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Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time (Hardback - 16 Feb 2010)

Paul Among the People
It is a commonηand fundamentalηmisconception that Paul told people how to live. Apart from forbidding certain abusive practices, he never gives any precise instructions for living. It would have violated his two main social principles: human freedom and dignity, and the need for people to love one another.  Paul was a Hellenistic Jew, originally named Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, who made a...

By (author) Sarah Ruden

ISBN-13: 9780375425011 ; ISBN-10: 0375425012

Price: £20.62 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Homeric Hymns (Hardback - 31 Oct 2005)

Homeric Hymns
Poet and translator Sarah Ruden offers a sparkling new translation of one of our prime sources for archaic Greek mythology, ritual, cosmology, and psychology. 'Some say that you were born, O Stitched-In god, / At windy Icarus or Draconum / Or Naxos or the deep-whirled Alpheus river / To Semele and Zeus who loves the thunder. / Others, my lord, claim Thebes was your beginning -- / Liars. Far off from men, creation's...

Translated by Sarah Ruden; Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan

ISBN-13: 9780872207264 ; ISBN-10: 0872207269

Price: £24.95 £18.97 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Homeric Hymns (Paperback / softback - 1 Oct 2005)

Homeric Hymns
Poet and translator Sarah Ruden offers a sparkling new translation of one of our prime sources for archaic Greek mythology, ritual, cosmology, and psychology. 'Some say that you were born, O Stitched-In god, / At windy Icarus or Draconum / Or Naxos or the deep-whirled Alpheus river / To Semele and Zeus who loves the thunder. / Others, my lord, claim Thebes was your beginning -- / Liars. Far off from men, creation's...

Translated by Sarah Ruden; Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan

ISBN-13: 9780872207257 ; ISBN-10: 0872207250

Price: £8.03 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Lysistrata (Hardback - 1 Apr 2003)

Lysistrata
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favours with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes 'Lysistrata' a comedy without peer in the history of theatre.

By (author) Sarah Ruden

ISBN-13: 9780872206045 ; ISBN-10: 0872206041

Price: £19.95 £15.57 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Lysistrata (Paperback / softback - 1 Sep 2002)

Lysistrata
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favours with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes 'Lysistrata' a comedy without peer in the history of theatre.

By (author) Sarah Ruden

ISBN-13: 9780872206038 ; ISBN-10: 0872206033

Price: £6.58 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Satyricon (Hardback - 1 Mar 2000)

Satyricon
This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but also fresh, and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius' masterpiece in terms of such topics as the identity of Petronius, the transmission of his manuscript, literary influences on the Satyricon, and the distinctive literary form of this work -- as well as such hallmarks of Roman life as oratory, sexual practices,...

By (author) Petronius; Translated by Sarah Ruden

ISBN-13: 9780872205116 ; ISBN-10: 0872205118

Price: £27.95 £20.71 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Satyricon (Paperback / softback - 1 Mar 2000)

Satyricon
This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but also fresh, and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius' masterpiece in terms of such topics as the identity of Petronius, the transmission of his manuscript, literary influences on the Satyricon, and the distinctive literary form of this work -- as well as such hallmarks of Roman life as oratory, sexual practices,...

By (author) Petronius; Translated by Sarah Ruden

ISBN-13: 9780872205109 ; ISBN-10: 087220510X

Price: £7.95 £6.36 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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