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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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Sophocles II : Four Greek Tragedies (57 Edition) 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 $13.00 Your price: $10.00 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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Meditations (Penguin Classics) by Marcus Aurelius Staff Pick Consigned to notebooks by one of Rome's last great emperors, Meditations contains the blood and fire of Stoic philosophy. It has been a favorite for many ages and graced the bedside of kings and laity alike.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 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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Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions) by Aurelius Marcus Publisher Comments Stirring reflections on the human condition from a warrior and emperor provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and personality of a highly principled Roman of the 2nd century. Recognizing that suffering is at the core of life, he counsels stoic... (read more) Your price: $3.00 New - 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 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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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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Agricola and the Germania (2ND 10 Edition) by Tacitus Publisher Comments A newly revised edition of two seminal works on Imperial Rome Undeniably one of Rome's most important historians, Tacitus was also one of its most gifted. The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola-the most famous governor of Roman Britain and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus II (Complete Greek Tragedies) by Aeschylus Publisher Comments The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Sophocles and Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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Satyrica by Petronius Publisher Comments Encolpius, a soldier of fortune, despiser of pedantry, lecherous and contrary, and the beautiful Giton, who lives off his charms, are invited to a gargantuan banquet hosted by the prodigal, pompous, newly rich Trimalchio. When the feast turns into a riot,... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prometheus Bound (90 Edition) by Aeschylus Synopsis This brilliant translation of a classic work includes -- An essay on ancient Greek theater -- Extensive glossary of names & places -- Practical production... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Portable Roman Reader (Viking Portable Library) by Basil Davenport Publisher Comments The Romans conquered most of the known world and detailed their conquests in calm, unapologetic histories. They were a supremely urbane people who longed poetically for the farming life. Valuing toughness and practicality in all things, they turned the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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On the Shortness of Life (Great Ideas) by Seneca Publisher Comments Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves — and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Electra and Other Plays (98 Edition) by Euripides Publisher Comments Euripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets’. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Classics in Translation : Greek Literature, Volume I (52 Edition) by Paul L. Mackendrick Synopsis Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have constituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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