Ancient & Classical
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The Inferno
$7.95 Add to cartBelonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.
Th- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531396
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
$12.99 Add to cartPenned in the early 14th century, this epic poem is an extraordinary journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Dante’s vivid imagination and profound allegory provide a gripping exploration of th… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 628
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9358565144
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$39.00 Add to cartA landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.
In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore’s translation o- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 09 2025
- ISBN10: 022660442X
- Language: English
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The Iliad and the Odyssey: 2-Book Paperback Boxed Set
$24.99 Add to cartThis handsome slipcased edition brings together two of the most celebrated classical works of literature, The Iliad and The Odyssey.
The legendary poet of Greek antiquity Homer is surrounded by almost- Series: Arcturus Classic Collections
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1398819697
- Language: English
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Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming
$22.00 Add to cartNavigating the uncertainty of a divided China wracked by warfare and corruption, Tao Yuanming’s poetry–expertly translated by Red Pine–chooses the path walked by China’s ancient sages, finding joy i… [more below]
- Author: Yuanming, Tao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596723
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
$29.99 Add to cartWhen Michael Palma’s translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante’s intricate terza rima form simply could not… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095547
- Language: English
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Essential Rumi – reissue
$16.99 Add to cart- 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 Satires
$11.95 Add to cartCommonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satir… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Juvenal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540667
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Sappho
$18.95 Read moreA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translator
Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has bee- Author: Barnstone, Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 1590306139
- Language: English
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Aeneid
$15.95 Add to cartFrederick Ahl’s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil’s ancient hexa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199231958
- Language: English
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The Love Poems of Rumi
$15.00 Add to cartBorn Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless… [more below]
- Author: Chopra, Deepak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0609602438
- Language: English
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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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The Odyssey
$12.95 Read moreThis 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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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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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author
$30.00 Read moreThe 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300264178
- 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
