In 1536, only fifteen years after the fall of the Aztec empire, Franciscan missionaries began teaching Latin, classical ......more

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (......more

Neronian representations of magic, a practice prevalent in the everyday life of the period and a central topic in its li......more

This book uses Ezra Pound’s The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism’s ambition to revolutionize literature through ......more

’Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had,......more

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Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th centur......more

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in or......more

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception......more

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has dazzled and challenged audiences with its unique aesthetic design and startling plot devi......more

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans’ 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the ......more

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans’ 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the ......more

The first full in-depth analysis and interpretation of Plutarch’s Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata in its entirety as ......more

The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The fate o......more

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus ......more

A marginalized but persistent figure of Greek tragedy, Niobe, whose many children were killed by Apollo and Artemis, emb......more

Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, the eleven papers presented here for the firs......more

Though stylistics undoubtedly plays a crucial role in the scholarship on Latin poetry - from commentaries to textual cri......more

The Old English literary works traditionally associated with King Alfred are furnished with an array of prologues, epilo......more

Augustan love elegy represents one of the most important and most distinctive Roman contributions to European and world ......more

Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern liter......more

How did Mnesarete, a girl from Boeotia, turn into Phryne the famous beauty, and how did she end up as an enduring symbol......more

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The fifteenth-century chronicler, topographer, and antiquary, William Worcester, composed his political treatise, The Bo......more

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This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revi......more

The second century BCE was a time of prolonged debate at Rome about the changing nature of warfare. From the outbreak of......more

The contributions of this volume discuss the interfaces between memory and emotions in ancient literature, social life, ......more

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetor......more

Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersecti......more

This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English......more

William Langland’s Piers Plowman was written and read during a "golden age" of English preaching. The poem describes a w......more

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of C......more

Livy’s 142-volume history of Rome is one of the high points of ancient historical writing; but three-quarters of that hi......more

Imperial Rome privileged the elite male citizen as one of sound mind and body, superior in all ways to women, noncitizen......more

How can untranslatability help us to think about the historical as well as the cultural and linguistic dimensions of tra......more

The heroes of early narrative are the faces of an older world. In constant retellings, their stories hold the memory lik......more

Constructing Communities in Vergil’s Aeneid: Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology presents a new examination of memor......more

Roman merchants, artisans, and service providers faced substantial prejudice. Contemporary authors labeled them greedy, ......more

Terminologies present various challenges to their inventors and to their users, ranging from epistemic adequacy over lin......more

The volume offers an up-to-date and nuanced study of a multi-thematic topic, expressions of which can be found abundantl......more

This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and t......more

This volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world opera......more

The Voices of the Consul is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of "On the Agrarian Law" I and II, the first two......more

The late-eighteenth century witnessed multiple Medeas take to the stages of Europe, in the Americas, and across the Russ......more

Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to so......more

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Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Am......more

Textual practices in pre-modern societies cover a great range of representations, from the literary to the pictorial. Am......more

Latin Linguistics is intended as an overview of the main areas of linguistics geared specifically to the scholar of Lati......more

How were Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations read in Antiquity? What were the perceived intentions, messages and problem......more

The volume aims at complementing the international literature on the interaction between Cicero and Greece. It offers ne......more

Machiavelli on War offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopher-historian’s treatment of war throughout his ......more

This book offers a comprehensive review and reassessment of the classical sources describing the cryptographic Spartan d......more

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this open-access volume presents an up-to-date discussi......more

This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, p......more

In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the lo......more

"A brilliant study of the Hebrew prophets, one of the most penetrating works . . . [of] our time."-- Will Herberg From t......more

Thirty years ago Robert Kaster’s Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity investigated ancien......more

This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E......more

Despite the relevance of astrology in Graeco-Roman mentality, our information about the early period of Hellenistic astr......more

This book introduces a novel approach to the analysis and practice of persuasive speaking and writing: heuristic rhetori......more

As the second volume of a two-volume set on Chinese narratology, this title investigates the perspective, image, and com......more

As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese narratology, this title introduces the cultural fundamentals that nur......more

This volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature. Despite ......more

Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, t......more

Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, t......more

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural qual......more

The age of miracles was not yet past on the Shakespearean stage. In the first book-length study of the English saint pla......more

Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What a......more

This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time. Considers th......more

Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions raise......more

This book demonstrates the ways in which Virgil’s are poems that Heaney ’lived with long and dreamily’, especially the d......more