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  • The Rise of Wisdom Moon

    by Krishna mishra ...
    Translated by Matthew Kapstein, J. N. Mohanty ...
    Series Book 1 - Clay Sanskrit Library
    The Rise of Wisdom Moon was composed during the mid-eleventh century by Krishna•mishra, an otherwise unknown poet in the service of the Chandella dynasty, whose cultural and religious capital was Khajuraho. The early popularity of Krishna•mishra’s work led to its frequent translation into the vernaculars of both North and South India, and even Persian as well. Famed as providing the enduring model ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Rise of the Roman Empire

    by Polybius ...
    Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert ...
    The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200–118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal and the ... Read more

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  • The Best Of The World's Classics (Restricted To Prose) Volume II - Rome: 234 B.C.-180 A.D. (Mobi Classics)

    by Henry Cabot Lodge (Editor) ...
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  • Iphigenia in Aulis

    by Euripides ...
    In this new translation of Euripides' celebrated Greek tragedy, W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr. offer a compelling look at the devastating consequence of 'man's inhumanity to man.' A stern critique of Greek culture, Iphigeneia at Aulis condemns the Trojan War by depicting the power of political ambition and the ensuing repercussions of thoughtlessly falling to the will of constituency. The ... Read more

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  • The Odyssey

    by Homer, William Allan ...
    Translated by Anthony Verity ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
    'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh- blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. ... Read more

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  • Aristophanes: Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs

    A Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes

    by Stephen Halliwell ...
    Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd ... Read more

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  • The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture

    by Helena Taylor ...
    Series series Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
    Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within this charged atmosphere. To date, criticism has focused on the reception of Ovid ... Read more

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  • The End of Dialogue in Antiquity

    Edited by Simon Goldhill ...
    'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire of late antiquity. This book, a general and systematic study of the genre in antiquity, asks: who wrote dialogues and why? Why did dialogue no longer attract writers in the later period in the same ... Read more

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  • Seneca: Hercules Furens

    by Professor Neil Bernstein ...
    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted great influence on Shakespeare and other Renaissance tragedians, and also inspired contemporary ... Read more

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  • Homeric Hymns

    by Peter McDonald ...
    In this unique and finely-wrought collection, award-winning poet and scholar Peter McDonald gives us the first contemporary translation of the Homeric Hymns; a collection of 33 anonymous Ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. From Zeus to Aphrodite, Apollo to Hermes, each hymn tells a story about a particular god, and every poem is a miniature epic in itself. As McDonald explains in his ... Read more

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  • Virgil: Aeneid I

    by Virgil ...
    Series series Latin Texts
    In Book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love is set against Aeneas' destiny as founding father of Rome.Edited by Keith Maclennan, this volume makes Virgil's work more accessible to today's students, by setting it in its literary and historical ... Read more

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