The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus
By: Sophocles
4.05
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the ev…
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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. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
3. 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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"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
4. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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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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"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. Common Sense
By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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7. Beowulf
By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney
3.49
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more
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"Fate will unwind as it must!"-Unknown, Beowulf
"Fate goes ever as fate must."-Unknown, Beowulf
"Let whoever can win glory before death."-Unknown, Beowulf
"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."-Unknown, Beowulf
8. Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
By: Euripides
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus Translated by John Davie with an Introduction an… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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11. The Double
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.68
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more
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"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
12. Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson
4.02
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more
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"Therein lies the rub."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Brevity is the soul of wit."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
13. Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
By: Aeschylus , Philip Vellacott
4.14
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
The first of the great Greek Tragedians, Aeschylus wrote a large number of plays, of which seven su… read more
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14. The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer , Nevill Coghill
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval… read more
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15. 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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16. The Bacchae and Other Plays
By: Euripides , Philip Vellacott
3.14
Format: 54 pages,
Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, transl… read more
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17. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
18. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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19. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)
By: August Wilson
4.23
Format: 690 pages,
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more
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20. Theogony/Works and Days
By: Hesiod , None
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… 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. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
23. Ghosts
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her decease… read more
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24. Frogs and Other Plays
By: Aristophanes , David B. Barrett , Shomit Dutta
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristopha… 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 Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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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. Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
By: Claire North
3.70
Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition
Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting a… read more
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"...for it is the poet’s art to make every ear that hears the ancient songs think they have been sung for them alone, the old made new."-Claire North, Ithaca (The Songs of Penelope, #1)
29. The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus
By: Sophocles
4.05
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the ev… read more
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30. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
