Written between AD 2 and 8, Ovid's poem, the Metamorphoses , gave a great number of Greek and Roman myths the form in which they are known today. Slavitt, translator of Ovid's Poetry of Exile , offers a new English verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses .

In this biography, David Minter draws upon a wealth of material, including the novelist's essays, interviews, and letters, to show the life and the artistic achievement of one of 20th-century America's most complex literary figures and to reveal Faulkner as powerful, vulnerable and real.

This award-winning book traces Saint Jerome's changing images and fortunes from 1300 to 1600 and charts how culture has celebrated his life.

The inaugural volume of Selections from Quaderni Storici looks at sexual mores and gender in European social history from the Renaissance to the twelfth century.

First appeared in the New Yorker , these autobiographical writings by Mencken recall memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s.

What promotes or hinders the development of conservative parties in Latin America? The author explores the area's long legacy of authoritarianism and democratic instability and focuses on Argentina to trace the determinants of conservative party development.

Perhaps the most important current book about the contemporary North American Mennonite situation... This work includes some of the most courageous commentary on the state of Mennonite society at the end of the twentieth century. -- Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage

Explores an alternative vision of citizenship in the writings of Rousseau and Stael. This critique transgresses the boundary between political philosophy and literature in turning explicitly to fictional texts as the site of alternative conceptions of self, citzenship and politics.

This re-reading of the Odyssey - which attempts to map in detail the poem's overall structure - offers insights into the artistry of the mythic voyage and enriches our understanding of Homer's craftsmanship. The author uncovers an extended narrative pattern, repeated in full three times.

This volume of 18 interlocking pieces is part short story collection, part novel and moves from despair to hope, from the passing of things to the coming of stability. It is by turn frightening and funny, touching and tough - and on occasion, all these at once.

In this text, contributors explore the nature and meaning of Athenian citizenship. Departing from the narrow perspective of constitutional historians and also embracing sociological concerns, the editors' range of topics attests to a broad vision of the concepts of citizenship and civic ideology.