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Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius Nadya Williams 9780310171072
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Can 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!"... -
Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture: Studies in the Traditions of Drama and Lyric by Richard Hunter 9781107151475
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.02This book offers a series of studies of the idea and practice of reperformance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama. Special attention is paid to the range of phenomena which fall under the... -
Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry: Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE by Zoe Stamatopoulou 9781107162990
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £92.34Hesiod 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... -
The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece by Stamatia Dova 9781032474540
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece offers an innovative approach to archaic and classical Greek literature by focusing on an original and rather unexplored topic. Through close readings of... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 110 by Richard F. Thomas 9780674237315
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22This volume includes: Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, "Half Slave, Half Free: Partial Manumission in the Ancient Near East and Beyond"; Chris Eckerman, "I Weave a Variegated Headband:... -
More than Homer Knew - Studies on Homer and His Ancient Commentators: In Honor of Franco Montanari by 9783110693584
RRP: £151.00Booksplease Price: £101.68This book contains a collection of twenty-one essays in honour of Professor Franco Montanari by eminent specialists on Homer, ancient Homeric scholarship, and the reception of the Homeric Epics in... -
Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism by Langdon Hammer 9780691605838
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Focusing on the vexed friendship between Hart Crane and Allen Tate, this book examines twentieth-century American poetry's progress toward institutional sanction and professional organization, a... -
Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World Giacomo Fedeli 9781009464529
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.87Covering a wide variety of Greek and Latin texts that span from the Archaic period down to Late Antiquity, this volume represents the first concerted attempt to understand ancient literary history in... -
A Garden of Greek Verse: Poems of Ancient Greece by J Getty 9780892366095
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892366095Author J GettyFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Getty PublicationsPublisher Getty Trust... -
Three Archaic Poets: Archilochus, Alcaeus, Sappho by Anne Pippin Burnett 9781853995781
Booksplease Price: £26.90This 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... -
Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets J B Leishman 9780415612241
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37First published in 1961. This study analyses Shakespeare's treatment of the universal themes of Beauty, Love and Time. He compares Shakespeare with other great poets and sonnet writers - Pindar,... -
Epinician Odes and Dithyrambs of Bacchylides by David R. Slavitt 9780812234473
Booksplease Price: £31.71Until a century ago, the fifth-century Greek poet Bacchylides was known only by 107 nonsequential lines buried as quotations in the writings of other ancient authors. With the discovery in 1896 of a... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 101 by Charles Segal 9780674012738
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22Volume 101 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: Stephen Scully, "Reading the Shield of Achilles: Terror, Anger, Delight"; Hugh Lloyd-Jones, "Zeus,... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 78 by W. V. Clausen 9780674379244
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.92Among the eleven articles in this volume, dedicated to Mason Hammond, are "The Emergence of Mediaeval Towns: Independence or Continuity?" by Professor Hammond; "Existimatio, Fama, and... -
Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture: Studies in the Traditions of Drama and Lyric by Richard Hunter 9781316607473
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £36.85This book offers a series of studies of the idea and practice of reperformance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama. Special attention is paid to the range of phenomena which fall under the... -
Holderlin and the Dynamics of Translation Charlie Louth 9781900755115
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £71.14Friedrich Holderlin's translations have long been seen as some of the most fascinating ever made, so radical and unconventional that they have altered our ideas of what translation is. Based on a... -
Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb 9781108008983
Booksplease Price: £49.54Sir Richard Jebb's edition of Bacchylides' Odes, published in 1905, remains an authoritative work today. Jebb (1841-1905) was the most distinguished classicist of his generation, a Fellow of Trinity... -
Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece Adrian Kelly 9781108840118
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.00Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the... -
Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece by Tom Phillips 9780198794462
Booksplease Price: £117.42What difference does music make to performance poetry, and how did the ancients themselves understand this relationship? Although scholars have long recognized the importance of music to ancient... -
Praelections Delivered before the Senate of the University of Cambridge: 25, 26, 27 January 1906 by Henry Jackson 9781107648111
Booksplease Price: £23.66Originally published in 1906, this volume gathers together the candidate praelections for the Regius Professorship of Greek at the University of Cambridge, given during January 1906 at the Senate... -
Critique of Taste by Galvano Della Volpe 9780860915652
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Galvano Della Volpe was the dominant philosopher of Italian Marxism for twenty years after the Liberation. His most important book was a work of aesthetic theory - Critique of Taste. Della Volpe,... -
Greek Personal Religion: A Reader Stephen Instone 9780856688980
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.55The relationship between the individual and the divine in ancient Greece is a complex one, which has tended to be neglected in favour of studies of state religion, festivals, sanctuaries and... -
Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality by Sarah Nooter 9781009320405
Booksplease Price: £23.27This book suggests that poetry offers a way to remain in the world – not only by declarations of intent or the promotion of remembrance, but also through the durable physicality of its practice... -
Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books: With Introduction, Text, Apparatus, Commentary, Appendices, Indices, Maps by Herodotus 9781108009706
Booksplease Price: £43.64Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, the classical scholar Reginald Walter Macan (1848-1941) published in 1908 this two-volume edition (in three parts) of the last books of Herodotus,... -
Bacchylides: A Selection by Bacchylides
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £33.01Bacchylides (c. 520-450 BC) was one of the nine Greek lyric poets selected as models of this genre by the Alexandrian scholars who first collected and edited their songs in the 3rd century BC... -
PS3569.L3: Poems by David R. Slavitt 9780807123010
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.14PS3569.L3, David R. Slavitt's sixtieth book, is a collection of poems, translations, imitations, parodies, jeux de mots, and jeux d'esprit, work that ranges from grief-stricken brooding to exuberant... -
British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789-1832 by Gary Dyer 9780521563574
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99This book surveys and interprets the hundreds of satirical poems and prose narratives published in Britain during the Romantic period. Although satire was a major genre with a wide readership, such... -
Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece: From Homer to the Fifth Century by Bruno Gentili
Booksplease Price: £27.71Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner... -
Orphics by 9780873387583
Booksplease Price: £5.78A collection of sonnets written in a playful manner.About the AuthorLeonard Kress is assistant professor of communications at Owens Community College. His previous publications include Sappho's... -
Lyric Quotation in Plato by Marian Demos 9780847689095
Booksplease Price: £37.42In this book, Marian Demos demonstrates the significance of three famous lyric quotations within their respective contexts in the dialogues of Plato. Demos reminds us that familiarity with the lyric... -
Reading the Victory Ode by Peter Agocs 9781107527515
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.74The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely... -
Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality by Sarah Nooter 9781009320351
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79This book suggests that poetry offers a way to remain in the world – not only by declarations of intent or the promotion of remembrance, but also through the durable physicality of its practice... -
Reading the Victory Ode by Peter Agocs 9781107007871
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.30The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely... -
Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art: Ancient Emotions I by George Kazantzidis 9783110710137
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £20.10Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of... -
Interaction in Poetic Imagery: With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry by M. S. Silk 9781009469593
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £77.29This path-breaking book has made an unusual and original contribution to literary theory by means of a study of the literature of ancient Greece. It investigates an aspect of poetic imagery in the... -
The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780393923285
Booksplease Price: £14.24This Norton Critical Edition includes: Oliver Taplin's new translation of the fifth-century B.C.E. Greek tragedy-a trilogy of revenge and murder within the royal family of Argos-with explanatory... -
Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art: Ancient Emotions I by George Kazantzidis 9783110596878
RRP: £144.50Booksplease Price: £97.60Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of... -
Greek Lyric: v. 4: Bacchylides, Corinna and Others by David A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.31Precious snippets of ancient song.Bacchylides, nephew of Simonides and rival of Pindar, wrote choral poetry of many types. We have a number of his victory odes-poems celebrating victories in athletic... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 100 by Charles Segal 9780674006560
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.43This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students, and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays... -
Greek Lyric Poetry by David A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £43.09This edition provides a full and representative selection of all early Greek lyric (omitting Pindar, who requires his own volume), elegiac and iambic poetry. First published in 1967 in the 'red...