Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Sextus Empiricus is one of the most important ancient philosophical writers after Plato and Aristotle. His writings are our main source for the doc...

This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of 'New Comedy', the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the...

This paperback edition of the Medea is the first full-scale edition with introduction, text, apparatus criticus, and commentary, of any play by Sen...

This anthology should be a `must' for all serious students of Aristophanes. It brings together for the first tinme in one volume all the most impor...

The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources. Th...

De Generatione et Corruptione

Essays on Ricardian Literature develops issues and themes first broached in John Burrow's ground-breaking book Ricardian Poetry and incorporates a ...

At the heart of this book lies a concern with the interaction between the cultural assumptions and world-view of ancient (and often of modern) Gree...

Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori stands as the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder ...

Theopompus of Chios was one of the most important ancient Greek historians of the fourth century BC. Although his work has survived only in fragmen...

Greek text with introduction and commentary

This anthology of articles on the Roman novels of Petronius and Apuleius makes available some of the most useful and important articles published i...

This book aims to make the `Republic' accessible and intelligible to those coming to it for the first time, or with little or no philosophical back...

Yun Lee Too offers a sustained reading of the social function of the body of texts we identify as 'ancient literary criticism' with major implicati...

This book combines the exploration of the`ethics' of the Iliad with its poetic and narrative techniques, which extend all the way from touches of p...

This book combines one of the most famous names in Latin literature, the Roman poet Horace, with the crème de la crème of contemporary internationa...

The Roman de la Rose was a major bestseller - largely due to its robust treatment of 'natural' sexuality. This study concentrates on the ways in wh...

Twenty-nine of the finest modern essays on Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in a selection made accessible to both professional scholar and stud...

In this landmark study of Aristotle's Politics Fred Miller argues that nature, justice, and rights are central to Aristotle's political thought. Mi...

This book sheds light on the complexity of medieval German literary culture as it evolved in the course of the thirteenth century (c. 1220-1290) by...

Books VI-X of Livy's history of Rome describe the beginnings of Rome's conquest of Italy in the fourth century BC and contain some of Livy's finest...

This book is about the ways in which rhyme in French verse produces shapes or interferes with meaning - a topic which, despite its centrality, has ...

Aristotle's treatise De Interpretatione is one of his central works; it continues to be the focus of much attention and debate. C. W. A. Whitaker ...

This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of 'New Comedy', the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the...

This is the first volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historia...

How could a poet who worked in an oral tradition maintain the momentum of his song? How could a poet such as Homer weave a tale which filled an eve...

A major edition of Aeschylus' play, the Septem Contra Thebas or Seven Against Thebes, providing a significantly new text, introduction, and full sc...

Brickhouse and Smith argue, contrary to virtually every modern interpretation of Plato's Apology of Socrates, that Plato's Socrates offers a sincer...

Donald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature at Oxford University, has been a leading figure in several fields of classical scholarsh...

The foundation of this book is a line-by-line analysis of enjambement, or the syntactical relationship between successive verses, in the Iliad. Suc...

An Historical Commentary on Thucydides Volume 1. Introduction, and Commentary on Book I

This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and ...

This book opens up a neglected chapter in the reception of Athenian drama, especially comedy; and it gives stage-centre to a particularly attractiv...

This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life ...