Plutarch s writings have had a varied reception history from when he was writing in the second century BCE down to today. This volume starts from what may be a translation into the Syriac dialect of a lost Plutarch essay continues with a tribute from a leading scholar... Lees meer.

Paideia Romana. Cicero s Tusculan Disputations takes a new look at an unloved text of the western canon to reveal it as a punchy and profoundly original work arguably Cicero s most ingenious literary response to the tyranny of Caesar. The book shows how the Tusculans... Lees meer.

This is one of the volumes in the series of Afterlives of the Classics which is being produced jointly by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute.... Lees meer.

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Apuleius literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism... Lees meer.

Ovid was the most influential and widely imitated of all classical Latin poets. This volume publishes papers delivered at a conference on the Reception of Ovid in March 2013 jointly organised by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute University o... Lees meer.

Virgil has always been copied studied imitated and revered as perhaps the greatest poet of the Latin language. He has been centrally important to the transmission of the classical tradition and has played a unique role in European education. In recognition of the ri... Lees meer.