Classical Texts

When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin poems were ascr...

Dire Remedies: a Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity is the first wide-ranging social history of ancient healthcare. Greek medicine...

This accessible edition for students presents Herodotus as one of the most fascinating and colourful authors from the ancient world. Book III of He...

This is the first new critical edition of this text since 1908, and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The edition is inform...

Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the fir...

Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and uses of underworld scenes in ancient Greek literature and society. Underworld scenes are a ...

Cicero's Brutus is a history of Roman oratory, in the form of a dialogue between Cicero, Atticus, and the eponymous Brutus. This new edition by Dou...

Demosthenes oration On the Chersonese is a masterpiece of rhetorical brilliance and contains some of the best examples of his skill as a political ...

Although Phryne is considered the most famous of the many Greek courtesans who flocked to Athens during the fourth century BCE, there have been no ...

Although Phryne is considered the most famous of the many Greek courtesans who flocked to Athens during the fourth century BCE, there have been no ...