Ancient & Classical
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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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Theogony and Works and Days
$11.95 Add to cartThis new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldes… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hesiod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 019953831X
- Language: English
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
$20.00 Add to cartIn this “gorgeous translation” (The New York Times), one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia.
Of the nine… [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 0375724516
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$22.00 Add to cartThe great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles
A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Aw- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140268863
- Language: English
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Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
$16.00 Add to cartMore or less 150 years after Homer’s Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455574
- 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: 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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Edda
$9.95 Add to cart“But the king’s heart swells, bulging with courage in battle, where heroes sink down…”
Over a period of twenty years Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textb- Series: Everyman S
- Author: Sturluson, Snorri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 06 1995
- ISBN10: 0460876163
- Language: English
