Classical Texts

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...

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medieval west from late antiquity to the dawn of mod...

Texts from the Middle is a companion primary source reader to the textbook The Sea in the Middle. It can be used alone or in conjunction with the t...

Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western cultu...

Angelo Poliziano (14541494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. Hi...

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly co...

This landmark contribution to ongoing debates about perceptions of the Jews in antiquity examines the attitudes of Greek writers of the Hellenistic...