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The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering: Vol 1,V.2: A Modern Rendering: 1 by Ramesh Menon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Ramayana and the Mahabharata are the two great epics of India, the Mahabharata being by far the longer. Both were first composed in verse and, coming down the centuries in the ancient oral tradition, have deeply influenced the history, culture and arts of not only the Indian subcontinent but of most of South-East Asia. The Mahabharata tells of a Great War, and the events that lead upto it... -
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy]()
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide by Thomas Fahy
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth... -
![Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic by Sophus Helle]()
Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic by Sophus Helle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace “Sophus Helle’s new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read.”—Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe “Looks to be the last word on this Babylonian masterpiece... -
![Sophocles II: Ajax / Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies, #4) by Sophocles]()
Sophocles II: Ajax / Women of Trachis / Electra / Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies, #4) by Sophocles
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 29 ratings"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."Robert Brustein, The New Republic"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase... -
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![Anglo-Saxon Poetry by S.A.J. Bradley]()
Anglo-Saxon Poetry by S.A.J. Bradley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsProse translations of most of the poetry surviving in the four major codices and other manuscripts in a style accessible to a modern audience and yet close to Old English... -
![An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis]()
An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe award-winning An Arrow's Flight tells the story of the Trojan War and Pyrrhus, the son of the fallen Achilles, now working as a go-go boy and hustler in the big city. Magically blending ancient headlines and modern myth, Merlis creates a fabulous new world where legendary heroes declare their endowments in personal ads and any panhandler may be a divinity in disguise... -
![The Greek Treasure by Irving Stone]()
The Greek Treasure by Irving Stone
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBe it Michelangelo or Henry Schliemann, be it a chisel or a pick, there's always a lot of wood to chop in one of Irving Stone's factually fortified biographies of great men of obdurate vigor. Schliemann was certainly the most single-minded of these when in middle age, rich & retired from business, he decided to uncover the city of Troy destroyed some 3000 years ago...Categorized as:
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![Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West]()
Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE - Archilochus and Alcman, Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived... -
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The Double Tongue by William Golding
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Double Tongue is William Golding's last and perhaps most superbly imaginative novel. It is a fictional memoir of an aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle of ancient Greece, just prior to Greece's domination by the Roman Empire. As a young girl, Arieka is ugly, unconventional, a source of great shame to her uppity parents, who fear they'll never marry her off... -
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![Plato: Complete Works by Plato]()
Plato: Complete Works by Plato
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOutstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity...Categorized as:
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![The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation by Adele Berlin]()
The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation by Adele Berlin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today... -
![Caesar and Christ by Will Durant]()
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVolume 3 of the monumental Story of Civilization, CAESAR AND CHRIST depicts the rise of Rome from a crossroads town to empire. The world's first republic, Rome spread its civilization over the Mediterranean and western European world. Its long, slow crumbling and final collapse plunged Europe into darkness and chaos.The Pax Romana broke some heads...Categorized as:
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![A Marvelous Work and a Wonder by LeGrand Richards]()
A Marvelous Work and a Wonder by LeGrand Richards
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is a new release of the original 1950 edition... -
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![The Oxford Classical Dictionary (w/CDROM) by Simon Hornblower]()
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (w/CDROM) by Simon Hornblower
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPraised by playwright Arthur Miller as "a delight for anyone with any curiosity about the roots of our Western culture" and by Booklist as "the single most heavily used book on classical studies," The Oxford Classical Dictionary is without doubt the definitive one-volume resource on ancient Greece and Rome. Now this redoubtable classic is available in electronic form on CD-ROM... -
![The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version by Michael D. Coogan]()
The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version by Michael D. Coogan
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsStudents, professors and general readers alike have relied upon The Oxford Annotated Bible for essential scholarship and guidance to the world of the Bible for nearly four decades. Now a new editorial board and team of contributors have completely updated this classic work... -
![The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati by Michel Danino]()
The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati by Michel Danino
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Lost River explores the geography, history, and mythology, of the Sarasvati river, drawing from various sources like folklore, the Vedas, archaeology, local practices, history, geology, and meteorology. The book explains that the river, its very existence, and its course have been discussed and speculated over for years... -
![Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad]()
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties--when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rock's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential... -
![Halley's Bible Handbook: An Abbreviated Bible Commentary by Henry H. Halley]()
Halley's Bible Handbook: An Abbreviated Bible Commentary by Henry H. Halley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHalley's Bible Handbook, the classic layperson's companion text, includes a concise Bible commentary, important discoveries in archaeology, related historical data, church history, maps, and more... -
![Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber]()
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women...Categorized as:
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![The Life of Greece by Will Durant]()
The Life of Greece by Will Durant
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest. The Life of Greece is a survey of ancient Greece whose scope and style recalls the golden age of historical writing, before specialization...Categorized as:
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![Primitive Mythology by Joseph Campbell]()
Primitive Mythology by Joseph Campbell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe first volume in Joseph Campbell’s monumental four-volume Masks of God series, originally published in 1959 and now revised with up-to-date science and new illustrations in this Collected Works of Joseph Campbell editionIn this first volume of The Masks of God, the world’s preeminent mythologist explores and illuminates the wellsprings of myth... -
![The Nag Hammadi Library by Unknown Nag Hammadi, James M. Robinson]()
The Nag Hammadi Library by Unknown Nag Hammadi, James M. Robinson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophic texts gathered and translated into Coptic by fourth-century Gnostic Christians and translated into English by dozens of highly reputable experts...Categorized as:
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![A History of the World in 100 Objects 6 Copy Counter Display by Neil MacGregor]()
A History of the World in 100 Objects 6 Copy Counter Display by Neil MacGregor
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe blockbuster "New York Times" bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular radio series Neil MacGregor has blazed an unusual path to international renown. As director of the British Museum, he organized an exhibit that aimed to tell the history of humanity through the stories of one hundred objects made, used, venerated, or discarded by man...Categorized as:
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![The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham]()
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Fascinating and entertaining. If you read one book on human origins, this should be it' Ian Morris, author of Why the West Rules - For Now 'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world...Categorized as:
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![The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner]()
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civilization that makes gender central to its analysis. Gerda Lerner argues that male dominance over women is not "natural" or biological, but the product of an historical development begun in the second millennium B.C. in the Ancient Near East...Categorized as:
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![God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou]()
God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers--with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous. [A] rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh's body, from top to bottom (yes, that too) and from inside out ... Ms... -
![Holy Bible: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; And with the Former Translations Diligently (Classic Reprint) by American Bible Society]()
Holy Bible: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; And with the Former Translations Diligently (Classic Reprint) by American Bible Society
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExcerpt from Holy Bible: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; And With the Former Translations DiligentlyI h0pe I have paid due attention to the suggestions and admonitions 'of my kindly critics. I cannot, however, admit that it would have been better to have made use of the Revised rather than of the Authorized Version... -
![Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch]()
Makers of Rome: Nine Lives by Plutarch by Plutarch
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor this volume Ian Scott-Kilvert has selected nine of Plutarch's Roman Lives: figures whose careers range from the earliest years of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire under Octavius Caesar. The Shakespearean heroes Coriolanus, Brutus and Mark Antony have been included to illustrate Plutarch's fondness for a semi-fictional rather than a factual treatment of history...Categorized as:
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![Dioses, Tumbas y Sabios by C.W. Ceram]()
Dioses, Tumbas y Sabios by C.W. Ceram
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsC.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the ridicule of the learned world, he actually unearths the remains of the ancient city of Troy...Categorized as:
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