Ancient, classical and medieval texts

The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance.

A reader for intermediate students of ancient Greek, introducing three of ancient Greece''s most important authors, Euripides, Thucydides and Plato.

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies.

First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero's life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field.

George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language.

Biological literature of the Roman imperial period remains somehow 'underestimated'.

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription for examinations in 2026 28 of Cicero's pro Roscio Amerino 5 (forsitan quaeratis ) 29 ( iugulandum vobis tradiderunt), and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription for examinations in 2027 28 of 29 (quid primum ) 32 (iuguletis aut condemnetis) and 37 (occidisse patrem ) 57 ( accusare possitis), giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level.

Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies.

‚Die literarische Form ist der wahre Inhalt der Platonischen Dialoge.

This is the first book-length examination of the notion of gendered politics in Sophocles' Trachiniae.

This volume focuses on teaching Classics in carceral contexts in the US and offers an overview of the range of incarcerated adults, their circumstances, and the ways in which they are approaching and reinterpreting Greek and Roman texts.

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Philippic II sections 44 50 ( viri tui similis esses) and 78 (C.

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

A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history.

Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages.

Focusing on the works of bishop Gregory of Tours (539-594) and the poet-hagiographer Venantius Fortunatus (540-c.

Herrschaft wird im ›Prosalancelot‹ in vielfältiger Weise und an ganz unterschiedlichen Figuren diskutiert.

Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and Vergil.

From the epic adventures of gods and heroes to tales of the world's beginning, this illustrated collection of myths and legends from Greece and Rome is a captivating exploration of the tales that shaped the ancient world.

Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in mythological narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world.

In The History of the Destruction of Troy, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War, while challenging the accounts of two of the ancient world's most canonical poets, Homer and Virgil.

Bringing together the study of the Greek classics and Indology, Arjuna-Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahabharata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod.

The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and secular poetry by Magnus Felix Ennodius (c.

Die Arbeit untersucht die Konzepte von Reinigung und Reinheit in der Kaiserzeit und in der Spätantike anhand des Werks des Arztes Galen von Pergamon, der Texte der neuplatonischen Philosophen Plotin, Porphyrios und Jamblich und der Schriften der christlichen Theologen Nemesios von Emesa und Gregor von Nyssa.

The Poetry of Ennodius offers the first translation into English verse of the entire eclectic corpus of sacred and secular poetry by Magnus Felix Ennodius (c.

Shows how Greek declamation''s staging of the Classical past was of vital importance for the Greek imperial present.

Die Figur des Herrschers in der mittelalterlichen Exempelliteratur des Okzidents steht im Hinblick auf Exemplarität und Transkulturalität im Zentrum der hispanistischen und germanistischen Studien dieses Bandes.

The contributions collected in this volume deal with the relation between Comedy and Music, in the Greek sense of "art of the Muses".

The book provides a global perspective of local government response towards the COVID-19 pandemic through the analysis of a sample of countries in all continents.

Within this fascinating volume the author explores the history of the Sumerians in light of contemporary archaeological discoveries at Indus Valley.

First published in 1968, Virgil's Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation.

Diese kritische Edition von Epiktets Encheiridion ist die erste, die auf einer vollständigen Wertung der gesamten Überlieferung basiert.

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Pro Cluentio, sections 1 7 and 10 11, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 27 32 and 35 37, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed poems to be read in English for A Level.

This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes.

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Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae holds a prominent position in modern studies of the emperor Julian as the fullest extant narrative of the reign of the last 'pagan' emperor.