Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus's poetry is still amongst the most popular and widely read. But what ...

Epicharmos (ca. 530440 v. Chr.) war der erste bekannte griechische Komödiendichter. Sein Einfluss war jedoch nicht nur auf die Literatur beschränkt...

Der italienisch-sprachige Band enthält zehn Komödien (Krapataloi, Leroi, Metalles, Metoikoi, Myrmekanthropoi, Persai, Petale, Tyrannis, Cheiron, Ps...

Ich habe die Passion zum Studio der Griechen ( ... ) Es ist beständig mein Haupt-Studium geblieben und wird es bleiben, so lange ich lebe. ? So sch...

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original Renaissance man.Leon Battista Alberti (14041472) was among the most famous figures of t...

An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original Renaissance man.Leon Battista Alberti (14041472) was among the most famous figures of t...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and heroic strengt...

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspec...

PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in...

An account of the Scandinavian contributions to the field of Old English studies from the eighteenth century onwards. The discipline of Old Engli...

An account of the Scandinavian contributions to the field of Old English studies from the eighteenth century onwards. The discipline of Old Engli...

This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king,...

In ancient times, the first communities, societies and civilizations in the Iberian peninsula, according to archaeological evidence, began to devel...

First published in 1923, Feminism in Greek Literature explores the representation of women in ancient Greek literature. It provides an in-depth ana...

In this book Timothy Clarke examines Aristotle's response to Eleatic monism, the theory of Parmenides of Elea and his followers that reality is 'on...

Julius Caesar, ancient Rome's most colourful leader, has been a subject of controversy for more than two thousand years. In the classical world he ...

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gath...

The first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children in the period. The changeling - ...

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca develope...

One of the most well-known potential forgeries is SG-65 Kleines Schulerloch, which has provoked controversies and debates among scientists of vario...

Toward the end of the year A.D. 8, the emperor Augustus publicly sentenced the poet Ovid to exile in remote and barbaric Tomis on the Black Sea. Th...

First published in 1979, Texts and Contexts identifies those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive because of their intrinsic quali...

Neronian representations of magic, a practice prevalent in the everyday life of the period and a central topic in its literary production, are char...

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives...

Statius' Achilleid is the most extensive treatment of the myth of Achilles hiding disguised as a girl on the island of Scyros. In the Achilleid, th...

Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological...

The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homers Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the gen...

Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die für die Stoa grundlegende Oikeiosis-Lehre. Eine der wichtigsten Quellen für diese Theorie ist das dritte Buch von C...

Volume 2.3, containing the Greek translations of books II-IV, completes the edition of the Conica of Apollonius of Perga. It is arranged according ...