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This volume presents a new translation into English and the first detailed commentary in any language on Ovid's Amores Book 3. Aimed at both students and scholars, the translation clarifies the poem's surface meaning, while the commentary places the work in broader context.
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This book examines the career of the Roman poet Horace, one of the greatest writers in Roman literature. It introduces his poetry with illustrations from all his works,... Læs mere
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Paul Alvarus wrote the Indiculus luminosus in 854 in response to the executions of a number of Córdoban Christians, beginning with the monk Isaac in 851, who had denounced Muhammad in public.
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The first commentary on Caesar's Bellum Gallicum to approach it as a literary text. Students will appreciate the drama of the narrative, the sustained intertextual... Læs mere
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The first book-length study of sexuality and gender in De rerum natura. Argues that the understanding of the universe it presents represents an unremitting assault... Læs mere
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Augustine in Context is written by leading scholars of late antiquity and is intended for the larger audience. It studies various historical/literary/cultural contexts and, by doing so, facilitates a more enlightened reading of Augustine's writings.
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This is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of Cicero's "On the Agrarian Law" I and II. Through a close and novel... Læs mere
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A volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional narrative to discuss translators who... Læs mere
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Shows the importance of the Middle Republic for the broader study of Roman and Mediterranean history, with the forging in Italy... Læs mere
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An exploration of concepts and representations of artificial intelligence in ancient Greek and Roman epic as well as its reception in later literature and culture.
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Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and history.