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Homer the Classic by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.00Homer the Classic is about the reception of Homeric poetry from the fifth through the first century BCE. The study of this reception is important for understanding not only the all-pervasive literary... -
Greek Mythology and Poetics by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £23.21Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that... -
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... -
Homer the Preclassic by Gregory Nagy 9780520294875
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.85Homer 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 the... -
Homer's Text and Language by Gregory Nagy 9780252029837
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.96As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes enterprise. There are untold numbers of variations,... -
Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond by Gregory Nagy 9780521558488
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98To understand the emergence of Homeric poetry as an actual written text, it is essential to trace the history of Homeric performance, from the very beginnings of literacy to the critical era of... -
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... -
Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry Gregory Nagy 9780674296282
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.06In Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry, Gregory Nagy continues where The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours left off. This book is also centered on some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Greek... -
Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £31.50Booksplease Price: £24.27Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a... -
The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.17Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of ... -
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... -
Aesopic Conversations: Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose by Leslie Kurke 9780691144580
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived... -
The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy by James M. Redfield
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £86.43Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This... -
Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts by Peter T. Struck 9780691162263
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck... -
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul by Jan Bremmer
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of... -
Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays by Seth L. Schein 9780691044392
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07This wide-ranging collection makes available to specialists and nonspecialists alike important critical work on the Odyssey produced during the last half century. The ten essays address five major... -
Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes by Robert Lamberton 9780691656274
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.43Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found menaing in his texts. These seven... -
Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius by Shadi Bartsch 9780691606910
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view... -
The Ballad and Oral Literature by Joseph Harris 9780674060463
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50Francis James Child, compiler and editor of the monumental English and Scottish Popular Ballads, established the scholarly study of folk ballads in the English-speaking world. His successors at... -
Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus, A Manuscript of the Iliad by Casey Due 9780674032026
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £48.40Marcianus Graecus Z. 454 [= 822], known to Homeric scholars as the Venetus A, is the oldest complete text of the Iliad in existence, meticulously crafted during the tenth century ce. An impressive... -
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... -
Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation by Andrew M. Miller 9780872202924
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £33.12Successfully 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... -
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... -
Hesiod by Robert Lamberton 9780300040692
Booksplease Price: £24.15Standing at the very beginning of European literature, the poems and verse fragments that have come down to us under Hesiod's name tap the vast reservoir of oral tradition constituting Greek wisdom... -
Greek Lyric: v. 2: Anacreontea - Choral Lyric from Olympus to Alcman by D. A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.31Precious snippets of ancient song.The five volumes in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Greek Lyric contain the surviving fragments of solo and choral song. This poetry was not preserved in... -
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... -
African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, and Continuity by Isidore Okpewho
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54". . . its pages come alive with wonderful illustrative material coupled with sensitve and insightful commentary." -Reviews in Anthropology" . . . the scope, breadth, and lucidity of this excellent... -
Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies by Marjorie Garber
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literature and other fields engaged in cultural work hav in common? What can literary studies... -
Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy Kate Cook 9781350410534
Booksplease Price: £30.54Exploring the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy in relation to heroic identity, Kate Cook demonstrates that the distribution of praise and blame, a significant social function of archaic and... -
Lyra Graeca: v. 1 by D. A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.31Precious snippets of ancient song.This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most famous woman poet of antiquity, whose main... -
Friendship in Islamic Ethics and World Politics by Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati
Booksplease Price: £75.55Based on a decade of direct diplomatic engagement with the United Nations, a decade of teaching on international relations, and another decade of research and teaching on Islamic and comparative... -
Greek Lyric: v. 5: The New School of Poetry and Anonymous Songs and Hymns by David A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.31Precious snippets of ancient song.Towards the end of the fifth century BC, Aristophanes and the other writers of comedy used contemporary poets and musicians as targets for their jokes, making fun of... -
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... -
Becoming Achilles: Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond by Richard Holway 9780739146910
Booksplease Price: £46.74Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites... -
Greek Lyric: v. 3: Stesichorus, Ibycus, Simonides and Others by David A. Campbell
Booksplease Price: £25.33Precious snippets of ancient song.The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BC came from Sicily and southern Italy. Stesichorus was called by ancient writers "most Homeric"-a... -
The Death and Afterlife of Achilles by Jonathan S. Burgess 9780801890291
Booksplease Price: £47.52Achilles' death-by an arrow shot through the vulnerable heel of the otherwise invincible mythic hero-was as well known in antiquity as the rest of the history of the Trojan War. However, this... -
Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity by Roger D. Woodard
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £93.23This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed as... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v. 100 by Charles Segal 9780674006560
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £34.43This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students, and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays... -
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 World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry by Michael B. Cosmopoulos 9781009582889
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.59Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their...