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The Odyssey by Homer and Robert Fagles and Bernard Knox Publisher Comments The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 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 new translations by award-winning poets Robert Bagg and James Scully The dominant Athenian playwright in fifth-century-BCE Athens, Sophocles left us seven powerful dramas that still shock... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Snakes with Wings and Gold-Digging Ants by Herodotus Publisher Comments Inspired by Penguin's innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever written- from Isabella Bird's exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Mass Market
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Euripides IV: Rhesus/The Suppliant Women/Orestes/Iphigenia in Aulis (Complete Greek Tragedies) 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 $14.00 Your price: $6.95 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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Homeric Hymns (03 Edition) by Jules Cashford 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 $12.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The History by Herodotus Publisher Comments David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek and Roman Lives (Dover Giant Thrift Editions) by Plutarch Publisher Comments Plutarch's biographies of Solon, Pericles, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Cicero, and others form a brilliant social history of the ancient world. This rich collection reveals the character and personalities of Greece and Rome's most influential figures... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Odyssey (Dover Thrift Editions) by Homer Publisher Comments Excellent prose translation of the ancient epic poem recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage from the Trojan War. The clever hero circumvents the wrath of Poseidon to overcome an incredible array of obstacles, including a... (read more) Your price: $2.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Complete Playes of Aristophanes by Aristophanes Publisher Comments A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori; The Eumenides by Aeschylus Publisher Comments ‘Anger still unreconciled Poisoning a house’s life With darkness, treachery and strife’ (47 Aeschylus (525–c.456 BC) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Antiphon and Andocides (Oratory of Classical Greece) by Antiphon Andocides Publisher Comments This volume contains the works of the two earliest surviving orators, Antiphon and Andocides. Antiphon (ca. 480-411) was a leading Athenian intellectual and creator of the profession of logography ("speech writing"), whose special interest was law and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 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: $5.95 Used - 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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Oedipus the King by , Sophocles Publisher Comments Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore’s... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $7.40 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Oedipus the King: Sophocles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Sophocles Publisher Comments Washington Square Press Enriched Classics make great literature even more accessible to a new generation of readers, with expanded and updated reader's supplements and essential historical information. Oedipus the King is the 2,000-year-old masterpiece... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments A groundbreaking reading of the Iliad that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war, by the bestselling author of The Bounty Few warriors, in life or literature, have challenged their commanding officer and the rationale of the war they fought as... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles Publisher Comments Revising and updating his classic 1958 translation, Paul Roche captures the dramatic power and intensity, the subtleties of meaning, and the explosive emotions of Sophocles' great Theban trilogy. In vivid, poetic language, he presents the timeless story... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Daphnis and Chloe (Penguin Classics) by Longus Synopsis "Daphnis and Chloe" has been a European bestseller for centuries and vastly influential in literature, art and music. It has proved an enduringly fertile source for artists from Henry Fielding to Corot and Ravel and is recognizably the masterpiece among... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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