Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical...

Ancient Romes original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary ...

Ancient Romes original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendar...

In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and ...

The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist...

In Beyond Reformation? An Essay on William Langlands Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity, David Aers presents a sustained and p...

Affections of the Mind argues that a politicized negotiation of issues of authority in the institution of marriage can be found in late medieval En...

This volume brings together Lee Pattersons essays published in various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in his preface, The ...

This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to...

The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their ...

Ancient scholarship had many faces, but most have faded away over time. Demetrios of Scepsis is one of the more shadowy of these lost figures, best...

Eusebius of Caesarea was one of the most significant and voluminous contributors to the development of late antique literary culture. Despite his s...

Homers Iliad and Odyssey are the only early Greek heroic epics to have survived the transition to writing, even though extant evidence indicates th...

Readers of Herodotuss Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams. But Herodotus draws our a...

Early Christian prose writers of the Latin West (2nd5th c. AD) have long been studied predominantly from theological and historical perspectives. H...

In Pindars Verbal Art, James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served ex...

This volume includes Carolyn Higbie, Divide and Edit: A Brief History of Book Divisions; Ho Kim, Aristotles Hamartia Reconsidered; Andrew Faulkner,...

In Masterpieces of Metonymy, Gregory Nagy analyzes metonymy as a mental process that complements metaphor. If metaphor is a substitution of somethi...