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Diodoros of Sicily’s book XIX is the main source for the history of the Diadochoi, Alexander the Great’s Successors, from 317 to 311 BCE. With the first full-scale commentary on this text in any lang …

Cicero’s dialogues De oratore (On the Orator) and De re publica (On the Commonwealth), composed between 55 and 51 BCE, examine two topics central to Roman public life: the role of the orator in socie …

This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences. It shows that classical subjects have an important role to play within society …

This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid’s diverse ?uvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the prese …

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 …

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 …

Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mi …

Heracles is the quintessential ancient Greek hero. The rich and massive tradition associated with him encompasses myths of all kinds: quest myths, monster-fights, world-foundational myths, aetiologic …