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A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature by Victoria Moul 9781107029293
Booksplease Price: £106.48Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and... -
Ventriloquise by Ned Denny 9781800173316
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62And deeper still than this, my eyes penetrate far into the earth as if it was an agate: foundations, dungeons, subterranean cities where thwarted joyance wages its atrocities... (from 'Dusk: An... -
Literary Papyri Poetry: Selections: v. 3 by D. L. Page
Booksplease Price: £25.68Scraps of verse from the sands of Egypt.The papyri found in Egypt have yielded fragments large and small of ancient literary authors. We include in this volume from the 5th-4th centuries BC fragments... -
A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology by Jon O. Newman 9780807827901
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £82.12This work is a comprehensive genealogical chart of virtually all of the named figures of Greek mythology that can be shown to be related. The product of more than 35 years of research, the text... -
Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus by D. Gary Miller 9781614514930
RRP: £132.00Booksplease Price: £89.48Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent... -
A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature by Victoria Moul 9781108820066
Booksplease Price: £38.72Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and... -
Four Nights With the Duke by Eloisa James
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Eloisa James returns with another fabulous romance in her New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series!As a young girl, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington told the annoying future Duke of Pindar... -
Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography by A. D. Morrison
Booksplease Price: £99.43This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of... -
The House of Clay by Peter McDonald 9781857548716
Booksplease Price: £14.19"The House of Clay" is Peter McDonald's fourth book of poems, containing lyrics which combine intense resonance of narrative and imagery with powerful formal concentration. Autobiographical material,... -
Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography by A. D. Morrison 9781108729253
Booksplease Price: £25.04This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of... -
State Pilgrims and Sacred Observers in Ancient Greece: A Study of Theoria and Theoroi by Ian Rutherford 9781108729956
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.97For at least a thousand years Greek cities took part in religious activities outside their territory by sending sacred delegates to represent them. The delegates are usually called theoroi, literally... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: Includes Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon, Simonides and many more by M. L. West
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.14The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest... -
Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age by Alexander Kirichenko 9780192866707
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £97.88Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko... -
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions by Richard Hunter 9780521836845
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children... -
The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions by Richard Hunter 9780521069823
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £44.52The Catalogue of Women, ascribed to Hesiod, one of the greatest figures of early hexameter poetry, maps the Greek world, its evolution and its heroic myths through the mortal women who bore children... -
Stesichorus in Context by P. J. Finglass 9781107645660
Booksplease Price: £32.12The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in antiquity; but by about AD 400 his works had been almost completely lost. Over recent decades, however, the recovery of substantial... -
Stesichorus in Context by P. J. Finglass 9781107069732
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.57The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in antiquity; but by about AD 400 his works had been almost completely lost. Over recent decades, however, the recovery of substantial... -
In Ghostlight: Poems by Ryan Wilson 9780807181294
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In Ghostlight, a long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson, considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems range... -
Worse Than War: Genocide, eliminationism and the ongoing assault on humanity by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen 9780349115573
Booksplease Price: £31.53Daniel Jonah Goldhagen brings us now an original and important study of genocide that reconceives its very nature. He does so not by examining a series of genocides but by exploring the nature of... -
Eros at the Banquet: Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium by L. Pratt 9780806141428
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42After studying ancient Greek for a year, students often become discouraged when presented with unabridged classical texts that offer only minimal supportive apparatus.In welcome contrast, this... -
Class in Archaic Greece by Peter W. Rose
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.05Archaic Greece saw a number of decisive changes, including the emergence of the polis, the foundation of Greek settlements throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea, the organization of panhellenic... -
Scenic Driving New York: Including the Adirondacks, the Catskills, and the Finger Lakes by Randi Minetor
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.18To enjoy all that New York state roadways have to offer, jump in the car and drive to sweeping lake or ocean views, lush vineyard landscapes, or breathtaking mountain vistas. Featuring more than... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780198736479
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to... -
British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789-1832 by Gary Dyer 9780521027441
Booksplease Price: £32.12This 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... -
Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy by P. J. Finglass 9781108817059
Booksplease Price: £32.12How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the... -
Ancient Greek Lyrics by William McCulloh
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry-including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated. This volume includes a representative... -
Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850-2000 Eric Bulson (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA) 9780415800532
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23"Novels, Maps, Modernity is a remarkable book that promises to transform our knowledge of the representation of space in modern fiction." - Brian Richardson, University of Maryland"Bulson's... -
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism by Richard Hunter 9780521898782
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £57.22Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces... -
The Soldier's Choice: City and Soul in the Life of Classical Athens Charles Brittain 9781501783487
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95In the pitch of battle, according to Pericles, the Athenian citizen-soldier chooses to die rather than leave undefended the democratic principles that Athens embodies: this defines The Soldier's... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393655063
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.03This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes and book-by-book summaries... -
Psychoanalysis and Repetition: Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes? by Juan-David Nasio 9781438475103
Booksplease Price: £24.35Addresses unconscious repetition, a concept that is crucial to an understanding of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.In Psychoanalysis and Repetition, Juan-David Nasio, one of the leading... -
Homeric Hymns by Peter McDonald 9781784101763
Booksplease Price: £17.95The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon, and Peter McDonald's new verse translations offer the major modern account of this still under-appreciated body of ancient poetry... -
A Literary History of Greece by Robert Flaceliere
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.53There are several good histories of Greek literature of various shapes and sizes, but the purpose of this book is not simply to consider the literature of ancient Greece as an isolated subject,... -
Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy by P. J. Finglass
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £75.82How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 111 by Richard F. Thomas 9780674268999
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.92This volume includes: Daniel Koelligen, " , The Watchdog"; Richard L. Phillips, "Invisibility and Sight in Homer: Some Aspects of A. S. Pease Reconsidered"; Antonio Tibiletti, "Pondering Pindaric... -
How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality by Sarah Nooter 9780691248615
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.29An irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and loveEros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again,that bittersweet, implacable creature.-SapphoThe idea of sexual... -
Choral Constructions in Greek Culture: The Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period by Deborah Tarn Steiner
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £90.49Why did the Greeks of the archaic and early Classical period join in choruses that sang and danced on public and private occasions? This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of representations of... -
Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen by Professor Susanna Morton Braund 9780521036429
Booksplease Price: £32.12Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only... -
Classical Mythology: The Basics Richard Martin 9781032117270
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.12This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once shaped ancient ways of thinking, and how they... -
Haydn and His World Elaine R. Sisman 9780691057996
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored. From...