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Tales from Tang Dynasty China: Selections from the Taiping Guangji
Hackett Publishing Co IncCurrent price €56.04Original price €58.99Compiled during the Song dynasty (9601279) at the behest of Emperor Taizong, the Taiping Guangji anthologized thousands of pages of unofficial hist...
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The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous
Oxford University PressCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99The Getty Hexameters looks in detail at a series of forty-four magical verses inscribed on a recently discovered lead tablet from Sicily in the fif...
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Horace: Odes: & Carmen Saeculare
HoraceCurrent price €63.89Original price €70.99Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative rhythms of the...
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Horace: Odes: & Carmen Saeculare
HoraceCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative rhythms of the...
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Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound
AeschylusCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate...
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The Merchant. The Braggart Soldier. The Ghost. The Persian
PlautusCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin ...
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Casina. The Casket Comedy. Curculio. Epidicus. The Two Menaechmuses
PlautusCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin ...
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The Metamorphoses
OvidCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99One of the founding texts of Western literature, the Metamorphoses is nevertheless anything but earnest or off-putting. Ovids sequence of fifteen w...
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Nicomachean Ethics
AristotleCurrent price €67.88Original price €72.99An excellent new translation and commentary. It will serve newcomers as an informative, accessible introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics and to ma...
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Gilgamesh among Us: Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic
Theodore ZiolkowskiCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99The world's oldest work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of the semimythical Sumerian king of Uruk and his ultimately f...
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Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume III: Philonicus to Xenophon. Adespota
Harvard University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The era of Old Comedy (c. 485 c. 380 BCE), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristopha...
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The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - with Biographical Sketch, Philosophy of, Illustrations, Index and Index of Terms
Marcus Aurelius AntoninusCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Current price €17.09Original price €18.99Save 10% -
Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume II: Diopeithes to Pherecrates
Harvard University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The era of Old Comedy (c. 485 c. 380 BCE), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristopha...
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Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives
PlautusCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin ...
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Stichus. Three-Dollar Day. Truculentus. The Tale of a Traveling-Bag. Fragments
PlautusCurrent price €30.39Original price €31.99Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205184 BC, are the earliest Latin ...
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The Histories, Volume V: Books 1627
PolybiusCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served th...
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Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume I: Alcaeus to Diocles
Harvard University PressCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99The era of Old Comedy (c. 485 c. 380 BCE), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristopha...
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The Histories, Volume IV: Books 915
PolybiusCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served th...
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Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
AeschylusCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate...
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Saturnalia, Volume I: Books 12
MacrobiusCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99An antiquarians festival.The Saturnalia, Macrobius encyclopedic celebration of Roman culture written in the early fifth century AD, has been prized...
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Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women
EuripidesCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have w...
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Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens
David StuttardCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich...
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Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, and Iphigenia at Aulis
EuripidesCurrent price €45.59Original price €47.99The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff, offer a faithful ...
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Trimalchio''s Feast
PetroniusCurrent price €1.89Original price €2.10''I blush to say what happened next.''A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio.Int...
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Catilinaires. Et Philippiques (Nouv. Éd. Rev. Avec Soin) (Éd.1811)
CiceronCurrent price €20.87Original price €23.99Current price €20.87Original price €23.99Save 13% -
Cyclops: The Myth and its Cultural History
Mercedes AguirreCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative ...
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Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion
Thomas NailCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: almost 2,000 ago Lucretius proposed an ethics of mo...
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Los Sonetos de Calderon en sus obras dramaticos: Estudio y edicion
Rafael OsunaCurrent price €29.33Original price €34.50A study of the somewhat parsimonious but intentional use of multiple sonnets in Calderon''s drama.
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A Successful Novel Must Be in Want of a Sequel: Second Takes on Classics from The Scarlet Letter to Rebecca
M. Carmen Gomez-GalisteoCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99What happened after Mr. Darcy married Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice? Where did Heathcliff go when he disappeared in Wuthering Heights?...
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An Old Hebrew Text of St. Matthew''s Gospel: Translated and with an Introduction Notes and Appendices
Hugh J SchonfieldCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
Hygiene, Volume II: Books 56. Thrasybulus. On Exercise with a Small Ball
GalenCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Antiquitys most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor M...
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History of Rome, Volume X: Books 3537
LivyCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome h...
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Hygiene, Volume I: Books 14
GalenCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Antiquitys most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.Galen of Pergamum (129?199/216), physician to the court of the emperor Mar...
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Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers
SophoclesCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate...
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War Songs
'Antarah ibn ShaddadCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Poems of love and battle by Arabias legendary warrior From the sixth-century highlands of Najd in the Arabian peninsula, on the eve of the advent ...
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Materialien zur Prasun-Sprache des Afghanischen Hindukusch: Teil II: Grammatik
Georg BuddrussCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Prasun (Wasi, Paruni) has long had a reputation for being the most aberrant of the Nuristani group of Indo-European languages. Only after the publi...
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Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life
Sylvia BerrymanCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle's ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appea...
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Comme Il Vous Plaira: Comédie En 3 Actes Et En Prose (Éd.1856)
William ShakespeareCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Current price €16.19Original price €17.99Save 10% -
The Odyssey: A New Translation
HomerCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.THE ODYSSEY, which tells of Odysseus's long voyage home after the battle o...
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Prometheus Bound
AeschylusCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound. The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult ...
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Beginnings: Where A Life Begins - Tales of Survival and Revenge
Gary HeilbronnCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Current price €17.58Original price €18.50Save 5%