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Homer: The Resonance of Epic by Barbara Graziosi 9780715632826
Booksplease Price: £37.81This book offers a new approach to the study of Homeric epic by combining ancient Greek perceptions of Homer with up-to-date scholarship on traditional poetry. Part I argues that, in the archaic... -
Homer: A Very Short Introduction by Barbara Graziosi
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.35Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, 'the... -
Homer: Iliad Book VI by Barbara Graziosi 9780521703727
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.98The sixth book of the Iliad includes some of the most memorable and best-loved episodes in the whole poem: it holds meaning and interest for many different people, not just students of ancient Greek... -
Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic by Barbara Graziosi 9780521809665
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.57How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book examines stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth, place of origin and name; the circumstances of his... -
Homer: Iliad Book VI by Barbara Graziosi 9780521878845
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £64.00The sixth book of the Iliad includes some of the most memorable and best-loved episodes in the whole poem: it holds meaning and interest for many different people, not just students of ancient Greek... -
Gods of Olympus by Senior Lecturer in Classics Barbara Graziosi 9781250062345
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250062345Author Senior Lecturer in Classics Barbara GraziosiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint... -
Inventing Homer: The Early Reception of Epic by Barbara Graziosi 9780521038133
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41How was the poet Homer imagined by ancient Greeks? This book examines stories circulating between the sixth and fourth centuries BC about his birth, place of origin and name; the circumstances of his... -
Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon by Barbara Graziosi 9780199591312
Booksplease Price: £58.61This collection of essays explores the crucial place of Homer in the shifting cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It argues that Homer was viewed both as the founding father of the Western... -
Shameless: The Canine and the Feminine in Ancient Greece by Cristiana Franco 9780520273405
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £46.05In this book, translated from the original Italian, Cristian Franco examines the long-standing association between women and dogs and their respective places in ancient Greek society, not only in... -
Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry by Nora Goldschmidt 9781316632086
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £27.69Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of... -
Homer: A Beginner's Guide Elton T. E. Barker 9781780742298
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.45Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and Helen of Troy... -
Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry by Nora Goldschmidt 9781107180253
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £104.79Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of... -
Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories by Elizabeth Irwin 9780521876308
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £63.42Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus'... -
Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective by Lowell Edmunds 9780691165127
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393655063
Booksplease Price: £23.78This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes and book-by-book summaries... -
Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective by Lowell Edmunds 9780691202334
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth-the abduction of Helen that led to the... -
Hermes by Arlene Allan 9780367496609
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Hermes redresses the gap in modern English scholarship on this fascinating and complex god, presenting its readers with an introduction to Hermes' social, religious and political importance through... -
Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry by Paola Bassino 9781107175747
RRP: £92.99Booksplease Price: £84.36Achilles inflicts countless agonies on the Achaeans, although he is supposed to be fighting on their side. Odysseus' return causes civil strife on Ithaca. The Iliad and the Odyssey depict conflict... -
Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture by Nora Goldschmidt
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £113.44Tombs of the Ancient Poets explores the ways in which the tombs of the ancient poets - real or imagined - act as crucial sites for the reception of Greek and Latin poetry. Drawing together a range of... -
Classics, Love, Revolution: The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini by Andrea Capra 9780198865445
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.35Capra and Graziosi intervene in current debates about classics and its relation to revolutionary ruptures, nationalist movements, and identity politics today. They begin with The Neoplatonists, an... -
Voices at Work: Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece by Andromache Karanika 9781421412559
Booksplease Price: £56.14In ancient Greece, women's daily lives were occupied by various forms of labor. These experiences of work have largely been forgotten. Andromache Karanika has examined Greek poetry for depictions of... -
Athenian Prostitution: The Business of Sex by Edward E. Cohen 9780190275921
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £81.72This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rather than from a cultural or moral) perspective. Following the author's earlier book on Athenian... -
Homer by Jonathan S. Burgess 9781848858633
Booksplease Price: £24.88What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central... -
Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency by Lilah Grace Canevaro 9780198826309
Booksplease Price: £119.95Women in Greek epic are treated as objects, as commodities to be exchanged in marriage or as the spoils of warfare. However, women in Homeric epic also use objects to negotiate their own agency,... -
Lykophron: Alexandra: Greek Text, Translation, Commentary, and Introduction by Simon Hornblower 9780198810643
Booksplease Price: £61.79The Alexandra attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece. At 1474 lines, it is one of the most important and notoriously difficult Greek poems dating from the Hellenistic period (most... -
Awake by Harald Voetmann 9780811230810
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In a shuttered bedroom in ancient Italy, the sleepless Pliny the Elder lies in bed obsessively dictating new chapters of his Natural History to his slave Diocles. Fat, wheezing, imperious, and prone... -
Tragedy on the Comic Stage by Matthew C. Farmer 9780190492076
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £73.97Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies: Euripides appears repeatedly as a character in these plays, jokes about tragedy and tragic poets abound,... -
The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece by Jennifer Roberts
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.99The life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta that embroiled all of the Greek world for an entire generation was a war that almost did not happen. Both sides entered it with hesitation, and... -
Homer: The Very Idea by James I Porter 9780226675909
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting... -
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott 9780691169842
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings... -
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £18.99What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that...