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Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780192849649
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very... -
The Tale of Sinuhe by R. B. Parkinson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62The Tale of Sinuhe, from c.1875 BC, has been acclaimed as the supreme masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian poetry, a perfect fusion of monumental, dramatic, and lyrical styles, and a passionate probing of... -
Latin Stories: A GCSE Reader Henry Cullen (Head of Classics, St Albans High School for Girls, UK) 9781350003842
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.49Latin Stories is an ideal first reader for students of Latin. It offers 100 self-contained passages of manageable length, chosen for their intrinsic interest and adapted from a wide range of ancient... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780140446364
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780141394619
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.17Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in... -
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As... -
Orpheus: The Song of Life by Ann Wroe
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but... -
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.94The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered... -
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. ... -
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington 9780198834571
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £11.04She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish. After the terrible conflagration of... -
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B... -
The Riverside Chaucer: Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon by Geoffrey Chaucer
Booksplease Price: £32.32The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia... -
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg 9780674241411
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.95A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization... -
Republic by Plato
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.45Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of... -
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri 9780140444421
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw... -
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis 9781107604704
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.42The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the 'image'... -
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature by Sarah Iles Johnston
Booksplease Price: £31.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555404277Author Sarah Iles JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Impr -
'Troilus and Criseyde': A Reader's Guide by Jenni Nuttall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76'Troilus and Criseyde', Geoffrey Chaucer's most substantial completed work, is a long historical romance; its famous tale of love and betrayal in the Trojan War later inspired William Shakespeare... -
The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius by Julius Caesar
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. On one... -
The Complete Poems Of Sappho by Willis Barnstone
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306130Author Willis BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in...
Dante: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from...
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition by Edith Hamilton 9780446574754
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.16The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes.Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life...
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This...
Parzival and Titurel by Wolfram von Eschenbach 9780199539208
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84Vast in its scope, incomparably dense in its imagery, Parzival ranks alongside Dante's Divine Comedy as one of the foremost narrative works to emerge from medieval Europe. Written in the first...
OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE Route 2: Women in the Ancient World Robert Hancock-Jones (Townley Grammar School, UK) 9781350015036
Booksplease Price: £25.13This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers the Thematic Study Component 12 and all three Literature and...
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Jackson Crawford 9781624663567
Booksplease Price: £17.99"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts...
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780674990449
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other...
Wasps and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes by Aristophanes 9780198900221
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of...
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure...
Homeric Hymns: WITH Homeric Apocrypha AND Lives of Homer by Homer 9780674996069
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Invocations, curiosities, and biographies connected with the famous Greek bard.Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess-as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do...
Idylls by Theocritus
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.'...
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato 9780140455496
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and...
Metamorphosis by Ovid
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Mary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield...
Ovid Metamorphoses by R. J. Tarrant
Booksplease Price: £29.99An Oxford Classical texts edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses has been planned for nearly a century, but earlier efforts by D. A. Slater and Franco Munari were not completed, largely because of the size...
Memorabilia. Oeconomicus. Symposium. Apology by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95Socrates without Plato.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC), a member of a wealthy but politically quietist Athenian family and an admirer of Socrates, left Athens in 401 BC to serve as a mercenary...
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon by Faculty of Classics 9780521826808
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £69.49The Cambridge Greek Lexicon is based upon principles differing from those of existing Greek lexica. Entries are organised according to meaning, with a view to showing the developing senses of words...
Prose Unseens for A-Level Latin: A Guide through Roman History Mathew Owen (Caterham School, UK) 9781474269162
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.24This volume is designed to accompany the OCR A-Level specification in Latin (first teaching September 2016), with practice unseen passages from Livy, the set prose for Paper 1, together with passages...