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Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology by Daryl Hine 9780691088204
Booksplease Price: $64.74Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly... -
The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94The Roman poet Propertius is best known as the writer who perfected the Latin love elegy, a technical as much as a psychological and cultural feat. Propertius has been admired for both his metrical... -
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the... -
The Poets of Alexandria by Susan A. Stephens 9781848858800
Booksplease Price: $43.47Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most... -
Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems by Fabio Pusterla 9780691245102
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poetBrief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language... -
Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems by Fabio Pusterla 9780691245096
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.75Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poetBrief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language... -
The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry by Andrew D. Morrison 9780521201056
Booksplease Price: $101.35This 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... -
Literary Criticism in Antiquity: Volume 1: Greek by J. W. H. Atkins 9781107434639
Booksplease Price: $57.96Originally published in 1934, this book contains the first volume of Atkins' 'sketch' of the development of ancient literary criticism. Atkins begins his history with a look at the styles of literary... -
Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology by Barbara Hughes Fowler 9780299125349
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.30The main aim of this book is to bring Hellenistic poetry to life for the contemporary reader. The selection of poems reflects the wide range of poetic genres, styles, themes and moods of the period... -
Post-Classical Greek Elegy and Lyric Poetry by Robin Greene 9789004469242
Booksplease Price: $159.62In this volume, Robin J. Greene traces the development of Greek elegy and lyric in the hands of Hellenistic and Roman-era poets, from literary superstars such as Callimachus and Theocritus to more... -
The Fiction of Occasion in Hellenistic and Roman Poetry by Adrian Gramps 9783111270647
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $27.97The aim of this book is to devise a method for approaching the problem of presence in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The problem of presence, as defined here, is the problem of the availability or... -
The Fiction of Occasion in Hellenistic and Roman Poetry by Adrian Gramps 9783110736991
RRP: $263.55Booksplease Price: $242.76The aim of this book is to devise a method for approaching the problem of presence in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The problem of presence, as defined here, is the problem of the availability or... -
Literary Criticism in Antiquity: A Sketch of Its Development: Greek by J. W. H. Atkins
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50Originally published in 1934, this book contains the first volume of Atkins' 'sketch' of the development of ancient literary criticism. Atkins begins his history with a look at the styles of literary... -
Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age by Alexander Kirichenko 9780192866707
RRP: $215.25Booksplease Price: $205.55Greek 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... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 72 by Harvard University Department of Classics 9780674379183
RRP: $88.10Booksplease Price: $73.96The present volume in this distinguished series includes the essays "Homer as Oral Poet," by Albert B. Lord; "Callimachus, Fragments 260-261," by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and John Rea; "A King's Notebooks,"... -
Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction by Mark Payne 9780521865777
Booksplease Price: $190.20The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls... -
A Commentary on Propertius, Book 3 by S. J. Heyworth 9780199571499
Booksplease Price: $70.56The most passionate, individual, and controversial of the Latin love elegists, Propertius in Book 3 covers a broad range of subject matter and a vast geographical reach. After books focused on his... -
Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by Max Leventhal 9781009123044
Booksplease Price: $173.67Poetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as... -
Ovid: Fasti Book 3 by S. J. Heyworth 9781107016477
Booksplease Price: $169.53Ovid is now firmly established as a central figure in the Latin poetic canon, and his Fasti is his most complex elegy. Drafted alongside the Metamorphoses before the poet's exile, it was only... -
Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and its Audience Graham Zanker 9781032858074
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50The poetry of Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies represents a second golden age of Greek literature. The eminence grise of poetic circles was Callimachus, whose poetic manifesto in favour of... -
Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and its Audience Graham Zanker 9781032858067
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $191.06The poetry of Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies represents a second golden age of Greek literature. The eminence grise of poetic circles was Callimachus, whose poetic manifesto in favour of... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: Vol. 105 by Kathleen M. Coleman 9780674053441
RRP: $88.10Booksplease Price: $73.33This volume includes "Divide and Edit: A Brief History of Book Divisions" by Carolyn Higbie; "Aristotle's Hamartia Reconsidered" by Ho Kim; "Callimachus and his Allusive Virgins" by Andrew Faulkner;... -
The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry by Andrew D. Morrison 9780521874502
Booksplease Price: $244.44This 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... -
Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry by Kathleen Kidder
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $37.93Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry... -
Tragic Failures: Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic by Evina Sistakou 9783110479126
RRP: $277.20Booksplease Price: $187.28This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies... -
The Politics of Form in Greek Literature by Phiroze Vasunia 9781350191594
Booksplease Price: $66.19The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their... -
They Keep It All Hid: Augustan Poetry, its Antecedents and Reception by Peter E. Knox 9783110544176
RRP: $303.45Booksplease Price: $204.33This volume comprises a series of studies focusing on the Latin poetry of the first and second centuries BCE, its relationship to earlier models both Greek and Latin, and its reception by later... -
Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica by Apollonius 9780674996304
Booksplease Price: $53.15The Greek epic account of the quest for the golden fleece.Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BC, is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with his... -
Wonder and the Marvelous in Hellenistic Literature Alessandro Giardini 9783119145053
RRP: $229.95Booksplease Price: $148.55This 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... -
Beyond the Canon by M. A. Harder 9789042918139
RRP: $153.30Booksplease Price: $145.49This volume contains the papers of the 'Seventh Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Beyond the Canon' (Groningen 2004). During the workshop a first draft of each of the papers was commented on... -
Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War by Charles McNelis 9780521123617
Booksplease Price: $91.01This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies... -
Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation by 9780198839606
Booksplease Price: $70.08The 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... -
Propertius by Margaret Hubbard 9781853996214
Booksplease Price: $58.57Propertius' four books of love-elegies (c. 32-12 BC) were produced during the heyday of Augustan literature. His poetry has been noted by modern critics for its striking forms of expression,... -
Allusion and Allegory: Studies in the >Ciris< by Boris Kayachev 9783110446814
RRP: $202.65Booksplease Price: $138.05The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris,... -
Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War by Charles McNelis 9780521867412
Booksplease Price: $190.20This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies... -
Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry by Alexandros Kampakoglou 9783110641400
RRP: $328.65Booksplease Price: $225.20Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the influence of archaic lyric poetry on Hellenistic poets. However, no study has yet examined the reception of Pindar, the most prominent of the... -
Herodas: Mimiambs by Graham Zanker 9780856688737
Booksplease Price: $66.00Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus containing eight and a fragmentary ninth of the Mimiambs of Herodas in 1891, Herodas was known only through approximately twenty lines... -
Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry by M. A. Harder 9789042924840
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $143.58This volume contains the papers of the 'Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 9: Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry' (Groningen 2008). During the workshop a first draft of the... -
Theocritus and his native Muse: A Syracusan among many by Poulheria Kyriakou 9783110614602
RRP: $328.65Booksplease Price: $225.20Hellenistic poets opted and were very likely expected to deal meaningfully, and perhaps competitively, with the tradition they inherited. They also needed to secure the goodwill of actual or... -
Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation by Sherod Santos 9780393329155
RRP: $34.65Booksplease Price: $32.47Sherod Santos's new translation of classical poems answers Rosetti's mandate that "the only true motive for putting poetry into a fresh language must be to endow a fresh nation...with one more...