Classical Texts

The life and times of Dantes soaring poetic allegory of the souls redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early ...

Jeffrey Ulrichs The Shadow of an Ass addresses fundamental questions about the reception and aesthetic experience of Apuleius Metamorphoses, popula...

This open access book is the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible. It presents Enuma Elish in transcription and...

Diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius donated his personal library to the American School of Classical Studies in 1926, and his books form the...

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery. Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the first Canticle in the epic poetic masterp...

The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the C...

Roman epic is traditionally understood to advance a masculine, martial form of heroism. In his version of the Argonaut legend, the Argonautica, how...

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne and a vigorous defender of Christian orthodoxy, was born into the senatorial aristocracy in southern Gaul...

Discover Marcus Aureliuss Meditations with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Medit...