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

Julian, the last pagan emperor of the Roman empire, died in war in 363. In the Byzantine (that is, the Eastern Roman) em......more

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

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

"In this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chap......more

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

In this monograph, the author embarks on a captivating journey to shed fresh light on the togata, a mid-Republican theat......more

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

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

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

The term "radical formalism" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formal......more

Localism in Hellenistic Greece explores, in exemplary fashion, how ancient societies positioned themselves in a swiftly ......more

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

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

On a bitter evening in the depths of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives to the remote English village of Iping, his f......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

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

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

"The world is a finite body, and therefore has finite power." John Philoponus is remembered for using this Aristotelian ......more

The Book of Jonah cannot be reduced to traces of ink on ancient parchment. It is something more than a series of words i......more

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

Trends in Classics - Pathways of Reception publishes innovative, crossdisciplinary work in the field of Classical Recept......more

"This is a useful collection of 130 passages from Greek authors, ideal for students from pre-GCSE to A Level. Part 1 con......more

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

This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient worl......more

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

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

The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought a......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 Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin’s innovative studie......more

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

Throughout Egyptian history, high-ranking Egyptian priests were the scholars responsible for the creation of the very ma......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

Roman imperial epic is enjoying a moment in the sun in the twenty-first century, as Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, an......more

The definitive English edition of the "Father of Medicine." This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Library’s co......more

A Platonic evangelist’s lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second cen......more

Aëtius’ Placita (ca. AD 100) is a reconstructed compendium summarizing the principal doctrines and opinions of the Greek......more

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

43 BCE, the year after the assassination of Julius Caesar. While the Roman republic had seen many conflicts, it was this......more

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

A major new interpretation of Vergil’s epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric hero Thi......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

Theodore Metochites (1270-1328) is one of the most important writers, thinkers, and statemen of the Byzantine Empire. Me......more

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

The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman lite......more

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

This is the first book-length examination of the notion of gendered politics in Sophocles’ Trachiniae. Making use of fem......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

Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond draws attention to Punchdrunk’s use of a......more

This volumes examines the place of classical rhetoric in Augustine’s theology. Rather than seeing rhetoric as a matter o......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 greate......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

Latin love elegy’s flourishing concurrent with Rome’s transition from Republic to Principate has remained an issue centr......more

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

This volume explores concepts of fiction in late antique hagiographical narrative in different cultural and literary tra......more

This study investigates the role of embedded narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica, an epic from the late first century ......more

An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text. Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steve......more

Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthe......more

Volume I of Franco Montanari’s "Kleine Schriften" comprises some 66 papers on ancient scholarship, a topic which he deci......more

This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid’s diverse œuvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded ......more

A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representation......more

The Guodian corpus is a cache of literary and philosophical texts discovered in a Warring States-period tomb in Hubei Pr......more