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by Robert B Strassler  Publisher Comments This revised edition of Richard Crawley's classic 1874 translation is enhanced with more than 100 maps, extensive annotations, brief biographies of important figures, and invaluable historical, political, and cultural background.... (read more)  List Price $25.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Homer And Lattimore Publisher Comments The most eloquent translation of Homer's Odyssey into modern English.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederic M Wheelock Publisher Comments When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; at least on reviewer predicted that the book "might well become the standard text" for introducing students to... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by N K Sandars Publisher Comments The Epic of Gilgamesh, which dates from the third millenium BC, is one of the finest surviving epic poems in world literature. Miraculously preserved on clay tablets deciphered only in the last century, the cycle of poems collected around the character... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Euripides And Warner Publisher Comments One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, masterfully portraying the fierce motives driving Medea's pursuit of vengeance for her husband's insult and betrayal. Authoritative Rex Warner translation.... (read more) List Price $2.00 Your price $0.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Virgil And Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dante/pinsky Publisher Comments This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Burton Raffel Publisher Comments The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, "Beowulf" is an epic that reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood, victory, and death. This repackaged Signet classic Includes a Glossary of terms.... (read more) Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Aeschylus And Fagles Publisher Comments This book is a play that has been translated into English. 'The Oresteia'... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thucydides And Warner Publisher Comments Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Seamus Heaney 
Powells.com Staff Pick "I resignedly picked it up at last on the tail end of a history binge, telling myself, 'Okay, I'm finally going to slog through it. Just get it over with.' And I discovered all my trepidation had been for naught. This isn't an 'accessible for a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sophocles And Fagles Publisher Comments Three Theban Plays entitled Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer and Robert Fagles
Publisher Comments Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of The Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer and Robert Fagles
Publisher Comments This timeless poem-more than 2,700 year old-still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dante And Mandelbaum Publisher Comments In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own... (read more) List Price $6.50 Your price $1.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Homer Publisher Comments In this widely acclaimed verse translation of Homer's great epic, Robert Fagles combines the skills of poet and scholar. He brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic work, but maintains the drive and metric music of Homer's... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments Classic, Renaissance-era guide to acquiring and maintaining political power. Today, nearly 500 years after it was written, this calculating prescription for autocratic rule continues to be much read and studied.... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $0.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Machiavelli And Donno Publisher Comments Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. ... (read more) List Price $4.50 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman Publisher Comments Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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