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Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome by Anthony Corbeill 9780691163222
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.10From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender--masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores),... -
How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess by Horace
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.85What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been... -
Language and Desire in Seneca's Phaedra by Charles Segal 9780691610719
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $48.48This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious... -
Literary Fortifications: Rousseau, Laclos, Sade by Joan E. DeJean 9780691612249
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.02This highly original interpretation of the novel of the French Classical age explores military strategy as a central metaphor in Rousseau's Julie and Emile, Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses, and... -
Atomism in the Aeneid: Physics, Politics, and Cosmological Disorder by Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew M Gorey
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $95.78Scholars have long recognized Lucretius's De Rerum Natura as an important allusive source for the Aeneid, but significant disagreement persists regarding the scope and purpose of Virgil's engagement... -
Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy by Daniel W. Graham 9780691125404
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $80.10Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is... -
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by Jonathan Lamb 9780691182933
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.74An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth centuryScurvy-a disease usually associated with long stretches of maritime travel-generated extraordinary sensations. Eyes dazzled, skin was... -
How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creating Change by Armand D'Angour 9780691213736
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.80What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times-the ancient GreeksWhen it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are... -
On Purpose by Michael Ruse
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.74An accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the presentCan we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with it,... -
On Purpose by Michael Ruse 9780691172460
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck... -
Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery by Jonathan Lamb 9780691147826
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.67Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered... -
Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion Jacob L. Mackey 9780691236537
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn't absent from-but rather was at the heart of-Roman religionBelief and Cult argues that belief isn't uniquely... -
How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land by M. D. Usher
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.80A delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living-ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agricultureWhether you farm or garden, live in the... -
The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime Jenny C. Mann 9780691219240
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $29.79A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and... -
Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid by J. D. Reed 9780691127408
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $69.83Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil's Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this... -
The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life by Kurt Lampe 9780691161136
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $50.49According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus... -
Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species by Mary Gregory 9781138967687
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.55In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that... -
The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality Monica R. Gale 9781009176071
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $99.70Augustus famously boasted that, having inherited a city of brick, he bequeathed a city of marble; but the transformation of the City's physical fabric is only one aspect of a pervasive concern with... -
Two Studies in the Greek Atomists by David Furley
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28The two studies, "Indivisible Magnitudes," and "Aristotle and Epicurus on Voluntary Action," explain two doctrines in the philosophy of Epicurus, first by a detailed examination of the ancient Greek... -
Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings by Avi Lifschitz
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $42.22The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712-1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific... -
Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid<i/> by David Quint 9780691179377
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $89.58The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to... -
Virgil's Double Cross: Design and Meaning in the Aeneid<i/> by David Quint 9780691179384
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.24The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to... -
The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essays by Alexander P. D. Mourelatos 9780691608273
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $93.91This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were... -
Seneca's Troades: A Literary Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary Elaine Fantham 9780691613772
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $71.83Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English... -
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence 9780691227184
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $116.87Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the... -
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance by Peter Godman 9780691655284
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $63.92Peter 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: $74.82Booksplease Price: $60.36This 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... -
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide by Kieran Setiya 9780691183282
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.82How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility... -
Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art by Philip Hardie
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.15A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British... -
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting by Malcolm Bull 9780691138848
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by... -
The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid by Gilbert Highet 9780691619491
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $59.97In the Aeneid men, women, gods, and goddesses are characterized by the speeches assigned to them far more than by descriptions of their appearance or behavior. Most of the speeches are highly... -
Mutant Sex Party by Ed Macdonald 9781897535936
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40'Mutant Sex Party' is Ed Macdonald's first collection of plays. As well as the title piece, this collection includes 'The Escape Artist, Erratica, Gemini, Smoke & Blood, Hot Meat,' and 'Titus... -
Inside Paradise Lost: Reading the Designs of Milton's Epic by David Quint
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.18Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply... -
Conington's Virgil: Georgics by John Conington 9781904675228
RRP: $45.47Booksplease Price: $42.76John Conington's three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable... -
Prolegomena to Homer, 1795 by Friedrich August Wolf
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $53.77The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were his analyses of the history of writing and of the nature of Alexandrian scholarship... -
Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global... -
How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691183657
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.80A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero's influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divineMost ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods-from... -
Conington's Virgil: Aeneid X - XII by John Conington 9781904675266
RRP: $45.47Booksplease Price: $42.76John Conington's three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable... -
Conington's Virgil: Aeneid VII - IX by John Conington 9781904675259
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $48.10John Conington's three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable... -
The War Against Poetry by Russell A. Fraser 9780691620794
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.79The attack on poetry and the theater which occurred in England during the 16th and 17th centuries has been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations. This "war against poetry" was, in...