Aris & Phillips Imprint
Founded in 1980, Aris & Phillips has been an imprint of Oxbow Books since 2002. Aris & Phillips publishes two prestigious series; Classical Texts, edited by Professor Christopher Collard (The Queens College Oxford) and Hispanic Classics edited by Dr Jonathan Thacker, (Merton College Oxford). The Classical Texts series publishes modern editions of Classical Greek and Latin texts, with substantial introductions and commentaries as well as the original text with facing-page English translation. The Hispanic Classics series publishes editions of Hispanic texts from the Medieval texts through the Golden Age to 21st century literature including plays, poetry and novels, with wide-ranging introductions, translators note and notes as well as the Spanish text with facing-page English translation. In addition the list includes books on Classical literature, Hispanic literature and books on the archaeology of ancient Egypt, the Near East and the Mediterranean.
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$30.00
In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and inner mysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of Spanish collections.
$80.00
In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and inner mysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of Spanish collections.
$39.99
Apuleius’ Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey by magic because of his unfettered curiosity. After many adventures he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes.
$100.00
Apuleius’ Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey by magic because of his unfettered curiosity. After many adventures he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes.
$30.00
Benito Pérez Galdós’ finely-crafted novel, Meow, is a tragi-comedy.
$80.00
Mariana Pineda (1925) was Lorca's first success in the theatre. Based on a popular Andalusian ballad, it tells the story of Mariana Pineda who was garrotted in 1831 under the reactionary regime of Ferdinand VII for embroidering a Liberal flag and refusing to betray her lover.
$32.00
A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - as the earliest surviving European drama it is of incalculable interest for students of ancient literature: as the only extended account of the Persian wars by an author who fought in ...
$34.00
King Agamemnon is long dead and his murderers rule at Argos. His son Orestes returns from exile to kill them his own mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. Thus he will release his sister Electra from oppression and reclaim his home and kingdom.
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Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 2 [Hardback]
Alan H. Sommerstein (Author); Thomas Talboy (Author); Thomas H. Talboy (Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9780856688874
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven more. Three of these dramatise successive phases of the story of how a jealous and treacherous ... .... Learn More -
Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 2 [Paperback]
Alan H. Sommerstein (Author); Thomas Talboy (Author); Thomas H. Talboy (Author)
$38.00ISBN: 9780856688928
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Following the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven more. Three of these dramatise successive phases of the story of how a jealous and treacherous ... .... Learn More -
Juan Ramón Jiménez: Platero and I [Paperback]
Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres (Author)
$25.00ISBN: 9780856688393
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Juan Ramón Jiménez, 1956 winner of the Nobel Prize, published Platero and I in 1914. Like Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Platero and I is a book not only for chi... .... Learn More -
Calderon: Life's A Dream [Hardback]
Michael Kidd (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780856688966
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P Hispanic Texts
"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for all life is a dream, and even dreams are but dreams."
That is the haunting lesson learned by Prince Sigismund in ... .... Learn More -
Calderon: Life's A Dream [Paperback]
Michael Kidd (Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9780856688959
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P Hispanic Texts
"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for all life is a dream, and even dreams are but dreams."
That is the haunting lesson learned by Prince Sigismund in ... .... Learn More -
Euripides: Medea [Hardback]
Judith Mossman (Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9780856687839
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king's daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it's hard on Medea, who has betrayed her family for him, followed him all the way from Colchis, killed for him, and borne him two sons... .... Learn More -
Euripides: Medea [Paperback]
Judith Mossman (Author)
$38.00ISBN: 9780856687884
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
Jason, in exile in Corinth, is marrying the king's daughter. It looks as though his problems are over, though it's hard on Medea, who has betrayed her family for him, followed him all the way from Colchis, killed for him, and borne him two sons... .... Learn More -
Augustine: De Civitate Dei VI and VII [Paperback]
P. G. Walsh (Author)
$35.00ISBN: 9780856688799
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In these books, written in the ... .... Learn More -
Menander: The Shield (Aspis) and Arbitration (Epitrepontes) [Hardback]
Stanley Ireland (Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9780856688973
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P CLASSICS TITLES
'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'? Thus the judgment of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Y... .... Learn More -
Menander: The Shield (Aspis) and Arbitration (Epitrepontes) [Paperback]
Stanley Ireland (Author)
$34.00ISBN: 9780856688331
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P CLASSICS TITLES
'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'? Thus the judgment of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Y... .... Learn More
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