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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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The Epistles of Horace: Bilingual Edition by David Ferry Publisher Comments My aim is to take familiar things and make Poetry of them, and do it in such a way That it looks as if it was as easy as could be For anybody to do it . . . the power of making A perfectly wonderful thing out of nothing much. --from "The Art of Poetry... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Poems of the Late T'Ang by A C Graham Publisher Comments Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tales from Ovid by Ovid Publisher Comments A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Metamorphoses by Ovid Publisher Comments The Metamorphoses of Ovid offers to the modern world such a key to the literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an important event when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into English verse. --John Crowe Ransom ... a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan by Sei Shonagon Publisher Comments Japan in the 10th century stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Inside this bubble, a subtle and beautiful world was in operation, and its inhabitants were tied to the moment, having no interest in the future and disdain... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Golden Lotus, Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei by Xiaoxiao Sheng Publisher Comments A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, this classic novel—admired in its own time for its literary qualities and biting indictment of the immorality and cruelty of its age—lays bare the rivalries within a wealthy family while... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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War and the Iliad by Simone Weil Publisher Comments '\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by Anonymous Publisher Comments A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Complete Euripides, Volume 1: Trojan Women and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Peter Burian Publisher Comments Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems Odes & Fragments: Sophocles Translanted & Intr by Sophocles Publisher Comments "The brilliance of Reginald Gibbons's translations of Sophocles lies in an empathetic leap of imagination that has allowed him to situate these ancient poems at an intersection where the passion of outcries, songs, and declamations encounters the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Odyssey by Homr Publisher Comments Translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox.... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments It would be impossible to overstate the influence of Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. A work with one metaphorical foot planted in the Florentine Renaissance literary tradition of Boccaccios Decameron and the other in works ranging from John... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Latin Demystified (Demystified) by Richard Prior Publisher Comments Become a bona fide master of Latin English vocabulary owes a great debt to Latin, ergo you already know many Latin words and phrases. Now you can move beyond the status quo and learn this classical language. With Latin Demystified, nihil obstat (nothing... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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HarperCollins Latin Concise Dictionary by Harpercollins Publisher Comments < p> < center> A New Look at Language < /center> < /p> < p> The complete Latin dictionary and grammar -- two books in one < /p> < p> Comprehensive treatment of the vocabulary of texts read in high school and... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Monkey: A Journey to the West by Chengen Wu Publisher Comments Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk novel Journey to the West , which came to be known as Monkey, is the most popular classic of Asian literature. Originally written in the sixteenth century, it is the story of the adventures of the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cassell's Concise Latin and English Dictionary by Cassells Publisher Comments The greatest name in foreign language dictionaries is Cassell, the preeminent publisher of dictionaries for over 120 years. For fast, easy reference and comprehensive listings, Cassell's Concise Latin-English, English-Latin Dictionary is unbeatable. It... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Mass Market
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez by Hafez Publisher Comments The great Persian poet Hafez is so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his Divan close at hand. For some fifteen years, esteemed American poet and author Robert Bly has worked with the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn to produce... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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