Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

This anthology of articles on the Roman novels of Petronius and Apuleius makes available some of the most useful and important articles published i...

This book aims to make the `Republic' accessible and intelligible to those coming to it for the first time, or with little or no philosophical back...

Yun Lee Too offers a sustained reading of the social function of the body of texts we identify as 'ancient literary criticism' with major implicati...

This book combines the exploration of the`ethics' of the Iliad with its poetic and narrative techniques, which extend all the way from touches of p...

This book combines one of the most famous names in Latin literature, the Roman poet Horace, with the crème de la crème of contemporary internationa...

The Roman de la Rose was a major bestseller - largely due to its robust treatment of 'natural' sexuality. This study concentrates on the ways in wh...

Twenty-nine of the finest modern essays on Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in a selection made accessible to both professional scholar and stud...

In this landmark study of Aristotle's Politics Fred Miller argues that nature, justice, and rights are central to Aristotle's political thought. Mi...

This book sheds light on the complexity of medieval German literary culture as it evolved in the course of the thirteenth century (c. 1220-1290) by...

Books VI-X of Livy's history of Rome describe the beginnings of Rome's conquest of Italy in the fourth century BC and contain some of Livy's finest...

This book is about the ways in which rhyme in French verse produces shapes or interferes with meaning - a topic which, despite its centrality, has ...

Aristotle's treatise De Interpretatione is one of his central works; it continues to be the focus of much attention and debate. C. W. A. Whitaker ...

This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of 'New Comedy', the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the...

This is the first volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historia...

How could a poet who worked in an oral tradition maintain the momentum of his song? How could a poet such as Homer weave a tale which filled an eve...

A major edition of Aeschylus' play, the Septem Contra Thebas or Seven Against Thebes, providing a significantly new text, introduction, and full sc...

Brickhouse and Smith argue, contrary to virtually every modern interpretation of Plato's Apology of Socrates, that Plato's Socrates offers a sincer...

Donald Russell, Emeritus Professor of Classical Literature at Oxford University, has been a leading figure in several fields of classical scholarsh...

The foundation of this book is a line-by-line analysis of enjambement, or the syntactical relationship between successive verses, in the Iliad. Suc...

An Historical Commentary on Thucydides Volume 1. Introduction, and Commentary on Book I

This book studies Virgil's ideas of nature, history, sense of nation, and sense of identity. It is exact and patient in its probing for nuance and ...

This book opens up a neglected chapter in the reception of Athenian drama, especially comedy; and it gives stage-centre to a particularly attractiv...

This important new verse translation of the extant works and major fragments of Callimachus includes a full Introduction, covering the poet's life ...

Aeneid Book 2

This collection of essays, written over a period of almost thirty years, deals with one problem: who is the `I' in the odes of the most celebrated ...

This book translates into English ten influential articles and extracts from books about Homer written in German over the past fifty years. The wor...

This book provides the foremost critical edition of the Greek lyric poets: Alcman, Stesichorus, Ibycus, Anacreon, Simonides and Corinna, and other ...

The inscriptions that accompany the painted scenes on non-Attic Greek vases are an extremely important source for knowledge of ancient Greek, in pa...

Sallust (86-35 BC) was a historian of major importance, writing at the time of the late Roman Republic. This is the first ever full-length commenta...

An Historical Commentary on Thucydides Volume 4. Books V(25)-VII

A new translation of Aristotle's classic work on the natural sciences.

This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows how one traditionally esteemed author, the Roman poet Virgil, played an une...

This is the first of a four-volume edition of Greek lyric fragments which takes account of recent papyrus finds and new editions of those works in ...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is an annual publication which includes original articles, which may be of substantial length, on a wide range...

This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking,...

New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on medieval textural cultures. It will provide a regular venue for innovative essays that deploy d...

The Historia Novella is a key source for the succession dispute between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda which brought England to civil war in ...

Tacitus, writing early in the second century AD, is acknowledged to be ancient Rome's greatest historian; his Annals, describing the emperors from ...

AlthoughThe Decameron and The Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular collections of me...

This book examines the theories and arguments put forward by Plato in his `Phaedo', in which he attempts to show that the soul is immortal. Chiefly...

Books V and VI of Aristotle's Politics constitute a manual on practical politics. In the fifth book Aristotle examines the causes of faction and co...

Books V and VI of Aristotle's Politics constitute a manual on practical politics. In the fifth book Aristotle examines the causes of faction and co...

This book offers a novel and unconventional approach to Roman culture, through food - or rather, food as it is represented in literature. Food ...

Claudian is often called the last poet of the classical tradition. This is the first ever English edition of his last extant work, with a full intr...

England the Nation is the first book to pay detailed attention to the earlier fourteenth century in England as a literary period in its own right. ...

This book is intended for scholars and students of medieval European history and literature, particularly in England and France in the fourteenth c...

Shakespeare's Romans are intensely concerned with being `constant'. But, as Geoffrey Miles shows, that virtue is far more ambiguous than is often r...