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Piers Plowman : A New Translation of the B-Text

William Langland
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This is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of med ...

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History of Rome, XIV : Summaries. Fragments. Julius Obsequens. General Index

Livy
Hardcover - $52.95

Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17.

Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation ...

Book cover for Titus Livius Livy: AB Urbe Condita

AB Urbe Condita : Volume III

Titus Livius Livy
Hardcover - $122.95

The Oxford Classical Texts, of Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the foot of each page. There ar ...

Book cover for Titus Livius Livy: History of Rome, III

History of Rome, III : Books 5-7

Titus Livius Livy
Hardcover - $52.95

Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in AD 12 or 17.

Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation ...

Book cover for Dionysius Longinus: Works of Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime or a Treatise Concerning the Sovereign Perfection of Writing

Works of Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime or a Treatise Concerning the Sovereign Perfection of Writing

Dionysius Longinus
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It must be a very unpleasing reflection to anyone who has a just and critical taste of the writings of the ancients to consider how many noble and useful works have been swallowed up in the ocean of time. Of what important value several of them were ...

Book cover for Lucian: Lucian, IV, Anacharsis or Athletics. Menippus or the Descent Into Hades. on Funerals. a Professor of Public Speaking. Alexander the False Prophet. Ess

Lucian, IV, Anacharsis or Athletics. Menippus or the Descent Into Hades. on Funerals. a Professor of Public Speaking. Alexander the False Prophet. Ess

Lucian
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Lucian (ca. 120-190 AD), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful travelling lecturer, before settling in Athens and developing his original brand of ...

Book cover for Jamie Masters: Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile

Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile

Jamie Masters
Paperback - $103.95

This book is a major literary re-evaluation of Lucan's epic poem, the Bellum Civile ('The Civil War').

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Song and Legend from the Middle Ages

William D. McClintock
Paperback - $33.95

This volume is a part of the course of home reading entitled the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. The aim of this little book is to give general readers some idea of the subject and spirit of European Continental literature in the later and ...

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Mahabharata, Book Nine : Salya, Volume One

Justin Meiland
Hardcover - $48.95

The Book of Shalya recounts in gory detail the final destruction of the Kaurava army and the defeat of its leader, Duryodhana. In this first volume heroic duels and martial speeches abound as Shalya, the king of the Madras, is made general of the Kau ...

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