Heroides
8 best books like Heroides (Ovid): The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Theogony / Works and Days, The Golden Ass, The Sixteen Satires, The Poems, The Eclogues, The Comedies, Hecuba
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
| Author | Aeschylus |
| ISBN | 0140443339 |
In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.
Moving from darkness to light, from...
Theogony / Works and Days
| Author | Hesiod |
| ISBN | 0192839411 |
The Golden Ass
| Author | Apuleius |
| ISBN | 0253200369 |
| Author | Juvenal |
| ISBN | 0140447040 |
| Author | Propertius |
| ISBN | 0192835734 |
Toujours dans la veine des poètes latins, après un Catulle tout à la fois impétueux et tendre, après un Tibulle irénique et volage, voici Properce, passionnément fidèle et attaché à sa Cynthie, et terriblement voluptueux. C'est sans doute de ces trois auteurs le plus vivant, le...
| Author | Virgil |
| Author | Terence |
Terence flourished in the second century BC and was a prosperous Roman playwright and the initiator of European comic drama.
His plays are inspired if not wholly copied from Greek poets like Menander and others.
This edition is the collection of...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0906515173 |
2 Mar 2012
It looks like Goodreads has taken the Latin title for this play (Hecuba) to which Philip Vellacott, the translator of the version that I read, takes serious offence. Personally, being a Philhelline (a lover of Greek culture) I pretty much agree with...