Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Heracles and Athenian Propaganda examines how Greece's most important hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens...  Read More >>

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the...  Read More >>

A fresh account of the oldest and foundational genre of ancient Greek literature which demonstrates its sustained...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of ‘generic enrichment’ in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, examining...  Read More >>

A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure...  Read More >>

Through a carefully-chosen selection of medieval love letters, Myra Stokes and Ad Putter explore the blurred boundary...  Read More >>

A fresh account of the oldest and foundational genre of ancient Greek literature which demonstrates its sustained...  Read More >>

Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians,...  Read More >>

This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of “semi-volitional bodily...  Read More >>

Taking advantage of the broad applicability of notions of work and labor to human lives at every rung of Roman society,...  Read More >>

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A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure...  Read More >>

The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity being doubted since antiquity. But by...  Read More >>

Procopius of Caesarea was one of the last authors of classical antique historiography. His major volume on Justinian's...  Read More >>

The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus examines the influence of the Timaeus on the early disciplinary histories of cosmology,...  Read More >>

This book explores the theological significance of horror elements in the works of Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymns...  Read More >>

An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores...  Read More >>

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving...  Read More >>

An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores...  Read More >>

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What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine...  Read More >>

The Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500) are wellknown for the growth of universities and urban regulations, plague pandemics,...  Read More >>

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Un beau jour de décembre 875, le tisserand ʿUmar b. Mūsā, épousa Ḥalīma bint Nafīs devant d'illustres témoins de...  Read More >>