Classical & Ancient Civilizations - Egypt , Greece & Rome

Sophocles - Electra and Other Plays ( Translated by E.F Watling) - Vintage Penguin Classics PB 1965

All three of the great tragic poets of ancient Greece produced plays about the Electra myth. If Sophocles (496-406 Bc) lacks the archaic grandeur of Aeschylus or the neurotic intensity of Euripides,...

Sophocles / Oedipus

  The great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex. King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown...

Sophocles / The Theban Plays (Vintage Paperback)

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Sophocles / The Theban Plays. (Vintage Paperback)

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Stephen C. Todd / Athens and Sparta (Large Paperback)

Athens and Sparta were the two leading powers in the Classical Greek world. They represented entirely different systems of social organization: oligarchic conservatism at Sparta versus radical...

Tacitus - The Histories - Vintage Penguin Classics Edition 1984 ( originally 1964 ( Translated by Kenneth Wellesley

In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the...

Tacitus / Empire & Emperors (Large Paperback)

Empire & Emperors: Selections from Tacitus' Annals Tacitus, Graham Tingay (Translator)     Tacitus   104 pages, Paperback   This book is...

Thomas Bulfinch / Myths of Greece and Rome (Coffee Table Book)

Orpheus leading his beloved Eurydice back to life … Ulysses battling to resist the mesmerising Sirens’ song … The tragedy of the vengeful Medea …The timeless stories of the...

Tom Holland / In The Shadow Of The Sword (Large Paperback)

  In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost...

W. Lucas Collins (Editor) - Plato (Ancient Classics for English Readers Series ) - HB 1901

A slim hardcover translation into modern English( with commentary/ notes etc ) of the best known of Plato's Dialogues.  197 pages, faded title to spine, binding solid, otherwise clean, no...

W. Sidney Allen / Vox Graeca (Large Paperback)

This edition of Professor Allen's highly successful book is on the pronunciation of Attic Greek in classical times. In this third edition, Allen has revised the section on stress in classical...