Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> Ancient, Classical & Medieval

Callimachus' Aetia, written in Alexandria in the third century BC, was an important and influential poem which inspired many later Greek and Latin poets. Papyrus finds show that it was widely read until late antiquity and perhaps well into the Byzantine period. Eventually the work was lost, but thanks to many quotations by ancient authors and substantial papyrus finds a considerable part of it has now been recovered.
The aim of the present volumes is to make the Aetia newly accessible to readers. Volume 1 comprises an introduction dealing with matters such as the work's composition,...

This is a three-volume anthology of women's writings in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume in the anthology provides texts, contexts and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic and devotional writing. Volume One covers the age of Roman Antiquity and Early Christianity; Volume Two covers the Middle Ages; and Volume Three is dedicated to the early modern era.

The acclaimed Groningen commentary to Apuleius' Metamorphoses was published as a multi-volume book series between 1977 and 2021 by the Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius group. It includes the text itself, a commentary and a translation. The complete series is now available as a 10 volumes print set, including the recently published commentary on Book III of the Metamorphoses by Leonardo Costantini (2021). The complete Groningen commentary is also available as an integrated online database on Brill's acclaimed platform Scholarly Editions, including texts and commentaries...