Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Itali...

This second collection of papers by Peter Edbury focuses primarily on the literature either composed in the Latin East or closely associated with i...

Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae, the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gre...

Lange als rein rezipierende und damit zu vernachlässigende Vertreter der antiken Philosophie angesehen, werden die philosophischen Werke von Römern...

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature ...

The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its ...

The final instalment of this substantial work of scholarship on Ovid.

The past generation has been an extraordinarily active one in medieval drama scholarship; our appreciation of the range of medieval drama has been ...

Heroic Ka is a portrait of a pre-Hindu and pre-classical figure of a superhuman hero who in time became the divinity Krsna, an incarnation of Visnu...

R.M. Liuzza''s translation of Beowulf, first published by Broadview in 1999, has been widely praised for its accuracy and beauty. The translation i...

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduc...

Benjamin Patrick Newton's translation of Ciceros On Duties is the most complete edition of a text that has been considered a source of moral author...

Morkinskinna (rotten parchment), the first full-length chronicle of the kings of medieval Norway (1030-1157), forms the basis of the Icelandic chro...