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The Lesser Declamations: v. 1 by Quintilian 9780674996182
Booksplease Price: $53.15Mock trial-Roman style.The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century AD and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from "the school of Quintilian... -
Moralia: v. 7 by Plutarch 9780674994461
Booksplease Price: $53.15Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 97: :Greece in Rome by Charles Segal 9780674379459
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $70.06Volume 97 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology is a special issue, entitled "Greece in Rome," comprising revised versions of papers presented at a Loeb Classical Conference on the question of... -
Roman History: v. 4 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio 9780674990739
Booksplease Price: $53.15A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of... -
Odes and Epodes by Horace
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90Monumental verse.The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic and Epicurean thought. The Loeb Classical... -
Autobiography and Selected Letters: v. 1 by Libanius
Booksplease Price: $53.15Pagans' advocate.A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent spokesman for private and political causes-Libanius can... -
Greek Epic Fragments: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries B.C. by M. L. West
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $41.90Cyclic verse.Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of families or peoples. They... -
The Roman Antiquities: v. 2 by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Booksplease Price: $53.15Roman history for a Greek audience.Dionysius of Halicarnassus was born before 53 BC and went to Italy before 29 BC. He taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting ... -
Images for Classicists by Kathleen M. Coleman
Booksplease Price: $36.56How did the Greeks translate tales into images? Why do artistic depictions of ancient myths sometimes "contradict" the textual versions that we think of as canonical? What caused the Romans to be... -
Heroicus. Gymnasticus. Discourses 1 and 2: Discourses 1 and 2 by Philostratus
Booksplease Price: $53.15How to cultivate Greek heroes and athletes.In the writings of Philostratus (ca. AD 170-ca. 250), the renaissance of Greek literature in the second century AD reached its height. His Life of... -
Works: v. 6 by Philo
Booksplease Price: $53.15Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic ... -
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn 9781541724426
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05The Cult of the Dead Cow is the story of the oldest, most respected and most famous hacking group of all time. Its members invented the the concept of hacktivism, released both the top tool for... -
Understanding Macroeconomic Theory by Bradley T. Ewing 9780415701969
RRP: $138.58Booksplease Price: $123.77At each point in time, individuals make choices with respect to the acquisition, sale, and/or use of a variety of different goods. Such activity can be summarized by aggregate variables such as an... -
Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America by Gretchen Helmke 9780801883521
Booksplease Price: $71.06This volume analyzes the function of informal institutions in Latin America and how they support or weaken democratic governance. Drawing from a wide range of examples-including the Mexican dedazo,... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch 9780674994706
Booksplease Price: $53.15Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming... -
The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar 9781107031012
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $156.72Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative... -
Proclus: Alcibiades I: A Translation and Commentary by Proclus 9789401727822
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $97.19This translation and commentary is based on the Critical Text and Indices of Proclus: Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato, Amsterdam 1954, by L. G. Westerink. Index II has been of great help... -
Prodicus the Sophist: Texts, Translations, and Commentary by Robert Mayhew 9780199607877
Booksplease Price: $246.58The past fifty years have witnessed the flourishing of scholarship in virtually every area of ancient Greek philosophy, but the sophists have for the most part been neglected. This is certainly true... -
School Administrator Succession Planning: Identifying High-Impact Practices, Programs, and Frameworks in P-12 Schools by Lou L. Sabina 9781648029301
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $141.33Across the United States and globally, school districts are regularly facing a shortage of both willing and highlyqualified candidates to assume positions as school leaders. A number of factors have... -
Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American Myth by Richard J. Jensen 9780313259906
Booksplease Price: $140.47He reviled the rich for their cupidity and they found his rhetoric repulsive. Plebians believed him their champion and patricians knew he was their bete noire, remarks Halford Ryan in his eloquent... -
The Pasts of Roman Anatolia: Interpreters, Traces, Horizons by Felipe Rojas
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.98In this volume, Felipe Rojas examines how the inhabitants of Roman Anatolia interacted with the physical traces of earlier civilizations in their midst. Combining material and textual evidence, he... -
The Critical Essays: v. 2: On Literary Composition by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Booksplease Price: $53.15A master of ancient Greek prose styles.Dionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to Rome by 30 BC, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BC, writing his Roman Antiquities and teaching the... -
Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
Booksplease Price: $53.15Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the... -
The Critical Essays: v. 1 by Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Booksplease Price: $53.15A master of ancient Greek prose styles.Dionysius of Halicarnassus had migrated to Rome by 30 BC, where he lived until his death some time after 8 BC, writing his Roman Antiquities and teaching the... -
Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era by Harvey E. Goldberg
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03"Providing an unparalleled overview of Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewish communities in world history, this authoritative, stimulating work, superbly edited and clearly written, also suggests new... -
Naturales Quaestiones: v. 1: Bks.I-III by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Booksplease Price: $53.15Following nature in pursuit of ethics.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He... -
A Concise History of Western Philosophy: From Platonism to Nihilism Mark Anderson 9781350555983
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $92.44Telling the compelling story of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche, Mark Anderson presents a series of through-provoking interpretations of its major figures. Anderson traces western thought... -
Roman History: v.9 by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
Booksplease Price: $53.15A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of ... -
Orations. Other Fragments by Cato
Booksplease Price: $53.15Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, ... -
Greek Orators III: Isocrates, Panegyricus and Ad Nicolem Isocrates 9780856684142
RRP: $63.61Booksplease Price: $60.92Two contrasting works, both in style and content, illustrate the versatility of Isocrates, the most accomplished writer of polished periodic Greek prose. The Panegyricus is a patriotic work of... -
American Slavery, American Freedom Edmund S Morgan 9781324105206
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $30.95In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and equality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them... -
Menander: Epitrepontes by Alan H. Sommerstein 9781350226685
Booksplease Price: $56.49This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It... -
Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis by Apuleius
Booksplease Price: $53.15Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist.Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education... -
Apollonius of Tyana, Volume III: Letters of Apollonius. Ancient Testimonia. Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles Philostratus 9780674996175
Booksplease Price: $53.93The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.Philostratus' colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting... -
Works: Suppt. 1 by Philo
Booksplease Price: $53.15Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic ... -
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie 9780393338331
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $46.39With a novelist's skill and a scholar's meticulous detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with the great issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race, and... -
The Orient and the Young Romantics Andrew Warren (Harvard University, Massachusetts) 9781107071902
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $171.61Through close readings of major poems, this book examines why the second-generation Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, and Keats - stage so much of their poetry in Eastern or Orientalized settings. It... -
Moral Essays: v. 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780674992801
Booksplease Price: $53.15Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in... -
Leo Esakia on Duality in Modal and Intuitionistic Logics by Guram Bezhanishvili 9789401788595
Booksplease Price: $190.81This volume is dedicated to Leo Esakia's contributions to the theory of modal and intuitionistic systems. Consisting of 10 chapters, written by leading experts, this volume discusses Esakia's... -
21BB - Model Region Berlin-Brandenburg Barbara Hoidn 9783038602002
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $95.19How should a diverse metropolitan region such as the German capital Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg reinvent itself, while preserving its character, nurturing its attributes, and...