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Homer the Preclassic by Gregory Nagy 9780520256927
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £63.44"Homer the Preclassic" considers the development of the Homeric poems - in particular "The Iliad" and "Odyssey" - during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory Nagy traces... -
Homeric Responses by Gregory Nagy 9780292705548
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.41The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens every summer to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, Athena, was the setting for performances of the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey by professional... -
Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees: Metaphors and Metonyms that Construct the Homeric Odyssey Aldo Bottino 9780674303294
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in key episodes and passages of the Odyssey to better understand the architecture of the epic and its causation... -
Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation by Andrew M. Miller
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense as possible of how the Greeks themselves thought... -
The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues by Ellen Greene 9780674032958
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96The world has long wished for more of Sappho's poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have... -
Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being by Page DuBois 9780472081530
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59In Centaurs and Amazons, Page duBois offers a prehistory of hierarchy. Using structural anthropology, symbolic analysis, and recent literary theory, she demonstrates a shift in Greek thought from the... -
Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths by Emily Katz Anhalt
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55An examination of remedies for violent rage rediscovered in ancient Greek myths Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140447941
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'The first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war' GuardianOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780141394657
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation.The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem... -
The Iliad by Homer 9781784870577
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Read this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy.High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look... -
Pandemics, Wars, Traumas and Literature: Echoes from the Front Lines Francoise Davoine 9781032190839
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38This book presents unique insights into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychoanalytic work with trauma and perspectives from literature.Part One presents a... -
Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg 9780674241411
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.95A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization...