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  • Ovid's Heroides

    A New Translation and Critical Essays

    by Paul Murgatroyd, Bridget Reeves, Sarah Parker ...
    This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid’s Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her treatment elsewhere in Classical literature. Where relevant, reception in later literature, film, music and art, and feminist aspects of the myth are ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Classic Myths to Read Aloud

    The Great Stories of Greek and Roman Mythology, Specially Arranged for Children Five and Up by an Educational Expert

    by William F. Russell ...
    The most complete collection of Greek and Roman myths specially arranged to be read aloud to children aged five to twelve. "Every child deserves this book. Those who do the reading aloud will be enlightened and rewarded, too."--Edwin Newman Line drawings. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Metamorphoses: A New Translation

    A New Translation

    by Ovid ...
    Translated by Charles Martin ...
    "A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."—Washington PostOvid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Medea and Other Plays

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by Philip Vellacott ...
    Medea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions. In Medea, a woman rejected by her lover takes hideous revenge by murdering the children they both ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Metamorphoses

    by A. D. Melville ...
    Translated by E. J. Kenney ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Actor's Book of Classical Monologues

    More Than 150 Selections from the Golden Age of Greek Drama, the Age of Shakespeare, the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Stefan Rudnicki ...
    A challenging, wide-ranging collection of monologues from history’s greatest dramatic worksFrom the stately and poetic Greek tragedies to the lively, bawdy Restoration comedies, the classical repertoire is a treasure trove of often-overlooked materials for male and female, young and old. The solo pieces collected here vary widely in mood, style, and level of challenge; they include a generous ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Theban Plays

    by Sophocles ...
    Translated by E. Watling ...
    King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's struggle against fate. King Oedipus is the devastating portrayal of a ruler who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realize he has ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Six Tragedies

    by Seneca ...
    Translated by Emily Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Aeneid

    by Vergil, Virgil ...
    Translated by Shadi Bartsch ...
    A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.“Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English.”—Tom Holland, New StatesmanFor two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas’s dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Metamorphoses

    by Ovid ...
    Translated by Stephanie McCarter ...
    Series series A Penguin Classics Hardcover
    The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid’s classic.A Penguin Classic HardcoverOvid’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained ... Read more

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  • The Oresteian Trilogy

    by Aeschylus ...
    Translated by Philip Vellacott ...
    Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Euripides V

    Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore ...
    Series series The Complete Greek Tragedies
    Euripides V includes the plays “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “Iphigenia in Aulis,” translated by Charles R. Walker; “The Cyclops,” translated by William Arrowsmith; and “Rhesus,” translated by Richmond Lattimore.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD