Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

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...

During the late 12th century, the Arthurian legends first took their form in the imagination of French-speaking romancers. Foremost among these ...

The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks am...

The Platonic ideal of government.Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks amon...

During the Roman transition from Republic to Empire in the first century B.C.E., the poet Horace found his own public success in the era of Emperor...

Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval ...

This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centurie...

Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships bet...

These essays by senior scholars in medieval studies celebrate the career of J.J. Anderson, editor, critic, and co-founder of the Manchester Medieva...

The politics of Middle English parables examines the dynamic intersection of fiction, theology and social practice in late-medieval England. Parabl...

Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin ...

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

The Broadview Canterbury Tales is an edition of the complete tales in a text based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript. Here one may read a Middle E...