Contubernales

Greek mythology is simply swarming with strange and wonderful characters: mortals, gods, demigods, nymphs and monsters; so many, in fact, that it can be tricky to recall who is who exactly. A...

Friedrich August Wolf, considered the founder of modern philology, translated Plato's Apology into Latin. This new edition aligns Wolf's Latin translation to the original ancient Greek. This book is...

The ancient world is to modern students a distant planet, in the deep obscurity of space. They struggle to observe the complexity of her features, nor can the hum of her poets easily penetrate the...

Arcadius Avellanus' classic Latin translation of beloved fairy tales - including Pulchritudo atque Bestia (Beauty and the Beast), Ciniscula (Cinderella), and Lucerna Aladdini (Aladdin's Lamp) - gets...

Henry Gould's remarkable Green Radius is not quite like anything else. This huge, slowly-rolling poem of the Mississippi draws us in the course of its 132 individual pieces (plus coda and preface)...

A Latin translation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was first published by Henry Denison in 1856. This edition has edited Denison's impressive work for clarity and Latinity, and aligned it...

The stories of early Rome get new life in Greek - from Aeneas' settlement in Latium, to Romulus and Remus, to the fall of Tarquin the Proud - by the 12th-century Byzantine historian Joannes Zonaras...

A graduated reader, describing Caesar's invasion of Britain through the eyes of a turn-of-the-century English schoolboy living on the Dover coast. Includes the author's preface, his short essay on...