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 Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)Best Price: $7.00 This is such a beautiful translation of the story of Beowulf that all others pale by comparison.... |  The OdysseyBest Price: $5.24 About the Odyssey itself, I can add no greater praise than that which has already been... |  The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)Best Price: $10.35 This translation was easy enough to understand although the work itself suffers from a major... |  The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.47 (I'm not sure why amazon has over half of these reviews for Fagels's translation on Rieu's page?... |  Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.40 I have read "Paradise Lost" four times, and took no less than three semesters on it at... |
 The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $3.99 It will be obvious that plagerism is not a recent phenomenon. When you are aware of Gilgamesh,... |  Beowulf (Signet Classics)Best Price: $2.29 This book is absolutely terrible! Everyone's grandmother would be ashamed to know the language... |  Iliad and Odyssey boxed setBest Price: $16.41 This boxed set was almost a steal it was such a price and quality! The works flowed with what... |  The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald TranslationBest Price: $6.50 The Odyssey will always be a classic of literature, and with good reason. With the intense... |  The AeneidBest Price: $4.46 Fitzgerald's version of the Aeneid is literature in its own right. Readable without being... |
 The Iliad of HomerBest Price: $7.00 I love Greek mythology, so this sparked my interest. I had to read it for college and struggled... |  The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)Best Price: $13.93 The Divine Comedy / 0-679-43313-9 This edition of the Divine Comedy is a beautiful addition... |  The Odyssey (Cliffs Notes)Best Price: $2.09 If you are in a hurry to complete your report, it will help you so. But don't forget to read... |  Gilgamesh: A New English VersionBest Price: $6.19 Well written book describing the epic and its origins and then a very readable epic poem based... |  Beowulf: An Illustrated EditionBest Price: $14.48 Bought this for a gift; after cursory flip-through, seems fantastic. Prose looks clean and... |
 IliadBest Price: $2.47 Out of all the translations I compared of "The Iliad", this was the one that shattered... |  The Odyssey by HomerBest Price: $20.92 Really liked this, the reading was outstanding and great translation by Robert Fagles. My son... |  The Odyssey (Signet Classics)Best Price: $4.07 The translations are okay, but they aren't in poem form as it was originally intended. the... |  OdysseyBest Price: $8.46 The Odyssey is mandatory reading for my freshman English classes and it has been quite difficult... |  Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (The Signet Classic Poetry Series)Best Price: $2.54 Brilliant literature! I recommend all books by this author. I also love the fact that the... |
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 AeneidBest Price: $7.95 After reading Stanley Lombardo's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey, I decided to pick up... |  The TainBest Price: $11.86 A few weeks ago, I compared (on Amazon under both versions) the new Oxford UP translation from... |  Autobiography of RedBest Price: $7.14 "Autobiography of Red" by Ann Carson is worth the read simply because of its unique... |  The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.00 First, I would add that for serious students looking at this work, you are better off starting... |  The Odyssey (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.30 Amazing story of what one man will suffer simply to achieve their dream of returnig to their... |
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 The Epic of GilgameshBest Price: $8.00 The EPIC of GILGAMESH Translation by Maureen Gallery Kovacs I first learned about The Epic of... |  Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)Best Price: $11.68 Alberto Manguel's latest volume does not contain the text of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Instead,... |  The Odyssey (Signet Classics)Best Price: $2.29 THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME Richly imagined by the blind bard around 900 B.C.E.,... |  BEOWULFBest Price: $2.36 Despite the fact that this Kindle book advertises itself as the Seamus Heaney translation of... |  The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Editions)Best Price: $6.85 The Epic of Gilgamesh is a difficult text, both to translate and to read. I'm not a fan of... |
 Vergil's Aeneid: Hero War HumanityBest Price: $14.91 This translation of Vergil's epic is gripping! This version is important for it's expressive... |  The World of Odysseus (New York Review Books Classics Series)Best Price: $7.90 This relatively short work by the famed ancient historian M. I. Finely remains as influential... |  The Iliad (Everyman's Library (Cloth))Best Price: $11.00 This is the public domain translation by Butler, NOT the Fitzgerald translation that the... |  The Iliad (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.00 This is a good introduction to the Iliad. Short of reading the original Greek Richard... |  The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's EpicBest Price: $8.75 "Armitage has given an ageless story new vigor, and has done it with style, wit and... |
 The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $2.35 I read this book while on the beach in East Africa and was blown away. The beautiful... |  The AeneidBest Price: $18.71 Since I first read Virgil some sixty years ago, a young Latin student in a New England prep... |  A Preface to Paradise Lost: Being the Ballard Matthews Lectures Delivered at University College, North Wales, 1941Best Price: $6.98 If you are reading this I am assuming you have read Paradise Lost. If you have read Paradise... | ||
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