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  • The Alexandreis

    A Twelfth-Century Epic

    by Walter Chatillon ...
    Translated by David Townsend ...
    Walter of Châtillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century “best-seller:” scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through his conquest of Persia and India, to his progressive moral degeneration and his poisoning by a disaffected lieutenant. The Alexandreis exemplifies twelfth ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Greek Myths

    Vol. 1

    by Robert Graves ...
    Endymion, Pelops, Daedalus, Pygmalion – what are the stories behind these and the hundreds of other familiar names from Greek mythology – names that recur throughout the history of European culture?In a two-volume work that has become a classic reference book for both the serious scholar and the casual inquirer, Robert Graves retells the adventures of the important gods and heroes worshipped by ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Greek Myths

    Vol.2

    by Robert Graves ...
    Robert Graves, classicist, poet and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience.He demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek mythology is ‘no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons’.All the scattered elements of each myth are assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Aeneid

    by Vergil, Virgil ...
    Translated by Shadi Bartsch ...
    A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.“Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English.”—Tom Holland, New StatesmanFor two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas’s dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Six Tragedies

    by Seneca ...
    Translated by Emily Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Aeneid

    by Virgil ...
    Translated by Scott McGill, Susannah Wright ...
    **“Looking for a good translation of the Aeneid? I recommend McGill and Wright’s edition…. A stunning, highly readable text.” —Rick RiordanRome’s epic origin story, brilliantly rendered in a vivid, rhythmic idiom.**Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil’s Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and ... Read more

    $22.79 CAD

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  • Aeneid

    by Virgil ...
    Translated by Frederick Ahl ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Penguin Book of the Undead

    Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

    Edited by Scott G. Bruce ...
    The walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul

    Enriched edition. A Poetic Journey of Spiritual Struggles and Temptations

    by Gustave Flaubert, Hailey Dunn ...
    Gustave Flaubert's "The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul" is a profound exploration of spiritual and existential angst, presented through a rich and innovative literary style that intertwines a lyrical prose with dramatic dialogue. Written in the mid-19th century, the text departs from conventional narrative forms, serving as a philosophical meditation on temptation, faith, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Tragedies, Volume I

    by Lucius Annaeus Seneca ...
    Translated by Susanna Braund, Alex Dressler, Elaine Fantham ...
    Series series The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    These translations of the plays by the classical Roman dramatist are "an admirable effort to bring Seneca to a wider audience" ( Bryn Mawr Classical Review).The first of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca.Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca series offers authoritative, modern ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Gods and Men

    100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome

    Edited by Daisy Dunn ...
    A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome.Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the Aeneid) and the less familiar or expected, Of Gods and Men ranges from the epic poetry of Homer to the histories of Arrian and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Phaedra and Other Plays

    by Seneca, R. Scott Smith ...
    Translated by R. Scott Smith ...
    Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD