Classical Texts

It is widely believed that people living in the Middle Ages seldom traveled. But, as Medieval Travel and Travelers reveals, many medieval people a...

In an expansion of his 2012 Robson Classical Lectures, Clifford Ando examines the connection between the nature of the Latin language and Roman thi...

The first and one of the finest Latin poets of Anglo-Saxon England, the seventh-century bishop Saint Aldhelm can justly be called Britains first ma...

Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis ac...

Myths, Muses and Mortals gives new insight into a multitude of life experiences in ancient Greece. The book introduces the lives of the ancient Gre...

This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which...

The Lokapraka by well-known Kashmirian author Kemendra (fl. 1050 CE) is a unique Sanskrit text that deals with details of public administration, fr...

Whether it is our love of chance and vicarious thrill, our need to release anxiety and aggression, or our appreciation of the arc traced by a ball ...

The Lokapraka by well-known Kashmirian author Kemendra (fl. 1050 CE) is a unique Sanskrit text that deals with details of public administration, fr...

Aelred (11101167), abbot of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, has always been a controversial figure. He was beloved by his monks and widely admired, bu...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Cicero, the greatest orator of his age, devotes all his energy and cunning to preserve the rule of law, and defend Romes Republic against the preda...

This new critical edition of Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae by Leofranc Holford-Strevens is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text b...

If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Ou...

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinkingThe Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient ...

This new comic-book version of Euripides classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked ...