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The Aeneid by Barry B. Powell
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £18.36Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page notes... -
The Odyssey: Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell by Barry B. Powell 9780199925889
Booksplease Price: £37.72The Odyssey is one of the world's greatest and best-loved poems. It has survived for twenty-eight centuries, through upheavals that have wiped out most of what was written in the ancient world. Now... -
Homer by Barry B. Powell 9781405153256
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.71This concise book is a complete and contemporary introduction to Homer and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It explains the "Homeric Question," illuminating its current status, and... -
The Odyssey by Barry B. Powell 9780199360314
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.65Odysseus--soldier, trickster, and everyman--is one of the most recognizable characters in world literature. His arduous, ten-year journey home after the Trojan War, the subject of Homer's The... -
Homer by Barry B. Powell 9781405153249
Booksplease Price: £95.31This concise book is a complete and contemporary introduction to Homer and his two master-works, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It explains the "Homeric Question," illuminating its current status, and... -
The Iliad by Barry B. Powell 9780199925865
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.06The culmination of over 30 years of studying and thinking about Homer, world renowned scholar and accomplished poet Barry Powell has produced what one reviewer calls a "page turner, bound to become... -
Homer Barry B. Powell (University of Wisconsin) 9780631233862
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.71This concise book is an ideal introduction to Homer - the poet and his two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Student-friendly introduction to Homer. Provides historical background and... -
Vergil's Aeneid: The Essential Books by Barry B. Powell
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the most important books and passages of the Aeneid... -
Classical Myth: An Introduction Barry B. Powell 9780472039722
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £30.27Myths are not just the stories from the ancient Greeks and Romans-they represent deep truths from the essential concerns people face in their lives. Readers may already have heard of the Trojan Horse... -
Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet by Barry B. Powell 9780521589079
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Who invented the Greek alphabet and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient... -
Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature by Barry B. Powell 9780521036313
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model he presents chapters on specialized topics - text,... -
Homer's Odyssey: An Illustrated Retelling by Barry B. Powell 9798217035564
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217035564Author Barry B. PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher... -
Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature by Barry B. Powell 9780521782067
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Professor Powell ties the origin and nature of archaic Greek literature to the special technology of Greek alphabetic writing. In building his model he presents chapters on specialized topics - text,... -
Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus by Barry B. Powell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn-as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy-was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the... -
Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus by Barry B. Powell 9780520302877
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.81The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn-as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy-was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the... -
Writing - Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization Barry B. Powell (University of Wisconsin) 9781118255322
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £26.94Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization offers a coherent system of terms and categories for the study of the complex phenomena in the world's writing systems. Tracing the... -
Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization Barry B. Powell (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 9781405162562
RRP: £86.95Booksplease Price: £77.18Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond. Examines the earliest evidence for... -
The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780520292864
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning... -
The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780520292857
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning... -
The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society by Ian Morris 9780197586891
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £63.84In The Greeks, Ian Morris and Barry B. Powell try to see ancient Greece as a whole: not just a narrative of events or an overview of culture, but history and culture taken together. From ancient... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780199326105
RRP: £25.49Booksplease Price: £22.55Homer's Iliad is one of the foundational texts of Western Civilization. The timelessness of its story, of men battling fate amidst the horrors of war, still stirs the imaginations of readers year... -
The Illustrated Odyssey Barry Powell 9781917226394
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50Homer's Odyssey is one of the world's oldest and most famous works of literature. It has enthralled readers for almost three thousand years with its tales of gods and monsters, warriors and kings,... -
Classical Myth by Powell 9780197527986
Booksplease Price: £70.73For decades, Classical Myth has been one of the most popular and best-selling texts for the study of classical myth. Oxford University Press is proud to publish this essential book in a vibrant new... -
A New Companion to Homer by Ian Morris 9789004206083
Booksplease Price: £49.26This volume is the first English-language survey of Homeric studies to appear for more than a generation, and the first such work to attempt to cover all fields comprehensively. Thirty leading... -
The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning by Bruce Louden
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Bruce Louden's bold re-reading of the Odyssey -- the first attempt in years to map in detail the poem's overall structure -- offers new insights into the artistry of Odysseus' mythic voyage and... -
The Making of the Odyssey by Martin Litchfield West 9780198810193
Booksplease Price: £39.56The poet of the Odyssey was a seriously flawed genius. He had a wonderfully inventive imagination, a gift for pictorial detail and for introducing naturalistic elements into epic dialogue, and a... -
Unwritten Rome by T. P. Wiseman 9780859898232
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.59In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited... -
The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer by Jonathan Gottschall 9780521870382
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Homer's epics reflect an eighth-century BCE world of warrior tribes that were fractured by constant strife; aside from its fantastic scale, nothing is exceptional about Troy's conquest by the Greeks...