Classical Studies

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The Black Widows of the Eternal City

The True Story of Rome's Most Infamous Poisoners

An intriguing and well-researched account behind the dozens of female poisoners in seventeenth-century Rome

Following Chaucer

Offices of the Active Life

Understanding the relationship between individuals and their communities in the works of Chaucer

The Hellenistic, Roman, and Medieval Glass from Cosa

A landmark contribution to our knowledge of the Roman glass industry in the Western Mediterranean
 

The Age of Attila

Fifth-Century Byzantium and the Barbarians

Revised Edition

A classic brought back in print with an introduction and notes by David S. Potter

Romans in a New World

Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America

Explores the impact the discovery of the New World had upon Europeans' perceptions of their identity and place in history

Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage

From Plautus to Chaucer

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

Alexander the Great

The Unique History of Quintus Curtius

The history of the world's first multicultural king

Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy

Studies how Propertius transformed the elegiac form, using Callimachean style as a starting point

People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity, Volume II

Selected Latin Texts from Gaul and Western Europe

A collection of Latin sources that shed light on the changing world of Late Antiquity throughout Western Europe

People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity, Volume I

With Translated Texts from Gaul and Western Europe

A collection of Latin sources that shed light on the changing world of Late Antiquity throughout Western Europe

Greater than Emperor

Cola di Rienzo (ca. 1313-54) and the World of Fourteenth-Century Rome

Studies the adoption of a new civic identity in fourteenth-century Rome from the perspective of a young revolutionary, Cola di Rienzo

Vandals to Visigoths

Rural Settlement Patterns in Early Medieval Spain

Sheds light on settlement patterns in early medieval Spain and demonstrates the local effect of the collapse of Roman Government

Aqueduct Hunting in the Seventeenth Century

Raffaele Fabretti's De aquis et aquaeductibus veteris Romae

An insightful assessment of the work of Raffaele Fabretti, the first researcher of Rome's aqueduct system

Mountain and Plain

From the Lycian Coast to the Phrygian Plateau in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Period

A lavishly illustrated study of a complex and important region

Magnus Felix Ennodius

A Gentleman of the Church

The first comprehensive study of Magnus Felix Ennodius as both Latin literary figure and historical personality

The Earth Is Our Book

Geographical Knowledge in the Latin West ca. 400-1000

A fascinating study of early geographical knowledge

Thomas Heywood's Art of Love

The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria

The English Art of Love

Reading Virgil and His Texts

Studies in Intertextuality

Dynamic textual interplay: inherent and inherited

The Limits of Ancient Christianity

Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus

Sixteen essays explore the end of ancient Christianity