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Brill (Brill and partner presses)
All books in the field of Classical Studies published in 2023 and 2024.
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All books in the field of Classical Studies published in the last 12 months.
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All books in the field of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies published in the last 12 months.
Oxford University Press
All books in the field of Classical Studies published in 2023 and 2024.
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All books in the field of Classical Studies published in the last 12 months.
Bloomsbury Collections
All books in the field of Classical Studies published in 2023 and 2024.

New Books (October 2024)

Γαιος Ιουλιος Ευρυκλης (2 vols)

Geōrgios Steinhauer. Γαιος Ιουλιος Ευρυκλης: Συμβολη Στην Ιστορια Της Ρωμαικης Σπαρτης. Athēnai: Ελληνικη Επιγραφικη Εταιρεια, 2022.

Cicero: Letters of January to April 43 BC

Cicero: The Letters of January to April 43 BC. Edited with an introduction, translation & commentary by M.M. Willcock. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1995.

Homer: Iliad, Books VIII and IX

Homer: Iliad, Books VIII and IX. Edited with an introduction, translation & commentary by Christopher H. Wilson. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996.

Plato: Apology of Socrates

Plato: Apology of Socrates. With introduction, translation and commentary by Michael C. Stokes. Reprinted with corrections. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 1997.

Sophocles: Philoctetes

Sophocles: Philoctetes. Edited by Robert G. Ussher. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1990.

Catullus: Poems 61-68

Catullus: Poems 61-68. Edited with introduction, translation and commentary by John Godwin. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1995.

Aristotle: On Sleep and Dreams

Aristotle: On Sleep and Dreams: A Text and Translation with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Edited by David Gallop. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1996.

Terence: Phormio

Terence: Phormio. Edited by Robert Maltby. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 2012.

Aeschylus: Libation Bearers

Aeschylus: Libation Bearers. Edited by Andrew Brown. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018.

Terence: The Girl from Andros

Terentius: The Girl from Andros. Edited by Peter Brown. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019.

La Grèce hellénistique et romaine

Bouyssou, Gerbert-Sylvestre, Christophe Chandezon, and Pierre-Olivier Hochard. La Grèce hellénistique et romaine: D’Alexandre à Hadrien: 336 avant notre ère-138 de notre ère. Edited by Catherine Grandjean. Paris: Belin, 2024.

Mythos

Fry, Stephen. Mythos. London: Penguin Books, 2018.

Heroes

Fry, Stephen. Heroes. London: Penguin Books, 2019.

Troy

Fry, Stephen. Troy : Our Greatest Story Retold. London: Penguin Books, 2021.

New Books (September 2024)

Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods

Blakely, Sandra, and Megan Daniels, eds. Data Science, Human Science, and Ancient Gods: Conversations in Theory and Method. Columbus, GA: Lockwood Press, 2023.

Petrarque: Lettres familières = Rerum ramiliarium: Tome VI, Libri XX-XXIV

Petrarca, Francesco. Lettres familières = Rerum ramiliarium: Tome VI, Libri XX-XXIV Edited by Vittorio Rossi, introduced by Ugo Dotti, translated by André Longpré, commentary by Ugo Dotti with Frank La Brasca. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2015.

Hippocrate: Tome I, 1re partie

Hippocrates: Tome I, 1re partie: Introduction générale ; Vie selon Soranos ; Presbeutikos, ou, Discours d'ambassade ; Épibômios, ou, Discours à l'autel ; Décret des Athéniens ; Lettres I & II. Edited by Jacques Jouanna. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020.

Chemins d’Hécate

Zografou, Athanassia. Chemins d’Hécate: Portes, routes, carrefours et autres figures de l’entre-deux. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, 2010.

Horace: Satires, Book I

Horace: Satires, Book I. With an introduction, text, translation and commentary by P. Michael Brown. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1993.

Entre Asclépios et Hippocrate

Nissen, Cécile. Entre Asclépios et Hippocrate: Étude des cultes guérisseurs et des médecins en Carie. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque, 2009.

Xenophon: Apology and Memorabilia, Book I

Xenophon: Apology and Memorabilia, Book I. With introduction, translation and commentary by M. D. Macleod. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 2008.

Performance et mimesis

Meur, Nadine le, Bénédicte Delignon, and Olivier Thévenaz. Performance et mimesis: Variations sur la lyrique culturelle de la Grèce archaïque au haut-empire romain. Edited by Nadine Le Meur, Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2022.

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura III

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura III. With an introduction, text, translation and commentary by P. Michael Brown. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1997.

Xenophon: Hellenika II.3.11 - IV.2.8

Xenophon: Hellenika II.3.11 - IV.2.8. Edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary by Peter Krentz. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1995.

Selected Discourses - the Wisdom of Epictetus

Selected Discourses: The Wisdom of Epictetus: The Stoic Classic. With an introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon. Translated by P. E. Matheson. Hoboken, NJ: Capstone, 2024.

Presocratici, Volume I

Gemelli Marciano, M. Laura, ed. Presocratici, volume I. Translated by Benedino Gemelli. Edizione italiana riveduta e ampliata edizione. [Milan]: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla: Mondadori, 2023.

Eliodoro: Etiopiche, volume II, libri V-X

Eliodoro: Etiopiche, volume II, libri V-X. Edited by Silvia Montiglio. [Milan]: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla: Mondadori, 2024.

Martiri di Roma

Lapidge, Michael, ed. Martiri di Roma. Translated by Paolo Chiesa and Adele Simonetti. [Milan]: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla: Mondadori, 2024.

Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami IV-5A

Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi roterodami recognita et ednotatione critica instructa notisque illustrata. Ordinis quarti, tomus quintus. A, Apophthegmatum liber V. Edited by K. A. E. Enenkel. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami IV-5B

Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi roterodami recognita et adnotatione critica instructa notisque illustrata. Ordinis quarti, tomus quintus. B, Apophthegmatum liber VI. Edited by K. A. E. Enenkel. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami IV-6

Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi roterodami recognita et adnotatione critica instructa notisque illustrata. Ordinis quarti, tomus sextus, Apophthegmatum libri VII-VIII. Edited by K. A. E. Enenkel. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

New Books (July-August 2024)

Retour à la source

Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane. Retour à la source: Pausanias et la religion grecque. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, 2008.

Opera inedita

Rudhardt, Jean, Philippe Borgeaud, and Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. Opera inedita: Essai sur la religion grecque & Recherches sur les hymnes orphiques. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, 2008.

Mixanthrôpoi

Aston, Emma. Mixanthrôpoi: Animal-Human Hybrid Deities in Greek Religion. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, 2011.

Configurations d’Hermès

Jaillard, Dominique. Configurations d’Hermès: Une “théogonie hermaïque”. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, 2007.

Plato: Republic 1-2.368c4

Plato: Republic 1-2.368c4. Edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by Chris Emlyn-Jones. Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 2007.

Juvenal: Satires, Book V

Juvenal: Satires, Book V. Edited with a translation and commentary by John Godwin. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.

Poems without Poets

Kayachev, Boris, ed. Poems without Poets: Approaches to Anonymous Ancient Poetry. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2021.

Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos Libros IX-XII Commentarii

Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros IX-XII commentarii. Edited by Charles E. Murgia and Robert A. Kaster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Terence: the Eunuch

Terence: The Eunuch. Edited by A. J. Brothers. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 2000.

New Books (June 2024)

Histoire Auguste (Tome 4, 3e partie)

Paschoud, François. Histoire Auguste. T.4, 3e partie: Vies des trente tyrans et de Claude. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2011.

Histoire Auguste (Tome 4, 1re partie)

Paschoud, François, ed. Histoire Auguste. T. IV. 1re partie, Vies des deux Maximins, des trois Gordiens, de Maxime et Balbin. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2018.

Aristotle’s Chemistry

Aristotle’s Chemistry: On Coming to Be and Passing Away ; Meteorology 1.1-3, 4.1-12. . Translated by C. D. C. Reeve. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2023.

Aristotle’s Dialectic

Aristotle’s Dialectic: Topics, Sophistical Refutations, and Related Texts. Translated with introduction and notes by C.D.C. Reeve. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2024.

Aristotle: Politics

Aristotle: Politics, a New Translation. With introduction and notes by C.D.C Reeve. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2017.

Aristotle’s Theology

Aristotle’s Theology: The Primary Texts. . Translated with introduction and notes by C.D.C. Reeve. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 2022.

Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics

Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics. Translated with introduction and notes by C.D.C. Reeve. Indianpolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company., 2021.

Aristotle: Generation of Animals & History of Animals I, Parts of Animals I

Aristotle: Generation of Animals & History of Animals I, Parts of Animals I. Translated with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company., 2019.

Aristotle: De Caelo

Aristotle: De Caelo. Translated with an introduction and notes by C.D.C. Reeve. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2020.

Hellenica Oxyrhynchia

McKechnie, P. R., and S. J. Kern. Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1988.

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura, Book VI

Lucretius: De Rerum Natura, Book VI. Edited with translation and commentary by John Godwin. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1991.

Xenophon: Symposium

Xenophon: Symposium. With an introduction, translation and commentary by A.J. Bowen. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1998.

New Books (May 2024)

Symmaque: Discours - Rapports

Symmaque: Discours - Rapports. Edited by Jean-Pierre Callu. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009.

Influence et réception du poète Martial, de sa mort à nos jours

Wolff, Etienne, ed. Influence et réception du poète Martial, de sa mort à nos jours. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2022.

Lydia, a Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana

Kayachev, Boris. Lydia, a Poem from the Appendix Vergiliana: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

The 'Old Oligarch'

The ‘Old Oligarch’: The Constitution of the Athenians Attributed to Xenophon. Edited by J. L. Marr and P. J. Rhodes. Oxford: Aris & Phillips/Oxbow, 2008.

Euripides: Helen

Peter Burian, Euripides: Helen. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 2007.

Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume I

Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume I. With introductions, translations and commentaries by Alan H. Sommerstein, David Fitzpatrick and Thomas Talboy. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006.

Nourrir les dieux?

Pirenne-Delforge, Vinciane, and Francesca Prescendi. Nourrir les dieux? Sacrifice et représentation du divin. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, 2011.

Dulces ante omnia musae

Jeanine De Landtsheer, Fabio Della Schiava, and Toon Van Houdt, eds. Dulces ante omnia musae: Essays on Neo-Latin Poetry in Honour of Dirk Sacré. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2021.

New Books (April 2024)

Symmaque: Lettres Tome IV, Livres IX-X

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus: Lettres. Tome IV, Livres IX-X. Edited and translated by Jean-Pierre Callu. Paris: Belles lettres, 2002.

The Athenian Constitution

The Athenian Constitution Written in the School of Aristotle. Edited by P. J. Rhodes. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017.

Thucydides: History, Book I

Thucydides: History, Book I. With an introduction, translation and notes by P.J. Rhodes. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 2004.

Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume II

Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume II. With introductions, translations and commentaries by Alan H. Sommerstein, David Fitzpatrick and Thomas Talboy. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2006.

Demosthenes: Selected Political Speeches

Demosthenes: Selected Political Speeches. Edited by Judson Herrman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 1

Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume I: The Fifth Century: Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia. Edited with introductions, translations and notes by M.J. Cropp. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019.

Plutarque: Oeuvres morales, tome XV, 3e partie

Plutarch: Œuvres morales, tome XV, 3e partie, traités 73-75, trois traités contre Épicure. Texte et traduction par Jacques Boulogne. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2024.

Greek Orators VII: Demosthenes 8 On the Chersonese

Greek Orators VII: Demosthenes 8 On the Chersonese. Edited with an introduction, translation and notes by Stephen Clarke. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Herodotus: Histories, Book V

Herodotus: Histories, Book V. Edited by P. J. Rhodes. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019.

New Books (March 2024)

La religion dans les romans grecs anciens

Lebdiri, Davilla. La religion dans les romans grecs anciens: Pratiques et représentations à l’époque impériale. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024.

Greek Epitaphic Poetry

Hunter, R. L., ed. Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A Selection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Constantine and the Divine Mind

Chandler, Kegan A. Constantine and the Divine Mind: The Imperial Quest for Primitive Monotheism. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2019.

Herodoti Historiae (2 vols)

Herodotus: Herodoti Historiae. Edited by N. G. Wilson. Oxonii [Oxford]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 2015.

Priscianus: De laude Anastasii imperatoris (2 vols)

Priscianus. De laude Anastasii Imperatoris (514 D.C.). Edited by Guglielmo Ballaira. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2023.

New Books (January-February 2024)

Catilina

Oerberg, Hans H. Catilina: Ex C. Sallvsti Crispi de Catilinae conivratione libro et M. Tvllii Ciceronis orationibvs in Catilina. Montella (Avellino), Italia: Edizioni Accademia Vivarum Novum, 2008.

Epicurus and His Influence on History.

Gazur, Ben. Epicurus and His Influence on History. Barnsley: Pen and Sword History, 2023.

A Companion to Greek Lyric

Swift, Laura, ed. A Companion to Greek Lyric. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2022.

Zeitmontagen in Vergils Aeneis

Pausch, Dennis. Zeitmontagen in Vergils Aeneis: Anachronismen als literarische Technik. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023.

Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime

Pseudo-Longinus: On the Sublime. Edited by Stephen Halliwell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Looking at Medea

Stuttard, David. Looking at Medea: Essays and a Translation of Euripides' Tragedy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Xenophon: Oeconomicus

Xenophon: Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary. Edited by E. C. Marchant. Translated by Sarah B. Pomeroy. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1994.

Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII

Pliny the Elder: The Natural History Book VII (with Book VIII 1-34). Edited by Tyler Travillian. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Menander: The Bad-Tempered Man

Menander: The Bad-Tempered Man = Dyskolos. Edited with translation, introduction and commentary by Stanley Ireland. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1995.

Aeschines: Against Timarchos

Aeschines: Against Timarchos. Introduction, translation, and commentary by Nick Fisher. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.

Modern Greek for Classicists

Kolokouris, Ilias. Modern Greek for Classicists: A Graded Reader. New York: Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, 2020.

Lucian's Laughing Gods

Kuin, Inger N. I. Lucian’s Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Longus: Daphnis and Chloe

Longus: Daphnis and Chloe. Edited by Ewen Bowie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Augustine: Confessions Books V-IX

Augustine: Confessions. Books V-IX. Edited by Peter White. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

The Pervigilium Veneris

Barton, William M. The Pervigilium Veneris: A New Critical Text, Translation and Commentary. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Dante a Verona 1321-2021

Rossi, F., Tiziana Franco, and Fausta Piccoli, eds. Dante a Verona 1321-2021: Il mito della città tra presenza dantesca e tradizione shakespeariana. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2021.

Dante a Verona 2015-2021

Ferrarini, Edoardo, Paolo Pellegrini, and Simone Pregnolato, eds. Dante a Verona 2015-2021. Ravenna: Longo editore, 2018.

Menander: Dyscolus et fabulae quarum fragmenta in papyris membranisque servata sunt

Menander: Dyscolus et fabulae quarum fragmenta in papyris membranisque servata sunt. Edited by Rudolf Kassel and Stephan Schröder. Poetae Comici Graeci: (PCG). Volumen VI,1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

New Books (December 2023)

Ovid: Metamorphoses X

Ovid: Metamorphoses X. Edited by Lee Fratantuono. Bloomsbury Latin Texts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Valerius Flaccus: Argonavtica

Gaius Valerius Flaccus: Argonavtica, Book III. Edited by Gesine Manuwald. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Ovid's Amores, Book One

Ryan, Maureen B. and Caroline A Perkins. Ovid's Amores, Book One: A Commentary. Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture, 41. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.

Seneca: De otio, De brevitate vitae

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: De otio, De brevitate vitae. Edited by Gareth D. Williams. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Tacitus: Germania

Cornelius Tacitus: Germany = Germania. With an introduction, translation and commentary by Herbert W. Benario. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1999.

Virgil: Eclogues and Georgics

Virgil: The Eclogues & Georgics. Edited with introduction and notes by R. Deryck Williams. London: Bristol Classical Press, 1996.

Simonides Lyricus: Testimonia und Fragmente

Simonides Lyricus: Testimonia und Fragmente: Einleitung, kritische Ausgabe, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Orlando Poltera (ed.). Schweizerische Beiträge Zur Altertumswissenschaft, 35. Basel: Schwabe, 2008.

Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes

Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (3, 5, 9, 11, 13). Edited by Douglas L Cairns. Translated by J. G Howie. ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers, and Monographs, 49. Cambridge: F. Cairns, 2010.

Plato: Gorgias

Plato: Gorgias. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Ovid: Fasti

Ovid: Fasti, Book III. Edited by S. J Heyworth. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Ptolemy I Soter

Anson, Edward M. Ptolemy I Soter: Themes and Issues. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Das 12. Buch der Dionysiaka des Nonnos aus Panopolis

Zuenelli, Simon. Das 12. Buch der Dionysiaka des Nonnos aus Panopolis: Ein literarischer Kommentar. Hypomnemata, 213. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022.