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Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Achilles A Novel Elizabeth Cook Picador "Unfailingly modern: swift, cinematic, sexually explicit, and ravishingly beautiful. This poetic masterpiece, a psychologically acute portrait of the Homeric hero Achilles . . . imbues [Homer] with a post-Freudian emotional sensibility, focusing more on the nuances of individual motivation than on the grandeur of the action."—*The Atlantic Monthly*

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 : $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 : $13.00 Buy	Alcestis A Play Euripedes; Translated and Adapted by Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was...

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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 : $12.00 Buy	Aristotle's Poetics Aristotle; Translated by S. H. Butcher; Introduction by Francis Fergusson Hill and Wang Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics, written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental...

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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 : $15.00 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 : $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

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The Buried Book

The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

David Damrosch Holt Paperbacks

"Useful, entertaining and informative . . . The Buried Book should help introduce new readers to an ancient classic that has really come into its own in the 21st century."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

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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 : $14.00 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 : $15.95 Buy	The Day of the Barbarians The Battle That Led to the Fall of the Roman Empire Alessandro Barbero Walker & Company “A very readable narrative of one of the most significant battles in European history…An excellent resource.”—Booklist On August 9, 378 AD, at Adrianople in...

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The Eclogues of Virgil

Translated by David Ferry; Introduction and Notes by David Ferry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"As fresh-minted and sparkling as his deservedly praised Odes of Horace and his rendering of Gilgamesh . . . Ferry's translation wonderfully preserves the exquisite harmonies of the mode while giving it a vigorous edge of reality."—Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe

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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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The Epistles of Horace

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Translated by David Ferry; Introduction and Notes by David Ferry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Writing primarily in fluid iambic pentameter and with a simplicity of vocabulary and expression that brilliantly combines fluency and clarity, Ferry reproduces the thought and tone of . . . Rome's most sophisticated poet."—Frederic Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal

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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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The Georgics of Virgil

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A translation by David Ferry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"David Ferry's translation of the enchanting Georgics is for poetry lovers like a drink of water from a country spring on a summer day. It's refreshing, invigorating, almost intoxicating in the pleasure of discovery it offers."—Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times

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Gilgamesh

A New Rendering in English Verse

David Ferry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"There have been other English accounts of this hero with a thousnad descendants, but this is the first one that is as much poetry as scholarship."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

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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 : $14.00 Buy	The Golden Ass The Transformations of Lucius Apuleius; Translated from the Latin by Robert Graves Farrar, Straus and Giroux The story of The Golden Ass is that of Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good birth who encountered many strange adventures while disporting himself along the...

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The Greeks and Greek Civilization

Jacob Burckhardt; Edited and with an Introduction by Oswyn Murray; Translated by Sheila Stern St. Martin's Griffin

"Burckhardt's was one of the most profound and original historical minds that ever existed. This reconstruction of his work on ancient Greece is a wonderful contribution to our wisdom and knowledge."—Robert Conquest, author of The Harvest of Sorrow

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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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The Iliad

The Fitzgerald Translation

Homer; Translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Introduction by Andrew Ford Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

"This is a masterpiece and will surely rank as one of the best translations of a classic in the English language . . . This is for every reader in our time and possibly for all time."—Library Journal

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