Epic poetry
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The Aeneid
$17.00 Add to cart“Fitzgerald’s [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come.” —New York Review of Books
Virgil’s- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 16 1990
- ISBN10: 0679729526
- Language: English
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The Odyssey of Homer
$18.99 Add to cartHomer’s great epic The Odyssey–one of Western literature’s most enduring and important works–translated by Richmond Lattimore
A classic for the ages, The Odyssey recounts Odysseus’ journey home after
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lattimore, Richmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: 26-Jun-07
- ISBN10: 006124418X
- Language: English
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
$15.00 Add to cartN. K. Sandars’s landmark translation of one of the first and greatest works of Western literature
A Penguin Classic
Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survive- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sandars, N. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 30 1960
- ISBN10: 014044100X
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
$20.00 Add to cartGilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right.
Acclaimed by critics and scholars,- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0743261690
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$25.00 Add to cartHomer’s monumental epic set at the end of the Trojan War explores love, heroism, and the intricate relationship between gods and mortals–now in a beautiful clothbound hardcover edition designed by Co… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 014139465X
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic
$16.00 Add to cartA poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace
“Sophus Helle’s new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, e- Author: Helle, Sophus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268092
- Language: English
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
$17.00 Add to cartAndrew George’s “masterly new translation” (The Times) of the world’s first truly great work of literature
A Penguin Classic
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: George, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449191
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$39.95 Add to cartThe first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospi
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393089053
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
$23.33 Add to cartThe award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set i… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 27 1999
- ISBN10: 037570129X
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$27.00 Add to cartHomer’s classic epic of survival, revenge, and homecoming, translated by E.V. Rieu, now in a stunning clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, and featuring an Introduction by Peter V. J… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0141192445
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$19.00 Add to cartRobert Fagles’s stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line
A Penguin Classic The Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of everyman’s journey through life- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039954
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
$19.00 Add to cartThe classic translation of The Odyssey, now in paperback.
This edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and Fitzgerald’s Postscript. Line drawings precede each book of the poem.- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 05, 1998
- ISBN10: 0374525749
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
$16.00 Add to cartA new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Ro
- Author: Ferry, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0374523835
- Language: English
