Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

The facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English lit...

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern da...

A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language ...

This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about ...

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Akiva the Holy of Holies among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of S...

This collective volume contains 27 original studies that address in a critical way the position of classical studies in the twenty-first century an...

This is the first new critical edition of this text since 1908, and the first to appear in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The edition is inform...

Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the fir...

An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the...

Cicero's Brutus is a history of Roman oratory, in the form of a dialogue between Cicero, Atticus, and the eponymous Brutus. This new edition by Dou...

The interdisciplinary papers in this volume focus on the translation of texts in its broadest meaning. The contributors represent Latin, Slavic, En...

Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybrid...

Demosthenes oration On the Chersonese is a masterpiece of rhetorical brilliance and contains some of the best examples of his skill as a political ...

Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction introduces and analyses the reception of classical antiquity in contemporary science fiction. By ...