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Oxford University Press, January 2009. Trade Paperback. The Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy--the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. In this family history, Fate.....
David McKay Company, Inc., August 1962. Hardcover. Ex-library, with some associated markings. Cocked. Dust jacket is fragile, with several tears. Previous owner's name on first front end page. Ex-library, with some associated markings. Cocked. Dust jacket is fragile, with several tears. Previous owner's name on first front end page.
Signet Book, March 1970. Mass Market Paperback.
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Penguin Classics, October 1954. Paperback. The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume containing Phoenician Women Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Orestes and Rhesuscompletes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics.
Pocket Books, January 1977. Mass Market Paperback.
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Penguin Classics, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods.....
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Oxford University Press, September 2014. Trade Paperback. 'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is.....
HarperEntertainment, September 2007. Mass Market Paperback.
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Oxford University Press, July 2009. Trade Paperback. This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldest known Greek poets. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy and account of.....
Clarendon Press, December 1920. Hardcover. Reprinted 1970. Jacket, which is price-clipped, is in a mylar protector, with some scuffs on the back panel. Some pages are annotated in pencil, though most are clean. Reprinted 1970. Jacket, which is price-clipped, is in a mylar protector, with some scuffs on the back.....
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Signet, December 2015. Mass Market Paperback. THE WORLD'S GREATEST WAR NOVEL Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amid devastation and destruction. Perhaps the Western world's first and best storyteller, Homer draws the reader in with bated breath. His masterful tale contains some of the.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, August 2024. Trade Paperback. The Emily Wilson translation. The Emily Wilson translation. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan.....
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Penguin Classics, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Heavily underlined, highlighted and annotated. Heavily underlined, highlighted and annotated. The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal.....
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Penguin Classics, January 1998. Trade Paperback. A new modern translation of "The Iliad" that is fast-moving, direct, emphasizes the action of the story, and is especially helpful for those first encountering this classic work.
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W. W. Norton & Company, November 2018. Trade Paperback. Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, February 2001. Trade Paperback. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his.....
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Penguin Classics, November 1999. Trade Paperback. Translated by Robert Fagles. Translated by Robert Fagles. By its evocation of a real or imaged heroic age, its contrasts of character and its variety of adventure, above all by its sheer narrative power, the Odyssey has won and preserved its place among the.....
