This book is an advanced introduction to Horace that treats his whole poetic career and all of the genres in which he worked. Oliensis focuses on the social dimensions of Horace's poetry, considering how Horace shaped his poems and his books to promote his authority while also p…
Hellenistic oratory remains an elusive subject as not one Greek speech has survived from the end of the fourth century BC until the beginning of the first century AD. This collection of fourteen interdisciplinary essays offers a wide-ranging study of the different ways in which …
This volume is dedicated to an intriguing Platonic work, 'the Laws'. Probably the last dialogue Plato wrote, 'the Laws' represents the philosopher's most fully developed views on many crucial questions that he had raised in earlier works. Yet it remains a largely unread and unde…
