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Euripides #5: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
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Euripides #5: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
by Euripides And Grene

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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...
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Sophocles I: Three Tragedies
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Sophocles I: Three Tragedies
by Sophocles

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"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 translations...
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Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) ((Rev)79 - Old Edition)
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Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) ((Rev)79 - Old Edition)
by Suetonius

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'Translated by Robert Graves and Revised with an Introduction by Michael Grant.'...
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics)
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics)
by Sophocles And Fagles

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Three Theban Plays entitled Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus....
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Medea and Other Plays (World's Classics)
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Medea and Other Plays (World's Classics)
by Euripides And Morwood

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This new translation brings to life the most profound tragedies of Euripides, described by Aristotle as "the most tragic of the poets." In these plays, Euripides places his characters under the pressure of intolerable circumstances, revealing them, to...
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Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (New Classical Canon)
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Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (New Classical Canon)
by Aristophanes And Hender

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Aristophanes' comic plays, "Lysistrata, Women at the Thesmophoria" and "Assemblywomen" contain the earliest portrayals of actual women in the European literary tradition, and are the only such portrayals that survive from classical Athens. These plays...
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The Secret History
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The Secret History
by Procopius And Williamson

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The other side of sixth-century Byzantium is revealed as Procopius exposes the vicious, scheming nature of the splendid empire and its rulers....
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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides And Davie

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Translated by John Davie with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford....
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles II (Complete Greek Tragedies)
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles II (Complete Greek Tragedies)
by Sophocles And Grene

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Histories ((Rev)03 Edition)
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Histories ((Rev)03 Edition)
by Herodotus

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Translated by Aubrey de S&eacutelincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola....
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Oedipus the King (05 Edition)
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Oedipus the King (05 Edition)
by Sophocles

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Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship <P>One noble family's descent into madness, mayhem, and murder -- the first play in Sophocles' great Theban trilogy.<P>This Enriched Classic Edition includes: <P>&#149 A...
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Medea (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
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Medea (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Euripides And Collier

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The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers...
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The Norton Book of Classical Literature
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The Norton Book of Classical Literature
by Bernard Knox

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"The literature of the classical world that has survived is a pitiful remnant of what once existed...". So begins Bernard Knox's preface to an anthology that introduces the modern reader to the enormous breadth and rich variety of that "pitiful remnant" -...
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Electra (01 Edition)
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Electra (01 Edition)
by Sophocles

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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go...
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The Agricola: And the Germania
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The Agricola: And the Germania
by Cornelius Tacitus and Harold B. Mattingly and S. A. Hanford

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Detailed historical accounts of the British Isles ("Agricola") and the virtues of the Germans ("Germania")....
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus I: Oresteia
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus I: Oresteia
by Aeschylus And Lattimore

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"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 translations...
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Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Oxford World's Classics)
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Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Oxford World's Classics)
by Plutarch

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In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also implicitly to educate and warn those in his own...
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Euripides III : Hecuba, Andromache, the Trojan Women, Ion (58 Edition)
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Euripides III : Hecuba, Andromache, the Trojan Women, Ion (58 Edition)
by Euripides

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"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 translations deliberately avoid...
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Antigone (Rev 07 Edition)
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Antigone (Rev 07 Edition)
by E. A. Sophocles

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Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man,...
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The Comedies (Penguin Classics)
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The Comedies (Penguin Classics)
by Terence And Radice

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Collection of comic plays which influenced Renaissance writers....
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