Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Despite an unprecedented level of interest in the interaction between law and literature over the past two decades, readers have had no accessible ...

What would Pindar and Aeschylus have talked about had they met at some point during their overlapping poetic careers? How do we map the space share...

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide...

Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get...

The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir ...

As the greatest Roman orator of his time, Cicero delivered over one hundred speeches in the law courts, in the senate and before the people of Rome...

Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international ...

One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante's La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his ev...

Available as both a portable paperback volume and an enhanced digital edition, this complete collection of The Norton Chaucer: Canterbury Tales is ...

For the will desires not to be dark, and this very desire causes the darkness (Jacob Boehme). Moving through the fundamental question of this parad...

This selection of nineteen essays by Nigel Wilkins, in English and in French, is characterised by an inter-disciplinary approach crossing the borde...

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy provides a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception through more than twenty a...

The discovery and decryption of Ugaritic cuneiform tablets in the 1920s has given scholars an insight into the development of alphabetic writing an...

What awaits us beyond the grave is perhaps the fundamental human mystery. Visionary accounts of the afterlife are attested long before the Common E...

Responding to George Lakoffs and Mark Johnsons analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets use of concrete concepts drawn fr...

'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history' Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranea...