The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The fate o......more

This volume offers the first comprehensive literary and philological commentary on the Lydia, in any language. At its co......more

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus ......more

A marginalized but persistent figure of Greek tragedy, Niobe, whose many children were killed by Apollo and Artemis, emb......more

Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d’Hadrien, her recreation of the life of the......more

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

This authoritative new edition of the ancient scholia to Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus is the first to rely on a complete ......more

Though stylistics undoubtedly plays a crucial role in the scholarship on Latin poetry - from commentaries to textual cri......more

The Old English literary works traditionally associated with King Alfred are furnished with an array of prologues, epilo......more

Augustan love elegy represents one of the most important and most distinctive Roman contributions to European and world ......more

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Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern liter......more

How did Mnesarete, a girl from Boeotia, turn into Phryne the famous beauty, and how did she end up as an enduring symbol......more

Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the d......more

The fifteenth-century chronicler, topographer, and antiquary, William Worcester, composed his political treatise, The Bo......more

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading s......more

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This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revi......more

The third and final book of Ovid’s love elegies is a complex farewell to the genre. It begins, programmatically, with Ov......more

This book analyses Julian the Apostate from the perspectives of Byzantine Culture....more

The contributions of this volume discuss the interfaces between memory and emotions in ancient literature, social life, ......more

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetor......more

Offering for the first time a student introduction to Aristophanes’ most explosive political satire, this volume is an e......more

Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersecti......more

This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English......more

This volume forms the second part of the three-volume commentary on the fragments of Diphilus, who belongs to the promin......more

William Langland’s Piers Plowman was written and read during a "golden age" of English preaching. The poem describes a w......more

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Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of C......more

Classical and Medieval Literature CriticismM assembles and contextualizes critical responses to the works of writers of ......more

The term "radical formalism" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formal......more

Imperial Rome privileged the elite male citizen as one of sound mind and body, superior in all ways to women, noncitizen......more