Classical Texts

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad re...

Bold new paths in life and love are forged in nineteenth-century New Zealand in the stirring final chapter of bestselling author Sarah Larks multig...

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In the whole of European literature there is no poet who can furnish the texts for a more significant variety of discourse than Virgil. [He] symbo...

The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I ...

It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another - that many of the write...

This is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way, and to explain its relationship to the epic's narrative structure an...

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

William Morris had a lifelong fascination with illuminated books. He collected thirteenth- and fourteenth-century manuscripts and became one of the...

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers. Through brief daily readings and reflection questions, the 30-Day Journey series ...