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Medicine Show by Tom Yuill 9780226971650
Booksplease Price: £14.88From "Veritas": Imagining Heaven as Istanbul, or a beach south of Istanbul, Where your friends are preparing an apartment for you. And your Beloved. And sleeping fathers, babies plump. And shining as... -
Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture by Peter Green 9780520208117
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries... -
Ancient Rome: An Anthology of Sources by Christopher Francese 9781624660009
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £23.27"Terrific . . . exactly the sort of collection we have long needed: one offering a wide range of texts, both literary and documentary, and that--with the inclusion of Sulpicia and Perpetua--allows... -
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents by Thomas K. Hubbard
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.08The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook... -
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Luke Edward Hall 9780241575734
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient... -
The Question of the Gift: Essays Across Disciplines Mark Osteen 9780415869140
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism,... -
Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, and Dowson by James G. Nelson 9780271019741
Booksplease Price: £73.45Publisher to the Decadents chronicles the experiences of Leonard Smithers (1861-1907), a key figure in the literary culture of late Victorian England. In his day he was known primarily for publishing... -
Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics Sarah Glaz 9781568813417
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Strange Attractors is a collection of approximately 150 poems with strong links to mathematics in content, form, or imagery. The common theme is love, and the editors draw from its various... -
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in... -
Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy by Sharon Lynn James 9780520233812
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £61.70This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius,... -
Love Visions by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780140444087
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly... -
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This... -
The Roman Poets of the Republic by William Young Sellar 9781108029827
Booksplease Price: £41.67William Young Sellar (1825-1890) was a scholar of Latin poetry. First published in 1880, this is a lively account of poetry in the Roman Republic, which was acclaimed as the purest art form of its... -
The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse Christopher Childers 9780141392134
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46The poets in this book are philosophers and statesmen; priestesses and warriors; teenage girls, concerned for their birthday celebrations; drunkards and brawlers; grumpy old men and chic young things... -
Recognizing Persius by Kenneth J. Reckford 9780691141411
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of... -
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, Revised Edition C. P. Cavafy 9780691264646
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.24The acclaimed translation of the most important modern Greek poetC. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most... -
The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder 9780062990198
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062990198Author Thornton WilderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Callimachus and His Critics by Alan Cameron 9780691606125
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.34Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by... -
How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Horace
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.44What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been... -
Language and Desire in Seneca's Phaedra by Charles Segal 9780691610719
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious... -
Ciris: A Poem Attributed to Vergil by Ciris 9780521606998
Booksplease Price: £69.91The Ciris is a mythological narrative poem on the legend of Scylla and Nisus, and is an outstanding example of the epyllion genre - miniture epics, of which there must have been many from Catullus... -
Sound, Sense, and Rhythm: Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry by Mark W. Edwards 9780691117843
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93This book concerns the way we read--or rather, imagine we are listening to--ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Through clear and penetrating analysis Mark Edwards shows how an understanding of the... -
Stoics and Neostoics: Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius by Mark P. O. Morford 9780691608860
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In a vivid re-creation of late sixteenth-century Flemish intellectual life, Mark Morford explores the intertwined careers of one of the period's most influential thinkers and one of its most original... -
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... -
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint by Mary Jacobus 9780691170725
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.45Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and... -
Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid<i/> by David Quint 9780691179377
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £72.43The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to... -
Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid<i/> by David Quint 9780691179384
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to... -
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... -
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... -
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne 9781035920334
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share... -
Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic by Anthony Corbeill
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real... -
The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome by Joy Connolly 9780691162256
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about... -
Virgil's Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics by David O. Ross 9780691609737
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Professor Ross presents the Georgics as a poem of science, of the power and ultimate failure of knowledge. Exploring the science that Virgil knew and used, he analyzes the oppositions and balances of... -
Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome by Anthony Corbeill 9780691202310
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender-masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores),... -
Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid by J. D. Reed 9780691127408
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.68Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil's Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this... -
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... -
Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served... -
Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid by J. D. Reed
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil's Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this... -
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...