Classical Texts

Homer's great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King ...

This is the first new critical edition of De beneficiis in almost 100 years, based on a fresh examination of the extant archetype (N) and on more e...

This book offers the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samoss On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, accompanied by ...

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates that by the time the public ...

This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a canonical mathematical an...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible ...

This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. I...

Matthew Wright brings Menanders Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-...

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid X, giving full Latin text, co...

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporari...

Enchantress, goddess, witch, predatory seductress Inevitably, Circe has been best-known in these terms, through the male gaze of Homer, Hesiod et a...

Die Studie befasst sich mit einer bisher kaum beachteten Personengruppe aus der Zeit Amenhoteps III. (13901353 v.Chr.), die durch neuere Ausgrabung...

This volume deals with the submerged literature of ancient Greece; that is, all the texts produced for socially relevant events that have contribut...

The triumphal procession determined the thoughts and actions of the Romans to a great extent. This applies not only to the period of the late Repu...

De Europa ist eine geographisch-historische Schrift des Humanisten und Papstes Enea Piccolomini/Pius II. (14051464). Inhalt des Werkes sind die Ere...

This anthology is dedicated to the Roman epic poets Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus. The contributions examine the contrast b...

Themistios, a recognised philosopher of his time, is regarded as one of the most successful eulogists of the 4th century AD. For a long time, the r...

The lifetime of Augustus (63 BCE -14 CE) was a key moment of transition for the Roman world. Following decades of civil war, the traditional govern...

This book explores Grahames engagements with classical antiquity in The Wind in the Willows, including ancient epic, parody (Batrachomyomachia), an...

Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focused approach to fake news i...

In recent years, medieval studies has seen a flourishing of new ecocritical and environmental inquiries to literature, art and culture. These new a...