Classical Studies

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A Commentary on Cicero, de natura deorum II

By Andrew R. Dyck
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Michigan Classical Commentaries

First English commentary on Cicero’s examination of the gods in over fifty years
 

Specters of Cavafy

By Maria Boletsi
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Greek / Modern Intersections

Haunting the future through poetry

Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid

Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology

By Tedd A. Wimperis
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

A new take on the Aeneid, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s fictional world and its political context

Tales of Dionysus

The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

By William Levitan & Stanley Lombardo
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

Commerce with the Classics

Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers

By Anthony Grafton
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, History
Series: Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures

A distinctive history of the traditions of reading and life in the Renaissance library, as seen in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals

Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter

Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and Satire

By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies

Unexpected satire in a classic philosophical text

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Making Men Ridiculous

Juvenal and the Anxieties of the Individual

By Christopher Nappa
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies

Barbed and vivid details in Juvenal’s satiric poetry reveal a highly complex critique of the breakdown of traditional Roman values

Our Ancient Wars

Rethinking War through the Classics

By Victor Caston & Silke-Maria Weineck
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies

Explores how classical Greek literature provides timeless insights into the complexities of wars both ancient and modern

Antisthenes of Athens

Texts, Translations, and Commentary

By Susan Prince
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Antisthenes’ Homeric criticism is examined in depth for the first time

Finding Italy

Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid

By Kristopher Fletcher
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, History

The Trojans' journey to Italy in Vergil’s Aeneid teaches them to love their new homeland and their new name—the Romans

Cicero's Use of Judicial Theater

By Jonathan Hall
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Law

Judicial theatrics in Roman courts

Shipwrecked

Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

By James Morrison
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 19th Century Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film

The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos

By S. Rex Stem
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, Literary Studies, Editorial Theory

Presents Nepos as a thinker in his own right

Listening to Homer

Tradition, Narrative, and Audience

By Ruth Scodel
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A discussion of how ancient Greek bards ensured that their poetry would reach audiences of various backgrounds

The Iliad

Translated by Rodney Merrill
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A new translation of Homer's classic follows Merrill's successful earlier version of the Odyssey in capturing the feel of the original Greek

The Scroll and the Marble

Studies in Reading and Reception in Hellenistic Poetry

By Peter Bing
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Seminal essays from one of the most prominent scholars of Hellenistic poetry

The Humblest Sparrow

The Poetry of Venantius Fortunatus

By Michael Roberts
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A long-awaited study of the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus

Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic

By Yoav Rinon
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A probing and much needed examination of "the tragic" as a concept distinct from tragedy as a genre

Theogony and Works and Days

Edited by Henry Michael Weinfield & Catherine McKee Schlegel
By Hesiod
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Classical Studies, Greek

A new verse-translation celebrating the poetry of Hesiod's great works, Theogony and Works and Days

The Limits of Heroism

Homer and the Ethics of Reading

By Mark Buchan
Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Psychology
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Explores the relationship of desire to heroic ideology in both the Iliad and the Odyssey

Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage

From Plautus to Chaucer

Edited by Warren S. Smith
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Gender Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature

Traces satiric themes on women, sex, and marriage through ancient Latin literature and the Middle Ages into Chaucer

Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self

Subject and Nation in Literary Discourse

By Yasmin Syed
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, Literary Studies, European Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Reading the Aeneid as the central text of Roman literary education, Yasmin Syed investigates the poem’s power to shape Roman notions of self and cultural identity

The Myths of Fiction

Studies in the Canonical Greek Novels

By Edmund Cueva
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Foreign Language, Ancient Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

A revolutionary account of the emergence of myth over history as the defining feature of the Greek novel

Death by Philosophy

The Biographical Tradition in the Life and Death of the Archaic Philosophers Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Democritus

By Ava Chitwood
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature, Philosophy

Brings to vivid life the connections between philosophy and biography by examining the spectacular—and often wildly implausible—biographies of famous pre-Socratic thinkers

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