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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments "Spectacular and constantly surprising." -Ken Burns Written with the authority of a scholar and the vigor of a bestselling narrative historian, The War That Killed Achilles is a superb and utterly timely presentation of one of the timeless stories of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Odyssey by Homer Publisher Comments Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Metamorphoses by Ovid Publisher Comments Ovid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Oxford Readings in Aeschylus by Michael Lloyd Publisher Comments This book is an anthology of thirteen of the most important articles published on Aeschylus in the last fifty years. It gives roughly equal coverage to the seven surviving plays, and there is also a chapter which places them in the context of Aeschylus... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $12.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Anglo Saxon Poetry by S A J Bradley Synopsis Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Robert B Strassler Publisher Comments From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays (Everyman Paperback Classics) by A C Cawley Publisher Comments The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg Delanty Publisher Comments Encompassing a wide range of voices-from weary sailors to forlorn wives, from heroic saints to drunken louts, from farmers hoping to improve their fields to sermonizers looking to save your soul—the 123 poems collected in The Word Exchange... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Martial's Epigrams: A Selection by Garry Wills Publisher Comments Bawdy and biting epigrams, freshly translated, ready for enjoyment. One of literatures greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of his time, and set a pattern that satirists have admired and imitated across... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Purananuru (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Heifetz Hart Publisher Comments Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the "Purananuru," This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries C... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance by Deborah Parker Publisher Comments Dante's Divine Comedy played a dual role in its relation to Italian Renaissance culture, actively shaping the fabric of that culture and, at the same time, being shaped by it. This productive relationship is examined in Commentary and Ideology, Deborah... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $6.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Inferno of Dante by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Phoenician Women by Euripides Publisher Comments Peter Burian and Brian Swann recreate Euripides' The Phoenician Women which explores, with all its deeply disturbing ironies, the fateful history of the House of Laios following the tragic fall of Oedipus, King of Thebes. Their lively translation of this... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $2.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Divine Comedy by Dante Publisher Comments Mr. Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy should prove to be an invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who would read this great medieval classic with understanding. The original Italian text and the Sinclair... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Metamorphoses by Ovid Publisher Comments The Metamorphoses of Ovid offers to the modern world such a key tothe literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an importantevent when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into English verse.-- John Crowe Ransom ... a... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales (Bantam Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucers The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literatures most enduring (and endearing)... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Sale - Mass Market
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman Staff Pick Edith Grossman's translation of Don Quixote has quickly become a favorite, lauded by academics and common readers alike. Don't fail to check this out, the world's first modern novel.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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I'll Tell What I Saw: Images from Dante's Divine Comedy by Robert Pinsky Synopsis Selected translations from Dante's Divine Comedy, accompanied by thirteen spectacular prints by Michael Mazur.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J R R Tolkien Review "Quite simply the best edition there is!"--Nancy P. Stork, Stanford University... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wheelocks Latin 6TH Edition Rev by Frederic M Wheelock Publisher Comments < P> The classic, single& ndash; volume introductory Latin textbook, introduced in 1956 and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind.< /P> < P> Wheelock's Latin, sixth edition, revised, has all the... (read more) Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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