Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine.This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Librarys complete edition of Hippocrates...

For scholars of medieval literature, confession, with its language of sin and contrition, has often provided the basis for our understanding of med...

The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and ...

The essays in Living Dangerously, written by some of the leading scholars in the fields of history and literature, examine the lives of those who l...

Defining corruption is an incredibly difficult task. Being at the same time a concept identifying illegitimate and illegal behaviors, mostly conne...

Change is a matter of central concern and interest in the study of history, and it has been approached with various methodological and theoretical ...

Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Tro...

The relationship between medievalism and reception explored via a rich variety of case studies. At the intersection of the twin fields of medieva...

The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic persp...

Lucian is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging writers from antiquity and one of the most influential and controversial. His work is deeply em...

The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevocably lost, is essential to t...

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dantes Commedia provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dantes poem, stre...

The Early Printed Illustrations of Dantes Commedia provides the first systematic overview of the earliest illustrated editions of Dantes poem, stre...

Roman epic is traditionally understood to advance a masculine, martial form of heroism. In his version of the Argonaut legend, the Argonautica, how...

Meanings are realized at the point of reception and this volume intends to offer an in-depth discussion of some of the meanings associated with and...

This is the first Oxford Classical Text of the speeches of Antiphon and Andocides, two Athenian orators of the fifth century BCE. An influential st...

Maxims I and Maxims II, which comprise a seemingly haphazard assortment of Old English poetic gnomes (sayings put into verse to aid memory), are in...

This book offers the first critical edition with an English translation and commentary on some of the letters attributed to Alexander and transmitt...

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology offers a comprehensive survey of the entire study of ancient Egypt from prehistory through to the end of the Roma...

Essays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts. Michael G. Sargent's scholars...