Classical Texts

This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey. The principal revenge plot of the Odyssey --Odysseus' surprise return to Ith...

The high point in Cicero's life (according to his own assessment), his reaching the consulship at the earliest opportunity in 63 BCE and his succes...

These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together...

Shedding new light on the history of the book in antiquity, Empire of Letters tells the story of writing at Rome at the pivotal moment of transitio...

Months before the 2016 United States presidential election, universities across the country began reporting the appearance of white nationalist fly...

In Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry, Gregory Nagy continues where The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours left off. This book is also centered on ...

Lucian is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging writers from antiquity and one of the most influential and controversial. His work is deeply em...

This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of generic enrichment in Plutarchs Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of ...

ENGEver since Karl Jaspers's axial age paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman histo...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

Chantry Westwell has used her profound knowledge of the Library's unrivalled Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscript collections to exp...

This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining textual dismemberment and re-composition) as a broad hermeneutic field encompassing mu...

In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. His letters from t...

This book on rare books, holographs and historical artifacts in a single collection is a treasure in itself. With generous portions of passages pai...

The book originates from the papers discussed in three conferences, held in Cassino and Florence. It aims to investigate some aspects of the cultur...

Roman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. Through the case studies of Caesars hegemony, Augus...

Arnson Svarlien's translation offers fresh insight into three of Aristophanes's greatest comedies. The verse flows smoothly, and throughout it is s...

American adaptations of Aristophanes enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike ...

Aristophanes' Wasps (422 B.C.) is an entertaining comedy that plunges us into the life of a family in classical Athens, while treating themes that ...

'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... an exceptional anthology, fascinating and ...