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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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Greek Tragedies Volume 1 by David Grene Publisher Comments In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, the Trojan Women by Edith Hamilton Publisher Comments This book presents three of the greatest Greek tragedies translated by Edith Hamilton.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Lyric an Anthology in Translation by Andrew W Miller Book News Annotation To understand Serbian nationalism requires profound attention to history and careful analysis. Cohen accomplishes both through years of studying primary sources never before translated, focusing on World War II and uncovering the foundations of ethnic... (read more) Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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An Oresteia by Aiskhylos Publisher Comments In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus A iskhylos Agamemnon, Sophokles Elektra and Euripides Orestes. After the murder of her daughter Iphigeneia by her husband, Agamemnon... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Greek Drama by Moses Hadas Publisher Comments In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore Publisher Comments "Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Six Greek Tragedies by Marianne Mcdonald Publisher Comments A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman by Robert Willoughby Corrigan Publisher Comments Gathers comedies by Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, and Terence and discusses the background of each... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Classical Greek Reader by Kenneth J Atchity Book News Annotation An anthology of well-known and less familiar ancient Greek texts, poems, art, plays, and historical and political documents, offering perspectives from women, doctors, storytellers, and herbalists of the period as well as philosophers. Selections... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by M L West Publisher Comments The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.--greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides--produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Tragedies Volume 2 by David Grene Publisher Comments In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Seven Famous Greek Plays by Oates Publisher Comments "In the interval between the epics of Homer...and the age of the three great tragic poets, thinkers began to explore the various phenomena of the external world and came to understand many aspects of nature which had hitherto been shrouded in... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Mass Market
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Poems from the Greek Anthology by David Slavitt Synopsis The poet David R. Slavitt is one of the handful of great translators we have. He is certainly the most versatile. Now he has put himself to the beautiful labor of translating poems from the Greek Anthology. As is the case in all of his translations, the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Acts of Love: Ancient Greek Poetry from Aphrodite's Garden by George Economou Publisher Comments Everything the flower-loving bee youre named for does, you do, my Melissa, and I take it to heart. You drop honey from your lips when you sweetly kiss, and when you want money, can give a mean sting. The ancient poetry gathered in Acts of Love pays tart... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sappho's Lyre: Archaic Lyric & Women Poets of Ancient Greece by Sappho Publisher Comments Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Erotic Love Poems of Greece and Rome by Stephen Bertman Publisher Comments A taste of amour in the ancient world-newly translated. From the famous erotic poetry of Sappho to love scenes from Homer's The Iliad, as well as works from such eminent Roman poets as Virgil and Catullus, this enthralling collection taps into a range of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sappho's Lyre by Diane Rayor Publisher Comments The translations are excellentaat once literal, graceful, and idiomaticaand the poems have been selected in a way that is unparalleled in any comparable collection and is responsive to contemporary concerns.aSheila Murnaghan, author of Disguise and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Four Greek Plays: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus/The Oedipus Rex of Sophocles/The Alcestis of Euripides/The Birds of Aristophanes by Dudley Fitts Publisher Comments A collection of four timeless plays: Agamemnon by Aeschylus, translated by Louis MacNeice; Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald; Alcestis by Euripides, translated by Fitts and Fitzgerald; and The Birds by... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by M L West Publisher Comments The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.--greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides--produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, and... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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