Books in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture series

Acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest literary achievements of the Roman Empire, the Civil War is a stirring account of the war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the republican senate led by Pompey the Great. Reading Lucan's Civil War is the first comprehensive guide to this important poem.

Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, and Vergil are standard reading for college and advanced secondary students of Latin. This book provides accessible information about recent scholarship on these authors to show how an awareness of current academic debates can enhance the teaching of their work.

In this work, Susan Ford Wiltshire traces the evolution of the doctrine of individual rights from antiquity to the 18th century. The common thread through the long story is the theory of natural law, which grew out of Greek political thought, especially that of Aristotle.

This collection of readings about Cleopatra, one of history's most captivating figures, includes 10 b&w illustrations and 2 maps.

What was daily life like for a working man or woman in the Roman Empire? This text examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities.

Volume 4 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical CultureThis thought-provoking book argues the contributions of women to the earliest advances in human knowledge, especially the discovery and development of agriculture, were much greater than has generally been acknowledged. By examining skeletons and grave goods, archeological evidence from settlement sites, and rock carvings and sculpted figurines, and by drawing anthropological parallels to later societies, Ehrenberg throws new light on the lives and social status of women in Europe from the Palaeolithic era to the Iron Age. The high status almost certainly enjoyed by women as the main providers of food in early prehistoric societies probably diminished in the later Neolithic Age, as men assumed an increasingly dominant role in farming. Even so, in the Bronze Age and Iron Age societies, individual women held positions of power: Ehrenberg considers the possibility that Minoan Crete was a matriarchy and that Boudica was only one of a number of female Celtic leaders.

This study presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. It begins with the "Aeneid", and includes chapters on the "Bucolics" and the "Georgics".

One of the most admired poets of Roman antiquity, Horace (65-8 BCE) had a major influence on later poets and writers. This new edition of Horace's best-known poetry presents the original Latin texts of his well-known Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare side by side with English translations.

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid are three of the most important - and influential - works of Western classical literature. Written in an accessible style and ideally suited for classroom use, Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil offers a unique comparative analysis of these classic works.