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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 $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Iliad by Homer and Stephen Mitchell Publisher Comments Tolstoy called The Iliad a miracle; Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Homers story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. But until now, even the best English translations... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $3.95 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 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Iliad of Homer by Homer Publisher Comments "The finest translation of Homer ever made into the English language."—William Arrowsmith "Certainly the best modern verse translation."—Gilbert Highet "This magnificent translation of Homer's epic poem . . . will appeal to admirers... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Histories (98 Edition) by Herodotus Publisher Comments "The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics. Compelled by his desire to "prevent the... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.00 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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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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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 Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B. Strassler Staff Pick This brilliant translation by Andrea Purvis is copiously illustrated and fully documented with maps, footnotes, side notes, and appendices from 21 prominent classical scholars. Not just a book, but a journey.... (read more) Your price: $28.95 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 Odyssey (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes by Stanley P. Baldwin Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 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: $7.95 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 $10.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fagles Publisher Comments Robert Fagless stunning modern-verse translationavailable at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literatures grandest evocation of everymans journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 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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Sappho a New Translation by Sappho/barnard Publisher Comments These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct--the best ever... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oedipus Cycle: A New Translation by Sophocles Publisher Comments The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vibrant new translations by award-winning poet Robert Bagg Sophocles' three great masterpieces, gathered here in one volume, dramatize the inexplicable animosity directed at three generations of Thebes... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil Publisher Comments In Aeneas, Virgil created the most powerful figure in Latin literature, the dutiful yet fallible Trojan prince who overcomes war, suffering and countless setbacks to lay the foundations of the Roman race. @TranslatioStud Got a gift of a huge wooden horse... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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