Ancient & Classical

Three foundational Roman poets.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with three highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry.Livius Andronicus (born ca. 292 BC) was regarded by the Romans...

Aeneid Book 2Book InformationISBN 9780198721062Author VirgilFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 186mm * 122mm * 17mm

The master of New Comedy.Menander (?344/3-292/1 BC) of Athens, the leading playwright of the New Comedy, wrote more than 100 plays. Many of his comedies were adapted by Roman dramatists. By the middle ages, however, his works were lost. Then, at the end...

Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of...

This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence...

George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their...

In Book IV of Virgil's "Aeneid", one of the most studied books of that epic poem, Dido, queen of Carthage, is inflamed by love for Aeneas. The goddesses Juno and Venus plot to unite them, and their 'marriage' is consummated in a cave during a hunt...

Presented in their original medieval Latin and with commentary and notes in English, this is a translation of thirty poems from Carmina Burana. The Carmina Burana is a collection of poems, songs and sung religious drama from the twelfth and thirteenth...

"Other competent translations of Homer exist, but none accomplish what Merrill aims for: to convey to the reader-listener in translation the meaning and the sounds of Homer, coming as close as possible to the poetry of the original. Merrill accomplishes...

The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major developments in Roman religion, social organization, and popular...

The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of ancient women...

This text of the sixth book of the Aeneid includes a detailed commentary.ReviewsThroughout, Austin's characteristic sensitivity and refined judgement combine with careful scholarship to present a balanced, sound commentary on this most difficult and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147712554Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1264Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

The premier scholar-poet of the Hellenistic age.Callimachus (ca. 303-ca. 235 BC), a proud and well-born native of Cyrene in Libya, came as a young man to the court of the Ptolemies at Alexandria, where he composed poetry for the royal family; helped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942208115Author Sasha NewbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Bandanna BooksPublisher Bandanna BooksWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525743Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem,...

Stately verse.Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, offers thanks, admires a monument or artistic object, and describes a memorable scene. The...

The preeminent lyric poet of ancient Greece.Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's laurels." The esteem of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376059Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

This edition, first published by BCP in 1984, is designed - with its extensive annotation and vocabulary - to provide all the help required by the comparative beginner in Latin who is coming to Lucretius for the first time. At the same time the...

Ephrem the Syrian is the most important poet and theologian of the Syriac Christian tradition. His numerous hymns, homilies, and commentaries were highly influential for later generations, and his poetry continues to be broadly used in the liturgies of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473623562Author Gwyneth LesleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Outspoken Ink PressPublisher Outspoken Ink PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253779Author Paul RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 463g

Hallaj is the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, an early Sufi mystic. Despite his execution in Baghdad in 922 and the subsequent suppression of his work, Hallaj left an enduring literary and spiritual...

First published in 8 A.D. when he was 52, Ovid's epic poem contains profoundly entertaining tales of Adonis, Midas, Apollo, Icarus, and many others. (Poetry)About the AuthorDavid R. Slavitt, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has published more than...

Prudentius (b. 348 c.e.), one of the greatest Latin poets of late antiquity, was also a devoted Christian. His allegorical masterpiece, Psychomachia, combines epic language and theological speculation to offer a powerful vision of Roman and Christian...

The Roman comic playwright "whose every word delights."Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies-first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BC-imaginatively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Costa Book Awards (Poetry) 1999 and Costa Book Awards (Book of the Year) 1999 and ALA Notable Books (Poetry) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780374111199Author Seamus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523831Author David FerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 136g

The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major developments in Roman religion, social organization, and popular ...

A miscellany of mostly imperial verse.This two-volume anthology covers a period of four and a half centuries, beginning with the work of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus who flourished ca. 45 BC and ending with the graphic and charming poem of ...

They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when--as has...

"The Odyssey" is one of the earliest works of European literature, second only to "The Iliad". These two great epic poems, the astonishing first fruits of Greek civilisation, have together determined much of the course of Western literary culture and...

For well over a thousand years, from its composition in the early fifth century, the Psychomachia, the great allegory of moral strife within the divided soul by Latin poet Prudentius, remained a fountainhead of poetic and artistic inspiration-Dante,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644453452Author Mary Jo BangFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 160mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814209370Author Professor of Classics Marilyn B SkinnerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814204061Author Genevieve LiveleyFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of the three popes (all Italians): Urban VIII...