On Plato's Timaeus
Calcidius and John Magee
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Until the Renaissance, the work of Calcidius offered the medieval West almost the only direct access...
Peter Hall's Bacchai
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"Bacchai is one of the top dozen plays ever written. Whenever it's performed, it seems...
Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus: Volume 5, Book 4: Volume 5
Proclus and Dirk Baltzly
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Proclus' commentary on Plato's dialogue Timaeus is arguably the most important commentary on a text...
Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts
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Balancing long-overlooked and well-known works from early modern England, Same-sex desire in early...
Terence: Phormio
Terence and Robert Maltby
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Terence's Phormio , based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the...
The Prose Edda: Tales from Norse Mythology
Snorri Sturluson and Jean I. Young
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"Prose Edda" is a work without predecessor or parallel. It was designed as a handbook for poets to...
The Story of Hong Gildong
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The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like...
Selected Poems
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Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence...
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal
Charles Baudelaire and Jan Owen
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The poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution and accelerating...
The Snow Was Dirty
Howard Curtis and Georges Simenon
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A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece. 'And always the dirty...