...more

...more

...more

...more

Taking at its centre Lucan’s violent and subversive military epic on the Roman Civil War, this volume responds to an eme......more

...more

This Routledge Critical Thinker is an introduction to the literary thought of three major classical thinkers: Plato, Ari......more

Metafiction, the practice in fictional texts of displaying an awareness of their fictional status, highlighting it, or e......more

This volume brings together scholars of Roman history, archaeology, history of political thought, Italian literature, an......more

...more

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an e......more

Recent decades have seen a flourishing of interest in Hellenistic epigram (short poems usually in elegiac couplets), an ......more

This volume starts from a reconsideration of the idea that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on the prof......more

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of t......more

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. ......more

The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of ad......more

This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, O......more

...more

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabo’s life, times and cultural context. It outlines the imp......more

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabo’s life, times and cultural context. It outlines the imp......more

Focusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examin......more

...more

An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heav......more

This book focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian writer of the Greek language in the second century CE, and his engagem......more

...more

Books I-II of Julius Caesar’s The Gallic War narrate the campaigns of Caesar’s first two years in Gaul (58-57 BCE). Thes......more

The seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus of Smyrna, whom C. M. Bowra called "the most accomplished and the most musi......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

Throughout his career, Derek Walcott turned to the literature and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. His book-length p......more

Book ten of the Man’yōshū (’Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-......more

Gender was not theorised as such in Greco-Roman culture. Nonetheless, the concept of gender was never static or stable o......more

About 25 years have passed since the publication of the Supplementum Hellenisticum by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Peter J. Pars......more

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in Eng......more

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in Eng......more

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in Eng......more

With this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in Eng......more

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes ......more

This is a vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception, including chapters on au......more

This is a vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception, including chapters on au......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the greates......more

Translating Europe in lfric’s ’Lives of Saints’ is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, an......more

Origen was one of the great thinkers of the third-century Church and the most influential of the Greek Church Fathers. H......more

The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twe......more

Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how Greece’s most important hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in r......more

This collection of essays offers an image of Byron not only as a poet - for which he is best known - but as a translator......more

Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction introduces and analyses the reception of classical antiquity in contem......more

In the ancient Mediterranean world, the sea was an essential domain for trade, cultural exchange, communication, explora......more

A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure in Gr......more

A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure in Gr......more

...more

Meanings are realized at the point of reception and this volume intends to offer an in-depth discussion of some of the m......more

The book originates from the papers discussed in three conferences, held in Cassino and Florence. It aims to investigate......more

The present volume collects contributions given at the First Postclassical Greek Conference Cologne (March 24-26, 2021),......more

The Greek Poetry of Summons and Invitation assembles and studies for the first time the numerous poetic invitations and ......more

Desperate Remedies: a Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity is the first wide-ranging social history of an......more

In the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology - intending both the set of electronic tools for papyrologi......more

The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Cicero’s presence in the cultural history of Basel -......more

The debate that has arisen around the concept of the Anthropocene forms the basis of this book. It investigates certain ......more

A fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey--and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways ......more

Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the greates......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thi......more

Ovid’s Fasti is a journey through ancient Rome, using the calendar as a guide. The reader of this poem tours the monumen......more

The Dark Side of Statius’ Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius’ Achill......more

This book provides the first systematic interpretation of what Aristotle thinks occurrent emotions are and points to som......more

A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspir......more

This volume contains the collected papers of Albert Henrichs on the subject of Greek literature and textual studies. Org......more

The examination of Lucretian reception in Latin poetry has been served well by scholars. Lucretius’ presence in later pr......more

The fall of a city is not just an incisive event with often catastrophic, long-term, and wide-ranging consequences, but ......more

From 8th to 11th century, many Greek texts have been translated into Arabic. These testimonia are of great interest for ......more

The Islamic astronomical tradition greatly benefited from the many works produced in different ancient cultures, as well......more

...more

Turn to this authoritative international resource for complete critical coverage of the careers and works of the greates......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more