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The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius by Sextus Propertius
Booksplease 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: £70.55Bodily 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... -
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen 9780691170152
Booksplease Price: £27.03The 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
Booksplease 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... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 11: January 1787 to August 1787 by Thomas Jefferson
Booksplease Price: £116.24Volumes 11 and 12, cover the period from January 1787 through March 1788 and deal with Jefferson's stay in France, as American Minister there. This is a rich period of personal correspondence and... -
The Historical Jesus in Context by Amy-Jill Levine 9780691009926
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.98The 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... -
Reason and the Lover by John V. Fleming 9780691612645
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.63This textual and intertextual analysis of the dialogue in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose combines specific close readings of texts with a rich theoretical argument to establish Reason's moral... -
Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes by Robert Lamberton 9780691656274
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.43Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven... -
Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine by Michael Koortbojian
Booksplease Price: £34.65A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient RomeThe ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a... -
Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid<i/> by David Quint 9780691179377
Booksplease Price: £69.38The 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
Booksplease Price: £31.30The 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... -
How to Keep an Open Mind: An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic by Richard Bett 9780691206042
Booksplease Price: £13.23How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgmentAlong with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy... -
Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status by Matthew B. Roller
Booksplease Price: £25.21What was really going on at Roman banquets? In this lively new book, veteran Romanist Matthew Roller looks at a little-explored feature of Roman culture: dining posture. In ancient Rome, where dining... -
Hadrian and the City of Rome by Mary T. Boatwright
Booksplease Price: £46.84The description for this book, Hadrian and the City of Rome, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorMary Taliaferro Boatwright is professor emerita of classical studies at Duke University. Her books... -
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance by Peter Godman 9780691655284
Booksplease Price: £49.59Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
Booksplease Price: £26.01From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.18From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of... -
Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction by Karl Galinsky
Booksplease Price: £39.23Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 B.C. to A.D. 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for societies... -
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 9780691181059
Booksplease Price: £13.23A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about... -
A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome by Meghan J. DiLuzio 9780691169576
Booksplease Price: £36.93A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in... -
History of Rhetoric, Volume I: The Art of Persuasion in Greece by George A. Kennedy
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.30A concern for the art of persuasion, as rhetoric was anciently defined, was a principal feature of Greek intellectual life. In this study of the complex of subjects labeled "rhetoric," the author... -
Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism by Professor Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Booksplease Price: £34.35How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identityThe rabbinic corpus begins with a question-"when?"-and is brimming with discussions about time and the... -
Ancient Antioch by Glanville Downey 9780691625522
Booksplease Price: £40.43This study incorporates findings of the 1932-1939 excavations. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available... -
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer
Booksplease Price: £32.82A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the... -
The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace by Horace 9780691004280
Booksplease Price: £25.21Horace has long been revered as the supreme lyric poet of the Augustan Age. In his perceptive introduction to this translation of Horace's Odes and Satires, Sidney Alexander engagingly spells out how... -
Understanding Terence by Sander M. Goldberg 9780691610559
Booksplease Price: £31.30Instead of seeing Terence primarily as an adapter of Greek New Comedy, Sander Goldberg treats him as an innovative dramatist writing for a specifically Roman audience. His book will interest not only... -
Voltaire and the Century of Light by Alfred Owen Aldridge 9780691617602
Booksplease Price: £54.45Taking an approach different from (hat of earlier biographers, A. Owen Aldridge examines Voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature... -
Prolegomena to Homer, 1795 by Friedrich August Wolf
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were his analyses of the history of writing and of the nature of Alexandrian scholarship... -
Cardano: The Gambling Scholar by Oystein Ore
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.05Cardano, next to Vesalius the greatest physician of his day, was also a devoted and skilled gambler who played for personal pleasure and profit. His mathematical genius enabled him to devise simple... -
The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine by Nancy G. Siraisi
Booksplease Price: £51.87Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard 9780691225876
Booksplease Price: £17.05From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than... -
A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome by Meghan J. DiLuzio
Booksplease Price: £32.82A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in... -
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780691210148
Booksplease Price: £13.99From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of... -
Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition by Lisa Jardine 9780691165691
Booksplease Price: £17.05The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial... -
Greek and Roman Historians by Timothy Duff 9781853996016
Booksplease Price: £25.91What did 'history' mean to the Greeks and the Romans? This volume traces the development of conceptions of history and its practice from Homer to the writers of the Roman Empire. It serves as an... -
Strabo's Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia by Daniela Dueck 9780521853064
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £57.22Strabo of Amasia, a Greek geographer of the Augusto-Tiberian period, observed the Roman world of his time. He collected his observations in his magnum opus, the Geography, which he described as a... -
Industrialization and Urbanization: Studies in Interdisciplinary History by Theodore K. Rabb
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.73Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional approaches to the development of cities. Originally... -
That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World by J. E. Lendon
Booksplease Price: £29.32How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate... -
The House of Augustus: A Historical Detective Story by T. P. Wiseman 9780691180076
Booksplease Price: £29.82A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the PalatineCaesar Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), who is usually thought of as the first Roman emperor, lived on the... -
That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World J. E. Lendon 9780691221014
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.19How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate...