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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in Classics $276.25 New Hardcover add to wish list Jacob Wackernagel, Lectures on Syntax: With Special Reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic David (edt) Langslow $27.00 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories Robert B. (edt) Strassler $29.25 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Aeneid (Bristol Classical Paperbacks) R. D. Williams $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Aeneid Virgil $29.25 New Hardcover add to wish list I Tatti Renaissance Library #38: Latin Poetry Jacopo Sannazaro $16.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Romance of the Rose (Oxford World's Classics) Guillaume De Lorris Browse more New Arrivals in Classics Medieval and Renaissance General Browse more titles in Classics-Medieval and Renaissance General Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell Publisher Comments Finally available in paperback comes a brilliant new rendering of the oldest epic in the world by esteemed translator and bestselling author Mitchell.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Recently Arrived Used Browse recently arrived used titles in Classics $8.95 Used Mass Market add to wish list The History of the Kings of Britain Geoffrey Of Monmouth $13.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History, 480-431 BC--The Alternative Version Diodorus And Green $6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus II (Complete Greek Tragedies) Aeschylus And Grene $10.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Selected Poems of Shmuel Hanagid (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) Shmuel Hanagid $6.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list The Poems of Catullus Catullus And Whigham $10.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Beowulf: Revised Edition (Manchester Medieval Classics) Michael Swanton Browse recently arrived used titles in Classics Spanish Medieval and Renaissance Browse more titles in Classics-Spanish Medieval and Renaissance Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Publisher Comments Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. Translated with Notes by John Rutherford... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies General Browse more titles in Classics-General Euripides #5: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V by Euripides Publisher Comments In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies British Medieval and Renaissance Browse more titles in Classics-British Medieval and Renaissance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics) by Burton Raffel Publisher Comments During a Christmas feast at Camelot, King Arthur and his knights are interrupted by a monstrous green-skinned knight who offers them a simple but deadly challenge. Sir Gawain accepts this challenge, which will force him to choose between his honor and... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Italian Medieval and Renaissance Browse more titles in Classics-Italian Medieval and Renaissance The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Machiavelli And Donno Publisher Comments Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.  Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. ... (read more) List Price $4.50 Your price: $1.50 Used - Mass Market add to wish list check for other copies Greek Browse more titles in Classics-Greek Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sophocles And Young Publisher Comments Filled with passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful drama reveals the grim fate that befalls the children of Oedipus. When Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, chooses to obey the law of the gods rather... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $0.45 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Chinese Browse more titles in Classics-Chinese Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind: Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth Synopsis Kenneth Rexroth was one of the pioneer American translators from the Chinese into English. From his bestselling books, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese, and Woman Poets of China, Eliot Weinberger (essayist... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Beowulf Browse more titles in Classics-Beowulf Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies Sale Books Browse more titles in Classics-Sale Books Latin Crosswords by Peter Jones Publisher Comments A professor of classics and a masterful puzzle writer have concocted the challenges in this collection of crosswords for anyone interested in testing that residual bit of school-day Latin or in making play of the improvement of language skills. While the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $2.80 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Used Books Browse more titles in Classics-Used Books Yvain, Or, the Knight with the Lion by Chretien And Cline Publisher Comments This verse translation of Yvain; or, The Knight With The Lion brings to life a fastpaced yet remarkably subtle work that is often considered to be the masterpiece of the twelfth-century French writer Chretien de Troyes.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies

Bestsellers Friday, July 10, 2009 Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell Sir Gawain & the Green Knight by Simon Armitage The Iliad by Homer and Robert Fagles Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Author Events Classics Wednesday, July 29, 2009   Classics Book Group Review-a-Day | May 19, 2009 Violent Grace 1 comment By Review-a-Day An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Anne Carson Reviewed by Emily Wilson The Nation Aeschylus'... Continue » $20.00 Sale Hardcover add to wish list An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides Anne Carson Review-a-Day | May 16, 2009 Kenneth Rexroth's Translations 1 comment By Review-a-Day Songs of Love, Moon, & Wind: Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth (trn) Rexroth Reviewed by Chris Faatz Powells.com One of the great loves of my... Continue » $8.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind: Poems from the Chinese Kenneth Rexroth

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