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Odyssey by Homer 9780472088546
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.94The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780141394657
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation.The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem... -
Hinges: Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination by Grace Dane Mazur
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Grace Dane Mazur uses the idea of the hinge to illuminate real and metaphysical thresholds in fiction, poetry, myth, and ordinary life. From ancient narratives of Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Parmenides, and... -
Homer by Jonathan S. Burgess 9781848858633
Booksplease Price: £24.88What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central... -
The Iliad by Homer 9781784870577
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Read this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy.High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look... -
After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth, and Metaphor by Margaret Alexiou 9780801433016
RRP: £101.00Booksplease Price: £77.77With the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Greek studies and in collateral fields, Margaret Alexiou established herself as a major intellectual... -
Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law by Raymond Westbrook 9781421414676
RRP: £48.50Booksplease Price: £36.31Throughout the twelve essays that appear in Ex Oriente Lex, Raymond Westbrook convincingly argues that the influence of Mesopotamian legal traditions and thought did not stop at the shores of the... -
Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from the Front Lines Francoise Davoine 9781032190839
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38This book presents unique insights into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychoanalytic work with trauma and perspectives from literature.Part One presents a... -
Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It by Emily Hauser 9781804992791
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLERAward-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece's... -
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg 9780674241411
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.95A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization...