Literature

Antiquitys most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor M...

Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome h...

Antiquitys most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Mar...

Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate...

Poems of love and battle by Arabias legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent ...

Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle's ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appea...

The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.THE ODYSSEY, which tells of Odysseus's long voyage home after the battle o...

This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound. The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult ...

During a period of over five years of work in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the author has examined the majority of its Arabic manuscripts in...