Ancient & Classical
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The Selected Poems of Po Chu-I
$17.95 Read moreThe quintessential Chinese poet, translated by David Hinton, recipient of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Chu-I, Po
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0811214125
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: A New Translation
$17.95 Read moreOvid’s epic poem–whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages–is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s times to the present day, when writers
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 039332642X
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$16.00 Add to cartE.V. Rieu’s beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer’s Iliad tells the story- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447946
- Language: English
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Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica)
$13.95 Add to cartThe Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538727
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$22.00 Read moreThis volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry’s life: a complete translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translator… [more below]
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0226817288
- Language: English
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Essential Rumi – reissue
$16.99 Read more- Author: Barks, Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0062149970
- Language: English
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Catullus: Selected Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries
In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost fo- Author: Catullus, Gaius Valerius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300275293
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$12.95 Add to cartThis prose translation of the The Odyssey is so successful that is has taken its place as on the few really outstanding version of Homer’s famous epic poem. It is the story of the return of Odysseus f… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536783
- Language: English
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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author
$22.00 Add to cartThe complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian
“Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic claddi- Author: Helle, Sophus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276761
- Language: English
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Greek Lyric Poetry
$13.95 Add to cartThe Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.–greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides–produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: West, M. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954039X
- Language: English
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Jason and the Argonauts
$16.00 Add to cartThe first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s
Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving ful- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143106864
- Language: English
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Eclogues and Georgics
$29.95 Add to cartJames Bradley Wells combines creative practice and intimate knowledge of contemporary poetry and classical antiquity in this thought-provoking new translation of two early works by ancient Rome’s most… [more below]
- Author: Vergil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0299337405
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems
$12.95 Add to cart“A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.” E. M. Forster’s famous description of C. P. Cavafy–the most widely known and best loved modern Gr… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cavafy, C. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555958
- Language: English
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Lays of Ancient Rome: Epic Poems
$9.20 Add to cart- Author: Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 26 2021
- ISBN10: 8027340756
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose Iliad was named one of The New Yorker‘s Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new translation of the Odyssey, complete with textual notes and an il… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 145167418X
- Language: English
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The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartJohn Dryden called Virgil’s Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., “the best poem by the best poet.” The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs,
- Author: Ferry, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530319
- Language: English
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Propertius: The Poems
$12.95 Add to cartOf all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cy… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Propertius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555923
- Language: English
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Selected Satires of Lucian
$27.99 Add to cartLucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing… [more below]
- Author: Lucian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: April 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0393004430
- Language: English
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The Pocket Sappho
$14.95 Read moreA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.
Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Barnstone, Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1611806917
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$9.00 Add to cartThis excellent prose translation of Homer’s epic poem of the 9th century BC recounts one of Western civilization’s most glorious tales, a treasury of Greek folklore and myth that maintains an ageless
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0486406547
- Language: English
