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The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature by Professor Susanna Morton Braund 9780521030908
Booksplease Price: £45.31Essays 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: £22.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Taken 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... -
Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection by Thea S. Thorsen 9783110630596
RRP: £114.50Booksplease Price: £105.68It is often claimed that the kind of love that is variously deemed 'romantic' or 'true' did not exist in antiquity. Yet, ancient literature abounds with stories that seem to adhere precisely to this... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 90 by R. J. Tarrant 9780674379374
RRP: £60.95Booksplease Price: £49.65This volume of sixteen articles includes: T. D. Barnes, "The Significance of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus"; Wendell Clausen, "Cicero and the New Poetry"; Gregory Crane, "Three Notes on Herodas 8";... -
Author and Audience in Latin Literature by Tony Woodman 9780521383073
Booksplease Price: £90.57The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its 'publication'... -
Lectures and Essays on Subjects Connected with Latin Literature and Scholarship by Henry Nettleship 9781108012454
Booksplease Price: £32.50The celebrated classical scholar and lexicographer Henry Nettleship (1839-1893) published this volume in 1885 while he was Professor of Latin at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The volume is a... -
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Learn Latin: The Book of the "Daily Telegraph" Q.E.D.Series by Peter Jones
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.99Taken 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... -
The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set by Homer 9780520306653
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £41.58A stunning set of Homer's epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar. Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green's landmark translations of Homer's timeless epics are... -
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Selections from Homer's "Iliad" by Homer 9780806133638
Booksplease Price: £26.62First published in 1903, Selections from Homer's Iliad has become a classic Greek textbook. Allen Rogers Benner presents selections from twelve books of the Iliad both in Greek and English. Short... -
Author and Audience in Latin Literature by Tony Woodman 9780521035781
Booksplease Price: £35.47The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its 'publication'... -
Counting the Stars by Helen Dunmore
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.02Counting the Stars is a captivating tale of forbidden love and bestselling author Helen Dunmore's tenth novel.In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia... -
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Amo, Amas, Amat ... and All That by Harry Mount 9781904977544 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.53Those endless afternoons where you struggled to remember the third person singular present indicative of volo (vult) may be a long time ago. But, if you have the vaguest memory of the ablative... -
Classical Women Poets Josephine Balmer 9781852243425
Booksplease Price: £9.26Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these... -
Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #22) by Louis Zukofsky
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.57With an ear tuned to the most delicate musical effects, an eye for exact and heterogeneous details, and a mind bent on experiment, Louis Zukofsky was preeminent among the radical Objectivist poets of... -
The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry by Ellen Greene
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91A groundbreaking examination of power relations in Roman elegyIn recent decades, scholars in the field of classics have paid increasing attention to gender and sexual politics in Latin elegiac poetry... -
Learn to Read Latin, Second Edition (Workbook Part 1) by Andrew Keller
Booksplease Price: £28.88Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with... -
Sappho by Page DuBois 9781784533618
Booksplease Price: £28.09Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the... -
aboutness by Eimear Laffan 9780228019022
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Impulse said preserve the mess of construction, the unbiblical / carnage. This is my excuse for everything.Intensive and extensive, aboutness convenes across geographies and temporalities, in... -
Allusion and Allegory: Studies in the >Ciris< by Boris Kayachev 9783110446814
RRP: £96.50Booksplease Price: £65.74The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris,... -
Two Centuries of Roman Poetry by Eberhard Christopher Kennedy 9781853995279
Booksplease Price: £27.89First published by Macmillian in 1964, this book is designed to introduce students to a wider range of Latin poetry than they would encounter in a simple author prescription. The first century BC is... -
Roman Readings: Latin Poetry from Lucretius to Ovid by Stephen Harrison 9783111678719
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.80This volume collects seventeen pieces on the classical Latin poetry of the late Republican and Augustan period written and published since 2000. They share a common interest in the close reading of... -
Poems Of Food And Drink by Peter Washington
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the... -
Learn to Read Latin, Second Edition (Workbook Part 2) by Andrew Keller 9780300194982
Booksplease Price: £28.38Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with... -
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A Smattering of Latin: Get classical with trivia, quizzes and fun by Simon James 9781911042228 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.99This fun, absorbing book, packed with quirky bite-sized lists, quizzes and trivia, is an exploration of the Latin language, aiming to prove that it is as vibrant and relevant today as it was 2,500... -
Sex in the Ancient World from A to Z John Younger 9780415486958
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity, and... -
Lucretius by John Godwin 9781853996719
Booksplease Price: £28.57The Roman poet Lucretius, who lived in the first century BC, composed an epic poem, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), whose avowed purpose was to change the way we live our lives, to... -
Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers... -
Possessive: Poems by Sally Van Doren 9780807144886
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.67Sally Van Doren's imaginative new collection offers bold and beguiling poems. Uttered in intense lyrical bursts that reflect the poet's command of language both familiar and strange, the visually... -
A Smattering of Latin: Get classical with trivia, quizzes and fun by Simon James 9781911042228
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63This fun, absorbing book, packed with quirky bite-sized lists, quizzes and trivia, is an exploration of the Latin language, aiming to prove that it is as vibrant and relevant today as it was 2,500... -
The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos by S. Rex Stem 9780472038800
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.31The Roman writer Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Cicero and Catullus and other first-century BCE authors, and portions of his encyclopedic work On Famous Men are the earliest surviving biographies... -
Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by Max Leventhal
Booksplease Price: £34.48Poetry 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... -
Virgil: Eclogues by Virgil 9780198150350
Booksplease Price: £45.17Surprising though it may seem, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary in English on Virgil's Eclogues. Written between about 42 and 35 BC, these ten short pastorals are among the best... -
A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity by Daniel H. Garrison 9781472554628
Booksplease Price: £34.14A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity explores 1,750 years of the history of the West, from Homer to the end of the first millennium CE. This span of time includes three major eras of... -
Lucretius and the Late Republic: An Essay in Roman Intellectual History by J.D. Minyard 9789004076198
Booksplease Price: £20.91The crisis Rome experienced in the last decades of the Republic was intellectual as well as political, social and military. This crisis was marked by conflicts over values and a growing dichotomy... -
Learn to Read Latin by Yale University Press 9780300194999
Booksplease Price: £66.73Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with... -
The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354454
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.93In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time. Among these literary guides are... -
Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection by Thea S. Thorsen 9783111255798
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.32It is often claimed that the kind of love that is variously deemed 'romantic' or 'true' did not exist in antiquity. Yet, ancient literature abounds with stories that seem to adhere precisely to this... -
Virgil's Aeneid: A Critical Description by Kenneth Quinn 9781904675525
Booksplease Price: £36.08The aim of this important and still valuable book - first published in 1968 but never before available in paperback - is, quite simply, to help all who approach Virgil's Aeneid seriously, whether in... -
Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10 by Shawn O'Bryhim
RRP: £50.95Booksplease Price: £47.61Discover a holistic perspective on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10 with this insightful resource. In A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10, Shawn O'Bryhim offers an insightful and... -
The Poems by Sextus Propertius
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress...