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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus I: Oresteia by Aeschylus Publisher Comments "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation "The... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell Publisher Comments Finally available in paperback comes a brilliant new rendering of the oldest epic in the world by esteemed translator and bestselling author Mitchell.... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Sophocles II : Four Greek Tragedies (57 Edition) by Sophocles Publisher Comments "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation "The... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oresteia (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus Publisher Comments In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity— Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Iliad in a Nutshell by Michael Squire Publisher Comments The Iliad in a Nutshell has two objectives: first, it advances a new critical interpretation of the miniature Iliac tablets, or Tabulae Iliacae; second, it signals their relevance within much bigger issues facing the study of Graeco-Roman art and... (read more) Your price: $180.25 New - Hardcover
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) by N K Sandars Publisher Comments ‘I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest’ Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus II (Complete Greek Tragedies) by Aeschylus Publisher Comments The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Sophocles and Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions) by Aurelius Marcus Publisher Comments Stirring reflections on the human condition from a warrior and emperor provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and personality of a highly principled Roman of the 2nd century. Recognizing that suffering is at the core of life, he counsels stoic... (read more) Your price: $3.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius Publisher Comments Translated by Robert Graves and Revised with an Introduction by Michael Grant.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus Synopsis "The Annals of Imperial Rome" recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. Michael Grant's introduction discusses the life and works of Tacitus and the historical context of the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius Staff Pick Consigned to notebooks by one of Rome's last great emperors, Meditations contains the blood and fire of Stoic philosophy. It has been a favorite for many ages and graced the bedside of kings and laity alike.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sophocles I: Three Tragedies by Sophocles Publisher Comments "These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation "The... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Greek Reader (Viking Portable Library) by W H Auden Publisher Comments It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Loeb Classical Library #021: Volume VII. the Verrine Orations I: Against Caecilius. Against Verres, Part 1; Part 2, Books 1-2: B. Orations by Cicero Publisher Comments Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Hardcover
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Athenaze : Introduction To Ancient Greek, Book II (2ND 03 Edition) by Maurice Balme Publisher Comments Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Euripides II by Euripides Publisher Comments In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cure At Troy : a Version of Sophocles Philoctetes (91 Edition) by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Agricola and the Germania (2ND 10 Edition) by Tacitus Publisher Comments A newly revised edition of two seminal works on Imperial Rome Undeniably one of Rome's most important historians, Tacitus was also one of its most gifted. The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola-the most famous governor of Roman Britain and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Prometheus Bound (90 Edition) by Aeschylus Synopsis This brilliant translation of a classic work includes -- An essay on ancient Greek theater -- Extensive glossary of names & places -- Practical production... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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