Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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...

Scribes of Space posits that the conception of spacethe everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we moveunderwent critical transformat...

The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, mar...

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin l...

Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long? And why did five major film treatments appear betw...

The world's oldest work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of the semimythical Sumerian king of Uruk and his ultimately f...

This new edition of Anthology of Classical Myth offers selections from key Near Eastern textsthe Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Epic of Creation (En...

The Siege of Jerusalem (c. 1370-90 CE) is a difficult text. By twenty-first-century standards, it is gruesomely violent and offensive. It tells the...

In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripidess revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversi...