Classical Texts

The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnma, or The Histo...

This volume includes Carolyn Higbie, Divide and Edit: A Brief History of Book Divisions; Ho Kim, Aristotles Hamartia Reconsidered; Andrew Faulkner,...

The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and ...

Three electrifying, fresh takes on Greek classics, adapting their stories to the modern day to address contemporary issues.Protest, desire, free wi...

The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic persp...

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...

The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to t...

Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient...

This is the first Oxford Classical Text of the speeches of Antiphon and Andocides, two Athenian orators of the fifth century BCE. An influential st...

The seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus of Smyrna, whom C. M. Bowra called the most accomplished and the most musical of the early elegists, h...

Theodore of Sykeon is one of the archetypal holy men of the late Roman world, a person whose intense ascetic regime earned him fame in the villages...

Books I-II of Julius Caesars The Gallic War narrate the campaigns of Caesars first two years in Gaul (58-57 BCE). These first years saw great succe...

From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YH...