Classical Texts

Der italienisch-sprachige Band enthält zehn Komödien (Krapataloi, Leroi, Metalles, Metoikoi, Myrmekanthropoi, Persai, Petale, Tyrannis, Cheiron, Ps...

An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek mythsThis book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.Alexander McCall Smith, ...

The earliest written references to the Osirian myth-complex appeared already in the Pyramid Text spells (c. 24002300 BCE). The most complete exposi...

PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in...

This book introduces the evocative but largely unknown tradition of Samaritan religious poetry from late antiquity to a new audience. These verses ...

Byzantine Thessaloniki has often been considered in its relationship with Constantinople, as a deuteragonist vis-à-vis the capital. However, from t...

Neronian representations of magic, a practice prevalent in the everyday life of the period and a central topic in its literary production, are char...

Statius' Achilleid is the most extensive treatment of the myth of Achilles hiding disguised as a girl on the island of Scyros. In the Achilleid, th...

Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die für die Stoa grundlegende Oikeiosis-Lehre. Eine der wichtigsten Quellen für diese Theorie ist das dritte Buch von C...

The construction of a new Latin library between the end of the Republic and the Augustan Principate was anything but an inhibiting factor. The lite...

A striking feature of Latin elegiac verse is its very free word order. One gets the impression that the word order is just random or that the rules...

In the Argonautica, Valerius Flaccus not only recounts a voyage, that of the Argonauts in their quest for the golden fleece, but takes a journey hi...

The enormous influence of Aristotle's psychology has been always related to the reception and interpretation of his De Anima. The Paraphrase by The...

The contributions included in this volume deal with the indirect tradition of classical Greek texts in anthologies, lexica and scholia. The innovat...

The present volume collects contributions given at the First Postclassical Greek Conference Cologne (March 2426, 2021), dealing with different topi...

During the sixteenth century, antiquarian studies (the study of the material past, comprising modern archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics) rose ...

In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. His letters from t...

The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I ...