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  • The Occupant

    de Jane Draycott ...
    Following the success of her T. S. Eliot Prize-nominated Over and award-winning translation of the medieval Pearl, Jane Draycott returns with her fourth collection of poems, The Occupant. With a rhythmic subtlety and metrical poise that have become hallmarks of her verse, Draycott hints at the existence of a world of dreamlike clarity underneath our own. In the National Gallery a gardener cuts ... Leer más

    $161 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Kingdom

    de Jane Draycott ...
    The Kingdom of Jane Draycott's fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycott's distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in a way that opens the world afresh. Here are England's towns and countryside, roads and ports and sushi chains, yards and herbs, an airport and a columbarium, and poems that consider art in a time of ... Leer más

    $202 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Pearl

    de Jane Draycott ...
    Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet ClassicA Poetry Book Society Recommended TranslationIn a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: 'my pearl, my girl'. One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance; its account of loss and consolation has retained ... Leer más

    $161 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cleopatra's Daughter

    Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen

    de Jane Draycott ...
    The first modern biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene. Princess, prisoner, African queen – and surviving daughter of Cleopatra VII.In 1895, archaeologists excavating a villa at Boscoreale, outside Pompeii, uncovered a spectacular hoard of high-quality Roman silverware. In the centre of one especially fine gilded dish ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

  • Fulvia

    The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome

    de Jane Draycott ...
    'A thoroughly rapacious woman...as cruel as she is greedy' Cicero' A woman who took no thought for spinning or housekeeping...m eddlesome and headstrong' Plutarch' [She] caused the death of many, both to satisfy her enmity and to gain their wealth ' Cassius Dio' She acted in a haughty manner towards those who were placing her i... ... Leer más

    $143 MXN

  • Fatal Monsters

    Cleopatra, Her Sister Queens and the Downfall of a Dynasty

    de Jane Draycott ...
    Today, Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt is the most famous woman of the ancient world. Yet she was not the only queen of her generation. She had an elder sister, Berenike, and a younger one, Arsinoe, both of whom also ruled Egypt.The circumstances in which three sister queens each sought power for themselves were unprecedented. Women had not ruled Egypt since the time of the Pharaohs, 1,500 years ... Leer más

    $245 MXN

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  • Cleopatra's Daughter

    From Roman Prisoner to African Queen

    de Jane Draycott ...
    **The first modern biography of one of the most influential yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra.“A vibrant, fascinating portrait of a great woman who deserves her place in the pantheon of Roman queens.” —Emma Southon**As the only daughter of Roman Triumvir Marc Antony and Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII, Cleopatra Selene was expected to ... Leer más

    $223 MXN

  • Audiolibro

    Fulvia

    The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome

    de Jane Draycott ...
    Narrado por Julia Anthony ...

    Completo

    7 hora 53 minutos

    Fulvia was born into wealth, privilege, and prestige around the year 80 BCE, yet there was nothing inherently special about her—she was not a saint, an empress, or a queen. But during the years leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic, Fulvia was moving in the most powerful social circles, and by her death in 40 BCE she had amassed a degree of political and military power unprecedented for a ... Leer más

    $361 MXN

  • Women in Classical Video Games

    Edición de Dr Kate Cook, Jane Draycott ...
    Series series IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
    Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the role of women in these video games especially neglected. Women in Classical Video Games seeks to address this imbalance as the first book-length work of scholarship to examine the depiction of women in ... Leer más

    $571 MXN

  • Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome

    de Jane Draycott ...
    This is the first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as full a picture as possible of their importance for the lived experience of people with disabilities in classical antiquity. The volume is not only a work of disability history, but also one of medical, ... Leer más

    $423 MXN

  • Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy

    From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire

    de Jane Draycott ...
    Series series Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from the middle Republic to the early Empire, it considers how comprehensive the ancient Roman general understanding of health ... Leer más

    $1,066 MXN

  • Bodies of Evidence

    Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future

    Edición de Jane Draycott, Emma-Jayne Graham ...
    Series series Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
    Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-calledanatomical votives. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling vividly the physical and fragile bodies of the past whilst posing interpretative challenges in the ... Leer más

    $1,066 MXN