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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: $24.00 Used - Hardcover 
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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 $16.25 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, the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 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: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Readings in Aeschylus by Michael Lloyd Publisher Comments This book is an anthology of thirteen of the most important articles published on Aeschylus in the last fifty years. It gives roughly equal coverage to the seven surviving plays, and there is also a chapter which places them in the context of Aeschylus... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $12.75 Sale - Hardcover
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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Comedies by Aristophanes Synopsis Contains The Birds, The Clouds, and The Wasps... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Euripides #5: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V 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 $16.25 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 $18.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Medea (Plays for Performance) by Euripides Publisher Comments Medea, whose magical powers helped Jason and the Argonauts take the Golden Fleece, remains one of the strongest female characters ever to appear on stage. In the play she kills her own children. Plays for Performance Series.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Polybius Synopsis In writing his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire, the Greek statesman Polybius set out to help his fellow-countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. This text presents a translation of his work.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Sophocles, Volume II: Electra and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Peter Burian 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 offers new translations that go beyond... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, Thepersian (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus Publisher Comments ‘Your kindness to the human race has earned you this. A god who would not bow to the gods’ anger – you Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal men’ Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to 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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Idylls (Oxford World's Classics) by Theocritus Publisher Comments A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of... (read more) Your price: $11.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Euripides Publisher Comments Euripides (c. 484-406 BC) was the most controversial of the three great Greek tragedians and the most modern. His major themes - religious scepticism, the injustices suffered by women and the destructive folly of war - are issues still vitally important... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch Publisher Comments Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by , Sappho Publisher Comments A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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