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Idylls by Theocritus
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'Eucritus and I and pretty Amyntas turned aside To the farm of Phrasidamus, where we sank down With pleasure on deep-piled couches of sweet rushes, And vine leaves freshly stripped from the bush.'... -
Idylls by Theocritus 9780911198058
Booksplease Price: £31.17These thirty Idylls, written by the Sicilian Theokritos in the third century B.C., present the charms of rustic life in learned, polished verse aimed at a sophisticated audience. A bucolic paradise... -
Theocritus: A Selection: Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13 by Theocritus 9780521574204
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Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction by Mark Payne 9780521124294
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Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction by Mark Payne 9780521865777
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The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, With the Elegies of Tyrtæus, Tr. Into Engl. Verse, to Which Are Added, Dissertations and Notes, by R. Polwhele by Theocritus 9780461586800
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461586800Author TheocritusFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint -
Theocritus and His Descendants in the Pastoral Elegy by Maelynette Aldrich 9781249281870
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781249281870Author Maelynette AldrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry by Richard Hunter 9780521035262
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Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral: Essays on Theocritus and Virgil by Charles Segal 9780691614878
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.84Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy... -
The Green Cabinet: Theocritus and European Pastoral Poetry by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer 9781853996641
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Poems of the Countryside by Paul Quarrie 9781841598369
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Hesiod (Work and Days) and Virgil's Georgics set the scene in the early pages with their poetry about farming, while nymphs and shepherds cavort through the Arcadian landscapes of Theocritus,... -
Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology by Daryl Hine 9780691088204
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly... -
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint by Mary Jacobus 9780691170725
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and... -
Hellenistic Poetry: An Anthology by Barbara Hughes Fowler 9780299125349
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76The main aim of this book is to bring Hellenistic poetry to life for the contemporary reader. The selection of poems reflects the wide range of poetic genres, styles, themes and moods of the period... -
The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes by Luis de Camoes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.38Luis de Camoes is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusiads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native... -
Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece by Aeschylus, Aesop, Alexander the Great, Anaxagoras, Antisthenes, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Bias of Pri Citium 9786185048716
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep and painful awareness of the dark abyss that it... -
Herodas: Mimiambs by Graham Zanker 9780856688737
Booksplease Price: £31.43Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus containing eight and a fragmentary ninth of the Mimiambs of Herodas in 1891, Herodas was known only through approximately twenty lines... -
Virgil: Eclogues by Virgil
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.60Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral... -
Pastoral Forms and Attitudes by Harold E. Toliver 9780520373709
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89Pastoral Forms and Attitudes delves into the evolution of pastoral literature, showcasing its adaptability across genres and historical periods while retaining its thematic core. From the classical... -
Veii and other poems Robert Wells 9781800171244
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28The title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. There as a child the... -
The Eclogues and Georgics by Virgil
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended... -
The Poets of Alexandria by Susan A. Stephens 9781848858800
Booksplease Price: £20.70Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most... -
Eclogues by Virgil 9780674995833
Booksplease Price: £25.68"The classic of all Europe." -T. S. EliotVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind,... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780198736479
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to... -
Estate Management and Symposium by Xenophon 9780198823513
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was... -
After Callimachus: Poems by Stephanie Burt
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and...