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Dionysos by Richard Seaford 9780415324885
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Covering a wide range of issues which have been overlooked in the past, including mystery, cult and philosophy, Richard Seaford explores Dionysos - one of the most studied figures of the ancient... -
Aggregation and Antithesis in Ancient Greece by Richard Seaford 9781009517577
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72What is the relationship between forms of thought in literature, philosophy and visual art in ancient Greece, and how are these forms related to their socio-political and economic context? This is... -
Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays Richard Seaford 9781316622896
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.72Richard Seaford is one of the most original and provocative classicists of his age. This volume brings together a wide range of papers written with a single focus. Several are pioneering explorations... -
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy by Richard Seaford 9780521832281
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development,... -
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy by Richard Seaford 9780521539920
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.71How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development,... -
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought by Richard Seaford
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.31From the sixth century BCE onwards there occurred a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to... -
Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State by Richard Seaford 9780198149491
Booksplease Price: £60.98This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis, combining anthropology, political and social history, and the close reading of central Greek texts, to account for two the most significant hallmarks... -
Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State by Richard Seaford 9780198150367
RRP: £73.00Booksplease Price: £66.52This is an exciting and entirely new synthesis, combining anthropology, political and social history, and the close reading of central Greek texts, to account for two the most significant hallmarks... -
The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India: A Historical Comparison Richard Seaford 9781108730815
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.42Why did Greek philosophy begin in the sixth century BCE? Why did Indian philosophy begin at about the same time? Why did the earliest philosophy take the form that it did? Why was this form so... -
The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India: A Historical Comparison by Richard Seaford 9781108499552
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.10Why did Greek philosophy begin in the sixth century BCE? Why did Indian philosophy begin at about the same time? Why did the earliest philosophy take the form that it did? Why was this form so... -
Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus by Richard Seaford 9781107009271
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon... -
Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus by Richard Seaford 9781107470729
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon... -
Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought by Emeritus Professor of Greek Richard Seaford 9781474427142
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79This volume brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures. It offers a collaborative contribution to... -
The Ecstatic and the Archaic: An Analytical Psychological Inquiry Paul Bishop (Chair of Modern Languages University of Glasgow, UK.) 9781138300545
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19The word 'archaic' derives from the Greek arkhaios, which in turn is related to the word arche, meaning 'principle', 'origin', or 'cause'; the notion of ecstasy, or ekstasis, implies standing outside... -
What is a God?: Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity by Alan B. Lloyd 9781905125357
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book contains eleven papers on aspects of Greek religion from Minoans to the classical world. Striking similarities are revealed between religious ideas in Greece and non-Greek Asia. There are... -
Euripides: Bacchae by R. A. S. Seaford 9780856686092
RRP: £30.29Booksplease Price: £28.80Richard Seaford's edition of Euripides' Bacchae offers the first commentary in English on this fascinating play since that of E. R. Dodds in 1960. It takes account of the studies made on the play... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 90 by R. J. Tarrant 9780674379374
RRP: £60.95Booksplease Price: £49.65This volume of sixteen articles includes: T. D. Barnes, "The Significance of Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus"; Wendell Clausen, "Cicero and the New Poetry"; Gregory Crane,... -
History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama by Barbara Goff 9780292728653
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Greek tragedy has held sway over the imagination of audiences for well over two millennia. This collection of essays on Athenian drama, the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Texas... -
Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis by Katherine Clarke 9780199291083
Booksplease Price: £114.90This book has two main and connected themes - the conception and articulation of time in the Greek world and the creation of history, especially in the context of the Greek city. Both how time is... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.56Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris 9780691160399
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth... -
Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece by Barbara Kowalzig 9780199639502
Booksplease Price: £69.05Singing for the Gods develops a new approach towards an old question in the study of religion - the relationship of myth and ritual. Focusing on ancient Greek religion, Barbara Kowalzig exploits the... -
Hoelderlin's Dionysiac Poetry: The Terrifying-Exciting Mysteries by Lucas Murrey 9783319102047
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770 - 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows Hoelderlin's poetry is unique within Western literature... -
A World History of Ancient Political Thought: Its Significance and Consequences by Antony Black 9780198790686
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £31.34This revised and expanded edition of A World History of Ancient Political Thought examines the political thought of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Iran, India, China, Greece, Rome and early... -
Hoelderlin's Dionysiac Poetry: The Terrifying-Exciting Mysteries by Lucas Murrey 9783319364537
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770 - 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows Hoelderlin's poetry is unique within Western literature... -
A World History of Ancient Political Thought by Antony Black 9780199281695
Booksplease Price: £85.34This book examines the political thought of China, Greece, Israel, Rome, India, Iran, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and also early Christianity, from prehistory to c. 200 CE. Each of these had its own... -
Nietzsche: The Meaning of Earth by Lucas Murrey 9781611461541
Booksplease Price: £81.47In this book, author Lucas Murrey argues that the thinking of the modern German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1944-1900) is not only more grounded in antiquity than previously understood, but is... -
Homer by Jonathan S. Burgess 9781848858633
Booksplease Price: £24.88What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central... -
Dionysus and Politics: Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World by Filip Doroszewski 9780367507282
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period... -
Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living by Melissa Lane 9780691151243
Booksplease Price: £70.23An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference... -
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober 9780691173146
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely... -
Shelley's Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song: 2021 Bysshe Inigo Coffey 9781837644308
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.91Shortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2022Shelley's Broken World is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelley's poetic art and thought. Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a... -
Shelley's Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song: 2021 by Bysshe Inigo Coffey 9781800855380
Booksplease Price: £119.01Shortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2022Shelley's Broken World is a provocative and profound reassessment of Shelley's poetic art and thought. Bysshe Inigo Coffey returns to a...