Classics – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Arctic Modernities

The Environmental, the Exotic and the Everyday

Edited By: Heidi Hansson, Anka Ryall

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The modern Arctic is more than melting glaciers; it's a mix of indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. This volume examines how heroic images continue to shape our view of the region: as a utopian future, a symbol of modernity, or a mythic, nostalgic past.

The modern Arctic is more than melting glaciers; it’s a mix of indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. This volume examines how heroic images continue to shape our view of the region: as a utopian future, a symbol of modernity, or a mythic, nostalgic past.

Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

Edited By: Consuelo Ruiz-Montero

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This volume explores how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire from both a literary and sociocultural point of view. Illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices, these studies draw attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.

Plautus’ Erudite Comedy

New Insights into the Work of a doctus poeta

Edited By: Sophia Papaioannou, Chrysanthi Demetriou

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This collection of original essays examines the comedy of Plautus as a creative dialogue with contemporary culture. The studies explore his engagement with Greek literature, science, and philosophy, revealing his foundational influence on Latin literature.

Political Religions in the Greco-Roman World

Discourses, Practices and Images

Edited By: Charlotte Dunn, Elias Koulakiotis

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This volume explores the political side of ancient religion. Written by experts, its chapters engage the diversity of the Greco-Roman religious experience as it receives and negotiates power relations in the ancient Mediterranean from the 7th Century BCE to the 4th Century CE.

Retelling Cinderella

Cultural and Creative Transformations

Edited By: Nicola Darwood, Alexis Weedon

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This collection demonstrates how the Cinderella story remains active in societies adapting to modern culture. The volume explores dating apps, prom nights, women’s roles, and gender identity through international perspectives on folklore, film, fashion, and literature.

The Young Dante

Archetypes of His Early Intellectual Biography

By: Maria Luisa Ardizzone

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This book explores Dante’s formative Florentine years, a crucible of great importance. Focusing on the Vita Nuova and early poems, it shows how the young poet took archetypes from ancient-medieval tradition and reshaped them to pave the way for his own work.

Classics and Classicists

Selected Essays, 1964-2000

By: John Glucker

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This panoramic collection of articles explores Greek and Roman literature and philosophy, from close textual readings to the modern legacy of ancient works. A vital resource for classical scholars, students of philosophy, and intellectual historians.

The Tragic Life Story of Medea as Mother, Monster, and Muse

By: Jana Rivers Norton

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This exploration of the Medea myth reveals how unresolved suffering turns to vengeance. Her tragic story became a touchstone for early twentieth-century female authors who used it to explore their own struggles with unrequited love, societal abandonment, and self-discovery.

German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries)

Writing the Arctic

Edited By: Jan Borm, Joanna Kodzik

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German travellers, explorers, and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first English-language volume dedicated to their work, offering critical readings of travelogues, histories, and fiction.

Instances of Death in Greek Tragedy

By: Sorana-Cristina Man

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The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?

The Classical Tradition in Portuguese and Brazilian Poetry

Edited By: Maria de Fátima Silva, Lorna Hardwick, Susana Marques Pereira

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This book studies contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian poets influenced by the Greco-Roman tradition. The comparison between poets from the two countries highlights the cultural community that unites them through the common theme of travels, routes, and symbolic adventures.

Love, Friendship, and Expediency in Cicero’s Letters

By: Gabriel Evangelou

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Cicero was one of Epicurus’ most fervent critics. This book challenges that conventional view, arguing that despite his anti-Epicurean statements, personal benefit played a vital role in his relationships, even with his family, in accord with the very philosophy he rejected.

Evidence and Proof in Ancient Greece

Edited By: Chris Carey, Mike Edwards, Brenda Griffith-Williams

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To persuade, you need proof. But what counts as satisfactory proof varies by culture and context. This volume assembles experts to address the theme of proof in ancient Greek literature, from the lawcourts to drama and historiography, with a focus on the Athenian orators.

A Translation and Interpretation of Horace’s Iambi

By: Andy Law

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In his most controversial poetry, Horace is a writer in torment. This new interpretation reveals an artwork forged from the agony of expression—a book he may never have wanted to write. His fate is to be forever persecuted by his own masterpiece.

A Special Model of Classical Reception

Summaries and Short Narratives

Edited By: Maria de Fátima Silva, David Bouvier, Maria das Graças Augusto

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This volume traces the influence of epics like the Odyssey across a vast geographical and cultural space. It analyzes modern and contemporary tales from around the globe, focusing on how major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.

Travel Writing and Environmental Awareness

Edited By: Françoise Besson

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Travel writing can guide our connection with the nonhuman world. This collection of essays by international writers explores sustainable travel and our bond with nature. Encompassing diverse genres, it is for all interested in travel, ecology, and the philosophy of place.

A New Translation of the Novellino of Masuccio Salernitano

By: Christopher Stace

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So fiercely anti-clerical it was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, this 15th-century Italian collection is a landmark of short fiction. Its tales of murder, incest, and ingenious adultery are by turns grim, comic, tragic, and erotic.

The British Myth of Russia

By: Svetlana Koroleva

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This book explores the British myth of Russia—a collection of images, stereotypes, and plots formed over centuries by cultural and historical forces. It describes the major stages of the myth's development and analyzes the forms it takes in British fiction.

This book explores the British myth of Russia—a collection of images, stereotypes, and plots formed over centuries by cultural and historical forces. It describes the major stages of the myth’s development and analyzes the forms it takes in British fiction.

Myth-Making in Aristophanes Innovation and Evolution in Attic Comedy

By: Effie Zagari

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This book focuses on four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes which present characteristics not prominent in his extant work. As mythological comedies and parodies of tragedy, they exhibit elements of Middle and New Comedy, offering new insights into his influential innovations.

Space, Identity and Discourse in Anglophone Studies

Crossing Boundaries

Edited By: Attila Dósa, Ágnes Maguczné Godó, Anett Schäffer, Robin Lee Nagano

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This book explores the intersections where cultures, languages, and spaces converge to shape identities. Examining literary works, political narratives, and language use, this collection contributes to scholarly dialogues on identity construction through border crossings.