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  • On Living and Dying Wellby Cicero; Thomas Habinek

    Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not Available

    In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through... more...

  • The Oedipus Cycleby Sophocles

    HarperCollins 2012; Not Available

    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...

  • Plagiarism in Latin Literatureby Scott McGill

    Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00

    A study of the concept of plagiarism in Rome and the functions that accusations and denials had in Roman culture. more...

  • Farewell Songby Rabindranath Tagore; Chakravarty Radha

    Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not Available

    Rabindranath Tagore reinvented the Bengali novel with Farewell Song; blurring the lines between prose and poetry and creating an effervescent blend of romance and satire. Through Amit and Labanya and a brilliantly etched social milieu; the novel addresses contemporary debates about ?good? and ?bad? writing; the nature of love and conjugality; and the... more...

  • Mahabharata Vol. 3by 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...

  • Saints and Symposiastsby Jason König

    Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 92.00

    Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman Empire. more...

  • The Rhetoric of the Roman Fakeby Irene Peirano

    Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00

    In-depth analysis of Roman literary fakes offering new insights into the creative dynamics of spurious literature. more...

  • The Giver of the Worn Garland KRISHNADEVARAYA'S AMUKTAMALYADAby SRINIVAS REDDY

    Penguin Books Ltd 2010; Not Available

    And below her hair; she would put on a garland and spend a few minutes just gazing into a pond; seeing her reflection and satisfying her desire before turning away and returning the worn garland to her flower basket The emperor Krishnadevaraya?s epic poem Amuktamalyada (Giver of the Worn Garland) depicts the life of the medieval Vaisnava poet-saint... more...

  • The River Speaksby Elizabeth Rani Segran; V. N. Muthukumar

    Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not Available

    In the ancient Tamil country, the Vaiyai was much more than a mighty river rushing towards the sea. People knew the river intimately and lived their lives upon its banks. In these exquisite poems from the distant past (second to eighth century CE), we glimpse the ebb and flow of everyday life: the bathing, the water games, the lovers? quarrels and... more...

  • Antigoneby Intet fornavn Sofokles; Peter Brandes; Otto Steen Due

    Aarhus University Press 2004; US$ 16.52

    Sofokles' tragedie Antigone, som opførtes første gang i Athen for knap 2500 år siden, har ikke siden op­hørt med at inspirere både ved læsning og op­fø­relser. Tragedien er bearbejdet af talrige dramatikere og in­struk­tører og er stadig i sin problemstilling så aktuel som ved sin førsteopførelse. Og ingen bearbejdelser er bedre end originalen.Problemet... more...