Literary studies: classical, early & medieval books

Volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine”...  Read More >>

Charts the understudied topic of women's friendship in medieval literature across a range of texts and historical...  Read More >>

This book investigates the concept of the Northern Middle English dialect area as largely homogenous, taking its...  Read More >>

This book addresses the much-neglected topic of fictional character and its relationship to actual human identity....  Read More >>

Thunder and Lament is the first book-length study of Lucan's engagement with the Homeric poems and the works of...  Read More >>

This volume analyses the rhetorical thought of Eustathios of Thessalonike in his monumental Commentary on the Iliad....  Read More >>

This book addresses the much-neglected topic of fictional character and its relationship to actual human identity....  Read More >>

Smaro Nikolaidou-Arampatzi analyzes the direct and indirect evidence of Euripides’ fragmentary play, the Ino, and...  Read More >>

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Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings....  Read More >>

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This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of...  Read More >>

The Dresden manuscript Ob.47 is an unknown mid-fifteenth-century vernacular translation of the life of Alexander...  Read More >>

Mirjam Geissbühler studierte Germanistik und Geschichte an der Universität Bern und absolvierte im Anschluss die...  Read More >>

The leitmotif of this volume is the concept of 'author images', which is used in modern literary studies to describe...  Read More >>

This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic...  Read More >>

This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes...  Read More >>

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their...  Read More >>

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The Hilyat al-kurama', literally ""The Ornament of the Magnanimous"", was compiled in Cairo and Medina in the ninth/fifteenth...  Read More >>

This book is a study of ghostly matters - of the soul - in literature spanning the tenth century and the age of...  Read More >>

Adopts and promotes a bilingual focus on the Greek and Latin poetry of late antiquity. Sheds light on the literary...  Read More >>

An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the opening book of Homer's Iliad. Provides...  Read More >>

This study in reception develops close readings of English literature as means of interrogating Virgil’s texts....  Read More >>

Through both textual and iconographic sources, this book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and...  Read More >>