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Classical Literature

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Exemplary Stories

DeCervantes
ISBN13: 9780199555000ISBN10: 0199555001 Paperback , 368 pages
Nov 2008,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$12.95 (11)
This new translation of all the surviving poems and fragments (except Pindar and Bacchylides) captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before.
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Oresteia

Aeschylus
Translated by Christopher Collard
ISBN13: 9780199537815ISBN10: 019953781X Paperback , 320 pages
Dec 2008,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$11.95 (11)
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Andromache

Euripides
translated by Susan Stewart and Wesley D. Smith
ISBN13: 9780195125610ISBN10: 0195125614 Paperback , 80 pages
Jun 2001,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$12.95 (01)
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Orestes

Euripides
Translated by John Peck and Frank Nisetich
ISBN13: 9780195096590ISBN10: 0195096592 Paperback , 128 pages
Apr 1995,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$24.99 (06)
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Ovid's Metamorphoses

Elaine Fantham
ISBN13: 9780195154108ISBN10: 019515410X Paperback , 192 pages
Jun 2004,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$35.00 (04)
An accessible introduction to one of the most popular works of classical literature
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The Classical Greek Reader

Edited by Kenneth J. Atchity
Associate Editor: Rosemary McKenna
ISBN13: 9780195123036ISBN10: 0195123034 Paperback , 470 pages
Jun 1998,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$24.95 (01)
"A magnificent achievement."--The Bookwatch
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Suppliant Women

Euripides
Translated by Rosanna Warren and Stephen Scully
ISBN13: 9780195045536ISBN10: 019504553X Paperback , 96 pages
Dec 1994,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$24.99 (04)
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Philoctetes

Sophocles
Translated by Carl Phillips
Introduction and Notes by Diskin Clay
ISBN13: 9780195136579ISBN10: 0195136578 Paperback , 128 pages
Jul 2003,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$14.99 (03)
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Ancient Greek Literature

Second Edition
Edited by K. J. Dover
With E. L. Bowie, Jasper Griffin and M. L. West
ISBN13: 9780192892942ISBN10: 0192892940 Paperback , 208 pages
Nov 1997,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$54.95 (04)
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Three Theban Plays

Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
Translated by Theodore Howard Banks
ISBN13: 9780195010596ISBN10: 0195010590 Paperback , 160 pages
Dec 1956,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$32.95 (04)
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Electra

Sophocles
Translated by Anne Carson
Introduction and Notes by Michael Shaw
ISBN13: 9780195049602ISBN10: 0195049608 Paperback , 144 pages
Feb 2001,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$29.99 (04)
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The Oresteia

Aeschylus
Translated by Alan Shapiro and Peter Burian
ISBN13: 9780195135923ISBN10: 019513592X Paperback , 304 pages
Aug 2004,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$11.95 (03)
A gripping new translation of the only complete trilogy of Greek tragic poetry
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Oedipus the King

Sophocles
Translated by Stephen Berg and Diskin Clay
ISBN13: 9780195054934ISBN10: 0195054938 Paperback , 128 pages
Mar 1988,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$9.95 (03)
A dazzling version of Sophocles' timeless work.
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Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus
Translated by James Scully and C. John Herington
ISBN13: 9780195061659ISBN10: 0195061659 Paperback , 144 pages
Feb 1990,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$12.95 (03)
An engaging new translation of Aeschylus's great tragedy, highlighting the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times.
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Antigone

Sophocles
Translated by Richard Emil Braun
ISBN13: 9780195061673ISBN10: 0195061675 Paperback , 126 pages
Feb 1990,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$11.95 (03)
An intriguing new translation of Antigone, offering a more nuanced portrait of Creon and Antigone
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Persians

Aeschylus
Translated by Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington
ISBN13: 9780195070088ISBN10: 0195070089 Paperback , 144 pages
Apr 1991,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$14.99 (03)
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Helen

Euripides
Translated by James Michie and Colin Leach
ISBN13: 9780195077100ISBN10: 0195077105 Paperback , 128 pages
Aug 1992,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$19.99 (04)
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Hippolytos

Euripides
Translated by Robert Bagg
ISBN13: 9780195072907ISBN10: 0195072901 Paperback , 128 pages
Aug 1992,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$14.99 (03)
Robert Bagg's profound translation of this Euripidean masterpiece is idiomatic, natural, and intensely lyrical, designed not only to be read but performed
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Iphigeneia at Aulis

Euripides
Translated by W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock
ISBN13: 9780195077094ISBN10: 0195077091 Paperback , 128 pages
Aug 1992,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$12.95 (03)
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Electra

Euripides
Translated by Janet Lembke and Kenneth J. Reckford
ISBN13: 9780195085761ISBN10: 0195085760 Paperback , 112 pages
Jan 1994,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$19.99 (06)
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Oedipus Tyrannus

Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge
Second Edition
Charles Segal
ISBN13: 9780195133219ISBN10: 0195133218 Paperback , 208 pages
Dec 2000,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$39.95 (04)
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Antigone

Sophocles
Edited and Translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal
ISBN13: 9780195143102ISBN10: 0195143108 Paperback , 208 pages
Jul 2007,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$11.95 (03)
An exciting new translation of Antigone, combining the talents of a poet and a noted classical scholar to produce a marvelous new version of one of the world's great dramatic works
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Aias

Sophocles
Translated by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear
ISBN13: 9780195128192ISBN10: 0195128192 Paperback , 112 pages
Mar 1999,  In Stock

Retail Price to Students:

$14.99 (03)
This new translation beautifully evokes the original poetry of this great Sophoclean tragedy.
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The Iliad

First Edition
Translated by Barry B. Powell and Homer
ISBN13: 9780199925872ISBN10: 0199925879 Paperback , 576 pages
Aug 2013,  Not Yet Published
A new translation of The Iliad and The Odyssey that is both modern and faithful to the original, by one of the world's foremost Homer scholars.