The Rope and Other Plays
By: Plautus , E.F. Watling
3.67
Format: 284 pages, Unknown Binding
Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 …
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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 Nature of the Gods
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero , P.G. Walsh
3.84
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
'My present intention is to clear myself of any suspicion of partially by presenting the views of t… read more
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"Utinam tam facile vera invenire possim quam falsa convincere."-Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Nature of the Gods
"It is useless to know what shall come to pass; it is a miserable thing to be tormented to no purpose."-Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Nature of the Gods
3. 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
4. The Rope and Other Plays
By: Plautus , E.F. Watling
3.67
Format: 284 pages, Unknown Binding
Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 … read more
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5. Two Lives of Charlemagne
By: Einhard , Notker the Stammerer , Lewis Thorpe
3.64
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman EmpireChar… read more
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- classics
6. The Way Things Are
By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius
3.97
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more
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"There can be no centre in infinity."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are
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. 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. A Happy Death
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard , Jean Sarocchi
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel… read more
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10. The Comedies
By: Terence , Betty Radice
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
In English translations that achieve a lively readability without sacrificing the dramatic and comi… read more
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11. The Sixteen Satires
By: Peter Green , Juvenal , Wendell Vernon Clausen
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and … read more
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12. Alcestis and Other Plays
By: Euripides , Philip Vellacott
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Includes Alcestis, Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides' tragedies proved highly controver… read more
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13. Lysistrata and Other Plays
By: Aristophanes , Alan H. Sommerstein
4.27
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy… read more
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14. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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15. 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
"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
"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
16. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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17. 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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18. Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4)
By: Richmond Lattimore , Sophocles , John Moore , David Grene , None
4.10
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters,… read more
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19. Metamorphosis and Other Stories
By: Franz Kafka , Michael Hofmann
3.99
Format: 240 pages,
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he t… read more
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20. The Agricola and The Germania
By: Tacitus , S.A. Handford , Harold Mattingly
3.94
Format: 229 pages,
The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the … read more
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21. King Harald's Saga
By: Snorri Sturluson , Magnus Magnusson , Hermann Pálsson
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles acro… read more
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