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  • Prometheus BoundQuick View
    By: Aeschylus

    Prometheus Bound

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    For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of… [more below]

  • On Obligations: de OfficiisQuick View
    By: Cicero

    On Obligations: de Officiis

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    Cicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspiring politicians. It has subsequently played a seminal role i

  • Six Memos for the Next MillenniumQuick View
    By: Calvino, Italo

    Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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    Italo Calvino’s brilliant reflection on what makes great literature, from the classics to more contemporary works, punctuated with personal details about Calvino’s own writing processes.

    At the time of… [more below]

    • Author: Calvino, Italo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: August 02 2016
    • ISBN10: 0544146670
    • Language: English
  • Eros the BittersweetQuick View
    By: Anne Carson

    Eros the Bittersweet

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    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

    A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson’s exploration of the concept of “eros” in both classic

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    • Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
    • Author: Carson, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 190
    • Publish Date: August 09 2022
    • ISBN10: 1628973862
    • Language: English
  • The OresteiaQuick View
    By: Aeschylus

    The Oresteia

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    In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Aeschylus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 335
    • Publish Date: February 07 1984
    • ISBN10: 0140443339
    • Language: English
  • Vergil: The Poet's Life Out of stock Quick View
    By: Sarah Ruden

    Vergil: The Poet’s Life

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    A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid

    “Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy ‘ancient’ into our contemporary . . . p

    • Series: Ancient Lives
    • Author: Ruden, Sarah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: August 22, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0300256612
    • Language: English
  • The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays Out of stock Quick View
    By: Davenport, Guy

    The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

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    “One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”–Washington Post

    Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides link

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    • Series: Nonpareil Books #10
    • Author: Davenport, Guy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: January 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1567927777
    • Language: English
  • Eros the Bittersweet: An EssayQuick View
    By: Anne Carson

    Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

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    Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library

    Anne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love

    Since it was first published, Eros the Bi

    • Series: Princeton Classics #130
    • Author: Carson, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: March 14, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0691247935
    • Language: English
  • Homer and His Iliad Out of stock Quick View
    By: Robin Lane Fox

    Homer and His Iliad

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    A “compelling and impressive” (Sunday Times) reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful

    The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem–heroic

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    • Author: Fox, Robin Lane
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1541600444
    • Language: English
  • Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' CloudsQuick View
    By: Thomas G. West

    Four Texts on Socrates: Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes’ Clouds

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    Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and def

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    • Author: West, Thomas G.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 15 1998
    • ISBN10: 0801485746
    • Language: English
  • Great Dialogues of PlatoQuick View
    By: Plato

    Great Dialogues of Plato

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    “Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato.”–Emerson

    The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body

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    • Author: Plato
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 672
    • Publish Date: January 06 2015
    • ISBN10: 0451471709
    • Language: English
  • AntigoneQuick View
    By: Sophocles

    Antigone

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    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New T… [more below]

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