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Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol. 2: The New Kingdom by Miriam Lichtheim Publisher Comments First published in 1973 - and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sophocles: Electra (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama) by Eric Dugdale Publisher Comments Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis.... (read more) List Price $11.50 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Menander the Plays and Fragments (Oxford World's Classics) by Menander Publisher Comments The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. Until the twentieth century he was... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dedalus Book of Roman Decadence: Emperors of Debauchery by Geoffrey Farrington Publisher Comments Emperors of Debauchery. Provides a vivid picture of sexual excess and debauchery in a cruel and violent society; a society which has never ceased to fascinate and shock the generations which have followed.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hippolytus by Euripides Publisher Comments Written primarily in Greek, 1994 edition.<BR>... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments (Dover Thrift Editions) by Richard F Burton Publisher Comments Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sappho: A New Translation by Sappho Publisher Comments The best translation of Sappho's work available, now with a beautiful new package.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rome and the Mediterranean: Books XXXI-XLV of the History of Rome from Its Foundation (Penguin Classics) by Livy Synopsis For Livy, the glorious early history of Rome provided both an example and a warning to his own degenerate times. This text provides his ideas on the theme.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome (Ad Feminam: Women and Literature) by Jane Mcintos Snyder Publisher Comments "Faint though the voices of the women of Greek and Roman antiquity may be in some cases, their sound, if we listen carefully enough, can fill many of the gaps and silences of women’s past."from the Conclusion Beginning with Sappho in the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Four Comedies by Aristophanes Publisher Comments This text provides translations of four of Aristophanies' comedies: Lysistrata, The Acharnians, The Congresswomen, and The Frogs.... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five (Oxford World's Classics) by Livy Publisher Comments "The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods" Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Anonymous Publisher Comments Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Snakes with Wings and Gold-Digging Ants by Herodotus Publisher Comments Inspired by Penguin's innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever written- from Isabella Bird's exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, Thepersian (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus Publisher Comments ‘Your kindness to the human race has earned you this. A god who would not bow to the gods’ anger – you Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal men’ Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beowulf by E Talbot Donaldson Synopsis This book is a highly accurate, new prose translation of the classic Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature by William F Hansen Publisher Comments Hansen has assembled an anthology like no other, which will fascinate students of late antiquity, folklorists, and curiosity-seekers, and will offer new possibilities to teachers of ancient-culture surveys. --Classical World ... lively, entertaining, and... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sophocles 1 (Methuen's World Dramatists) by Sophocles Publisher Comments Includes the plays Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, collectively known as the Theban plays. Starting with Oedipus the King and ending with the ultimate sacrifice of Antigone, his daughter the plays follow the trials of a family cursed... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The prince by Macchiavelli Publisher Comments Described both as a practical rule-book containing timeless precepts for the diplomat and as a handbook of evil, this work of great originality--based on first-hand experience--provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power.... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Piers the Ploughman (Penguin Classics) by William Langland Publisher Comments Piers the Ploughman, a blending of prophecy and satirical comedy, is the great representative English poem of the late Middle Ages. The work of an obscure fourteenth-century cleric, Piers the Ploughman is concerned with the largest of all poetic themes... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin Literature #2: Classics in Translation, Volume II: Latin Literature by Paul L Mackendrick Publisher Comments Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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