Epic poetry
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The Odyssey of Homer
$6.95 Read moreHomer’s epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus’ journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and … [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0553213997
- Language: English
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The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Tales: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Migration of Myth
$24.99 Read moreCompelling evidence that the events of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean
– Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to an- Author: Vinci, Felice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1594770522
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$13.00 Read moreOn 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring t… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 1990
- ISBN10: 0140445323
- Language: English
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Epic Annette: A Heroine’s Tale
$18.99 Read moreCould you put your beliefs before your family?
Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nin- Author: Weber, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1911648454
- Language: English
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The War Nerd Iliad
$22.95 Read moreWe recognize the names: Achilles, Odysseus, Zeus, and Apollo. We’re taught that The Iliad is a foundational text of civilization. But who has really read the text? Until now, The Iliad was hijacked by
- Author: Dolan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1627310509
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem
$19.99 Add to cartPoet and scholar Jack Mitchell presents a thrilling retelling of the Star Wars saga in the style of classic epic poetry.
“I look not to myself but to the Force,
In which all things arise and fall aw- Author: Mitchell, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1419756281
- 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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Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads
$19.95 Add to cartThe first English translation of a Kalmyk epic nearly lost to history.
This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Kh- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Bougdaeva, Saglar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0520344723
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh
$22.00 Add to cartComposed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. The story of a visionary journey be
- Author: Kendall, Stuart T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0983697205
- Language: English
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
$12.00 Add to cartA 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 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 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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IlÃada
$21.95 Read moreNarra una leyenda mic?nica situada en el siglo XIII a.C., cuenta un episodio de la epopeya de la rica y estrat?gica ciudad de Troya, o Ili?n. Es el poema de la c?lera de Aquiles, hijo de mortal y dios… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Homero
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 8418008962
- Language: Spanish
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Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
$17.00 Add to cartThe first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon war… [more below]
- Author: Chickering, Howell D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 14 2006
- ISBN10: 1400096227
- Language: English
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The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman: The Arabic Epic of Dhat Al-Himma
$16.00 Add to cartPublished in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Princess Fatima recounts the thrilling adventures of a legendary medieval warrior universally known thr… [more below]
- Author: Magidow, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0143134264
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$12.99 Read moreA stunning gift edition of the age-old tale of Odysseus and his journey.
This epic poem by Homer, believed to have been written between the eighth and ninth centuries BC, continues to be essential re- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0785839917
- Language: English
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Beowulf
$19.99 Read moreSANTIAGO GARCIA and DAVID RUBIN unite to bring forward the myth of Beowulf, which has endured for a thousand years, inspired an epic poem, become a foundational piece of English literature, and influe… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1534309195
- Language: English
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The Kalevala
$15.95 Add to cartThe Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millennium of our era, speakers of Uralic langu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: L?nnrot, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 199538867
- Language: English
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Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People
$20.00 Add to cartThe great epic poem of Northern Europe, born deep in the heart of ancient Karelian forests
Sharing its title with the poetic name for Finland–the land of heroes–Kalevala is the soaring epic poem of- Author: Lonnrot, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0241403065
- 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
