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Socrates in Love by Armand D'Angour
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates: the philosopher whose... -
Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays Eavan Boland 9781324074281
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.64Eavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey... -
Notes on Thought and Vision by H. D. 9780872861411
Booksplease Price: $16.85Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and... -
How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them Dai George 9781399408318
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42'An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry' -- The IdlerHow history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - can teach us to... -
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.88'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have... -
The Lyric Myth of Voice: Civilizing Song in Enlightenment Italy by Jessica Gabriel Peritz
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $86.29How did "voice" become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connection between voice and subjectivity in late... -
The Alcaic Metre in the English Imagination by Dr John Talbot 9781350232495
Booksplease Price: $187.88This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today. English poets... -
Classical Love Poetry Jonathan Williams 9780714122809
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43From 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... -
The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture Robin Sowerby 9781032489858
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $66.36This fully revised, new edition of The Greeks is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece, providing a comprehensive survey that covers all the key elements of ancient... -
Women's History and Ancient History by Sarah B. Pomeroy 9780807843109
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $62.56This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles... -
Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every Woman by Kirsty Gunn
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.33A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the women who read them.This transformative collection of poems by female poets through the ages sing to us across the centuries. These... -
Ancient Love Stories by Sander Berg 9781800783225
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $19.11We don't have to look to works of fiction to find tales of true love. The pages of history are crammed with stories about love that are, quite literally, true. And many of them are among the... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: $53.63Booksplease Price: $25.19From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting... -
Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition by Louise Labe 9780226467146
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe played off the Petrarchan male... -
The Stepmother's Diary Fay Weldon 9781847247858
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.64'I read my daughter's diaries the other day. Let me share with you. You may think you know pretty much what's going on in your own family. Believe me, you do not'. Sappho was so happy when she... -
Translation as Muse: Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome by Elizabeth Marie Young
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $84.92Poetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic. Elizabeth Marie Young disagrees, and with Translation as Muse, she... -
The Crazy Hunter by Kay Boyle 9781782279464
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25At 17, Nan wants to leave the family farm and go to study. Caught between her powerful mother and yielding, drunken father, she absorbs the tensions of their divided household and dotes on her new... -
Mary Barnard: Complete Poems and Selected Translations by Mary Barnard 9798855802641
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $182.60The most comprehensive collection of writing by award-winning US poet, renowned translator of Sappho, and trailblazing archivist Mary Barnard.Born in the Pacific Northwest, Mary Barnard (1909-2001)... -
Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition by Louise Labe
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $58.48Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe played off the Petrarchan male... -
The Amorous Heart: An Unconventional History of Love by Marilyn Yalom
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.63The symmetrical, exuberant heart is everywhere: it gives shape to candy, pendants, the frothy milk on top of a cappuccino, and much else. How can we explain the ubiquity of what might be the most... -
Mary Barnard: Complete Poems and Selected Translations by Mary Barnard 9798855802658
RRP: $53.63Booksplease Price: $47.68The most comprehensive collection of writing by award-winning US poet, renowned translator of Sappho, and trailblazing archivist Mary Barnard.Born in the Pacific Northwest, Mary Barnard (1909-2001)... -
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all by Lizzy Tiffin 9780008687083
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.18You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? ... -
100 Queer Poems by Andrew McMillan 9781529115338
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.45Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston... -
Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France by Mary D. Sheriff 9780226752884
Booksplease Price: $54.44In eighteenth-century France, the ability to "lose oneself" in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was also thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken... -
Heroes or Zeroes?: Myths and Legends from the Bad Boys of Ancient Greece Lizzy Tiffin 9780008791322
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.18Tales of lore from f*ckboys and more... Myths and legends would be nothing without their shining star of a hero at... -
Narratives of Time and Gender in Antiquity Esther Eidinow 9781032474861
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This volume offers new insights into ancient figurations of temporality by focusing on the relationship between gender and time across a range of genres.Each chapter in this collection places gender... -
The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan Sniader Lanser 9780226187563
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $154.99The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth - and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and... -
How Poems Think by Reginald Gibbons
Booksplease Price: $48.36To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular... -
The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan Sniader Lanser
Booksplease Price: $55.67The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth - and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and... -
No, Love Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Love Poetry from Around the World Chris McCabe 9781529338522
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's... -
How Poems Think by Reginald Gibbons 9780226277950
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular... -
The Shadow of the Parthenon: Studies in Ancient History and Literature by Peter Green 9780520255074
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $50.64A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from... -
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents by Thomas K. Hubbard
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $49.73The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook... -
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Luke Edward Hall 9780241575734
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.34Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient... -
No, Love Is Not Dead: An Anthology of Love Poetry from Around the World Chris McCabe 9781529338539
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Silver Medal Winner for Poetry at the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards.A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world's... -
The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It by Daisy Dunn 9781474615617
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.08'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively retelling of history, the women of the ancient world are restored to the... -
The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It Daisy Dunn 9781474615631
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively retelling of history, the women of the ancient world are restored to the... -
Literary Criticism: A Short History: Classical Criticism by William K. Wimsatt Jr. 9780367692131
Booksplease Price: $201.22First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world. Divided... -
Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture by Kate Gilhuly
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture addresses the following question: how does a place "get a reputation?" The Athenians associated sexual behaviors with particular places and... -
Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore
Booksplease Price: $25.25"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the...