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The Homeric Hymns by Michael Crudden
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.35'With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins, With herself and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Aidoneus once Abducted...' Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with the... -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.89**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring... -
The Complete Fables by Aesop
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.07A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables, to convey his key points. This Penguin Classics... -
The Tain: From the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge by Louis Le Brocquy
RRP: $16.11Booksplease Price: $12.62The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of... -
The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.51Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780140268867
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.53Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. A superb new verse translation, now... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780199645213
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'War, the bringer of tears...' For 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy,... -
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse by Richard Hamer
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a... -
Aristophanis Fabvlae II by N. G. Wilson 9780198721819
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.17This new edition of Aristophanes is intended to replace the previous Oxford Classical Text published in 1900-1. Since that date it has been possible to construct a far better picture of the... -
Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females Kate Hodges 9781781319260
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $13.78Meet mythology's fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the world's greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, half-human harpies and protective Vodou goddesses,... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780198736479
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.02'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to... -
The Inferno by Dante 9781853267871
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $5.17Translated by H.F. Cary With an Introduction by Claire Honess. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the... -
Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece by Peter W. Rose 9781501742576
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.63In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory... -
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68The 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... -
Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.02Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the... -
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 1: Books 1-4 by G. S. Kirk 9780521281713
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The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Drama by John Burgess 9780571219063
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91An essential, refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama containing entries for forty plays by all the major dramatists in the classical world - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,... -
Greek Stories: A GCSE Reader by John Taylor
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.69Greek Stories is an ideal first reader for students of Classical Greek. It offers 100 self-contained passages of manageable length, chosen for their intrinsic interest and adapted from a wide range... -
Virgil, Aeneid II: A Selection by Dominic Jones
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.76This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid Book 2, lines 40-249 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Book 2, lines 268-317,... -
Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory 9780393974645
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.14No other edition accurately represents the actual (and likely authorial) divisions of the text as attested to by its two surviving witnesses-Caxton's 1485 print and, especially, the famous Winchester... -
Estate Management and Symposium by Xenophon 9780198823513
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.02Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was... -
Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.02Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the... -
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally... -
Arthurian Romances by Chretien
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.03Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien de Troyes fashioned a new form of medieval Romance. The Knight of... -
Confessions: Volume I by Augustine
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $25.74The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan,... -
Posthomerica by Quintus Smyrnaeus
Booksplease Price: $32.21A late epic bridge between Homeric masterpieces.Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC)... -
On Ovid's Metamorphoses by Gareth David Williams 9780231200714
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.69Ovid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells... -
Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the hero Theseus... -
Tacitus, Annals XII: A Selection by Simon Allcock
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.92This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Tacitus Annals XII, 25-26, 41-43, 52-53, 56-59, 64-69, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary,... -
Primer of Greek Grammar by Evelyn Abbott
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.21Abbott and Mansfield's primer, first published in the nineteenth century and many times reprinted, remains one of the best introductions to Greek grammar. This is the latest edition, containing both... -
Horace: The Odes by Colin Sydenham 9780715634318
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The Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780140422306
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by... -
Dialogues and Essays by Seneca
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled... -
The Art of Love by Ovid 9780099518822
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.11The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly useful and... -
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest... -
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.02Love 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... -
Aeneid: Bks. 1-6 by Virgil 9781853994968
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Livy, History of Rome I: A Selection John Storey (Head of Classics, Downside School, UK) 9781350060388
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.76This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Livy's History of Rome, Book I, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for chapters... -
A Late Antique Poetics?: The Jeweled Style Revisited by Joshua Hartman 9781350346406
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Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays by Ingo Gildenhard 9781909254152
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $26.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.