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"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 …

This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic and Classical Greek literature, from Homer through to Aristophanes. Heracles was fam …

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 …

These new essays comprise the first collective study of Lucan and his epic poem that focuses specifically on points of contact between his text and the cultural, literary, and historical environments …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 book brings together twenty articles giving a comprehensive view of the work of the Aristotelian commentators. First published in 1990, the collection is now brought up to date with a new introd …