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  • The Odyssey

    Homer, Emily Wilson

    Hardback

    A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s "nimble gallop" and brings an ancient epic to new life.

  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens

    Aeschylus, Oliver Taplin

    Hardback

    This spellbinding, ground-breaking translation reenergises Aeschylus’ enduring saga of split loyalties, bloody sacrifice and the efforts to bring peace after generations of strife.

  • Rediscovering Homer: Inside the Origins of the Epic

    Andrew Dalby

    Paperback

    "Dalby's book and his bibliography provide a superb introduction to the debate surrounding these poems."—Lisa Montanarelli, San Francisco Chronicle

  • The Republic: A New Translation

    Plato, William C. Scott, Richard W. Sterling

    Paperback

    "I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text."—John Ciardi

  • The Roman Way

    Edith Hamilton

    Paperback

    Drawing on the greatest writers of its civilization, Hamilton vividly depicts the life and spirit of Rome.