Literature

Peripatetic potpourri.Aristotle of Stagirus (384322 BC), the great Greek philosopher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at Athe...

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

Jane Eyre is a vivid and powerful novel, and tells the story of Jane, a cruelly abused orphan who is cast out by her aunt, and sent to a charity sc...

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

An antiquarians festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been priz...

Wolfgang Capito (14781541) was one of the most important figures of the Reformation, a leading churchman who turned from Catholic to Protestant. A ...

Professionalism is political. This book offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture, dedicated to Au...

Statius'' narrative of the fraternal strife of the Theban brothers Eteocles and Polynices has had a profound influence on Western literature and fa...

One of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Ar...

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849, has evolved into the world's most venerable and extensive series of editions of Greek and Latin l...

Rome's annual elections were central to the relationship between its citizenry and political leadership, and canvassing for office played no small ...

Compiled during the Song dynasty (9601279) at the behest of Emperor Taizong, the Taiping Guangji anthologized thousands of pages of unofficial hist...

The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fif...