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Re-evaluates a genre that was central to the Greek literature of the high Roman empire. Rejecting traditional conceptions of the genre as 'nostalgic', it explores... Læs mere
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Proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek... Læs mere
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Libanius is a key figure for anybody studying late antiquity, but also ancient rhetoric, epistolography and biography. This book is the first comprehensive study of the... Læs mere
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Explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity. It reveals the... Læs mere
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This is the first book-length study of late classical Greek lyric poetry, combining literary-critical engagement with... Læs mere
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This edition of five of Demosthenes' Assembly speeches arguing for a military response to Philip II of Macedon is aimed at students. The extensive introduction... Læs mere
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A collection of essays exploring how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. This book... Læs mere
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Innovative treatment of Greek comedy, showing that an essential characteristic at the heart of its identity is its voracious and multifarious dialogue with a... Læs mere
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Antigone, Interrupted explores the intertwined history of law, politics, gender and humanism through a new reading of Sophocles' classical tragedy. Studying the play in its... Læs mere
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This book is a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of... Læs mere
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This volume provides a unique overview of the broad historical, geographical and social range of Latin and Greek as second languages. Elucidates... Læs mere
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Book III is one of the most diverse in the Iliad. This edition discusses the historical, literary and religious backgrounds to the work and gives a full historical account of... Læs mere