Close Readings: Among the Ancients
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A selection of some of the greatest works of Ancient Greek and Roman literature, in the company of Emily Wilson, professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and acclaimed translator of the Odyssey.
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Translated by Caroline AlexanderRead this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy.High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look…
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Translated by Emily WilsonA New York Times Notable Book of 2018"Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously…
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From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of…
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Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at Colonus…
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Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present…
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Aristophanes's satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic…
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Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political…
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One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest…
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A powerful and poignant translation of Vergil's epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes"Ruden set the bar for Aeneid translations in 2008, and has raised it now with this revision. I am confident it will be a long time before…
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Horace (65-8 BC) is one of the most important and brilliant poets of the Augustan Age of Latin literature whose influence on European literature is unparalleled. …
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Translated by Charles MartinIn his award-winning translation, Charles Martin combines fidelity to Ovid’s text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original.Ovid’s epic poem—whose theme of change has…
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Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes…
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