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Roman Comedy by Gesine Manuwald 9789004435117
Booksplease Price: £76.01This contribution by Gesine Manuwald provides an introduction to all varieties of ‘Roman comedy’, including primarily fabula palliata (‘New Comedy’, as represented by Plautus and Terence) as well as... -
Roman Republican Theatre by Gesine Manuwald 9781107696099
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart from the surviving plays of Plautus and... -
Roman Republican Theatre by Gesine Manuwald 9780521110167
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart from the surviving plays of Plautus and... -
Roman Drama: A Reader by Gesine Manuwald 9780715638699
Booksplease Price: £29.55Roman 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... -
Terence: Eunuchus Dr. Gesine Manuwald 9781350344051
Booksplease Price: £70.89Terence's Eunuchus (first shown on stage in the second century BCE) was extremely successful at its first performance and has been influential ever since, having inspired allusions and remakes by... -
Flavian Epic Interactions by Gesine Manuwald 9783110314274
RRP: £168.00Booksplease Price: £114.80This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman literary history: the survival of four... -
Nero in Opera: Librettos as Transformations of Ancient Sources by Gesine Manuwald 9783110317138
RRP: £144.50Booksplease Price: £97.60This book considers the story of Nero and Octavia, as told in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia and the works of ancient historiographers, and its reception in (early) modern opera and some related examples... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume V: Oratory, Part 3 by Gesine Manuwald
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rhetorical remnants.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public... -
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities by Dr. Gesine Manuwald
Booksplease Price: £36.66Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the... -
An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature by Dr. Gesine Manuwald 9781350098893
Booksplease Price: £35.46This volume offers a wide range of sample passages from literature written in Latin in the British Isles during the period from about 1500 to 1800. It includes a general introduction to and... -
An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature by Dr. Gesine Manuwald 9781350157293
Booksplease Price: £35.46Compiled by a team of international experts, this volume showcases the best of the huge abundance of literature written in Latin in Europe from about 1500 to 1800. A general introduction provides... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume III: Oratory, Part 1 by Gesine Manuwald
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rhetorical remnants.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public... -
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature in British Universities by Dr. Gesine Manuwald 9781350160262
Booksplease Price: £102.21Compiled by a team of experts in the field, this volume brings to view an array of Latin texts produced in British universities from c.1500 to 1700. It includes a comprehensive introduction to the... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume IV: Oratory, Part 2 by Gesine Manuwald
Booksplease Price: £25.31Rhetorical remnants.The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with oratory, an important element of Roman life from the earliest times, essential to running public... -
Reviving Cicero in Drama: From the Ancient World to the Modern Stage by Gesine Manuwald 9781350157897
Booksplease Price: £35.46The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical and philosophical writings have made an inescapable impact on the history of western culture, impressing figures such as Augustine,... -
Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles by Luke Houghton 9781780930145
Booksplease Price: £48.44Investigation of the Latin poetry produced by British poets from the sixteenth century onwards affords an indispensible insight into a dominant strand in the intellectual, cultural and educational... -
The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches: Contexts and Perspectives by Christoph Pieper 9789004516434
Booksplease Price: £119.67The ancient commentaries and scholia to Cicero's speeches have hitherto received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume is dedicated to Asconius' first-century commentary and the corpora... -
Testimonia. Origines by Cato
Booksplease Price: £25.31Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially... -
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... -
Orations. Other Fragments by Cato
Booksplease Price: £25.31Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, ... -
Virgil's Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance by L. B. T. Houghton 9781108499927
Booksplease Price: £118.38Virgil's fourth Eclogue is one of the most quoted, adapted and discussed works of classical literature. This study traces the fortunes of Eclogue 4 in the literature and art of the Italian... -
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... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume I: Ennius, Testimonia. Epic Fragments by Quintus Ennius
Booksplease Price: £25.31The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major developments... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume II: Ennius, Dramatic Fragments. Minor Works by Ennius
Booksplease Price: £25.31The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major... -
Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III by Valerius Flaccus 9781107697263
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica is one of the most significant surviving works of Flavian epic, which has recently become much more popular as a field of study and teaching in Latin literature. This is... -
Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book III by Valerius Flaccus 9781107037328
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £70.03Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica is one of the most significant surviving works of Flavian epic, which has recently become much more popular as a field of study and teaching in Latin literature. This is... -
Silius Italicus and the Tradition of the Roman Historical Epos by Antony Augoustakis 9789004518490
Booksplease Price: £114.12The aim of this volume is to study Silius' poem as an important step in the development of the Roman historical epic tradition. The Punica is analyzed as transitional segment between the beginnings... -
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women Stephen Harrison 9781350551084
Booksplease Price: £90.57This anthology showcases Neo-Latin texts produced by women across Europe between circa 1400 and 1800, highlighting their contributions in both poetry and prose. Each chapter offers excerpts alongside... -
Philippics 1-6 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the... -
Philippics 7-14 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the ... -
Baroque Latinity: Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque Jacqueline Glomski 9781350323476
Booksplease Price: £30.54This volume addresses the idea of the Baroque in European literature in Latin. With contributions by scholars from various disciplines and countries, and by looking at a range of texts from across... -
Why Cicero Matters Vittorio Bufacchi 9781350376670
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £40.76Why Cicero Matters shows us how the Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius, better known as Cicero, can help realize a new political world. His impact on humanitarianism, the Enlightenment... -
The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes by Han Baltussen
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82Throughout Western history, there have been those who felt compelled to share a dissenting opinion on public matters, while still hoping to avoid the social, political, and even criminal consequences... -
Why Cicero Matters Vittorio Bufacchi 9781350376687
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.08Why Cicero Matters shows us how the Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius, better known as Cicero, can help realize a new political world. His impact on humanitarianism, the Enlightenment... -
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars by Stephen Harrison 9781350379442
Booksplease Price: £103.11Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of... -
An Anthology of Neo-Latin Poetry by Classical Scholars Stephen Harrison 9781350379459
Booksplease Price: £31.52Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of...