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Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism by Professor Sarit Kattan Gribetz 9780691242095
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.22How 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... -
That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World by J. E. Lendon
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.76How 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
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.47A 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... -
Greek and Roman Historians by Timothy Duff 9781853996016
Booksplease Price: $33.42What 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
Booksplease Price: $81.68Strabo 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... -
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A Sourcebook Marguerite Johnson (The University of Newcastle, Australia) 9781138200418
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01This second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations.This book provides readers with detailed... -
That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World J. E. Lendon 9780691221014
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.47How 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... -
Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius Nadya Williams 9780310171072
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues?Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal "Yes!"... -
Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic by Clark Hulse 9780691614687
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $54.13To Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and other Elizabethans, the minor epic was an important medium for poetic experimentation, but today, too often separated from the culture that bore it, it is not... -
The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $62.40Continuing 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: $49.02Booksplease Price: $42.72A 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: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.44In 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: $141.90Booksplease Price: $120.98The 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... -
Nature of Roman Comedy: A Study in Popular Entertainment by George Duckworth 9780691620282
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $83.99This 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 Emperor Nero: A Guide to the Ancient Sources by Anthony A. Barrett 9780691156514
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians--not to mention Nero's murder of his... -
Calendar of the Roman Republic by Agnes Kirsopp Michels 9780691622897
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.48This book reconstructs the pre-Julian calendar of Rome on the basis of epigraphical and literary evidence, and analyzes its relation to the solar and lunar years. Mrs. Michels shows how the varied... -
Industrialization and Urbanization: Studies in Interdisciplinary History by Theodore K. Rabb
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $52.15Focusing 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... -
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Anne Bass 9780691169996
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $54.52This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the... -
Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947 by Albert Camus
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.20Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected... -
Roman Republics by Harriet I. Flower
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first century BC--has profoundly shaped how... -
Anatomy of Satire by Gilbert Highet 9780691619415
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $54.13Literary 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,... -
Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present by Caroline Vout 9780691177038
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $48.28How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does... -
Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic by Clark Hulse 9780691656212
RRP: $178.02Booksplease Price: $141.00To Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and other Elizabethans, the minor epic was an important medium for poetic experimentation, but today, too often separated from the culture that bore it, it is not... -
The Senate of Imperial Rome by Richard J. A. Talbert
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $62.40Richard J. A. Talbert examines the composition, procedure, and functions of the Roman senate during the Principate (30 B.C.-A.D. 238). Although it is of central importance to the period, this great... -
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine by Barry Strauss
Booksplease Price: $16.98Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street... -
The Life of the Caesars by Richard Pearson 9780244765842
RRP: $18.00Booksplease Price: $17.39Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus is mainly remembered as the author of De Vita Caesarum [commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of... -
Epigram in the English Renaissance by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson 9780691653556
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $88.91Favorite 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... -
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1: Lectures, 1795: On Politics and Religion by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $110.59Coleridge began in 1795 a series of public lectures. This volume includes all the printed and manuscript versions of the Bristol lectures in chronological sequence. Among the contents are "Lectures... -
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $52.54In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores... -
Red: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691172774
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.41A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the ages The color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up... -
Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical by James Olney 9780691616261
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $68.82Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy... -
Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor by Larry Silver
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $86.61Long before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority and spread their ideology. Born just decades after Gutenberg, the Holy Roman Emperor... -
Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence by Michael W. Cole 9780691147444
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $73.89Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers... -
Volume 3: Kierkegaard and the Roman World by Jon Stewart
RRP: $72.23Booksplease Price: $67.65While 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... -
Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire by Mary T. Boatwright
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.08Cities throughout the Roman Empire flourished during the reign of Hadrian (A.D. 117-138), a phenomenon that not only strengthened and legitimized Roman dominion over its possessions but also revealed... -
A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity by Joanne Berry
Booksplease Price: $121.81'Home' is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus' epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the... -
Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition by Meredith Safran
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $34.78This collection of fourteen essays explores how the dominant media of our time film and television have engaged with the golden age as formulated in the Western classical tradition.Drawing on... -
Lives of the Caesars & On Teachers of Grammar and Rhetoric (C. Suetoni Tranquilli De uita Caesarum libri VIII et De grammaticis et rhetoribus liber) by Robert A. Kaster
Booksplease Price: $80.55Oxford Classical Texts, also known as Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, provide authoritative, clear, and reliable editions of ancient texts. Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars-the... -
A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity by Dr Joanne Berry 9781350412224
Booksplease Price: $39.96'Home' is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus' epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the... -
Roman Rule in Asia Minor, Volume 1 (Text): To the End of the Third Century After Christ by David Magie 9780691627403
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $106.19What is known of the expansion of the Roman Empire in Asia and adjacent lands to the East between 133 B.C. and A.D. 285 is presented here in a comprehensive organization of all the existing...