Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The Bodleian Library is one of the few libraries outside Germany with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. ...

For about one thousand years, the Distichs of Cato were the first Latin text of every student across Europe and latterly the New World. Chaucer, Ce...

Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly attention since the 192...

This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition...

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents the latest ...

The Greek commentary tradition devoted to explicating Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics (NE) was extensive. It began in antiquity with Aspasius and rea...

Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and te...

The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in m...

These volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace essential to...

The reception of ancient Cyprus in the Western world has not received much attention in scholarship, despite the fact that significant literary and...

The Ruthwell Cross is one of the finest Anglo-Saxon high crosses that have come down to us. The longest epigraphic text in the Old English Runes Co...

Theodore Metochites Aristotelian paraphrases (c. 1312), covering all 40 books of the Stagirites extant works on natural philosophy, constitute one ...

What did Danes and Swedes in the Middle Ages imagine and write about Jews and Judaism? This book draws on over 100 medieval Danish and Swedish manu...

Neoanalysis has established itself as one of the two leading schools of interpretation in Homeric studies (together with the theory of Oral Poetry)...

This papyrus (3rd century BC) contains c. 200 incipits (first lines) of Greek epigrams with a numeral at the end of each line that gives the number...

This third volume completes the text of this first edition of a major work by the translator and hagiographer Osbern Bokenham. Unknown before the d...

The Early English Text Society (EETS) was founded in 1864 by F. J. Furnivall, in part to supply lexicographical material for the Philological Socie...

This is the first book written by Chinese scholars with more accurate interpretation of Master Xuns philosophy and quoted texts from other Chinese ...

Great Deeds in Ireland is the first full translation of the controversial Latin history of Ireland by the famous Dublin intellectual, Richard Stani...

From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's FablesAesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stori...

Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vlsi, via the concept of the paganesque. A family of Nor...

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what everybody knows about the relation...