Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry, first published almost 25 years ago, offered students accurate and poetic translations of poems from the sudden flowering of lyric and elegy in Rome at the end of the Republic and in the first decades of the Augustan principate.

It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her.

Timeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome's greatest oratorAll of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision.

Why did Greek tragedy and "e;the tragic"e; come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity?

The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated.

Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world.

This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses.

Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles.

Traditionen leben von der Dialektik der Wiederholung, die das Gleiche stets anders inszeniert.

Unter Aufgabe der strikten Entgegensetzung von 'Personalität' und 'Transpersonalität' von Herrschaft und des Postulats einer vorwiegend personal geprägten vormodernen Herrschaft zeigen die hier vereinten Beiträge an zahlreichen Fallbeispielen aus Asien, Ägypten und Europa das Neben- und Miteinander personaler und transpersonaler Aspekte auf.