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

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

The essential introduction to Saigyō, one of Japan’s greatest and most enduring poets. Born in the twelfth century durin......more

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

The first English translation of Olga A. Smirnitskaya’s influential 1994 Russian work on Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse studi......more

The complete collection of poems by Nansŏrhŏn, a 16th century sequestered noblewoman and one of Korea’s first feminists ......more

"The first and greatest anthology of classical Japanese poetry, the Man’yoshu is considered, along with Tale of Genji, t......more

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

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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

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real w......more

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

A collection of poems about nature and power To Ibn al-Muʿtazz and his Abbasid contemporaries, the hunt was more than a ......more

Few among the surviving Hellenistic poets can rival the fame of Callimachus of Cyrene (approximately 320-240 BCE). Activ......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

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

With Beast: The Lost Chronicles, Paul Stubbs has fashioned a philosophical, theological, and visionary odyssey that foll......more

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

A sequel to Philip Terry’s Dante’s Inferno (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shi......more

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

The classic medieval tale that brings romance, chivalry and adventure to the modern reader. Alongside Gawain and the Gre......more

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

The mysterious tale of a great leader, martyred for her cause, and often regarded as a woman beyond her time. Patron sai......more

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Collector’s Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket The Divine Comedy follows Dante on a symbolic journey through the rea......more

Collector’s Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket Step into a world where the grass beneath your feet whispers the secr......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

William Morris’ The Earthly Paradise is an epic poem that offers readers a rich tapestry of mythological and folkloric t......more

This volume offers a broad introduction to one of the most exciting chapters of Late Antiquity through direct testimony ......more

The popular fascination with dragons and dragon slayers is manifest in the endlessly repeated plots of sword-and-sorcery......more

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A coy tease, enchantress, adulteress, irresponsible mother, hard-hearted wife--such are the possible images of Penelope ......more

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

This volume of The Earthly Paradise continues William Morris’ masterful exploration of Northern and Classical mythology,......more

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

"A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth"--Dunya Mikhail In her marvelous new poetry c......more

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

A new translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and friendship, bringing Tiruvalluvar’s poetry an......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

The Metamorphoses, written by the Roman poet Ovid, has fascinated readers ever since it was written in the first century......more

This book, Aruz is a teaching-methodical guide used in the organization of final examinations in the subject of classica......more

Traverse through hellfire, ascend the mountain, and hear the music of the spheres in this collection of poetry inspired ......more

Penned in the early 14th century, this epic poem is an extraordinary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dant......more

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

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical langu......more

Bringing the work of a highly influential medieval French writer to English-speaking audiences for the first time This b......more

Beowulf follows the valiant hero of the Geats who comes to the rescue of King Hrothgar of the Danes. Plagued by the mons......more

Nahj al-Balāghah, the celebrated compendium of orations, letters, and sayings of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/661) compiled......more

Hopeful, passionate, and full of sharp discoveries about the dangers of the world, Fire on a Circle is an exploration of......more

This new translation of Pindar’s songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in or......more

In his exciting new book of poems and retrospective reflection, West Coast poet and devout philhellene Joe Safdie engage......more

First published in 1988, Priapea is a collection of eighty Latin epigrams, English translated, that make up the corpus P......more

FOR children who grew up in France before the Second World War, memorizing the fables of the 17th century poet Jean de L......more

This is one of the most remarkable translations of an ancient Greek text ever made. Scrupulously faithful to every line ......more

The greatest single narration of what the mythic world of antiquity looked, thought, and felt like at its climax in a st......more

No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton’s sublimity has ......more