Shows how classical ideas and material helped to shape the modern world. This book rethinks the characterization of two contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames
Offers a range of material to help students build and develop the knowledge and skills needed for A2 and Pre-U Latin. This book includes 24 translation/comprehension exercises, based on passages taken
The history of Achaemenid Persia — the empire of Cyrus the Great, Darius and Xerxes — has largely been rewritten in the last thirty years. Inspired by new sources of information, and by a determinati
This is the first book to be devoted to its subject, offering a wide-ranging introduction to dictionaries of Latin and Greek from the ancient world to the present: the last twon chapters are written
Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between 'pagan' and 'Christian' forms of poetry: whereas 'Christian' poetry is taken seriously in terms its
Planned as a companion volume to "Writing Latin" by Richard Ashdowne and James Morwood, this brand new guide to writing Greek will be useful both in the upper forms of schools and fo
Italy's original fascination with its cultural origins in Greece and Rome first created what is now known as 'the Classical tradition' - the pervasive influence of ancient art and thought on later tim
Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.3--4Translated by Pamela Huby and C.C.W. TaylorIn this volume Simplicius is dealing with Aristotle's account of the Presocratics, and for many of them he is our chie
Boethius (c 480-c. 525) wrote his highly influential second commentary on Aristotle's On Interpretation in Latin, but using the style of the Greek commentaries on Aristotle. This title reveals to us h
Boethius: On Aristotle On Interpretation 4-6 Translated by Andrew SmithBoethius (c. 480-c. 525) wrote his highly influential second commentary on Aristotle's On Interpretation in Latin, but using the
Proclus contemplates nature's mysterious origins and at the same time employs the deductive rigour required to address perennial philosophical questions. Nature, for him, is both divine and mathematic
The essays in this collection approach the study of emotion in classical antiquity by emphasizing the less than well explored connection between genre and emotion, as well as the gender-based peculiar
Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other Roman verse and of the real world of his audience. However, the boundaries between in
Porphyry: To Gaurus On How Embryos are Ensouled and On What is in Our PowerTranslated by James WilberdingConcerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by h
In Aristophanes' Lysistrata the women of Athens. fed up with the war against Sparta. go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the aeropolis to persuade their husbands to vote for peace. In rec
Intended for advanced high school or undergraduate students in the classics or archaeology, this book outlines what is known about the three best preserved Roman cities. Guy de la Bedoyere, a high sch
Al-Andalus, the Iberian-Islamic civilization of 711-1492, is a "lost civilization" in that it is lost within a historiographic tradition that privileges Latin Christian and Gothic traditions and in th
A exciting new series, Classical Diaspora addresses issues of national and ethnic identity within classical studies, reflecting the complex variety of the classical world's legacy in fields as various
If ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim? This title explores this question via an ac
