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*. Gli etruschi e la Campania settentrionale: atti del XXVI Convegno di studi etruschi ed italici, Caserta, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Capua, Teano, 11-15 novembre 2007. Atti di convegni, 26. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2011. 711 p. € 1295.00. ISBN 9788862272476.

*Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin and Christophe Cusset (edd., trans., comm.). Euphorion. Oeuvre poétique et autres fragments. Fragments, 14. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. xxii, 365 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251742137.

*Adornato, Gianfranco. Akragas arcaica: modelli culturali e linguaggi artistici di una città d'Occidente. Archeologia e arte antica. Milano: LED Edizioni Universitaire di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2011. 254 p. € 30.00 (pb). ISBN 9788879164689.

*Altman, William H. F. Plato the teacher: the crisis of the Republic. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. xxii, 489 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780739171387.

*Andersen, Øivind and Dag T. T. Haug (edd.). Relative chronology in early Greek epic poetry. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiii, 277 p. $99.00. ISBN 9780521194976.

*Ayad, Mariam F. Coptic culture: past, present and future. Stevenage: Coptic Orthodox Church Centre, 2011. xiii, 238 p. $45.00. ISBN 9781935488279.

*Balch, David L. and Annette Weissenrieder (edd.). Contested Spaces: houses and temples in Roman antiquity and New Testament. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 285. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. xi, 561 p. € 129.00. ISBN 9783161510267.

Belayche, Nicole and Jean-Daniel Dubois (edd.). L'oiseau et le poisson: cohabitations religieuses dans les mondes grec et romain. Religions dans l'histoire. Paris: PUPS, 2011. 410 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9782840508007.

*Bell, Sinclair and Teresa Ramsby (edd.). Free at last!: the impact of freed slaves on the Roman empire. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012. xii, 212 p. $80.00. ISBN 9781853997518.

Benario, Herbert W. (comm.). Caesar's Gallic war: a commentary. Oklahoma series in classical culture, 46. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. x, 103 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806142524.

*Besso, Giuliana and Michele Curnis (edd., trans., comm.). Aristotele, La politica, Libro 1. Roma: L' Erma di Bretschneider, 2011. vi, 256 p. € 100.00. ISBN 9788882656171.

*Boehm, Isabelle and Wolfgang Hübner (edd.). La poésie astrologique dans l'Antiquité: actes du colloque organisé les 7 et 8 décembre 2007 par J.-H. Abry (Université Lyon 3) avec la collarboration de I. Boehm (Université Lyon 2). Collection du Centre d'études et de recherches sur l'Occident romain, 38. Paris: Diffusion De Boccard, 2011. 263 p. € 38.00 (pb). ISBN 9782904974403.

*Bowman, Alan and Andrew Wilson (edd.). Settlement, urbanization, and population. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xx, 362 p. $135.00. ISBN 9780199602353.

*Brandt, Olof. Battisteri oltre la pianta: gli alzati di nove battisteri paleocristiani in Italia. Studi di antichità cristiana, 64. Città del Vaticano: Pontificio Istituto di archeologia cristiana, 2012. 508 p. € 45.00 (pb). ISBN 9788885991545.

*Broadie, Sarah. Nature and divinity in Plato's Timaeus. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ix, 305 p. $95.00. ISBN 9781107012066.

*Bruschetti, Paolo. La necropoli di Crocifisso del Tufo a Orvieto: contesti tombali. Monumenti etruschi, 10. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2012. 324 p. € 965.00. ISBN 9788862273992.

*Bryan, Jenny. Likeness and likelihood in the Presocratics and Plato. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. viii, 210 p. $95.00. ISBN 9780521762946.

*Cairns, Francis. Roman lyric: collected papers on Catullus and Horace. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Bd 301. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. x, 525 p. $182.00. ISBN 9783110266276.

*Callebat, Louis (ed., trans., comm.). Priapées. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 402. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. xci, 40, 313 p. € 59.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014623.

*Caye, Pierre, Florence Malhomme, Gioia M. Rispoli and Anne Gabrièle Wersinger (edd.). L'Harmonie, entre philosophie, science et arts, de l'Antiquité à l'âge moderne. Atti della Accademia Pontaniana, nuova serie - vol. lix - supplemento - anno accademico 2010. Napoli: Giannini editore, 2011. 410 p. (pb). ISBN 9788874315420.

Ceserani, Giovanna. Italy's lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the making of modern archaeology. Greeks overseas. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi, 331 p. $74.00. ISBN 9780199744275.

Chaniotis, Angelos (ed.). Ritual dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean: agency, emotion, gender, representation. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES), 49. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 390 p. € 62.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515099165.

*Chiabà, Monica. Roma e le priscae Latinae coloniae. Polymnia: studi di storia romana, 1. Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2011. xx, 242 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9788883033612.

*Chiaradonna, Riccardo (ed.). Filosofia tardoantica. Frecce. Roma: Carocci editore, 2012. 328 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788843063437.

*Collin Bouffier, Sophie (ed.). Diodore d'Agyrion et l'histoire de la Sicile. Dialogues d'histoire ancienne supplément, 6. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2011. 230 p. € 21.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848674117.

*Collobert, Catherine, Pierre Destrée and Francisco J. Gonzalez (edd.). Plato and myth: studies on the use and status of Platonic myths. Mnemosyne. Supplements, 337. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. viii, 476 p. $222.00. ISBN 9789004218666.

*Corazza, Doriana (ed., trans., comm.). [Maximi Victorini] Commentarium de ratione metrorum, con cinque trattati inediti sulla prosodia delle sillabe finali. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, VI. Collectanea grammatica Latina, 10. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2011. cxliii, 248 p. € 68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783615003857.

Cristante, Lucio and Luciano Lenaz (ed. comm.; trans.). Martiani Capellae De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. Vol. 1, Libri I - II. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, 15.1. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2011. xciv, 406 p. € 68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783615003918.

*Danile, Laura. La ceramica grigia di Efestia dagli inizi dell'età del ferro all'alto-arcaica. Monografie della Scuola archeologica di Atene e delle missioni italiane in Oriente, XX, 2/1. Atene: Scuola archeologica italiana di Atene, 2011. 238 p., xxxiv p. of plates. € 70.00 (pb). ISBN 9789609839792.

*Dey, Hendrik and Elizabeth Fentress. Western monasticism ante litteram: the space of monastic observance in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Disciplina monastica, 7. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. 387 p. € 95.00 (pb). ISBN 9782503540917.

*Distilo, Nuala (ed., comm.). Commento critico-testuale all'Elettra di Euripide (2 vols.). Padova: S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria, 2012. xlvi, 765 p. € 50.00 (pb). ISBN 9788895672182.

*Elm, Susanna. Sons of Hellenism, fathers of the church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the vision of Rome. Transformation of the classical heritage, 49. Berkeley; Los Angeles; Oxford: University of California Press, 2012. xx, 553 p. $75.00. ISBN 9780520269309.

*Evans, James Allan. Daily life in the Hellenistic Age: from Alexander to Cleopatra (first published 2008). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. xlii, 196 p. $19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780806142555.

*Fornaro, Sotera. L'ora die Antigone dal nazismo agli 'anni di piombo'. Drama: Studien zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, NS, Bd 9. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2012. 172 p. € 48.00. ISBN 9783823367123.

*Gawlinski, Laura (ed., comm.). The sacred law of Andania: a new text with commentary. Sozomena, 11. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. xi, 285 p. $154.00. ISBN 9783110267570.

*Gehn, Ulrich. Ehrenstatuen in der Spätantike: Chlamydati und Togati. Spätantike - frühes Christentum - Byzanz. Reihe B, Studien und Perspektiven, Bd 34. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012. 590 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783895008610.

*Gowers, Emily (ed., comm.). Horace: Satires Book I. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi, 370 p. $40.00 (pb). ISBN 9780521458511.

*Guillaumin, Jean-Yves. Les Silves du collège jésuite de Dole (1592). Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2011. 125 p. € 20.00 (pb). ISBN 9782848674087.

*Günther, Linda-Marie. Perikles. UTB Profile, 3406. Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 2010. 128 p. € 9.90. ISBN 9783825234065.

*Günther, Linda-Marie and Sonja Plischke (edd.). Studien zum hellenistischen Herrscherkult: Verdichtung und Erweiterung von Traditionsgeflechten. Oikumene. Studien zur antiken Weltgeschichte, 9. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2011. 208 p. € 49.90. ISBN 9783938032473.

*Hasse, Dag Nikolaus and Amos Bertolacci (edd.). The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin reception of Avicenna's Metaphysics. Scientia Graeco-Arabica, Bd 7. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. viii, 398 p. $150.00. ISBN 9783110215755.

*Heinen, Heinz (ed.). Kindersklaven - Sklavenkinder: Schicksale zwischen Zuneigung und Ausbeutung in der Antike und im interkulturellen Vergleich. Beiträge zur Tagung des Akademievorhabens Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei (Mainz, 14. Oktober 2008) (Redaktion: Johannes Deißler). Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei, Bd 39. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. XII, 326 p., 30 p. pl. € 52.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515094146.

*Helas, Sophie. Selinus II: die punische Stadt auf der Akropolis. Sonderschriften / Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom, Bd 15. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012. 370 p. € 98.00. ISBN 9783895007088.

*Hodkinson, Stephen and Ian Macgregor Morris (edd.). Sparta in modern thought: politics, history and culture. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2010. xxvi, 462 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781905125470.

*Horster, Marietta and Anja Klöckner (edd.). Civic priests: cult personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic period to late antiquity. Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten, Bd 58. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. 249 p. $150.00. ISBN 9783110258073.

*Hughes, Alan. Performing Greek comedy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi, 311 p. $99.00. ISBN 9781107009301.

*Isaac, Benjamin and Yuval Shahar (edd.). Judaea-Palaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in antiquity. Texts and studies in ancient Judaism, 147. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012. ix, 324 p. € 99.00. ISBN 9783161516979.

*Jeunet-Mancy, Emmanuelle (ed., trans., comm.). Servius. Commentaire sur l'Enéide de Virgile. livre VI. Collection des universités de France. Série latine, 403. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. cxliv, 306 p. € 79.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251014630.

Junker, Klaus. Interpreting the images of Greek myths: an introduction (first published in German 2005; translated by Annemarie Künzl-Snodgrass and Anthony Snodgrass). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiv, 225 p. $32.99 (pb). ISBN 9780521720076.

*Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum (ed.). Kykladen: Lebenswelten einer frühgriechischen Kultur. Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 2011. 348 p. € 39.90. ISBN 9783863120160.

*Kassab Tezgör, Dominique (ed.). Sinope: the results of fifteen years of research. Proceedings of the international symposium, 7-9 May 2009 / Sinope: un état de la question après quinze ans de travaux. Actes du symposium international, 7-9 May 2009. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. 559 p. $170.00 (pb). ISBN 9789004206533.

*Krötzl, Christian and Katariina Mustakallio (edd.). On old age: approaching death in antiquity and the Middle Ages. The history of daily life 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. xix, 346 p. € 80.00. ISBN 9782503532165.

*Lagóstena Barrios, Lázaro Gabriel, José Luis Cañizar Palacios and Lluís Pons Pujol (edd.). Aquam perducendam curavit: captación, uso y administración del agua en las ciudades de la Bética y el occidente romano. Cádiz: Universidad de Cádiz, 2010. 547 p. (pb). ISBN 9788469363737.

*Lefkowitz, Mary R. The lives of the Greek poets. 2nd edition (first published 1981). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. xi, 220 p. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 9781421404646.

*Leonhardt, Jürgen, Silke Leopold and Mischa Meier. Wege, Umwege und Abwege: Antike und Oper in der 1. Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 127 p. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515099288.

*Liesner, Malte. Arbeitsbuch zur lateinischen historischen Phonologie. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012. 128 p. € 19.90. ISBN 9783895008597.

*Lipps, Johannes. Die Basilica Aemilia am Forum Romanum: der kaiserzeitliche Bau und seine Ornamentik. Palilia, Bd 24. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2011. 252 p. € 29.90. ISBN 9783895008702.

*Marchese, Rosa Rita (ed., trans., comm.). Cicerone: Bruto. Introduzione, traduzione e commento. Classici, 15. Roma: Carocci editore, 2011. 395 p. € 28.00 (pb). ISBN 9788843061594.

*Martorelli, Luca (ed., trans., comm.). Ps. Aurelii Augustini Regulae. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, VI. Collectanea grammatica Latina, 7. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2011. cxv, 349 p. € 68.00 (pb). ISBN 9783615003789.

*Mayet, Karin. Chrysipps Logik in Ciceros philosophischen Schriften. Classica Monacensia, Bd 41. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2010. 340 p. € 78.00. ISBN 9783823365815.

*McKirahan, Richard (trans.). Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior analytics 1.9-18. Ancient commentators on Aristotle. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012. viii, 197 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780715640890.

*Meier, Ludwig. Die Finanzierung öffentlicher Bauten in der hellenistischen Polis. Die hellenistische Polis als Lebensform, 3. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2011. 470 p. € 79.90. ISBN 9783938032497.

*Metcalf, William E. (ed.). The Oxford handbook of Greek and Roman coinage. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xviii, 688 p. $150.00. ISBN 9780195305746.

*Moormann, Eric M. Divine interiors: mural paintings in Greek and Roman sanctuaries. Amsterdam archaeological studies, 16. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012. 296 p. $69.95. ISBN 9789089642615.

*Müller, Alexander. Die Carmina Anacreontea und Anakreon: ein literarisches Generationenverhältnis. Classica Monacensia, Bd 38. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2010. 300 p. € 68.00. ISBN 9783823365754.

*Neri, Marino. Dio, l'anima e l'uomo: l'epistolario di Fausto di Riez. Scienze dell'antichità, filologico-letterarie e storico-artistiche 752. Roma: Aracne editrice, 2011. 417 p. € 23.00 (pb). ISBN 9788854841338.

*Neudecker, Richard and Dieter Mertens (ed.). Krise und Wandel: Süditalien im 4. und 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Internationaler Kongress anlässlich des 65. Geburtstages von Dieter Mertens, Rom 26. bis 28. Juni 2006. Palilia, Bd 23. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2011. 212 p. € 29.90. ISBN 9783895008658.

*Nobili, Cecilia. L'"Inno omerico a Ermes" e le tradizioni locali. Il Filarete, 275. Milano: LED Edizioni Universitaire di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2011. 260 p. € 31.50 (pb). ISBN 9788879165044.

*Oepen, Alexis. Villa und christlicher Kult auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in Spätantike und Westgotenzeit. Spätantike - frühes Christentum - Byzanz. Reihe B, Studien und Perspektiven, Bd 35. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012. 592 p. € 148.00. ISBN 9783895008573.

*Ousterhout, Robert G. A Byzantine settlement in Cappadocia. Revised, paper edition (first published 2005). Dumbarton Oaks studies, 42. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2011. xxi, 482 p. $50.00 (pb). ISBN 9780884023708.

*Pajón Leyra, Irene. Entre ciencia y maravilla: el género literario de la paradoxografía griega. Monografías de filología griega, 21. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2011. 368 p. € 22.00 (pb). ISBN 9788415274612.

*Patillon, Michel (ed., trans.). Corpus rhetoricum. Tome III, 1re partie: Pseudo-Hermogène, l'invention. Anonyme, synopse des exordes. 2e partie: Anonyme, scolies au traité. Sur l'invention du Pseudo-Hermogène (2 vols.). Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 485. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. cxxiv, 197; xxix, 107 p. € 85.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005690.

*Paul, Martina. Spätrömische Fibeln und Gürtelzubehör aus Augusta Vindelicum Augsburg. Münchner Beiträge zur provinzialrömischen Archäologie, Bd 3. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2011. 168 p. € 38.00. ISBN 9783895007835.

*Pietrykowski, Joseph. Great battles of the Hellenistic world. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. 256 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781848846883.

*Pollack, Rachel and David Vine (trans.). Tyrant Oidipous: a new translation of Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus. Roskilde: EyeCorner Press., 126 p. $16.00 (pb). ISBN 9788792633156.

*Pretagostini, Roberto Scritti di metrica (a cura di Maria Silvana Celentano). Storia e letteratura, 268. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2011. x, 361 p. € 48.00 (pb). ISBN 9788863722765.

*Quincy, Quatremère de. Letters to Miranda and Canova on the abduction of antiquities from Rome and Athens (introduction by Dominique Poulot; translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks). Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2011. vii, 184 p. $50.00. ISBN 9781606060995.

Reeve, C. D. C. Action, contemplation, and happiness: an essay on Aristotle. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2012. xiv, 299 p. $49.95. ISBN 9780674063730.

Riess, Werner. Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens. MythosEikonPoiesis, Bd 4. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. xi, 479 p. $165.00. ISBN 9783110245592.

*Rohde, Dorothea. Zwischen Individuum und Stadtgemeinde: Die Integration von collegia in Hafenstädten. Studien zur Alten Geschichte, 14. Berlin: Verlag Antike, 2011. 384 p. € 79.90. ISBN 9783938032442.

*Samotta, Iris. Demosthenes. UTB Profile, 3407. Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 2010. 137 p. € 9.90. ISBN 9783825234072.

*Schmidt, Stefan and Adrian Stähli (edd,). Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer: Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum. Beihefte zum Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Deutschland, Bd 5. München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2012. 186 p. € 59.90. ISBN 9783406625671.

*Schröder, Bianca-Jeanette. Einführung in das Studium der lateinischen Literatur: ein Arbeitsbuch. Narr Studienbücher. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2010. viii, 200 p. € 19.90. ISBN 9783823365624.

*Schubert, Charlotte. Anacharsis der Weise: Nomade, Skythe, Grieche. Leipziger Studien zur klassischen Philologie, 7. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2010. 227 p. € 58.00. ISBN 9783823366072.

*Schwab, Andreas. Thales von Milet in der frühen christlichen Literatur: Darstellungen seiner Figur und seiner Ideen in den griechischen und lateinischen Textzeugnissen christlicher Autoren der Kaiserzeit und Spätantike. Studia Praesocratica, Bd 3. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. 406 p. $165.00. ISBN 9783110245981.

*Seelentag, Sabine (ed., trans., comm.). Der pseudovergilische Culex: Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Hermes. Einzelschriften Bd 105. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 260 p. € 54.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515098953.

*Seifert, Martina. Dazugehören: Kinder in Kulten und Festen von Oikos und Phratrie: Bildanalysen zu attischen Sozialisationsstufen des 6. bis 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. 398 p., 20 p. of plates. € 64.00 (pb). ISBN 9783515096423.

Ševčenko, Ihor (ed.). Chronographiae quae Theophanis continuati nomine fertur liber quo Vita Basilii Imperatoris amplectitur. Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae. Series Berolinensis, no 42. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2011. xii, 55, 501, [14] p. $252.00. ISBN 9783110184778.

*Shortland, Andrew J. Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln: glass and glassmaking in the late Bronze Age. Studies in archaeological sciences, 2. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2010. € 69.50. ISBN 9789058676917.

Siniossoglou, Niketas. Radical platonism in Byzantium: illumination and utopia in Gemistos Plethon. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvi, 454 p. $120.00. ISBN 9781107013032.

*Stephens, William O. Marcus Aurelius: a guide for the perplexed. Continuum guides for the perplexed. New York: Continuum, 2012. xiv, 191 p. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 9781441108104.

*Summa, Daniela (ed.). Inscriptiones Graecae Graeciae septentrionalis, voluminibus VII et VIII non comprehensae. Pars I. Inscriptiones Phocidis, Locridis, Aetoliae, Acarnaniae, insularum maris Ionii, editio altera. Fasc. 5. Inscriptiones Locridis orientalis. Inscriptiones Graecae IX 12, 5. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2011. x, 147 p., xx p. pl. $321.00. ISBN 9783110262001.

*Taufer, Matteo (ed.). Contributi critici sul testo di Eschilo: ecdotica ed esegesi. Drama: Studien zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, N S, Bd 8. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2011. 276 p. € 58.00. ISBN 9783823366867.

*Todd, Robert B. (trans.). Themistius: On Aristotle Physics 1-3. Ancient commentators on Aristotle. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012. vii, 222 p. $90.00. ISBN 9780715639221.

*Torretti, Roberto (ed., trans., comm.). Sófocles. Filoctetes. Santiago: Ediciones Tácitas, 2011. 207 p. (pb). ISBN 9789568268527.

*Van den Kerchove, Anna. La voie d'Hermès: pratiques rituelles et traités hermétiques. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 77. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. xxxv, 440 p. $221.00. ISBN 9789004223455.

*Van Deun, Peter and Caroline Macé (edd.). Encyclopedic trends in Byzantium? Proceedings of the international conference held in Leuven, 6-8 May 2009. Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 212. Leuven: Peeters, 2011. 446 p. € 80.00. ISBN 9789042925571.

*Virgilio, Biagio. Le roi écrit: le correspondance du soverain hellénistique, suivie de deux lettres d'Antiochos III à partir de Louis Robert et d'Adolf Wilhelm. Studi ellenistici, 25. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2011. 335 p. € 225.00 (pb). ISBN 9788862273213.

*Wander, Steven H. The Joshua roll. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012. 205 p., 15 p. of plates. € 98.00. ISBN 9783895008542.

*Woerther, Frédérique (ed., trans., comm.). Hermagoras. Fragments et témoignages. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 486. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. lxxxv, 43, 316 p. € 59.00 (pb). ISBN 9782251005706.

*Wöhrle, Georg (ed.). Die Milesier: Anaximander und Anaximenes. Traditio Praesocratica, Bd 2. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. 529 p. $132.00. ISBN 9783110200997.

*Woodfin, Warren T. The embodied icon: liturgical vestments and sacramental power in Byzantium. Oxford studies in Byzantium. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, xxxv, 339 p., [16] p. of plates. $125.00. ISBN 9780199592098.