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  • Mahabharataby Bibek Debroy

    Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not Available

    The Mahabharata is one of the greatest stories ever told. Though the basic plot is widely known, there is much more to the epic than the dispute between Kouravas and Pandavas that led to the battle in Kurukshetra. It has innumerable sub-plots that accommodate fascinating meanderings and digressions, and it has rarely been translated in full, given... more...

  • Commenta in Ciceronis Rhetoricaby C. Marius Victorinus; Thomas Riesenweber

    De Gruyter 2013; US$ 84.00

    Für diese kritische Edition des Kommentars zu Ciceros De inventione aus der Feder des spätantiken Rhetorikprofessors Marius Victorinus werden erstmals Handschriften eines unabhängigen Überlieferungszweiges herangezogen, der an vielen Stellen den richtigen Text bewahrt. Durch die neue handschriftliche Grundlage und eine erstmals durchgeführte kritische... more...

  • The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odysseyby Egbert J. Bakker

    Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 72.00

    A literary study of the Odyssey based on the central economic and symbolic importance of the eating of meat. more...

  • Selections from Ystorya Bown o Hamtwnby Erich Poppe; Regine Reck

    University of Wales Press 2009; US$ 25.00

    ‘Selections of Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn’ provides edited selections, together with an introduction, notes, and glossary, from a long and entertaining thirteenth century Welsh text which belongs to the genre of medieval translations. more...

  • The Poems of Oswald von Wolkensteinby Albrecht Classen

    Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00

    This is the first complete English translation of Oswald von Wolkenstein's poems, regarded as lyric masterpieces of the late Middle Ages. more...

  • Songs on Bronzeby Nigel Spivey

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005; US$ 7.99

    A vivid, uninhibited retelling of the classic Greek stories Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century; a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths, which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal. Most of us would like to know the Greek myths better... more...

  • The Odysseyby Randy Lee Eickhoff; Homer

    Tom Doherty Associates 2005; US$ 20.99

    The Odyssey is the original journey tale, a genre that has lasted three thousand years, and has had a lasting influence on on literature and art. The trials of Odysseus were first told by the great bard Homer. For ten long years the Greeks and Trojans have fought on the plains of Troy, and now Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, and the other victorious... more...

  • Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competitionby Zachary P. Biles

    Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 86.00

    Demonstrates how the competitive context in which Athenian comic drama was performed shaped the poetry and plots of Aristophanes' plays. more...

  • In Defence of the Republicby Cicero

    Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not Available

    Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'. This new selection of speeches illustrates Cicero's fierce loyalty to the Roman Republic, giving... more...

  • The Oedipus Cycleby Sophocles

    HarperCollins 2012; US$ 12.99

    Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King , Oedipus at Kolonos , and Antigone ?together known as The Oedipus Cycle . One of the unquestionable acmes of world literature, Sophocles?s immortal series of plays centers upon the royal family of Thebes, whose struggles for... more...