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  • 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.

  • The Sumerians

    Charles Leonard Woolley

    Paperback

    In this book Professor Woolley, one of the world's foremost archaeologists, shows quite clearly that when Egyptian civilization began the civilization of the Sumerians had already flourished for at least 2,000 years.