Classical Texts

Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book AwardFinalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African Americ...

This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus' most whimsical, provocative, a...

The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best-loved poems. It has survived for twenty-eight centuries, through upheavals that have wiped out ...

Explores the representation of revenge from Classical to early modern literatureThis collection explores a range of literary and historical texts f...

No modern, well-versed literature lover can call their education complete without having read Augustines Confessions. One of the most original work...

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate...

The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day.The ...

Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served th...

Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more tha...

Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more t...

These delightful poems - by turns whimsical, beautiful, and vulgar - seem to have primarily survived because they were attributed to Virgil. But in...

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate...

Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the ...

Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome h...

A miscellany of learned literature from Alexandria and beyond.This volume presents a selection of Hellenistic prose and poetry, ranging chronologic...

This book contains new, annotated, and literal yet accessible translations of Xenophons eight shorter writings, accompanied by interpretive essays ...