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Herding Dogs: Progressive Training by Vergil S Holland 9781684424894
Booksplease Price: £17.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684424894Author Vergil S HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint
Vergil Aeneid: Book VI Translation by David Pritchard 9781803131801
Booksplease Price: £12.99Through this verse translation of Vergil's Book VI of the Aeneid we journey with Aeneas through the Underworld to meet his father. Accompanied by Sibyl, the prophetess, who instructs him first to...
Vergil's Empire: Political Thought in the Aeneid by Eve Adler 9780742521674
Booksplease Price: £51.20In Vergil's Empire, Eve Adler offers an exciting new interpretation of the political thought of Vergil's Aeneid. Adler argues that in this epic poem, Vergil presents the theoretical foundations of a...
A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 3 by S. J. Heyworth 9780198727828
Booksplease Price: £34.37The Aeneid, generally considered the greatest poem of Roman literature, is a story of migration, and Book 3 is at the heart of this story-the arrestingly dramatic account that Aeneas gives to the...
The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation by Richard Colaresi by Vergil 9798822960985
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798822960985Author VergilFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint
Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid by W. R. Johnson
Booksplease Price: £21.99One of the best books ever written on one of humanity's greatest epics, W. Ralph Johnson's study of Vergil's Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and...
Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace by S. J. Harrison 9780199203581
Booksplease Price: £70.65S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the...
Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace by S. J. Harrison 9780199691845
Booksplease Price: £51.83S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the...
The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine by Sabine MacCormack 9780520211872
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.95Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the...
Herding Dogs: Progressive Training by Vergil S. Holland 9780876056448
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.71Herding Dogs: Progressive Training is the only book of its kind to guide the owner toward training the complete herding dog. Whether you are involved in farming or ranching, or simply want to explore...
A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition by Joseph Farrell 9781118785126
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £34.99A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh...
Two Dramatizations from Vergil by J Raleigh Nelson 9781434415981
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434415981Author J Raleigh NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint
Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's AENEID by James J. O'Hara 9780691606576
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Here James O'Hara shows how the deceptive nature of prophecy in the Aeneid complicates assessment of the poem's attitude toward its hero's achievement and toward the future of Rome under Augustus...
God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil by Stephanie Nelson 9780195373349
Booksplease Price: £41.15In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains...
Vergil's Political Commentary: in the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid by Leendert Weeda 9783110426410
RRP: £63.50Booksplease Price: £56.69In the book titled Vergil's political commentary in Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, the author examines Vergil's political views by analyzing the whole of the poet's work. He introduces the notion of...
Vergil's Green Thoughts: Plants, Humans, and the Divine by Rebecca Armstrong 9780199236688
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £109.89The Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid abound with plants, yet much Vergilian criticism underestimates their significance beyond attractive background detail or the occasional symbolic set-piece. This...
Further Voices in Vergil's Aeneid by R. O. A. M. Lyne 9780198140924
Booksplease Price: £88.86The Aeneid can strike one as a relatively conventional epic. It may seem an objective heroic tale of Rome's beginnings, unshocking in tone and substance, indeed (and more particularly) patriotic and...
Black Spring by Henry Miller
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802131829Author Henry MillermFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint
The Georgics of Vergil: With a Running Analysis, English Notes and Index by Virgil 9781498188241
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £23.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498188241Author VirgilFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint
Vergil's Aeneid and Greek Tragedy: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext by Vassiliki Panoussi
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £49.83This book is a systematic study of the importance of Greek tragedy as a fundamental 'intertext' for Vergil's Aeneid. Vassiliki Panoussi argues that the epic's representation of ritual acts,...
Child and the Hero: Coming of Age in Catullus and Vergil by Mark Petrini 9780472104604
Booksplease Price: £74.78Many generations of readers have noticed the prominence given to children and to heroes--usually young men--in the poems of Vergil and his contemporary Catullus. But until now it has not always been...
Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative: Updated Edition by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780691176123
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57The study of Homeric imitations in Vergil has one of the longest traditions in Western culture, starting from the very moment the Aeneid was circulated. Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative is the...
Vergil's agricultural Golden Age: A study of the Georgics by P.A. Johnston 9789004061118
Booksplease Price: £34.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004061118Author P.A. JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint
Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition by Meredith Safran
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time film and television have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.Drawing on...
Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition by Meredith E. Safran
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time film and television have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.Drawing on...
They Keep It All Hid: Augustan Poetry, its Antecedents and Reception by Peter E. Knox 9783110544176
RRP: £144.50Booksplease Price: £97.30This 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...
Walking through Elysium: Vergil's Underworld and the Poetics of Tradition by Bill Gladhill 9781487505776
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.32Walking through Elysium stresses the subtle and intricate ways writers across time and space wove Vergil's underworld in Aeneid 6 into their works. These allusions operate on many levels, from the...
Luke and Vergil: Imitations of Classical Greek Literature by Dennis R. MacDonald 9781442230545
Booksplease Price: £91.39These two volumes of The New Testament and Greek Literature are the magnum opus of biblical scholar Dennis R. MacDonald, outlining the profound connections between the New Testament and classical...
Reading After Actium: Vergil's Georgics, Octavian,and Rome by Christopher Nappa 9780472114757
Booksplease Price: £75.55Reading after Actium is a study of Vergil's Georgics, a didactic poem ostensibly about farming but in fact a brilliant exercise challenging readers to develop a broader perspective on the basic...
Implementing Constitutional Goals - Proposals for Papua New Guinea by Vergil Narokobi 9783962033125
RRP: £78.50Booksplease Price: £71.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783962033125Author Vergil NarokobiFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint
Vergil's Aeneid and Greek Tragedy: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext by Vassiliki Panoussi 9781107639089
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98This book is a systematic study of the importance of Greek tragedy as a fundamental 'intertext' for Vergil's Aeneid. Vassiliki Panoussi argues that the epic's representation of ritual acts,...
Dictionary of American Penology, 2nd Edition by Vergil L. Williams 9780313266898
Booksplease Price: £66.89A comprehensive overview of American penology covering practices, historical precedents, ideologies, changing attitudes, system descriptions, and trends in prison management, as well as noteworthy...
Zum Gebrauch Des Ablativ Bei Vergil by Hans Kern 9781110806546
Booksplease Price: £16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781110806546Author Hans KernFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint
Relation of Thomson's Seasons to Vergil's Georgics by Margaret C Delo 9781249274650
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781249274650Author Margaret C DeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint
Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry by Rachel Falconer
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01This book demonstrates the ways in which Virgil's are poems that Heaney 'lived with long and dreamily', especially the descent into the underworld in Aeneid VI. It shows that in his original English...
Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry by Rachel Falconer 9781474454407
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.50The first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars Offers a close reading of Heaney's engagement in Virgil, with particular focus on the...
Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary Discourse by Yasmin Syed
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In her new book, Yasmin Syed analyzes the formative...
Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space by Ika Willis 9781441170026
Booksplease Price: £40.38" Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary...
Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's Aeneid by Prof Sarah L. McCallum 9780192863003
Booksplease Price: £92.26Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor. A foundational...
Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil's Georgics by Philip Thibodeau 9780520268326
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £63.44"Playing the Farmer" reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil's "Georgics", a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he began the "Aeneid". Setting the "Georgics" in the...