Ancient & Classical

You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. Esteemed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788891334350Author Paolo Biagio CipollaFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher L'Erma Di BretschneiderWeight(grams) 458g

The Roman writer Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Cicero and Catullus and other first-century BCE authors, and portions of his encyclopedic work On Famous Men are the earliest surviving biographies written in Latin. In The Political Biographies of...

A beautiful boxed set of the major works by the three great Stoic philosophers, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith'Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.'This...

Reading after Actium is a study of Vergil's Georgics, a didactic poem ostensibly about farming but in fact a brilliant exercise challenging readers to develop a broader perspective on the basic problems and the dangers of human life. Octavian is treated...

From beginning to end, the De rerum natura upsets expectations. This book's premise is that Lucretius intentionally provokes his imagined male audience, playfully and forcefully proving to them that they are not the men they suppose themselves to be...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258200Author Amy C SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

This volume represents a contribution to comparative scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance studies in its investigation of the ingenious diversity of roguish practices found in Medieval and Renaissance literature and its recognition of the coherent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004061118Author P.A. JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 260g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004038301Author Chester G. StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004025752Author LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 443g

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The purposes of this short monograph are to identify and analyze the problems of Athenian society with which the last two extant plays of Aristophanes - the Ekklesiazousai and the Ploutos - are concerned, as well as to examine the playright's views on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004014770Author YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 117g

Drawing on current critical theory, Framing Iberia relocates the Castilian classics El Conde Lucanor and El Libro de buen amor within a medieval Iberian literary tradition that includes works in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Romance. Winner of the 2009 La...

This handbook is a guide to the reading of elegiac, iambic, personal and public poetry of early Greece. Intended as a teaching manual or as an aid for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, it presents the major scholarly debates affecting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004059719Author Terrence A. BoringFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 217g

The crisis Rome experienced in the last decades of the Republic was intellectual as well as political, social and military. This crisis was marked by conflicts over values and a growing dichotomy between words and things, as a result of which the key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004037366Author ParryFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 489g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004040014Author MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 279g

This is the first book, after J. E. Sandys, to cover the multiform fied of “ancient scholarship” from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium. It is worth underlining the benefits of a work with multiple expert voices in a field so complex. The book is...

What is distinctive about Greek lyric poetry? How should we conceptualize it in relation to broader categories such as literature / song / music / rhetoric / history? What critical tools might we use to analyse it? How do we, should we, can we relate to...

This contribution by Gesine Manuwald provides an introduction to all varieties of ‘Roman comedy’, including primarily fabula palliata (‘New Comedy’, as represented by Plautus and Terence) as well as fabula togata, fabula Atellana, mimus and pantomimus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004052628Author Helen F. NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 199g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789050630788Author Vincent HuninkFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint jJ.C. Gieben, UitgeverijPublisher jJ.C. Gieben, UitgeverijWeight(grams) 523g

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Known as France’s Ninth Art, the bande dessinée has a status far surpassing that of the equivalent English-language comic strip. This publication, one of the first predominantly in English on the subject, provides a thorough introduction to questions of...

Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence...

Brill Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry (RPCPS) is a peer-reviewed book series presenting review volumes with commentary on the current state of the field of Classical Poetry. Volumes provide synthetic reviews of Classical Poetry that reflect the...

Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like Johann Froben,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004059726Author Robert J. PenellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004048584Author Kathleen MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 208g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004047600Author Graham AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004047570Author Wesley E. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 208g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004047532Author Gareth L. SchmelingFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 419g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004045798Author Agathe ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 377g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004042490Author Richard Stoll Shannon IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 208g