The Book Company: New Products - Ancient & Classical

Mahabharata Now (Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:05:11 +0000

Discussing the contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic Mahabharata, this volume imaginatively re-interprets the classic in the light of pre-modern Indian aesthetic codes, as well as Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of sci..

Price: $233.99

Contrariness in Classical Arabic Literature (Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful by Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1038))

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:57:25 +0000

In his Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful (Taḥsīn al-qabīḥ wa-taqbīḥ al-ḥasan) the prolific anthologist al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1038) offers a thematically arranged selection of Arabic poems and prose anecdotes or sayings with contrary or paradoxical purport, such as prais..

Price: $59.00

Selected Satires of Lucian

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:10:24 +0000

The unsurpassed satirist of the ancient era was a young Syrian named Lucian, who, writing in Greek in the second century a

Price: $249.99

Quintus of Smyrna's 'Posthomerica' (Writing Homer Under Rome)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:01:06 +0000

This collection offers a new collaborative reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: one of the most important Greek epics written at the height of the Roman Empire. Building on the surge of interest in imperial Greek poetry seen in the past decades, this book applies new approaches - ..

Price: $145.00

Jaufre (Routledge Revivals) (An Occitan Arthurian Romance)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:49:23 +0000

This translation, first published in 1992, presents one of the most memorable poems of the ‘romance’ genre of medieval literature, largely because it contains a number of surprises and falsified expectations. By charting the choices Jaufre, the hero, makes in military and amorous encounters and..

Price: $233.99

Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts (A Critical Edition of Saʿdeddīn Efendi's (d. 1599) Selimname)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:47:35 +0000

Saʿdeddīn Efendi was a renowned Ottoman chief jurisconsult, influential statesman, eminent scholar, and prolific translator of Arabic and Persian works into Turkish. Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts comprises a critical edition, English translation, and a facsimil..

Price: $59.00

New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 2 (More Noncanonical Scriptures)

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:12:30 +0000

The second volume in a landmark series

This new volume of New Testament Apocrypha builds on the work of the previous volume, making more apocryphal Christian texts available to English readers. Twenty-nine texts are featured, including The Adoration of the Magi<..

Price: $64.99

Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:17:03 +0000

This book studies the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world together for the first time in a single volume, featuring original texts, fresh English translations, and diverse scholarship on ths subject. Suitable for those interested in Classical Studies and ancient l..
Price: $233.99

The Raghupañcikā of Vallabhadeva Being the Earliest Commentary on the Raghuvaṃśa of Kālidāsa (Critical Edition and Notes Volume 2)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:26:12 +0000

For more than a millennium, Kālidāsa’s poem “Lineage of the Raghus” (Raghuvaṃśa) has been acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit literature. Thousands of manuscripts transmit it, and dozens of pre-modern commentaries expound the text.
This is the second volume (out of thr..
Price: $151.00

From Death to Life: Key Themes in Plato's Phaedo

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:18:16 +0000

This book addresses a range of highly debated problems among scholars of Plato’s Phaedo and provides an overall interpretation of the dialogue. For each of the topics (or Platonic passages) analysed, the book presents a detailed assessment and discussion of the most prominent scholarship. O..
Price: $158.00