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Acerbo, Stefano. Le tradizioni mitiche nella biblioteca dello ps Apollodoro: percorsi nella mitografia di eta imperiale. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2019. 157 p. €36,00 (pb). ISBN 9789025613402.

Albrecht, Michael von. Antike und Neuzeit: Texte und Themen Band 2, Antike und europäische Literatur. Heidelberger Studienhefte zur Altertumswissenschaft. Hiedelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019. 216 p. €24,00. ISBN 9783825369316.

Albrecht, Michael von. Antike und Neuzeit: Texte und Themen Band 3, Weltdichtung in Raum und Zeit von Vergil bis Borges. Heidelberger Studienhefte zur Altertumswissenschaft. Hiedelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019. 292 p. €24,00. ISBN 9783825369323.

Andreu Pintado, Javier and Aitor Blanco-Pérez (ed.). Signs of weakness and crisis in the Western cities of the Roman Empire (c. II-III AD). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 232 p. €46,00. ISBN 9783515124065.

Barrett, Caitlín E. Domesicating empire: Egyptian landscapes in Pompeian gardens. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxi, 445 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780190641351.

Bessone, Federica and Sabrina Stroppa (ed.). Lettori latini e italiani di Ovidio: atti del convegno, Università di Torino, 9-10 novembre 2017. Quaderni della Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale, 18. Pisa, Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2019. 124 p. €38,00 (pb). ISBN 9788833151687.

Biagetti, Claudio (ed.). Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini Parte A, Storici greci, 2, Testi storici anepigrafi. Frammenti storici attribuiti a Teopompo, 9.1. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2019. 143 p. €110,00 (pb). ISBN 9788833150840.

Bianchi, Emanuela, Sara Brill and Brooke Holmes (ed.). Antiquities beyond humanism. Classics in theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. viii, 310 p. $100.00. ISBN 9780198805670.

Blas De Robles, Jean-Marie , Claude Sintes and Philip Kenrick. Classical antiquities of Algeria: a selective guide. London: The Society for Libyan Studies, 2019. xii, 314 p. £20.00 (pb). ISBN 9781900971546.

Buora, Maurizio and Stefano Magnani (ed.). I sistemi di smaltimento delle acque del mondo antico. Antichità Altoadriatiche, LXXXVII. Trieste: Editreg, 2018. 774 p. €80,00 (pb). ISBN 9788833490045.

Burgess, Jonathan, Jonathan Ready and Christos Tsagalis (ed.). Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic. Volume 3. Yearbook of ancient Greek epic, 3. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 204 p. €109,00. ISBN 9789004398511.

Calma, Dragos (ed.). Reading Proclus and the 'Book of Causes' Vol. 1. Western scholarly networks and debates. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 22. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 485 p. €168,00. ISBN 9789004345102.

Chaniotis, Angelos (ed.). Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Volume LXIV (2014). Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, 64. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 986 p. €195,00. ISBN 9789004373693.

Christesen, Paul, Wolfgang Decker, Christian Mann, Peter Mauritsch, Zinon Papakonstantinou, Robert Rollinger, Spickermann Wolfgang and Ingomar Weiler (ed.). Nikephoros - Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum 27. Jahrgang 2014. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2019. 407 p. €84,00. ISBN 9783615004342.

Cropp, Martin. Minor Greek tragedians. Volume 1, The fifth century: fragments from the tragedies with selected testimonia. Aris & Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. 296 p. £80.00. ISBN 9781786942029.

Cusset, Christophe and Alessandra Lukinovich (trans., comm.). Redécouvrir l'apparition de Ménandre. Etudes grecques. Paris: L'Harmattan Editions Distribution, 2019. 270 p. €29,00 (pb). ISBN 9782343172460.

Davies, Malcolm. The Cypria. Hellenic studies, 83. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2019. x, 212 p. £15.00 (pb). ISBN 9780674237919.

de Blois, Lukas and R. J. van der Spek. Einführung in die Alte Welt. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 419 p. €39,00. ISBN 9783515101905.

Deeg, Philipp. Der Kaiser und die Katastrophe: Untersuchungen zum politischen Umgang mit Umweltkatastrophen im Prinzipat (31 v. Chr. bis 192 n. Chr.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 317 p. €55,00. ISBN 9783515123747.

Devine, Andrew M. and Laurence D. Stephens. Pragmatics for Latin: from syntax to information structure. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. x, 237 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780190939472.

Diakou, Stella. The Upper Geometric cemetery at Lapithos: University of Pennsylvania Museum excavations 1931-1932. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, 146. Uppsala: Astrom Editions, 2018. xxvi, 395 p. €80,00. ISBN 9789198153538.

Döpper, Stephanie. Keramikassemblagen der Späten Bronzezeit aus dem Königspalast von Qatna und eine vergleichende Betrachtung zeitgleicher Keramik Westsyriens und der Levante. Qatna-Studien. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, 7. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2019. 568 p. €198,00. ISBN 9783447109574.

Dorf, Samuel N. Performing antiquity: ancient Greek music and dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 221 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780190612092.

Düll, Siegrid and Franz Witek (ed.). Antike Spiegelungen im deutschen Welttheater: Festschrift für Otto Neumaier. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2019. 284 p. €48,00. ISBN 9783487157351.

Edmonds, Radcliffe G. Drawing down the moon: magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xiii, 474 p. $45.00. ISBN 9780691156934.

Edwards, Catharine (ed.). Seneca: selected letters. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x, 345 p. $32.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521465830.

Ehmig, Ulrike (ed.). Vergesellschaftete Schriften Beiträge zum internationalen Workshop der Arbeitsgruppe 11 am SFB 933. Philippika, 128. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2019. viii, 246 p. €68,00. ISBN 9783447111973.

Ellis-Evans, Aneurin. The kingdom of Priam: Lesbos and the Troad between Anatolia and the Aegean. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxv, 350 p. $105.00. ISBN 9780198831983.

Fischer, Peter M. and Teresa Bürge. Two late Cypriot city quarters at Hala Sultan Tekke: the Söderberg expedition 2010-2017. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, 147. Uppsala: Astrom Editions, 2018. 648 p. €108,00. ISBN 9789198153545.

Fletcher, Judith. Myths of the underworld in contemporary culture: the backward gaze. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. viii, 224 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780198767091.

Flores Militello, Vicente. tali dignus amico Die Darstellung des patronus-cliens-Verhältnisses bei Horaz, Martial und Juvenal. Classica Monacensia, 54. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2019. 370 P. €88,00. ISBN 9783823382966.

Foraboschi, Daniele. Violenze Antiche: Testo pubblicato postumo a cura di Silvia Bussi. Philippika, 127. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2018. x, 128 p. €48,00. ISBN 9783447111454.

Freitag, Klaus and Matthias Haake (ed.). Griechische Heiligtümer als Handlungsorte: Zur Multifunktionalität supralokaler Heiligtümer von der frühen Archaik bis in die römische Kaiserzeit. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. viii, 330 p. €59,00. ISBN 9783515123891.

Gehrke, Hans-Joachim, Kai Trampedach and Christian Mann (ed.). Politik und politisches Denken. Ausgewählte Schriften, 1. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 426 p. €79,00. ISBN 9783515123563.

Geith, Eva, Tulip Abd-el Hay and Jochen Schmid. Der Königspalast von Qatna. Teil II: Architektur, Stratigraphie, Keramik und Funde des westlichen Zentralbereiches. Qatna-Studien. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, 6. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2019. 510 p. ISBN 9783447110235.

Gildenhard, Ingo, Ulrich Gotter, Wolfgang Havener and Louise Hodgson (ed.). Augustus and the destruction of history: the politics of the past in early imperial Rome. Cambridge classical journal supplements, 41. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, 2019. 367 p. £60.00. ISBN 9780956838162.

Greenslade, Simon (ed.). Excavations on the Vrina Plain volume 1: the lost Roman and Byzantine suburb. Butrint archaeological monograph series, 6. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2019. xi, 404 p., 14 p. of plates. £65.00. ISBN 9781789252132.

Günther, Hans-Christian. Das vierte Odenbuch des Horaz Text und Übersetzung mit Einleitung und erklärenden Anmerkungen. Studia Classica et Mediaevalia, 25. Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2019. 154 p. €35,00. ISBN 9783959484312.

Hadavas, C.T. Songs from the Carmina Burana (a selection): an intermediate medieval Latin reader. C.T. Hadavas, 2019. xxviii, 122 p. ISBN 9781070653563.

Harter-Uibopuu, Kaja (ed.). Epigraphische Notizen Zur Erinnerung an Peter Herrmann. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 6. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 280 p. €52,00 (pb). ISBN 9783515124560.

Haubold, Johannes, John M. Steele and Kathryn Stevens. Keeping watch in Babylon: the astronomical diaries in context. Culture and history of the ancient Near East, volume 100. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. vi, 315 p. €160,00. ISBN 9789004397750.

Hecquet-Devienne, Myriam (trans., comm.). Aristote. Les réfutations sophistiques. Histoire des doctrines de l'Antiquité classique, 51. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2019. 375 p. €45,00 (pb). ISBN 9782711628124.

Held, Winfried (ed.). Die Karische Chersones vom Chalkolithikum bis in die byzantinische Zeit: Beiträge zu den Surveys in Loryma und Bybassos. Forschungen auf der Karischen Cherones, 1. Marburg: Eigenverlag des Archäologischen Seminars der Philipps-Universität, 2019. v, 431 p. €119,00. ISBN 9783818505370.

Herrman, Judson (ed.). Demosthenes. Selected political speeches. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi, 297 p. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107610842.

Hölkeskamp, Karl-Joachim, Julia Hoffmann-Salz, Katharina Kostopoulos and Simon Lentzsch (ed.). Die Grenzen des Prinzips Die Infragestellung von Werten durch Regelverstöe in antiken Gesellschaften. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 240 p. €50,00. ISBN 9783515123587.

Horky, Phillip Sidney (ed.). Cosmos in the ancient world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxii, 348 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781108423649.

Hübner, Lars. Homer im kulturellen Gedächtnis Eine intentionale Geschichte archaischer Homerrezeption bis zur Perserkriegszeit. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 5. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 247 p. €48,00. ISBN 9783515123495.

Hübner, Sabine. Papyri and the social world of the New Testament. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xv, 192 p. $24.99 (pb). ISBN 9781108455701.

Huitink, Luuk and Tim Rood (ed.). Xenophon. Anabasis book III. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvi, 219 p. $29.99 (pb). ISBN 9781107437432.

Hulin, Linda, Lindy Crewe and Jennifer M. Webb (ed.). Structures of inequality on Bronze age Cyprus: studies in honour of Alison K. South. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature. PB, 187. Nicosia: Astrom Editions, 2018. xviii, 276 p. €48,00. ISBN 9789925745500.

Ionescu, Cristina. On the good life: thinking through the intermediaries in Plato's Philebus. Suny series in ancient Greek philosophy. Albany: Suny Press, 2019. 216 p. $90.00. ISBN 9781438475073.

Jacobs, I. and Hugh Elton (ed.). Asia minor in the long sixth century: current research and future directions. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2019. viii, 245 p. £38.00. ISBN 9781789250077.

James, Simon. The Roman military base at Dura-Europos, Syria: an archaeological visualisation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxxiii, 345 p. $175.00. ISBN 9780198743569.

Kanellou, Maria, Ivana Petrovic and Christopher Carey (ed.). Greek epigram from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xx, 438 p. $120.00. ISBN 9780198836827.

Karnava, Artemis. Seals, sealings and seal impressions from Akrotiri in Thera. Corpus der minoischen und mykenischen Siegel. Beiheft, 10. Heidelberg: CMS Heidelberg, 2018. xiv, 402 p. €116,00. ISBN 9783000608322.

Kulikowski, Michael. The tragedy of empire: from Constantine to the destruction of Roman Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 357 p. $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9780674660137.

Lalanne, Sophie (ed.). Femmes frecques de l'Orient romain. DHA supplement, 18. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2019. 316 p. €35,00 (pb). ISBN 9782848676456.

Lamare, Nicolas. Les fontaines monumentales en Afrique romaine. Collection de l'École française de Rome, 557. Roma: École française de Rome, 2019. 463 p. €64,00 (pb). ISBN 9782728313808.

Lamberti, Francesca. La famiglia romana e i suoi volti: pagine scelte su diritto e persone in Roma antica. Torino: Giappichelli, 2014. x, 208 p. ISBN 9788834849750.

Lamberti, Francesca, Peter Gröschler and Francesco Milazzo (ed.). Il diritto romano e le culture straniere: influenze e dipendenze interculturali nell'antichità. Iuridica historica, 3. Lecce: Grifo, 2015. 374 p. ISBN 9788898175970.

Lapatin, Kenneth (ed.). Buried by Vesuvius: the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Los Angeles: Getty Trust Publications, 2019. 296 p. $65.00. ISBN 9781606065921.

Lentzsch, Simon. Roma victa: Von Roms Umgang mit Niederlagen. Schriften zur Alten Geschichte, . Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2019. xi, 484 p. €59,99 (pb). ISBN 9783476048301.

Liveley, Genevieve. Narratology. Classics in theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xi, 287 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780199687701.

Long, Alex. Death and immortality in ancient philosophy. Key themes in ancient philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. vii, 232 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781107086593.

Loscalzo, Donato. Saffo, la hetaira. Syncrisis, 4. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2019. 176 p. €64,00 (pb). ISBN 9788833150130.

Maurice, Lisa. Screening divinity. Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. xi, 228 p. £75.00. ISBN 9781474425735.

Mittag, Peter Franz. Römische Medaillons II: Antoninus Pius. Stuttgard: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 316 p. €56,00. ISBN 9783515124294.

Nagel, Svenja. Isis im Römischen Reich, (2 vols.). Philippika, 109. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2018. 1790 p. €199,00. ISBN 9783447108010.

Niesiołowski-Spanò, ukasz and Marek Węcowski (ed.). Change, continuity, and connectivity: north-eastern Mediterranean at the turn of the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age. Philippika: Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen, 118. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. vii, 468 p. €89,00. ISBN 9783447109697.

Padilla, Mark William. Classical myth in Alfred Hitchcock's Wrong man and Grace Kelly films. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019. xl, 371 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781498563505.

Pelling, C. B. R. Herodotus and the question why. The Fordyce W. Mitchel memorial lecture series. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2019. xv, 360 p. $55.00. ISBN 9781477318324.

Peterson, Anna Irene. Laughter on the fringes: the reception of old comedy in the imperial Greek world. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. x, 230 p. $99.99. ISBN 9780190697099.

Pezzini, Giuseppe and Barnaby Taylor (ed.). Language and nature in the classical Roman world. Language and nature in the classical Roman world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii, 240 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781108575461.

Pfeifer, Guido. Zur intellektuellen Infrastruktur des Rechts im Alten Orient. Sitzungsberichte der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 56. Stuttgart: Franze Steiner Verlag, 2019. 23 p. €8,00. ISBN 9783515124355.

Powell, Jim (trans.). The poetry of Sappho: an expanded edition featuring newly discovered poems. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. vii, 79 p. $14.95 (pb). ISBN 9780190937386.

Rahe, Paul. Sparta's first Attic War: the grand strategy of classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 328 p. $38.00. ISBN 9780300249262.

Roisman, Joseph and Michael Edwards (trans., comm.). Lycurgus: against Leocrates. Clarendon ancient history series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii, 274 p. $105.00. ISBN 9780198830177.

Rop, Jeffrey. Greek military service in the ancient Near East, 401-330 BCE. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xxvi, 265 p. $99.99. ISBN 9781108499507.

Ruiz Bueno, Manuel D. Dinámicas topográficas urbanas en Hispania: el espacio intramuros entre los siglos II y VII d. C. Munera, 44. Bari: Edipuglia, 2018. 251 p. €60,00. ISBN 9788872288559.

Schmidts, Thomas. Gestempelte Militärziegel ausserhalb der Truppenstandorte: Untersuchungen zur Bautätigkeit der römischen Armee und zur Disposition ihres Baumaterials. Studia archaeologica Palatina, 3. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. viii, 332 p.. 81 p. of plates. €68,00. ISBN 9783447109987.

Schmitz, Michael. Roman conquests: the Danube frontier. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2019. xxi, 149 p., [8 p. of plates]. £19.99. ISBN 9781848848245.

Schreiber, Stefan. Wandernde Dinge als Assemblagen: neo-materialistische Perspektiven zum "römischen Import" im "mitteldeutschen Barbaricum". Berlin studies of the ancient world, 52. Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2018. 402 p. €44,90. ISBN 9783981836943.

Schultheis, Evan Michael. The battle of the Catalaunian fields AD451: Flavius Aetius, Attila the Hun and the transformation of Gaul. Yorkshire; Philadelphia: Pen & Sword, 2019. xxviii, 262 p.,[ 8 p. of plates]. £25.00. ISBN 9781526745651.

Souza, Manuel de and Olivier Devillers (ed.). Neronia X: Le Palatin, émergence de la colline du pouvoir à Rome. De la mort d'Auguste au règne de Vespasien, 14-79 p.C. Mémoires 55. Pessac: Ausonius Publications, 2019. 412 p. €60,00. ISBN 9782356132550.

Tabolli, Jacopo (ed.). From invisible to visible: new methods and data for the archaeology of infant and child burials in pre-Roman Italy and beyond. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, 149. Uppsala: Astrom Editions, 2018. x, 273 p. €68,00. ISBN 9789925745524.

Underwood, Douglas. (Re)using ruins: public building in the cities of the late antique West, A.D. 300-600. Late antique archaeology (supplementary series), volume 3. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 268 p. €143,00. ISBN 9789004319691.

Valle, Laurentii and Clementina Marsico (ed.). Sermo de mysterio eucharistie. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Lorenzo Valla. Opere religiose, 3. Firenze: Polistampa, 2019. 262 p. $45.00. ISBN 9788859619840.

Vergeer, Charles. Philosophy in late antiquity: boundaries of being. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. vi, 280 p. £61.99. ISBN 9781527532847.

Wahlgren, Staffan. The chronicle of the logothete. Translated texts for Byzantinists, volume 7. Liverpoll: Liverpool University Press, 2019. vi, 298 p. £85.00. ISBN 9781786942074.

Webb, Jennifer M. Lapithos Vrysi tou barba, Cyprus: Early and Middle Bronze Age tombs excavated by Menelaos Markides. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, 148. Uppsala: Astrom Editions, 2018. xx, 294 p. €80,00. ISBN 9789925745517.

Whitehead, David (trans., comm.). Xénophon. Poroi: revenue-sources. Clarendon ancient history series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xvi, 340 p. $115.00. ISBN 9780198834427.

Whitton, Christopher. The arts of imitation in Latin prose: Pliny's "Epistles"/Quintilian in brief. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xviii, 557 p. $140.00. ISBN 9781108476577.

Winterbottom, Michael, Antonio Stramaglia, Francesca Romana Nocchi and Guiseppe Russo (ed.). Papers on Quintilian and ancient declamation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxvi, 370 p. $115.00. ISBN 9780198836056.

Wiseman, T. P. The house of Augustus: a historical detective story. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 264 p. $35.00. ISBN 9780691180076.

Wisniewski, Robert. The beginnings of the cult of relics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 249 p. $85.00. ISBN 9780199675562.

Zauzich, Karl-Theodor (ed.). Akten der 8. Internationalen Konferenz für Demotische Studien: Würzburg 27.-30. August 2002. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2019. xiii, 184 p. €68,00. ISBN 9783447112307.