Unclassical traditions

Volume I: Alternatives to the classical past in Late Antiquity

Unclassical Traditions: Alternatives to the Classical Past in Late Antiquity is the first of two collections of essays by leading scholars discussing the nature and extent of the late-antique engagement with its classical heritage. This issue has long been at the heart of modern historical ...

Paideia Romana

Cicero's Tusculan disputations

Text in english and latin "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 ...

Greek and latin from an indo-european perspective

This volume presents new work exploring how the study of historical linguistics can advance our understanding of Greek and Latin and, conversely, how the classical languages can help us to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European and the culture of its speakers. Classical and Indo-European linguistics have been particularly ...