Classics
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens
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
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
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
Paperback
Drawing on the greatest writers of its civilization, Hamilton vividly depicts the life and spirit of Rome.
The Sumerians
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.