Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Aeneid Book 2

This collection of essays, written over a period of almost thirty years, deals with one problem: who is the `I' in the odes of the most celebrated ...

This book translates into English ten influential articles and extracts from books about Homer written in German over the past fifty years. The wor...

This book provides the foremost critical edition of the Greek lyric poets: Alcman, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides and Corinna, and other ...

The inscriptions that accompany the painted scenes on non-Attic Greek vases are an extremely important source for knowledge of ancient Greek, in pa...

Sallust (86-35 BC) was a historian of major importance, writing at the time of the late Roman Republic. This is the first ever full-length commenta...

An Historical Commentary on Thucydides Volume 4. Books V(25)-VII

A new translation of Aristotle's classic work on the natural sciences.

This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows how one traditionally esteemed author, the Roman poet Virgil, played an une...

This is the first of a four-volume edition of Greek lyric fragments which takes account of recent papyrus finds and new editions of those works in ...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range...

This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking,...

New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on medieval textural cultures. It will provide a regular venue for innovative essays that deploy d...

The Historia Novella is a key source for the succession dispute between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda which brought England to civil war in ...

Tacitus, writing early in the second century AD, is acknowledged to be ancient Rome's greatest historian; his Annals, describing the emperors from ...

AlthoughThe Decameron and The Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular collections of me...

This book examines the theories and arguments put forward by Plato in his `Phaedo', in which he attempts to show that the soul is immortal. Chiefly...

Books V and VI of Aristotle's Politics constitute a manual on practical politics. In the fifth book Aristotle examines the causes of faction and co...

Books V and VI of Aristotle's Politics constitute a manual on practical politics. In the fifth book Aristotle examines the causes of faction and co...

This book offers a novel and unconventional approach to Roman culture, through food - or rather, food as it is represented in literature. Food ...

Claudian is often called the last poet of the classical tradition. This is the first ever English edition of his last extant work, with a full intr...

England the Nation is the first book to pay detailed attention to the earlier fourteenth century in England as a literary period in its own right. ...

This book is intended for scholars and students of medieval European history and literature, particularly in England and France in the fourteenth c...

Shakespeare's Romans are intensely concerned with being `constant'. But, as Geoffrey Miles shows, that virtue is far more ambiguous than is often r...

In a series of controversial essays, this book examines the Roman penchant for denigration, and in particular self-denigration, at the expense of R...

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

This volume is designed as a companion volume to the new text of Sophocles (published in the Oxford Classical Texts series). It aims to explain the...

Langland's Piers Plowman is a profoundly Christian poem which nevertheless has enjoyed a wide general appeal. Readers - both religious and non-reli...

The seven documents in this book, which appear for the first time in an English translation from Greek and Latin, constitute a unique contemporary ...

This book is the first to tackle the origins and purpose of literary religious apologetic in the first centuries of the Christian era by discussing...

Readers familiar with Dr Lyne's last book on Virgil will know what to expect. There is the same clarity of expression and layout, the same care to ...

The essays in this volume cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. The belief shared by all the contributors ...

Cicero may be best known as a politician, but he was also one of the few significant Roman writers of philosophy. This book presents a new and exci...

This is a major reassessment of the relation between the medieval French chansons de geste and the romance genre. Critics have traditionally seen ...

Surprising though it may seem, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary in English on Virgil's Eclogues. Written between about 42 and 35 B...