Pompeianische Wandinschriften und Verwandtes [PDF ebook] 

"The Golden Asse" is an ancient classical story book written by Lucius Apuleius. The plot revolves spherical Lucius, a younger man who experiments with magic and is transformed right into a …

Pindar-the »Theban eagle», as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of ete …

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero»s Philippic II sections 44–50 (… viri tui similis esses) and 78 ( C. Caesari ex …

Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three ma …

Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for Classics This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object, person and thing, liv …

In a much-needed comprehensive introduction to Silius Italicus and the Punica, Jacobs offers an invitation to students and scholars alike to read the epic as a thoughtful and considered treatment of …

This motivational analysis of the protagonists in Thomas Hardy»s three most widely read novels–Tess of the d»Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure–highlights an often-overl …

"First Love: And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life" by Emilia Pardo-Bazan stands as a timeless classic within Spanish literature, showcasing Pardo-Bazan’s prowess as one of the fore …

Euripides» interest in the psychology and social position of women is well known. Of the great Greek playwrights, he most directly reflects contemporary philosophical and social debates, and his wor …

Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This …