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The Last King
Rome's Greatest Enemy
Michael Curtis Ford
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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
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The Sword of Attila
A Novel of the Last Years of Rome
Michael Curtis Ford
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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...
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The Cure at Troy
A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
Seamus Heaney
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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,...
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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...
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After Ovid
New Metamorphoses
Edited by Michael Hofman and James Lasdun
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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...
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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"—
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Tales from Ovid
24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
Ted Hughes
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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...
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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.
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The Gladiators
History's Most Deadly Sport
Fik Meijer
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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....
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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
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Ariel Glucklich, Associate Professor of Religion, Georgetown University
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Conversations in Tusculum
A Play
Richard Nelson
Faber and Faber, Inc.
Set in the village of Tusculum in 45 B.C., Richard Nelson's
Conversations in Tusculum
reimagines the intense interaction among Brutus, Cassius, and Cicero leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar. It is a story about power—and the abuse of power—in ancient Rome that has startling resonance with our age.
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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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Phèdre
A Play
Jean Racine; Translated by Ted Hughes
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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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Rubicon
A Novel of Ancient Rome
Novels of Ancient Rome
(#7 of 12)
Steven Saylor
Minotaur Books
As Caesar marches on Rome and panic erupts in the city, Gordianus the Finder discovers, in his own home, the body of Pompey's favorite cousin. Before fleeing...
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The House of the Vestals
The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder
Novels of Ancient Rome
(#6 of 12)
Steven Saylor
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It is Ancient Rome, and Gordianus the Finder has a knack for finding trouble. Stalking about the city's twisting trails looking for clues and finding bodies,...
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Last Seen in Massilia
A Novel of Ancient Rome
Novels of Ancient Rome
(#8 of 12)
Steven Saylor
Minotaur Books
In the city of Massilia (modern-day Mareille), on the coast of Southern Gaul, Gordianus the Finder's beloved son Meto has disappeared—branded as a...
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A Mist of Prophecies
A Novel of Ancient Rome
Novels of Ancient Rome
(#9 of 12)
Steven Saylor
Minotaur Books
In the year 48 B.C., Rome is in the midst of Civil War. As Pompey and Julius Caesar fight for control of the Republic, Rome itself becomes a hotbed of...
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The Judgment of Caesar
A Novel of Ancient Rome
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(#10 of 12)
Steven Saylor
Minotaur Books
In 48 B.C., Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have long engaged in a battle to rule the world. Now, as Pompey plots a reckless stand on the banks of the Nile,...
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Roman Blood
A Novel of Ancient Rome
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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
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(#2 of 12)
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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Catilina's Riddle
A Novel of Ancient Rome
Novels of Ancient Rome
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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...
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The Venus Throw
A Mystery of Ancient Rome
Novels of Ancient Rome
(#4 of 12)
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
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
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 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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