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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...

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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 : $13.00 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 : $15.99 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 : $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...

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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"—Ron Smith, Richmond Times-Dispatch

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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...

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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.

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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 : $18.00 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 : $14.00 Buy	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.

Trade Paperback : $16.00 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 : $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...

Mass Market Paperbound : $6.99 Buy	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...

Mass Market Paperbound : $6.99 Buy	The House of the Vestals The Investigations of Gordianus the Finder Novels of Ancient Rome (#6 of 12) Steven Saylor St. Martin's Paperbacks 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,...

Mass Market Paperbound : $6.99 Buy	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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Mass Market Paperbound : $7.99 Buy	The Judgment of Caesar A Novel of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome (#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,...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Roman Blood A Novel of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome (#1 of 12) 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 : $14.95 Buy	Arms of Nemesis A Novel of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome (#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...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Catilina's Riddle A Novel of Ancient Rome Novels of Ancient Rome (#3 of 12) 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 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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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	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...