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Lazarillo De Tormes and the Swindler : Two Spanish Picaresque Novels ((Rev)03 Edition) by M. (translator) Alpert Publisher Comments The two short novels in this volume follow the adventures of two unlikely heroes-delinquent pícaros living by their wits among corrupt priests and prostitutes, beggars and idle gentlemen, thieves, tricksters, and murderers. Lazarillo de Tormes... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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A Companion to the Iliad by Malcolm M Willcock Publisher Comments Those who are able to read Homer in Greek have ample recourse to commentaries, but the vast majority who read the Iliad in translation have not been so well served—the many available translations contain few, if any, notes. For these readers... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) by Virgil Publisher Comments Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well.Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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501 Latin Verbs : Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses (95 - Old Edition) by Richard E. Prior Publisher Comments (back cover) Learning Latin is Twice as Easy with This Helpful Book! This easy-to-use reference book gives you: 501 of the most common Latin verbs, alphabetically arranged, one verb per page, conjugated in all tenses Concise guide to Latin verb... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradiso by Dante Publisher Comments The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot. "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach." The Divine Comedy stands as one of... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Iliad by Homer Publisher Comments One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon. Interwoven... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lais of Marie de France (Penguin Classics) by Marie De France Publisher Comments "Lais" are short stories in verse based on Breton tales, depicting a moment of crisis in a love relationship. These are the finest examples of the genre, written by the French poet, Marie de France, during the 12th century.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wheelocks Latin 6TH Edition Rev by Frederic M Wheelock Publisher Comments < P> The classic, single& ndash; volume introductory Latin textbook, introduced in 1956 and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind.< /P> < P> Wheelock's Latin, sixth edition, revised, has all the... (read more) Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greeks and the Irrational by E R Dodds Publisher Comments In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sappho: A New Translation by Sappho Publisher Comments The best translation of Sappho's work available, now with a beautiful new package.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Exemplary Stories (Penguin Classics) by Cervantes About the Author Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra was born in Spain in 1547 to a family once proud and influential but now fallen on hard times. His father, a poor barber-surgeon, wandered up and down Spain in search of work. Educated as a child by the Jesuits in Seville... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Purgatorio (Bantam Classic) by Dante Publisher Comments This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Parzival and Titurel (Oxford World's Classics) by Von Eschenbach Publisher Comments Written in the first decade of the thirteenth century, Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival's growth from youthful folly to knighthood at the court of King Arthur, and of his quest for the Holy Grail. Exuberant... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Greek: Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises (Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course) by Jact Publisher Comments The JACT Reading Greek Course has been written for beginners in the upper school, at university and in adult education. Its aim is to enable students to read fifth- and fourth-century Attic Greek, Homer and Herodotus, with some fluency and intelligence... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy Publisher Comments Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nightsis based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions) by R K Gordon Publisher Comments Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of southern Sweden. Narrative combines mythical elements, Christian and pagan sensibilities, actual historical figures and events to... (read more) List Price $3.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Loeb Classical Library #403: Cicero, Volume I: Rhetorica ad Herennium by Marcus Tullius Cicero Publisher Comments Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic.... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets by Michael Schmidt Publisher Comments When Michael Schmidt's last book, Lives of the Poets, was published, Mark Strand called it "a tour de force, an astonishing view of the whole of poetry in English, a superb read." Now Schmidt brings the same erudition, insight, and élan to The... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $3.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Machiavelli Publisher Comments Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "prophets... (read more) List Price $7.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Merchants Prologue & Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Publisher Comments Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. As well as the complete text of the Merchant's Prologue and Tale, the student will find illustrated information on Chaucer's world, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the... (read more) List Price $16.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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