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Metamorphoseon
Lucius Apuleius
Hardcover - $50.95
In the "Metamorphoses of Apuleius, also known as "The Golden Ass, we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic.
The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of ...
The Golden Ass : The Transformations of Lucius
Lucius Apuleius
Paperback - $21.95
In the ancient world of Thessaly, a young adventurer betrays a priestess of the White Goddess and is turned into an ass. How he resumes human form makes up this tale abounding in lusty incident and bawdy wit. In all of literature, there are few books ...
The Classical Roman Reader : New Encounters with Ancient Rome
Kenneth J. Atchity
Paperback - $52.95
A collection of the greatest writings from the grandest of empires. From the greek and Italian origins of Rome to the decline and fall of the empire, firsthand accounts speeches, plays, texts, poetry present ancient Rome in all of its glorious variet ...
Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
Erich Auerbach
Paperback - $72.95
In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his "Mimesis: the historical ...
Confessions, I : Books 1-8
St Augustine
Hardcover - $50.95
Augustinus (AD 354-430), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become a rhetorician, plunged into a turmoil of philosophical and psychological doubts in search of truth, joini ...
Writing Against Death - The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir
Susan Bainbrigge
Paperback - $129.95
The Roman Theatre and Its Audience
Richard C. Beacham
Paperback - $49.95
Drawing on recent archaeological investigations, new scholarship, and the author's own original research and staging experience, this book offers a new and fascinating picture of theatrical performance in the ancient world. Richard Beacham traces the ...