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I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves Publisher Comments Considered an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings of the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the Mad Caligula to become emperor in 41 A.D. A masterpiece.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Iliad by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters presents us with his universally acclaimed modern verse translation of the world's greatest war... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translation by Ovid and Allen Mandelbaum Publisher Comments Through Mandelbaums poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid-is revealed anew. “[An] extraordinary translation... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Aeneid (Vintage Classics) by Virgil Publisher Comments Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth Publisher Comments "Troy meant one thing only to the men gathered here, as it did to their commanders. Troy was a dream of wealth; and if the wind continued the dream would crumble." As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The 25th Hour by David Benioff Publisher Comments Former drug dealer Monty Brogan's time is running out. In twenty-four hours he leaves New York City to begin seven years at Otisville Federal Penitentiary. Tonight is a time for good-byes — and one last chance to enjoy the noise, the lights, and the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last World: A Novel with an Ovidian Repertory by Christoph Ransmayr Publisher Comments Acclaimed as a modern masterpiece and as one of the most important novels of our time. The Last World is the story of a young man's quest for the exiled poet Ovid and the masterwork he has consigned to the flames. Ransmayr has created a visionary... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Troy by Adele Geras Publisher Comments The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food is scarce and death is common. From the heights of Mount Olympus, the Gods keep watch. But Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, is bored with the endless, dreary war. Aided by Eros's bow,... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Mass Market
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The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Publisher Comments One of the world's foremost historians presents a fresh look at the greatest war of ancient Greece and a pivotal moment in Western civilization that still resonates today. For almost three decades at the end of the fifth century B.C., Athens and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Metamorphoses: A Play by Mary Zimmerman Publisher Comments Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses brings Ovid's tales to stunning visual life. Set in and around a large pool of water onstage, Metamorphoses juxtaposes the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image to reflect the variety and persistence of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tides of War by Steven Pressfield Publisher Comments Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens?s favorite son and the city?s greatest general. A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten by Christopher Logue Publisher Comments Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face— Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: “Kill! Kill for me! Better to die than live without killing!” Who... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield Publisher Comments The author of the international bestsellers Gates of Fire and Tides of War delivers his most gripping and imaginative novel of the ancient world — a stunning epic of love and war that breathes life into the grand myth of the ferocious female warrior... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Penelopeia: A Novel in Verse by Jane Rawlings Publisher Comments Imagine that you have gone back in time 3,000 years to the city of Ithaka to greet Odysseus, the sole survivor of a decade of adventures, shipwreck, and mayhem, on his long-awaited return home. Recognized by his loyal dog, he is really a stranger to his... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Greeks Have a Word for It (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Barry Unsworth Publisher Comments Two men travelling from England disembark in Greece from the same boat. How their lives accidentally and frighteningly intersect is the subject of this tense, deft novel. Kennedy, an Englishman of no fixed address, is looking for a teaching job in... (read more) Your price: $12.75 New - Trade Paper
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Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield Publisher Comments With an epic vision and a dynamic cast of characters, this literary page-turner, set in 480 B.C., brings the Homeric tradition into the 21st century with the tale of historic battle between the Greeks and the two-million-man strong Persian army.... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Iliad / Odyssey Boxed Set (96 Edition) by Homer Publisher Comments Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Gladiator: The Illustrated Story of the Epic Film (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks) by Ridley Scott Publisher Comments "Gladiator" is the full-color companion book to the DreamWorks SKG/Universal Pictures major motion picture release starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, and Richard Harris. The book features the complete screenplay, historical sidebars and... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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