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Collected Ancient Greek Novels

10 best books like Collected Ancient Greek Novels (Bryan P. Reardon): Idylls, An Ethiopian Romance, Leucippe and Clitophon, Callirhoe, Greek Lyrics, Plutus, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I, Ion, The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The World of Odysseus

Idylls
AuthorTheocritus
ISBN0192839845
A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of "bucolic" or pastoral poetry in the first half of the third century BC. These vignettes of country life, which center on competitions of song and love are the foundational poems of the western...
An Ethiopian Romance
AuthorHeliodorus of Emesa
ISBN0812216725
"Upon a rock sat a maiden of such inexpressible beauty as to be supposed divine. . . . Her head inclined forward without moving, for she was looking fixedly at a young man who lay at her feet. The man was disfigured with wounds, but seemed to rouse himself a little as from a deep sleep, almost of death itself....
Leucippe and Clitophon
AuthorAchilles Tatius
ISBN0192804278
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, disembowelment,...
Callirhoe
AuthorChariton
ISBN0674995309
Which book is the world’s earliest novel? That question will probably never be definitively answered, but Callirhoe may have the best claim of any text out there. Callirhoe is one of seven novels surviving more or less intact from western antiquity: two Roman ones (The Golden Ass and the Satyricon)...
Greek Lyrics
AuthorRichmond Lattimore
ISBN0226469441
"Professor Lattimore, holding closely to the original metres, has produced renderings of great power and beauty. His feeling for the telling noun and verb, the simple yet poignant epithet, and the dramatic turn of syntax is marked. He has completely freed the poems from sentimentality, and the thrilling...
Plutus
AuthorAristophanes
ISBN1420927639
The story of 'Plutus' concerns Chremylus, a poor but just man, who accompanied by his body-servant Cario, consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed in injustice and knavery and the other arts whereby worldly men acquire riches. By way of answer the god only...
Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I
AuthorMaurice Balme
ISBN0195149564
Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete...
Ion
AuthorEuripides
ISBN0195094514
One of Euripides' late plays, Ion tells the story of Kreousa, queen of Athens, and her son by the god Apollo. Apollo raped Kreousa; she secretly abandoned their child, assuming thereafter that the god had allowed him to die. Ion, however, is saved to become a ward of Apollo's temple at Delphi. In the play,...
The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
AuthorMary Lefkowitz
ISBN0812993004
A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world's most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King

Featuring translations by Emily Wilson,...
The World of Odysseus
AuthorMoses I. Finley
ISBN1590170172
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history...
Murder Trials
AuthorMarcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Roscius off a charge of murdering his father and nearly sixty when he defended King Deiotarus, accused of trying to murder Caesar. In between (with, among others, his speeches for Cluentius and Rabirius), he built a reputation as the greatest orator...
Daphnis and Chloe
AuthorLongus
A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively, and raised near the town of Mytilene, they grow to...
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
AuthorJean-Pierre Vernant
ISBN0942299191
Jean Pierre-Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, published here as a single volume, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly non-classical...
Storia vera
AuthorLucian of Samosata
ISBN8879835432
La Storia vera, capolavoro di Luciano, viene considerata la prima narrazione fantascientifica, l'antesignana e il paradigma della funzione scientifica che supera gli spazi e i tempi logici delle conoscenze umane. Frutto di una affascinante e liberissima fantasia che si diverte a giocare con una...
The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction
AuthorWilliam R. Biers
ISBN0801482801
William R. Biers wrote The Archaeology of Greece to introduce students, teachers, and lay readers to the delights of exploring the world of ancient Greece. The great popularity of the first edition testifies to his success.

In his preface to the second edition, Biers points out that, while...
Dungeons and Dragons Rules Cyclopedia
AuthorAaron Allston
ISBN1560760850
I am not generally a fan of class/level systems. I prefer the freedom of a skilled-based, point-buy system and am willing to put up with a few odd corner cases and the chance of players being over- or underpowered to get it. Despite that, if Alien Space Bats appeared before me and told me that they were exiling...
Player's Handbook
AuthorDavid Zeb Cook
ISBN0786903295
This was the first D&D book I ever owned. I saved up my left over lunch money from school, and did odd jobs for neighbors to save up the money to buy this book. I have very fond memories of this book, I bought it some 17 years ago I think, and it was worth every penny. I read it so many times I can still do THAC0,...
Greek: An Intensive Course, 2nd Revised Edition
AuthorHardy Hansen
ISBN0823216632
Hardy Hansen, the coauthor or this textbook, was my instructor for one semester of the Greek Courses at Brooklyn College. It was privilege and a delight to have an author teach from a textbook used in colleges around the nation. The approach to Ancient Greek in this text was not merely so learn declensions...
Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History
AuthorMary Beard
ISBN0521316820
This book offers a radical survey of over a 1000 years of religious life, from the foundation of Rome to its rise to world empire & Xian conversion. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the 8th century BCE & the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of...
Trojan Women
AuthorSeneca
ISBN0801494311
Thyestes and Trojan women, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز یازدهم ماه نوامبر سال 2016 میلادی
عنوان: زنان تروا و توئستس - دو نمایشنامه؛ نویسنده: سنکا؛ مترجم: عبدالله...
As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History
AuthorJo-Ann Shelton
Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from...
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