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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Text with facing translation, commentary and notes. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 10. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856682254
ISBN
9780856682254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.64

hardcover. Plautus' Bacchides is one of the best and most typical of his plays which in its treatment of character, theme and dialogue provides an excellent introduction to Plautus. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Published 1986. Reprinted with Corrections 1
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856682261
ISBN
9780856682261
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.80

Hardback. A new translation of one of Euripides' most neglected plays which takes as its subject the figure of Heracles and explores the nature of heroism and myth by portraying the story of the murder of his own wife and children. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856682322
ISBN
9780856682322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.97

Hardback. "Terence's Brothers was put on in Rome in 160 B.C. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856683152
ISBN
9780856683152
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.14

Hardback. Livy is a popular author in schools and universities in all areas of the English speaking world. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856685231
ISBN
9780856685231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.17

hardcover. King Agamemnon is long dead and his murderers rule at Argos. His son Orestes returns from exile to kill themuhis own mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. Thus he will release his sister Electra from oppression and reclaim his home and kingdom. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856685750
ISBN
9780856685750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.12

Paperback. Text with translation, commentary and notes. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DN; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856685903
ISBN
9780856685903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.67

Hardback. Livy is a popular author in schools and universities in all areas of the English speaking world. The more popular books studied are those which recount the early history of Rome and the more noteworthy events of the Second Punic War. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856685989
ISBN
9780856685989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.12

Paperback. Though in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to Homer, his plays were for centuries thought to be irretrievably lost. Only in this century have instances begun to re-emerge from the sands of Egypt, and it was not until 1958 that a complete play, Dyskolos or The Bad-Tempered Man, came to light. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856686115
ISBN
9780856686115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.02

Hardback. Livy is a popular author in schools and universities in all areas of the English speaking world. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 204 pages, Aros amd Phillips 1994. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 18. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856686252
ISBN
9780856686252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.82

hardcover. The Roman historian C. Sallustius Crispus, better known as Sallust, decided to write about the war against the Numidian king Jugurtha, 'because it was a long and cruel struggle in which fortune swung from side to side; and secondly, because it was then for the first time that a stand was taken against the arrogance of the nobles'. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856686375
ISBN
9780856686375
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.14

Hardback. The commentary in this edition of one of Plutarchs Lives concentrates on the historical aspects of the work and includes much detailed comparison of Plutarch's narrative with those of other sources such as Herodotos, Thucydides, Diodorus and Cornelius Nepos. Greek text with facing translation. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 15. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856686764
ISBN
9780856686764
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.49

Hardback. Gappian wrote his Roman History in the second century AD as a series of books arranged geographically to chronicle the rise of the Roman empire. His Iberike, of which this is the first translation with historical commentary in English, deals with the Romans' wars in the Iberian peninsula from the third to the first centuries BC. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 192 pages, text, translation and commentary. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856687198
ISBN
9780856687198
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.14

paperback. "Terence's Brothers was put on in Rome in 160 B.C. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DCQ; DD; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856687235
ISBN
9780856687235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.91

Paperback. Feasting, wine, revellers and dancing girls; the modern image of ancient Greek symposia is an enduring one. Many symposia were more formal affairs; drinking-parties after which a komos, or procession of revellers often took place, with much protocol involved. Many accounts survive in ancient literature, as well as depictions on vase paintings. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 256 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856687723
ISBN
9780856687723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.28

Hardback. Juan Ramon Jimenez, 1956 winner of the Nobel Prize, published Platero and I in 1914. Like Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland , Platero and I is a book not only for children, but for adults as well. It is an allegory of the deepest human emotions. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688348
ISBN
9780856688348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.11

Hardback. Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas. Editor(s): Fedorchek, Robert M. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 208 x 33. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688591
ISBN
9780856688591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.84

Hardback. The Libro de Alexandre is an epic poem about the life of Alexander the Great, written by an anonymous Spanish cleric in the thirteenth century. It is the most substantial poem (and almost certainly the first) composed in the learned cuaderna via verse form and provides a unique insight into the intellectual world from which it sprang. Editor(s): Such, Peter. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 718 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1089.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
718
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856688645
ISBN
9780856688645
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.99

hardcover. A collection of articles that ranges from sentimental romance, narrative religious verse and cancionero love lyric to the problem of the bestseller in Golden Age literature. Editor(s): Hunter, W.F.; Snow, Joseph T. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DNF; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859892193
ISBN
9780859892193
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.11

Hardback. Contains eight essays by British scholars on a central theme in medieval literary studies. This book presents texts that range from the Brendan to a late-medieval treatise on princely behaviour. Editor(s): Trotter, D. A. Num Pages: 104 pages, 9ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859893336
ISBN
9780859893336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.11

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