The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes
By: Publius Papinius Statius
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons…
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1. Argonautica (Loeb Classical Library No. 286)
By: Gaius Valerius Flaccus
3.65
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Latin poet who flourished in the period ca. 70-90 CE, composed in smooth a… read more
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- classics
- roman
- epic poetry
"But are they heroes or mere dreamers?"-Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica (Loeb Classical Library No. 286)
2. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
3. The Poetic Edda
By: Anonymous , Lee M. Hollander
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
The Poetic Eddacomprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place … read more
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- poetry
- classics
- mythology
4. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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- classics
- literature
- ancient
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- mythology
"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
5. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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- poetry
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- literature
- ancient
- fiction
- mythology
"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
6. The Trojan Women
By: Euripides , Gilbert Murray
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's i… read more
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- fiction
- ancient
- classics
- mythology
7. Pharsalia: The Civil War
By: Lucan , None
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, … read more
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- classics
- roman
- ancient
- epic
8. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
By: Sappho , Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with th… read more
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- classics
- mythology
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9. The Diary of Lady Murasaki
By: Murasaki Shikibu , Richard Bowring
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
'When I go out to sit on the veranda and gaze, I sem to be always conjuring up visions of the past'… read more
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10. The Mabinogion
By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other … read more
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11. The Golden Ass
By: Apuleius , Jack Lindsay , None
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
The Golden Assby Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only… read more
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12. The Fall of Troy
By: Quintus Smyrnaeus
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Hardcover
Some of the major tales in the 'Fall of Troy' are: how the Amazonian Queen, Penthesileia, died for … read more
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13. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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- classics
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- ancient
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
14. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
15. Jason and the Golden Fleece
By: Apollonius of Rhodes , Richard L. Hunter
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Argonauticais the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with … read more
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16. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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17. Japanese Fairy Tales
By: Yei Theodora Ozaki
3.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
English translation of 22 tales include ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings; kind… read more
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18. Iphigenia in Aulis
By: Euripides , Nicholas Rudall
3.84
Format: 467 pages, Paperback
Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Troj… read more
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19. Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail
By: Chrétien de Troyes , Ruth Harwood Cline
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to l… read more
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20. Paradiso (The Divine Comedy, #3)
By: Dante Alighieri , Dorothy L. Sayers , Barbara Reynolds
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dorothy L. Sayers's landmark translation follows Dante's terza rimastanza's and brings his poetry v… read more
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21. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more
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22. The Complete Poems
By: Catullus , Guy Lee
3.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing … read more
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23. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
By: Mike Duncan
4.00
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Afte… read more
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24. Heroides
By: Ovid , Harold Isbell
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In the twenty-one poems of the Heroides, Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myt… read more
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25. The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more
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26. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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27. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
28. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- ancient
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29. Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Greek myths are one of the most important cultural foundation-stones of the modern world. St… read more
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- mythology
"For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess"-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"Medusa wasn't always a monster, Helen of Troy wasn't always an adulterer, Pandora wasn't ever a villain."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The greatest virtue, in other words, that an Athenian woman could aspire to was not to be registered, almost not to exist."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
"The guiding principle when searching for the cause of everything wrong in the world has been, all too often: _cherchez la femme_."-Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
30. The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes
By: Publius Papinius Statius
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons… read more
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- ancient history
- ancient
- fiction
- epic
- mythology
31. The Telegony: Rediscovering the Lost Epilogue to Homer's Odyssey (Reconstructing the Lost Epics of the Trojan War Book 2)
By: D.M. Smith
3.83
Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition
In classical times, the story of the Trojan War was told in a series of eight epic poems known as t… read more
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- classics
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