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 …
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1. On Sparta
By: Plutarch , Christopher Pelling , Richard J.A. Talbert
4.12
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our… read more
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- ancient
- classics
"I don't recall the beginning of what you said, and consequently I also don't grasp the middle sections, while the part at the end I don't approve of."-Plutarch, On Sparta
"Another Spartan, when he saw men sitting on stools in a lavatory, declared: "May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man."-Plutarch, On Sparta
"While in the case of his iron money, as I have explained, Lycurgus arranged for heavy weight to be matched by low value, he did the opposite for the currency of speech. Here he developed the techniqu…"-Plutarch, On Sparta
"There is a story recorded about Geradas, a Spartiate of really ancient times, who when asked by a foreigner what their punishment for adulterers was, said: "There is no adulterer among us, stranger."…"-Plutarch, On Sparta
2. 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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- poetry
- classics
- roman
- literature
- 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
3. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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- ancient
- classics
4. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded… read more
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- classics
5. 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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- literature
- classics
- fiction
6. The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
By: Plautus , E.F. Watling
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Plautus's broad humor, reflecting Roman manners and contemporary life, is revealed in these five pl… read more
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- literature
- roman
- classics
- fiction
7. Pharsalia: The Civil War
By: Lucan , None
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucan's epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, unfinished at the time of his death, … read more
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- ancient
- classics
- roman
8. The Analects
By: Confucius , D.C. Lau
3.20
Format: 168 pages,
This lively new translation with clear explanatory notes by one of the foremost scholars of classic… read more
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- classics
9. 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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- poetry
- classics
- roman
- literature
- humor
- ancient
- fiction
10. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
By: Robert Graves
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more
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- classics
- fiction
11. Odes and Epodes
By: Horatius , Niall Rudd
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The poetry of Horace (born 65 bc) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private con… read more
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- classics
- literature
- ancient
- fiction
12. The Satyricon
By: Piero Chiara , Petronius , P.G. Walsh , Federico Roncoroni
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose & poetry (prosimetrum). It… read more
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13. The Golden Ass
By: Apuleius , Jack Lindsay , None
4.30
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
The Golden Assby Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only… read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. The Letters of the Younger Pliny
By: Betty Radice , Pliny the Younger
3.91
Format: None pages,
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17. Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius, #2)
By: Robert Graves , Seneca , Suetonius
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself. … read more
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18. The Complete Poems
By: Catullus , Guy Lee
3.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing … read more
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19. 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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20. The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom
By: James Romm
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” ( Booklist ) deep dive into the last deca… read more
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21. Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena
By: Eratosthenes
3.78
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the… read more
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