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The Three Theban Plays: Antigon/Oedipus the King/Oedipus at Colonus (Penguin Classics)
by Sophocles And Fagles  Synopsis Sophocles' Theban plays: "Antigone", "Oedipus the King" and "Oedipus at Colonus". They depict Oedipus's fierce heroic encounter with his gods, and reveal Sophocles' masterful characterizations, dramatic speech and use of irony. Bernard Knox introduces...
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The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives (Penguin Classics)
by Plutarch And Warner Publisher Comments Selections on Gaius, Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, and Cicero are taken from The Parallel Lives. Plutarch records, simply and dramatically, the long and bloody period of foreign and civil war that marked the collapse of the Roman Republic and...
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (01 Edition)
by Plutarch Synopsis Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch...
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Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (New Classical Canon)
by Aristophanes And Hender Synopsis 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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Electra (01 Edition)
by Sophocles Publisher Comments 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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Selected Works : Against Verres I, Twenty-three Letters, the Second Phillipic Against Anthony, on Duties III, on Old Age (60 Edition)
by Marcus 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....
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Medea and Other Plays (96 Edition)
by Euripides Publisher Comments Translated by John Davie with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford....
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Plutarch's Lives Vol. I (Modern Library Classics)
by Plutarch Synopsis Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch...
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Penguin Classics #158: Makers of Rome: Nine Lives
by Plutarch And Scott Kilve Publisher Comments Nine of Plutarch's Roman Lives--Coriolanus, Fabius Maximus, Marcellus, Cato the Elder, Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Sertorius, Brutus, and Mark Antony--illustrate the courage and tenacity of the Romans in war and their genius for political...
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Three Greek Plays: Prometheus Bound, Agamemnon, the Trojan Women
by Edith Hamilton Synopsis This book presents three of the greatest Greek tragedies translated by Edith Hamilton....
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Meditations (Penguin Classics)
by Aurelius And Staniforth Synopsis Notes on the Roman philosopher's life and the relations between Stoicism and Christianity preface a modern translation of the journal....
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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sophocles And Kitto Publisher Comments Faithful as translations and vigorous and straightforward both to read and to act, these versions were written, like their originals, for immediate staage-production. Kitto has deliberately used a fairly strict meter, allowing himself no greater number...
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Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
by Aeschylus And Scully Publisher Comments For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come...
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Greek Tragedies Volume 2
by David Grene Publisher Comments In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of The Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these...
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Sophocles, 2 : King Oedipus, Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone (99 Edition)
by David R. (ed.) Slavitt Synopsis "A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible, ' and consummately American in tone and feeling. For the classicist, these versions constitute an...
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The Norton Book of Classical Literature
by Bernard Knox Synopsis "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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The Agricola: And the Germania
by Cornelius Tacitus and Harold B. Mattingly and S. A. Hanford Publisher Comments The Agricola, Tacitus's eulogistic description of his father-in-law, the governor of Roman Britain, contains the first detailed account of the British Isles. The Germania, an ethnographical account of the Germanic tribes, contrasts the primitive virtues...
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Orestes and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
by Euripides Publisher Comments Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, plays that all explore ethical and political themes. Ion vividly portrays the role of chance in human life and the dynamics of family...
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On the Good Life (71 Edition)
by Marcus T. Cicero Synopsis This volume brings together Cicero's tentative and undogmatic reflections on the good life, in which he discusses duty, friendship, the training of a statesman, and the importance of moral integrity in the search for happiness....
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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
by Euripides And Vellacott Synopsis Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods....
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