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The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics)
by Tacitus And Grant
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"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)
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The Prince
by Machiavelli And Mansfiel
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The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more... ( read more)
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Odyssey of Homer (67 Edition)
by Homer
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The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.... ( read more)
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The Aeneid
by Virgil and Robert Fagles
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Robert Fagles's translations of both the Iliad and Odyssey have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and become the standard translations of our era. Now, his stunning modern verse translation of Virgil's Aeneid is poised to do the same. This beautifully... ( read more)
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Letters of Abelard & Heloise
by Abelard And Radice
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The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most dramatic and well-known love affairs. It is told through the letters of French philosopher Peter Abelard and his gifted pupil Heloise. Through their impassioned writings unfolds the story... ( read more)
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The Odyssey (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Homer And Palmer
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Excellent prose translation of the ancient epic poem recounts the adventures of Odysseus on his homeward voyage from the Trojan War. The clever hero circumvents the wrath of Poseidon to overcome an incredible array of obstacles, including a... ( read more)
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Euripides Bacchae (Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama)
by Euripides And Harrison
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Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama eliminates the boundary between classics students and drama students. Books include full commentary running alongside the translation, notes on pronunciation, and a plot synopsis. Background information is provided,... ( read more)
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The Twelve Caesars
by Suetonius And Graves
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'Translated by Robert Graves and Revised with an Introduction by Michael Grant.'... ( read more)
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The Book of the Courtier
by Castiglione And Bull
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The Italian Renaissance man's handbook, defining the essential virtues of a man of the Court.... ( read more)
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics)
by Abelard And Radice
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The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most dramatic and well-known love affairs. It is told through the letters of French philosopher Peter Abelard and his gifted pupil Heloise. Through their impassioned writings unfolds the story... ( read more)
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The Acharnians: And the Clouds (And) Lysistrata
by Aristophanes And Sommers
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Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a... ( read more)
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Theogony & Works & Days
by Hesiod And West
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This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldest known Greek poets. The Theogony contains a... ( read more)
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The Oedipus Cycle: Sophocles
by Sophocles
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English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.... ( read more)
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Two Spanish Picaresque Novels; Lazarillo de Tormes: The Swindler: Lazarillo de Tormes: The Swindler
by Michael Tran Alpert
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The two short novels in this volume follow the adventures of two unlikely heroes-delinquent pcaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters, and murderers. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554... ( read more)
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The Odyssey
by Homer and Robert Fagles
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Robert Fagless stunning modern-verse translationavailable at last in our black-spine classics line The Odyssey is literatures grandest evocation of everymans journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert... ( read more)
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The Enchantment of the Middle Ages
by Michael Zink
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Deep forests, enchanted castles, monsters, maidens in distress, stout-hearted heroes, boundless love: The literature of the Middle Ages has the power to entrance the imaginations of children and adolescents. But can it do more? And in fact, does that... ( read more)
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Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1 Omnibus Workbook North American Edition
by Stephanie Pope
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This book forms part of the fully revised Fourth Edition of the North American Cambridge Latin Course.... ( read more)
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Medieval Outlaws: Ten Tales in Modern English
by Thomas H Ohlgren
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Accessible versions of tales of hero outlaws ranging from the Norman
Conquest to the 16th century. Two concern the well known Robin Hood
and William Wallace, but others are relatively unknown today. The
tales include introductions putting them in... ( read more)
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The Tales of the Heike (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by Burton Watson
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Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, "The Tales of the Heike" chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. Featuring a vivid cast of... ( read more)
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History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
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One of the world's great history books and the first true historical narrative of Western literature, Thucydides' chronicle of the disastrous 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta resonates with tales of heroism and villainy, deeds of courage and... ( read more)
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