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Identity Crises in Apuleius: The Empire and the Ass in Ancient Rome Ashli J. E. Baker 9780299357702
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.30In the second century CE, the multiethnic, multilingual, and religiously diverse Roman Empire grew to its greatest extent. To maintain order, Rome relied heavily on strict social hierarchies,... -
Apuleius Madaurensis Metamorphoses, Book VIII: Text, Introduction and Commentary by B.L. Hijmans Jr. 9789069800059
Booksplease Price: £95.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789069800059Author B.L. Hijmans Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 356Imprint -
The Shadow of an Ass: Philosophical Choice and Aesthetic Experience in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Jeffrey P. Ulrich 9780472133567
Booksplease Price: £71.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472133567Author Jeffrey P. UlrichFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint < -
![Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius' "Metamorphoses" by Stavros Frangoulidis 9783110205947](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9584499/10618336/9783110205947__29141.1777617848.jpg?c=1 "Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius' "Metamorphoses" by Stavros Frangoulidis 9783110205947")
Witches, Isis and Narrative: Approaches to Magic in Apuleius' "Metamorphoses" by Stavros Frangoulidis 9783110205947
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £106.94This is the first in-depth study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses to look at the different attitudes characters adopt towards magic as a key to deciphering the complex dynamics of the entire work. The... -
Selections from Apuleius Metamorphoses V: An Edition for Intermediate Students by Stuart R Thomson 9781501350429
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501350429Author Stuart R ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint
Auctor and Actor: A Narratological Reading of Apuleius's <i>The Golden Ass</i> by John J. Winkler 9780520301146
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.59Addressed to readers of modern literature as well as to those interested in Greco-Roman literature and in religious history, Auctor and Actor examines Apuleius's The Golden Ass as an early example of...
Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche: An Intermediate Latin Reader: Latin Text with Running Vocabulary and Commentary by Stephen Nimis 9781940997094
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997094Author Stephen NimisFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint
Apuleius Madaurensis Metamorphoses: Text, Introduction and Commentary: Book 6, 25-31 & Book 7 by B. L. Hijmans, Jr. 9789060880791
Booksplease Price: £83.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789060880791Author B.L. Hijmans Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 326Imprint
The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature by Kristopher F.B. Fletcher 9789004537163
Booksplease Price: £118.08Apuleius' Golden Ass and the Lucianic Loukios, or the Ass depend on and play with readers' familiarity with the clear patterns of Greek and Roman stories of metamorphosis. The formulaic nature of...![Cupid and Psyche. a Mythological Tale from the Golden Ass of Apuleius. [In Verse. by Hudson Gurney.] - Scholar's Choice Edition by Hudson Gurney 9781298017222](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9448636/10482493/9781298017222__74306.1765526266.jpg?c=1 "Cupid and Psyche. a Mythological Tale from the Golden Ass of Apuleius. [In Verse. by Hudson Gurney.] - Scholar's Choice Edition by Hudson Gurney 9781298017222")
Cupid and Psyche. a Mythological Tale from the Golden Ass of Apuleius. [In Verse. by Hudson Gurney.] - Scholar's Choice Edition by Hudson Gurney 9781298017222
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781298017222Author Hudson GurneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint
Mirror of the Marvelous: The Surrealist Reimagining of Myth by Pierre Mabille 9781620557334
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A surrealist exploration of the marvelous in ancient, classic, and modern works from around the world * Reveals the "marvelous" in works from William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare,...
Augustine: The City of God Books VIII and IX by Augustine 9780856688539
Booksplease Price: £33.35This edition of St Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the...
Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Mark William Padilla 9781498529174
Booksplease Price: £51.20Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock presents an original study of Alfred Hitchcock by considering how his classics-informed London upbringing marks some of his films. The Catholic and...
Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Mimesis in Literature by Francoise Meltzer 9780226519722
Booksplease Price: £36.05How does literature imagine its own powers of representation? Francoise Meltzer attempts to answer this question by looking at how the portrait-the painted portrait, framed-appears in various...
Comparing Roman Hellenisms in Italy by Basil Dufallo 9780472133406
Booksplease Price: £75.25The story of Roman Hellenism-defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power-begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but...
Preserving the Spell: Basile's the Tale of Tales and its Afterlife in the Fairy-Tale Tradition by Armando Maggi
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £47.60Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today,...
OCR Anthology for Latin AS and A Level Shorter Prose Authors Katharine Radice 9781350384491
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Latin AS and A-Level prescription of Nepos' Life of Hannibal, Tacitus' Annals XIV and Apuleius' Metamorphoses VI for examinations in 2026–28.
Apulei Metamorphoseon Libri XI by Maaike Zimmerman 9780199277025
Booksplease Price: £89.72Zimmerman presents a new edition of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, also known as Asinus Aureus ('The Golden Ass'), which was written in the second century AD and is the only ancient Latin novel to survive...
Metamorphic Reflections: Essays Presented to Ben Hijmans at His 75th Birthday by Maaike Zimmerman 9789042915046
Booksplease Price: £83.49This "Festschrift" honours the Dutch Latinist Ben Hijmans. Besides his studies on Seneca "philosophus" and Ovid, Hijmans published numerous articles on Apuleius' works, both that author's...
The Roman Novel by P. G. Walsh 9781853994500
Booksplease Price: £31.86"The Satyricon" of Petronius and the "Metamorphoses" (or "The Golden Ass") of Apuleius are the only novels written at Rome before AD 200 to have survived. The genre is the comic romance, the...
Allegory by John Macqueen
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68First published in 1970, this book examines the use of allegory in religious, philosophical and literary texts. It traces the development of the device over time from the Classical period through to...
Allegory by John Macqueen 9781138283121
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First published in 1970, this book examines the use of allegory in religious, philosophical and literary texts. It traces the development of the device over time from the Classical period through to...
The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1: A Commentary by Paul Kalligas 9780691202358
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.23The first volume in a landmark commentary on an important and influential work of ancient philosophyThis is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of...
Euripides and the Politics of Form by Victoria Wohl 9780691202372
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be...
The Enneads of Plotinus, Volume 1: A Commentary Paul Kalligas 9780691154213
Booksplease Price: £73.23This is the first volume of a groundbreaking commentary on one of the most important works of ancient philosophy, the Enneads of Plotinus--a text that formed the basis of Neoplatonism and had a deep...
On Dreams and the East: Notes of the 1933 Berlin Seminar C. G. Jung 9780691250557
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Jung's landmark seminar on the symbolism of yoga and its applications to dream analysisIn the summer of 1933, C. G. Jung conducted a seminar in Berlin attended by a large audience of some 150 people,...
Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 5: Symbols of Transformation by C. G. Jung 9780691018157
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.82A complete revision of Psychology of the Unconscious (orig. 1911-12), Jung's first important statement of his independent position.Reviews"The work is an intellectual tour de force of a very...
Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought by Deborah Tarn Steiner 9780691094885
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.87In 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...
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780691165646
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.55Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work...
Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture by Patricia Cox Miller 9780691058351
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike...
Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance by David Frankfurter
Booksplease Price: £47.11This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it...
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691157009
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the...
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen 9780691195926
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories-from myths and fairy tales to jokesCaptured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex,...
Amor And Psyche: THE PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEMININE by Erich Neumann
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89First Published in 1999.This is Volume V of twelve in the Analytical Psychology series. Written in 1956, this text provides the tale of Amor and Psyche from the Metamorphoses or Golden Ass of Lucius...
The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: The Gladiator and the Monster by Carlin A. Barton 9780691010915
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. Carlin Barton...
The Historical Jesus in Context by Amy-Jill Levine 9780691009926
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book offers an entirely new way of understanding the Aeneid. Many...
The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The 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...
Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome by Anthony Corbeill 9780691074948
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £64.81Bodily gesture. A Roman worshipper spins in a circle in front of a temple. Faced with death, a Roman woman tears her hair and beats her breasts. Enthusiastic spectators at a gladiatorial event...
Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary by Susan A. Stephens 9780691608846
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £63.59The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos, Phoinikika, Sesonchosis, and Metiochos and Parthenope has dramatically increased the library catalogue of ancient novels, calling for a...