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Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care by John T. Hamilton
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most... -
Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science by Daryn Lehoux 9780199605408
Booksplease Price: £109.82Lucretius' didactic masterpiece De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity's fear of... -
Textual Events: Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece by Felix Budelmann 9780198805823
RRP: £107.50Booksplease Price: £103.52Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the... -
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753822937 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's... -
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753822937
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's... -
Poems from Greek Antiquity by Paul Quarrie
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £7.38There is a great deal more to Greek poetry than the Iliad or the Odyssey. Shorter masterpieces abound, and the lyrical and elegiac poems, odes, and epigrams in this volume give an unparalleled... -
Philosophers and Their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy since Kant by Charles Bambach 9781438477022
Booksplease Price: £26.07Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.Several of the most celebrated philosophers in the German tradition... -
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West: Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire by Nigel Nicholson 9780190209094
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £74.27The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives, " that circulated orally in Sicily and... -
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The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman 9780747596448 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.44_______________ 'A hugely enjoyable novel ... fast moving, complex and deeply satisfying' - Joanne Harris 'Lie back on your ottoman and relax. Katie Hickman will take you to a magical land ..... -
Maurice Blanchot: The Refusal of Philosophy by Gerald L. Bruns
Booksplease Price: £34.48As a novelist, essayist, critic, and theorist, Maurice Blanchot has earned tributes from authors as diverse as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, and Emmanuel Levinas. But their praise has told us... -
In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece Helen Lovatt 9781848857148
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £75.89Few classical stories are as romantic as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The stirring tale of an adventurer who was also a disenfranchised king's son and daring sea-captain has resonated through... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill 9780198713180
Booksplease Price: £39.85Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano,... -
The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater by Naomi A. Weiss 9780520295902
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss... -
Bridge of the Untiring Sea: The Corinthian Isthmus from Prehistory to Late Antiquity by Elizabeth R. Gebhard 9780876615485
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £58.16Pindar's metaphor of the Isthmus as a bridge spanning two seas encapsulates the essence of the place and gives a fitting title for this volume of 17 essays on the history and archaeology of the area... -
Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation by 9780198839606
Booksplease Price: £33.37The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such... -
In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham, UK) 9781350115125
Booksplease Price: £30.23Few classical stories are as exciting as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The legend of the boy, who discovers a new identity as son of a usurped king and leads a crew of demi-gods and famous... -
Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony by Claude Calame 9780691114583
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax... -
Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace by Andrew Norris
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of... -
Nemesis: A Novel of Old California by Joe Yogerst 9781943075508
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.67Forget Deadwood, Dodge, and Tombstone, the biggest, baddest boomtown of the 1880s was San Diego, California. The attraction wasn't gold or silver but cheap land, the promise of an oceanfront paradise... -
Er^os in Ancient Greece by Ed Sanders 9780199605507
Booksplease Price: £117.72This edited volume brings together eighteen articles which examine the role of eros as an emotion in ancient Greek culture. Arising out of a conference held at University College London in 2009, the... -
The New Politics of Olympos: Kingship in Kallimachos' Hymns by Michael Brumbaugh
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £63.20The New Politics of Olympos explores the dynamics of praise, power, and persuasion in Kallimachos' hymns, detailing how they simultaneously substantiate and interrogate the radically new phenomenon... -
Between The Monster And The Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition by Richard Holloway
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free will give us control over our lives but our minds are unpredictable places. We are susceptible to forces we don't understand. We are... -
The Cambridge Companion to Sappho by P. J. Finglass
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £31.25No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the most prominent lesbian voices in history, has ensured a... -
Estate Management and Symposium by Xenophon 9780198823513
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was... -
Hesiod's Theogony: From Near Eastern Creation Myths to Paradise Lost by Stephen Scully 9780190253967
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £94.19Stephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's own creation myth,... -
Sophocles: Ajax by P. J. Finglass 9781107676718
Booksplease Price: £41.67Sophocles' Ajax describes the fall of a mighty warrior denied the honour which he believed was his due. This edition of the play presents a text and critical apparatus which take full advantage of... -
Stesichorus: The Poems by Stesichorus 9781107435261
Booksplease Price: £55.45Stesichorus' lyric poetry vividly recreates the most dramatic episodes of Greek myth: the labours of Heracles, the sack of Troy, the vengeance of Orestes, and more besides. It can be appreciated... -
English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World: An Inkle and Yarico Reader by Frank Felsenstein
Booksplease Price: £27.60On March 13, 1711, an article appeared in The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violent death by Yarico, a beautiful... -
Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought by Deborah Tarn Steiner 9780691094885
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £48.07In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks... -
Anachronism and Antiquity by Tim Rood 9781350115200
Booksplease Price: £30.87This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity. It explores the post-classical origins and changing meanings of the term... -
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London Sarah Wise 9781844133307
Booksplease Price: £13.16Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three... -
Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language by John T. Hamilton 9780231142205
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches... -
Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 by Paul Glennie 9780199605125
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £42.15Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world and we take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary... -
Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800 by Paul Glennie 9780199278206
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £76.48Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary... -
English Literature and Ancient Languages by Kenneth Haynes 9780199212125
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Literature in English is hardly ever entirely in English. Contact with other languages takes place, for example, whenever foreign languages are introduced, or if a native style is self-consciously... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill
Booksplease Price: £36.92Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano,... -
Grand Hotel Europa by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era. ... -
Jews in Ancient and Medieval Armenia: First Century Bce - Fourteenth Century Ce by Michael E Stone
Booksplease Price: £80.81It was once common consensus that there was no significant Jewish community in ancient and medieval Armenia. The discovery and excavation (1997-2002) of a Jewish cemetery of the thirteenth-fourteenth... -
Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature by Sebastian Matzner 9780198814061
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £83.93This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice... -
The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse Christopher Childers 9780141392134
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73The poets in this book are philosophers and statesmen; priestesses and warriors; teenage girls, concerned for their birthday celebrations; drunkards and brawlers; grumpy old men and chic young things...