Trade Books for Courses :: Trade Books For Courses: Classics Classics Books

Mass Market Paperbound : $7.99 Buy	The Ten Thousand A Novel of Ancient Greece Michael Curtis Ford St. Martin's Paperbacks In 401 B.C., a thundering army of mercenaries, camp followers, dreamers, and glory seekers set off to help a rebellious foreign general named Cyrus. In the...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

The Last King

Rome's Greatest Enemy

Michael Curtis Ford St. Martin's Paperbacks

To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a ferocious and brilliant king on the...

Oregon Book Award - Finalist - Novel

Bonus

Awards

Mass Market Paperbound : $6.99 Buy	The Sword of Attila A Novel of the Last Years of Rome Michael Curtis Ford St. Martin's Paperbacks For centuries, Rome had ruled from Africa to the wilds of Britain. Now, from across a broad plain of waving grass, a new enemy had poured out of the East—to be...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Revenger's Tragedy New Mermaids Brian Gibbons Methuen Drama The Revenger's Tragedy is an anonymous masterpiece of tragic burlesque first staged in 1607 and produced at a crucial phase in Jacobean theatre with Hamlet,...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Cure at Troy A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero,...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	The Burial at Thebes A Version of Sophocles' Antigone Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks "[Heaney has] composed a poem full of brilliant strokes . . . He varies his rhythms ingeniously."—Garry Wills, The New York Times Book Review

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Xenophon's Cyrus the Great The Arts of Leadership and War Edited and with an Introduction by Larry Hedrick St. Martin's Griffin In 1906, a stilted English translation of Xenophon of Athens' story about Cyrus the Great's military campaigns was published. Now, a century later, a much more...

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables

Robert Henryson; Translated by Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The greatest of the late medieval Scots makars, Robert Henryson was influenced by their vision of the frailty and pathos of human life, and by the inherited...

Excerpt: Read

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	After Ovid New Metamorphoses Edited by Michael Hofman and James Lasdun Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the great works in classical literature, and a primary source for our knowledge of much of classic mythology, in which the...

Trade Paperback :
$14.00 Buy

The Oresteia of Aeschylus

A New Translation by Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Hughes's rendering of this appalling story has the hurtling momentum one assumes the playwright's original Greek had for his Athenian audience . . . To release the play's staggering power Hughes has transformed some thoughtful scholarly commentary into raw horror and agonizing ethical dilemma . . . Ferociously physical . . . like the best of Hughes's own poems"—Ron Smith, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

Tales from Ovid

24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately...

Excerpt: Read

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry
Whitbread Book Award - Winner - This book was a winner in both Book of the Year and the Poetry categories. This award was renamed the Costa Book Award in 2006.

Bonus

Awards

Trade Paperback :
$12.00 Buy

All Day Permanent Red

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...

Trade Paperback :
$16.00 Buy

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...

Excerpt: Read

Bonus

Read the beginning of Fame

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...

Trade Paperback :
$15.95 Buy

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)

Excerpt: Read

Hardcover :
$25.99 Buy

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!”...

More Formats: Audio

Excerpt: Read

Bonus

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...

Trade Paperback :
$15.99 Buy

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...

Excerpt: Read

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.

Trade Paperback :
$14.95 Buy

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...

Excerpt: Read