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  • The Alexandreis

    A Twelfth-Century Epic

    de Walter Chatillon ...
    Traducido por David Townsend ...
    Walter of Châtillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century “best-seller:” scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through his conquest of Persia and India, to his progressive moral degeneration and his poisoning by a disaffected lieutenant. The Alexandreis exemplifies twelfth ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • The Aeneid

    de Vergil, Virgil ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Six Tragedies

    de Seneca ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Aeneid

    de Virgil ...
    Traducido por Frederick Ahl ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Penguin Book of the Undead

    Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

    Edición de Scott G. Bruce ...
    The walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony

    A Revelation of the Soul

    de Gustave Flaubert ...
    Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work, before releasing this final version in 1874. Written in a play script form, The Temptation of Saint Anthony describes one night in Anthony the Great's life, in which he is faced with temptation from the supernatural in the desert of Egypt. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Aeneid

    de Virgil ...
    Traducido por Scott McGill, Susannah Wright ...
    Rome’s epic origin story, brilliantly rendered in a vivid, rhythmic idiom.Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil’s Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and profound loss. Through its stirring account of human struggle, meddling gods, and conflicting destinies, the poem brings to life the triumphs ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Complete Tragedies, Volume I

    de Lucius Annaeus Seneca ...
    Traducido por Susanna Braund, Alex Dressler, Elaine Fantham ...
    Series series The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    These translations of the plays by the classical Roman dramatist are "an admirable effort to bring Seneca to a wider audience" ( Bryn Mawr Classical Review).The first of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca series offers authoritative, modern ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Of Gods and Men

    100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome

    Edición de Daisy Dunn ...
    A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome.Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the Aeneid) and the less familiar or expected, Of Gods and Men ranges from the epic poetry of Homer to the histories of Arrian and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Phaedra and Other Plays

    de Seneca, R. Scott Smith ...
    Traducido por R. Scott Smith ...
    Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Fasti

    de Ovid ...
    Traducido por Anthony Boyle, Roger Woodard ...
    Written after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic work. Both a calendar of daily rituals and a witty sequence of stories recounted in a variety of styles, it weaves together tales of gods and citizens together to explore Rome's history, religious beliefs and traditions. It may also be read as a subtle but powerful political ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Complete Odes and Epodes

    de Horace ...
    Horace (65-8 bc) was one of the greatest poets of the Golden or Augustan age of Latin literature, a master of precision and irony who brilliantly transformed early Greek iambic and lyric poetry into sophisticated Latin verse of outstanding beauty. Offering allusive and exquisitely crafted insights into the brief joys of the present and the uncertain nature of the future, his Odes and Epodes ... Leer más

    $12.59 USD