Ancient & Classical

The Silvae of Statius have been preserved in one very corrupt fifteenth-century manuscript; in this new Oxford Classical Text, Professor Courtney takes the view, held by Klotz alone among editors but strongly supported by recent discoveries of new...

Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLay down all hope, you that go in by me . . .Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils and rivers of blood, lies the ultimate evil: Satan himself. Masterfully translated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596865Author Xin QijiFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOn the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate...

At the beginning of Vergil's epic poem - long considered a classic of Western literature - the hero Aeneas escapes from the carnage of the Trojan War and embarks on a treacherous series of adventures that eventually lead him to the future site of Rome...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681379432Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

For a work written more than two thousand years ago, in a society in many ways quite alien to our own, Lucretius' De Rerum Natura contains much of striking, even startling, contemporary relevance. This is true, above all, of the fifth book, which...

Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479-1552) received an excellent classical education at the world-famous humanist schools of his native city. On his various travels in search of a patron, he visited Naples, frequenting the Academy there;...

This book positions Ovid's Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which...

A group of pilgrims assembles at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and sets out for the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. Along the way they tell tales to one another, painting pictures of their varied lives. When The Canterbury Tales first appeared...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788190149006Author Rachna ChopraFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint RA PublishingPublisher RA PublishingWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888304389Author VirgilFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513280226Author OvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

^'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'?Thus the judgement of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Yet for ...

Widely considered the first poet in the Western tradition to address the matter of his own experience, Hesiod occupies a seminal position in literary history. The Theogony brings together and formalizes many of the Greek myth narratives, detailing the...

Written in the late eighth century BC by Hesiod, one of the oldest known of Greek poets, ""Theogony and Works and Days"" represent the earliest account of the origin of the Greek gods, and an invaluable compendium of advice for leading a moral life, both...

In this new translation of the Homeric Hymns, Sarah Ruden employs a melodious and flexible non-rhyming line of eleven syllables, offering a close approximation of Greek hexameter verse in natural English rhythms. The result is a Homeric Hymns marked by...

Chartres as an intellectual and cultural force in the Renaissance of the twelfth century has engaged the attention of critics and scholars from R. L. Poole through Gilson, Curtius, and Huizinga to, most recently, Peter Dronke. Its importance as a poetic...

In 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 color images that help bring to life the contents of the...

In The Humblest Sparrow, Michael Roberts illuminates the poetry of the sixth-century bishop and poet Venantius Fortunatus. Often regarded as an important transitional figure, Fortunatus wrote poetry that is seen to bridge the late classical and earlier...

Returning home, a victor in the great Greek games of the fifth century B.C. could expect an exquisite choral performance in praise of his achievement?that is, if he had the foresight to hire Pindar. Self-conscious and tactful, yet proudly assertive,...

Homer's Iliad has captivated readers and influenced writers and artists for more than two thousand years. Reading the poem in its original language provides an experience as challenging as it is rewarding. Most students encountering Homeric Greek for the...

The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not...

In these splendid verse translations, Charles Martin makes newly accessible the work of one of ancient Rome's most widely read and exciting poets.It is the life and language of Roman streets that gives this poetry its force and lasting appeal. Catullus...

Written in the reign of Nero-the emperor against whom Lucan was implicated in a conspiracy and by whom he was compelled to commit suicide at the age of 25-the poet's dark, ambiguous, unfinished masterpiece focuses on the disintegration of the Roman body...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261330Author Edmund KeeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c. 535--600) has long been mined as a historical source for Merovingian society, a focus that overshadows an appreciation of the poems' literary value. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785996153Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions do not give the reader the full sense of its oral epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062046284Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441425149Author MR Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

This collection of texts is designed to supplement those currentlyavailable for use in courses on Hellenistic poetry. Most have neverbefore appeared in a similar collection; several have only recently beendiscovered. The individual commentaries have been...

Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of examples, it makes a distinctive contribution to the...

Scholars have long recognized Lucretius's De Rerum Natura as an important allusive source for the Aeneid, but significant disagreement persists regarding the scope and purpose of Virgil's engagement with Epicurean philosophy. In Atomism in the Aeneid,...

The fifteenth-century scholar and Augustinian friar John Capgrave took as his subject the virgin martyr Katherine of Alexandria, who was an anomalous cultural icon, a scholar, and a sovereign whose story unsettled traditional gender stereotypes yet was...

In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal's satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the second-century Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the...

This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451474339Author W.H.D. RouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 181g

The poetry of Virgil occupied a central position in the intellectual, artistic, and political lives of the Renaissance. This volume brings together studies by scholars from a range of academic disciplines, covering the crucial areas of education and...