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Sight and the Ancient Senses Michael Squire 9781844658664
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery... -
The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae by Michael Squire
Booksplease Price: £57.47The Tabulae Iliacae (Iliac tablets) are a collection of twenty-two miniature marble reliefs from the early Roman Empire; all of them are inscribed in Greek, and most depict the panoramic vistas of... -
The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy by Michael Squire 9781845119300
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Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by Michael Squire 9781107657540
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy by Michael Squire 9781845119317
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Living at the Edge: A Biography of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Von Richthofen by Michael Squires 9780299177508
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56This double biography explores Lawrence and von Richthofen's collision with an industrial world they hated and chronicles their stormy marriage. The strong sexual vitality that inspired Lawrence's... -
The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen by Michael Squires 9780807180464
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacity-and the limits-of marriage. The Lawrences come alive... -
Touch and the Ancient Senses Alex Purves 9781844658725
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpersonal relations in... -
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 9780141441498
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless... -
Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. by William A. P. Childs 9780691176468
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.08Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples... -
Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy by D H Lawrence
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44The last of Lawrence's travel books, Etruscan Places is an ephemeral and vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation. The... -
Conditions of Visibility by Richard Neer 9780198845560
Booksplease Price: £31.75We often assume that works of visual art are meant to be seen. Yet that assumption may be a modern prejudice. The ancient world - from China to Greece, Rome to Mexico - provides many examples of... -
Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies: Dialogues and Discourses by Naoise Mac Sweeney
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39Throughout the ancient world, origin stories were told across the ancient world in many different ways: through poetry, prose, monumental and decorative arts, and performance in civic and religious... -
Vessels: The Object as Container by Claudia Brittenham 9780198832577
Booksplease Price: £46.30Vessels can take many forms: as objects made for human interaction and handling, they both contain and are bounded by space. They can be constructed of a wide variety of materials. But the range of... -
Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present by Caroline Vout 9780691177038
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £37.43How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does... -
Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens by Caitlin Eilis Barrett 9780190641351
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £98.18Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitlin Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close... -
The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts: Sailing in Troubled Waters by Rosario Rovira Guardiola
Booksplease Price: £34.47When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel's haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history. From Prehistory until today, the Mediterranean has been setting,... -
Assembling Archaeology: Teaching, Practice, and Research by Hannah Cobb 9780198784258
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £84.95Assembling Archaeology provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologist in the 21st century. The issues addressed here are... -
The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art by Robin M. Jensen 9780367734398
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second to the sixth centuries. The first part of the book opens with a general survey of... -
Figurines: Figuration and The Sense of Scale by Jaś Elsner 9780198861096
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.43Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a... -
Roman Seas: A Maritime Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Economies by Justin Leidwanger
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.95That seafaring was fundamental to Roman prosperity in the eastern Mediterranean is beyond doubt, but a tendency by scholars to focus on the grandest long-distance movements between major cities has... -
Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth by Jodi Magness 9780691167107
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children-the last...