Search Results for: “Plautus”

Author: PlautusBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: faded jacket, tear on frontPlautus, a master of ancient Roman...

Author: Plautus, Eric Segal (trans)Binding: PaperbackPublished: Harper Torchbooks, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, cover has light general wear , spine has...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSpanning centuries of thought, artistry, and human drama, Voices From the Past: Plautus to Saint Augustine...

Author: David KonstanBinding: HardbackPublished: Cornell University Press, 1983Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book examines Roman comedy. The author analyzes the works of Plautus and Terence....

Author: Elaine Fantham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the Roman stage rang with laughter, it was Plautus and Terence who held the crowd — and...

This revised edition features a new introduction by Robin Seager, putting the lives in the context of Plutarch's biography and literary career, discussing and comparing the individual lives, and analysing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of art and power, Roman Literature and Society by R. M. Ogilvie presents a sweeping and authoritative account of Latin literature...

For the new edition of this reference work, the text has been revised both to widen its coverage of the theatre and to bring existing entries up to date. Based...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Roman theatrical tradition stands a playwright whose raucous, boundary-breaking comedies have entertained audiences...

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...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Binding tearing in some places but pages still intact.Few works have shaped the Western understanding of the ancient world as...

From Plautus, Cervantes and Dickens to Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Heller and Tom Stoppard, from "Midsummer Night's Dream" to "Arsenic and Old Lace" and Woody Allen, a wide range of novels,...

Vivid biographies of famous characters from the Ancient Greek world, in a revised edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and...

Author: Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, Stephen SondheimBinding: HardbackPublished: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerA riotous musical...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the heart of Western philosophy lies a deceptively simple question: what...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the rowdy stages of ancient Rome comes one of history's most gifted comic playwrights —...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. Fold-out map at rear intact. In the grand boulevards and cramped arrondissements of...