Modern Library, May 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Nearly two thousand years after it was written, Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life. Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and emperor of Rome (A.D. 161-180). A......
Penguin Classics, November 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A new modern translation of "The Iliad" that is fast-moving, direct, emphasizes the action of the story, and is especially helpful for those first encountering this classic work.
Penguin Classics, October 1966. Trade Paperback. Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding.....
Penguin Classics, November 1999. Trade Paperback. A new copy. By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the greatest tales in the world.....
Harper Perennial, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Award-winningpoet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully presenta gripping new translation of Western literature's earliest treasures in TheComplete Plays of Sophocles. In the tradition of Robert Fagles'bestselling translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, andretaining the textual authenticity of Richmond Lattimore'sAeschylus, Bagg and Scully render.....
Penguin Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence A Penguin Classic In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and.....
Holiday House. Printed by William Rudge's Sons, 1936. Hardcover. 107 pages. French ballads from the 12th or 13th centuries. Very good copy in decorated paper over board and red cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. In worn decorated blue paper over cardboard slipcase.
Penguin Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. When Xerxes, King of Persia, crosses the Hellespont at the head of a formidable army, it seems inevitable that Greece will be crushed beneath its might. But the Greeks are far harder to defeat than he could have imagined. As storms lash the Persian.....
Penguin Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. Trying to help a prince overthrow the king of Persia, the Greek army has been betrayed. Now the surviving soldiers are trapped in a hostile country as unforgiving enemies attack from all sides. Enter Xenophon, a tough and brilliant leader. He must guide the.....
Penguin Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfil his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis. Enter a universe where love is.....
Arcturus Publishing Ltd, January 2016. Trade Paperback.
Orion Publishing Group, Ltd., May 1996. Trade Paperback. Translated and edited for study, this book presents a collection of Aeschylus's plays and fragments of plays, together with works by other dramatists which were attributed to him. Recent scholarship on Aeschylus is presented to enable an understanding of his life and.....
Penguin Classics, October 1954. Trade Paperback. The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesus completes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics. Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes.....
George & Helen Macy, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. [12] pages. Privately printed for the 'friends and near friends' of the publishers. A poem in iambic meter about a roman businessman who dreams of giving up the rat race of city life for a leisurely life of a country patriarch with.....
John Henry Nash, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 19 pages. Limited edition, #5/350 copies. Written to commemorate the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Virgil. 13 x 9.75 inches. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in marbled paper over board and quarter leather covers with gold lettering on spine.....
Penguin Books, 1957. Trade Paperback. "The Twelve Ceasars" of Suetonius (born AD 69), covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, remains one of the richest and most fascinating of all Latin histories. Suetonius gathered much of his information from eye-witnesses, checking his facts carefully and quoting conflicting evidence.....
Penguin Classics, June 1956. Trade Paperback. His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction.....
Penguin Classics, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Juvenal's Satires create a fascinating (and immediately familiar) world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer vibrant energy of.....
Oxford University Press, September 2014. Trade Paperback. 'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is.....
Penguin Classics, December 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with.....
W W Norton & Co Inc, February 2001. Trade Paperback. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to.....
Oxford University Press, USA, July 1998. Trade Paperback. "Candide" is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century.....
Oxford University Press, February 2009. Trade Paperback. This volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy.....
W. W. Norton & Company, April 1968. Trade Paperback. Lucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing, producing the wide range of.....
University of Chicago Press, September 1960. Trade Paperback. 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 freed the.....