10 books in Literary Criticism & Collections - Ancient & Classical
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Waiting for the Barbarians
Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Written by Daniel Mendelsohn
Format: eBook, 440 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $24.95
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets& Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays—each one... Read more >
Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Written by Daniel Mendelsohn
Format: eBook, 440 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $24.95
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets& Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays—each one... Read more >
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Waiting for the Barbarians
Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Written by Daniel Mendelsohn
Format: Hardcover, 440 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $24.95
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets& Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays—each one... Read more >
Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Written by Daniel Mendelsohn
Format: Hardcover, 440 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2012
Price: $24.95
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets& Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays—each one... Read more >
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Atlantis
The Lost Continent Finally Found
Written by Arysio Santos
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $21.95
The late author Arysio Santos was a highly regarded climatologist, geologist, and nuclear physicist. He was also a scholar of history, folklore, languages, and the occult. In this groundbreaking study of Atlantis, he draws on all these disciplines, as well as ancient maps, Plato’s dialogues, and folkloric narratives, to provide the... Read more >
The Lost Continent Finally Found
Written by Arysio Santos
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $21.95
The late author Arysio Santos was a highly regarded climatologist, geologist, and nuclear physicist. He was also a scholar of history, folklore, languages, and the occult. In this groundbreaking study of Atlantis, he draws on all these disciplines, as well as ancient maps, Plato’s dialogues, and folkloric narratives, to provide the... Read more >
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A Guide to The Odyssey
A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald
Written by Ralph Hexter
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $13.99
For those of us who know and love the incomparable Odyssey of Homer (and there are many), Dr. Hexter has created a valuable, detailed analysis, taking into account many of Homer's most fascinating subtleties. Read more >
A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald
Written by Ralph Hexter
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2011
Price: $13.99
For those of us who know and love the incomparable Odyssey of Homer (and there are many), Dr. Hexter has created a valuable, detailed analysis, taking into account many of Homer's most fascinating subtleties. Read more >
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Literature and the Gods
Written by Roberto Calasso
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2010
Price: $13.99
Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and... Read more >
Written by Roberto Calasso
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2010
Price: $13.99
Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Travelling Heroes
In the Epic Age of Homer
Written by Robin Lane Fox
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $21.95
The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering... Read more >
In the Epic Age of Homer
Written by Robin Lane Fox
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $21.95
The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering... Read more >
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How to Read a Myth
Written by William Marderness
Format: Hardcover, 152 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2009
Price: $26.99
Confusion surrounds the idea of myth. In common parlance, the term myth often means falsehood, as in the sentence The administration's claim that inflation is under control is a myth. Scholars understand myth in a deeper sense, as an important expression of a society's values. Scholars study myths of the past... Read more >
Written by William Marderness
Format: Hardcover, 152 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2009
Price: $26.99
Confusion surrounds the idea of myth. In common parlance, the term myth often means falsehood, as in the sentence The administration's claim that inflation is under control is a myth. Scholars understand myth in a deeper sense, as an important expression of a society's values. Scholars study myths of the past... Read more >
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The Complete Poems of Sappho
Edited by Willis Barnstone
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $18.95
Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to... Read more >
Edited by Willis Barnstone
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $18.95
Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to... Read more >
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The Odyssey
Written by Homer
Translated by Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $22.95
Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer... Read more >
Written by Homer
Translated by Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 656 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $22.95
Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles Stein employs the latter approach in this dramatic, and in some ways truer... Read more >
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unabridged audiobook download and a
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Grief Lessons
Four Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
Introduction by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Now in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself... Read more >
Four Plays by Euripides
Written by Euripides
Translated by Anne Carson
Introduction by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Now in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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