Ancient & Classical

Ovid'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 myths as you've never read them before-sensuous,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862922115Author Gaius Valerius CatullusFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

The brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. In this new edition of their translations, Edward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088064887Author Hannah LinderFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 14mm

George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the...

Lyons's acclaimed verse translation of the Odes is here fully revised and included with revealing new material on Horace and the nature of his work. The book describes the life and times of Horace. It places his experiences and writings in the...

"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Those who want a translation that captures something of the spirit of an ancient Greek poetic voice and its...

The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best-loved poems. It has survived for twenty-eight centuries, through upheavals that have wiped out most of what was written in the ancient world. Now Barry B. Powell, one of the twenty-first century's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760426Author MartialFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Fabulous verse.Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a Hellenized Roman living in Asia Minor during the late first century of...

Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how the poet expresses values and traditions that remain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307595Author Kabir HelminskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of subject matter and...

This edition of Book III of Eutropius's Breviarium ab urbe condita is designed to be a student's first encounter with authentic, unabridged Latin prose. Written in a simple and direct style, the Breviarium covers the period of Roman history that students...

Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the...

Ovid is a poet to enjoy, declares William S. Anderson in his introduction to this textbook. And Anderson's skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use.In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906515617Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 121gDimensions(mm)...

Students of Latin have long enjoyed the poetry of Ovid, but his love poems, aptly titled Amores, have proved more difficult to introduce into the classroom. Curricular changes and increased appreciation of sophisticated love poetry are finally making...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585092147Author Morris Jastrow, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Book Tree,USPublisher Book Tree,USWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the...

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving...

Ovid's epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have...

The Milan Papyrus ( P. Mil. Volg. VIII. 309), containing a collection of epigrams apparently all by Posidippus of Pella, provides one of the most exciting new additions to the corpus of Greek literature in decades. It not only contains over 100...

A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catullus...

The eleven books of poetry by Venantius Fortunatus include well-loved hymns, figure poems, epigrams on miracles, and elegies in the voices of abandoned or exiled women. The sixth-century poet began his career in northern Italy before moving to Gaul,...

This study of early Greek lyric provides portraits of Archilochus, Alcaeus and Sappho and their poetry. It looks at their social setting, and their purposes within it.This study of early Greek lyric provides portraits of Archilochus, Alcaeus and Sappho...

Michael Marullus (c. 1453/4-1500), born in Greece, began life as a mercenary soldier but became a prominent Neo-Latin poet and scholar who worked in Florence and Naples. He married the beautiful and learned Alessandra Scala, daughter of the humanist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787374607Author Professor George ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Jacopo Sannazaro (1456-1530), considered by some authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance, spent most of his career in Naples, where he was a member and ultimately the head of the Accademia Pontaniana. He is most famous for having...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906515044Author LucanFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451674187Author Reader in Classics Stephen MitchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Washington Square PressPublisher Washington Square...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615612652Author David HadbawnikFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *...

Lyrica Graeca SelectaReviewsAn indispensable teaching text, striking the right balance of text and major variant readings in the apparatus criticus for introducing college students to the reading of fragmentary ancient Greek poetry. * Cashman Kerr...

This lively translation accurately captures the wit and uncensored bawdiness of the epigrams of Martial, who satirized Roman society, both high and low, in the first century CE. His pithy little poems amuse, but also offer vivid insight into the world of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553210415Author VirgilFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 104mm...

Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 B.C.) is known primarily as the Roman author of the long didactic poem ""De Rerum Natura"" (""On the Nature of Things""). In it, he set out to explicate the universe, embracing and refuting ideas of the great Greek...

Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Greeks and Romans, his funny, sexy,...

A princely tale inspired by Christianity and Buddhism.One of the best known examples of the hagiographic novel, this is the tale of an Indian prince who becomes aware of the world's miseries and is converted to Christianity by the monk Barlaam. Barlaam...

A scholarly edition of a work by Lucretius. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198144571Author LucretiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint...

Homer and the Poetics of Gesture is the first book of its kind to consider the epic formula in terms that are gestural as well as verbal. Drawing on studies from multiple disciplines, including movement theory, dance studies, phenomenology, and early...