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.
Browse Aris & Phillips titles by series:
£19.99
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.
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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.
£24.99
Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy.
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Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs – tokens of supplication – arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who want them as wives and they seek asylum from King Pelasgus.
£15.00
Going Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global cultural map in the early 1980s.
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Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man's Finery (1926) and La hija del capitán/ The Captain's Daughter (1927) are two of four tragic farceswritten by Ramón del Valle-Inclán for the theatre. Translated here for the first time into English, the plays demonstrate the dramatist's evolving theory of the esperpento as a satirical genre.
£15.00
Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wilful and yet vulnerable Tula.
£19.95
Mist (Niebla), published in 1914, is one of Miguel de Unamuno's key works; a truly Modernist work of Europe-wide significance which aims to shatter the conventions of fiction, using the novel as a vehicle for exploration of philosophical themes.
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Galdos: Meow [Paperback]
Ruth Crispin (Translator); Benito Perez Galdos (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781908343734
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Benito Pérez Galdós’ finely-crafted novel, Meow, is a tragi-comedy. It is the story of a middle-aged, middle class middle-manager who does not know how to pull the strings that could get him reinstated to his ... .... Learn More -
The Inquisitor's Handbook (Copilacion Instructiones Sancta Inquisicion) [Hardback]
Tyler Fisher (Author); Greg Fisher (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780856688904
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
The Inquisitor's Handbook , a translation of a 1537 compilation of rules for inquisitorial personnel, introduces today's reader to the Spanish Inquisition in the same way a sixteenth-century inquisitor would have been introduced to his duties. ... .... Learn More -
Apuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass: Book 1 [Hardback]
Regine May (Translator)
£50.00ISBN: 9781908343802
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
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... .... Learn More -
Apuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass: Book 1 [Paperback]
Regine May (Translator)
£19.99ISBN: 9781908343819
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
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... .... Learn More -
Unamuno: Aunt Tula [Hardback]
Julia Biggane (Translator)
£40.00ISBN: 9781908343239
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wil... .... Learn More -
Unamuno: Aunt Tula [Paperback]
Julia Biggane (Translator)
£15.00ISBN: 9781908343222
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent, wil... .... Learn More -
Unamuno: Mist [Hardback]
John Macklin (Translator)
£50.00ISBN: 9781908343215
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Mist (Niebla), published in 1914, is one of Miguel de Unamuno's key works; a truly Modernist work of Europe-wide significance which aims to shatter the conventions of fiction, using the n... .... Learn More -
Unamuno: Mist [Paperback]
John Macklin (Translator)
£19.95ISBN: 9781908343208
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Mist (Niebla), published in 1914, is one of Miguel de Unamuno's key works; a truly Modernist work of Europe-wide significance which aims to shatter the conventions of fiction, using the n... .... Learn More -
Cervantes: The Complete Exemplary Novels [Hardback]
B. W. Ife (Author); Jonathan Thacker (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780856687693
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Miguel de Cervantes is probably the greatest writer of the Spanish Golden Age, whose influence on the Spanish language has been profound. Readers who know Cervantes only as the author of Don Quijote will be surprised and delighted... .... Learn More -
Cervantes: The Complete Exemplary Novels [Paperback]
B. W. Ife (Author); Jonathan Thacker (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780856687747
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Miguel de Cervantes is probably the greatest writer of the Spanish Golden Age, whose influence on the Spanish language has been profound. Readers who know Cervantes only as the author of Don Quijote will be surprised and delighted... .... Learn More
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