Plutus

Author	Sophocles
ISBN	0195070097

Mutability; uncertainty; a universe of precipitous change: these themes are at the heart of Sophocles' tragic vision. But nowhere are they elaborated with more urgency than in Women of Trachis. There are no subtle shifts of Fortune's favors in this tragedy, only stunning and total reversals, a relentless...

Author

Mark Morford

The Daring Spectacle is award-winning San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate columnist and culture critic Mark Morford’s hilarious modern record of sex and media, politics and pop culture, love and lust, as told in ninety-two delectable parts—not including all the delicious photos and terrifying...

Author	Thomas Bulfinch
ISBN	0028614771

Here are the world s most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today s readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch s has been heralded for more than a century, it has never...

Author

O. Henry

Perhaps, if he had known that Adele had stood at the gate on that unlucky night, where she had followed, lingering, to await the return of her brother and lover, wondering why they had chosen so tempestuous an hour and so black a spot to hold converse--if he had known that a sudden flash of lightning had revealed...

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0195077083

Euripides (ca. 480-406 BCE) - Roman copy of a 4th century BCE Greek original

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
Men do not really own their private goods;
we simply care for the things which are the gods',
and when they will, they take them back again.


Euripides,...

Author	Aeschylus
ISBN	0521240840

Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Of all Athenian tragic dramas, Eumenides is most consciously designed to be relevant to the situation...

Author	Plato
ISBN	0140443959

Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his naïve disciple Protarchus and Socrates, Philebus is a compelling consideration of the popular belief that pleasure is the greatest attainable good. Here, Socrates speculates on the differing intensities of both pleasure and pain;...

Author	Kostas Karyotakis
ISBN	9601631763

Έχοντας δημοσιεύσει μόλις τρεις ποιητικές συλλογές πριν θέσει ο ίδιος τέρμα στη ζωή του, ο Κώστας Καρυωτάκης (1896-1928) υπήρξε εξακολουθητικά παρών στη...