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The Essential Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2007; US$ 8.95This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo?s translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. more...
The Essential Aeneid
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006; US$ 7.50Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges. W. R. Johnson's Introduction, a shortened version of his masterly Introduction to that translation,... more...
Tao Te Ching
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1993; US$ 8.95This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete translation, Lombardo and Addiss provide one or more key lines from the original Chinese for each of the eighty-one sections, together with a transliteration of... more...
Aeneid
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2005; US$ 11.95A PEN CENTER USA 2006 Literary Award Finalist. Long a master of the crafts of Homeric translation and of rhapsodic performance, Stanley Lombardo now turns to the quintessential epic of Roman antiquity, a work with deep roots in the Homeric tradition. With characteristic virtuosity, he delivers a rendering of the Aeneid as compelling as his groundbreaking... more...
The Essential Homer
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 14.50Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey , made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology. more...
The Essential Iliad
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 8.95While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature. more...
Metamorphoses
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 11.50Ovid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it recasts and transmits rather than as a unified work of art with epic-scale ambitions of its own. Such... more...
The Letters and Other Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2007; US$ 14.50The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English, The Letters and Other Writings features an accurate and stylistically faithful new translation of both The Calamities of Peter Abelard and the remarkable letters it sparked between the ill-fated twelfth-century philosopher and his brilliant... more...









