How did Christianity, starting out as a minor offshoot of Judaism, grow into an international fai...

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Grec...

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Grec...

The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most excit...

Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to explore the...

Explores the various ways in which modern scholarship has approached the oratorical culture of th...

The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cheris...

The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see un...

The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the ...

The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cheris...

Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to explore the...

This 2010 volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman e...

The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the ...

The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most excit...

Some of the world's earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-a...

This exciting 2010 collection of essays offers a reappraisal of current ideas about Greek identit...

Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable...

Places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.

The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see un...

'Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals.As s...

This accessible book demystifies the links between theory and practice for those studying in the ...

In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. Th...

The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek ...

The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek ...

The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of classical studies over the last ...

How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of th...

How new is atheism? Long before the Enlightenment sowed seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian ...

Focusing on the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances, this volume explorin...