Ovid is, after Homer, the single most important source for classical mythology. The Metamorphoses, which he wrote over the six-year period leading up to ...
Continue Reading → In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles ...
Continue Reading → ‘What’s the harm in using humour to put across what is true?’ Gluttony, lust, and hypocrisy are just a few of the targets of ...
Continue Reading → The Odes of Horace are a treasure of Western civilization, and this new English translation is a lively rendition by one of the prominent ...
Continue Reading →Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric: For Herennius), once to Ciceros, is the oldest surviving Latin book on rhetoric and is still used today as a textbook ...
Continue Reading → Cicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue ...
Continue Reading →Pro Marco Caelio is perhaps Cicero’s best-loved speech and has long been regarded as one of the best surviving examples of Roman oratory. Speaking in ...
Continue Reading →  The Philippics are a collection of 14 speeches delivered by Cicero against the character of Marc Antony. The speeches were given in front ...
Continue Reading →  Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and ...
Continue Reading →Cicero’s On the Commonwealth and On the Laws are his most important works of political philosophy. The present volume offers a scholarly reconstruction of the ...
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