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On the Christian Religion
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487543549
Pub Date: October 2022
This volume makes available Marsilio Ficino's polemical work De Christiana religione with introduction and notes.
Presargonic Period
Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC)
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781487545130
Pub Date: October 2021
Provides editions of all known royal inscriptions of kings who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia down to the advent of King Sargon of Akkad. The volume includes a handful of new inscriptions recently uncovered in Iraq.
Latin Poets and Italian Gods
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487526139
Pub Date: August 2020
Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy.
Walking through Elysium
Vergil’s Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487505776
Pub Date: April 2020
Walking through Elysium traces Vergil’s influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.
Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World
Price: $89.00
ISBN: 9781487505226
Pub Date: April 2020
This book traces the roots of modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy back to the Hellenistic period of classical antiquity, when sensational personages like Cleopatra of Egypt and Alexander the Great became famous world-wide.
Before Utopia
The Making of Thomas More’s Mind
Price: $126.00
ISBN: 9781487506599
Pub Date: March 2020
This book explores the influence of Stoicism on the evolution of Thomas More’s mind, asserting that More’s engagement with the work of Erasmus radicalized his understanding of Christianity and shaped the writing of Utopia.
Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487532017
Pub Date: February 2020
This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships with their children across a variety of genres.
Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times - Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487525972
Pub Date: February 2020
From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion.
The Allure of Sports in Western Culture
Price: $76.00
ISBN: 9781487504182
Pub Date: November 2019
Sports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape societies and individuals. The essays offer critical new insights and historical case studies from historians, theorists, literature scholars, and athletes.
Fides in Flavian Literature
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781487505530
Pub Date: September 2019
This book investigates the presence of Fides ("good faith") in Flavian literature, exploring its ideological significance in the aftermath of Rome’s civil wars (68–69 CE) in a variety of works by prose and verse authors.
Novel Cleopatras
Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688–1785
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781442647145
Pub Date: April 2019
Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel’s origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture.
Collected Works of Erasmus
The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus, Volume 41
Price: $324.00
ISBN: 9780802092229
Pub Date: March 2019
CWE 41 is intended as an essential companion to the full range of Erasmus scholarship on the New Testament, as it is translated, annotated and presented in Volumes 42-60.
Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion
Price: $62.00
ISBN: 9781487503963
Pub Date: July 2018
Although Aristotle’s contribution to biology has long been recognized, there are many philosophers and historians of science who still hold that he was the great delayer of natural science, calling him the man who held up the Scientific Revolution by two thousand years.
A Short History of the Ancient World
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781442603851
Pub Date: December 2017
A Short History of the Ancient World begins with the Bronze Age and ends with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Rather than restricting his analysis to the Greek and Roman experience, Rauh introduces students to ancient Africa, Israel, Egypt, Iran, China, and the Indian subcontinent.
Collected Works of Erasmus
Prolegomena to the Adages
Price: $275.00
ISBN: 9781442648777
Pub Date: August 2017
The essay that begins this introductory volume to the Adages explores the development of the Collectanea and its transformation into the Adagiorum chiliades.
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
Divina in Laude Voluntas
Price: $98.00
ISBN: 9780802098535
Pub Date: June 2017
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England provides an accessible introduction to biblical epic poetry.

On the Christian Religion
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487543549
Pub Date: October 2022
This volume makes available Marsilio Ficino's polemical work De Christiana religione with introduction and notes.
Presargonic Period
Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC)
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781487545130
Pub Date: October 2021
Provides editions of all known royal inscriptions of kings who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia down to the advent of King Sargon of Akkad. The volume includes a handful of new inscriptions recently uncovered in Iraq.
Latin Poets and Italian Gods
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487526139
Pub Date: August 2020
Latin Poets and Italian Gods reconstructs the response of Roman poets in the late republic and Augustan age to the rural cults of central Italy.
Walking through Elysium
Vergil’s Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487505776
Pub Date: April 2020
Walking through Elysium traces Vergil’s influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.
Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World
Price: $89.00
ISBN: 9781487505226
Pub Date: April 2020
This book traces the roots of modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy back to the Hellenistic period of classical antiquity, when sensational personages like Cleopatra of Egypt and Alexander the Great became famous world-wide.
Before Utopia
The Making of Thomas More’s Mind
Price: $126.00
ISBN: 9781487506599
Pub Date: March 2020
This book explores the influence of Stoicism on the evolution of Thomas More’s mind, asserting that More’s engagement with the work of Erasmus radicalized his understanding of Christianity and shaped the writing of Utopia.
Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy
Price: $79.00
ISBN: 9781487532017
Pub Date: February 2020
This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships with their children across a variety of genres.
Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and Its Times - Regards sur la Seconde Sophistique et son époque
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487525972
Pub Date: February 2020
From a workshop held at Université Laval, Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times brings together fourteen essays and a range of perspectives, including work from scholars in literature, philology, linguistics, history, political science, sociology, and religion.
The Allure of Sports in Western Culture
Price: $76.00
ISBN: 9781487504182
Pub Date: November 2019
Sports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape societies and individuals. The essays offer critical new insights and historical case studies from historians, theorists, literature scholars, and athletes.
Fides in Flavian Literature
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781487505530
Pub Date: September 2019
This book investigates the presence of Fides ("good faith") in Flavian literature, exploring its ideological significance in the aftermath of Rome’s civil wars (68–69 CE) in a variety of works by prose and verse authors.
Novel Cleopatras
Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688–1785
Price: $81.00
ISBN: 9781442647145
Pub Date: April 2019
Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel’s origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture.
Collected Works of Erasmus
The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus, Volume 41
Price: $324.00
ISBN: 9780802092229
Pub Date: March 2019
CWE 41 is intended as an essential companion to the full range of Erasmus scholarship on the New Testament, as it is translated, annotated and presented in Volumes 42-60.
Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion
Price: $62.00
ISBN: 9781487503963
Pub Date: July 2018
Although Aristotle’s contribution to biology has long been recognized, there are many philosophers and historians of science who still hold that he was the great delayer of natural science, calling him the man who held up the Scientific Revolution by two thousand years.
A Short History of the Ancient World
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781442603851
Pub Date: December 2017
A Short History of the Ancient World begins with the Bronze Age and ends with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Rather than restricting his analysis to the Greek and Roman experience, Rauh introduces students to ancient Africa, Israel, Egypt, Iran, China, and the Indian subcontinent.
Collected Works of Erasmus
Prolegomena to the Adages
Price: $275.00
ISBN: 9781442648777
Pub Date: August 2017
The essay that begins this introductory volume to the Adages explores the development of the Collectanea and its transformation into the Adagiorum chiliades.
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
Divina in Laude Voluntas
Price: $98.00
ISBN: 9780802098535
Pub Date: June 2017
Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England provides an accessible introduction to biblical epic poetry.