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The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry

By: N/A

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Yale University Press: Oct-03

Seller ID: 440147

ISBN: 300099207

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Complete Sophocles: Volume I: The Theban Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: Dec-10

Seller ID: 441206

ISBN: 195388801

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ovid: Metamorphoses: Books I-IV (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts) (Bks. I-IV)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Liverpool University Press: Jan-85

Seller ID: 449782

ISBN: 856682578

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Feb-00

Seller ID: 451679

ISBN: 374111197

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S A.B.C. CALLED LA PIERRE DE NOTRE DAME

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Grabhorn-Hoyem: January 1967

Seller ID: 468436

ISBN: B071Y4QKQ3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and the Furies

By: Aeschylus

Price: $1.50

Publisher: January 2010

Seller ID: 75657

ISBN: 0486292428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Aeschylus wrote 90 plays, but only seven have survived complete. Among them is this classic trilogy dealing with the bloody history of the House of Atreus.
In Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia before the start of the Trojan War. In The Libation-Bearers, Orestes, Agamemnon's son, avenges his father by murdering his mother. In The Furies, Orestes flees to Delphi, pursued by the divine avengers (Erinyes) of his mother....
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Oresteian Trilogy

By: Aeschylus

Price: $3.00

Publisher: February 2010

Seller ID: 78979

ISBN: 0140440674

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The only surviving trilogy from ancient times - a story of murder, madness and justice

Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. The Eumenides then follows Orestes as he is hounded to Athens by the Furies' la...
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Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies) (Vol 1)

By: Aeschylus,

Price: $4.00

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: May 1969

Seller ID: 80305

ISBN: 0226307786

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket." Robert Brustein, "The New Republic"
"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody." Kenneth Rexroth, "The Nation"
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase." "Times Education Supplement"
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead." Warr...
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The Oresteia (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

By: Aeschylus,

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: October 2004

Seller ID: 305939

ISBN: 019513592X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to survive, is one of the great foundational texts of Western culture. It begins with Agamemnon, which describes Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War and his murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, continues with her murder by their son Orestes in Libation Bearers, and concludes with Orestes' acquittal at a court founded by Athena in Eumenides. The trilogy thus traces the evolution of justice in human society from blood vengeance to the rule of law, Aeschylus' contribution to a Greek legend steeped...
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

By: Aeschylus,

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: February 1984

Seller ID: 335676

ISBN: 0140443339

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration. In Agamemnon, a king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution; The Libation Bearers deals with the aftermath of Clytemnestra's regicide, as her son Orestes sets out...
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Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman: Eight Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations

By: Aeschylus,,Euripides,,Seneca,

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Applause: April 2000

Seller ID: 473194

ISBN: 1557830460

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" Aeschylus; "Oedipus the King" Sophocles; "Antigone" Sophocles; "Medea" Euripides; "The Bakkhai" Euripides; "Oedipus" Seneca; "Medea" Seneca.
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The Oresteia (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

By: Aeschylus,Peter Burian,Alan Shapiro

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May-03

Seller ID: 452359

ISBN: 195154878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Suppliants (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

By: Aeschylus/Burian, Peter

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 365665

ISBN: 0691014957

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation of this ancient Greek drama, Peter Burian introduces a new generation of readers to a powerful work of Aeschylus' later years. He conveys the strength and daring of Aeschylus' language in the idiom of our own time, while respecting what is essentially classical in this dramatist's art: the rigor of the formal cons...
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Oresteian Trilogy

By: Aeschylus/Vellacott, Philip

Price: $2.00

Publisher: March 2014

Seller ID: 268145

ISBN: 203533

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Divine Comedy: Dante Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso (Vintage Classics)

By: Alighieri, Dante

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Vintage: May 2013

Seller ID: 464216

ISBN: 0804169128

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.

Dante's Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet's journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil--author of the Roman epic the Aeniad--Dante encounters mythical, historical, and contemporaneous figures in their respective afterlives. Relying on classical (pagan) mythology a...
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The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 1965

Seller ID: 143834

ISBN: 0140441379

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage

This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the quarrel between the two queens, Hagen's treacherous murder of Siegfried, and Kriemhild's eventual triumph.

Composed nearly eight hundred years ago by an unnamed poet, the Nibelungenlied is the principal literary expression of those heroic legends of which Richard Wagner made such free use in The Ri...
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous,

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 1973

Seller ID: 468197

ISBN: 0140442898

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The tales told by Scheherazade over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahryar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of 'Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp' to the farcical 'Young Woman and her Five Lovers' and the social criticism of 'The Tale of the Hunchback', the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are also anchored to everyday life by their bawdiness and realism, pro...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous,

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: December 1960

Seller ID: 472280

ISBN: 014044100X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

N. K. Sandars's landmark translation of one of the first and greatest works of Western literature

Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the third millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, The...
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The Voyage of Argo

By: Apollonius of Rhodes/Rieu, E.

Price: $2.50

Publisher: November 2015

Seller ID: 152270

ISBN: 0140440852

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is the only full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece. It describes the thrilling adventures of the Argonauts on their voyage to Colchis to plead with king Aeetes for the fleece, his greatest treasure - and the Eros-inspired passion felt by his daughter, the beautiful witch-princess Medea, for the scheming Jason. Chronicling a journey that sees Jason and his crew traverse perilous seas, negotiate the treacherous Cyanean Rocks, and confront the lure of the Sirens' song, The Voyage of Argo is a masterful dep...
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Golden Ass (or the tale of Lucius)

By: Apuleius

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Apr-12

Seller ID: 417156

ISBN: 253200369

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Classical/Medieval Literature