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  • Flowers of Time

    On Postapocalyptic Fiction

    by Professor Mark Payne ...
    An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genresThe literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction—stories set after civilization’s destruction—is a long one, spanning the biblical tale of Noah and Hesiod’s Works and Days to the works of Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Cormac McCarthy, and many others. Traveling from ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • After Callimachus

    Poems

    by Stephanie Burt, Professor Mark Payne ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Greeks and Romans, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Complete Works of Sappho (Delphi Classics)

    by Sappho, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 13 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    This is the only digital version of Sappho’s work that presents each fragment in the original Greek alongside a concise brand new English translation. A brief biography is also included, as well as an Ancient Greek pronunciation section, allowing you to read aloud and experience the true beauty of Sappho’s original text. (Version 2)Features:* new translation of the surviving fragments* includes ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • An Odyssey

    A Father, a Son, and an Epic

    by Daniel Mendelsohn ...
    **A New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club PickFrom award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece.**When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Greek Mythology For Beginners

    by Joe Lee ...
    Series series For Beginners
    Would there be a Western civilization without the Greek myths? Would we be able to define our civilization and ourselves without some reference to the grand, violent, and venal doings of those denizens of Mount Olympus?Greek Mythology For Beginners presents the pantheon – that immortal collection of rogues and heroes, misfits and tyrants - and the stories about these deities and their dealings ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Aristophanes: Four Plays

    Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

    by Aristophanes ...
    Translated by Aaron Poochigian ...
    Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigian’s Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience.The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bacchae

    by Euripides, Robin Robertson, Daniel Mendelsohn ...
    A bold new translation of Euripides’ shockingly modern classic work, from Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson, with a new introduction by bestselling and award-winning writer, critic and translator Daniel Mendelsohn.Thebes has been rocked by the arrival of Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy. Drawn by the god’s power, the women of the city have rushed to worship him on the mountain, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Theogony / Works and Days

    by Hesiod ...
    Translated by C.S. Morrissey ...
    C.S. Morrissey’s brilliant translations bring a modern, lyrical sensibility to Theogony and Works and Days, Hesiod’s two great poems that paved the way for subsequent achievements in Greek philosophy. Theogony tells of the first generations of the gods and recollects how Zeus established his cosmic reign of justice. Works and Days examines the two-fold role of competition in life, what Hesiod ... Read more

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  • Works and Days

    by Hesiod ...
    Translated by A. E. Stallings ...
    **'Stallings's new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days - witty, gritty, and unsettlingly relevant - is not to be missed' TLS, Books of the YearA new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet Alicia Stallings.**Hesiod was the first self-styled 'poet' in western literature, revered by the ancient Greeks. Ostensibly written to chide and educate his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Greek Myths

    by Eric Braun ...
    Series series Mythology Around the World
    Make the mythology of ancient Greece come to life through stories of adventure, magical powers, and family battles. Discover the Greek gods and goddesses and the powers they used to control and change the world. There’s Zeus, the king of the gods, who ruled the sky, and Poseidon, the god and ruler of the seas, plus many more. Dramatic photos and illustrations, plus sidebars, facts, and ... Read more

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  • Minotaur Maze

    by Robert Sheckley ...
    Minotaur Maze is Robert Sheckley's modern take on the myth of the Minotaur. It is a tour de force of imagination, fantasy, and creative confusion. Through brief chapters running from "How Theseus Got His First Mintoauring Job" to "I Hate to Blame Daedalus for Everything," "The Attack of the Self Pity Plant," "Daedalus Dispenses with Causality," and finally, "Falling Through the Story," we travel a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elegiac Feelings American

    Poetry

    by Gregory Corso ...
    A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet's dead friend with a bitter lament for the present state of America. The second major work, "The Geometric Poem," published previously in a limited edition by Fernanda Pivano in Italy, is a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD