Literature & Fiction - Ancient & Medieval Literature

Large print anthology contains some of the most popular poems in the English language, including Shakespeares Shall I compare thee to a summers day...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work w...

Theres no right way to keep a diary, but if theres an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If its navel-gazing youre after, y...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have ...

"Captivating."--Choice|"A veritable feast."--Verbatim

Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative study of ancient Greece, George Grote's twelve-volume work, begun in 1846, established the shape of G...

A Life for a Life

'Part of the 'Barnes & Noble Shakespeare' series, 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' is dream-like, yet humourous and farcical, as it follows the roma...

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeares work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentar...

'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than ...

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

Aeschylus I contains "The Persians," translated by Seth Benardete; "The Seven Against Thebes," translated by David Grene; "The Suppliant Maidens," ...

Aeschylus II contains "The Oresteia," translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of "Proteus," translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, t...

The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr p...

A collection of charming and enduring stories that convey morals to young and old alike. Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Gre...

<p>The life of Us mah ibn-Munqidh epitomized the height of Arab civilization as it flourished in the period of the early Crusades. His memoir...

Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts were still ...

Ancilla to Classical Reading

Although utterly convinced of the truth of Christianity, Anselm of Canterbury struggled to make sense of his religion. He considered the doctrines ...

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation