A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists

Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination…

The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives…

This volume is designed as (i) an introduction to Virgil’s three major works; (ii) a survey of changing critical approaches to the poems during the twentieth century: (iii) a bibliographical…

The rich and remarkable legacy of Ancient Rome’s greatest literary treasure.

After centuries of near silence, Latin poetry underwent a renaissance in the late fourth and fifth centuries CE. Here, Hardie explores how poets writing on non-Christian and Christian subjects used…

The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated…

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…

With Documentary Proof That It Was Originally Obtained By Fraud And Perjury And That Its Continuance Is A Subsidy To Idolatry And Sedition.