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Ancient Egyptian Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /First published in 1973, this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the litera...
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Ancient Sex: New Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Ancient Sex: New Essays presents groundbreaking work in a post-Foucauldian mode on sexuality, sexual identities, and gender identities in ancient...
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Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead languageFrom the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, a personal and passion...
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How Dead Languages Work
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have diffe...
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Cato the Censor and the Beginnings of Latin Prose: From Poetic Translation to Elite Transcription
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In the past decade, classical scholarship has been polarized by questions concerning the establishment of a literary tradition in Latin in the late...
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The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This volume examines the long and complex history of the Greco-Roman tradition in South America, arguing that the Classics have played a crucial, t...
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Cambridge Latin Anthology
PaperbackOriginal price $33.65 - Original price $33.65Original price $33.65$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A classic anthology for GCSE. The eight sections of adapted prose include sections from Apuleius, Caesar, Cicero, Pliny, Sallust, Tacitus, and the ...
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Past and Present
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the a...
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The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride ...
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The Republic and The Laws
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dial...
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On the Nature of the Universe
PaperbackOriginal price $13.95 - Original price $13.95Original price $13.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /This is a new verse translation of Lucretius's only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville's particularly liter...
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The Complete Odes
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories...
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheu...
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The Poetic Edda
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. ...
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The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Drawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson's new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian ficti...
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Selected Works (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction...
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Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Together these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.F...
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The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722-479 BCE and written from the perspective of the ancient C...
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.What is the nature of things?What is ju...
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Libri I-III.73
HardcoverOriginal price $91.99 - Original price $91.99Original price $91.99$114.99$114.99 - $114.99Current price $114.99| /Athenaeus' Deipnosophists (The Learned Banqueters) is a major Imperial period Greek text in and of itself, but also a source of thousands of fragme...
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The Retrospective Muse: Pathways Through Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of...
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