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Homer: The Odyssey by Jasper Griffin
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41This handy guide to The Odyssey will introduce students to a text, which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. Readers will be introduced to the world in that the Odyssey was... -
Virgil by Jasper Griffin 9781853996269
Booksplease Price: £20.95Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical... -
Homer by Jasper Griffin 9781853996252
Booksplease Price: £22.93"The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" stand at the very beginning of Greek literature. Much has been written about their origins and authorship, but Jasper Griffin, although he touches briefly on those... -
Homer on Life and Death by Jasper Griffin 9780198140269
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £53.48The Iliad' and Odyssey' are not just good stories. Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on the persons and actions, and to interpret the world and human life and death. This book shows how... -
Latin Poets and Roman Life by Jasper Griffin 9781853994302
Booksplease Price: £30.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853994302Author Jasper GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Bristol Classical... -
Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: Essay on the Constitutive Imagination by Paul Veyne 9780226854342
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £20.80"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our conception of truth is... -
Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects by Fergus Millar 9780198148586
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £55.69This book presents seven fresh and original views of Caesar Augustus, as the authors of the papers collected here consider the image which he presented of himself, how poets and historians reacted to... -
The Oxford History of the Roman World by John Boardman
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £13.99In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. Written by a team of specialist scholars, this book traces the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of... -
The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World by John Boardman
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £12.95A comprehensive view of the ancient Greek world, its history and its achievements. The legacy of the Hellenistic world is vast--it ranges from architecture to philosophy, literature, and the... -
Essays Ancient and Modern by Bernard M. W. Knox
Booksplease Price: £29.07Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, the twenty-five chapters of "Essays Ancient and Modern" cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the... -
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom... -
Corruption and the Decline of Rome by Ramsay MacMullen 9780300047998
Booksplease Price: £35.22Prominent historian Ramsay MacMullen here offers a new perspective on the decline and fall of Rome. MacMullen argues that a key factor in Rome's fall was the steady loss of focus and control over... -
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel 9780691037660
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of... -
Latin Literature: A History by Gian Biagio Conte 9780801862533
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £32.33This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference... -
The Iliad by Homer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem The Iliad is translated by Robert Fagles with... -
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 1: Books 1-4 by G. S. Kirk
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £41.00This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of professor G. S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which... -
Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths by Mary Lefkowitz 9780300107692
Booksplease Price: £31.90Why the Greek myths, more than those of any other culture, continue to captivate us The mythology of ancient Greece has fascinated readers for two millennia and has formed the basis of Western... -
A C. H. Sisson Reader by Charlie Louth 9781847772657
Booksplease Price: £24.56The great English, Anglican and modernist poet and writer C.H. Sisson was born in Bristol a hundred years ago. This Reader draws on his poetry, fiction, translations, and his literary, political and... -
The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal by Richard Jenkyns 9780198219170
Booksplease Price: £117.22The achievements of the Roman world have profoundly affected European and world civilization. The original Legacy of Rome, edited by Cyril Bailey, was published in 1923 and has been widely read and... -
A History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium by Paul Veyne 9780674399747
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £38.81First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman... -
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn 9780300090888
Booksplease Price: £21.04All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of... -
Hadrian: The Restless Emperor by Anthony R. Birley 9780415228121
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond... -
Greek and Roman Necromancy by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and... -
Magic in the Ancient World by Fritz Graf 9780674541535
Booksplease Price: £34.25Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct access to the gods, for material gains as well as spiritual satisfaction. In... -
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray 9780141989150
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The... -
Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale by Laura Engelstein 9780801488795
Booksplease Price: £29.42Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the... -
Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale by Laura Engelstein 9780801436765
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.35Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the... -
The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray 9780241360576
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The... -
Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World by G. W. Bowersock 9780674511736
RRP: £51.95Booksplease Price: £44.28The first book of its kind, this richly informative and comprehensive guide to the world of late antiquity offers the latest scholarship to the researcher along with great reading pleasure to the...