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Paperback. Ovid's witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. Translator(s): Raeburn, David. Num Pages: 768 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- 9780140447897
- ISBN
- 9780140447897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.49
€ 10.99
€ 9.49
A translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Translator(s): Lombardo, Stanley. Num Pages: 538 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 33. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 538
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603843089
- ISBN
- 9781603843089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.89
€ 52.99
€ 37.89
Paperback. This volume completes this distinguished edition of Metamorphoses . This volume completes Donald Hills distinguished edition to the Metamorphoses. Of the pevious volume it was said: It is all we could hope for, with excellent translation, fuller understanding from the notes and an extensive bibliography. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 256 pages, text, translation, commentary, indexes. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856687334
- ISBN
- 9780856687334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.34
€ 33.99
€ 30.34
Hardback. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, this book interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Translator(s): Raeburn, David. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 46. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141394619
- ISBN
- 9780141394619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 17.52
€ 31.99
€ 17.52
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 538
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603843072
- ISBN
- 9781603843072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.47
€ 20.99
€ 16.47
Paperback. In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and friendship; the laterMeno discusses the concept of virtue as a whole, and whether it is something that can be taught. Translator(s): Waterfield, Robin. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 3D; DB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555666
- ISBN
- 9780199555666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.59
€ 11.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. Translator(s): Morwood, James. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537969
- ISBN
- 9780199537969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. Includes introduction and notes by Robin Mitchell-Boyask. Translator(s): Svarlien, Diane Arnson. Num Pages: 104 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 141 x 6. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 71
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872209237
- ISBN
- 9780872209237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.32
€ 15.99
€ 13.32
Paperback. Features a story of the wronged wife who avenges herself upon her unfaithful husband by murdering their children is lodged securely in the popular imagination, a touchstone for politics, law, and psychoanalysis and the subject of constant retellings and reinterpretations. Translator(s): Taplin, Oliver. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 133 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226203454
- ISBN
- 9780226203454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.53
€ 10.99
€ 10.53
Paperback. Medea's husband Jason has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strong-willed and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and a horrifying, revenge possible. Translator(s): Robertson, Robin. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099511779
- ISBN
- 9780099511779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.06
€ 11.99
€ 10.06
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521173896
- ISBN
- 9780521173896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.77
€ 33.77
Hardback. Widely praised for his translations of Boethius and Ariosto, esteemed translator David R. Slavitt here returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet. The love here described is of the anguished, ruinous kind, like a sickness, and Ovid prescribes cures. Translator(s): Slavitt, David. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674059047
- ISBN
- 9780674059047
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.97
€ 46.99
€ 38.97
Paperback. Presents an introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and others. This book traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus, to the writers of the Empire such as Lucan and Petronius, to the later writings of St Augustine. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141398112
- ISBN
- 9780141398112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.07
€ 16.99
€ 12.07
Paperback. A newly published translation by Kenneth McLeish, with an introduction by Stephen Mulrine. Translator(s): McLeish, Kenneth. Series: Drama Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 106 x 9. Weight in Grams: 120. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- SKU
- KTG0010049
- ISBN
- 9781854596109
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Examines the human desire to be rich, famous, attractive and powerful and dismisses all these goals as not worth striving for - we are in fact happier as we are. This book seeks to explain both the factual background to the poems and also the literary qualities which make this poetry exciting and moving to a modern audience. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 206 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910572337
- ISBN
- 9781910572337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.90
€ 33.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. Edition, translation and full critical study of a hitherto marginalised text, bringing it to full attention for the first time. Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies. Num Pages: 262 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843665
- ISBN
- 9781843843665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.32
€ 95.32
Paperback. Jane Eyre is a vivid and powerful novel, abridged and retold here but containing the best and key elements of the novels on which they are based. This book comes with notes, author biography, key themes, a glossary and free audiobook on CD. Series: Webster's Word Power English Readers: Chosen Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Geddes & Grosset
- Edition
- Abridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910965177
- ISBN
- 9781910965177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.06
€ 8.06
Paperback. Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as the author. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and important," while Publishers Weekly say she is "nothing less than brilliant." This book deals with her works. Translator(s): Carson, Anne. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 6. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226203621
- ISBN
- 9780226203621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.07
€ 10.07
Paperback. Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'. This selection of speeches illustrates Cicero's fierce loyalty to the Roman Republic. Editor(s): McElduff, Siobhan. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DB; DNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455533
- ISBN
- 9780140455533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.58
€ 14.99
€ 11.58
Paperback. A user-friendly edition for the student reading Homer in the original Greek Editor(s): Draper, Pamela. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067923
- ISBN
- 9780472067923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.61
€ 37.61
Hardcover. A user-friendly edition for the student reading Homer in the original Greek Editor(s): Draper, Pamela. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition...
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472097920
- ISBN
- 9780472097920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.64
€ 93.64
Paperback. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Series: Collins Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 123 x 47. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- William Collins
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007902149
- ISBN
- 9780007902149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141398594
- ISBN
- 9780141398594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.46
€ 5.46
Hardcover. Nikolsky questions the current gender and psychoanalytical approaches to Hippolytus and challenges the widespread interpretations of the play as being concerned with the irresistible force of love and the inevitability of punishment for those who underestimate its power. Translator(s): Nikolsky, Mikhail. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DB; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 258 x 19. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- The Classical Press of Wales
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910589038
- ISBN
- 9781910589038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.63
€ 84.63