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Latin Unseens for A Level by Ashley Carter
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $33.13This collection of Latin unseen passages forms a companion volume to Latin Momentum Tests for GCSE, and is intended to be used similarly by students preparing for examinations at AS, A2 and AEA... -
Writing Greek: An Introduction to Writing in the Language of Classical Athens by Stephen P. Anderson
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $38.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853997174Author Stephen AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint
Primer of Greek Grammar by Evelyn Abbott
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.08Abbott and Mansfield's primer, first published in the nineteenth century and many times reprinted, remains one of the best introductions to Greek grammar. This is the latest edition, containing both...
Greek Unseen Translation by John Taylor
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.74A new collection of 120 passages from Greek authors. The first half contains twenty adapted passages building up to GCSE level, thirty lightly adapted ones for AS, and ten easy unadapted passages to...
Latin Sentence and Idiom: A Composition Course by R. Colebourn 9780862922658
Booksplease Price: $61.05Colebourn's Latin Sentence and Idiom: A Composition Course is a classic textbook for the intermediate and advanced student of Latin. Unfolding the logical, rational basis of the language, the...
Asclepius: A Secret Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus by Clement Salaman 9780715635643
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $44.27"The Asclepius" is one of two philosophical books ascribed to the legendary sage of Ancient Egypt, Hermes Trismegistus, who was believed in classical and renaissance times to have lived shortly after...
Fluid Pasts: Archaeology of Flow by Matthew Edgeworth 9780715639825
Booksplease Price: $56.32Fluid Pasts outlines an innovative archaeological approach to the study of rivers and flowing water, challenging the view that rivers are somehow more natural, less cultural than other kinds of...
Roman Architecture by Martin Thorpe 9781853994210
Booksplease Price: $54.19This text in the BCP Classical World series looks at Roman architecture.Book InformationISBN 9781853994210Author Martin ThorpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint
Homer: The Resonance of Epic by Barbara Graziosi 9780715632826
Booksplease Price: $73.73This 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...
Articles on Aristotle: v. 4: Psychology and Aesthetics by J. Barnes 9780715609323
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $45.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715609323Author J. BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint
An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought: Other Times, Other Places by Neil Kenny 9780715634875
Booksplease Price: $53.78The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's "Essays", Rabelais' comic fictions,...
De Amicitia by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780862920920
Booksplease Price: $53.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862920920Author Marcus Tullius CiceroFormat PaperbackPage Count 194
Odyssey: Bk.VI and VII by Homer 9781853994890
Booksplease Price: $49.96These two books of the "Odyssey" provide an ideal introduction to the poem, illustrating Odysseus' cunning intelligence at its best as he gains acceptance in the court of the Phaeacians, and, above...
Cicero: De Oratore: v. I-III by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9781853996313
Booksplease Price: $86.99Of all the philosophical and rhetorical treatises of Cicero, his three books "On the Orator" (de Oratore) represent perhaps the most polished and appealing. Here is Rome's consummate orator and...
Introducing Cicero: A Latin Reader by Scottish Classics Group 9781853996375
Booksplease Price: $49.96This anthology is designed to meet the needs of Latin students today, acknowledging present constraints on their study-time. It adopts the authors' approach of their "Ecce Romani" series. To enable...
Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy in the Modern World by Rush Rehm 9780715629161
Booksplease Price: $57.62Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected chapters, Rush...
Aristotle on Life and Death by R. A. H. King 9780715629826
Booksplease Price: $54.39Aristotle thinks of living things as food burners: they nourish themselves, and so, in some cases, possess the capacity for higher living functions such as perceiving. Their burning must be balanced,...
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound by Ian Ruffell 9780715634769
Booksplease Price: $51.25Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. ...
Learn Ancient Greek by Peter Jones
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $33.13Based on the same principles that lay behind the book "Learn Latin", this book provides the chance to read real ancient Greek. It teaches the reader enough Greek in 20 chapters to be able to read...
Euripides: Hippolytus by Sophie Mills 9780715629741
Booksplease Price: $54.19"Hippolytus" is generally acknowledged to be one of Euripides' finest tragedies, for the construction of its plot, its use of language and its memorable characterisations of Phaedra and Hippolytus...
Alexander the Great: King, Commander and Statesman by N. G. L. Hammond 9781853990687
Booksplease Price: $73.73This revised biography includes new material and extensive reference to literary sources. Professor Hammond's other works include "The History of Macedonia" and "Studies in Greek History". He also...
The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action by Andrew Erskine 9781853997471
Booksplease Price: $87.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853997471Author Andrew ErskineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint
Statius, Poet Between Rome and Naples by Carole E. Newlands 9781780932132
Booksplease Price: $79.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780932132Author Carole E. NewlandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprin
Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus by Adrian Kelly 9780715637135
Booksplease Price: $51.87In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of human reversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the...
Roman Iberia by B. Lowe 9780715634998
Booksplease Price: $72.97This is the first book to examine the economic impact of external cultures - the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans - upon the Iberian peninsula throughout the first millennium BC. Benedict Lowe provides...
Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate by Richard Sorabji 9780715627280
Booksplease Price: $67.22"Animals can't construct sentences. Therefore we can eat them." That was the view the Stoics eventually settled for, though they began with Aristotle's much broader claim that animals lack reason. In...
Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology by Lord Colin Renfrew 9780715630341
Booksplease Price: $55.71In this account, Colin Renfrew illustrates how the most precious product of archaeology is the information that controlled and well-published excavations can give us about our shared human past...
Roman Drama: A Reader by Gesine Manuwald 9780715638699
Booksplease Price: $57.62Roman drama is a genre of Latin literature that was influential both in the cultural life of the ancient Romans and in the European theatre tradition. Plays of Plautus, Terence and Seneca are still...
Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne by Richard Hodges 9780715629659
Booksplease Price: $55.71This text examines the important continuing discussion of the rebirth of urbanism in Carolingian Europe. Drawing upon a good deal of new archaeological evidence from southern and northern Europe,...
Reading Roman Women: Sources, Genres and Real Life by Suzanne Dixon 9780715629819
Booksplease Price: $69.15Roman women were either luxurious sluts or domestic paragons - at least according to the elite men who wrote Roman history and poetry. These authors, preoccupied with masculine pursuits, introduced...
The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: v.2: Physics by Richard Sorabji 9780715632468
Booksplease Price: $85.84This is a sourcebook that draws upon the 400 years of transition from ancient Greek philosophy to the medieval philosophy of Islam and the West. Philosophy was then often written in the form of...
Four Greek Plays by Kenneth McLeish 9781853995835
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $32.00These translations of "Oedipus the King", "Antigone", "Acharnians" and "Peace", are here reissued in paperback. They are written to be accessible for use in schools and for performance, and contain...
Queen of Spades by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 9781853993138
Booksplease Price: $49.96Pikovaia dama (The Queen of Spades) has continued to fascinate readers since its first publication in 1834, and has been successfully adapted to both operatic stage and screen. The most generally...
Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests by G. E. M. De Ste.Croix 9780715617014
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $75.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715617014Author G. E. M. De Ste.CroixFormat PaperbackPage Count 746
Plato by C.J. Rowe 9781853996627
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.19This volume is an introduction to Plato's dialogues and the ideas they explore, so serving as a readable account of his writing for the uninitiated. It also gives guidance on the historical context...
Aeneas and the Roman Hero by R. Williams 9781853995897
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $33.13In Aeneas and the Roman Hero, the author explains and illustrates the ideals of the newly-created Roman empire under Augustus as they are reflected in Virgil's Aeneid. National hopes were high; Rome...
Ajax by Sophocles 9781853996450
Booksplease Price: $85.25This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, all of which will be reissued under the BCP imprint. They have occasionally been reprinted but never before in...
Reading Cicero: Genre and Performance in Late Republican Rome by C. E. W. Steel 9780715632796
Booksplease Price: $28.65M. Tullius Cicero was a prolific writer, his writing covering an astonishingly wide spectrum: oratory, letters, epic and didactic poetry, pamphlets, philosophical and rhetorical treatises. He was...
Archaeology and the Pan-European Romanesque by T. O'Keefe 9780715634349
Booksplease Price: $56.32Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. First used in the early nineteenth century to express the perceived indebtedness of the...
Against Meidias by Demosthenes 9781853996399
Booksplease Price: $61.46Demosthenes was punched in the face by Meidias in the theatre at Athens in 348 BC. His prosecution - a masterpiece of Greek oratorical prose - is one of the most intriguing forensic speeches to...