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Ovid
In AD8, Augustus banished the poet Ovid to Tomi, on the Black Sea. In spite of repeated appeals by his friends in Rome for the sentence to be revoked, he...
The Erotic Poems
Ovid's poems on the experience of sexual desire This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to...
The Golden Age: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 104 Seventeen of Ovid's enduring stories stunningly illustrated. Known the world over, Ovid's canonical work has spanned centuries, never losing its relevance. Retold...
Metamorphoses
Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Ovid's sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the...
Metamorphoses
"I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive." - Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford Ovid's deliciously witty and...
The Golden Age: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 104 Seventeen of Ovid's enduring stories stunningly illustrated. Known the world over, Ovid's canonical work has spanned centuries, never losing its relevance. Retold...
Tales from Ovid
'Hughes is as broad as Ovid and as subtle, as violent and as erotic, as elegant and as folksy - and often all at the same time. It is simply...
The Metamorphoses
"Golding makes Ovid both dreamy and robust. Here we can listen to the English language as it moves confidently into the highest eloquence" - Tom Paulin Bringing together a series...
Heroides
Ovid's moving poems on the torments of love In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving...
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes...
Metamorphosis
Mary Innes's classic translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, Ovid's Metamorphosis. Ovid drew on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create...
An Imaginary Life
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed Markings: SignedCondition remarks: Faded boards. Binding remains tight. Clean copy. An Imaginary Life by David Malouf chronicles the...
An Imaginary Life (SIGNED)
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Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj.,What happens when the most celebrated poet of the Roman world is stripped of everything —...
An Imaginary Life (SIGNED)
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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedWhat happens when a man of words is stripped of his language, his culture, and his identity, and cast...
Latin Literature: An Anthology
A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from...
Learn to Read Latin, Second Edition: Textbook
Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology...
The Great Books: From "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" to Goethe's
Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a- half...
The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past
'A tour of those far-flung places where Romans rarely dared to venture' The Times 'A strikingly original take . . . uncovering forgotten stories of life on the periphery' Spectator...
Learn to Read Latin, Second Edition (Workbook)
Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology...
A Literary Guide To Seduction
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when the greatest literary minds in history turn their attention to seduction? A Literary Guide to Seduction, edited and introduced by Robert...
How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small
Author: M. D. Usher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals - and our vital relationships with them....
The Last World: A Novel
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past
'A tour of those far-flung places where Romans rarely dared to venture' The Times 'A strikingly original take . . . uncovering forgotten stories of life on the periphery' Spectator...
Words of Love: Romantic Quotations from Plato to Madonna
More than just quotes about romance, Words of Love gathers together wit and witticisms, lyrics and sonnets, proverbs and outrageous declarations that will touch, entertain, and even make readers laugh...
The Odyssey
Penguin Classics relaunch The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by...
The Odyssey
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy...
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction by Colm T ibin At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde...
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement
Author: Mary Jacobus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...
Pindar's Poetics of Immortality
Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who...
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris is the tale of how two children of Agamemnon whose lives have been blighted in youth are brought together for mutual salvation and for the healing...
The Odyssey
Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about...
Four Tragedies and Octavia
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A selection of Seneca's most powerful and macabre plays Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are...
The Iliad & The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
Author: HomerFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 752 pagesPublished: Sterling Juvenile, United States, 2018Homer's two epics of the ancient world, The Iliad and The Odyssey, tell stories as riveting today as...
Four Tragedies and Octavia
A selection of Seneca's most powerful and macabre plays Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are...
The Intellectual Devotional Biographies
Author: DAVID S. KIDDER Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The fifth installment of this best-selling series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities in history Like its...
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of...
Mythology 101: From Gods and Goddesses to Monsters and Mortals, Your
Explore the fascinating myths of Greek and Roman civilizations! The tales of gods and heroes are often turned into tedious discourse that even Ovid would reject. This easy-to-read guide cuts...
The Iliad
The greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic...
The Theban Plays
The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate. KING OEDIPUS tells of a man who brings pestilence to...
The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation
The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolation Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece, practised by the Romans,...
The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal
The achievements of the Roman world have profoundly affected European and world civilization. The original Legacy of Rome, edited by Cyril Bailey, was published in 1923 and has been widely...
The Iliad
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post )-critics lauded it...