New Books

New Books

The following monographs arrived in May 2025. Listed in call number order.

Philosophy & Religion: 

Inquiring Into Being: Essays on Parmenides. Edited by Colin C. Smith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2025.
B 235 .P24 I57 2025 

The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus: Cosmology, Music, Medicine, and Architecture from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. Edited by Jacomien Prins, Edmund Thomas. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024.
B 387 .L44 2024 

Michael LaFargue. Rational Spirituality and Divine Virtue in Plato: A Modern Interpretation and Philosophical Defense of Platonism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016.
B 395 .L3155 2016 

The Science of Life in Aristotle and the Early Peripatos. Edited by David Lefebvre. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2025.
B 491 .L5 S35 2025 

Justin Reid Allison. Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
B 598 .P44 A65 2020 

Kit Tempest-Walters. Plotinus on Eternity and Time (Ennead III.7): Text, Translation, and Commentary. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024.
B 693 .E63 T45 2024 

Peter Adamson. Studies on Plotinus and al-Kindī. Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Variorum, 2014.
B 693 .Z7 A33 2014 

Alexander J. Mazur. The Platonizing Sethian Background of Plotinus’s Mysticism. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021.
B 693 .Z7 M395 2021 

Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes: Western Scholarly Networks and Debates. Edited by Dragos Calma. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019.
B 701 .E43 R43 2019 v.3 

Marie-Josée Lavallée. Lire Platon avec Hannah Arendt: Pensée, Politique, Totalitarisme. Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018.
B 945 .A694 L38 2018

Soul and Life: Psyche in Seminal Ancient Greek Thinkers. Edited by Marina Marren. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2024.
BD 420 .S68 2024 

Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity. Edited by Anna Marmodoro and Brian D. Prince. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
BD 591 .C38 2015 

Magia y brujería en el Mundo Antiguo. Edited by Javier José Javier Martínez García, Javier Gómez Marín. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2024.
BF 1591 .M34 2024 

The Religious Aspects of War in the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Edited by Krzysztof Ulanowski. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016.
BL 65 .W2 R55 2016 

Daniel Robinson. Fate, Freedom, and Happiness: Clement and Alexander on the Dignity of Human Responsibility. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press LLC, 2019.
BJ 1461 .R635 2019

John Man. Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World. New York: Pegasus Books, 2018.
BL 820 .A6 M37 2018 

Russell E. Gmirkin. Plato and the creation of the Hebrew Bible. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.
BS 1184 .G55 2017 

Epigraphy 

Fleur Kemmers. The Functions and Use of Roman Coinage: An Overview of 21st Century Scholarship. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
CJ 833 .K46 2019 

Mika Kajava. Studi storico-epigrafici sul Lazio antico. Roma: Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, 1996.
CN 532 .S8 1996 F

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Edited by P.M. Fraser and E. Matthews, with the collaboration of many scholars. Oxford [England]: New York: Clarendon Press; 1987-<2018>.
CS 2349 .L48 1987 F v.5: C

History

Brill’s New Pauly. Supplements. Editors, Hubert Cancik, Manfred Landfester, Helmuth Schneider. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007.
DE 5 .N4813 2007 Suppl. v. 9 

Archaeologies, Origins, Antiquities: Narrating Early Cultural History in Ancient Greece and Rome. Edited by Nicoletta Bruno. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2025.
DE 60 .A734 2025 

Rune Frederiksen. Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens. Volume VIII. Athens: Aarhus University Press, 2017.
DF 10 .P76 2017 

Mark Munn. Hellenistic Monarchies in the Mediterranean World: Building a New World Order? Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS, an imprint of Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature, 2024.
DF 77 .H454 2024 

Beyond Mysteries: The Local World of Ancient Eleusis. Edited by Hans Beck, Sebastian Scharff. Leiden: Boston: Brill, 2025.
DF 261 .E4 B49 2025 

Wolfgang Schuller. Akropolis und Athen: Nachgelassenes Skriptum einer Vorlesung zur athenischen Demokratie. Stendal: Winckelmann-Gesellschaft, 2024.
DF 287.A2 S38 2024 

The Sixth Century, End or Beginning? Edited by Pauline Allen and Elizabeth Jeffreys. Brisbane: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1996.
DF 553 .S598 1996 

Sebastiano Tusa. Sicilia Archeologica Vista dal Cielo: Dalla Preistoria all’età Romana. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2025.
DG 55.S5 T868 2025 F

A Companion to the City of Rome. Edited by Claire Holleran and Amanda Claridge. Hoboken, NJ; Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
DG 77 .C306 2018 

Ilaria Battiloro. The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places: From the Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
DG 225 .L83 B38 2018 

Ira Donathan Taylor. Roman Republic at War: A Compendium of Battles from 498 to 31 BC. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2017.
DG 231 .T39 2017 

Paul Chrystal. Rome: Republic into Empire: The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2019.
DG 256 .C47 2019 

Michael Kulikowski. The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016.
DG 270 .K85 2016 

Roland Mayer. The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
DG 807 .M39 2025

Human and Aquatic Beings: Interactions In and Beyond the Eastern Mediterranean (3rd-1st Millennia BCE). Edited by Christina Tsouparopoulou and Lærke Recht. Cham: [Praha]: Springer; 2024.
DS 56 .H86 2024 F 

Flavius Josephus, Translation and Commentary. Edited by Steve Mason. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2000.
DS 116 .J7 2000 

Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture on the Silk Roads. Edited by Gunner B. Mikkelsen, Ken Parry. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.
DS 329.4 .B99 2022

Social Sciences

K.J. Dover. Greek Homosexuality. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
HQ 76.3 .G8 D68 2016 

Walter D. Ward. Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
HT 147.M53 W37 2020 

Political Science

Brill’s Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought. Edited by David Carter, Rachel Foxley, Liz Sawyer. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024.
JC 73 .B75 2024 

Fine Arts

Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes. Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South of the Alps. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
N 7587 .A4 A44 2024 

Stefanie Lenk. Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in the Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
NA 3410 .L46 2025

Anne Anderson and Michael Cassin. Edward Burne-Jones: The Perseus Series. Bristol: Sansom and Company, 2018.
ND 497.B8 A7 2018 

Philology 

Postclassicisms Collective. Postclassicisms. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
PA 37 .P67 2020 

A Greek and Arabic lexicon: (GALex): materials for a dictionary of the mediæval translations from Greek into Arabic. Edited by Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 1992.
PA 184.3 .G73 1992 

Robert Samuel David Crellin. The Syntax and Semantics of the Perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom; Malden, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
PA 348 .P4 C74 2016 

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe. Edited by Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Dorota Dutsch. Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017.
PA 3013 .H27 2017 

Latin Translations of Greek Texts from the 11th to the 13th Century. Edited by Paraskevi Toma, Péter Bara. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2025.
PA 3070 .L38 2025X 

Olga Kekis. Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
PA 3238 .K45 2020 

Angelo Poliziano. Miscellanies. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2020.
PA 3520 .P58 2020 vol. 1-2 

A Companion to Aristophanes. Edited by Matthew C. Farmer, Jeremy B Lefkowitz. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2024.
PA 3879 .C557 2024 

Theogony and Works and Days. Translated from the Greek by Kimberly Johnson. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2017.
PA 4010 .E5 T5 2017 

K. Nilüfer Akçay. Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs in its Intellectual Context. Leiden; Boston: Brill, [2019].
PA 4035 .P7 A38 2019 

Inger N.I. Kuin. Lucian’s Laughing Gods: Religion, Philosophy, and Popular Culture in the Roman East. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.
PA 4236 .K85 2023 

Den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, H.C. Teitler. Philological and historical commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXXI. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018.
PA 6205 .B642 2018 

Andreas T. Zanker. Horace. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024.
PA 6411 .Z36 2024 

Daisy Dunn. In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny. London: William Collins, 2019.
PA 6640 .D86 2019b 

Louis Groarke. Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature. Montreal; Kingston; London; Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023.
PN 45 .G76 2023 

Lahcen El Yazghi Ezzaher. Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’: Arabic-English Translation, with Notes and Introduction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2023.
PN 173 .A7 A913 2023 

Medea’s Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts. Edited by Ana Filipa Prata and Rodrigo Verano. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2024.
PN 883 .M43 2024 

Classical Receptions and Impact of Xena, Warrior Princess. Edited by Amanda Potter and Anise K. Strong. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
PN 1992.77.X46 C57 2025 

Milton, Drama, and Greek Texts. Edited by Tania Demetriou and Tanya Pollard. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
PR 3592 .L5 M55 2018 

Science

Gerardo Botteri. The Astronomical System of Aristotle: An Interpretation. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023.
QB 21 .B6813 2023 

Ivan Malara. Galileo and the Almagest, c.1589-1592: How Ptolemaic Astronomy Influenced Galileo’s Early Writings on Motion. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
QB 41 .M35 2024 

Military Science

Donathan Taylor. Roman Empire at War: A Compendium of Battles from 31 BC to AD 565. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2016.
U 35 .T39 2016 

Medicine

Maimonides. Medical Aphorisms. Treatises 6-9: A Parallel Arabic-English Edition. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 2007.
R 128.3 .M62513 2007 

New Journals

The following journal issues arrived in May 2025. Listed in alphabetical order.

Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, v.60 (2024)
PA 9 .A42x 

Apeiron: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, v. 58: (2025)
B1 .A72 x 

Antike Welt, 25/2025: Sonderheft.
CB 311 .A56 F 

The Cambridge Classical Journal: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, v.70 (2024)
P 11 .C2 

Classical Journal, v.120: 4 (2025) 
PA 1 .C4 

Der Altsprachliche Unterricht, Latein, Griechisch, Jahrg.68: Heft 2 (2025)
PA 74 .A1 A46x 

Dike: Rivista di Storia del Diritto Greco ed Ellenistico, 27 (2024)
KL 4106.2 .D55 

Eirene; Studia Graeca et Latina, 60, 1-2 (2024)
PA 1.A1 E5 

Geographia Antiqua, 33 (2024)
G 1 .G319 F 

Glotta; Zeitschrift Für Griechische und Lateinische Sprache, 101,1 (2025)
PA 3 .G5 

Gnomon, Bd. 97: Heft 2 (2025)
PA 3 .G6 

Greece & Rome, 49 (2025)
DE 1 .G7 

Hermes, Bd.153: 2 (2025)
PA 3 .H5 

Latomus, t.83: fasc.4 (2024)
PA 2002 .L3 

Maia, nuov. ser.: anno 76: fasc.2 (2024)
PA 9 .M34 

Marburger Beiträge zur antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Bd.42 (2025)
HF 357 .M85 

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung, Bd.136/137 (2021/2022)
DF 10 .M58x 

Mnemosyne, series 4: v.78: fasc.3 (2025)
PA 9 .M6 

Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava. Supplementum, v.491 (2025)
P A1 .M53 

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, v.63 (2022)
B 1 .O9 

Paideia, Anno 79 (2024)
Z 1007 .P18 

Philosophical Papyri: A Journal of Ancient Philosophy and the Papyrological Tradition, 2 (2024)
PA 3339 .P45 

Philosophy & Rhetoric, v.57: no.4 (2024)
B 1 .P572 

Seiyō kotengaku kenkyū = Journal of Classical Studies, v.72
PA 9 .S43 

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, v.66-69 (2016-2019)
CN 360 .S95 

Vestnik drevneĭ istorii. Journal of Ancient History, 84:3 (2024)
D 51 .V47 

Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic, v.6 (2022)
PA 1 .E65 

Zetemata, Heft 161 (2025)
PA 1 .Z38