A collection of Hindu texts on hell, in English translation, including selections from the Rig-Veda, [Veda of Adoration], Atharva-Veda [Veda of the Wise and the ...more on ebook "Hindu Hell: Visions, Tours and Desc..."

For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy has only recently begun to ...more on ebook "Reading Roman Comedy..."

Plinyís Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Combining detailed prosopography with ...more on ebook "Pliny's Women..."

Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost ...more on ebook "The End of Dialogue in Antiquity..."

The latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the texts as well as some twenty-five new ...more on ebook "Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Ant..."

This provocative book is a major contribution to our understanding of Martial's poetics, his vision of the relationship between art and reality, and his role in ...more on ebook "Martial's Rome..."

Writing and Empire in Tacitus examines how Tacitus' historiographical career serves as an argument about his personal autonomy and social value under the ...more on ebook "Writing and Empire in Tacitus..."

This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, ...more on ebook "Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens..."

The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as ...more on ebook "Plague and the Athenian Imagination..."

Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm ...more on ebook "Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Cu..."