Filter By
Books (623)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation by Rebecca Futo Kennedy 9781603849944
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $37.15By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of... -
Christopher Marlowe: The Plays and Their Sources by Vivien Thomas 9780415513234
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.81This major work brings together, for the first time in a single volume, all the recognized sources of Marlowe's dramatic work. Many of the forty-two texts presented here are of outstanding interest... -
Visible Spirit: The Art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Volume II by Irving Lavin 9781904597551
Booksplease Price: $65.71As early as the 1950s, Professor Irving Lavin was recognized as a major voice in American art history. His sustained production of seminal scholarly contributions have left their mark on an... -
Studies in Byzantine, Islamic and Near Eastern Silk Weaving by Anna Muthesius 9781904597605
Booksplease Price: $87.76This volume complements Anna Muthesius' two earlier ground-breaking volumes in the field of silk as material culture: Studies in Byzantine and Islamic Silk Weaving and Studies in Silk in Byzantium... -
The Beginnings of European Theorizing: Reflexivity in the Archaic Age: Logological Investigations: Volume Two by Barry Sandywell
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $61.93In Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason Barry Sandywell outlined and defended a central place for reflexivity in the human sciences. In this second equally outstanding Volume of Logological... -
Roman Museums: Selected Papers on Roman Art and Architecture by Donald E. Strong 9780907132752
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $101.72This selection of nineteen papers by the late Professor Donald Strong is grouped thematically into four sections: general papers, architectural studies, sculpture, and acquisitons made by the... -
Studies in Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture by Neil Stratford 9780907132950
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $112.46Romanesque sculpture in Burgundy has always been seen as central to our understanding of the history and culture of 11th and 12th century Europe, standing as it does at a cross-roads between north... -
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
Booksplease Price: $27.20"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... -
Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture: The Politics of Reaction and the Poetics of Place by Dafydd Moore
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsex'd Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a historian, translator, memoirist, and poet. As an... -
The Beginnings of European Theorizing: Reflexivity in the Archaic Age: Logological Investigations: Volume Two by Barry Sandywell 9780415101691
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $194.61In Reflexivity and the Crisis of Western Reason Barry Sandywell outlined and defended a central place for reflexivity in the human sciences. In this second equally outstanding Volume of Logological... -
Orestes by Euripides 9780195096590
RRP: $47.23Booksplease Price: $38.18A translation of Euripides's Orestes by Peck, a poet, and Nisetich, a classicist, with introduction, glossary, and full stage directions.New in the Greek Tragedy in New Translations seriesAbout the... -
Early Modern Tales of Orient: A Critical Anthology Kenneth Parker 9780415147576
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58Early Modern Tales of Orient is the first volume to collect together these travellers' tales and make them available to today's students and scholars. By introducing a fascinating array of accounts... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 95 by W. V. Clausen 9780674379435
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $72.30This volume of eighteen articles offers: Andrew R. Dyck, "The Fragments of Heliodorus Homericus"; Hayden Pelliccia, "Aeschylus, Eumenides 64-88 and the Ex Cathedra Language of Apollo"; G. Zuntz,... -
Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs by Lyn Hatherly Wilson 9780415126700
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $176.57This study recreates and examines a voice that sings of the dreams and interactions of women and tells of the bodies, rhythms and desires of the women of Sappho's circle.Book InformationISBN... -
Studies in Byzantium, Venice and the West by Otto Demus 9781899828081
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $244.04Professor Otto Demus's work on Byzantine art represents one of the great original contributions to the subject made in this century. His early studies in the 1930s on the "mosaics of Greece were... -
Art and Archaeology of Antiquity Volume II by Cornelius C Vermeule 9781899828807
Booksplease Price: $65.71Over the last fifty years Professor Cornelius Vermeule, formerly curator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, has consolidated his reputation as one of the foremost American... -
Sappho's Sweetbitter Songs Lyn Hatherly Wilson 9780415126717
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $62.60This study recreates and examines a voice that sings of the dreams and interactions of women and tells of the bodies, rhythms and desires of the women of Sappho's circle.Book InformationISBN... -
Studies in Pictorial Narrative Herbert Kessler 9780907132776
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $242.36Written over the course of a quarter century, the nineteen essays reprinted in this volume reflect a continuing belief in the seriousness and complexity of the relationship between pictures and texts... -
Sources for the History of British India in the Seventeenth Century by Shafaat Ahmad Khan
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.42This book, first published in 1926, is neither a catalogue of libraries and record offices, no is it a selection of transcripts from the English and Indian archives. The object of the undertaking is... -
Studies in Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Painting by Per Jonas Nordhagen 9780907132479
Booksplease Price: $193.81Per Jonas Nordhagen's work on the frescoes of S. Maria Antiqua in Rome is of fundamental importance to the study of early medieval art in Italy. This volume brings together for the first time... -
In Search of the Unknown in Medieval Architecture by John James 9781904597360
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $244.04John James is an Australian architect and medieval historian. Since 1969 he has been searching for the origins of the Gothic style, beginning with a five-year study of Chartres cathedral. At that... -
Studies in the Art of China and South-east Asia: v. 1 by Michael Sullivan 9780907132417
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $102.77Professor Sullivan is a leading authority on the art of China, and has published a number of standard works on both traditional and modern Chinese art. These two volumes bring together for the first... -
The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry by Andrew D. Morrison 9780521874502
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $220.69This text re-examines the relationship of Hellenistic poetry to Archaic poetry. It demonstrates how Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius develop their primary narrators or main narrative voices - a... -
Cognition, Literature, and History Mark J. Bruhn 9781138547957
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $97.63Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind... -
Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece by Leslie Kurke
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $143.28The invention of coinage in ancient Greece provided an arena in which rival political groups struggled to imprint their views on the world. Here Leslie Kurke analyzes the ideological functions of... -
Silence in the Land of Logos by Silvia Montiglio
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $82.01In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence... -
Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose by Leslie Kurke 9780691144580
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $88.16Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 102 by Albert Henrichs 9780674019607
RRP: $88.10Booksplease Price: $73.96Volume 102 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: Mika Kajava, "Hestia: Hearth, Goddess, and Cult"; Jonathan Burgess, "Untrustworthy Apollo and the Destiny of... -
Studies in Medieval Islamic Architecture, Volume II by Professor Robert Hillenbrand 9781899828760
Booksplease Price: $65.71Professor Hillenbrand has written extensively over the last twenty-five years on Islamic architecture from Spain to India and from the seventh to the twentieth century. He has paid consistent... -
Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art by James J. Clauss
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $104.77From the dawn of European literature, the figure of Medea--best known as the helpmate of Jason and murderer of her own children--has inspired artists in all fields throughout all centuries... -
Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets by Horace 9780691119816
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94They 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... -
The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry by Andrew D. Morrison 9780521201056
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $91.64This text re-examines the relationship of Hellenistic poetry to Archaic poetry. It demonstrates how Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius develop their primary narrators or main narrative voices - a... -
Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence by Carl Kerenyi
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $68.92Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the... -
Poetics before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry by Grace M Ledbetter 9780691096094
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $137.13Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view... -
The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual by Francois Lissarrague
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.63In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth... -
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric by Felix Budelmann
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $78.62Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its... -
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric by Felix Budelmann 9780521849449
RRP: $207.90Booksplease Price: $198.26Greek lyric poetry encompassed a wide range of types of poem, from elegy to iambos and dithyramb to epinician. It particularly flourished in the Archaic and Classical periods, and some of its... -
Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius Nadya Williams 9780310171072
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues?Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal "Yes!"... -
Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry: Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE by Zoe Stamatopoulou
Booksplease Price: $65.60Hesiod was regarded by the Greeks as a foundational figure of their culture, alongside Homer. This book examines the rich and varied engagement of fifth-century lyric and drama with the poetic corpus... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 92 by R. J. Tarrant 9780674379404
RRP: $128.00Booksplease Price: $104.90This volume of twenty-two articles includes: Charles F. Ahern, Jr., "Daedalus and Icarus in the Ars Amatoria"; T. D. Barnes, "Structure and Chronology in Ammianus, Book 14"; Daniel R. Blickman,...