Poetry : Ancient, Classical & Medieval

Embrace your Roman muse!As a learner of Latin, you want to experience the Roman world by reading its writers in their original language. But you may be unsur......

In the Heroides, the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks fifteen abandoned heroines from ancient myth and literature and creates the fiction that each woman write......

This extraordinary new translation of the Aeneid stands alone among modern Vergil translations for its accuracy and poetic appeal. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet ......

Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly m......

Ovid's Heroides, a catalogue of letters by women who have been deserted, has too frequently been examined as merely a lament. In a new departure, this book p......

The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have been, and can...

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, An......

Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultur......

IT is six hundred and fifty years since Chretien de Troyes wrote his Cliges. And yet he is wonderfully near us, whereas he is separated by a great gulf from...

Of Man¿s first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till o......

How Agamemnon and Achilles fell out at the siege of Troy; and Achilles withdrew himself from battle, and won from Zeus a pledge that his wrong should be aven......

According to a philosophical study undertaken by British Museum experts, the Regius Manuscript dates from approximately 1390. Published by James O. Halliwell......

Brimming with notes, essays and more, this is a fully loaded resource giving an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology. A hugely student -......

One of the greatest ancient Greek epic poems, "Iliad" is dated to have been written some time before the eighth century B.C. Revolving around the events of t......

The brilliant historical epic "Metamorphoses" is Ovid's magnum opus. He has brilliantly presented a vast canvas which offers a multitude of legendary and myt......

Samuel Butler's prose translation of the ancient Greek epic poem The Iliad into English was published in 1898. It takes place at the end of a 10-year war and......

Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been......

This epic poem was written between 1308 and 1321. It is divided into three sections; the inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradise. The Roman poet Virgil leads Dan......

Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and ful......

CSF Publishing's Poetry Collection present classic and contemporary poets, and includes title's carefully updated and corrected from the original text, featu......