Classical Texts

It is widely believed that people living in the Middle Ages seldom traveled. But, as Medieval Travel and Travelers reveals, many medieval people a...

In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thi...

The first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called Britains first ma...

Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis ac...

Myths, Muses and Mortals gives new insight into a multitude of life experiences in ancient Greece. The book introduces the lives of the ancient Gre...

This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which...

The Lokapraka by well-known Kashmirian author Kemendra (fl. 1050 CE) is a unique Sanskrit text that deals with details of public administration, fr...

Whether it is our love of chance and vicarious thrill, our need to release anxiety and aggression, or our appreciation of the arc traced by a ball ...

The Lokapraka by well-known Kashmirian author Kemendra (fl. 1050 CE) is a unique Sanskrit text that deals with details of public administration, fr...

Aelred (11101167), abbot of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, has always been a controversial figure. He was beloved by his monks and widely admired, bu...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Cicero, the greatest orator of his age, devotes all his energy and cunning to preserve the rule of law, and defend Romes Republic against the preda...

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text b...

If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Ou...

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinkingThe Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient ...

This new comic-book version of Euripides classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked ...

Youve heard all about the brilliant men of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so o...

A new translation of two medieval Spanish versions of the tale of Apollonius, a story central to the premodern literary imagination and a source fo...

A collection of ancient Byzantine hymns featuring women as pivotal characters, now in a new translation.At a time when Christianity was becoming th...

The volume continues the publication of The Rendel Harris Papyri (vol. I, 1936; vol. II, 1985), offering editions, with translations and interpreta...

A Festschrift for Rifaat Ebied celebrating a lifetime of work in the field of Semitic Studies, in particular Syriac, Christian Arabic, and Mandaic.

Remarkable products of a nation deeply implicated in the Atlantic slave trade, the seventeenth-century Spanish plays Juan Latino, The Brave Black S...

Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient...

Colin Austin (19412010), Professor of Greek at Cambridge and distinguished editor of poetic texts, was renowned for the precision and brilliance of...

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, througho...

A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wifesuch are the possible images of Penelope that Homer playfully presents...