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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Pepita Jiménez: A Novel by Juan Valera [Paperback]
Robert Fedorchek (Author); J. Whiston (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9780856688867
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 -
Roman Portugal Volume 2, gazetteer; Fasc. 1. Porto, Bragan Roman Portugal, II, Gazetteer, Fasc. 1 [Paperback]
Jorge de Alarcao (Author)
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Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 2 [Hardback]
Alan H. Sommerstein (Author); Thomas Talboy (Author); Thomas H. Talboy (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 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)
£24.99ISBN: 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)
£15.00ISBN: 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 children, but for adults a... .... Learn More -
Calderon: Life's A Dream [Hardback]
Michael Kidd (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 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)
£18.00ISBN: 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)
£50.00ISBN: 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)
£24.99ISBN: 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)
£22.50ISBN: 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
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