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Iliad of Homer

Iliad of Homer more books like this

by Homer

Pope spent his formative years as a poet translating Homer, beginning with "The Iliad", his translation of which Samuel Johnson called "the greatest version of poetry the world has ever seen". This edition makes available for the first time in paperback Pope's notes in their entirety, enabling us to listen in as one poetic genius illuminates the ...

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The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A: The Middle Ages

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A: The Middle Ages more books like this

by Professor Christopher Baswell, Anne Howland Schotter

Key Benefit: The Fourth Edition builds upon the strengths of previous editions with its sustained attention to the context in which the literature was produced and its broadened scope of literature that includes the full cultural diversity of the British Isles. Key Topics: Includes canonical authors and newly visible authors. Extensive selections ...

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The Sagas of Icelanders: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

The Sagas of Icelanders: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition more books like this

by Various, Jane Smiley (Editor), Robert Kellogg (Introduction by)

In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's great literary treasures - as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern ...

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Defence Speeches

Defence Speeches more books like this

by Marcus Tullius Cicero, D H Berry (Translator)

'But I must stop now. I can no longer speak for tears - and my client has ordered that tears are not to be used in his defence.' Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world: he dominated the Roman courts, usually appearing for the defence. His speeches are masterpieces of persuasion: compellingly written, emotionally powerful ...

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Protagoras

Protagoras more books like this

by Plato

The Protagoras is one of Plato's most entertaining dialogues. It represents Socrates at a gathering of the most celebrated and highest-earning intellectuals of the day, among them the sophist Protagoras. In flamboyant displays of both rhetoric and dialectic, Socrates and Protagoras try to out-argue one another. Their arguments range widely, from ...

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Virgil: The Georgics: Volume 2, Books III-IV

Virgil: The Georgics: Volume 2, Books III-IV more books like this

by Virgil, Richard F Thomas (Editor)

Ostensibly a work devoted to Roman agricultural practices, this is a deeply philosophic poem on the possibility of a regenerative universe.

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The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1a: The Middle Ages

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1a: The Middle Ages more books like this

by Anne Howland Schotter, Professor Christopher Baswell (Editor), David Damrosch (Editor)

Volume 1A: The Middle Ages of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged text that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the Middle Ages.

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Cicero: Catilinarians

Cicero: Catilinarians more books like this

by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Andrew R Dyck (Editor)

As consul in 63 BC Cicero faced a conspiracy to overthrow the Roman state launched by the frustrated consular candidate Lucius Sergius Catilina. Cicero's handling of this crisis would shape forever after the way he defined himself and his statesmanship. The four speeches he delivered during the crisis show him at the height of his oratorical ...

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The Ocean of the Rivers of Story: Volume One

The Ocean of the Rivers of Story: Volume One more books like this

by Somadeva, Sir James Mallinson (Translator)

Soma deva composed his "The Ocean of the Rivers of Story" in Kashmir in the eleventh century CE. It is a vast collection of tales based on "The Long Story". Its twenty thousand plus verses are written in Sanskrit and it has long been used as an introductory text for students of the language.

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The Literature of Ancient Sumer

The Literature of Ancient Sumer more books like this

by Dr. Jeremy Black (Editor), Graham Cunningham (Editor), Eleanor Robson (Editor)

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love poetry. The translations have benefited both from the work of many scholars and from our ever ...

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Piers Plowman more books like this

by William Langland

The earliest manuscript copy of this alliterative, allegorical poem dates from 1362. In subsequent years, various differing editions appeared, though each was probably drawn from one of the three permutations of the text known as Versions A, B, and C. This critical edition of the poem presents all three Versions with helpful notes. The poem ...

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Plato, II, Laches. Protagoras. Meno. Euthydemus more books like this

by Plato, W R Lamb (Translator)

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is possible; ...

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On Agriculture, II: Books 5-9 more books like this

by Columella, E S Forster (Translator), Edward H Heffner (Translator)

Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about 70 CE. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service in Syria and Cilicia and that he died at Tarentum. Columella's "On Agriculture" ("De Re Rustica") is the most ...

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Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Text more books like this

by William Langland, A V C Schmidt (Translator)

The earliest manuscript copy of this alliterative, allegorical poem dates from 1362. In subsequent years, various differing editions appeared, though each was probably drawn from one of the three permutations of the text known as Versions A, B, and C. This critical edition of the poem presents all three Versions with helpful notes. The poem ...

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The Love Books of Ovid (the Loves, the Art of Love, Love's Cure, and the Art of Beauty) more books like this

by Ovid, J Lewis May (Translator)

'The Love Books of Ovid' is a combination of four books of the Roman poet's verse translated into prose. This volume includes 'Amores' or 'The Loves', 'Ars Amatoria' or 'The Art of Love', 'Remedia Amoris' or 'Love's Cure', and 'Medicamina Faciei Feminae' or 'The Art of Beauty'. Considered to be a master of the elegy form of poetry, Ovid, is ...

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Valley of the Kings more books like this

by John Romer

The classic historical account of one of the world's richest archaeological sites. For more than five hundred years, until about 1000 BC, the Valley of the Kings held a busy community of tomb workers, the limestone landscape was white with the debris of fresh excavation and all the known pharaohs of the Egyptian New Kingdom lay in their great ...

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Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology more books like this

by John L Foster (Translator)

"Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge; approach the unlettered as well as the wise. The summit of artistry cannot be reached, nor does craftsman ever attain pure mastery. More hidden than gems is chiselled expression yet found among slave girls grinding the grain." - from "The Maxims of Ptahhotep". Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and ...

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Hippolytos more books like this

by Euripides

Euripides' Hippolytos tells of an honourable youth's tragic death, contrived by his father in the false belief that his son had seduced his new wife. This edition of the play is intended for students and scholars alike. The detailed commentary deals with textual problems in full, but wherever possible the editor has sought to explain the text ...

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Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures more books like this

by Geoffrey S Kirk

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The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens more books like this

by Cynthia Farrar

The ancient Greeks invented democracy. They also invented political theory. This book seeks to show that these were not unrelated achievements. The development of political theory accompanied the growth of democracy at Athens in the fifth century BC. By analysing the writings of Protagoras the sophist, Thucydides the historian, and Democritus the ...

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Propertius: Elegies I-IV more books like this

by Professor L Richardson, Jr. (Editor)

The Latin poet Propertius (ca. 50-16 B.C.) is considered by many to be the greatest elegiac poet of Rome. Long neglected because of the obscurity of his thought and the vagaries of his syntax, Propertius has now emerged as a writer of compelling originality and intellectual power. In this authoritative edition of Propertius's elegies, L. ...

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The Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom more books like this

by Visnusarman, Patrick Olivelle (Translator)

The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists. Many of these narratives have traveled across the world, and are known in the West as Aesop's fables.

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Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome: An Anthology more books like this

by I M Plant (Editor)

Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important literature written by women during this period has survived. Edited by I. M. Plant, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome is a comprehensive anthology of the surviving literary texts of women writers from the Greco-Roman world that offers new English ...

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Seneca, VI, Epistles 93-124 more books like this

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Richard M Gummere (Translator)

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in 54 CE, advising minister to Nero, some ...

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Metamorphoses (the Golden Ass), II: Books 7-11 more books like this

by Lucius Apuleius, J Arthur Hanson (Translator)

In the "Metamorphoses" of ApuleiusThe Golden Ass," we have the only Latin novel which survives entire. It is truly enchanting: a delightful romance combining realism and magic. The hero, Lucius, eager to experience the sensations of a bird, resorts to witchcraft but by an unfortunate pharmaceutical error finds himself transformed into an ass. He ...

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