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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,... -
Women and Images of Men in Cinema: Gender Construction in La Belle et la Bete by Jean Cocteau Andreas Hamburger 9781782202905
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The film-psychoanalytic approach reveals how movies subliminally influence unconscious reception. On the... -
Ennius Beyond Epic by Jesse Hill 9781009586160
Booksplease Price: £112.13Quintus Ennius (239–169 BCE) was Latin literature's extraordinary founding father: he composed a striking array of texts in a striking array of genres (tragedy, satire, philosophy, epigram, epic, and... -
Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation by Owen Hodkinson 9781350122215
Booksplease Price: £35.46Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has... -
Quentin Blake: Pens Ink & Places by Quentin Blake 9781849766388
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.85FOLLOWING FROM THE ENORMOUS SUCCESS OF WORDS AND PICTURES AND BEYOND THE PAGE , THIS THIRD VOLUME CONTINUES A NARRATIVE OF VISUAL ADVENTURES OF UNUSUAL DIVERSITY. Pens Ink & Places contains a... -
Catullus by Julia Haig Gaisser 9781118255353
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.46Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and... -
Imperial Plato: Albinus, Maximus, Apuleisus: Text and Translation, with an Introduction and Commentary by Ryan C. Fowler 9781930972872
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £47.10Imperial Plato presents new translations of three introductions to Plato's thought from the second half of the second century CE: the Introduction to Plato by Albinus of Smyrna, Dissertation 11 of... -
Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe 9780472077991
Booksplease Price: £83.25Supernatural Japan examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939) in the formation of modern literature of the fantastic in Japan as a global literary genre. Kyoka wrote some of the... -
The Fictions of Satire by Ronald Paulson
Booksplease Price: £38.42Originally published in 1967. In this study of the English Augustan satirists, and the Roman and subsequent authors who were their models, Professor Paulson shows how rhetoric relates to imitation,... -
Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: Being a Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest by Thomas Oswald Cockayne 9781108043076
Booksplease Price: £50.53This three-volume work, published in 1864-6, was edited by Thomas Oswald Cockayne (1807-73), a Cambridge graduate, much-published early member of the London Philological Society, and teacher of the... -
True Story - Lucius, or The Ass by Lucian of Samosata
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37True Story, Lucian's best-known and most entertaining work, is a parody of the tall stories of fantastic journeys narrated by famous poets and historians. With his trademark wit and humour, Lucian... -
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 5, The Later Principate by E. J. Kenney 9780521273718
Booksplease Price: £38.42In the two centuries covered by this volume, from about AD 250 to 450, the Roman Empire suffered a period of chaos followed by drastic administrative and military reorganization. Simultaneously... -
Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction by Jesse Weiner 9781350054882
Booksplease Price: £95.79Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth... -
Latin Fiction by Heinz Hofmann 9780415147224
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Latin Fiction provides a chronological study of the Roman novel from the Classical period to the Middle Ages, exploring the development of the novel and the continuity of Latin culture. Essays by... -
Augustine: The City of God Books VIII and IX by P. G. Walsh 9780856688546
RRP: £114.50Booksplease Price: £108.70This edition of St Augustine's The City of God (De Civitate Dei) is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the... -
OCR Anthology for Latin GCSE 2027-2028 Tim Chambers 9781350424487
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2027 to 2028. The texts covered are:Virgil Aeneid Book 2, 1-56, 195-253OvidMetamorphoses Book 4, 55-166... -
Supernatural Japan: Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe 9780472057993
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.64Supernatural Japan examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939) in the formation of modern literature of the fantastic in Japan as a global literary genre. Kyoka wrote some of the... -
Plautus: The Darker Comedies. <I>Bacchides, Casina,</I> and <I>Truculentus</I> by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84The plays translated in this volume represent everything one would not expect either from the third-century B.C. playwright Plautus or from Roman comedy in general. A common theme in all three... -
Quentin Blake: Pens Ink & Places by Quentin Blake
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £56.25FOLLOWING FROM THE ENORMOUS SUCCESS OF WORDS AND PICTURES AND BEYOND THE PAGE , THIS THIRD VOLUME CONTINUES A NARRATIVE OF VISUAL ADVENTURES OF UNUSUAL DIVERSITY. Pens Ink & Places contains a... -
An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies by Elizabeth A. McCabe 9780761834021
Booksplease Price: £40.38This work serves as an investigation of the Isis cult by tracing its development from Egypt into Greco-Roman society. The origin of the Isis cult is described by using the accounts of Plutarch,... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 104 by Nino Luraghi 9780674031586
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.92Volume 104 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes: Jeremy Rau, " 384 , 339 , and 136 "; Naomi Rood, "Craft Similes and the Construction of Heroes in the Iliad"; Yoav... -
PENS INK & PLACES by Quentin Blake
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.89A revelatory behind-the-scenes look at the work of Britain's best-loved illustrator Quentin Blake, providing an insight by the artist himself into his own practice and some of his most famous... -
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland 9781847946409
RRP: £47.95Booksplease Price: £31.65As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it's a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand... -
Complete Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus...' In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part... -
The Epic of America: An Introduction to Rafael Landivar and the Rusticatio Mexicana by Professor Andrew Laird 9781350197398
Booksplease Price: £34.84A lively introduction to the rich and complex tradition of Latin literature from colonial Spanish America, and to its best known author, the poet Rafael Landivar. Rafael Landivar is the best known of... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.40This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on... -
On Obligations: De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent... -
The Roman Army and the Expansion of the Gospel: The Role of the Centurion in Luke-Acts by Alexander Kyrychenko 9783110344028
RRP: £114.50Booksplease Price: £77.62Although Roman centurions appear at crucial stages in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the significance of the centurion's office for the development of Luke's story has not been... -
Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!' Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand... -
Rehearsals of Manhood: Athenian Drama as Social Practice by David M. Halperin
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generationWhen John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a... -
Form and Function in Roman Oratory by D. H. Berry 9780521768955
Booksplease Price: £116.40In 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... -
Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity Professor Ahuvia Kahane 9781350278257
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of... -
English Language Criticism Foreign Novel: 1965-1975 by Harriet Semmes Alexander 9780804009072
Booksplease Price: £69.20Critical interest in foreign novels, especially the Latin American and African novel, has burgeoned in the past two decades. The purpose of this reference bibliography is to provide easier access to... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel by Tim Whitmarsh
Booksplease Price: £39.70The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel... -
When In Rome: A New Look At Old Gods Lynn Hamilton 9781036136079
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Since the time of ancient Rome, science has explained many phenomena, including the rotation of the Earth around the Sun. But the Romans, who built the first roads, aqueducts, baths, and security... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel by Tim Whitmarsh 9780521865906
Booksplease Price: £90.87The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel... -
Volume 3: Kierkegaard and the Roman World by Jon Stewart
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44While Kierkegaard's use of the Greek authors, particularly Plato and Aristotle, has attracted considerable attention over the years, his use of the Roman authors has, by contrast, remained sadly... -
Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: The Silent Stream by Richard Hunter
Booksplease Price: £95.79Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as... -
Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: The Silent Stream by Richard Hunter 9781107470743
Booksplease Price: £35.47Exploring both how Plato engaged with existing literary forms and how later literature then created 'classics' out of some of Plato's richest works, this book includes chapters on such subjects as... -
The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99`The language is refined, the smile not grave, My honest tongue recounts how men behave.' The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can...