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Roman Sexualities Judith P. Hallett 9780691011783
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.55This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller picture... -
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... -
Imperialism, Power, and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire by David J. Mattingly
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.53Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and assimilative nature of... -
Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine by Michael Koortbojian
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.55A 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
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £69.44The 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: £31.19The 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
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02How 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... -
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen 9780691211510
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuriesThe Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and... -
Changes in the Roman Empire: Essays in the Ordinary by Ramsay MacMullen 9780691655246
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £62.37Written 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... -
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life by Seneca 9780691175577
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He... -
Eratosthenes' Geography by Eratosthenes 9780691142678
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £57.50This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this... -
Stoics and Neostoics: Rubens and the Circle of Lipsius by Mark P. O. Morford 9780691608860
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68In 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... -
The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch by Raffaella Cribiore 9780691171357
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.38This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent... -
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73A 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
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Horace 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
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.19Instead 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
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.43Taking 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... -
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
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25How 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
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.37This 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... -
Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 by John M. Najemy 9780691655222
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £48.32Between Friends offers the first extended close reading of the most famous epistolary dialogue of the Renaissance, the letters exchanged from 1513 to 1515 by Niccolo Machiavelli and Francesco Vettori... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.88From 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
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.14Grand 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
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02A 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
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85A 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... -
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
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £51.85Girolamo 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
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88From 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
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.73A 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
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.80From 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
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88The 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... -
Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism by Professor Sarit Kattan Gribetz 9780691242095
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.06How 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... -
Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status by Matthew B. Roller
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08What 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
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.79The 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
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.55Peter 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... -
The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.79Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the... -
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.49A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and... -
The Form of Greek Romance by B. P. Reardon 9780691604640
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.30In 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... -
History of Antioch by Glanville Downey 9780691625829
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £100.22The most complete account of the classical city of Antioch, this study incorporates the findings of the excavations of 1932-1939. Dr. Downey, who participated in the excavations, tells the story of...