Panayiotis Christoforou 
Imagining the Roman Emperor [PDF ebook] 
Perceptions of Rulers in the High Empire

"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 …

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 …

Euripides” interest in the psychology and social position of women is well known. Of the great Greek playwrights, he most directly reflects contemporary philosophical and social debates, and his wor …

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 …

In this definitive assessment of the various representations and approaches to Athena, Susan Deacy does what no other has done before and brings all the aspects of this legendary figure into one, out …

Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for Classics This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object, person and thing, liv …

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 …

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 …

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Ovid”s Amores 1.1 and 2.5, Propertius 1.1 and Tibullus 1.1 with the A-Level (Group 4) pres …

Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining t …