Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

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

A reader for intermediate students of ancient Greek, introducing three of ancient Greece''s most important authors, Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles.

A captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day.

A history of melancholy and its significance in Western history and culture.

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

A collection of fourteen highly influential articles by Michael H.

A lively, accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the life and work of the fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

A history of melancholy and its significance in Western history and culture.

Explores how a cultural clash between traditional Pharaonic and latter-day Ptolemaic Egypt is used to mirror the Roman civil war.

New edition of and detailed commentary on perhaps Cicero''s best-loved speech, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

The first modern literary commentary on Pliny the Younger''s Epistles II, essential reading for students and scholars of Roman literature.

Commentary providing firm grounding in matters of language and text while addressing major literary, dramatic and historical questions.

The first detailed single-volume commentary in any language on the final book of Virgil''s epic masterpiece.

New edition of and detailed commentary on perhaps Cicero''s best-loved speech, suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

The first modern literary commentary on Pliny the Younger''s Epistles II, essential reading for students and scholars of Roman literature.

Commentary providing firm grounding in matters of language and text while addressing major literary, dramatic and historical questions.

A commentary for students on the four speeches delivered by Cicero during the crisis of 63 BC.

Leading scholars chart the complex, multifaceted cultural impact of the King James Bible over its 400 years.

A commentary for students on the four speeches delivered by Cicero during the crisis of 63 BC.

Leading scholars chart the complex, multifaceted cultural impact of the King James Bible over its 400 years.

An authoritative account of what manuscripts and their corrections reveal about medieval attitudes to books, language and literature.

A study of the ethical underpinning of the rhetoric of citizenship in Plato''s Laws and its implementation through ritualized forms of performance.

The first comprehensive volume on Libanius, this book provides an essential, innovative introduction to one of late antiquity''s key authors.

A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius'' account of why death does not matter.

The first commentary in English on the Agricola for almost half a century, with particular attention paid to the Latin itself.

A study of the ethical underpinning of the rhetoric of citizenship in Plato''s Laws and its implementation through ritualized forms of performance.

Re-evaluates Tacitus'' dialogue about the limits and possibilities of public speech in the Roman Principate.

A completely revised and considerably enlarged edition of this best-selling edition of Lucretius'' account of why death does not matter.

The first commentary in English on the Agricola for almost half a century, with particular attention paid to the Latin itself.

This, the fourth volume in the six-volume Commentary on The Iliad being prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G.

This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

This book considers how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in the world of the Greek citizen.

A general introduction for students to the world of troubadours: poets, poetry, music and culture.

This volume covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the ''Abbasid empire from the mid-eighth to the thirteenth centuries AD.

The History provides an invaluable source of reference of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world.

This volume covers artistic prose and poetry produced in the ''Abbasid empire from the mid-eighth to the thirteenth centuries AD.

In Vergiliana Egil Kraggerud collects together over 100 new, revised, and previously published discussions of textual issues in Vergil's Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid.

Chaucer at Work is a new kind of introduction to the Canterbury Tales.

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance.

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material.

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material.

First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with other forms of literature such as gothic novels, realism and science fiction.

This thematic introduction to classical Islamic philosophy focuses on the most prevalent philosophical debates of the medieval Islamic world and their importance within the history of philosophy.

This thematic introduction to classical Islamic philosophy focuses on the most prevalent philosophical debates of the medieval Islamic world and their importance within the history of philosophy.

First published in 1971, this work examines the tradition of the epic and the many forms in which it has presented itself over time.

First published in 1972, this work pursues the question 'what is comedy?

This work provides an introduction to some of the most important and representative genres of classical Korean literature.

Bronze and Iron: Old Latin Poetry from Its Beginnings to 100 B.

The first account of how Athens invented the notion of ''classical'' tragedy during the later fourth century BC.