Aeneid: Books I-VI
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The Odyssey
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
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driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
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The Iliad
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its center is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, …
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The Symposium
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever.
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In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. F… -
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventiona…
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Much Ado About Nothing
In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happi…
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Richard II
Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced repres…
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?"
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Sophocles' Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggle… -
Confessions
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his …
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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books…
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King Lear
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suf…
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Henry V
Henry V is Shakespeare’s most famous “war play”; it includes the storied English victory over the French at Agincourt. Some of it glorifies war, especially the choruses and Henry’s speeches urging his…
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Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Aemilius Paulus, Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Grachus, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, Marc Anthony)
'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as m…
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The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly u…
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Green Knight, a mysteriously powerful creature, tests the honor and courage of King Arthur's youngest knight.
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Inferno
Professor Esolen's translation of Dante's Inferno is the best one I have seen, for two reasons. His decision to use unrhymed blank verse allows him to come nearly as close to the meaning of the origin…
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Ocàs i fascinació
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The Satyricon
The Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father of the picaresque genre. It recounts the sleazy pr…
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