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Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
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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)

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The Epistles of Horace: Bilingual Edition
The Epistles of Horace: Bilingual Edition
by David Ferry
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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)

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Poems of the Late T'Ang
Poems of the Late T'Ang
by A C Graham
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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)

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Tales from Ovid
Tales from Ovid
by Ovid
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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)

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Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays (Everyman Paperback Classics)
Everyman, and Medieval Miracle Plays (Everyman Paperback Classics)
by A C Cawley
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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)

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Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
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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)

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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan
by Sei Shonagon
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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)

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The Golden Lotus, Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei
The Golden Lotus, Volume 2: Jin Ping Mei
by Xiaoxiao Sheng
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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)

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War and the Iliad
War and the Iliad
by Simone Weil
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'\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'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)

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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
by Anonymous
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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)

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The Complete Euripides, Volume 1: Trojan Women and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
The Complete Euripides, Volume 1: Trojan Women and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Peter Burian
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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)

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Selected Poems Odes & Fragments: Sophocles Translanted & Intr
Selected Poems Odes & Fragments: Sophocles Translanted & Intr
by Sophocles
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"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)

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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by Homr
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Translated by Robert Fagles, introduction and notes by Bernard Knox.... (read more)

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The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library)
The Canterbury Tales (Modern Library)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
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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)

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Latin Demystified (Demystified)
Latin Demystified (Demystified)
by Richard Prior
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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)

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HarperCollins Latin Concise Dictionary
HarperCollins Latin Concise Dictionary
by Harpercollins
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< 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)

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Monkey: A Journey to the West
Monkey: A Journey to the West
by Chengen Wu
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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)

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Cassell's Concise Latin and English Dictionary
Cassell's Concise Latin and English Dictionary
by Cassells
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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)

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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
by Seamus Heaney
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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)

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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
by Hafez
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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)

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