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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Hispanic Classics

Apuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass
£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.
Apuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass
£50.00
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.
Plato: Republic I and II (-368c)

Regular Price: £40.00

Special Price: £9.95

Republic , Plato's best known and most frequently read dialogue, although receiving a flood of translations and philosophical analysis over the last 100 years, has in recent times been quite short of detailed commentaries.
Galdos: Meow
£15.00
Benito Pérez Galdós’ finely-crafted novel, Meow, is a tragi-comedy.
Lorca: Mariana Pineda
£40.00
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.
Plautus: Bacchides

Regular Price: £40.00

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Plautus' Bacchides is one of the best and most typical of his plays which in its treatment of character, theme and dialogue provides an excellent introduction to Plautus.
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris

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Iphigenia in Tauris tells the story of the princess Iphigenia who was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to expedite his campaign against Troy but was rescued by the goddess Artemis and transported to the land of the Taurians. There she herself must perform human sacrifices as a priestess of Artemis in the local cult.
Euripides: Electra
£19.99
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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  1. Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 2

    Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 2 [Hardback]

    Alan H. Sommerstein (Author); Thomas Talboy (Author); Thomas H. Talboy (Author)

    £50.00

    ISBN: 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
  2. Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 2

    Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 2 [Paperback]

    Alan H. Sommerstein (Author); Thomas Talboy (Author); Thomas H. Talboy (Author)

    £24.99

    ISBN: 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
  3. Juan Ramón Jiménez: Platero and I

    Juan Ramón Jiménez: Platero and I [Paperback]

    Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres (Author)

    £15.00

    ISBN: 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 children, but for adults a... .... Learn More
  4. Calderon: Life's A Dream

    Calderon: Life's A Dream [Hardback]

    Michael Kidd (Author)

    £40.00

    ISBN: 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
  5. Calderon: Life's A Dream

    Calderon: Life's A Dream [Paperback]

    Michael Kidd (Author)

    £18.00

    ISBN: 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
  6. Euripides: Medea

    Euripides: Medea [Hardback]

    Judith Mossman (Author)

    £50.00

    ISBN: 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
  7. Euripides: Medea

    Euripides: Medea [Paperback]

    Judith Mossman (Author)

    £24.99

    ISBN: 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
  8. Augustine: De Civitate Dei VI and VII

    Augustine: De Civitate Dei VI and VII [Paperback]

    P. G. Walsh (Author)

    £22.50

    ISBN: 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 af... .... Learn More
  9. Menander: The Shield (Aspis) and Arbitration (Epitrepontes)

    Menander: The Shield (Aspis) and Arbitration (Epitrepontes) [Hardback]

    Stanley Ireland (Author)

    £50.00

    ISBN: 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 judgement 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
  10. Menander: The Shield (Aspis) and Arbitration (Epitrepontes)

    Menander: The Shield (Aspis) and Arbitration (Epitrepontes) [Paperback]

    Stanley Ireland (Author)

    £19.99

    ISBN: 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 judgement 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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