Ancient, Classical & Medieval

Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most unive...

A Reprint Of The Ancient Greek Epic With An Introduction Giving The Background To The Times, Viz. The Ceremonies Of Civilization Do Not Mean Much To Us Toda...

T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Archbishop Thomas Becket spea...

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway, University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warr...

An English-language Rendering Of The World's Oldest Epic Follows The Journey Of Conquest And Self-discovery By The King Of Uruk, In An Edition That Includes...

Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume...

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings...In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city wher...

The Modern, Unacademic Idiom Of A.d. Melville's Translation Opens The Way To A Fresh Understanding Of Ovid's Unique And Elusive Vision Of Reality.Categories...

In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klond...

"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."—Robert Brustein, The New Republic "This is it. No qualificat...

In Nine Paperback Volumes, The Grene And Lattimore Editions Offer The Most Comprehensive Selection Of The Greek Tragedies Available In English. Over The Yea...

In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyát") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyám. If not a true tra...

Known to many as the study of quiet stillness and introspection, Zen Buddhism distinguishes itself through brilliant flashes of insight and its terseness o...

The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek...

Homer's account of the adventures of Odysseus has stood at the center of classical literature for centuries. It is a sweeping story of a great warrior who ...

Pearl Describes A Bereft Father Mourning The Loss Of His Precious Perle. Returning To The Garden Where She First Disappeared, He Observes The Verdant Shades...

This study examines Exeter riddles, Anglo-Saxon biblical poems (Exodus, Andreas, Judith) and Beowulf in order to uncover the poetics of spolia, an imaginati...

Composed Toward The End Of The First Millennium Of Our Era, Beowulf Is The Elegiac Narrative Of The Adventures Of Beowulf, A Scandinavian Hero Who Saves The...

Homeric Hymns with illustrations. Translated by Charles Boer.Categories: Literature & Fiction Poetry Ancient, Classical & MedievalAncient & Clas...

This Study Of Early Greek Lyric Provides Portraits Of Archilochus, Alcaeus And Sappho And Their Poetry. It Looks At Their Social Setting, And Their Purposes...

Erec And Enide -- Cligés -- Lancelot -- Yvain -- Perceval. Chrétien De Troyes ; Translated, With An Introduction And Notes, By D.d.r. Owen. Includes Bibli...