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The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted
The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poets Taliesin's is one of the most...
The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past
'A tour of those far-flung places where Romans rarely dared to venture' The Times 'A strikingly original take . . . uncovering forgotten stories of life on the periphery' Spectator...
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGE An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by...
The Lives of the Caesars
A masterful translation of Suetonius' renowned biographies of the twelve Caesars, by the award-winning historian and The Rest Is History podcaster Tom Holland The ancient Roman empire was the supreme...
Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist
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In a work that re-investigates archival materials and deploys an innovative theoretical framework, Jean Mills explores the intellectual and political relationship between Virginia Woolf and the Cambridge classicist Jane Ellen...
The Invisible Sun: A Guide for the Soul from Rumi's Master
Longlisted for the PEN Translation Award Best Spiritual Books of 2025 - Spirituality and Practice The first comprehensive English collection from one of the world's most influential mystics-Attar-the twelfth-century poet...
Seventh-Century Popes and Martyrs: The Political Hagiography of
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This is the 2nd volume in the series Studia Antiqua Australiensia, produced within the Ancient History Documentation Research Centre, Macquarie University. This collection of Latin texts, published in a new...
The Shadow of Solomon: The Lost Secret of the Freemasons Revealed
What secrets lie behind the mysterious order of the Freemasons? Published to coincide with Dan Brown's new novel, set in the enigmatic world of Freemasonry, Laurence Gardner's new book draws...
Realms of the Round Table
Fully illustrated collection of rare and previously unpublished tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, retold for a new generation by leading Arthurian expert, John Matthews,...
The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor...
The Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table: A
The most famous and influential work of English fantasy ever published, reimagined for a new generation of readers by John Matthews, one of the world's leading Arthurian experts, and illustrated...
Monkey King: Journey to the West
One of the greatest classics of Chinese literature One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to...
The Wrath of Achilles
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles- godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks....
The Lives of the Caesars
A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biographies of the twelve Caesars, by the award-winning historian and The Rest Is History podcaster Tom Holland. The ancient Roman empire was the...
Electra and Other Plays
A new translation by David Raeburn, with introduction and notes by Pat Easterling Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound...
The Art of Rhetoric (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics... Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as...
Chekhov Then and Now: The Reception of Chekhov in World Culture
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Since his death in 1904, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's works have had an enormous resonance in different cultures and fields of artistic activity. The essays in this volume examine the various...
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography
Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul...
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Wu Cheng'en's 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written....
Whatever is Rational is Tolerable
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I must die. But must I die bawling?' What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can we rise...
Why I am a Stoic
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs- Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters...
Paradise
'Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.' New York Times Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded...
Agricola and Germania
This is a lightly revised edition of Mattingly's original translation plus a new introduction, new notes, a chronology and further reading, by James Rives The Agricola is both a portrait...
The Aeneid
Penguin Classics relaunch. Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his...
The Aeneid
From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odysseycomes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in theIliad, begins an incredible journey...
Latin Literature: An Anthology
A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from...
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven
A new translation by Alan H. Sommerstein of four of Aeschylus' most celebrated plays Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens,...
The Iliad
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITY A stunning new translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss...
Greek Tragedy
Bringing together the masterpieces of classical tragedy in one volume, this is the ideal single-volume introduction for theatre goers, actors, general readers, and students of Classics, English Literature, and Drama....
On Living and Dying Well
A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation by Thomas Habinek In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender...
The Nicomachean Ethics
One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a lively new translation by Adam Beresford 'Right and wrong is a human thing' What does it mean to...
Timaeus and Critias
Timaeus and Critias has a central place in Western thought and is best known to many for the story of Atlantis Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two...
Electra and Other Plays
A new translation by David Raeburn, with introduction and notes by Pat Easterling Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound...
Meditations
A new translation of Marcus Aurelius's pithy and inspirational philosophical notebooks. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD...
Austentatious : Life Lessons from Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged that most of us could use some guidance. Whether you're looking to marry landed gentry with several carriages, have falsely accused an in-law of...
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story and a mischievous
In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to...
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWhat is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should...
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGEAn enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star...
Women and War in Antiquity
Author: Jacqueline Fabre-SerrisFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 612g, 360 pagesPublished: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States, 2016The martial virtues-courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength-were central to male identity in the ancient...