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Emily Hauser
How Women Became Poets

How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one---aoidos , or "singer-man." The most fam…

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Euripides,
Medea

A Student Edition of Euripides' play, which accessibly unpacks Greek tragedy in its social context, issues of translation and adaptation, and performance approaches over the centuries.Euripides' play Mede…

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Camilla Caporicci
The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Aqiva the "Holy of Holies" among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and contr…

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Laura Loporcaro
Reading Quintilian

Reading Quintilian analyses how didactic authority is created in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria . Laura Loporcaro argues that the implementation in the Institutio of the same rhetorical strategies it de…

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Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman A…

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Eveline Krummen
Mousike Historia

This series is dedicated to classical studies in general. The volumes primarily examine topics relating to the ancient world from the fields of literary, visual, media, theatre, religious, and cultural st…

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Edward Prime-Stevenson, Zsolt Bojti, S Brooke Cameron
Imre

'I love thee... once more helpless, and therewith hopeless!--but this time no longer silent, before the Friendship which is Love, the Love which is Friendship.'Considered one of the first examples of the …

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Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy

When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be …

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Seneca: Phoenissae

Phoenissae is probably Seneca's final play, a work of great dramatic, poetic, and intellectual force, permeated by issues central to Senecan thinking and tragic practice. This edition offers a newly edite…

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Christopher Pelling
Plutarch: Alexander

Christopher Pelling provides the first detailed commentary and translation with notes in over fifty years of Plutarch's Life of Alexander . This is a companion volume to Pelling's Plutarch Caesar (2011), …

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D. Wardle
Suetonius: Life of Julius Caesar

D. Wardle provides the only translation and detailed commentary on Suetonius' biography of Caesar that is fully accessible to readers without Latin or Greek, enabling them to appreciate a detail-packed pi…

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H A Drake
The Wisdom of the Ancients

This book is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by people living in the ancient Mediterranean world. It covers approximately 2,000 years in time (from ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE…

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Galen

Galen: An Anthology brings together the most comprehensive range of English translations of the works of physician-philosopher Galen of Pergamum, the most influential medical figure of the Graeco-Roman wo…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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Ashli J E Baker
Identity Crises in Apuleius

In the second century CE, the multiethnic, multilingual, and religiously diverse Roman Empire grew to its greatest extent. To maintain order, Rome relied heavily on strict social hierarchies, established …

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Christopher Burnand, Andy Mylne
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE 2027-2028

The only exam-board approved book for the texts examined as part of OCR's GCSE in Classical Greek for examination in 2027-2028.

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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Gervase Of Melkley,
The Art of Making Verses

The thirteenth-century Art of Making Verses, which departs from established critical texts on poetry and seeks to teach the art of verse in an entirely new way, was composed by the English poet and teache…

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Marcel Proust, Helen Constantine, Adam Watt
Sodom and Gomorrah

'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident'The fourth volume…

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Claire de Duras, Pratima Prasad, Chris Miller
Ourika, Édouard, and Olivier

'I have no secrets; my unhappiness is the story of my entire life.'A key figure in the literary world of post-Revolutionary Paris, Claire de Duras was a writer of exceptional talent, admired by Sainte-Beu…

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