Classical Texts

Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are sti...

This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissemination, and transmission of Greek poetry of th...

The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homers Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the gen...

David C. Parker is one of the worlds foremost specialists in the study of the New Testament text and of Greek and Latin manuscripts. In addition to...

This papyrus (3rd century BC) contains c. 200 incipits (first lines) of Greek epigrams with a numeral at the end of each line that gives the number...

Readers coming to the Odyssey for the first time are often dazzled and bewildered by the wealth of material it contains which is seemingly unrelate...

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise frien...

In the first full-scale edition of Thomas Grays Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduc...

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to mo...

Aulus Gellius originated the modern use of classical and humanities. His Attic Nights contains information on many aspects of antiquity, and preser...

A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew abo...

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's pro Caelio, 5158, 6168, and the A-Level (Grou...

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Pliny, Letters 1.9; 3.16; 4.2; 4.19; 8.8; 8.16; 8.17; 9.6, gi...

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid Book 2, lines 40249 and the A-Level (G...

The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Ciceros presence in the cultural history of Basel from the citys foundation to...

This volume explores how the study of antiquity can be made relevant and inclusive for a diverse range of 21st century students by bringing togethe...

Published in 1995: These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part ...

Published in 1991 The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda is a late Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy. It drama...

The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed in...

First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not...

Totalitarian Speech brings together a range of texts on totalitarian manipulations of language. The author analyzes various phenomena, from the hat...

A group of pilgrims assembles at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and sets out for the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury. Along the way they tell ...

The popular fascination with dragons and dragon slayers is manifest in the endlessly repeated plots of sword-and-sorcery romances and in the mass-p...

This two-volume work contains a selection of papers first presented at the 22nd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Prague (202...

In publication since 1960 and now in its ninth volume, the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum furnishes concrete evidence of when, where, an...

This book reveals central texts of Augustan poetry-Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Horace's Odes-to be environmental poetry. In contrast to rea...