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The Imagery And Poetry Of Lucretius
$55.00 AUD
Author: David WestBinding: HardbackPublished: Edinburgh University Press, 1969Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book analyzes the imagery and poetry of Lucretius. It provides insights into the literary...
The Nature of Things
New translation by Alicia Stallings, with an introduction by Richard Jenkyns Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry...
The Rapes Of Lucretia: A Myth And Its Transformations
$120.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some stains on interior front pages - not obscuring text. Small chips on spine.Few stories have...
The Rapes Of Lucretia: A Myth And Its Transformations
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew myths in Western culture have proven as enduringly provocative as the story of Lucretia — the Roman noblewoman whose violation by Tarquinius Superbus and...
The Rapes Of Lucretia: A Myth And Its Transformations
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Author: Ian DonaldsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book analyzes the myth of Lucretia and its transformations through history. It examines the...
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural \"swerve\" known as the Renaissance. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012 Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man...
Dialogues and Letters
A selection of dialogues and letters of one of the most eloquent - and influential - masters of Latin prose. A major writer and a leading figure in the public...
Titi Lvcreti Cari De Rervm Natvra Libri Sex. Volumes II & III
$140.00 AUD
Author: Cyril BaileyBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis classical Latin poetry set presents Lucretius’ philosophical...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived...
Candle Island
Lucretia and her mother have come to tiny Candle Island, Maine (Population: Summer, 986; Winter, 315) with a secret to keep ... and to escape-escape memories of the car accident...
Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East
Author: M. C. Bishop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 197 Lucius Verus is one of the least regarded Roman emperors, despite the fact that he was co-ruler with his adoptive...
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity: Prudentius and the Poetics of the
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century...
Works and Days
A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings The ancient Greeks revered Hesiod, believing he had beaten Homer in a...
The Weather Prophet: Caribbean Journey
THE WEATHER PROPHET is a much-needed book, the first account of this fascinating and culturally complex region of the world since Patrick Leigh Fermor's THE TRAVELLER'S TREE in the 1950s....
Land of Echoes
Lucretia (Cree) Black is a parapsychologist whose investigative methods include in-depth historical research and psychological analysis. When she's asked by her former mentor, renowned neuropsychiatrist Mason Ambrose, if she would...
Roots of Evil
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The Good Book: A Humanist Bible
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