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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Augustine: De Civitate Dei VIII and IX [Paperback]
P. G. Walsh (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9780856688539
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 af... .... Learn More -
Tirso de Molina: Marta the Divine [Hardback]
Harley Erdman (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781908343000
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Tirso de Molina's Marta the Divine (c. 1614-15) is a spirited comedy about an ingenious young woman who fakes religious piety in order to avoid an arranged marriage imposed upon her by her father. Marta's false religiosity becomes a cover for ... .... Learn More -
Terence: Phormio [Hardback]
Robert Maltby (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9780856686061
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
Terence's Phormio , based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, ... .... Learn More -
Terence: Phormio [Paperback]
Robert Maltby (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9780856686078
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
Terence's Phormio , based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, ... .... Learn More -
Tirso de Molina: Marta the Divine [Paperback]
Harley Erdman (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781908343017
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Tirso de Molina's Marta the Divine (c. 1614-15) is a spirited comedy about an ingenious young woman who fakes religious piety in order to avoid an arranged marriage imposed upon her by her father. Marta's false religiosity becomes a cover for ... .... Learn More -
Dear Diego [Hardback]
Elena Poniatowska (Author);Nathanial Gardner (Author);N. Gardner (Translator)
£40.00ISBN: 9780856688805
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
When Diego Rivera's biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting though the painter's jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered a series of Parisian letters from Angelina Beloff. Long before Diego had become famous for his Mexican murals o... .... Learn More -
Dear Diego [Paperback]
Elena Poniatowska (Author); Nathanial Gardner (Author); N. Gardner (Translator)
£15.00ISBN: 9780856688812
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
When Diego Rivera's biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting though the painter's jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered a series of Parisian letters from Angelina Beloff. Long before Diego had become famous for his Mexican murals o... .... Learn More -
The Inquisitor's Handbook (Copilacion Instructiones Sancta Inquisicion) [Paperback]
Tyler Fisher (Author); Greg Fisher (Editor)
£15.00ISBN: 9780856688911
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 -
Greek Drama IV: Texts, Contexts, Performance [Hardback]
David Rosenbloom (Editor); John Davidson (Editor)
£48.00ISBN: 9780856688706
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Greek Drama IV: Texts, Context, Performance contains fourteen papers that comprise a snapshot of current work on Greek drama. How do notions of performance and performance context influence interpretation of individual plays? How do we reconst... .... Learn More -
Pepita Jiménez: A Novel by Juan Valera [Hardback]
Robert Fedorchek (Author); J. Whiston (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780856688850
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Hispanic Classics
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824-1905), one of 19th-century Spain's most well known authors, had a career in the diplomatic service with postings in Europe and the Americas. A serious student of his own and foreign literatures, Valera wrote n... .... Learn More
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