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Lyra Graeca: v. 1 by D. A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.31Precious snippets of ancient song.This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main... -
The Essential Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62This 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: £14.05Torchlight 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... -
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From 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 9780872209008
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £24.32This 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... -
Lap of the Gods: Travels in Crete and the Aegean Islands Jill Dudley 9780955383465
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37In 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: £27.71Brilliantly 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... -
100 Best Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell 9780446676816
Booksplease Price: £10.69Here, 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: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09John 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: £5.78A 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... -
A True Account by David Grundy 9781739393953
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60"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: £11.78This 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... -
Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality by Sarah Nooter 9781009320351
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79This 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: £76.00Booksplease Price: £70.89The 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: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This 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,... -
Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality by Sarah Nooter 9781009320405
Booksplease Price: £23.27This 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42An 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... -
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: £93.57This 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... -
The Door by Margaret Atwood 9780547237701
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547237701Author Margaret AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher... -
Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Kirk Ormand 9780275988807
Booksplease Price: £52.01Historians 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16If 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... -
Nominy-Dominy by Lesley Saunders 9781909747340
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Three long poems - contemplating `The Uses of Greek', imagining the poet Sappho living out her life on the island of Inishbofin, and celebrating `The Farness of Latin' - mark transitions between... -
The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry by Andrew D. Morrison 9780521874502
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09This 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... -
Ask a Question, Find Your Fate: The Oracle Book by Cerridwen Greenleaf
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.78#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: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88A 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... -
Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology by I.M. Plant 9780806136219
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56Despite 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: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20Michael 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: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.47Twelve 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... -
Harbinger: Poems by Shelley Puhak 9780063233966
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063233966Author Shelley PuhakFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Forms of Michael Field by LeeAnne M. Richardson 9783030861254
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20Michael 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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The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry by Penguin 9780141010977 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.33Love 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... -
Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West by Beerte C. Verstraete
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £69.73New 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 New Penguin Book of Love Poetry by Penguin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Love 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... -
Work to Be Done: Selected Essays and Reviews by Bruce Whiteman 9781771966092
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Essays and critical writing drawn from a wide-ranging fifty-year career in lettersDrawn from a body of essays and reviews written over the course of nearly fifty years, Work to Be Done showcases both... -
Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology by I.M. Plant 9780806136226
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.54Despite 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... -
You Are My Sun, My Moon and Stars: Beautiful Words and Romantic Quotes for the One You Love Summersdale Publishers 9781800074187
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78A 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: £105.00Booksplease Price: £82.52The 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: £41.20Yorgos 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50Queer 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... -
Greek Lyric: v. 4: Bacchylides, Corinna and Others by David A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.31Precious snippets of ancient song.Bacchylides, nephew of Simonides and rival of Pindar, wrote choral poetry of many types. We have a number of his victory odes-poems celebrating victories in athletic...