This volume includes: Andrew Merritt, "ἔρυμαι and ἐρύκω"; Georgios Kostopoulos, "Vowel Lengthening in Attic Primary Comp......more

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Geoffrey of Monmouth’s immensely popular Latin prose Historia regum Britanniae (c. 1138), followed by French verse trans......more

The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics--tools......more

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton’s sublimity has ......more

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Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique in......more

In what questions are scholars of Horace currently interested? What opportunities does this core Roman author offer twen......more

The volume consists of six papers that propose new approaches to the study of fragmentary Hesiodic epic. They explore in......more

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The third and final book of Ovid’s love elegies is a complex farewell to the genre. It begins, programmatically, with Ov......more

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

This volume forms the second part of the three-volume commentary on the fragments of Diphilus, who belongs to the promin......more

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

Julius Rocca here presents the key medical writers of antiquity. As well as supplying biographical details, Reading Anci......more

This volume includes editions of fifty-eight papyri and one text on parchment. Among the theological texts, three are of......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

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

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

Commentaries on classical authors are more and more becoming a privileged field of study for the specialists in the rece......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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

First published in 1968, Virgil’s Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or ......more

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An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid’s ......more

The Iliad reveals a traditional oral poetic style, but many researchers believe that the poem cannot be treated as solel......more

In this book, Katie Reid argues that the fifth-century author Martianus Capella was a significant influence in the late ......more

Cunning, monstrous, virtuous - women are at the heart of western mythology as both goddesses and mortals. The allure of ......more

Built in the 6th century at the order of Emperor Justinian, the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai desert preserv......more

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For this inquiry into sacred kinship, the author has taken for his text the verse from Genesis 2: "And the Lord God form......more

Each of the suitors in the Odyssey is eager to become the king of Ithaca by marrying Penelope and disqualifying Telemach......more

In this book, Erik Waaler discusses how Matthew uses the Old Testament in Matthew 1-4 to describe Jesus as the Christ. H......more

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The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife - the ......more

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Trends in Classics, a series and journal edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, publishes innovative, interdi......more

The late first- and early second-century Roman senator and historian Cornelius Tacitus, whom Edward Gibbon described as ......more

This volume presents a survey of the reception of Greek myths - including Antigone, Medea, the Trojan cycle, and Alcesti......more

The lifetime of Augustus (63 BCE -14 CE) was a key moment of transition for the Roman world. Following decades of civil ......more

This interdisciplinary volume sheds light on the fascination with origins from different perspectives. The international......more

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A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant ’culture of handwriting’ to a predominant ’cultu......more

Ptolemy I, whose epithet was Savior, was in many respects the most successful of all of Alexander the Great’s successors......more

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Irreducible to conventional labels usually applied to him, the Tang poet Du Fu (712-770) both defined and was defined by......more

A unique look at a powerful marriage in the celebrated age of Justinian Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman......more

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

TEMA 1 Leon Battista Alberti Lorenz Böninger, Lo studente Leon Battista Alberti e la sua investitura a priore di San Mar......more

First published in 1926, Primitive Culture in Italy intends to determine to what extent there survived, in the ancient c......more

First published in 1925, Primitive Culture in Greece dispassionately reviews the claim that the Greeks were ’heathen’ an......more

First published in 1959, Outlines of Classical Literature is a guide for students of English literature who too often co......more

"What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? How can Greek tragedy address urgent contempora......more

This book is a fully-fledged commentary on the fragments of the Greek comic poets Nausicrates and Nicostratus. By recons......more

Two sophists on the history of sophistry. Flavius Philostratus, known as "the Elder" or "the Athenian," was born to a di......more

Ancient Rome’s original archconservative. M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roma......more

Plutarch (born before AD 50, died after AD 120) is the ancient author who has arguably contributed more than any other t......more