Classical Texts

Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned from his teacher Aspasia to re...

In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon th...

Edition, translation and full critical study of a hitherto marginalised text, bringing it to full attention for the first time. The Old English po...

The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics - that happiness is the end of human e...

Virgil's Cinematic Art concerns the rhetoric of visual manipulation that provokes us to envision what is written on the page, treating visual detai...

Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature. An awareness of the craft and technology of weaving and spinning, of the production and consu...

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This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse œuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and...

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a ma...

Though stylistics undoubtedly plays a crucial role in the scholarship on Latin poetry from commentaries to textual criticism, from intertextuality...

Book 13 of Silius Italicus' Punica marks an important turning point in this Latin epic poem on the Second Punic War. After twelve books of Carthagi...

David Hadbawnik's astonishing modern translation of the Aeneid has been appearing in excerpts in a number of US publications, but this was the firs...

A modern retelling of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, by bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNishAs the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone was dealt...

The first full in-depth analysis and interpretation of Plutarchs Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata in its entirety as a literary piece of art.Plut...

Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerg...

'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Ar...

The Ovidian Renaissance seems to have left the Remedia Amoris behind. The poem has remained marginal, read either as a reversal of the Ars Amatoria...