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The Poetic Edda
"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. …
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
This edition contains Donald Cress' completely revised translation of theMeditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to the Discourse on Method, bringing …
Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae
By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae--the two most important surviving "handbooks" of …
Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding
This volume offers two complementary works, unabridged, in modernized, annotated texts--the only available edition priced for classroom use. Grant and Tarcov provide a concise …
Voltaire: Philosophical Letters
In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England he observed during his nearly …
Erasmus and Luther: The Battle over Free Will
This compilation of writings from Erasmus and Luther's great debate--over free will and grace, and their respective efficacy for salvation--offers a fuller representation of the …
The Wealth of Nations
This thoughtful new abridgment is enriched by the brilliant commentary which accompanies it. In it, Laurence Dickey argues that the Wealth of Nations contains--and conceals--a …
The Electra Plays
Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Euripides: Electra; Sophocles: Electra
Metamorphoses
Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, …
Philoctetes
First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by …
The Book of John Mandeville
A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. In …