9 Best ancient books like The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus, E.F. Watling

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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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  • ancient history
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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

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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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  • roman
  • ancient
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  • ancient history
"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

Cover of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Cynthia Marshall

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

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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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  • roman
  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • fiction
  • plays
  • comedy
  • drama
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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
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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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  • roman
  • classics
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  • ancient history
  • ancient
"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

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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

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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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  • classics
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  • plays
  • drama
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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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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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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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  • roman
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  • ancient
  • fiction
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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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  • ancient history
  • ancient
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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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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  • theatre
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Cover of Henry V by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

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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  • literature
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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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  • ancient
  • classics
  • fiction
"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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3.71

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4.01

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4.08

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3.44

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