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Five Dialogues
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Plato
This second edition of 'Five Dialogues' presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato: Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
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Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
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Steven Pressfield
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie. Nearly 2,500 years ago, in 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. Their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as ...
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The Dream-Hunter
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
The "New York Times" bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters( novels begins a breathtaking new series that takes readers into the ethereal world of the Dream-Hunters, champions who fight to protect the dreamer from demons who prey on them. Original.
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Oedipus Cycle of Sophocles
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Sophocles, Robert Fitzgerald (Translator), Dudley Fitts (Translator)
English versions of Sophocles' three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index.
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Odyssey
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Homer
Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others.
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Three Theban plays : Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
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Sophocles
Antigone defending her integrity and ideals to the death, Oedipus questing for his identity and achieving immortality - these heroic figures have moved playgoers and readers since the fifth century BC. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, these three plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles' translation ...
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Midsummer Night's Dream
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William Shakespeare
Confusions of the heart reign in Athens, where everyone is pining away for the wrong person except Theseus, the Duke and his fiancée, Hippolyta, whose wedding day is fast approaching. Hermia, the Duke's daughter, is intent on marrying Lysander, although her father disapproves and threatens to make her a nun if she refuses to marry his choice for ...
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Last Days of Socrates
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Plato
The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court ...
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Republic
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Plato
In Plato?s "Republic", his most celebrated "dialogue," the philosopher condemns the justice and morality of Greek society after the trial and execution of his teacher, Socrates. Disillusioned with politics and politicians, Plato argued that civilization demanded truly enlightened government, led by philosopher-kings. He wrote that "...mankind will ...
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
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Thomas Cahill
In this accessible and often entertaining survey, historian Thomas Cahill reviews the achievements of Classical Greece and its huge influence on Western civilization. Beginning with an overview of Greek history--partly as Homer presented it in the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY--he goes on to focus on the other early figures who have most influenced Greek ...
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Mythology
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Edith Hamilton
This volume aims to bring to life for the modern reader, the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture - the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. Readers are introduced to the Greek gods on Olympus and Norse gods in Valhalla and can follow the drama of the Trojan ...
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Corelli's Mandolin
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Louis de Bernieres
Dr. Iannis and his daughter, Pelagia, live on the idyllic Greek island of Cephallonia in the years before World War II. Pelagia falls in love with Mandras, a fisherman, but when Italy attacks Greece in 1940, Mandras goes to war, and the villagers' quiet lives are changed forever. When an Italian officer, Corelli, is billeted with Dr. Iannis, he ...
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Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus
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Homer, Anthony Heald (Read by)
Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others.
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Classical Myth
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Barry B Powell
Comprehensive and scholarly, this well-designed text presents Greek and Roman myths in a lively and easy-to-read manner. The material has been rearranged to make it easier to find and the new edition has been streamlined. It features fresh translations, numerous illustrations (ancient and modern) of classical myths and legends, and commentary ...
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Antigone
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Sophocles
Sophocles' Antigone is among the greatest and most famous of all works of Greek literature, and it is often the play that is read first, whether in Greek or in translation, by those who are beginning to study Greek tragedy. But it is by no means an easy play, and the reader requires careful guidance if he is to appreciate its subtleties and come ...
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Great Dialogues of Plato
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Plato
Plato wrote approximately 25 dialogues--intellectual debates on such topics as law, virtue, love, and beauty--which are normally divided into three periods: those featuring Socrates, those in which the words of Socrates are most likely Plato's own, and the last several written during Plato's later years. This translation includes the complete ...
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Symposium
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Plato
The Symposium is a complex piece which is perhaps as widely read as any of Plato's works apart from the Republic. However the existing standard commentaries in English do not offer much by way of help to any reader except the classicist who knows Greek; and they also tend to be light on the dialogue as a work of philosophy. This new edition aims ...
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Creation
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Gore Vidal
Cyrus Spitama is a Zoroastrian and descendent of Zoroaster. He travels to speak with prophets and philosophers, argue theology and come up with a creation theory. Cyrus is gossipy, name-dropping and worldly--as he moves through life, he wittily focuses on its minutiae. In the Vidal tradition, this novel is rich in historical and geographic detail.
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides V
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Euripides, David Grene (Editor), Richard Lattimore (Editor)
Includes "Electra", "The Phoenician Women" and "The Bacchae".
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
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Anthony Everitt
This biography of the great Roman orator and politician examines his works and days, provides a look into the strong personalities who were his contemporaries, and evokes the grandeur of Rome at its height. The author notes Cicero's take on the baseness and folly of those around him.
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Histories
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Herodotus
Herodotus (c480-c425BC) is "The Father of History" and his "Histories" are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage ...
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The Peloponnesian War
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Donald Kagan
Sparta vs. Athens, 5th century B.C., by a modern-day Thucydides. Historian Kagan covers history, military strategy and tactics, leadership psychology, and the human toll of war. This one-volume work is based somewhat on the author's four-volume HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR.
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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times
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Professor Thomas R Martin
This compact, comprehensive and illustrated history of ancient Greece takes us from the Stone Age roots of Greek civilisation to the early Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great. Thomas Martin begins with a prehistory of late Stone Age activity that provides background for the conditions of later Greek life. He then ...
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The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
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Steven Pressfield
In the brilliantly imagined first-person voice of Alexander the Great, acclaimed novelist Pressfield brings to life his epic battles, his unerring command of his forces, and the passions and ambitions that drove him.
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Politics
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Aristotle
"The Politics" is one of Aristotle's most important works, having had an inestimable influence on political thought up until the present day.
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