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Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece: Nondramatic Poetry in Its Setting by Eva Stehle Publisher Comments "Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter," writes Eva Stehle, "but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party." Describing how men and women, young and adult, sang or recited in public settings, Stehle treats poetry... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Greek Lyrics by Richmond Lattimore Publisher Comments "Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Book of the Courtier by Castiglione And Bull Publisher Comments The Italian Renaissance man's handbook, defining the essential virtues of a man of the Court.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Inferno #1: The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Hell by Dante And Sayers 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 $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Anonymous And Mason Publisher Comments Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cassell's Concise Latin and English Dictionary by Cassell Publisher Comments The greatest name in foreign language dictionaries, Cassell' s Latin & English Dictionary For fast, easy reference and comprehensive listings, Cassell' s Latin & English Dictionary is unbeatable. Thousands of words... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $4.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Odyssey (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes by Stanley P. Baldwin Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics) by Lucretius Synopsis This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. With a new introduction and commentary and a revised translation, this edition acknowledges advances in textual research and also provides more background information for the reader.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Odyssey (World's Classics) by Homer And Shewring Publisher Comments The first English prose translation of Homer's The Odyssey to appear in over thirty years, Shewring's translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Loeb Classical Library #145: Volume I. Suppliant Maidens. Persians. Prometheus. Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus And Smyth Publisher Comments Aeschylus (ca. 525and#150;456 BCE), author of the first tragedies existing in European literature, was an Athenian born at Eleusis. He served at Marathon against Darius in 490, and again during Xerxes' invasion, 480and#150;479. Between 478 and 467 he... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Classics on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus And Grant Synopsis "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) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Letters of Abelard & Heloise by Abelard And Radice Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Murder Trials (Penguin Classics) by Cicero And Grant Publisher Comments Cicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Satires of Juvenal by Juvenalis And Humphries Publisher Comments "...gives us all sixteen of the satires in the tough, slashing manner of the original, unheard in Dryden and the few others who tried it.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $1.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, Thepersian (Penguin Classics) by Aeschylus And Vellacott Synopsis The first of the great Greek tragedians, Aeschylus wrote many plays, of which seven survive. The four in this volume, one based on contemporary events, the others on myth, reflect the morality of contemporary Athens - that is, that reason is the proper... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dramabook, #27: Aristotle's Poetics by Aristotle Publisher Comments Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the "Poetics," written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental one we have. It has been used by both playwrights and theorists of many periods, and... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Le Morte Darthur Volume 1 by Thomas Malory Publisher Comments This May, Sir Thomas Malory's splendid version of the Arthurian legend comes to the small screen as a Hallmark NBC miniseries starring Isabelle Rossellini, Kate Nelligan, and Sam Neill.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Histories by Herodotus And De Selinco Publisher Comments Translated by Aubrey de Sandeacutelincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shanks Mare by Ikku Jippensha Publisher Comments A pair of irrepressible scoundrels are the heroes of this madcap chronicle of adventure, full of earthy humor, along the great highway from Tokyo to Kyoto. The lusty tale of their disreputable doings is Japan's most celebrated comic novel. Shank's Mare... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes And Barret Synopsis This collection contains "The Wasps", one of Aristophanes' earliest plays, "The Poet and the Women", a gem of parody and low comedy, and "The Frogs", a comic masterpiece written under the shadow of defeat.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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