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The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets by Winthrop Wetherbee 9780268044121
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €33.12While the structure and themes of the Divine Comedy are defined by the narrative of a spiritual pilgrimage guided by Christian truth, Winthrop Wetherbee's remarkable new study reveals that Dante's... -
Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism by Dalida Agri 9780192859303
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €107.46This book examines the textual representations of emotions, fear in particular, through the lens of Stoic thought and their impact on depictions of power, gender, and agency. It first draws attention... -
The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages: A Decorum of Convenient Distinction by Judson Boyce Allen 9781442651395
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably... -
Epigrams: v.3 by Martial 9780674995291
Booksplease Price: €30.12Poetic concision in abundance.It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a... -
Roman Papers: Volume IV by Ronald Syme 9780198148739
Booksplease Price: €82.51Volumes Iv and V of Roman Papers contain forty-two of Sir Ronald Syme's papers composed between 1981 and 1985. A good many deal with the younger Pliny and Tacitus; other ancient authors examined here... -
Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica Darcy A. Krasne 9780198850748
RRP: €141.61Booksplease Price: €131.26Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica explores motifs of cosmology, meteorology, and discordia in the Flavian epic. It demonstrates how Valerius, especially by means of... -
Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature by Giovanni Fanfani
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €47.42Textile imagery is pervasive in classical literature. An awareness of the craft and technology of weaving and spinning, of the production and consumption of clothing items, and of the social and... -
Greek and Latin Poetry by Angelo Poliziano
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €30.46Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. His poetry, composed in a variety of meters, includes... -
Building in Words: Representations of the Process of Construction in Latin Literature by Bettina Reitz-Joose 9780197610688
Booksplease Price: €127.68Building in Words explores the relationship between text and architecture in the Roman world from the perspective of architectural process. Ancient Romans frequently encountered buildings under... -
The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn by Dr. Victoria E. Rimell 9781107437487
Booksplease Price: €49.23This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially... -
Cicero, Pro Cluentio: A Selection Matthew Barr (Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, UK) 9781350060340
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €21.37This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Pro Cluentio, sections 1-7 and 10-11, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of... -
The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn by Dr. Victoria E. Rimell 9781107079267
Booksplease Price: €95.26This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially... -
The Alexandra of Lycophron: A Literary Study by Charles McNelis
Booksplease Price: €136.71This monograph is a literary study of Lycophron's Alexandra, whose obscurity, a quality notorious already in antiquity, has long hampered holistic approaches. Through a series of distinct but closely... -
Remembering Parthenope: The Reception of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present by Jessica Hughes 9780199673933
Booksplease Price: €131.04This edited collection focuses on how the ancient past of the city of Naples has been invented, shaped, transmitted, and received in literature, art, and material culture since the time of the city's... -
George Buchanan: Poet and Dramatist Philip Ford 9781905125364
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €86.54Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed... -
Remains of Old Latin: v. 4: Archaic Inscriptions by E. H. Warmington
Booksplease Price: €30.12Physical graffiti.This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth... -
Echoing Hylas: A Study in Hellenistic and Roman Metapoetics by Mark Heerink 9780299305406
Booksplease Price: €70.90During a stopover of the Argo in Mysia, the boy Hylas sets out to fetch water for his companion Hercules. Wandering into the woods, he arrives at a secluded spring, inhabited by nymphs who fall in... -
The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic by Helen Lovatt 9781107016118
Booksplease Price: €138.52The epic genre has at its heart a fascination with the horror of viewing death. Epic heroes have active visual power, yet become objects, turned into monuments, watched by two main audiences: the... -
Teaching World Epics by Angelica Duran 9781603296182
Booksplease Price: €38.38Essays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around the world.Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have... -
Teaching World Epics by Angelica Duran 9781603296175
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €91.74Essays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around the world.Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have... -
Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age by Alexander Kirichenko 9780192866707
RRP: €121.98Booksplease Price: €116.48Greek 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... -
Latin Poetry and Its Reception: Essays for Susanna Braund by C. W. Marshall 9780367552725
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined. All... -
Remains of Old Latin: v. 3: Lucilius. The Laws of the XII Tables by Eric Herbert Warmington
Booksplease Price: €30.12A miscellany of satire and law.This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law... -
The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography by Matthew P. Loar 9781108727792
Booksplease Price: €31.67This volume wades into the fertile waters of Augustan Rome and the interrelationship of its literature, monuments, and urban landscape. It focused on a pair of questions: how can we productively... -
The Cultural History of Augustan Rome: Texts, Monuments, and Topography by Matthew P. Loar 9781108480604
Booksplease Price: €118.32This volume wades into the fertile waters of Augustan Rome and the interrelationship of its literature, monuments, and urban landscape. It focused on a pair of questions: how can we productively... -
The War with God: Theomachy in Roman Imperial Poetry by Pramit Chaudhuri 9780199993383
Booksplease Price: €134.05Epic and tragedy, from Homer's Achilles and Euripides' Pentheus to Marlowe's Tamburlaine and Milton's Satan, are filled with characters challenging and warring against the gods. Nowhere is the theme... -
Silius Italicus' Punica: Rome’s War with Hannibal by Antony Augoustakis 9780367699895
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This book offers, in one volume, a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus' Punica. Composed in the first century CE, this epic tells the story of the Second Punic War between... -
Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse by Llewelyn Morgan 9780199554188
Booksplease Price: €140.09A characteristic of Greek and Latin poetry (sometimes an intimidating one) is the variety of metrical shapes it can adopt. Llewelyn Morgan offers an accessible account of some of the most common of... -
Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic by A. M. Keith 9780521556217
Booksplease Price: €51.57Heroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius. However the crucial role female characters play in the... -
The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads by Robert A. Kaster 9780226425719
Booksplease Price: €25.05The Roman poet Statius called the Via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel... -
Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature by Vassiliki Panoussi 9781421428918
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €39.15How does the treatment of women's rituals in Latin poetry and prose reveal Roman ideas of female agency?Powerful female characters pervade both Greek and Latin literature, even if their presence is... -
Sulpicia: A Woman’s Voice from Ancient Rome Giulio Celotto 9780198972662
Booksplease Price: €103.35The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few... -
Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom by Marjorie Curry Woods 9780691170800
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €43.59Saint Augustine famously "wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword," and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in... -
The Vatican Mythographers by Ronald Pepin
RRP: €84.49Booksplease Price: €75.03The Vatican Mythographers offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowledge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle... -
Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century by Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet 9783039119127
RRP: €67.29Booksplease Price: €60.34Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as 'other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of... -
In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece Helen Lovatt 9781848857148
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €90.31Few classical stories are as romantic as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The stirring tale of an adventurer who was also a disenfranchised king's son and daring sea-captain has resonated through... -
Satires. Eupolemius by Amarcius, 11th cent.
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €30.46Composed in Germany by a monastic poet steeped in classical lore and letters, the Satires of Amarcius (Sextus Amarcius Gallus Piosistratus) unrelentingly attack both secular vices and ecclesiastical... -
The Roman de Thebes and The Roman d'Eneas Glyn S. Burgess 9781802073706
Booksplease Price: €42.29The two romances translated in this volume, the Roman de Thebes and the Roman d'Eneas, form, along with the Roman de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure, a group of texts that are of considerable... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 100 by Charles Segal 9780674006560
RRP: €48.73Booksplease Price: €40.97This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students, and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays... -
Festivals in Latin Literature: The Poetics of Celebration Anke Walter 9780198931454
RRP: €117.81Booksplease Price: €107.81Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. Festivals in Latin Literature explores the role of festivals in...