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The Iliad: the Odyssey
A beautiful gift set of Robert Fagles' award-winning translations of HomerGripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the …
Metamorphoses
A new translation of the epic Roman poem on the dynamics of change seeks to remain faithful to the author's original text and reflects Ovid's themes and the poet's original speed …
The Heroic Temper
The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who …
The Norton Book of Classical Literature
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Metamorphoses
A new translation of the epic Roman poem on the dynamics of change seeks to remain faithful to the author's original text and reflects Ovid's themes of speed and liveliness.
The Oldest Dead White European Males
Should the ancient Greeks—"the oldest dead white European males"—be kept alive in our collective memory? Why study them at all if, by passing their destructive ideas to the Romans …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 1, Early Greek Poetry
The period from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C. was one of extraordinary creativity in the Greek-speaking world. Poetry was a public and popular medium, and its production …
Backing into the Future
"Prospective readers puzzled by the somewhat enigmatic title Backing into the Future may well come to the conclusion that it is a reference to the amusing film produced in 1985, …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama
This series provides individual textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and of the …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory
This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks’ most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also …