Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

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This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging...  Read More >>

This book uses close readings of the Greek texts to examine the lyrical voice of Sophocles' heroes and to argue...  Read More >>

This book is a critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire, specifically...  Read More >>

This 2004 guide gives a full account of the historical setting and significance of The Aeneid, and discusses Virgil's...  Read More >>

This is the fifth volume in the major six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad now being prepared under the general-...  Read More >>

Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann's study of Arthurian verse romance was first published in German in 1985, but her radical...  Read More >>

With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval...  Read More >>

Examines the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. The...  Read More >>

This is the fourth part of a six-volume commentary on Homer's Iliad . It takes full account of this century's discoveries...  Read More >>

This volume is a distinctive critical introduction to Homer's Iliad, the earliest epic poem, and the earliest known...  Read More >>

The business of politics offers us one of the most revealing areas of insight into any society. Sir Moses Finley's...  Read More >>

This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the...  Read More >>

This indispensable introduction to the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament provides a thorough grounding in...  Read More >>

This book offers a general introduction to the dazzling world of the troubadours. Its sixteen newly-commissioned...  Read More >>

This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of...  Read More >>

This project is the first large-scale commentary on The Iliad for nearly 100 years.  Read More >>

The first English language commentary on any book of the Fasti since Frazer's five volume edition and annotated...  Read More >>

This is the first ever full-scale commentary in English on Eunuchus (The Eunuch) by the Roman comic playwright Terence....  Read More >>

Professor Baily selects letters on Cicero as a man and writer and on his relationship with his contemporaries. He...  Read More >>

This book offers a concise introduction to Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan (c. 1210), one of the greatest works...  Read More >>

"Ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize life in the countryside through...  Read More >>

Plato's Alcibiades represents Socrates, the exemplary philosopher, trying to win for philosophy the youthful Alcibiades,...  Read More >>

This edition offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the civil...  Read More >>

Updated to accompany the second edition of Reading Greek, a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient...  Read More >>