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The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome by Jane McIntosh Snyder 9780809335961
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €26.70Faint though the voices of the women of Greek and Roman antiquity may be in some cases, their sound, if we listen carefully enough, can fill many of the gaps and silences of women s past.From the... -
Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles: Queer Symbols Throughout History by Jessica Kingsley Publishers 9781805010418
Booksplease Price: €17.33In the past, being different has often been dangerous, and people couldn't always be open about how they wanted to dress, what gender they wanted to be, and who they loved...Within these pages,... -
Solitude: A Philosophical Encounter by Philip Koch 9780812692433
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €34.32What is the proper place of solitude in human existence? Some philosophers have claimed that solitude is our truest, most ultimate metaphysically deepest state of being. Others have maintained the... -
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: €110.24This 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... -
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from... -
The Essential Odyssey by Homer
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.45This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise... -
Torchlight by Peter McDonald 9781847770912
Booksplease Price: €16.72Torchlight explores the haunting persistence of memories, and the acts of remembrance which preserve and shape them. In his fifth collection, the Northern Irish poet Peter McDonald ranges across a... -
The Essential Odyssey by Homer 9780872209008
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €28.94This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise... -
A True Account by David Grundy 9781739393953
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.80"Gorgeous and real poetry. This book is a bright spot in a bleak time." - Peter Gizzi A True Account collects works written between 2013 and 2020, published by a variety of small presses in the UK... -
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda 9780156033855
Booksplease Price: €14.02This is not your father's list of classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books. Writing with affection as... -
Lap of the Gods: Travels in Crete and the Aegean Islands Jill Dudley 9780955383465
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.58In Lap of the Gods Jill Dudley explores the ancient Greek myths and legends of Crete and other Aegean islands, describing the landscape and the individuality of each as well as the characters she... -
Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece: From Homer to the Fifth Century by Bruno Gentili
Booksplease Price: €32.97Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner... -
Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality by Sarah Nooter 9781009320351
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €99.71This book suggests that poetry offers a way to remain in the world – not only by declarations of intent or the promotion of remembrance, but also through the durable physicality of its practice... -
Greek Lyric: A Selection by Felix Budelmann 9780521633093
RRP: €90.44Booksplease Price: €84.36The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a central place, and it presents us with some captivating... -
Exploring the Contributions of Women in the History of Philosophy, Science, and Literature, Throughout Time by Chelsea C. Harry 9783031396298
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging from Sappho and Sophie Germain to Stebbing and Evelyn Fox Keller,... -
100 Best Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell 9780446676816
Booksplease Price: €12.72Here, in this compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written by the world's greatest poets. This essential collection is perfect for the poetry lover who wants to... -
Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century by John H. Houchin 9780521108355
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €47.71John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre, arguing that theatrical censorship coincided with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural... -
Orphics by 9780873387583
Booksplease Price: €6.88A collection of sonnets written in a playful manner.About the AuthorLeonard Kress is assistant professor of communications at Owens Community College. His previous publications include Sappho's... -
Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality by Sarah Nooter 9781009320405
Booksplease Price: €27.69This book suggests that poetry offers a way to remain in the world – not only by declarations of intent or the promotion of remembrance, but also through the durable physicality of its practice... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave 9781399405959
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions. In showing how the... -
Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Kirk Ormand 9780275988807
Booksplease Price: €61.89Historians of ancient Greece and Rome are sometimes hesitant to engage with the well-documented fact that Greek and Roman men regularly engaged in same-sex sexual relations with younger men. In a... -
The Little Book of Ancient Greece: A Pocket Guide to an Epic Civilization, Including Key Events, People, Trivia and More Summersdale Publishers 9781837995356
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33If you've ever been curious about the rich culture and vibrant history of Ancient Greece, dive into this whirlwind tour and discover the highlights of this epic civilizationAlthough they lived over... -
And with the Teian lyre imitate Anacreon: The reception of Anacreon and the Carmina Anacreontea in Horace's lyric and iambic poetry by Veronika Lütkenhaus 9783525311516
Booksplease Price: €111.35This book explores, for the first time, the influence of Anacreon and the Anacreontic tradition on Horace's Odes and Epodes. It focuses first on the original fragments of Anacreon and their reception... -
It Was Fever That Made The World by Jim Powell 9780226677064
Booksplease Price: €110.84This sophisticated first collection by Jim Powell synthesizes personal and world history to produce a compelling vision of the past, through verse letters to friends and relatives, translations of... -
The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry by Andrew D. Morrison 9780521874502
RRP: €129.71Booksplease Price: €125.06This text re-examines the relationship of Hellenistic poetry to Archaic poetry. It demonstrates how Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius develop their primary narrators or main narrative voices - a... -
The Door by Margaret Atwood 9780547237701
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547237701Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher... -
Ask a Question, Find Your Fate: The Oracle Book by Cerridwen Greenleaf
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.02#1 New Release in Divination Find your fateOracular answers: Think of a question you wish to divine the answer to and focus intently on that question, flip the pages of the book, stop the page with... -
War is not my Mother by Vi Khi Nao 9781955904766
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.76A series of poetic remixes, WAR IS NOT MY MOTHER might be considered a form of spirit possession. Each poem in this manuscript takes up another poet’s work— a selection that ranges from Lorca to CD... -
You Are My Sun, My Moon and Stars: Beautiful Words and Romantic Quotes for the One You Love Summersdale Publishers 9781800074187
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07A beautiful, heartfelt collection of romantic words and powerful affirmations of love - the perfect gift, whatever the occasion, for the one who has captured your heart You are my everything ... -
The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation by Adrian Poole 9780192142092
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €98.20The debts that English poetry owes to the Classics are massive and various. But they have been richly repaid by the astonishingly inventive tradition of translation to which some of the greatest... -
i shall sing these songs beautifully Yorgos Lanthimos 9781915743749
Booksplease Price: €49.03Yorgos Lanthimos's filmography, lauded for its ambitious world-building and absurdist explorations of human relations, has established him as one of the most distinctive auteurs in contemporary... -
A Short History of Queer Parenting Kirsty Loehr 9781836430803
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.74Queer families have always existed Even Sappho, the OG lesbian, had a daughter named Cleis, in honour of vaginas everywhere! For centuries, the women of 'The Golden Orchid Society' in Qing-dynasty... -
Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology by I.M. Plant 9780806136219
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €29.23Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important literature written by women during this period has survived. Edited by I. M. Plant, Women Writers of... -
The Forms of Michael Field by LeeAnne M. Richardson 9783030861285
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62Michael Field, the poetic identity created by Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913), ceaselessly experimented with forms of identity and forms of literary expression... -
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times by Christopher Pelling
RRP: €18.43Booksplease Price: €14.84Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and... -
Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West by Beerte C. Verstraete
RRP: €94.00Booksplease Price: €82.98New and surprising insights into homoeroticism of times pastIn ancient times, the Greek god Eros personified both heterosexual and homosexual attractions. Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman... -
The Forms of Michael Field by LeeAnne M. Richardson 9783030861254
RRP: €130.89Booksplease Price: €121.62Michael Field, the poetic identity created by Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece Edith Cooper (1862-1913), ceaselessly experimented with forms of identity and forms of literary expression... -
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RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.77Love itself might be blind, but over millennia it has inspired some of the most perceptive and visionary poetry ever written. From the fragments of Sappho, to the sonnets of Shakespeare and the... -
Love Poems by Peter Washington
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.50It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the... -
The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry by Penguin
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Love itself might be blind, but over millennia it has inspired some of the most perceptive and visionary poetry ever written. From the fragments of Sappho, to the sonnets of Shakespeare and the...