The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

7 best books like The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (Seamus Heaney): The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Four Quartets, Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow (Faber Library), King Charles III, Aeneid Book VI, Markings

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

Author	David W. Anthony
ISBN	0691058873

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery...

Four Quartets

Author	T.S. Eliot
ISBN	0571068944

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five "movements" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE...

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad

Author	Alice Oswald
ISBN	0571274161

The poetry of Alice Oswald is preternatural…preternaturally gorgeous, preternaturally immediate and relevant and precise. We want to sink into that language and be in that bright place—perhaps not to live (among the flashing swords), but to die there, amongst one’s brethren, with poetry...

Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow (Faber Library)

Author	Ted Hughes
ISBN	0571176550

Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almost...

King Charles III

Author	Mike Bartlett
ISBN	1848423977

"The most spectacular, gripping and wickedly entertaining piece of lèse-majesté that British theatre has ever seen... blessed with wit, clarity and moments of deeper feeling. Outstanding and provocative... There is barely a moment when the fizz goes out of the writing and the narrative keeps...

Aeneid Book VI

Author	Virgil
ISBN	0374104190

A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century

In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of...

Markings

Author	Dag Hammarskjöld
ISBN	0307277429

Universally known and admired as a peacemaker, Dag Hammarskjöld concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in this journal of poems and spiritual meditations, left to be published after his death. A dramatic account of spiritual struggle, Markings has inspired...