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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fitzgerald Publisher Comments The classic translation of The Odyssey, now in a Noonday paperback. Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey is the best and best-loved modern translation of the greatest of all epic poems. Since 1961, this Odyssey has sold more than two... (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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Dante: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) by R W B Lewis Publisher Comments An insightful biography of Florence?s famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by J J Anderson Publisher Comments This edition is based on the former Everyman edition of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience' by the late A.C. Cawley and myself. With the aim of helping readers coming to the poems for the first time and perhaps not very... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Publisher Comments BEAR IN MIND THAT THE MEASURE OF A MAN IS THE WORTH OF THE THINGS HE CARES ABOUT. IF IT IS GOOD TO SAY OR DO SOMETHING, THEN IT IS EVEN BETTER TO BE CRITICIZED FOR HAVING SAID OR DONE IT. ARE MY GUIDING PRINCIPLES HEALTHY AND ROBUST? ON THIS HANGS... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary 3RD Edition by Oxford Univ Publisher Comments In fields from law to history, from classics to botany, Latin continues to play a role in modern studies--indeed, it lies at the heart of Western culture. The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary provides a convenient guide to this essential language... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 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 $10.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Iliad by Homer Publisher Comments Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss and crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men-carrion for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sexti Properti Elegi (Oxford Classical Texts) by Sextus Propertius Publisher Comments Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Complete Euripides, Volume III: Hippolytos 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 properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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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Complete Old English (Anglo-Saxon) with Two Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide (Teach Yourself Language) by Teach Yourself Publisher Comments It's easy to teach yourself Old English! Complete Old English with Two Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Old English, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and... (read more) List Price $46.00 Your price: $22.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Medea (Vintage Classics) by Euripides Publisher Comments Medea has been abandoned by her husband. Jason, for whom she has sacrificed so much, has left her and their two children for a younger woman. His new bride is the daughter of the most powerful man in Corinth and Medea and the boys are to be forced to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Canterbury Tales (Everyman's Library) by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Text in Chaucerian English.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 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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Penguin Epics #09: The Serpent's Teeth by Ovid Publisher Comments When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil.JOnly a great man can tame them and fulfill his destiny.J Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis; the princess Andromeda is chained to a... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous 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 experimental novels, reportage and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 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) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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