Classical Texts

Augustine began City of God, De Civitate Dei, to answer complaints that Christians were to blame for the troubles of Rome and its empire because th...

Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical Greece. It is a systematic study...

The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the best known of ancient Greek myths and has captivated people for over two and a half thousand yea...

In this fifth volume of the Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity series, Michael Wolter provides a detailed, verse-by-verse interpreta...

In this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of A...

The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman...

'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking place almost every day and the elections could not b...

The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the consp...

The Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of...

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

The oldest extant Marathi work, a medieval chronicle of Chakradhars divine life on earth, in a new English translation.God at Play, or Lcaritra, is...

This new critical edition aims to provide a new standard text of Apuleius' De Deo Socratis, De Platone et eius dogmate, and De mundo, allowing read...

Terminologies present various challenges to their inventors and to their users, ranging from epistemic adequacy over linguistic concerns to matter...

Das Onomastikon des Eusebius von Caesarea ist eine unentbehrliche Quelle für die Topographie des Heiligen Landes. Beruhend auf biblischen Texten un...