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Theocritus. Moschus. Bion by Theocritus
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £19.95The father of pastoral poetry and his Hellenistic heirs.Theocritus (early third century BC), born in Syracuse and also active on Cos and at Alexandria, was the inventor of the bucolic genre. Like his... -
Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus 9789357949965
RRP: £17.58Booksplease Price: £14.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357949965Author TheocritusFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint -
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
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction by Mark Payne 9780521865777
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire by William G. Thalmann
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £59.98Theocritus: Space, Absence, and Desire discusses many of Theocritus's Idylls with emphasis on how these poems construct space--its contours and borders, along with the people, animals, and objects... -
Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry by Richard Hunter 9780521035262
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Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry by Richard Hunter 9780521560405
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.49The poems of Theocritus are our best witness to a brilliant poetic culture that flourished in the first half of the third century BC. This book considers the context from which these poems grew and,... -
A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus by R. C. Trevelyan 9781107432192
Booksplease Price: £21.50Originally published in 1947, this book contains the English translation of twenty eight idylls and twenty three epigrams originally attributed to Theocritus. Trevelyan begins each idyll with a short... -
Theocritus and Things: Material Agency in the Idylls Lilah Canevaro 9781399517508
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99This book contributes to the literary-theoretical field of Material Ecocriticism, expanding its chronological remit, and is the first to apply it to Classics. Material Ecocriticism has been described... -
Theocritus and his native Muse: A Syracusan among many by Poulheria Kyriakou 9783110614602
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24Hellenistic poets opted and were very likely expected to deal meaningfully, and perhaps competitively, with the tradition they inherited. They also needed to secure the goodwill of actual or... -
Theocritus and Things: Material Agency in the Idylls by Lilah Canevaro 9781399517492
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £78.68Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus Provides a new approach to canonical Greek poetry Brings Classics into conversation... -
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 -
The Epigrams Ascribed to Theocritus: a Method of Approach by L. Rossi 9789042909922
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.92This book is the first full-scale commentary on the epigrams ascribed to Theocritus since Gow's commented edition of 1950 and the first to methodically approach epigram as a literary genre attempting... -
The Epyllion: From Theocritus to Ovid by M. Marjorie Crump 9780367192617
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Published in 1931: The Epyllion From Theocritus to Ovid discusses Greek Epics along with extracts of Poems.Book InformationISBN 9780367192617Author M. Marjorie CrumpFormat PaperbackPage Coun -
The Epyllion: From Theocritus to Ovid by M. Marjorie Crump 9780367192600
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £110.69Published in 1931: The Epyllion From Theocritus to Ovid discusses Greek Epics along with extracts of Poems.Book InformationISBN 9780367192600Author M. Marjorie CrumpFormat HardbackPage Count -
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 -
Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and its Audience Graham Zanker 9781032858067
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98The poetry of Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies represents a second golden age of Greek literature. The eminence grise of poetic circles was Callimachus, whose poetic manifesto in favour of... -
Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction: Theocritus to Marvell by Judith Haber 9780521442060
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Traditionally, critics of the English Renaissance have viewed pastoral as a static, idealizing genre, aimed at the recreation of an idyllic past. More recently, these idealizing humanist approaches... -
Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction: Theocritus to Marvell by Judith Haber 9780521034616
Booksplease Price: £32.12Traditionally, critics of the English Renaissance have viewed pastoral as a static, idealizing genre, aimed at the recreation of an idyllic past. More recently, these idealizing humanist approaches... -
Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus by Christopher Athanasious Faraone 9780197552971
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £93.41In Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus, Christopher Faraone discusses a number of short hexametrical genres such as oracles, incantations and laments that do not easily fit the generic... -
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose (Edition1) by Thomas Tiplady 9789357960953
RRP: £17.38Booksplease Price: £14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357960953Author Thomas TipladyPage Count 108Imprint -
Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and its Audience Graham Zanker 9781032858074
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19The poetry of Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies represents a second golden age of Greek literature. The eminence grise of poetic circles was Callimachus, whose poetic manifesto in favour of... -
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... -
Theocritus, Bion and Moschus: Translated into English Verse by Arthur S. Way 9781107696730
Booksplease Price: £27.60Arthur Way (1847-1930) was a respected Classicist, and translated many ancient texts into English. This book, originally published in 1913, contains an English verse translation of several poems by... -
The Green Cabinet: Theocritus and European Pastoral Poetry by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer 9781853996641
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Hellenistic Literature and Culture: Studies in Honor of Susan A. Stephens by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 9781350286016
Booksplease Price: £117.05In this book, leading Greek scholars explore the rich and diverse poetry and prose of the long Hellenistic period. Chapters focus on the poets of Alexandria such as Callimachus, Theocritus,... -
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,... -
The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro: A New Translation with Commentary Nicholas R Jones 9780472133574
Booksplease Price: £55.25Five hundred years ago, working from hints in classical Greek and Latin poets, the young author Jacopo Sannazaro crafted the book called Arcadia, a narrative in richly descriptive Italian prose... -
City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right by Michael Mayerfield Bell 9780691202914
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature-and why that quest often leads us astrayPeople have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on... -
The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition by Marcel Detienne
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth... -
Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective by Lowell Edmunds 9780691165127
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.96It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the... -
Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective by Lowell Edmunds 9780691202334
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth-the abduction of Helen that led to the... -
Recognizing Persius by Kenneth J. Reckford 9780691141411
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of... -
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... -
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary (Vol. 2) by Aleksandr Pushkin
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £45.05The description for this book, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorVladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was a Russian-American writer whose novels in English... -
Callimachus and His Critics by Alan Cameron 9780691606125
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.34Callimachus has usually been seen as the archetypal ivory-tower poet, the epitome if not the inventor of the concept of art for art's sake, author of erudite works written to be read in book form by... -
City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right by Michael Mayerfield Bell 9780691165097
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65How faith, the natural world, and community can provide complementary paths for leading a good life People have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic...