Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

This epic French poem was most likely written in the fourteenth century. The edition contains an introduction examining the plot, structure, langua...

Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing s...

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in t...

Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the hi...

Kalila and Dimna or The Panchatantra (also known in Europe since 1483 as The Fables of Bidpai) is a multi-layered, inter-connected and variable arr...

This volume contains twenty-five contributions adapted from papers presented at the International Conference on Poetic Language and Religion in Gre...