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The Academic Commodore 64by Richard Mowe, Ron MummawISBN 0835900185 (0-8359-0018-5)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall Direct
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Academic Commodore 64'Book summary:Each title in this series of eight classic novels and Shakespearean plays includes the complete, original text and a detailed reading guide. Supportive Teacher's Resource Manuals include model lessons, cooperative learning activities, and reproducible writing process worksheets.
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The Accusersby Lindsey DavisISBN 0712625569 (0-7126-2556-9)
Hardcover, Century
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Accusers'Book summary:Lindsey Davis's Falco thrillers normally focus on how like us the Romans were; The Accusers concentrates on an important difference. Prosecutors were rewarded with a portion of the guilty's goods, or fined to compensate the innocent. When a senator, found guilty in a corruption trial, apparently kills himself, Falco is hired to prove he was murdered because suicide nullifies the prosecution's financial claims. Only the question is: which of the late Metellus' heirs poisoned him, since almost all of them had more than one motive? Falco finds himself and his wife Helena caught up once again in the dark side of Roman high society and all the interesting ways in which it is contiguous with the busy life of sordid streets.
Davis's books are always at their best when Falco, as our viewpoint, is finding out something he does not know about how things work; this is a good detective story partly because of the exposition of the Roman legal system and not in spite of it. It also helps that it is one of the Davis novels in which Falco over-reaches and finds himself distinctly out of his depth; he is one of the most attractive of historical detectives because he is not infallible. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Arms of Nemesisby Steven SaylorISBN 0312978324 (0-312-97832-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arms of Nemesis'Book summary:The hideously disfigured body was found in the atrium. The only clues are a blood-soaked cloak, and, carved into the stone at the corpse's feet, the word Sparta . . . The Overseer of Marcus Crassus's estate has been murdered, apparently by two slaves bent on joining Spartacus's revolt. The wealthy, powerful Crassus vows to honor an ancient law and have his ninety-nine remaining slaves slaughtered in three days. Gordianus the Finder is summoned from Rome by a mysterious client to find out the truth about the murder before the three days are up.[via] -
A Body In The Bathhouse: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novelby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892967714 (0-89296-771-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Body In The Bathhouse: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel'Book summary:AD75. As a passion for home improvement sweeps through the Roman Empire, Marcus Didius Falco struggles to deal with Gloccus and Cotta, a pair of terrible bath house contractors whose slow progress and bad workmanship have been causing him misery for months. They finally finish their contract, but leave Falco and his father with a ghastly smell from a hypocaust and some gruesome site debris. . . Far away in Britain, King Togidubnus of the Atrebates tribe is planning his own makeover. His huge new residence (known to us as Fishbourne Palace) will be spectacular - but the sensational refurbishment is behind time and over budget, its labour force is beset by 'accidents', corrupt practices are rife, and everyone loathes the project manager. The frugal Emperor Vespasian is paying for all this; he wants someone to investigate. Falco has a new baby, an new house, and he hates Britain. But his feud with Anacrites the Chief Spy has now reached a dangerous level, so with his own pressing reasons to leave Rome in a hurry, he accepts the task. A thousand miles from home, with only his family to support him, he starts restoring order to the chaotic building site. Then, while he searches the feuding workforce for Gloccus and Cotta, he realises that someone with murderous intentions is now after him . . . [via]
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Catilina's Riddleby Steven SaylorISBN 0312982119 (0-312-98211-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catilina's Riddle'Book summary:"A sweeping and marvelously evocative story . . ." Booklist.
A mystery of ancient Rome by the author of "Arms Of Nemesis."
When Gordianus the Finder deserts the fierce intrigues of Rome for domesticity on an Etruscan farm, his brilliant patron, the orator Cicero, draws him back with a curious proposal: keep Catilina, Cicero's radical rival, under a watchful eye.
Reluctantly, Gordianus complies -- and soon, despite himself, becomes intrigued by the notorious populist politician. Could Catilina really be conspiring against the Republic? Or are Cicero's accusation no more than vicious lies? Questioning his loyalty to his own patron, Gordianus comes to question even more when he discovers a headless corpse in his stables and is suddenly swept into a mystery more dangerous than any he has ever known. [via]-
Cliffscomplete Julius Caesarby Sidney Lamb, Diana SweeneyISBN 076458569X (0-7645-8569-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffscomplete Julius Caesar'Book summary:In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.[via]CliffsComplete Julius Caesar offers insight and information into a work that's rich both dramatically and thematically. Every generation since Shakespeare's time has been able to identify with some political aspect of the play.
Discover what happens to Rome's highly ambitious leader and to those who conspire to remove him from the ranks and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of Julius Caesar with these additional features:
- A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
- Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare
- A look at Early Modern England intellectual, religious, political, and social context
- Coverage of Shakespeare's source and the play's performance history
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry Thompson Rowell, E. O. LorimerISBN 0300101864 (0-300-10186-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire'Book summary:This classic book brings to life imperial Rome as it was during the second century A.D., the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus. It was a period marked by lavish displays of wealth, a dazzling cultural mix, and the advent of Christianity. The splendor and squalor of the city, the spectacles, and the day's routines are reconstructed from an immense fund of archaeological evidence and from vivid descriptions by ancient poets, satirists, letter-writers, and novelists-from Petronius to Pliny the Younger. In a new Introduction, the eminent classicist Mary Beard appraises the book's enduring-and sometimes surprising-influence and its value for general readers and students. She also provides an up-to-date bibliographic essay. [via]
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome; The People and the City at the Height of the Empire,: The People and the City at the Height of the Empireby Jerome Carcopino, Henry T. RowellISBN 0300000316 (0-300-00031-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daily Life in Ancient Rome; The People and the City at the Height of the Empire,: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire'Book summary:Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [via]
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A Dying Light in Cordubaby Lindsey DavisISBN 0892966645 (0-89296-664-5)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dying Light in Corduba'Book summary:In the dark of the night, a man is killed and Emperor Vespasian's chief of spies is left for dead. Private eye Marcus Didius Falco agrees to investigate and the case draws him into the highly-lucrative--and deadly competitive--world of olive oil production National ads & publicity. [via]
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Fortune's Favoritesby Colleen McCulloughISBN 0380710838 (0-380-71083-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fortune's Favorites'Book summary:The third volume of a saga set in ancient Rome focuses on the political fortunes of Julius Caesar, a soldier destined for greatness; Sulla the dictator; and the ambitious Pompey, as well as Spartacus's slave revolt. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo. [via]
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The Historiesby Cornelius TacitusISBN 1419123890 (1-4191-2389-0)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Histories'Book summary:Covers Rome from 69 to 70 AD. [via]
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The Histories of Tacitusby Cornelius TacitusISBN 1420926349 (1-4209-2634-9)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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Imperiumby Robert HarrisISBN 074326603X (0-7432-6603-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Julio Cesar / Julius Ceserby William ShakespeareISBN 9500305593 (950-03-0559-3)
Softcover, Losada/Argentina
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julio Cesar / Julius Ceser'Book summary:[via]For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres including theater, novels, poems, and essays.Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde el teatro, la narrativa, la poesía y el ensayo.More editions of Julio Cesar / Julius Ceser:
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Julius CaesarISBN 0789160838 (0-7891-6083-8)
Softcover, Perfection Learning
Find This BookBook summary:In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead. [via]
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722719 (0-671-72271-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Julius Caesarby David DanielISBN 1904271049 (1-904271-04-9)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:This edition of one of ShakespeareÂ's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice, combining fast action and immediacy with compelling rhetorical language, and finding a clear context for its study of tyranny in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth 1. The richly experimental verse and the complex structure of the play are analysed in depth, and a strong case is made for this to be the first play to be performed at ShakespeareÂ's Globe Theatre. 'Daniell's edition is a hefty piece of serious scholarship that makes a genuine contribution.' Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey 'This is a stimulating new look at a play which is too often exhibited in a critical museum.' Paul Dean, English Studies [via]
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Julius Caesar: Side by Sidesby William Shakespeare, James ScottISBN 1580495060 (1-58049-506-0)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc
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Julius Caesar With Readers Guideby William ShakespeareISBN 0877208026 (0-87720-802-6)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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The Jupiter Mythby Lindsey DavisISBN 0712680446 (0-7126-8044-6)
Hardcover, Century
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jupiter Myth'Book summary:Lindsey Davis' popular Marcus Didius Falco series continues with a classic noir tale of gangsters, gladiators, and romance. For Falco, an attempt at relaxing while visiting his wife Helena's relatives in Britain turns serious when a murder is discovered. King Togidubnus, the renegade henchman of Rome's vital ally, has been stuffed head-first down a barroom well-leading to a tricky diplomatic situation which Falco must defuse. Making matters worse, the town has become a magnet for criminals from Rome...and one murder leads to others. With the army turning a blind eye, Falco and his partner Petronius must lead the hunt for gangsters intent on taking over the city. From the wharves beside the River Thamesis to the old haunts of organized crime back home in Italy, Falco and Petronius face danger and death in every corner. Will they be able to return order to the city before they lose everything they hold dear? [via]
Last Act in Palmyraby Lindsey DavisISBN 0446404748 (0-446-40474-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Metamorphosesby Ovid, A.D. Melville, E.J. KenneyISBN 019283472X (0-19-283472-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses'Book summary:"A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard."Washington Post
Ovid's epic poemwhose theme of change has resonated throughout the agesis one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work. Charles Martin combines a close fidelity to Ovid's text with verse that catches the speed and liveliness of the original. Martin's Metamorphoses will be the translation of choice for contemporary readers in English. This volume also includes endnotes and a glossary of people, places, and personifications. "Martin's complete text is clearly something to look forward to with high expectations."Bernard Knox, The New York Review of Books "A reader who wants to understand Ovid's poem as a whole, as well as to learn its many famous stories, will find Mr. Martin's clarity and tact invaluable."The New York Sun "Smoothly readable, accurate, charming, subtle yet clear....A lucidly fluent version of this most flowing of poems."Richard Wilbur [via]More editions of The Metamorphoses:
- The Metamorphoses: ISBN 039332642X (0-393-32642-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0451527933 (0-451-52793-3)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Metamorphoses: ISBN 0393058107 (0-393-05810-7)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0674990463 (0-674-99046-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0140440585 (0-14-044058-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0192816918 (0-19-281691-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Metamorphoses: ISBN 0451626222 (0-451-62622-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 0192510339 (0-19-251033-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Metamorphoses: ISBN 019283472X (0-19-283472-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Metamorphoses: ISBN 039332642X (0-393-32642-X)
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Metamorphosesby Peter Forbes, David Raeburn, Denis FeeneyISBN 014044789X (0-14-044789-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorphoses'Book summary:[via]Ovids sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformationoften as a result of love or lustwhere men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.
- Includes introduction, a preface to each book, explanatory notes, and an index of people, gods, and places
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The Metamorphoses of Ovidby David R. Slavitt, OvidISBN 0801847982 (0-8018-4798-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid'Book summary:First published in 8 A.D. when he was 52, Ovid's epic poem contains profoundly entertaining tales of Adonis, Midas, Apollo, Icarus, and many others. (Poetry) [via]
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The Metamorphoses of Ovidby Allen MandelbaumISBN 0156001268 (0-15-600126-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid'Book summary:Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a writer when The Metamorphoses was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus Caesar, and the emperor banished the poet to what is now Romania. Augustus may have taken exception to the poet's turn to the impolite realm of the body--or he may have objected to a rumored affair between Ovid and the emperor's nymphomaniacal daughter Julia, who figures so prominently in Robert Graves's Claudius novels. The poet who had declared Rome to be his only home could have found no worse punishment than exile, but no amount of pleading could sway Augustus, and Ovid died on the shores of the Black Sea a decade later. Full of veiled political and historical references, The Metamorphoses lived on to become a permanent fixture in the canon of European literature. In Allen Mandelbaum's hands, it lives on for a new generation. [via]
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translationby Ovid, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0151705291 (0-15-170529-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Translation'Book summary:Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a writer when The Metamorphoses was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus Caesar, and the emperor banished the poet to what is now Romania. Augustus may have taken exception to the poet's turn to the impolite realm of the body--or he may have objected to a rumored affair between Ovid and the emperor's nymphomaniacal daughter Julia, who figures so prominently in Robert Graves's Claudius novels. The poet who had declared Rome to be his only home could have found no worse punishment than exile, but no amount of pleading could sway Augustus, and Ovid died on the shores of the Black Sea a decade later. Full of veiled political and historical references, The Metamorphoses lived on to become a permanent fixture in the canon of European literature. In Allen Mandelbaum's hands, it lives on for a new generation. [via]
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A Mist of Propheciesby Steven SaylorISBN 1597222534 (1-59722-253-4)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Mythologyby Edith HamiltonISBN 0531002462 (0-531-00246-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Ovid Metamorphosesby Naso Publius OvidiusISBN 0253200016 (0-253-20001-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid Metamorphoses'Book summary:"The Metamorphoses of Ovid offers to the modern world such a key to the literary and religious culture of the ancients that it becomes an important event when at last a good poet comes up with a translation into English verse." -John Crowe Ransom"... a charming and expert English version, which is right in tone for the Metamorphoses."Â -Francis Fergusson"This new Ovid, fresh and faithful, is right for our time and should help to restore a great reputation." -Mark Van DorenThe first and still the best modern verse translation of the Metamorphoses, Humphries' version of Ovid's masterpiece captures its wit, merriment, and sophistication.Everyone will enjoy this first modern translation by an American poet of Ovid's great work, the major treasury of classical mythology, which has perennially stimulated the minds of men. In this lively rendering there are no stock props of the pastoral and no literary landscaping, but real food on the table and sometimes real blood on the ground.Not only is Ovid's Metamorphoses a collection of all the myths of the time of the Roman poet as he knew them, but the book presents at the same time a series of love poems-about the loves of men, women, and the gods. There are also poems of hate, to give the proper shading to the narrative. And pervading all is the writer's love for this earth, its people, its phenomena.Using ten-beat, unrhymed lines in his translation, Rolfe Humphries shows a definite kinship for Ovid's swift and colloquial language and Humphries' whole poetic manner is in tune with the wit and sophistication of the Roman poet. [via]
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Ovid: Metamorphosesby Publius Ovidius NasoISBN 0253337550 (0-253-33755-0)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ovid: Metamorphoses'Book summary:The first English translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, "Golding's Metamorphoses" (1567) decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser and the character of English Renaissance writing. Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars. This robustly vernacular version adds a Christian moral framework, clarifies obscurities and gives an English flavour to the rustic settings, thus making readily available to later writers a treasure-trove of comic, eerie and erotic tales. [via]
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Romeby Christopher ScarreISBN 0670864641 (0-670-86464-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Quo Vadisby Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jeremiah CurtinISBN 160312036X (1-60312-036-X)
Softcover, Alan Rodgers Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quo Vadis'Book summary:Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature. A brilliant Polish writer and patriot, he is possibly best known abroad for his monumental historical epic Quo Vadis that portrays the vibrant and dissonant combination of cruel excesses and decadence of Rome during the reign of the corrupt Emperor Nero and the high faith of the emerging era of early Christianity.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, is a love story of Marcus Vinicius, a passionate young Roman tribune, and Lygia Callina, a beautiful and gentle Christian maiden of royal Lygian descent and a hostage of Rome, raised in a patrician home. At first Marcus, a typical aristocratic Roman libertine of his time, has no notion of love and merely desires Lygia with erotic animalistic intensity. Through political machinations of the elegant Petronius he contrives to have her taken by force from her foster home and into the decadent and terrible splendor of the court of Ceasar, setting in motion a course of events that culminate in his own spiritual redemption.
Intricately researched, populated with vibrant historical figures, and gorgeous period detail, bloody spectacle and intimate beauty, this is an epic tapestry of the triumph of love, faith and sacrifice. [via]
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Softcover, Norilana Books - Quo Vadis: ISBN 1934169064 (1-934169-06-4)
Hardcover, Norilana Books - Quo Vadis: ISBN 1561797952 (1-56179-795-2)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub - Quo Vadis: ISBN 157748777X (1-57748-777-X)
Softcover, Barbour Pub Inc - Quo Vadis: ISBN 1881273164 (1-881273-16-4)
Softcover, Moody Pub - Quo Vadis: ISBN 0781805503 (0-7818-0550-3)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books - Quo Vadis: ISBN 0895263459 (0-89526-345-9)
Softcover, Regnery Pub - Quo Vadis: ISBN 0802470971 (0-8024-7097-1)
Softcover, Moody Pub - Quo Vadis: ISBN 0804901880 (0-8049-0188-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Quo Vadis: ISBN 0898704758 (0-89870-475-8)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr - Quo Vadis: ISBN 0025668552 (0-02-566855-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Quo Vadis: ISBN 0760763097 (0-7607-6309-7)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books - Quo Vadis: ISBN 0781801001 (0-7818-0100-1)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books - Quo Vadis: ISBN 160312036X (1-60312-036-X)
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- Quo Vadis: ISBN 1934169072 (1-934169-07-2)
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Quo Vadisby W.S. Kuniczak, Henryk SienkiewiczISBN 0781807638 (0-7818-0763-8)
Hardcover, Hippocrene Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quo Vadis'Book summary:Translated by Stanley F Conrad. Set around the dawn of Christianity with amazing historical accuracy Quo Vadis? won Sienkiewicz the Nobel Prize. Written nearly a century ago and translated into over 40 languages, Quo Vadis, has been the greatest best-selling novel in the history of literature. Now in a sparkling new translation which restores the original glory and splendour of this masterpiece, W S Kuniczak, the most acclaimed translator of Sienkiewicz in this century, combines his special knowledge of Sienkiewicz's fiction with his own considerable talents as a novelist. An epic saga of love, courage and devotion in Nero's time, Quo Vadis portrays the degenerate days leading to the fall of the Roman Empire and the glory and the agony of early Christianity. [via]
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Quo Vadis a Narrative of the Time of Neroby Henryk SienkiewiczISBN 1404326901 (1-4043-2690-1)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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Rubiconby Steven SaylorISBN 0312971184 (0-312-97118-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubicon'Book summary:Steven Saylor's seventh installment in his Roma Sub Rosa series begins with a character saying, "Pompey will be mightily pissed." Scholars might argue that there is no evidence of this particular synonym for anger ever being used in 49 B.C., but the author would no doubt respond that poetic license includes doing whatever it takes to bridge the gap for modern audiences. And indeed, the head of the Roman Senate is mightily pissed. Rome is on the verge of another civil war, and the forces of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony have crossed the Rubicon River and are marching toward the capital. To top it all off, one of Pompey's favorite cousins has been garroted to death.
Before Pompey flees the city, he asks Rome's greatest detective, Gordianus the Finder, to solve the murder. But Pompey has reason to distrust Gordianus, who may have an allegiance with Caesar. To force his loyalty, Pompey seizes the detective's son-in-law, and makes him join his household army. By doing so, he ensures that Gordianus's involvement in the coming conflict will be a very personal one. Confused and troubled, Gordianus walks through Rome toward the house of his former friend and mentor, the poet Cicero. "All around me, I felt the uneasiness of the city, like a sleeper in the throes of a nightmare." Awakening from the nightmare, surviving the chaos, and solving this whodunit will be the Finder's toughest battle yet. --Dick Adler [via]
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Three Hands in the Fountainby Lindsey DavisISBN 0446607746 (0-446-60774-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Hands in the Fountain'Book summary:Concluding a dangerous mission in Rome, Marcus Didius Falco discovers a severed hand in a local fountain and learns that other body parts have been turning up in the city's water system, particularly after public festivals. With the Roman games only days away, Marcus and a friend are determined to catch the sadistic killer. [via]
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Time to Depart: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novelby Lindsey DavisISBN 0446605913 (0-446-60591-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time to Depart: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery Novel'Book summary:Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian's Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows citizens condemned to death "time to depart" and find exile outside the empire. Now as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus' operations, private eye Marcus Didius Falco has to deal with an unprecedented wave of crime--and the sneaking suspicion that Balbinus' exile may not really be so permanent after all. [via]
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 1402206879 (1-4022-0687-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process. [via]
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Two for the Lionsby Lindsey DavisISBN 0446609021 (0-446-60902-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Venus in Copperby Lindsey DavisISBN 0345373901 (0-345-37390-1)
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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Michael SpringISBN 0812034236 (0-8120-3423-6)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphosesby R.J. TarrantISBN 0198146663 (0-19-814666-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses'Book summary:For this edition of the Metamorphoses R. J. Tarrant has freshly collated the oldest fragments and manuscripts and has drawn more fully than previous editors on the twelfth-century manuscripts, the earliest extant witnesses to many potentially original readings. He has also given more scope to conjecture than other recent editors, and has been readier than his predecessors to identify certain verses as interpolated. This edition will be indispensable for future study of Ovid's greatest work. [via]
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