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Expurgating the Classics by 9781472558534
Booksplease Price: $85.66In the first collection to be devoted to this subject, a distinguished cast of contributors explores expurgation in both Greek and Latin authors in ancient and modern times. The major focus is on the... -
Shearsman 145 and 146 Kelvin Corcoran 9781848619999
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $19.78The second double issue of Shearsman magazine for 2025 features poetry by Ophira Adar, Alan Baker, Ian Davidson, Adam Flint, Alexander Gaul, John Goodby, Lucy Hamilton, Ellen Harrold, Lynne... -
Works: WITH Works AND Pervigilium Veneris by Albius Tibullus 9780674990074
Booksplease Price: $53.15Polymetric gems, wistful elegies, and a lover's prayer.Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 84-54 BC), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine Gaul but... -
Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry by Lowell Edmunds
Booksplease Price: $61.05How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry. In ... -
Things We Leave Behind: Selected Poems Josephine Balmer 9781837380039
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $26.25The Things We Leave Behind gathers poems from all five of Josephine Balmer's acclaimed volumes, excavating a common ground between the distant past and our contemporary world. From the universal... -
Pro Caelio by Cicero 9780198140627
Booksplease Price: $74.66In April 56 BC, M. Caelius Rufus was prosecuted for vis by L. Sempronius Atratinus; Cicero successfully defended him, making this speech at his trial. Shortly before, Caelius, a prominent figure in... -
Classica et Mediaevalia: Volume 63 by George Hinge
RRP: $119.68Booksplease Price: $85.81Classica et Medieavalia is an international, peer-reviewed journal covering Greek and Latin languages and literatures from antiquity to the late Middle Ages as well as Greek and Roman traditions as... -
The Book Of Faces by Joseph Campana 9781555974336
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.90An extraordinary debut taking Audrey Hepburn as the Muse for a series of meditations on the seductions of screen and stage. Campana's poems are haunted by Hepburn, her leading men and a fascinating... -
Signs & Wonders by Charles Martin 9780801899744
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $43.83Signs is a noun (as in DO NOT DISTURB); Wonders (as in "with furrowed brows"), a verb. The couplet that leads into Charles Martin's fifth collection of richly inventive poems suggests that the world... -
Ghost Passage by Josephine Balmer 9781848617940
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57Ghost Passage explores the ways in which we write ourselves in to the landscape, leaving our own trace, making our mark. From inscribed ancient artefacts and recently excavated writing tablets of... -
Latin Love Poetry by Denise McCoskey 9781780761909
Booksplease Price: $159.20I 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... -
Human-ness and God-ness in Biblical and Classical Culture: That One Seems to Me A Little Less than A God by Blaženka Scheuer 9798765189177
Booksplease Price: $190.20This volume explores the poetic and philosophical boundaries between humanity and divinity across the Hebrew Bible, Graeco-Roman literature, and early Christian thought. Inspired by Psalm 8 and the... -
Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister by Marilyn B. Skinner 9780195375008
Booksplease Price: $223.61Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular... -
Basics of Latin: A Grammar with Readings and Exercises from the Christian Tradition by Derek Cooper 9780310538998
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $66.32Basics of Latin: A Grammar with Readings and Exercises from the Christian Tradition by Derek Cooper introduces students, independent learners, and homeschoolers to the basics of Latin grammar with... -
Clio's Cosmetics: Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature by T. P. Wiseman 9781904675006
Booksplease Price: $65.44Clio is Muse of history, her 'cosmetics' the adornments of rhetoric. Peter Wiseman's influential book, first published in 1979 and now for the first time in paperback, concerns the writing of history... -
Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister by Marilyn B. Skinner 9780195375015
Booksplease Price: $102.69Clodia Metelli: The Tribune's Sister is the first full-length biography of a Roman aristocrat whose colorful life, as described by her contemporaries, has inspired numerous modern works of popular... -
Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by Max Leventhal 9781009123044
Booksplease Price: $173.67Poetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as... -
The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature by Professor Susanna Morton Braund 9780521473910
Booksplease Price: $209.43Essays by an international team of scholars in Latin literature and ancient philosophy explore the understanding of emotions (or 'passions') in Roman thought and literature. Building on work on... -
Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse by John Whitworth
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Making Love to Marilyn Monroe: The Faber Book of Blue Verse presents a variety of candidly sexual verse through the centuries from Catullus and Chaucer to modern poets like T.S. Eliot, Kingsley Amis,... -
Quality and Pleasure in Latin Poetry by Tony Woodman 9780521135764
Booksplease Price: $91.01Originally published in 1974, these studies of Latin poetry were commissioned with two main purposes in mind: to encourage a fresh reading of several Latin poets from the time of Catullus to Horace,... -
Studies in Latin Poetry by Christopher Mounsey Dawson 9780521124584
Booksplease Price: $72.41This volumes begins with a long essay on the nature and structure of Saturnian verse. This is followed by two studies of Plautus (the Menaechmi seen as a comedy of errors and the prologue of the... -
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.50A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. ... -
Callimachus: Hymns, Epigrams, Select Fragments by Callimachus
Booksplease Price: $60.02Having found his translators, may Callimachus now find the public he deserves. -D.S. Carne-RossA Poundian figure who summed up the possibilties of a new era's response to an old and rich poetic... -
The Paths of Survival by Josephine Balmer 9781848615298
RRP: $23.00Booksplease Price: $21.57The Paths of Survival explores the fragility of the written word; the ways in which it is destroyed and the ways in which, by each fresh miracle, it endures against all the odds. Tracing the few... -
Poems by Sextus Propertius 9781784106515
Booksplease Price: $31.40The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Recommended Translation. Asked to name the great Latin love poets, today's reader is likely to offer Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace. Propertius, a successor of... -
Latin Literature and its Transmission by Richard Hunter
Booksplease Price: $86.88This is a series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature, exploring how these two branches of the discipline are mutually supportive. The contributors include... -
Rome Glyn Pursglove 9781906011222
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.55All roads lead to Rome, the eternal city, the centre of Christendom, the lodestone of the pilgrim and the artist, the seat of the only Empire that has ever succeeded in uniting the European landmass... -
Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome by David O. Ross 9780521136693
Booksplease Price: $91.01In the first century BC, Latin poetry underwent considerable changes - from the neoteric poetics of Catullus and his contemporaries, through the development of elegy, to the Roman themes that the... -
Latin Explorations: Critical Studies in Roman Literature by Kenneth Quinn 9781138014008
Booksplease Price: $126.17Latin Explorations, first published in 1963, offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies - Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In... -
Latin Erotic Elegy: An Anthology and Reader by Paul Allen Miller 9780415243728
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.55This indispensable volume provides a complete course on Latin erotic elegy, allowing students to trace a coherent narrative of the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relationship to the... -
The Woman on the Bridge. ...: Poetry by Allen Grossman 9780811207140
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $14.34The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River is Allen Grossman's first collection with New Directions. His voice is astonishingly contemporary, his often dissociated imagery bordering on the... -
Latin Explorations (Routledge Revivals): Critical Studies in Roman Literature Kenneth Quinn 9781138014022
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43Latin Explorations, first published in 1963, offers a fresh approach to Roman poetry from Catullus to Ovid. Traditionally, the period is divided for specialist studies - Lyric, Epic and Elegy. In... -
Selections by Titus Lucretius Carus 9781853994869
Booksplease Price: $54.41Lucretius offers his readers a complete guide to happiness and a total tour of the universe. Even a few selections from his poetry reveal the radical freethinker at his very best. This book draws on... -
Ennius Beyond Epic by Jesse Hill 9781009586160
Booksplease Price: $235.47Quintus 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... -
Metamorphoses III by Ovid
Booksplease Price: $50.00Metamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation... -
Studies in Latin Language and Literature by Thomas Cole 9780521124614
Booksplease Price: $72.41This book covers a wide range of subjects from Latin literature and language to textual history and criticism. E. D. Francis gives a history of the words prae and pro, as adverb, preposition and... -
Manette by Richard Mabb 9781739699307
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $24.74This is an epic story about two men in love. And food. Set in China in 1924, Hong Kong in 1945, London in 1947, France in 1948 and Rome in the early 1950s. Food, love and Victorian poetry. And... -
Poems & Fragments by Sappho
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer's classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the Cologne... -
The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature by Professor Susanna Morton Braund 9780521030908
Booksplease Price: $95.15Essays by an international team of scholars in Latin literature and ancient philosophy explore the understanding of emotions (or 'passions') in Roman thought and literature. Building on work on... -
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Learn Latin: The Book of the "Daily Telegraph" Q.E.D.Series by Peter Jones 9780715627570 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $4.14Taken from the "QED" series of teach-yourself Latin articles published in the "Daily Telegraph" and the "Sunday Telegraph", this book aims to give its readers a basic knowledge of Latin in a short...