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Like Emily Wilson’s celebrated translations of Homer, this new Aeneid--the first collaborative translation of the poem i......more

Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900,......more

For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here w......more

Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Paradiso completes her groundbreaking new version of Dante’s masterpiece, begun with Infer......more

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If a Mountain Lion Could Sing stands as the first major English translation of poems written by China’s greatest lyric p......more

An elegant medieval guide to verse composition and rhetoric, presented in a new authoritative edition and English transl......more

The Iliad presents superhuman heroes and superhuman rage, brutal death, unbounded sorrow, the craving for revenge, the s......more

Are you curious about the contributions of the Islamic intellectual heritage to the field of psychology? Psychological T......more

Kerstin Hensel is one of the most prolific, versatile and influential authors in contemporary Germany. Her unique litera......more

A book-length poem that experiments with hybrid forms, bringing together elegy and prosaic meditation. Interweaving dist......more

A tragic epic love story before Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-ver......more

A profoundly playful poem in three parts, developed from an art installation, that considers the echo as a social and hi......more

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This edition of Callimachus’ select larger fragments offers an indispensable guide for properly appreciating his poetic ......more

Part Two of the Festschrift dedicated to William H. Nienhauser presents a collection of twelve academic papers that delv......more

Early modern culture was multilingual, and so were many of the works produced across Europe and beyond its borders. The ......more

Aphrodite’s famous ribbon known as the cestus, the irresistible love charm that she loaned to Hera in the Iliad, was, th......more

A comprehensive reevaluation of Chaucer’s early poetry, from the "dream visions" to Troilus and Criseyde While covering ......more

This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poe......more

This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, O......more

An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heav......more

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In A Bird Called Elaeus, poet and translator David Constantine presents a selection of poems from The Greek Anthology, a......more

Part One of the Festschrift honoring William H. Nienhauser invites readers to explore the fascinating world of ancient C......more

Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions produced hundreds of scriptures and treatises, only a small number of which have rec......more

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An old friend, a new character - C. K. Stead is scribe to love and grief in this beautiful new collection. In two sequen......more

Is it possible to be better than Homer? For most literary critics in late antiquity, the answer was an unequivocal no, b......more

Apollonius represents a crucial link in the epic tradition spanning Homer and Vergil, but arrestingly, his epic Argonaut......more

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The Orphic Hymns, a collection of invocations to the complete Greek pantheon, have reached us without explicit informati......more

When Michael Palma’s translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commenta......more

A timeless exploration of humanity’s connection to nature, The Georgics of Virgil delves into the art and labor of agric......more

For more than a millennium, Kālidāsa’s poem "Lineage of the Raghus" (Raghuvaṃśa) has been acknowledged as one of the mas......more

Collector’s Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket John Milton’s Paradise Lost is an epic poem that narrates the biblica......more

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This striking hardback edition presents Homer’s legendary epic, The Odyssey, with striking gold cover embossing and sten......more

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This epic poem by Matthew Arnold retells the legendary Persian tale of the tragic encounter between the warrior Rustum a......more

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From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of......more

The fifteenth-century scholar and Augustinian friar John Capgrave took as his subject the virgin martyr Katherine of Ale......more

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While hymns are traditionally means of communicating the divine, Hymnal for Catastrophe invests sacred forms in the ordi......more

In this collected volume, members of the Kalīla and Dimna project discuss, from different perspectives, a core aspect of......more

The works of Titus Flavius Josephus ben Matthias on biblical history and the Jewish war were read and studied throughout......more

A new translation of the classic English poem that inspired Malory, stunningly illustrated with linocuts by the author. ......more

Elisa Gonzalez’s thrilling debut makes one "feel as if poems have never before been written" (Louise Glück). Grand Tour,......more

This epic poetry book is a combo of two the great war epic of Western literature "The Aeneid by Virgil" and "The Iliad b......more

Frederick Holland Dewey’s interlinear translation of the Roman poet Virgil’s classic work, "The Aeneid." Covers Books I-......more

This collection unveils verses of celestial light, delicately whispered to a graceful warrior amidst the turbulent Pelop......more

This volume considers representations of space and movement in sources ranging from Roman comedy to late antique verse t......more

Samuel Butler’s translation of The Iliad, first published in 1898, is a prose rendition of this ancient Greek epic. The ......more

heir of sisyphus is a collection that travels between different cities, cultures, and languages. Adrija Ghosh’s poetry i......more

A beautiful Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy classic edition, featuring 135 large original illustrations. The Divine ......more

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Delve into the ancient and mystical world of pre-classical Europe with The Hymns of Orpheus. These poetic compositions, ......more

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original contex......more

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