Classical Texts

This volume publishes in full for the first time all known cuneiform manuscripts of an Akkadian calendar treatise that is unified by the theme of B...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

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

Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and ingenious versatility. His works engage in argument but are also full of allegory, imagery, myth, pa...

This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius an...

'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader...

Peripatetic potpourri.Aristotle of Stagirus (384322 BC), the great Greek philosopher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at At...

This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after Wo...

One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his ev...

Great Expectations, tells the story of Pip who narrates the tale from an unspecified time in the future. He grows up in the marshlands of Kent, whe...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Orphaned Jane Eyre has endured a life of austerity and hardship until she is appointed governess at Thornfield ...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicistsHomer's ...

Giovanni Pontano (14291503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman...

How to cultivate Greek heroes and athletes.In the writings of Philostratus (ca. AD 170-ca. 250), the renaissance of Greek literature in the second ...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? Wh...

Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun, and relive the adventures of Jason and the Argon...

The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and th...