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It is a commonly held view among historians of Greek literature that with the advent of Euripides the tragic structure, even the tragic outlook of Greek drama suffered a breakdown from which it never …

T. Calpurnius Siculus: A Pastoral Poet in Neronian Rome is the first ever detailed examination of the whole of Calpurnius» pastoral corpus in English. It aims to offer an overall picture of Calpurni …

The Classical Greek sophists – Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, and Antiphon, among others – are some of the most important figures in the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and philosophi …

Exploring debt’s permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential theology. Her argument challenges the long …

The significance of Plato’s literary style to the content of his ideas is perhaps one of the central problems in the study of Plato and Ancient Philosophy as a whole. As Samuel Scolnicov points out i …

Despite its enormous extent and impact, the Swedish scholarship produced in the context of Olof Rudbeck»s monumental »Atlantica» (4 vols, 1679-1702) has hitherto escaped attention outside Scandina …

Launching a much-needed new series discussing each comedy that survives from the ancient world, this volume is a vital companion to Terence»s earliest comedy, Andria, highlighting its context, theme …

This volume presents a commentary on Aristotle»s Metaphysics Book 12 by pseudo-Alexander in a new translation accompanied by explanatory notes, introduction and indexes. Fred D. Miller, Jr. argues t …

This volume offers a wide range of sample passages from literature written in Latin in the British Isles during the period from about 1500 to 1800. It includes a general introduction to and bibliogra …