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  • The Aeneid

    by Virgil ...
    Translated by Scott McGill, Susannah Wright ...
    **“Looking for a good translation of the Aeneid? I recommend McGill and Wright’s edition…. A stunning, highly readable text.” —Rick RiordanRome’s epic origin story, brilliantly rendered in a vivid, rhythmic idiom.**Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil’s Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and ... Read more

    $15.79 USD

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  • Forgery Beyond Deceit

    Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome

    Edited by John North Hopkins, Scott McGill ...
    What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ancient Rome and of ancient Rome. Its chapters reach from antiquity to the twentieth century and cover literature and art, the two areas that predominate in forgery studies, as well as the forgery of physical books, coins, and religious relics. The book ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Juvencus' Four Books of the Gospels

    Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor

    by Scott McGill ...
    Series series Routledge Later Latin Poetry
    Juvencus’ Evangeliorum libri IV, or "The Four Books of the Gospels," is a verse rendering of the gospel narrative written ca. 330 CE. Consisting of around 3200 hexameter lines, it is the first of the Latin "Biblical epics" to appear in antiquity, and the first classicizing, hexameter poem on a Christian topic to appear in the western tradition. As such, it is an important text in literary and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Companion to Late Antique Literature

    Edited by Scott McGill, Edward J. Watts ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literatureWith contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a significant transitional era in literary history from the mid-third century to the early seventh century. The Companion covers notable ... Read more

    $182.00 USD

  • Plagiarism in Latin Literature

    by Scott McGill ...
    In response to critics who charged him with plagiarism, Virgil is said to have responded that it was easier to steal Hercules' club than a line from Homer. This was to deny the allegations by implying that Virgil was no plagiarist at all, but an author who had done the hard work of making Homer's material his own. Several other texts and passages in Latin literature provide further evidence for ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Virgil Recomposed

    The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity

    by Scott McGill ...
    Series series Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies
    The Virgilian centos anticipate the avant-garde and smash the image of a staid, sober, and centered classical world. This book examines the twelve mythological and secular Virgilian centos that survive from antiquity. The centos, in which authors take non-consecutive lines or segments of lines from the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid and reconnect them to produce new poems, have received limited ... Read more

    $162.89 USD

  • From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians

    Later Roman History and Culture, 284–450 CE

    Edited by Scott McGill, Cristiana Sogno, Edward Watts ...
    Series Book 34 - Yale Classical Studies
    An integrated collection of essays examining the politics, social networks, law, historiography, and literature of the later Roman world. The volume treats three central themes: the first section looks at political and social developments across the period and argues that, in spite of the stress placed upon traditional social structures, many elements of Roman life remained only slightly changed. ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

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  • The Iliad

    by Homer ...
    Translated by Emily Wilson ...
    **“Wilson’s Iliad is clear and brisk, its iambic pentameter a zone of enchantment.” —Ange Mlinko, London Review of BooksThe greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time.**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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Odyssey

    by Homer ...
    Translated by Emily Wilson ...
    Homer’s great epic of a hero’s journey home—inspiration for the major motion picture by Christopher Nolan—in a bold, contemporary, and refreshingly readable translation."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 considered." —Madeline Miller, author of CirceComposed at the rosy-fingered ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Odyssey

    by Homer, Bernard Knox ...
    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    **The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, hailed as “the best living translator of ancient Greek drama, lyric poetry, and epic into modern English” (Garry Wills, The New Yorker)Now a major motion picture directed by Christopher NolanA Penguin Classic**“Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once ... Read more

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  • The Apocryphal Gospels

    Texts and Translations

    by Bart Ehrman, Zlatko Plese ...
    Bart Ehrman--the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus and a recognized authority on the early Christian Church--and Zlatko Plese here offer a groundbreaking, multi-lingual edition of the Apocryphal Gospels, one that breathes new life into the non-canonical texts that were once nearly lost to history. In The Apocryphal Gospels, Ehrman and Plese present a rare compilation of over 40 ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Troy

    The Greek Myths Reimagined

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Series Book 3 - Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
    In the brilliant third installment of his bestselling Mythos series, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War with his trademark wit and vibrance.Full of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. Troy is the story of the epic battle retold by Fry with drama, humor, and vivid ... Read more

    $15.19 USD