Ancient & Classical
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The Love Songs of Sappho
$17.00 Add to cartCalled the “Tenth Muse” by the ancients, Greece’s greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sapp… [more below]
- Series: Literary Classics
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 157392251X
- Language: English
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The Complete Odes and Epodes
$14.95 Add to cartHorace (65-8 B.C.) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. Steeped in allusion to contemporary … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Horace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555273
- Language: English
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20 Poemas de Amor Y Una Canción Desesperada
$9.95 Read moreThis book, originally published in 1924, occupies a privileged place within the vast and always current work of Pablo Neruda. It is not only one of his most popular works, but also the one that best r… [more below]
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 6074003696
- Language: Spanish
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
$12.00 Read moreA great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends…. [more below]
- Series: Penguin Epics #01
- Author: Sandars, N. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0141026286
- Language: English
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The Homeric Hymns
$12.95 Add to cartMost people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer’s two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Ho… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crudden, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 19 2009
- ISBN10: 0199554757
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$17.00 Add to cart‘The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original’ The Times
After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to h- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449329
- Language: English
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The Iliad: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the renowned translator of Rilke, Tao Te Ching, and Gilgamesh, a vivid new translation of Western civilization’s foundational epic: The Iliad.
Tolstoy called the Iliad a miracle; Goethe said tha- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1439163383
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$17.00 Add to cartThe epic tale of Odysseus’s journey home – one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature
If the Iliad is the world’s greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449116
- Language: English
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The Lais of Marie de France
$17.00 Add to cartThe leading edition of the work of the earliest known French woman poet–the subject of Lauren Groff’s bestselling novel Matrix
Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: France, Marie de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140447598
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green
$21.18 Add to cartThe Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapte… [more below]
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0520303369
- Language: English
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The Nature of Things
$22.00 Add to cartOne of a major new Classics series – books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.
Lucretius’ poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0141396903
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
$12.99 Add to cartThe most widely read and enduring interpretation of the classic Babylonian epic.
One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless th
- Author: Mason, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0618275649
- Language: English
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Crow with No Mouth
$14.00 Add to cartNew edition of best-selling Asian title presents the poems of a renowned Zen master.
- Author: Berg, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1556591527
- Language: English
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The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$39.00 Add to cartGripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0147712556
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
$27.00 Add to cartA stunning 3-in-1 edition of one of the great works of Western literature
An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante’s descent into Hell with Vi… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0141197498
- Language: English
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The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid Box Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$58.00 Add to cartA glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles’s award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature
ONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles’s interpretations- Author: Homer
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1760
- Publish Date: September 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0147505607
- Language: English
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$13.00 Add to cartThe inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel.
‘Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;
Seek faithfully till you find me …’ A New Year’s feast at King A- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 30 1959
- ISBN10: 0140440925
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil’s great epic
Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106295
- Language: English
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The Aeneid of Virgil
$6.95 Add to cartAeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world–as literature as well. Virgil’s Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arm… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0553210416
- Language: English
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The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation
$23.33 Add to cartAnger be now your song, immortal one,
Akhilleus’ anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men-carrion
for- Author: Fitzgerald, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 03, 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529051
- Language: English
