17 must-read classics books like La suocera by Terence

Cover of La suocera by Terence

La suocera

By: Terence

3.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Testo latino a fronte A dispetto dell'accoglienza piuttosto fredda ricevuta alla sua prima rappres…

If you liked the classics plot in La suocera by Terence , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) () by Aristophanes

1. The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()

By: Aristophanes

3.67

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender i… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Sarah Ruden

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
  • plays
  • drama
"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

Cover of Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama) by Sophocles, John Harrison, Shomit Dutta

3. Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

By: Sophocles , John Harrison , Shomit Dutta

3.92

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Written in the fifth century B.C., Sophocles' tragedy concerns the shame and death of Ajax, a Greek… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate."

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

"To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul."

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

"Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?"

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

"AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux. ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien."

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

Cover of Phaedra by Seneca

4. Phaedra

By: Seneca

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. Wi… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
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5. Miles Gloriosus

By: Plautus

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Miles Gloriosusor "Braggart Warrior" is one of the best-known and liveliest Roman comedies. It show… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Asinaria: The One about the Asses by Plautus, John Henderson

6. Asinaria: The One about the Asses

By: Plautus , John Henderson

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'Asinaria' reveals the play as a key to Roman social relations centered on many kinds of slavery: t… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
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7. 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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  • classics
  • plays
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Cover of The Girl from Samos, Or, the In-Laws by Menander, Eric G. Turner

8. The Girl from Samos, Or, the In-Laws

By: Menander , Eric G. Turner

4.15

Format: 275 pages,

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  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
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9. Una questione privata

By: Beppe Fenoglio

3.79

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Nelle Langhe, durante la guerra partigiana, Milton (quasi una controfigura di Fenoglio stesso), è u… read more

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  • classics
"Non poteva più vivere senza sapere e, soprattutto, non poteva morire senza sapere, in un'epoca in cui i ragazzi come lui erano chiamati più a morire che a vivere. Avrebbe rinunciato a tutto per quell…"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

"Scattò tutta la testa verso di lui e disse: «Come comincerai la tua prossima lettera? Fulvia dannazione?» Lui aveva scosso la testa, frusciando i capelli contro la corteccia del ciliegio. Fulvia si a…"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

"Era successo proprio all’altezza dell’ultimo ciliegio. Lei aveva attraversato il vialetto ed era entrata nel prato oltre i ciliegi. Si era sdraiata, sebbene vestisse di bianco e l’erba non fosse più …"

-Beppe Fenoglio, Una questione privata

Cover of The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2) by Aeschylus

10. The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)

By: Aeschylus

3.80

Format: 43 pages, None

Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. Many years af… read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays

11. Phaedrus

By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, None, James Scully, C. John Herington

12. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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  • theatre
  • classics
  • plays
Cover of Menaechmi; Or, the Twin-Brothers by Plautus, Henry Thomas Riley

13. Menaechmi; Or, the Twin-Brothers

By: Plautus , Henry Thomas Riley

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered to be Plautus's greatest play, "Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers" is the story of two tw… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Patricia E. Easterling, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, None

14. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • ancient history
  • classics
  • plays
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

15. Clouds

By: Aristophanes , None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and exten… read more

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16. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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17. Pro M. Caelio Oratio

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero , R.G. Austin

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In 56 B.C., M. Caelius Rufus was prosecuted for vis by L. Sempronius Atratinus in a trial with impo… read more

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18. Alcestis

By: William Arrowsmith , Euripides

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

"The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets… read more

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19. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

By: Peter Cameron

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

It's time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he's surf… read more

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20. Euthyphro

By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more

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21. The Captain's Daughter

By: Alexander Pushkin , Robert Chandler

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Pushkin's version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also … read more

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22. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

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23. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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  • ancient history
  • classics
"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

24. Aululária

By: Plautus

3.62

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

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25. Gli indifferenti

By: Alberto Moravia , Eileen Romano , Edoardo Sanguineti , Tonino Tornitore

3.88

Format: 373 pages,

Gli indifferentie il primo romanzo scritto da Moravia appena diciottenne e pubblicato nel 1929. Tem… read more

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26. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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27. 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

(1939 translation) read more

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28. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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  • classics
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

Cover of Tutto chiede salvezza by Daniele Mencarelli

29. Tutto chiede salvezza

By: Daniele Mencarelli

4.17

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Ha vent'anni Daniele quando, in seguito a una violenta esplosione di rabbia, viene sottoposto a un … read more

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"I think I might be a bit mentally disabled."

-Daniele Mencarelli, Tutto chiede salvezza

"Le mie sono le farneticazioni di un maestro di scuola elementare messo a riposo. Una cosa però tienila sempre a mente. Curati. Chiedi aiuto quando serve. Ma lascia il tuo sguardo libero, non farti ra…"

-Daniele Mencarelli, Tutto chiede salvezza

Cover of Amphitryon by Plautus

30. Amphitryon

By: Plautus

3.50

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Translation by Sir Robert Allison. The legendary birth of the demigod Hercules treated as riotous, … read more

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  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of La suocera by Terence

31. La suocera

By: Terence

3.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Testo latino a fronte A dispetto dell'accoglienza piuttosto fredda ricevuta alla sua prima rappres… read more

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  • ancient history
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14 Top plays books like La suocera by Terence

Transform Your Habits

The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()

Aristophanes

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

Sophocles , John Harrison , Shomit Dutta

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Phaedra

Seneca

4.31

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17 best-selling fiction books like The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) () by Aristophanes

Transform Your Habits

Hippolytos

Euripides , Robert Bagg

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Herakles

Euripides , Christian Wolff , Thomas Sleigh

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Women of Trachis

C.K. Williams , Sophocles , Gregory W. Dickerson

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()

Aristophanes

3.67

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