Classical Texts

In 2005 a French doctoral student discovered the long-lost treatise, De indolentia ( /) or On the Avoidance of Distress in a monastic library in Th...

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid, Fasti 2.267358, 687852, giving full Latin text, comment...

This is the first scholarly commentary on Cicero's Divinatio in Caecilium and the first new critical edition in over 100 years. The commentary demo...

In this first introduction to Plautus Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided through the themes, context, and enduring humor of t...

Aristotles Parva naturalia continues the investigation begun in the De anima. The De anima defines the soul and treats its main powers, nutrition,...

Alexanders essay on the conversion of predicative propositions contains otherwise unknown information about the early history of Aristotles logic....

The latest addition to the Chartwell Classics series, The Iliad is the first of the two great epics of Homer and is typically described as one of ...

This book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents read...

'War, the bringer of tears...' War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Ac...

Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king's daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it's hard on Medea, who has betraye...

Apuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey by magic beca...

The Aulularia is a comedy by the early poet Plautus (about 200 BCE) who transformed plays of Greek New Comedy, especially Menander, into typical Ro...

With this edition of Book I, P. J. Rhodes provides the prequel to his editions of Thucydides books on the Archidamian War (II, III and IV.1V.24). A...