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With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London.Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over …

Anne Carsons storartade debut från 1986 presenteras nu för första gången på svenska. I denna essäbok, som idag ses som en klassiker, undersöker Carson uppkomsten av begreppet …

`All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned; money was exacted from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the laws of god and man were overturned.' The Civil …

For decades readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled …

"For people who like a good historical mystery, this first authorized publication of the fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Voynich Manuscript will fascinate."-Rebecca Onion, …

Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that …

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the …

* The definitive and ONLY complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets

Tre av världslitteraturens största poeter dominerar denna bok om den äldsta grekiska lyriken: Satirikern Archilochos (omkr. 650 f Kr.), visdiktaren Sapfo (drygt ett halvsekel …