12 Top classics books like The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer by Timothy B. Shutt

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The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer

By: Timothy B. Shutt

4.19

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

One of the Modern Scholar's most popular professors, Timothy B. Shutt, brings his literary acumen a…

If you liked the classics plot in The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer by Timothy B. Shutt , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Antony and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more

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"Melt Egypt into Nile!"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"...make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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2. Napoleon: A Concise Biography

By: David A. Bell

3.98

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and c… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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4. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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5. Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.70

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more

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"Et tu, Brute?"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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6. The Iliad of Homer (The Great Courses, #301)

By: Elizabeth Vandiver

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Audio CD

When John Keats first read Chapman's translation of the epics of "deep-brow'd Homer," he was so ove… read more

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  • classics
  • audiobook
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7. Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

By: Sophocles , Eamon Grennan , Rachel Kitzinger

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus… read more

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  • classics
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8. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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  • classics
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9. The Odyssey of Homer (Great Courses, #302)

By: Elizabeth Vandiver

4.04

Format: None pages,

Keats compared discovering Homer to "finding a new planet." What is it in Homer's great works--and … read more

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

10. 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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"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)

11. The Age of Napoleon (The Story of Civilization, #11)

By: Will Durant , Ariel Durant

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

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12. 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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"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

13. 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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14. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

By: None

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more

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15. Leonardo da Vinci

By: Walter Isaacson

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more

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16. 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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17. Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies

By: Harold Bloom

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Audio CD

Shakespeare's seven great tragedies contain unmistakable elements that set them apart from any othe… read more

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18. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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19. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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20. Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more

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21. 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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22. Rings, Swords, and Monsters: Exploring Fantasy Literature

By: M.D.C. Drout

4.17

Format: 267 pages, eAudiobook

Great college course on the history of fantasy literature from Beowolf to Harry Potter with lots of… read more

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23. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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24. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

By: Tom Hanks

3.70

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-st… read more

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"Are you a clairvoyant?"

-Tom Hanks, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

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25. 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

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26. Ancient Mesopotamia: Life in the Cradle of Civilization

By: Amanda H. Podany

4.19

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

When we imagine what life might have been like thousands of years in the past, the images we often … read more

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  • audiobook
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27. Language Families of the World

By: John McWhorter

4.43

Format: 16 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 15 hours and 54 minutes Language, in its seemingly infinite varieties, tells u… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. The Aeneid of Virgil (The Great Courses)

By: Elizabeth Vandiver

4.22

Format: 12 pages, Audio CD

The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of liter… read more

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  • audiobook
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29. A History of Ancient Greece

By: Eric H. Cline

3.88

Format: None pages, Audio CD

7 CDs with course guide, a 64 page full color booklet. In this intriguing series of lectures, proli… read more

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  • audiobook
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30. The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer

By: Timothy B. Shutt

4.19

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

One of the Modern Scholar's most popular professors, Timothy B. Shutt, brings his literary acumen a… read more

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  • classics
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