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    The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories

    Robert B. (edt) Strassler
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    The Aeneid

    Virgil
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Medieval and Renaissance General
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
by Stephen Mitchell
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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)

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Spanish Medieval and Renaissance
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Don Quixote
Don Quixote
by Miguel De Cervantes
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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)

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General
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Euripides #5: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
Euripides #5: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
by Euripides
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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)

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British Medieval and Renaissance
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Signet Classics)
by Burton Raffel
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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)

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Italian Medieval and Renaissance
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The Prince (Bantam Classics)
The Prince (Bantam Classics)
by Machiavelli And Donno
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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)

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Greek
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Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions)
Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Sophocles And Young
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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)

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Chinese
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Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind: Poems from the Chinese
Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind: Poems from the Chinese
by Kenneth Rexroth
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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)

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Beowulf
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Seamus Heaney
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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)

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Latin Crosswords
Latin Crosswords
by Peter Jones
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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)

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Yvain, Or, the Knight with the Lion
Yvain, Or, the Knight with the Lion
by Chretien And Cline
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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)

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Bestsellers

Friday, July 10, 2009
Gilgamesh: A New English Version
  1. Gilgamesh: A New English Version
    by Stephen Mitchell
  2. Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
    by Simon Armitage
  3. The Iliad
    by Homer and Robert Fagles
  4. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
    by Seamus Heaney
  5. Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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Review-a-Day | May 19, 2009

Violent Grace



An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Anne Carson Reviewed by Emily Wilson The Nation Aeschylus'... Continue »
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Review-a-Day | May 16, 2009

Kenneth Rexroth's Translations



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 »
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