Guide to Greece: Central Greece (Guide to Greece, #1)
By: Pausanias , Peter Levi
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Pausanias's (c. 143-176) account of every Greek city and sanctuary includes historical introduction…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Bellum Catilinae
By: Sallust
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
In his Bellum Catilinae , C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.) recounts the dramatic ev… read more
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3. Maurice
By: E.M. Forster
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist… read more
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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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5. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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6. The Early History of Rome (The History of Rome, #1-5)
By: Livy , Aubrey de Sélincourt , Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , None
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first … read more
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7. 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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"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
8. Guide to Greece: Central Greece (Guide to Greece, #1)
By: Pausanias , Peter Levi
4.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Pausanias's (c. 143-176) account of every Greek city and sanctuary includes historical introduction… read more
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9. The Persian Expedition
By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , None , George Cawkwell
4.18
Format: None pages,
In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides… read more
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10. 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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11. Frogs
By: Aristophanes , Arthur Sidgwick
3.58
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Batrakhoi, Batrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristop… read more
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12. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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13. Daphnis and Chloe
By: Paul Turner , Longus
3.68
Format: 593 pages, Paperback
A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby b… read more
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14. The Greek Myths
By: Robert Graves
4.57
Format: 270 pages,
Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the … read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. The Odes
By: Pindar
4.36
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
'What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' --C.… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. The Greeks and the Irrational
By: E.R. Dodds
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
In this philosophy classic, first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Gr… read more
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21. The Library of Greek Mythology
By: None , Robin Hard
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorusis a uniqu… read more
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22. Homeric Hymns
By: Homer , Jules Cashford , None
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddess… read more
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23. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.13
Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more
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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
24. 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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25. 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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26. Epigrams
By: Marcus Valerius Martialis , James Michie , Shadi Bartsch
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Martial, the father of the epigram, was one of the brilliant provincial poets who made their litera… read more
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27. 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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28. The Georgics
By: Virgil , Betty Radice , None
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rus… read more
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29. 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
30. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
By: Bettany Hughes
4.02
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Th… read more
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31. Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy
By: Robin Waterfield
4.08
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most im… read more
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