Originally published in 1931, this text deals with a whole range of Greek critics from very early criticism to Longinus and his views on Homer in an attempt to provide a historical view of the importance of poetry to Greek society. This title will be of interest to students of Classics.
In his comprehensive study of love in James Joyce’s writings, DeVault shows that Joyce frequently ties his characters' personal and political pursuits..
Drawing on a wide range of archaeological examples from a variety of regions and periods, this book is an introduction not just to the issues of chron..
This book analyzes Victorian working-class masculinity through the dual lenses of autobiography and fiction, examining the ways in which the literary ..
This volume, offering an insight into the literary world of Rome in the fourth century AD, reflects an increased interest in the writers of the 150 ye..
That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually ..
Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspec..
In Stagecraft in Euripides, first published in 1985, Professor Michael Halleran examines certain aspects of the dramaturgy of the most extensively pre..
This volume, first published in 1974, offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca, covering his prose treatises, his letters and his tragedies..
Plutarch’s Life of Phocion has not been closely analysed since 1840. Laurence Trittle’s study, first published in 1988, offers a new assessment of thi..
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Aristophanes: Poet and Dramatist, first published in 1986, offers an account of the early comedies and Frogs, the most famous of his works. It..
The book sets out to disprove the assumption that when the world of publishing went corporate in the early decades of the twentieth century, it caused..
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly-presented ancient sources in translation, some well..