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Selected Works (Cicero, Marcus Tullius) by Cicero Publisher Comments Divided into two partsù"Against Tyranny" and "How to Live"ùthis selection of CiceroÆs work reveals the private and public sides of his liberal personality and his opposition to oppressive and unparliamentary methods of government.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius Publisher Comments 'Translated by Robert Graves and Revised with an Introduction by Michael Grant.'... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Meditations: With Selected Correspondence (Oxford World's Classics) by Marcus Aurelius Publisher Comments The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is one of the best-known and most popular works of ancient philosophy, offering spiritual reflections on how best to understand the universe and one's place within it. In short, highly charged comments, Marcus draws on... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) by Ovid About the Author Ovid—Publius Ovidius Naso—(43 bce–ce 17 or 18) was born into a wealthy Roman family and became the most distinguished poet of his time. He died in exile on the Black Sea, far from Rome and his literary life.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Satyricon by J P Sullivan Publisher Comments The marvelously entertaining parody of imperial Rome. One of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world, The Satyricon offers an unmatched satirical portrait of the age of Nero, in all its excesses and chaos.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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After Ovid :new metamorphoses by Ovid Publisher Comments Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the relentless theme of transformation stands as a primary metaphor for the often cataclysmic dynamics... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Georgics (Penguin Classics) by Virgil Publisher Comments Virgil's Georgics, by common consent one of the great poems of Western literature, purports to be a didactic poem on agriculture, but its true subject is man and his place in nature and society. It is also a landmark in the use of the natural world as... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Satyricon (Oneworld Classics) by Petronius Publisher Comments Documenting the colorful escapades of the former gladiator Encolpius and his less-than-faithful lover Giton, the Satyricon plunges the reader into the lives of ordinary Roman citizens, vividly revealing the Empires seamy underbelly. A host of... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Aeneid (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Vergil Publisher Comments The Aeneid, by Vergil, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Arthur Golding Translation of 1567 by Ovid Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1567, Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid has had an enormous influence on English literature and poetry. This is the translation that Shakespeare knew, read, and borrowed from. Golding's witty and beautiful verse... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Histories (09 Edition) by Tacitus Publisher Comments In AD 68, Nero?s suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, with four emperors?Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian? emerging in succession. Based on authoritative sources, The Histories... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Love Art of Love by Ovid Publisher Comments Human nature hasn't changed much over the past 2,000 years, and this new translation of the Roman poet's witty guide to seduction constitutes a fresh, accessible approach to the classic that became the model for nearly every latter-day book on romantic... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper
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Civil War by Lucan Publisher Comments Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, stands beside the poems of Virgil and Ovid in the first rank of Latin epic. This newly annotated, free verse translation conveys the full force of Lucan's... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Catullus (Hermes Books) by Charles Martin Publisher Comments Martin considers Catullus' life, habits of composition, and the circumstances in which he worked. He places him among the modernists of his age, who created a new ironic and subjective poetics, and he shows the affinity between Catullus and the... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics) by Lucretius Synopsis This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. With a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more background information for the reader.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Works by Tacitus Publisher Comments Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Edited, with an Introduction, Moses Hadas... (read more) List Price $13.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics) by Virgil Publisher Comments Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil's ancient hexameter, a swift-moving six-beat line varying between... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Natural Questions by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher Comments Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $33.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Political Speeches (Oxford World's Classics) by Cicero and D. H. Berry Publisher Comments Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a leading politician of the closing era of the Roman republic. This book presents with nine of his speeches that reflect the development, variety, and drama of his political career... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dawn of the Roman Empire: Books Thirty-One to Forty (Oxford World's Classics) by Livy Publisher Comments "With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition." Thus Livy describes the reaction to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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