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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: 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...

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...

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 —...

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...

Plato is one of history's most influential thinkers, the "sublime philosopher" whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he depicted his...

Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was...

Proclus' commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary. In it Proclus contemplates nature's mysterious origins and at the same time employs the deductive rigour required...

The best available English translation.... [It] compels intelligent readers to come to grips with what Plato actually wrote.' , American Political Science Review

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...

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...

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...

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...

This edition includes a list of suggestions for further reading, a glossary of important philosophical words and phrases, notes Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras...

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...

Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. Regarded as little more than...

The first volume of The Ptolemies Quartet triumphantly brings to life the dark and glittering history of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spanned twelve...

Penguin Classics relaunch Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound...

What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world The...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth...

A new translation by Alan H. Sommerstein of four of Aeschylus' most celebrated plays Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens,...

'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly'Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is...

Today, the Western world's knowledge of the gladiator-slave Spartacus comes from the Kirk Douglas epic released in 1960. But did Spartacus really come close to changing the structure of the...

'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A...

Author: Hugh PlommerBinding: HardbackPublished: Cambridge University Press., 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner details to FEP, foxed edges, sun-fading and slight tears to...

Penguin Classics relaunch. That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice' 'Medea', in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by...

With an introduction by Keith Waldrop Two riotous novels by the Polish-Born British writer Stefan Thermson, who with his wife Francesca ran the Baberbocchus press in London, which also published...

Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? How does...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few lives capture the turbulent currents of...

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...

The book titled Claudius the God by the author Robert Graves. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Plato Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1848 Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire...

Author: Jack Ashby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022 A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAustralia's vast and ancient terrain — its shimmering desert plains, brooding mountain ranges, and sun-scorched eucalypt scrubland — has long...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the grandeur of the Colosseum to the delicate brushwork of Pompeian frescoes, Treasures of Ancient Rome presents a breathtaking survey of the artistic and...

Author: Thomas PageBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union - BCE., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn this gripping science fiction novel, "The Hephaestus Plague," Thomas Page unleashes a terrifying biological...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA life lived at the edge of the tide, watching the currents of history surge and recede — this is the world Mungo MacCallum...

Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and W inter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel , from the exceptionally creative period...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some foxing on top of blockThis captivating historical biography, Splendour And Scandal: The Reign Of Beau Nash, chronicles...