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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: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Nature of Things by Lucretius Publisher Comments This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation in 1417 reintroduced dangerous ideas about the nature and meaning of existence... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Antigonick by Anne Carson and Bianca Stone Publisher Comments Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is the first time she's making translation into a combined visual and textual experience. Sophokles' luminous and... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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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 $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Euripides #1: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides I 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: $4.95 Used - 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 $12.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles Publisher Comments Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, these three plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles' translation conveys all of Sophocles' lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ironic edge,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Norton Book of Classical Literature by Bernard Knox Publisher Comments "The literature of the classical world that has survived is a pitiful remnant of what once existed...". So begins Bernard Knox's preface to an anthology that introduces the modern reader to the enormous breadth and rich variety of that "pitiful remnant" -... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation by Sophocles Publisher Comments The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vivid and dynamic newtranslations by award-winningpoets Robert Bagg and James Scully The dominant Athenian playwright in fifth-century-BCE Athens, Sophocles left us seven powerful dramas that still shock as... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Homeric Hymns (Penguin Classics) by Homer Publisher Comments From the abduction of Persephone by Hades to Hermes' theft of Apollo's cattle, the Homeric Hymns recount some of the most compelling and significant episodes in Greek mythology. They were recited at festivals to honor the Olympian gods and goddesses, to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Meditations (06 Edition) 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 $11.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod Synopsis Epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Histories by Herodotus Publisher Comments Translated by Aubrey de Sandeacutelincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Medea and Other Plays (World's Classics) by Euripides Publisher Comments This new translation brings to life the most profound tragedies of Euripides, described by Aristotle as "the most tragic of the poets." In these plays, Euripides places his characters under the pressure of intolerable circumstances, revealing them, to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's Classics) by Sophocles Publisher Comments Faithful as translations and vigorous and straightforward both to read and to act, these versions were written, like their originals, for immediate staage-production. Kitto has deliberately used a fairly strict meter, allowing himself no greater number... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bacchae of Euripides: A New Translation with a Critical Essay by Euripides Publisher Comments This new translation of The Bacchae—that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse—is an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406 B.C. The... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Metamorphoses (World's Classics) by Ovid Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxix]) and index.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon Publisher Comments More than 23 centuries since it was first written, the earliest work on the horse and how to ride him still provides the modern rider with a delightfully readable treatise.... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides Publisher Comments Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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