Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Chicago's renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume....  Read More >>

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

This book explores Middle-Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy in Europe and the Middle East from the turn of the...  Read More >>

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception....  Read More >>

Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, the eleven papers presented here for...  Read More >>

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility...  Read More >>

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Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini's The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic...  Read More >>

Published in 1992, Teodolinda Barolini's The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante was a clarion call for a paradigmatic...  Read More >>

In the shadow of medieval cathedrals, a revolutionary intellectual movement was taking shape that would transform...  Read More >>

In this timely contribution to debates over the relationship of politics to storytelling, Lee Manion uncovers the...  Read More >>

An updated stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Oedipus the King taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the...  Read More >>

This book is born out of a desire to seek truth and clarity and to address with scholarly rigor and heartfelt reflection...  Read More >>

With a keen eye on the myths of Oedipus and the Fall, Rudyntsky offers original readings of canonical works in the...  Read More >>

This edition presents the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer to a new generation of students and scholars. It provides...  Read More >>

The magical world of Welsh mythology deserves to be better known outside its homeland, with its cast of heroes and...  Read More >>

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to...  Read More >>

This volume offers an investigation of Martial's engagement with Roman epigraphic habits and proposes a new interpretation...  Read More >>

With a keen eye on the myths of Oedipus and the Fall, Rudyntsky offers original readings of canonical works in the...  Read More >>

This volume is the first extended investigation of the classicism of José Rizal (1861-1896), the de facto national...  Read More >>

Dragons have roamed human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. A dragon is the embodiment of death...  Read More >>

""A collection of essays that illuminate and connect the shared concerns and conversation of philosophers, historians,...  Read More >>

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism...  Read More >>

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism...  Read More >>

The definitive English edition of the ""Father of Medicine."" This is the third volume in the Loeb Classical Library's...  Read More >>