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Paradise Lost by John Milton Publisher Comments Long regarded as one of the most powerful and influential poems in the English language, Paradise Lost still inspires intense debate about whether it manages 'to justify the ways of God to men' or exposes the cruelty of Christianity or the Christian God.... (read more) Your price: $2.99 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic 
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Oedipus the King by , Sophocles Publisher Comments Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore’s... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $7.40 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Bedside Odyssey by , Homer Publisher Comments With the arguable exception of Brad Pitt's casting as Achilles, this ebook is the most perverse thing to happen to Homer in millenia. Written by Michael Gall (who also did The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe), A Beside Odyssey presents a revised Ulysses... (read more) Your price: $1.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Aeschines by , Aeschines Publisher Comments This is the third volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece series. Planned for publication over several years, the series will present all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XXXIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Schiller-Shakespeare by Charles Dudley Warner Publisher Comments Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Aias (Ajax) by , Sophocles Publisher Comments Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.83 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Remembering the Roman People: Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature by Timothy Peter Wiseman Publisher Comments In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word respublica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $41.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Romancing the past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France by Gabrielle M. Spiegel Publisher Comments In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Portable Greek Reader by Wystan Hugh Auden Publisher Comments A collection of Greek writings in modern translation presents a complete picture of the Golden Age of ancient... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Companion to Catullus by Marilyn B. Skinner Publisher Comments A Companion to Catullus addresses the central themes in Catullan studies, providing readers with the fundamental knowledge necessary to appreciate and understand the poet’s work.This significant collection of essays from internationally renowned... (read more) Your price: $39.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Hermaphroditus by Antonio Beccadelli Publisher Comments Eugene O'Connor's superb translation of Antonio Panormita's Hermaphroditus brings to life this little known Renaissance writer 's bawdy masterpiece. Modeled on the writings of the Roman poet Martial, Panormita's work was initially greeted with enthusiasm... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price: $69.78 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Puranānūru by George L. Hart Publisher Comments Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru.This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries C.E... (read more) Your price: $25.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Philoctetes by , Sophocles 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 series offers new translations that go... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $10.18 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures by Denise Nowakowski Baker Publisher Comments This book explores the intersection of the Hundred Years' War and the production of vernacular literature in France and England. Reviewing a range of prominent works that address the war, including those by Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, Gower, Langland,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.70 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Peloponnesian War by , Thucydides Publisher Comments A masterpiece of historical writing, Thucydides' account of the war fourth in the fifth century B.C. between the Athenian and Spartan alliances established a paradigm for the war monograph. The complete text appears here in a new and spirited translation... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Orestes by , Eurípides Publisher Comments Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides,The Greek Tragedy in New Translationsseries offers new translations that go... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $17.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Honeysuckle and the Hazel Tree: Medieval Stories of Men and Women by Patricia Ann Terry Publisher Comments Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Poems of Catullus: A Teaching Text by Phyllis Young Forsyth Publisher Comments The great merit of this textbook resides in its sensitivity to the problems of the intermediate student, for whom Catullus will represent a first exposure to 'real Latin.'...Overall, this is a very responsible textbook....... (read more) List Price $73.00 Your price: $70.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Natural Questions by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher Comments Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $33.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture by Richard Hunter Publisher Comments Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in... (read more) List Price $86.00 Your price: $82.78 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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