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Women, Enjoyment, and the Defense of Virtue in Boccaccio's Decameron by Valerio Ferme 9781137490551
Booksplease Price: £65.96Providing new ways of reading Boccaccio's masterpiece, Decameron , Ferme analyzes the dynamics between the women who rule the first half of the story. Peeling back the many narrative layers within... -
Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Helena Taylor 9780192895387
Booksplease Price: £91.17This collection of essays examines the ways Ovid's diverse uvre has been translated, rewritten, adapted, and responded to by a range of French and Francophone women from the Renaissance to the... -
Equalize Student Achievement: Prioritizing Money and Power by Ovid K. Wong 9781607091462
Booksplease Price: £43.76The challenge of proper school finance goes beyond having a balanced budget to finding strategies that maximize money to improve schools and equalize student achievement. School finance deals with... -
The Offense of Love: Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2 by Ovid 9780299302047
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Ovid's Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) and its sequel Remedies for Love (Remedia Amoris) are among the most notorious poems of the ancient world. In AD 8, the emperor Augustus exiled Ovid to the shores of... -
Creole-English / English-Creole (Caribbean) Concise Dictionary by Stephanie Ovide 9780781804554
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95This dictionary contains commonsense phonetic pronunciations for Creole and English, modern up-to-date entries, and a section on Creole proverbs.About the AuthorStephanie OvideBook InformationISBN... -
Ovid in the Vernacular: Translations of the Metamorphoses in the Middle Ages & Renaissance by Gemma Prades 9781911694007
Booksplease Price: £26.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911694007Author Gemma PradesFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Medium Aevum Monographs /... -
Inner Affinity: Ovid, Titian, Philip of Spain by J.-F. Corpataux 9789042951891
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £81.76The title of this little book is inspired by Erwin Panofsky’s remarks on the “inner affinity” between Ovid and Titian. But this inner affinity between the Latin poet and the Venetian painter also... -
Εpic Pastures: Reshaping Epic and Pastoral in Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹ by Eleni Ntanou 9783111529134
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £75.74Although nearly all scholars acknowledge that the Metamorphoses appears to engage with pastoral poetry, there has not been a monograph specifically designed to address and explore the interaction... -
Ovid’s Terence: Tradition and Allusion in the Love Elegies and Beyond by Iris Brecke 9783112215449
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88This book investigates the complex reception of Terence in Ovid and a number of allusions to the Terentian comedies in the love elegies and the exilic elegiac epistle Tristia 2. The genres of Latin... -
Love As Human Freedom by Paul A. Kottman
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about,... -
Selections from Ovid Amores II: An Edition for Intermediate Students by Alfred Artley 9781501349812
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501349812Author Alfred ArtleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher... -
The Christ of Promise in Homer, Hesiod, Vergil, Ovid and Horace by Vincent A Fitz Simon 9781498015264
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498015264Author Vincent A Fitz SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Antiquarian Voices: The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid's Fasti by Angela Fritsen 9780814252123
Booksplease Price: £32.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252123Author Angela FritsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Ohio State University... -
Artificial I's: The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann by Eric Downing 9783484181274
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.80This study explores three works in which the protagonist undertakes to fashion a literary artwork out of himself: Ovid's "Ars Amatoria", Kierkegaard's "Diary of the Seducer", and Thomas Mann's "Felix... -
Ovid in English, 1480-1625: Part I, Metamorphoses by Sarah Annes Brown 9781781881002
Booksplease Price: £30.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781881002Author Sarah Annes BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Modern Humanities Research... -
Narrative in Ovid's Amores: Comics Theory, Elegy, and Segmentary Narrative Natalie Swain 9781350407244
Booksplease Price: £86.43How are comics and Latin elegy related? Comics tell their stories by placing individual images in a sequence, and Latin elegy builds narrative through sequence, encouraging readers to connect poems... -
Mail and Female: Epistolary Narrative and Desire in Ovid's Heroides by Sara H. Lindheim 9780299192648
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12In the ""Heroides"" the Roman poet Ovid wittily plucks 15 abandoned heriones from ancient myth and literature and creates the fiction that each woman writes a letter to the hero who left her behind... -
Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination by Dr. Victoria E. Rimell 9780521117807
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Central to Ovid's elegiac texts and his Metamorphoses is his preoccupation with how desiring subjects interact and seduce each other. This major study, which shifts the focus in Ovidian criticism... -
The Game Changer: The Next Generation Science Educators Today by Ovid K. Wong 9781475863437
Booksplease Price: £71.55The book appraises the major science education initiatives and policy transformations with supportive qualitative and quantitative data since the 1957 Sputnik crisis. In addition, the book... -
Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination by Dr. Victoria E. Rimell 9780521862196
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £54.26Central to Ovid's elegiac texts and his Metamorphoses is his preoccupation with how desiring subjects interact and seduce each other. This major study, which shifts the focus in Ovidian criticism... -
A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 2, Books 7-12 by Alessandro Barchiesi 9781009168038
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.26Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western... -
Perception of Print: Reading Research in Experimental Psychology by Ovid J. L. Tzeng 9781138210783
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28In the late 1970s, reading research had become a true interdisciplinary endeavour with flavours of anthropology, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, educational psychology, linguistics,... -
Ovid's Tragic Heroines: Gender Abjection and Generic Code-Switching by Jessica A. Westerhold 9781501770357
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £33.30Ovid's Tragic Heroines expands our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new perspective on the Roman poet's... -
The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's Metamorphoses by Garth Tissol 9780691600390
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative... -
The Game Changer: The Next Generation Science Educators Today by Ovid K. Wong 9781475863444
Booksplease Price: £27.89The book appraises the major science education initiatives and policy transformations with supportive qualitative and quantitative data since the 1957 Sputnik crisis. In addition, the book... -
Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Poems Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages by Ralph Hexter 9780674238381
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin poems were ascribed to him from the sixth until the fifteenth... -
Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella: Curiouser and Curiouser Adventures in History by Michael Olmert 9780684801643
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52We've been taught that history is the story of great events and important people -- but is it? In Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella, Michael Olmert shows how the most ordinary artifacts of everyday... -
Speaking Volumes: Narrative and Intertext in Ovid and Other Latin Poets by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780715630273
Booksplease Price: £31.86In a poem written in exile, Ovid pictures his latest book in conversation with his previous volumes, united in the bookcase containing his collected works back in Rome. One can imagine their dialogue... -
The Greek Myths: Puppet Plays for Children from Ovid's Metamorphoses by Leon Katz 9781557835024
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54A cycle of eleven episodes told in Story Theater form a narrator speaking and life-sized puppets performing simultaneously EThe Greek MythsE tells the story of Greek mythology from the first... -
Book VI of Ovid's >Metamorphoses<: A Textual Commentary by Antonio Ramirez de Verger 9783110730821
RRP: £172.00Booksplease Price: £111.66The verse-by-verse commentary on the Ovidian text includes the reading of more than 300 manuscripts, including the so-called Heinsian manuscripts, and of almost 100 editions, from the two... -
The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy by Mariapia Pietropaolo
Booksplease Price: £32.12Roman elegy makes frequent use of themes of ugliness and disfigurement, juxtaposing them with images of ideal beauty and sentiment. In order to overcome the obstacles to his erotic relationship, the... -
The Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature Through the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien by Stuart Lee 9781137454690
Booksplease Price: £31.45A comprehensive introduction to the medieval languages and texts that inspired Tolkien's Middle-earth. Using key episodes in The Silmarillion , The Hobbit , and The Lord of the Rings , medieval texts... -
Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin Christine L. Albright 9781138291188
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Ovid's Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks.The book features thirty compelling stories, graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid's epic... -
Metamorphic Readings: Transformation, Language, and Gender in the Interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Alison Sharrock 9780198864066
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £73.97Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and... -
Love Poetry and Criticism: Ovid, Shakespeare and Donne (Volume 1) by Ophelia Francois 9781647284695
RRP: £123.93Booksplease Price: £107.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647284695Author Ophelia FrancoisFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Willford PressPublisher... -
Renaissance Postscripts: Responding to Ovid's Heroides in Sixteenth-Century France by Paul White 9780814257012
Booksplease Price: £32.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257012Author Paul WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ohio State University... -
Greek Tragedy and the Contemporary Actor by Zachary Dunbar 9783030403874
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book offers a provocative and groundbreaking re-appraisal of the demands of acting ancient tragedy, informed by cutting-edge scholarship in the fields of actor training, theatre history, and... -
Greek Tragedy and the Contemporary Actor by Zachary Dunbar 9783319954707
Booksplease Price: £65.96This book offers a provocative and groundbreaking re-appraisal of the demands of acting ancient tragedy, informed by cutting-edge scholarship in the fields of actor training, theatre history, and... -
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare 9781804470947
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.62Long before Shakespeare's name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was likely the first work to be published by the same quill that gave the world Macbeth,... -
Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry by Irene Peirano Garrison 9781107104242
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Previous studies on the relationship between rhetorical theory and Roman poetry have generally taken the form of lists enumerating elements of style and arrangement that poets are said to have...