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The Ten Thousand
A Novel of Ancient Greece
Michael Curtis Ford
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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...
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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 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,...
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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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The Burial at Thebes
A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
Seamus Heaney
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"[Heaney has] composed a poem full of brilliant strokes . . . He varies his rhythms ingeniously."—
Garry Wills,
The New York Times Book Review
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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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The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables
Robert Henryson; Translated by Seamus Heaney
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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...
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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"—
Ron Smith,
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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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All Day Permanent Red
The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten
Christopher Logue
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"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
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The New Yorker
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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
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
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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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