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The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten

Christopher Logue Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"The mounting pressure of a city siege, two politician-generals invoking gods, the amount of dust in the Middle East—this version of the first skirmishes in the Iliad has the immediacy of an embed's dispatches . . . [Logue's] verse displays a gift for the unexpected simile . . . The music [of his poetry] is wild and improvisational."—The New Yorker

Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	The Gladiators History's Most Deadly Sport Fik Meijer St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books Superfit, muscled, and macho, gladiators were hero-worshipped for their skills and courage as they fought to the death, yet despised for their humble status....

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	The Ramayana A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic Ramesh Menon North Point Press "The perfect balance of detail and narrative excitement . . . [This is] the best single-volume version of the Ramayana."—Ariel Glucklich, Associate Professor of Religion, Georgetown University

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Ad Infinitum A Biography of Latin Nicholas Ostler Walker & Company “An absorbing, scholarly account of the history of the Latin language, from its origins in antiquity to its afterlife in our own time...Ad Infinitum treats its...

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Fame

What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity

Tom Payne Picador

We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal...

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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Phèdre A Play Jean Racine; Translated by Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy. The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the...

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Roma

The Novel of Ancient Rome

Steven Saylor St. Martin's Griffin

“Roma resurrects the world's greatest city state, but also puts human flesh on the bones of history and installs a beating heart sizzling with passion. Fans of Steven Saylor will savor this novel; fans of ancient Rome will thrill to Saylor's in—depth understanding of Roman lifeways and be dazzled by the speed and sureness of the story."—Kilian Melloy, Edge (Boston)

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Empire

The Novel of Imperial Rome

Steven Saylor St. Martin's Press

“May Steven Saylor’s Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!”...

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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Roman Blood A Novel of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome #1 Steven Saylor Minotaur Books In the unseasonable heat of a spring morning in 80 B.C., Gordianus the Finder is summoned to the house of Cicero, a young advocate staking his reputation on a...

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Arms of Nemesis

A Novel of Ancient Rome

Novels of Ancient Rome #2

Steven Saylor Minotaur Books

The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word...

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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Catilina's Riddle A Novel of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome #3 Steven Saylor Minotaur Books "Saylor rivals Robert Graves in his knack for making the classical world come alive." --(ortland) Oregonian "Engrossing...Ironic and satisfying." -- San...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Venus Throw A Mystery of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome #4 Steven Saylor Minotaur Books The fourth novel in Saylor's critically acclaimed Roma Sub Rosa series, featuring Gordianus the Finder.

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A Murder on the Appian Way

A Novel of Ancient Rome

Novels of Ancient Rome #5

Steven Saylor Minotaur Books

Torchlight flickers on the elegant marble walls. The sound of a mob echoes in the street. The year is 52 B.C. and the naked body of Publius Clodius is about...

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The Triumph of Caesar

A Novel of Ancient Rome

Novels of Ancient Rome #12

Steven Saylor Minotaur Books

The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion – Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome’s legions), and for the...

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The House of the Vestals

The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder

Novels of Ancient Rome #6

Steven Saylor Minotaur Books

The first of Saylor's short story collections featuring Gordianus the Finder

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Trade Paperback : $14.99 Buy	Rubicon A Novel of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome #7 Steven Saylor Minotaur Books "Saylor writes about ancient Rome as naturally and comfortably as if he had lived there, capturing both its glory and brutality. Finely shadowed characters and an action-packed finale make this a praiseworthy addition to a series that deserves wide attention."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Trade Paperback : $14.99 Buy	Last Seen in Massilia A Novel of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome #8 Steven Saylor Minotaur Books "Saylor's scholarship is breathtaking and his writing enthralls."—*Ruth Rendell, The Sunday Times* (London)**

Trade Paperback : $14.99 Buy	A Mist of Prophecies A Novel of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome #9 Steven Saylor Minotaur Books In the year 48 B.C., Rome is in the midst of Civil War. As Pompey and Caesar fight for control of the Republic, Rome becomes a hotbed of intrigue, driven by...

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The Odyssey

A Stage Version

Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Bacchae of Euripides A New Version C. K. Williams; Introduction by Martha Nussbaum Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Williams comes this fluent and accessible version of the great tragedy by Euripides. This book includes...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar; Translated from the French by Grace Frick in Collaboration with the Author Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication...