Classique

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES’This accessible illustrated guide is a great introduction to the story, its origins and its enduring legacy’ BBC HISTORY- Which is more terrifying – a monst …

Romantic ideas centered around art as inspiration, the spiritual and aesthetic dimension of nature, and metaphors of organic growth. Art, rather than science, Romantics argued, could best express uni …

Drawing on an extensive knowledge of the critical history of Olympian One, Professor Gerber here presents a thorough analysis of the language thought, myth, structure, and poetic technique of Pindar’ …

This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes’ Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies. At the heart of Wasps is a comic conflict between a …

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Sho …

‘Irresistibly fascinating’ MARIE CLAIRE GREECE’Essential’ VICTORIA HISLOP’Brilliantly conceived’ PAUL CARTLEDGEAn enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancien …

"There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery." Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the first Canticle in the epic poetic masterpiece The Divine Comedy, is now available …

This book contributes to the literary-theoretical field of Material Ecocriticism, expanding its chronological remit, and is the first to apply it to Classics. Material Ecocriticism has been described …

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil’s ‘Aeneid’ poses new questions about Vergil’s pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational discussio …

This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of ‘generic enrichment’ in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. It examines the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in P …