Classical Texts

The best of Hanshan's treasured poemsamong the earliest of Zen Buddhist poetry, beloved by the Beat Generationhere newly translated by Peter Harris...

Yiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradati...

Humorous tales, cautionary tales, tall tales, fairy tales, heroic tales the depths of Swedish folklore hold all of the above and more besides.From...

The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day. The...

The Mirror of Desire Unbidden: Retrieving the Imago Dei in Tolkien and Late Medieval English Literature sets Tolkiens theory of Fantasy against the...

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Annals XIV, 113, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocab...

The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation assembles and studies for the first time the numerous poetic invitations and summonses of Archaic, Class...

The examination of Lucretian reception in Latin poetry has been served well by scholars. Lucretius presence in later prose writers, on the other ha...

The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature offers an up-to-date and student-friendly approach to teaching the literature of the Arthu...

The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Rom...

Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His pla...

This book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literar...

This is the third volume in the series of commentaries on Early Greek Epic Fragments (EGEF III). It contains introduction, text, translation, and c...

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Horace's Satires, giving full Latin...

Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides explores Ovid's reconceptualization of the heroines' maternal experience. Rather than aligning them with the...

What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demag...

Variously described as a fiend, a monster, a charming seductress who was felled by the righteous might of Perseus, son of Zeus, Medusa is perhaps t...

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Tacitus Annals XII, 25-26, 4143, 5253, 5659, 6469, giv...

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Juvenal, Satire 6 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescripti...