Classique

This is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way, and to explain its relationship to the epic’s narrative structure and audience reception. Rachel H. Lesser offers a new …

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 investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgias for audiences.In ancient education, the Iliad and the Odys …

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Seneca’s Letters, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Letters 51, 53 and 57, wit …

Mixtures is of central importance for Galen’s views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or ‘temperaments’) of hot, cold, dry and …

Nature imitates art–not a paradox from Oscar Wilde’s pen, but instead the bold formulation of the Latin poet Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), marking a radical turning point in ancient aesthetics, founded on th …

Antigonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. …

One of the best books ever written on one of humanity’s greatest epics, W. R. Johnson’s classic study of Vergil’s Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and his …