Classical Texts

Meet mythologys fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the worlds greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, ...

'Quite simply the best version of Dante there is' PAUL MULDOON, Irish Times. Almost eight centuries after its first publication, Dante Alighieri's...

Andreas Laskaratos (1811-1901), a prominent figure in modern Greek letters, was a writer and poet, a social thinker and, in many ways, a controvers...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that most of us could use some guidance. Whether youre looking to marry a man with several carriages to his ...

'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and...

Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for ...

When a mysterious green knight arrives unbidden at Camelot one Christmas, only the young and inexperienced Gawain is brave or foolhardy enough to t...

From archaic Sparta to classical Athens the chorus was a pervasive feature of Greek social and cultural life. Until now, however, its reception in ...

This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound. The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult ...

The Odyssey reveals a universal order where gods intercede in the destinies of men, heroes are both deceitful and brave and a sea voyage becomes a ...

A collection of essays, originating from papers given at the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies conference held at the University of Manche...

In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on suc...

First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies, this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctete...

A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textua...

An excellent new translation and commentary. It will serve newcomers as an informative, accessible introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics and to ma...

Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have w...

Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and liter...

'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the clas...

The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poetsTennyson portraye...

A la fin de la Guerre froide, les Etats-Unis d''Amerique deviennent la premiere puissance mondiale, animee par l''ideal de defendre les valeurs occ...

La cite de Crotone et son arriere-pays se trouvent au coeur d''un projet de recherches initie par l''Unite d''archeologie classique de l''Universit...