCSA Publications, 2017. 1120 p., 8 p. of plates. $150.00. ISBN 9780876612361.

Pentassuglio, Francesca. Eschine di Sfetto. Tutte le testimonianze. Philosophie hellénistique et romaine/Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (PHR) 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 400 p. €110,00 (pb). ISBN 9782503577746.

Piccinini, Jessica. The Shrine of Dodona in the Archaic and Classical Ages: a History. Macerata: EUM-Edizioni Università di Macerata, 2017. 203 p. €14,00 (pb). ISBN 9788860565471.

Plantade, Emmanuel and Daniel Vallat (ed.). Les savoirs d'Apulée. Spudasmata, Band 175. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2018. 403 p. €98,00. ISBN 9783487156385.

Questa, Caesar and Alexidis Torino (ed.). Titus Maccius Plautus. Pseudolus. Sarsinae et Urbini, MMXVII. Urbino: QuattroVenti, 2017. 130 p. €25,00 (pb). ISBN 9788839210173.

Raffa, Massimo. Theophrastus of Eresus: commentary volume 9.1. Philosophia antiqua, 149. Leiden: Brill, 2018. ix, 135 p. $179.00. ISBN 9789004362277.

Reeve, C. D. C. (ed., trans.). Aristotle. Physics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2018. i, 369 p. $18.00 (pb). ISBN 9781624666919.

Rhodes, Peter John (ed., trans., comm.). The Athenian Constitution: written in the School of Aristotle. Aris et Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. x, 441 p. $34.95 (pb). ISBN 9781786948373.

Robichaud, Denis J. J. Plato's persona Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance humanism, and Platonic traditions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 344 p. $79.95. ISBN 9780812249859.

Rogers, Dylan Kelby. Water culture in Roman society. Ancient history. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xii, 118 p. $84.00. ISBN 9789004368941.

Sanders, Guy D. R., Jennifer Palinkas, Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst and James Herbst. Ancient Corinth: site guide (7th ed.). Princeton: ASCSA Publications, 2017. 208 p. $19.95. ISBN 9780876616611.

Scheidel, Walter (ed.). The science of Roman history: biology, climate, and the future of the past. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 280 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780691162560.

Schmidt-Dümmler, Nicola Nina. Achilleus Tatios, Leukippe und Kleitophon: Rhetorik im Dienste der Verführung. Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium 101. Trier: WVT Trier, 2018. 454 p. €49,50 (pb). ISBN 9783868217476.

Shaner, Katherine Ann. Enslaved leadership in early Christianity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxviii, 207 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780190275068.

Silver, Morris. Slave-wives, single women and "bastards" in the Ancient Greek world: law and economics perspectives. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2017. xii, 227 p. $55.00 (pb). ISBN 9781785708633.

Smith, Andrew (trans., comm.). Plotinus. Ennead V.8: on intelligible beauty. The Enneads of Plotinus with philosophical commentaries. Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2018. 173 p. $37.00 (pb). ISBN 9781930972650.

Spier, Jeffrey, Timothy F. Potts and Sara E. Cole (ed.). Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the classical world. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018. xv, 344 p. $65.00. ISBN 9781606065518.

Squire, Michael, James Cahill and Ruth Allen (ed.). The classical now: King's College London, 2 March - 28 April 2018. London: Elephant Publishing, 2018. xv, 185 p. £30.00 (pb). ISBN 9781912617005.

Taplin, Oliver and Joshua Billings (trans., ed.). Aeschylus. The Oresteia: the texts of the plays, ancient backgrounds and responses, criticism. A Norton critical edition. New York; London: Norton & Company, 2018. xxxv, 251 p. $15.00 (pb). ISBN 9780393923285.

Tomaszewski, Nina. Walter Charleton's "The Ephesian Matron/Matrona Ephesia". Contextual studies, bilingual edition and commentary. Bochumer altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 102. Trier: WVT Trier, 2018. 648 p. €65,00. ISBN 9783868217483.

Tor, Shaul. Mortal and divine in early Greek epistemology: a study of Hesiod, Xenophanes, and Parmenides. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiii, 406 p. £90.00. ISBN 9781107028166.

Traill, David A. (ed., trans.). Carmina Burana, (2 vols.). Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 48-49. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. xxix, 567 p.; 794 p. $59.90. ISBN 9780674660250 9780674980976.

Tsomis, Georgios P. Quintus Smyrnaeus: Originalität und Rezeption im zehnten Buch der Posthomerica. Ein Kommentar. BAC - Bochumer Altertumswissenschaftliches Colloquium, 103. Trier: WVT Trier, 2018. 354 p. €45,00. ISBN 9783868217520.

Undheim, Sissel. Borderline virginities: sacred and secular virgins in late antiquity. London; New York: Routledge, 2017. 224 p. $112.00. ISBN 9781472480170.

Vekselius, Johan. Weeping for the res publica: tears in Roman political culture. Lund: Media-Tryck, Lund University, 2018. 237 p. ISBN 9789188473776.

Villanueva, Tino. Cosí parló Penelope: edizione bilingue a cura di Paola Mildonian. Letteratura Angloamericana. Milano: Edizione Ariele, 2017. xxvi, 87 p. €14,00 (pb). ISBN 9788897476382.

Waterfield, Robin (trans.). Aristotle. Art of rehetoric. Oxford world's classics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. lxxiv, 201 p. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9780198724254.

Wescoat, Bonna D. The monuments of the Eastern Hill, (2 vols.). Samothrace, 9. Princeton: ASCSA Publications, 2017. 640 p., 108 p. of plates. $200.00. ISBN 9780876618509.

Ziosi, Antonio (ed.). Didone. La tragedia dell'abbandono: variazioni sul mito. Grandi classici tascabili Marsilio. Venezia: Marsilio, 2017. 337 p. €10,00 (pb). ISBN 9788831728621.