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Entertaining Ambiguities: Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy Ralph J. Hexter 9781512828542
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language with classical reception, university culture, and Italian humanism. Through his... -
The Ancient Romances: A Literary-Historical Account of Their Origins by Ben E. Perry 9780520360334
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.26This title delves into the origins and development of ancient romance literature, expanding upon a series of lectures given by Ben Edwin Perry at the University of California in 1951. This scholarly... -
The Ancient Romances: A Literary-Historical Account of Their Origins by Ben E. Perry 9780520309340
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.47This title delves into the origins and development of ancient romance literature, expanding upon a series of lectures given by Ben Edwin Perry at the University of California in 1951. This scholarly... -
On the Path to Virtue: The Stoic Doctrine of Moral Progress and Its Reception in (Middle-) Platonism by Geert Roskam 9789058674760
RRP: £54.50Booksplease Price: £45.89In the first part about the specific Stoic doctrine on moral progress (prokope) attention is first given to the subtle view developed by the early Stoics, who categorically denied the existence of... -
Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture by Jason Koenig
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.84Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an... -
Roman Reflections: Studies in Latin Philosophy by Gareth D. Williams 9780199999767
Booksplease Price: £107.29When the Romans adopted Greek literary genres, artistic techniques, and iconographies, they did not slavishly imitate their models. Rather, the Romans created vibrant and original literature and art... -
Reading Marechera by Grant Hamilton
Booksplease Price: £26.21Variously understood as literary genius and enfant terrible of African literature, Dambudzo Marechera's work as novelist, poet, playwright and essayist is discussed here in relation to other... -
Violence in the Forum: Factional Struggles in Ancient Rome (133-78 Bc) Natale Barca 9781636244471
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.07"The entry of daggers into the Forum" is an expression that identifies two precise historical moments: when two tribunes of the plebs-brothers Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Caius Sempronius... -
The Complete Poems of Tibullus: An En Face Bilingual Edition by Albius Tibullus 9780520272538
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89Tibullus is considered one of the finest exponents of Latin lyric in the golden age of Rome, during the Emperor Augustus' reign, and his poetry retains its enduring beauty and appeal. Together these... -
The Complete Poems of Tibullus: An En Face Bilingual Edition Albius Tibullus 9780520272545
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Tibullus is considered one of the finest exponents of Latin lyric in the golden age of Rome, during the Emperor Augustus' reign, and his poetry retains its enduring beauty and appeal. Together these... -
Isis in the Ancient World by Reginald Eldred Witt 9780801856426
Booksplease Price: £31.74Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B.C. and extended at least until the fifth century A.D. throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in... -
Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture by Jason Konig 9780521886857
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £74.14Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic by William A. Johnson
Booksplease Price: £55.53Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the... -
Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, Volume 2: The Latin Tradition by Stephen Gersh
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £50.27It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called "Platonic" and "Neoplatonic" played a crucial role in the history of European culture during the centuries between... -
Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, Volume 1: The Latin Tradition by Stephen Gersh 9780268014384
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £40.38"It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called 'Platonic' and 'Neoplatonic' played a crucial role in the history of European culture during the centuries between... -
Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, Volume 2: The Latin Tradition by Stephen Gersh 9780268013639
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £85.12It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called "Platonic" and "Neoplatonic" played a crucial role in the history of European culture during the centuries between... -
Love Enamored and Driven Mad by Lucrezia Marinella 9780866986250
Booksplease Price: £40.76With Love Enamored and Driven Mad, Lucrezia Marinella puts her mark on classical mythology and literary antecedents. She transforms Cupid from all-powerful god to wayward adolescent who falls to his... -
St. Paul's Corinth: Texts and Archaeology by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor 9780814653036
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.96Corinth, one of the most fascinating centers of the early Christian movement, is explored through both literary and archaeological means. In St. Paul's Corinth the evidence of thirty-three Greek and... -
A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books 13–15 and Indices by Alessandro Barchiesi 9781009168069
Booksplease Price: £41.66Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western... -
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women Stephen Harrison 9781350551084
Booksplease Price: £90.57This anthology showcases Neo-Latin texts produced by women across Europe between circa 1400 and 1800, highlighting their contributions in both poetry and prose. Each chapter offers excerpts alongside... -
Rome in Africa by Susan Raven
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from... -
Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 6-10 by Gillian Clark 9780198870081
Booksplease Price: £119.23This is the second volume in a series of commentaries on Augustine's City of God (De civitate Dei). Books 6-10 are Augustine's answer to those who think that many gods should be worshipped for... -
Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, Volume 1: The Latin Tradition by Stephen Gersh 9780268160197
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.37"It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called 'Platonic' and 'Neoplatonic' played a crucial role in the history of European culture during the centuries between... -
Colloquial and Literary Latin by Eleanor Dickey 9781107684416
Booksplease Price: £47.58What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such... -
In Praise of the Garrulous by Allan Cameron 9781908251244
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £10.39This first and only work of non-fiction by the author of two novels, two collections of short stories and a collection of poetry, has an accessible and conversational tone, which perhaps disguises... -
Love and Providence: Recognition in the Ancient Novel by Silvia Montiglio 9780199916047
Booksplease Price: £112.35From the Odyssey and King Lear to modern novels by Umberto Eco and John le Carre, the recognition scene has enjoyed a long life in western literature. It first became a regular feature of prose... -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great... -
Colloquial and Literary Latin Eleanor Dickey (University of Exeter) 9780521513951
Booksplease Price: £86.45What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such... -
Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy by Brett M. Rogers 9780190610067
Booksplease Price: £51.63Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy is the first collection of essays in English focusing on how fantasy draws deeply on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art,... -
Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society Michael Trapp 9781138270794
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Drawing on unusually broad range of sources for this study of Imperial period philosophical thought, Michael Trapp examines the central issues of personal morality, political theory, and social... -
Horace: Satires Book I by Horace 9780521452205
Booksplease Price: £83.00Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with... -
Horace: Satires Book I by Horace
Booksplease Price: £31.53Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire. It wrestles with... -
An Anthology of Latin Prose by D. A. Russell 9780198721215
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £57.36This anthology fills a gap which has been widely felt. It gives students - at sixth-form, undergraduate or junior graduate level - the opportunity of sampling a very wide variety of Latin prose... -
Nietzsche's Zarathustra by Kathleen Marie Higgins 9780739120866
Booksplease Price: £51.70Nietzsche's Zarathustra takes an interdisciplinary approach to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, focusing on the philosophical function of its literary techniques and its fictional mode of... -
Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction by Jesse Weiner 9781350054875
Booksplease Price: £29.55Frankenstein 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... -
Blimey, I'm Knackered!: An American's Survival Guide to British English by 9781945501517
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Brit Speak for Yanks! Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." One would think, in a world homogenized by technology... -
Queer/Early/Modern by Carla A. Freccero
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In Queer/Early/Modern, Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and... -
Complex Inferiorities: The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature by Sebastian Matzner 9780198814061
Booksplease Price: £114.88This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice... -
Queer/Early/Modern by Carla Freccero 9780822336785
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14In Queer/Early/Modern, Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and... -
Blimey, I'm Knackered!: An American's Survival Guide to British English by Marshall Hall
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Brit Speak for Yanks! Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." One would think, in a world homogenized by technology...