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Estate Management and Symposium£8.99 Xenophon, Emily Baragwanath, Anthony Verity
9780198823513 Xenophon recounted several Socratic dialogues which included his Symposium and Oeconomicus and both are concerned with Athenian private life. They are literary creations that reveal Xenophon as a skilled literary artist, an innovative thinker, and far from merely reflecting the conventional thinking of the world around him. |
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Antigone and other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra£4.99 Sophocles, Oliver Taplin
9780192806864 These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies. |
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Lucian, True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary£18.99 Diskin Clay, James H. Brusuelas
9780198789659 This textbook for undergraduate and graduate students provides a lively and accessible translation of Lucian's True History. It is accompanied by an extensive commentary, which explains historical references and offers help translating difficult words and phrases. |
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Horace's Odes£18.99 Richard Tarrant
9780195156768 |
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Sophocles' Electra£21.99 Hanna M. Roisman
9780190461393 |
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Sophocles: Oedipus the King: A New Verse Translation£12.99 David Kovacs
9780198854845 Sophocles' great masterpiece, Oedipus the King, is here translated into highly-polished English verse alongside an introduction and notes to the translation which seek to make his achievements in both plot and language accessible to students at graduate, undergraduate, and secondary school level. |
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Homer: A Very Short Introduction£8.99 Barbara Graziosi
9780199589944 The Iliad and the Odyssey are the cornerstones of Western literature, inspiring artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, playwrights, and film-makers throughout history. Barbara Graziosi introduces Homer's key works and discusses the main literary, historical, and archaeological issues at the heart of Homeric studies. |
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Homer, Odyssey I: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, Commentary, and Glossary£19.95 Simon Pulleyn
9780198824206 Offering the first full-length commentary on Odyssey I in English since the 1980s, this new edition with facing translation aims to offer students an accessible yet authoritative introduction to the history and style of Homeric epic alongside detailed philological and linguistic analysis that will be of equal use to advanced scholars. |
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The Jewish War£10.99 Josephus, Martin Hammond, Martin Goodman
9780199646029 In AD 70 the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by Roman forces after a 6 month siege, the world-famous temple burnt to the ground. This was the disastrous outcome of a Jewish revolt against Roman domination beginning in AD 66 with high hopes and early success, but soon became mired in factional conflict, at its most extreme within Jerusalem itself. |
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Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus£8.99 Sophocles, Oliver Taplin
9780192806857 This original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the plays as performed showpieces, encouraging the reader to relish the sound of the spoken verse and the potential for song within the lyrics. |
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Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin LiteratureFourth Edition £35.99 L. D. Reynolds, N. G. Wilson
9780199686339 It explores how the texts from classical Greece and Rome have survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to preserve them for future generations. In this 4th edition adjustments have been made to the text and the notes have been revised in order to take account of advances in scholarship over the last twenty years. |
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The Satyricon£9.99 Petronius, P. G. Walsh
9780199539215 |
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Classical Literary Criticism£8.99 D. A. Russell, Michael Winterbottom
9780199549818 |
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