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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... -
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen 9780691170152
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.32The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change... -
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell 9780691221250
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A 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... -
Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice by Richard Valantasis
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.84This is an unprecedented collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. These texts--all in new English translation and many appearing in English for the first time--represent... -
Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925 by C. G. Jung 9780691019185
Booksplease Price: £28.49For C. G. Jung, 1925 was a watershed year. He turned fifty, visited the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and the tribesmen of East Africa, published his first book on the principles of analytical... -
Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius by Shadi Bartsch 9780691606910
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view... -
Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.83In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and... -
Euripides and the Politics of Form by Victoria Wohl 9780691166506
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63How 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... -
Pandora's Box: The Changing Aspects of a Mythical Symbol by Dora Panofsky 9780691625362
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and... -
Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann by C. G. Jung 9780691166179
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.89C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally acclaimed for his own brand of psychotherapy. Neumann,... -
Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann C. G. Jung 9780691270968
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Two giants of twentieth-century psychology in dialogueC. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally... -
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World by III Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III 9780691156934
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use... -
The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece by Robin Osborne 9780691177670
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in... -
Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood by Maria Tatar
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35When Hansel and Gretel try to eat the witch's gingerbread house in the woods, are they indulging their "uncontrolled cravings" and "destructive desires" or are they simply responding normally to the... -
Thomas Taylor, the Platonist: Selected Writings by Thomas Taylor 9780691622170
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.10This volume makes available to the modern reader selected writings of Thomas Taylor, the eighteenth-century English Platonist. TO Taylor we are indebted for the first full translation into English of... -
Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary by Ramsay MacMullen 9780691655246
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.68Written by one of the foremost historians of the Roman Empire, this collection of both new and previously published essays forms a colorful picture of daily life in the Mediterranean world between A... -
A Companion to Latin Literature Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford) 9781405161312
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.42A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of the second century AD. Provides expert overview of... -
Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition by Stuart Y. McDougal 9780691619361
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The world of the troubadours of medieval Provence--of Bertran de Born, Arnaut de Mareuil, and Peire Bremon lo Tort--always fascinated Ezra Pound and, as Stuart McDougal shows, provided both themes... -
Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World by III Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use... -
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes 9780691153384
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated,... -
The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.19If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated,... -
The Form of Greek Romance by B. P. Reardon 9780691604640
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In the early Roman Empire a new literary genre began to flourish, mainly in the Greek world: prose fiction, or romance. Broadly defined as a love story that offers adventure and a romantic vision of... -
Oxford Readings in the Roman Novel by S. J. Harrison 9780198721741
Booksplease Price: £62.71This anthology of articles on the Roman novels of Petronius and Apuleius makes available some of the most useful and important articles published in German and Italian as well as English over the... -
The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art by Jean Seznec
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.35The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated... -
Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature Graham Anderson 9781032091877
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a... -
The Senate of Imperial Rome by Richard J. A. Talbert
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great... -
Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius Nadya Williams 9780310171072
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues?Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal "Yes!"... -
Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition by Christina Hoenig 9781108415804
Booksplease Price: £99.43This book focuses on the development of Platonic philosophy at the hands of Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. It discusses the interpretation of Plato's... -
Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century: The Literary Influence of the School of Chartres by Winthrop Wetherbee 9780691619903
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Chartres as an intellectual and cultural force in the Renaissance of the twelfth century has engaged the attention of critics and scholars from R. L. Poole through Gilson, Curtius, and Huizinga to,... -
Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition by Christina Hoenig 9781108402392
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £25.92This book focuses on the development of Platonic philosophy at the hands of Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. It discusses the interpretation of Plato's... -
The Golden Ass or the Curious Man by Peter Oswald 9781840022858
Booksplease Price: £9.68"A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed... -
Cambridge Latin Anthology by Cambridge School Classics Project 9780521578776
RRP: £18.75Booksplease Price: £17.25A classic anthology for GCSE. The eight sections of adapted prose include sections from Apuleius, Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Sallust, Tacitus, and the Acts of the Apostles in the Vulgate. Glosses and... -
Fuente Ovejuna/Lost in a Mirror by Lope de Vega 9780948230233
Booksplease Price: £13.26"A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed... -
Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity by James J O'Donnell 9780061845390
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061845390Author James J O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age by Alexander Kirichenko 9780192866707
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £97.88Greek 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... -
Form and Function in Roman Oratory by D. H. Berry 9781107499942
Booksplease Price: £41.37In this book Roman oratory is explored from the perspective of form and function. Leading scholars in the field of Latin prose consider not only the speeches of Cicero, Pliny, Apuleius and the later... -
Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of David Grene Todd Breyfogle 9780226074252
Booksplease Price: £32.60Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the Greek tragedies and Herodotus's "History," as well as his edition of Hobbes's "Thucydides," David Grene has also had a major impact as... -
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.00A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. ... -
Reader Immersion in Latin Prose and Verse Narrative Luca Graverini 9780198956457
RRP: £119.00Booksplease Price: £110.30Immersion used to be disregarded by academic scholarship as a secondary aspect of ancient narrative. It was mostly considered typical of a passive reading style unworthy of intellectual consideration... -
The Alphabet of Galen: Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Nicholas Everett 9780802095503
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04The Alphabet of Galen is a critical edition and English translation of a text describing, in alphabetical order, nearly three hundred natural products - including metals, aromatics, animal materials,...