Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Greek 'literary' epigrams constitute one of the most versatile and dynamic poetic forms in the Hellenistic period....  Read More >>

Taking the corpus of Greek tragedies as base, the author develops a new philosophical theory of tragic experience...  Read More >>

What does writing Greek books mean at the height of the Cinquecento in Venice? Based on the reconstruction and investigation...  Read More >>

In the 12th and 13th centuries, contemporary courtly literature exalted court culture while also subjecting it to...  Read More >>

From the great commentary on the first historical books of the Old Testament (CPG 7430) by Procopius of Gaza (465/470-526/530),...  Read More >>

This book offers a new critical edition, with translation and commentary, of P. Oxy. XXXI 2537, a papyrus containing...  Read More >>

Im Zentrum des Sammelbandes steht das literarische und kulturelle Leben Basels vom 13. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert....  Read More >>

The final book from the late Alasdair Gray - the conclusion to his remarkable interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy....  Read More >>

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Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III, edited by Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska, explores both old and...  Read More >>

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Śivakōṭyācārya’s Vaḍḍārādhane (Veneration to the Elders) is the earliest extant prose work in Kannada language written...  Read More >>

Plato and Aristotle used moral philosophy to influence the way people actually live. Focusing on the Republic and...  Read More >>

From the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Gardini comes a personal and passionate look at the Latin language:...  Read More >>

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Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse, and Old English riddles, and medieval...  Read More >>

Of Gothic descent, Jordanes wrote a unique set of histories. The Getica narrates the history of the Goths from their...  Read More >>

Examines the creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas throughout the interconnected, global Middle Ages, and...  Read More >>

Este libro recoge estudios monográficos en homenaje al profesor...  Read More >>

The City of God, written in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, is the most influential of Augustine's...  Read More >>

This Element defends an interpretation of Plato's Ion on which its primary concern is with audience reception of...  Read More >>

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Makes accessible a wide range of important poetic texts from the third and second centuries BC. It provides help...  Read More >>