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If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho by Anne Carson
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $16.58From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780199537372
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $10.20The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140275360
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $20.22One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst... -
OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Component 11: The World of the Hero Sally Knights (formerly Redland High School, UK) 9781350015074
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.53This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specifications for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers all three options for Component 11: World of the... -
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition by Edith Hamilton
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $42.20This 75th anniversary edition of a classic bestseller is stunningly illustrated and designed to enchant fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology at all ages.Since its original publication by Little,... -
OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Components 21 and 22: Greek Theatre and Imperial Image Robert Hancock-Jones (Townley Grammar School, UK) 9781350015111
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.92This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 21 and 22 from the 'Culture and the... -
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.53Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles... -
The Aeneid by Virgil 9780143105138
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.08Robert Fagles's latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy... -
Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction by Helen Morales
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.14From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly... -
Reading Greek: Grammar and Exercises by Joint Association of Classical Teachers
Booksplease Price: $60.90First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional... -
The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies 9780199218783
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07'I cannot be killed indoors,' he said, 'nor out of doors; I cannot be killed on horseback, nor on foot.' 'Well,' she said, 'how can you be killed?' Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an... -
The Odyssey Homer 9781853260254
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $8.27With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more by M. L. West
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.14The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.76Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the... -
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 23 and 24: Invention of the Barbarian and Greek Art Athina Mitropoulos (Queen's Gate School, London, UK) 9781350020955
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.38This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 23 and 24 from the 'Culture and the Arts'... -
Aeneid 3 by Virgil 9781585102273
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102273Author VergilFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint -
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34: Greek Religion and Democracy and the Athenians by Athina Mitropoulos 9781350020993
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth... -
The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 9780140447804
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek... -
The Histories by Herodotus 9780199535668
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.20Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780393925340
Booksplease Price: $25.33Ovid's epic poem-whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages-is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present, when writers such... -
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from... -
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Diane J. Rayor
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $25.12Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all... -
Gods & Heroes: On the Trail of the Iliad and the Odyssey by Jill Dudley 9780955383472
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42Author & stalwart husband Harry follow in the footsteps of the heroes of the Trojan War. They travel to Turkey, Mt. Ida & Troy, then to Greece to see the palaces of the major Greek heroes, and end on... -
The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.05Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new translation reflects Catullus'... -
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 32 and 33: Love and Relationships and Politics of the Late Republic Matthew Barr (Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, UK) 9781350021037
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.81This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 32 and 33 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas'... -
Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with... -
The Tales of Ise by Peter Macmillan
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan.Along with the Tale of Genji and One Hundred... -
Learn Ancient Greek by Peter Jones
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $33.13Based on the same principles that lay behind the book "Learn Latin", this book provides the chance to read real ancient Greek. It teaches the reader enough Greek in 20 chapters to be able to read... -
Ovid Fasti: A Selection by Dr Robert Cromarty
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $25.27This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid, Fasti 2.533-616, 687-852, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction... -
Aeneid by Virgil
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.67'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas'... -
The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780199536788
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.67This prose translation of the Odyssey is so successful that it has taken its place as one of the few really outstanding versions of Homer's famous epic poem. It is the story of the return of Odysseus... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE 2025-2026 Judith Affleck 9781350161818
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.70This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2025 to 2026. The texts covered are: Homer Iliad VI, lines 370-413 and 429-502 Herodotus Sections... -
Sappho: A New Translation by Sappho 9780520305564
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.43These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's... -
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy by P. E. Easterling 9780521423519
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $57.70As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and... -
Classics: A Very Short Introduction by John Henderson
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.22This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson... -
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ..... -
Metamorphoses: The New, Annotated Edition by Ovid 9780253033598
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.31Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman... -
Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07'the glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal' The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and...