The Aeneid
 A Stone Waste!: I understand that many readers in the United States find Robert Fagles' translation easy to read. Some likely appreciate his use of colloquialisms. A reader with a European accent surely wasn't the best choice for this translation. Most [... more]
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Avodah: An Anthology of Ancient Poetry for Yom Kippur ...
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 296.452 EAN: 9780271023571 ISBN: 0271023570 Number Of Pages: 390 Publication Date: 2005-06-05 [... more]
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Thich Nhat Hanh 2009 Wall Calendar
Absolutely beautiful!: I saw this calendar today at Whole Foods, and while I'm not a fan of orange (many of the pictures are in shades of orange), the "sayings" inside are so beautiful, I came back home and immediately ordered it. Author: [... more]
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The Odyssey (Enriched Classics Series)
"I long to be homeward bound" Simon and Garfunkle: The Trojan War is over and one of our hero kings is lost. His son (Telemachus) travels to find any information about his father's fait. His wife (Penelope) must cunningly hold off suitors that [... more]
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The Structure of Old Norse Drottkvaett Poetry (Islandica)
Author: Kari Gade Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 839.61 EAN: 9780801430237 ISBN: 0801430232 Number Of Pages: 290 Publication Date: 1995-08 [... more]
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Odyssey (Complete Classics)
Author: Homer Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9789626344453 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook ISBN: 9626344458 Number Of Discs: 10 Number Of Items: 10 Number Of Pages: 10 Publication Date: 2007-06-15 Release Date: 2007-06-05 [... more]
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The Door of the Beloved: Poems of Hafiz
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9780974566795 ISBN: 0974566799 Number Of Pages: 156 Publication Date: 2006-08-01 [... more]
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Dante's Inferno
Medieval vision of the afterlife: This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) "Devine Comedy" weaved together aspects of biblical and classical Greek literary traditions to produce one of [... more]
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
Falls on the ear with the percussion of hoof beats: Every age produces its own version of Arthur and Camelot. The alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is separated from us by over 600 years but by even more from any putative historical [... more]
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Ovid: Myth & Metamorphoses (Ancients in Action)
Author: Sarah Annes Brown Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 871.01 EAN: 9781853996726 ISBN: 1853996726 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2005-02-01 [... more]
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The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems (Dover Value Editions)
Get a different translation: Let me start by saying that I love the Poetic Edda dearly, both the god- and hero-related poems. Norse mythology's heroes, like its gods, know they will die, but go on living and striving anyway, and the Poetic Edda [... more]
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The Romance of Tristan: The Tale of Tristan's Madness ...
Folksy and Fabulous: It is usually the case that within a page or two of reading an introduction, the reader knows whether or not they are in the hands of a reliable editor and translator. Alan Fedrick inspires such confidence. His is a scholarly, [... more]
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