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  • The Selected Poems of Cavafy

    by C. P. Cavafy ...
    Translated by Avi Sharon ...
    C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria’s ancient past. Figures from antiquity speak with telling interruptions from the author in such poems as ‘Anna Comnena’ and ‘You did not ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Cleopatra

    A Life

    by Stacy Schiff ...
    Named a “Best Book of the 21st Century” by Kirkus Reviews, this biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings to life the most intriguing woman in history: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life ... Read more

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  • The Life of Alexander the Great

    by Plutarch ...
    Translated by John Dryden ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ... Read more

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  • Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    by Michael Grant ...
    Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, was also a scholar, murderer, lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and one of the most remarkable women in history.The distinguished historian and classicist Michael Grant confirms that her reputation as a temptress was well-founded. However, by unravelling the sources behind the tangle of myth, gossip and invention he shows that the popular image of a wayward woman ... Read more

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  • A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization

    by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire.The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth and Epic in Homer's Iliad & Odyssey; gives an outline of Greek history in the 5th & 4th Centuries BC; looks at Greek social life and the alternative ... Read more

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  • Alexandria

    City of the Western Mind

    by Theodore Vrettos ...
    Alexandria was the greatest cultural capital of the ancient world. Accomplished classicist and author Theodore Vrettos now tells its story for the first time in a single volume. His enchanting blend of literary and scholarly qualities makes stories that played out among architectural wonders of the ancient world come alive. His fascinating central contention that this amazing metropolis created ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Constantine P. Cavafy. Poems

    by Manolis Aligizakis ...
    Translations, like everything else, wear out over time, as language, and those who read or use it, change. With a poet like Cavafy, who was so precisely tuned to the idiom of his peers, it is even more important to update the English versions of his poems frequently, so that they have the same immediate resonance with the times as the originals had with their time. This is, of course, an ... Read more

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  • Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy

    by C.P. Cavafy ...
    Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn ...
    An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of The Lost.No ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Life of Charlemagne (Illustrated)

    by Einhard ...
    Charles I or Charlemagne united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany. He was the first recognized Roman emperor in the West since the collapse of the Roman Empire three centuries earlier and ruled absolutely over a vast domain for thirteen years.Einhard’s biography of the Carolingian Empire’s founder The Life of Charlemagne: Vita ... Read more

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  • World Of Rome

    by Michael Grant ...
    An informative and accessible guide to the Roman world.Grant is 'justly recognised as an expert and civilized guide to the ancient world' THE ECONOMISTThe Romans changed the Western world and theirs became the first golden age. This is their empire of magnificence and corruption; the republic, the dictators and the slaves; the civilization and the Pax Romana, the brutality and the collapse. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature

    Edited by Peter E. Knox, J. C. McKeown ...
    Though the wonders of ancient Roman culture continue to attract interest across the disciplines, it is difficult to find a lively, accessible collection of the full range of the era's literature in English. The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature provides a general introduction to the literature of the Roman empire at its zenith, between the second century BC and the second century AD. Two ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Cleopatra

    Her History, Her Myth

    by Francine Prose ...
    Series series Ancient Lives
    A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy“A thoughtful, sympathetic portrait of a legendary historical figure.”—Kirkus ReviewsThe siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the ... Read more

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