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Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and freedom in the tragedies of the famous Greek playwright. Starting with Sartre’s insights about radical existe …

First published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero’s life and works, made by a group of scholars that includes some of the acknowledged experts in their particular field. Cice …

The Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Apuleius (ca. 170 CE) is a Latin novel written by a native of Madauros in Roman North Africa, roughly equal to modern Tunisia together with parts of Libya and Alger …

Thomas Campion, Milton, Crashaw, Herbert, Bourne, Walter Savage Landor – all these poets, between them spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age, wrote a substantial body of Latin …

In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer”s Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopot …

That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to i …

Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture, the final volume of Stefan Zweig”s masterful Master Builders of the Spirit trilogy, discloses the smaller version of a writer”s own ego. Unc …

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 …

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 …

In this first introduction to Plautus” Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided through the themes, context, and enduring humor of this Roman comedy. The play portrays the story of a …