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Everyman and Mankind by Douglas Bruster
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.76Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual. Everyman follows a man's journey towards death and his... -
How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems by Malcolm Schofield 9781108483087
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Horace: Satires Book I by Horace 9780521458511
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Hecuba by Euripides
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101481Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint -
Statius: Achilleid by O.A.W. Dilke 9781904675112
Booksplease Price: $36.83Statius' Achilleid is perhaps the most remarkable of all Latin epic poems. Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. Yet the completed first book... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his... -
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight/Pearl/Cleanness/Patience by J. J. Anderson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is one of the most important alliterative poems of Medieval literatureNow a major film THE GREEN KNIGHT starring Dev PatelFrom the north-west midlands, Sir Gawain and... -
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Philip Womack 9780861541218
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18'Immensely informative, wrapped in an engagingly casual tone, complemented by more than a dash of the bizarre. You'd be barking to miss it.' Professor Michael Scott Can you tell your Odysseus from... -
Elegies: With parallel Latin text by Albius Tibullus
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'Delia, when flames engulf my bier you'll weep for me, and then you'll mix your kisses with sad tears.' Tibullus (?55-18 BC) was one of a group of poets known as the Latin elegists, whose number... -
Murder Trials by Cicero
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Cicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In... -
Civil War by Caesar 9780674997035
Booksplease Price: $32.65The struggle that ended the Roman Republic.Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered Roman politics as a... -
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer by Christopher S. Celenza
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $16.95Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspired the Humanist movement and, subsequently, the... -
Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts by Laura Swift 9781474236836
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Edda by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.56The only English translation to include the complete work - a must-have for all students of early Norse literature.Over a period of twenty years, Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet,... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
Booksplease Price: $32.65From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides by Polly Low 9781107514607
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Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text by Dante 9781789432794
Booksplease Price: $14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789432794Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint -
Chaucer: Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd 9780099287483
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of... -
Medieval Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Elaine Treharne
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman... -
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus 9780140440591
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio by Robert M. Durling 9780195087451
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.05The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the... -
Discourses: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Epictetus
Booksplease Price: $32.65From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the... -
Classical Literary Criticism by D. A. Russell 9780199549818
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and... -
De Rerum Natura: Bks. 1-6 by Titus Lucretius Carus 9780674992009
Booksplease Price: $33.13Atomic atheism in verse. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum... -
Demosthenes, Speeches 27-38 by Douglas M. MacDowell 9780292702547
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52This is the eighth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical... -
Martial by Lindsay C. Watson 9781780766379
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The Secret Life of Puppets by Victoria Nelson
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $32.40In one of those rare books that allows us to see the world not as we've never seen it before, but as we see it daily without knowing, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the... -
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
Booksplease Price: $19.20"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bks. 1-45, v. 2 by Livy
Booksplease Price: $32.65Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17. ... -
Posterior Analytics: v. 2: Topica by Aristotle 9780674994300
Booksplease Price: $33.13The philosopher's toolkit.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and ... -
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables: Translated by Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty... -
Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil by Richard Jenkyns 9781853991332
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The Comedies by Terence
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.' Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from... -
Hesiod Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, Fragmenta Selecta by F. Solmsen 9780198140719
Booksplease Price: $41.59In this new and third edition, the additional fragments contained in the appendix of the second edition have been incorporated in the main text. Some further discoveries have been included, and... -
Homer: Iliad Book I by Seth L. Schein 9781108412964
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Jocasta: Wife and Mother by Brian Aldiss 9780007482146
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Classical Literary Criticism by Penelope Murray
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions... -
Dictionary of Sanskrit Names by Integral Yoga Institute
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932040350Author The Integral Yoga InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336 -
Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology by Richard Buxton 9780521338653
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The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780520292864
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.09In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning...