Classical Texts

The life and times of Dantes soaring poetic allegory of the souls redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early ...

Jeffrey Ulrichs The Shadow of an Ass addresses fundamental questions about the reception and aesthetic experience of Apuleius Metamorphoses, popula...

This open access book is the first in a groundbreaking series making Babylonian literature accessible. It presents Enuma Elish in transcription and...

Diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius donated his personal library to the American School of Classical Studies in 1926, and his books form the...

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery. Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the first Canticle in the epic poetic masterp...

The Uley Tablets is the first full publication of the eighty Roman lead writing-tablets found in the excavation of a Romano-British temple in the C...

Roman epic is traditionally understood to advance a masculine, martial form of heroism. In his version of the Argonaut legend, the Argonautica, how...

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne and a vigorous defender of Christian orthodoxy, was born into the senatorial aristocracy in southern Gaul...

Discover Marcus Aureliuss Meditations with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Medit...

When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin poems were ascr...

Dire Remedies: a Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity is the first wide-ranging social history of ancient healthcare. Greek medicine...

This accessible edition for students presents Herodotus as one of the most fascinating and colourful authors from the ancient world. Book III of He...

This is the first new critical edition of this text since 1908, and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The edition is inform...

Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the fir...

Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and uses of underworld scenes in ancient Greek literature and society. Underworld scenes are a ...

Cicero's Brutus is a history of Roman oratory, in the form of a dialogue between Cicero, Atticus, and the eponymous Brutus. This new edition by Dou...

Demosthenes oration On the Chersonese is a masterpiece of rhetorical brilliance and contains some of the best examples of his skill as a political ...

Although Phryne is considered the most famous of the many Greek courtesans who flocked to Athens during the fourth century BCE, there have been no ...

Although Phryne is considered the most famous of the many Greek courtesans who flocked to Athens during the fourth century BCE, there have been no ...