Overview :This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the sc... Read More
Overview :Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irrec... Read More
Overview :Now available in an accessible, new translation, "The Emperor's Handbook" is an important piece of ancient literature that remains more rele... Read More
Overview :Published circa 335 BC, "Poetics" is the first surviving work to reflect on dramatic and literary theory. Enormously influential through the... Read More
Overview :Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus's "Agamemnon," translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound," translated by ... Read More
Overview :Phaedrus is a dialogue written by Plato that depicts a conversation between Socrates, Plato's famous teacher, and Phaedrus, an Athenian aris... Read More
Overview :The Golden Age, Seen with Modern EyesThe brilliance of fifth-century Athens, the subject of Edith Hamilton's celebrated The Greek Way (1930)... Read More
Overview :2015 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published... Read More
Overview :Euripides IV contains the plays "Helen," translated by Richmond Lattimore; "The Phoenician Women," translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and "Ore... Read More
Overview :Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome he died in AD 12 or 1... Read More
Overview :The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale--and the Weird, wher... Read More
Overview :How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imita... Read More
Overview :Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persi... Read More
Overview :The acknowledged master of Greek comedy, Aristophanes brilliantly combines serious political satire with bawdiness, pyrotechnical bombast wi... Read More