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Arms and the Self: War, the Military, and Autobiographical Writing by 9780873389105
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52War, armed conflict, and military service have likely inspired more textual testimonies than any other human event. With contributing authors such as Lynn Z. Bloom, Margaretta Jolly, Robert... -
Plato and the Stoics by A. G. Long 9781108436656
Booksplease Price: $45.76Plato was central both to the genesis of Stoic theory and to subsequent debates within the Stoa. These essays provide new and detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and the... -
Historia Animalium: Bk. 7-10 by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $25.74Inductive zoology.In History of Animals Aristotle analyzes "differences"-in parts, activities, modes of life, and character-across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes,... -
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia by Paul R. McKechnie 9780856683589
Booksplease Price: $40.54The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, substantial fragments of history by an anonymous 4th century writer, cover the years 410 BC and 396 BC a period which is at the heart of most students' study of Greek... -
Space and Time in Ancient Greek Narrative by Alex C. Purves 9781107647909
Booksplease Price: $58.45In this wide-ranging survey of ancient Greek narrative from archaic epic to classical prose, Alex Purves shows how stories unfold in space as well as in time. She traces a shift in authorial... -
Plato and the Stoics by A. G. Long 9781107040595
Booksplease Price: $128.26Plato was central both to the genesis of Stoic theory and to subsequent debates within the Stoa. These essays provide new and detailed explorations of the complex relationship between Plato and the... -
Historia Animalium: Bk. 4-6 by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $25.74Inductive zoology.In History of Animals Aristotle analyzes "differences"-in parts, activities, modes of life, and character-across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes,... -
Historia Animalium: Bk. 1-3 by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $25.74Inductive zoology.In History of Animals Aristotle analyzes "differences"-in parts, activities, modes of life, and character-across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes,... -
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths by Robin Waterfield 9780393065275
RRP: $48.38Booksplease Price: $43.10Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. In 399 BCE, the great philosopher stood before an Athenian jury on serious charges: impiety and "subverting the young... -
Thucydides and Sparta by Anton Powell
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $81.37Thucydides is widely seen as the most dispassionate and reliable contemporary source for the history of classical Sparta. But, compared with partisan authors such as Xenophon and Plutarch, his... -
Greek Education: 450-350 B.C. by Frederick G. A. Beck 9781138778443
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55This study, first published in 1964, presents a highly readable but scholarly account of Greek education as exemplified by Athenian practise in the period 450-350 B.C. In a substantial introductory... -
Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days by Richard Hunter 9781107046900
Booksplease Price: $128.65This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic... -
Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod's Works and Days by Richard Hunter 9781107624979
Booksplease Price: $50.83This book selects central texts illustrating the literary reception of Hesiod's Works and Days in antiquity and considers how these moments were crucial in fashioning the idea of 'didactic... -
Concordia Discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature by Andrew Scholtz 9780674025981
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $18.31Writing to a friend, Horace describes the man as fascinated by "the discordant harmony of the cosmos, its purpose and power." Andrew Scholtz takes this notion of "discordant harmony" and argues for... -
The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam by James Tatum 9780226789941
Booksplease Price: $39.00No matter when or where they are fought, all wars have one thing in common: an aftermath marked by monuments and membrials for the dead. In turn, mourning and remembrance are fundamental to wartime... -
The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens by Kate Gilhuly 9780521899987
Booksplease Price: $81.30In The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens, Kate Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife, and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests... -
Leo Strauss` Published but Uncollected English Writings by Leo Strauss 9781587314612
Booksplease Price: $46.50Any presentation of political philosophy in the 20th century is radically incomplete without Leo Strauss. The appearance of this collection is particularly important given the relentless but shifting... -
The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam by James Tatum 9780226789934
Booksplease Price: $118.42No matter when or where they are fought, all wars have one thing in common: an aftermath marked by monuments and membrials for the dead. In turn, mourning and remembrance are fundamental to wartime... -
Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea-Theory and its Literary Context by Ian Rutherford 9780198147299
Booksplease Price: $52.57The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between literature and stylistic theory in the Antonine Age. The literature is the prose literature of the Second Sophistic and the stylistic... -
Socrates and Self-Knowledge by Christopher Moore 9781107123304
Booksplease Price: $128.26In this book, the first systematic study of Socrates' reflections on self-knowledge, Christopher Moore examines the ancient precept 'Know yourself' and, drawing on Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and... -
Greek Mercenaries: From the Late Archaic Period to Alexander Matthew Trundle (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 9780415486910
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86This book provides a detailed picture of the life of these Greek mercenaries, analyzing who they were and from what section of society they came. It explores their motivations, their relationships... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $17.40Booksplease Price: $13.49The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece Robin Waterfield (Writer and translator) 9780199656462
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.18The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire... -
Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians by Peter Hunt 9780521584296
Booksplease Price: $77.49This book challenges conventional opinion by arguing that slaves and Helots played an important part in classical Greek warfare. Although rival city-states often used these classes in their own... -
Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians by Peter Hunt 9780521893909
Booksplease Price: $57.17This book challenges conventional opinion by arguing that slaves and Helots played an important part in classical Greek warfare. Although rival city-states often used these classes in their own... -
A Short History of Ethics and Economics: The Greeks by James E. Alvey 9781847202017
Booksplease Price: $133.89Arising from a disenchantment with mainstream economics - a dissatisfaction that is widespread today - A Short History of Economics and Ethics sketches the emergence and decline of the ethical... -
Textualization of Experience: Studies on Ancient Greek Literature by Pawel Majewski 9783631832820
RRP: $59.79Booksplease Price: $54.09The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek... -
Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Genre and History by James T. Chlup
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes... -
Land and Labor in the Greek World by Alison Burford
Booksplease Price: $37.28What value did the Greeks put on farming beyond its capacity to produce food? Who owned the land, and who worked it? Alison Burford examines the Greeks' preoccupation with land and agriculture to... -
Kostas Varnalis's Papers: The Poet's Workshop and History (Modern Greek) by Theano Michailidou 9789608696099
Booksplease Price: $27.62Kostas Varnalis (1884-1974) was a Bulgarian-born Greek writer and member of the demoticist movement in Greece. An important contemporary of Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis, Varnalis's... -
Understanding Ancient Battle: Combat in the Classical World from the Unit Commander’s Perspective by Hugh Elton 9781526753977
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.66Traditional military history of battles focussed on the strategies of great leaders, though in modern times many scholars have discussed the ‘face of battle’, describing the personal experience of... -
Wonder and the Marvelous in Hellenistic Literature Alessandro Giardini 9783119145053
RRP: $141.26Booksplease Price: $91.25This volume explores the concepts of wonder and the marvelous in literary and philosophical texts from the fourth and third centuries BCE. It argues that wonder-an emotion whose distinct cognitive... -
The Spell of Hypnos: Sleep and Sleeplessness in Ancient Greek Literature by Silvia Montiglio 9781350197435
Booksplease Price: $44.94Sleep was viewed as a boon by the ancient Greeks: sweet, soft, honeyed, balmy, care-loosening, as the Iliad has it. But neither was sleep straightforward, nor safe. It could be interrupted, often by... -
The Greek Historians by T. James Luce
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century B.C. The first historians owed much to Homer and adopted his vivid and direct style in narrating historical events. Yet, despite... -
Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece by Aeschylus, Aesop, Alexander the Great, Anaxagoras, Antisthenes, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Bias of Pri Citium 9786185048716
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep and painful awareness of the dark abyss that it... -
A Grammar of the Persian Language by William Jones 9789390035847
Booksplease Price: $69.32The Persian language is rich, melodious and elegant; it has been spoken for ages by the greatest princes in the political courts of Asia and a number of admirable works have been written in it by... -
Aristophanes and Alcibiades: Echoes of Contemporary History in Athenian Comedy by Michael Vickers 9783110578225
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $17.58The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades' paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that "masks were made to look... -
Kierkegaard's Writings, II, Volume 2: The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $52.54A work that "not only treats of irony but is irony," wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates. Presented here with Kierkegaard's notes of the... -
The Straits from Troy to Constantinople: The Ancient History of the Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara and Bosporos by Grainger, John D 9781399013246
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.81In ancient times, the series of waterways now known as the Turkish Straits, comprising the Dardanelles (or Hellespont), Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus, formed both a divide and a bridge between... -
Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to Desire by Rachel Bird 9781350108646
Booksplease Price: $131.85This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their...