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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... -
Baiae by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano 9780674021976
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (1426-1503) was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy, the presiding spirit of the Accademia Pontaniana, and chief minister and tutor to the Aragonese Kings... -
Ovid Heroides: A Selection by John Godwin 9781474265904
Booksplease Price: £14.37This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Heroides, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Heroides VI, lines 1-100... -
The Full-Knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary Tradition by Joseph Pucci 9780300194661
Booksplease Price: £30.79Literary allusions abound in Western literature, and those who study them tend to focus on the author's intentions to demonstrate erudition, embellish meaning, or exert control over tradition. In... -
Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome by Stephen Bertman 9781516547982
Booksplease Price: £33.50Erotic desire is as old as the human race and erotic literature as old as civilization. With bold, new translations, the author presents and discusses some of the most beautiful, stirring expressions... -
Ancient Greek Epigrams: Major Poets in Verse Translation by Gordon L. Fain 9780520265806
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84After Sappho but before the great Latin poets, the most important short poems in the ancient world were Greek epigrams. Beginning with simple expressions engraved on stone, these poems eventually... -
Critica: Textual Issues in Horace, Ennius, Vergil and Other Authors Egil Kraggerud (University of Oslo, Norway) 9780367543518
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and... -
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles 9780299302542
Booksplease Price: £8.12Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles' trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and his unhappy family. It dramatizes the mysterious death of Oedipus, by which he is transformed into... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 110 by Richard F. Thomas 9780674237315
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22This volume includes: Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, "Half Slave, Half Free: Partial Manumission in the Ancient Near East and Beyond"; Chris Eckerman, "I Weave a Variegated Headband: Metaphors for Song... -
Anyone by Nate Klug
Booksplease Price: £18.63Milton's God Where 1-95 meets The Pike, a ponderous thunderhead flowered - stewed a minute, then flipped like a flash card, tattered edges crinkling in, linings so dark with excessive bright that,... -
Near/Miss by Charles Bernstein
Booksplease Price: £24.80Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as "the foremost poet-critic of our time" by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a... -
Near/Miss by Charles Bernstein 9780226570723
Booksplease Price: £107.67Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as "the foremost poet-critic of our time" by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a... -
Antigone by Sophocles 9780299290849
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Sophocles' Antigone ranks with his Oedipus Rex as one of world literature's most compelling dramas. The action is taut, and the characters embody universal tensions: the conflict of youth with age,... -
Roman Odes, Elegies & Epigrams by Peter Washington
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a... -
Collected Papers on Suetonius by Tristan Power 9780367560010
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This collection of essays by a leading authority on Suetonius, one of our most significant historical sources for the early Roman Empire, provides an in-depth examination of his works, whose literary... -
Learn to Read Latin, Second Edition (Workbook) by Andrew Keller
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.16Learn 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... -
Silver swan by Bob Chilcott 9780193419032
Booksplease Price: £4.80for SATB double choir unaccompanied This setting of Orlando Gibbons and Catullus is a re-working of Gibbons's celebrated 17th-century madrigal (of the same title) for five voices. It retains the... -
Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics by Charles Martindale 9780199240401
Booksplease Price: £80.61This book argues for a new attention to the importance of beauty and the aesthetic in our response to poetry. Charles Martindale explores ways in which Kant's aesthetic theory, as set out in the... -
Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry by Gordon Williams 9780300024562
Booksplease Price: £53.23It has long been assumed that the language of Roman poetry was constructed under the dictates of elaborately defined rules of rhetoric, and its content determined according to the system of... -
A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity by Daniel H. Garrison 9781847887887
Booksplease Price: £112.43A 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 millennium CE. This span of time includes three major eras of Greek... -
So Many Moving Parts by Tiffany Atkinson
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38So Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson's third collection, is an eccentric 21st-century meditation on the awkwardness of body and spirit and their unexpected, often unwanted intrusions into the... -
Greek and Latin Poetry by Angelo Poliziano
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. His poetry, composed in a variety of meters, includes... -
Ancient Greek Epigrams: Major Poets in Verse Translation by Gordon L. Fain 9780520265790
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.29After Sappho but before the great Latin poets, the most important short poems in the ancient world were Greek epigrams. Beginning with simple expressions engraved on stone, these poems eventually... -
Horace: Behind the Public Poetry by R. O. Lyne 9780300204698
Booksplease Price: £28.58This fascinating study of one of the greatest poets of the Augustan Age sheds new light on Horace's works by the way it combines literary analysis with investigation into the poet's social and... -
The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII: Three Papal Poets from Baroque to Risorgimento by Stephen Harrison 9781350292383
Booksplease Price: £90.57A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems... -
The Evergreen Heir (The Five Crowns of Okrith, Book 4) by A.K. Mulford 9780008582746
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63BOOK FOUR IN THE FIVE CROWNS OF OKRITH SERIES Neelo Emberspear, heir to the throne and realm, would never leave the library if they could help it. They certainly never asked for a kingdom... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: Volume 108 by Richard F. Thomas 9780674417540
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.22This volume includes Miguel Herrero de Jauregui, "'Trust the God': Tharsein in Ancient Greek Religion"; Jordi Pamias, "Acusilaus of Argos and the Bronze Tablets"; Karen Rosenbecker, "'Just Desserts':... -
Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems by Wendy Cope 9780571207060
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In this gloriously exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope sets out to prove that misery doesn't have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which are unashamedly happy: poems about love, places,... -
The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV by Micaela Janan 9780520223219
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of... -
Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome by Barbara K. Gold
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Propertius-these are just a few of the poets whose work we would be without today were it not for the wealthy and powerful patrons upon whose support the Roman cultural... -
The Fiction of Occasion in Hellenistic and Roman Poetry by Adrian Gramps 9783111270647
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.32The aim of this book is to devise a method for approaching the problem of presence in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The problem of presence, as defined here, is the problem of the availability or... -
Seneca and the Self by Shadi Bartsch 9780521888387
Booksplease Price: £99.73This collection of essays by well-known scholars of Seneca focuses on the multifaceted ways in which Seneca, as philosopher, politician, poet and Roman senator, engaged with the question of ethical... -
Something Indecent: Poems Recommended by Eastern European Poets by Valzhyna Mort 9781597099783
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Something Indecent is intended as a kind of symposium on European poetry. Seven contemporary Eastern European poets-Adam Zagajewski, Vera Pavlova, Tomaz Salamun, Ales Steger, Nikola Madzirov,... -
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry by Robert Hass
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike A Little Book on Form... -
The Great Goldbergs by Daniel Goodwin 9781770866591
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01When Sean McFall encounters golden-haired David Goldberg and his larger-than-life father, Saul, he is dazzled by the family's riches, power, and ease in social situations. The bright lives of the... -
A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition by Joseph Farrell 9781118785126
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £34.99A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh... -
Vesalius: The China Root Epistle: A New Translation and Critical Edition by Andreas Vesalius 9781107026353
Booksplease Price: £61.83This book provides the first annotated English translation from the original Latin of Andreas Vesalius' China Root Epistle. Ostensibly his appraisal of a fashionable herbal remedy, the China Root... -
The Chrysis of Enea Silvio Piccolomini Cynthia Liu 9781350419964
Booksplease Price: £85.65This book offers an accessible translation and detailed commentary of Piccolomini's only comedy, Chrysis. Enea Silvio Piccolomini (1405-64), also known as Pope Pius II, is among the Quattrocento's... -
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice by Tony Hoagland 9780393357912
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.27In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader... -
Beginning Latin Poetry Reader by Gavin Betts 9780071458856
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.41Embrace your Roman muse!As a learner of Latin, you want to experience the Roman world by reading its writers in their original language. But you may be unsure where to begin in the classical canon or...