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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... -
Ezra Pound and the Troubadour Tradition by Stuart Y. McDougal 9780691619361
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The world of the troubadours of medieval Provence--of Bertran de Born, Arnaut de Mareuil, and Peire Bremon lo Tort--always fascinated Ezra Pound and, as Stuart McDougal shows, provided both themes... -
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance by Peter Godman 9780691655284
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Peter 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... -
Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski 9780691611587
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that... -
Clodia: A Sourcebook by Julia Dyson Hejduk 9780806139074
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47A striking portrait of one of the most fascinating women in Roman historyNoble and notorious, the flamboyant Clodia Metelli was the object of passion in poetry and prose in ancient Rome and appears... -
Reason and the Lover by John V. Fleming 9780691612645
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02This 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... -
Pound's Cavalcanti: An Edition of the Translation, Notes, and Essays by David Anderson 9780691613529
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This book makes available the entire range of Ezra Pounds studies and translations of the technically complex philosophical poems of the thirteenth-century Florentine Guido Cavalcanti, Dante's first... -
Roman Sexualities Judith P. Hallett 9780691011783
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £59.18This 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... -
The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception by Julia Haig Gaisser
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £65.11This book traces the transmission and reception of one of the most influential novels in Western literature. The Golden Ass, the only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety, tells of a young... -
Classical Love Poetry Jonathan Williams 9780714122809
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40From the darkly erotic poetry of Sappho to the bawdy advice of Ovid, love is a ubiquitous theme in Classical poetry. This newly revised edition collects the best short poems and extracts from the... -
Epodes and Odes: A New Annotated Latin Edition by Horace 9780806130576
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12This fully annotated Latin edition, by Daniel H. Garrison, of Horace's Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare is the first comprehensive English commentary on these works since 1903. The full text of the... -
Nature of Roman Comedy: A Study in Popular Entertainment by George Duckworth 9780691620282
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £65.11This book provides the most complete and definitive study of Roman comedy. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make... -
The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece by Robin Osborne 9780691177670
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in... -
Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic by Natale Barca
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £25.80This new history of the last years of the Roman Republic sets the leading men, and women, in the complex social and political system of the time, to provide a full context to the historical events... -
Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity by David H. J. Larmour
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous... -
The Genesis of Ezra Pound's CANTOS by Ronald L. Bush 9780691605210
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55Ronald Hush traces the organic development of the poem and demonstrates that what seems to be eccentricity in the Cantos frequently corresponds to the common practice of Pound's contemporaries. ... -
Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral: Essays on Theocritus and Virgil by Charles Segal 9780691614878
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.84Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy... -
The Portable Roman Reader by Various 9780140150568
Booksplease Price: £16.74THE CULTURE OF THE ROMAN STATE - ONE OF THE GREAT FORMATIVE FACTS OF OUR WORLD - AS REPRESENTED BY SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF ITS FINEST WRITERS, IN THE BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, INCLUDING:... -
Fifty Key Classical Authors by Alison Sharrock 9780415165112
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Including... -
The Poet Shen Yueh (441-513): The Reticent Marquis by Richard B. Mather 9780691606262
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63This book is a literary biography of Shen Yueh, a statesman, historian, poet, and devout lay defender of both Buddhism and Taoism. The title "Reticient Marquis" (Yin-hou) was awarded posthumously by... -
Dryden the Public Writer, 1660-1685 by George McFadden 9780691616490
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43This reinterpretation of Dryden's life and works shows how his writings were influenced by important contemporaries, the power struggles of Restoration politics, and the friendships and rivalries of... -
The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes by Luis de Camoes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.02Luis de Camoes is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusiads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native... -
Ugo Foscolo: Poet of Exile by Glauco Cambon 9780691615714
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.35Contemporary with the Romantic generation, peer of Keats, Holderlin, and Goethe, and forerunner of Valery and Pound, Ugo Foscolo is nevertheless little known outside Italy. In an endeavor to... -
Shakespeare's Living Art by Rosalie Littell Colie 9780691618616
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.84In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"--verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres--to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection... -
Fragments of Roman Poetry c.60 BC-AD 20 by Adrian S. Hollis 9780199567836
Booksplease Price: £88.98This book aims to fill in the literary history of the greatest period of Latin poetry, about 60 BC to AD 20. Catullus (by a slender thread) has survived, but later contemporaries valued his friend... -
Anatomy of Satire by Gilbert Highet 9780691619415
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Literary satire assumes three main forms: monologue, parody, and narrative (some fictional, some dramatic). This book by Gilbert Highet is a study of these forms, their meaning, their variation,... -
Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence by Roland Greene 9780691600987
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Post-Petrarchism offers a theoretical study of lyric poetry through one of its most long-lived and widely practiced models: the lyric sequence, originated by Francis Petrarch in his Canzoniere of the... -
Classics in Translation by Peter Jones 9780715628683
Booksplease Price: £28.64Introducing the work of 20 of the ancient world's greatest authors, this work presents brief, readable essays, fully illustrated with quotations from modern (and some ancient) translations. The... -
PN Review 264 by Michael Schmidt
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The March-April 2022 issue; Major interview with American poet Carl Philips; Nuash Sabah, editor of Poetry Birmingham, in conversation; Frederic Raphael writes to Wittgenstein; Isobel Williams adds... -
Mayakovsky: A Poet in the Revolution by Edward James Brown 9780691618852
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.59An absorbing portrait of an extraordinary man, an analysis of the work of a great Russian poet, and the evocation of a crucial period in Russian cultural history--all are combined in Edward J... -
Essays on English and American Literature by Leo Spitzer 9780691622637
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.68The late Leo Spitzer enjoyed a reputation as one of the twentieth century's outstanding philologists and linguists. His writings in the field of the romance languages and of comparative philology... -
Coleridge and Wordsworth: A Lyrical Dialogue by Paul Magnuson 9780691608112
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55Paul Magnuson contends that the relationship between Coleridge's and Wordsworth's poetry is so complex that a new criticism is required to trace its intricacies. This book demonstrates that their... -
Roman Political Life, 90BC-AD69 by T. P. Wiseman 9780859892254
Booksplease Price: £26.79Essays designed to illuminate the nature of politics at the end of the late Republic and during the first dynasty of the Principate.About the AuthorPeter Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman... -
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2, Latin Literature, Part 2, The Late Republic by E. J. Kenney 9780521273749
Booksplease Price: £41.37This volume covers a relatively short span of time, rather less than the first three-quarters of the first century BC; but it was an age of profoundly important developments, with enduring... -
Latin Love Poetry by Denise McCoskey 9781780761916
Booksplease Price: £22.66I hate and I love.' The Roman poet Catullus expressed the disorienting experience of being in love in a stark contradiction that has resonated across the centuries. While his description might seem... -
The Catullan Revolution by Kenneth Quinn 9781853996009
Booksplease Price: £27.89Examining the revolution wrought by Catullus in Latin poetry, this volume encapsulates the way in which principles of modern literary criticism could be applied to classical poetry, without ditching... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 84 by D. R. Shackleton Bailey 9780674379312
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.92This volume of fifteen essays includes "The Case of the Door's Marriage (Catullus 67.6)," by E. Badian; "The Date of Tacitus' Dialogus," by Charles E. Murgia; "Poetae Novelli," by Alan Cameron;... -
Making Men Ridiculous: Juvenal and the Anxieties of the Individual by Christopher Nappa 9780472130665
Booksplease Price: £74.94Writing during the reign of emperors Trajan and Hadrian, Juvenal drew on Roman legend and the history of preceding imperial dynasties as a means of scrutinizing cultural upheavals in the Rome of his... -
Epigram in the English Renaissance by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson 9780691653556
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £68.92Favorite Renaissance condiment at "the great feast of language," the epigram is here presented full-flavored and various in a brilliant study by the late Hoyt Hopewell Hudson. He considers its... -
Juvenal Satires: A Selection Dr John Godwin (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350156524
Booksplease Price: £20.35This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Juvenal, Satire 6 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Satires 14 and 15, giving full Latin text,...