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The Age of Alexander by Plutarch Publisher Comments Plutarch's influential writings on the ancient world. Plutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by countless writers since the Renaissance. This selection provides... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation by Greg (edt) Delanty Publisher Comments Featuring 123 all-new translations by seventy-four of our most celebrated poets--including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Eavan Boland, Richard Wilbur, and many others--"this brilliant anthology infuses new vigor into Old English poetry... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Iliad in a Nutshell by Michael Squire Publisher Comments The Iliad in a Nutshell has two objectives: first, it advances a new critical interpretation of the miniature Iliac tablets, or Tabulae Iliacae; second, it signals their relevance within much bigger issues facing the study of Graeco-Roman art and... (read more) Your price: $180.25 New - Hardcover
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Virgil: A Life by Peter Levi Publisher Comments Born in 70 BC, in a small village near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro—Virgil—grew up to be hailed as the greatest Roman poet. And although his work has influenced Western literature for two millennia, little is known about the man... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Vita Nuova (Oneworld Classics) by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments Universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece, and including some of his best poetry outside the Divine Comedy, to which it can be regarded as a sort of prequelPart poetical tribute, part autobiography, it traces Dante's passionate... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England: Texts, Hierarchies, Economies (Anglo-Saxon Studies) by Catherine A. M. Clarke Publisher Comments A work of fine and nuanced intelligence... Skilled and learned readings of a number of important texts. Fluent, polished, and beautifully written. Dr Katy Cubitt, University of York. The formation and operation of systems of power and patronage in Anglo... (read more) Your price: $90.00 New - Hardcover
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Rumour and Renown by Philip Hardie Publisher Comments The Latin word fama means 'rumour', 'report', 'tradition', as well as modern English 'fame' or 'renown'. This magisterial and groundbreaking study in the literary and cultural history of rumour and renown, by one of the most influential living critics of... (read more) Your price: $180.00 New - Hardcover
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Vita Nova by Dante Publisher Comments Dantes Vita Nova (circa 1292-1295) depicts the joys and sorrows, the discoveries and conflicts of Dantes early love for Beatrice—who would achieve later and even greater fame in Commedia—starting with his first sighting of her and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction by Roy K. Gibson Publisher Comments This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1... (read more) Your price: $99.00 New - Hardcover
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A Perceforest Reader: Selected Episodes from Perceforest: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain by Nigel (trn) Bryant Publisher Comments Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Solitudes by Luis De Gongora Review “Luis de Góngora was one of the great surprises of the Spanish Renaissance. He proved to be a poet of world stature, a figure comparable, say, to John Donne and George Herbert in English and a wildly imaginative and deeply rewarding poet of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin Panegyric (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) by Roger (edt) Rees Publisher Comments What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve? Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and milieu in which they originated? Latin Panegyric brings... (read more) Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
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Latin Panegyric (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) by Roger (edt) Rees Publisher Comments What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve? Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and milieu in which they originated? Latin Panegyric brings... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Trade Paper
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Fairy Tales Framed: Early Forewords, Afterwords, and Critical Words by Ruth B. (edt) Bottigheimer Your price: $80.00 New - Hardcover
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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius, and the Didactic Tradition by Monica R. Gale List Price $58.00 Your price: $55.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Reception and the Classics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Classical Tradition by William Brockliss List Price $76.00 Your price: $73.15 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China: Patterns of Literary Circulation by Alexander Beecroft List Price $71.00 Your price: $68.34 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Homer's Odyssey and the near East by Bruce Louden List Price $79.00 Your price: $76.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance by Tim Whitmarsh List Price $79.00 Your price: $76.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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