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Telephus, son of Heracles and king of Mysia, was a key figure in the Trojan War. Both enemy and ally of the Achaeans, he......more

This volume is the first of four devoted to Atticism, a form of linguistic purism that sought to preserve the rules of t......more

This book offers a fresh look at Hesiod’s concept of a ’Golden Age’. It analyses the ways in which classical philosopher......more

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The Doloneia is the most controversial book of the Iliad, its authenticity having been doubted since antiquity. Modern s......more

In his Memos for the Next Millennium, the Italian writer Italo Calvino identified five literary qualities that should ac......more

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Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live explores works of comedy from the pas......more

Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years. This vibrant study offers a......more

One of the most famous voices to have survived from the Roman world, Catullus’s poetry is still amongst the most popular......more

This volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the i......more

This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer’s works for a new generation of st......more

In the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology - intending both the set of electronic tools for papyrologi......more

About 25 years have passed since the publication of the Supplementum Hellenisticum by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Peter J. Pars......more

With the exception of Paul Moraux’s Die Aristotelismus bei den Griechen (in German), the most recent books on the histor......more

This is a vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception, including chapters on au......more

"This is a vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception, including chapters on a......more

Through an examination of paratextuality in late antique literature, this collection of essays reconsiders the importanc......more

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Books I-II of Julius Caesar’s The Gallic War narrate the campaigns of Caesar’s first two years in Gaul (58-57 BCE). Thes......more

The seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus of Smyrna, whom C. M. Bowra called "the most accomplished and the most musi......more

Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focus......more

Readers of this book receive an overview of the main perspectives and research of recent decades in the fruitful collabo......more

Early Christian prose writers of the Latin West (2nd-5th c. AD) have long been studied predominantly from theological an......more

A timeless cornerstone of literary criticism, Aristotle: Poetics delves into the essence of what he termed ’poetry, ’ en......more

Statius’ Achilleid is the most extensive treatment of the myth of Achilles hiding disguised as a girl on the island of S......more

Origen was one of the great thinkers of the third-century Church and the most influential of the Greek Church Fathers. H......more

This volume explores how the study of antiquity can be made relevant and inclusive for a diverse range of 21st century s......more

The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twe......more

Heracles and Athenian Propagandaexamines how Greece’s most important hero was appropriated and portrayed by Athens in re......more

A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure in Gr......more

A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure in Gr......more

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The topic of a potential relationship between Babylonian and Greco-Roman medicine has been discussed for a long time, ye......more

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The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Cicero’s presence in the cultural history of Basel -......more

This collection of essays offers an image of Byron not only as a poet - for which he is best known - but as a translator......more

This gripping biography documents the life and reign of Hattusili, one of the most famous and well-documented Hittite ru......more

This gripping biography documents the life and reign of Hattusili, one of the most famous and well-documented Hittite ru......more

"Mythological figures, creatures, places and stories crowd Shakespeare’s plays and poems, featuring as allusions, poetic......more

A fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey--and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways ......more

An analysis of ancient Greek and Roman works alongside contemporary literature, exploring how these classics shape our u......more

This volume offers a critical exploration of the many ways in which transcodification acts at the intersection of litera......more

Social Studies of the sciences have long analyzed and exposed the constructed nature of knowledge. Pioneering studies of......more

The volume brings together contributions on 15th and 16th century translation throughout Europe (in particular Italy, Fr......more

This book investigates some aspects of the cultural consequences of the settlement of Greeks in Egypt during the Helleni......more

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In the ancient Mediterranean world, the sea was an essential domain for trade, cultural exchange, communication, explora......more

The four selected speeches were composed by a professional speechwriter, Isaeus, for litigants contesting inheritance cl......more

This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thi......more

The Dark Side of Statius’ Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius’ Achill......more

As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary......more

This volume of essays in honor of Lucia Athanassaki offers a great variety of chapters on a number of topics in Greek an......more

This book provides the first systematic interpretation of what Aristotle thinks occurrent emotions are and points to som......more

A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspir......more

Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past. What is the......more

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The State Archives of Assyria series was conceived in 1985 to make all texts from the royal archives of Nineveh availabl......more

The State Archives of Assyria series was conceived in 1985 to make all texts from the royal archives of Nineveh availabl......more

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The idea of the past, far from suggesting a nostalgic longing or an antiquarian curiosity for ages and cultures irrevoca......more

From 8th to 11th century, many Greek texts have been translated into Arabic. These testimonia are of great interest for ......more

This collective volume contains 27 original studies that address in a critical way the position of classical studies in ......more

Roman epic is traditionally understood to advance a masculine, martial form of heroism. In his version of the Argonaut l......more

Dire Remedies: a Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity is the first wide-ranging social history of ancient......more

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Yiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our ’post-truth’ tim......more

This book moves beyond the debate on ’wisdom literature’, ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of......more

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka’s engagement with the classical past. Nigerian author and activi......more

The moment I chose to write this book to outsource Odia literature, a part of my commitment as a historian impels me to ......more