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The Craftsman
by Richard Sennett  Publisher Comments Defining craftsmanship far more broadly than "skilled manual labor," Richard Sennett maintains that the computer programmer, the doctor, the artist, and even the parent and citizen engage in a craftsman's work. Craftsmanship names the basic human impulse...
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The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic
by Simon Armitage Publisher Comments "Armitage has given an ageless story new vigor, and has done it with style, wit and elegance."—Literary Review In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling...
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Antigone
by Sophocles Publisher Comments Antigone, defying her uncle Creon's decree that her brother should remain unburied, challenges the morality of man's law overruling the laws of the gods. The clash between her and Creon, with its tragic consequences, has inspired continual...
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An Independent Study Guide to Reading Greek (Reading Greek)
by Joint Association Of Publisher Comments First published in 1978 and now thoroughly revised, Reading Greek is a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students of any age. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used in schools,...
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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments A new telling of Dante’s Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, and—with all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O’Brien’s own poetry—manages...
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Euripides: Helen (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by William (edt) Allan Publisher Comments This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife...
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A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
by John Burrow Publisher Comments This unprecedented book by one of Britain’s most admired historians describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of history has had in the Western world over the past 2,500 years. Treating the practice of history not as an...
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Euripides: Helen (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
by Euripides Publisher Comments This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife...
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Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000
by Christopher (edt) Stray Synopsis This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studiesand seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of differentgenres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy...
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The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence
by Ilaria Marchesi Publisher Comments In the first book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites a new reading of Pliny's collection of private epistles: the letters are examined as the product of an authorial strategy controlling both the rhetorical fabric of...
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