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A Listmania! list by Mr. A. Keen "anybodyatall" (Bristol, UK)

1. The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer

The list author says:
	"The definitive translation of an epic that has lasted 2,800 years. Think Troy, anger, murder, love..."

�6.99 Used & New from: �0.77

(19 customer reviews)

2. The Odyssey of Homer (Perennial Classics) by Richmond Lattimore

The list author says:
	"A great translation of an undimmed epic of the desperate struggle home, and the agonising wait for a loved one..."

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(19 customer reviews)

3. The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil

The list author says:
	"The Romans' attempt to put out propaganda in the form of a Homeric epic. A great story."

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(12 customer reviews)

4. Republic (Oxford World's Classics) by Plato

The list author says:
	"Very readable translation of a populist philosopher's engaging and challenging work. Modern philosophy has been described as "a series of footnotes to Plato"."

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5. The Three Theban Plays: 'Antigone', 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus' (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles

The list author says:
	"Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos (Oedipus the King) is possibly the most powerful and upsetting play ever produced. Written to be performed only once, it deals with the most human and inhuman of emotions."

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6. The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus

The list author says:
	"Full of entertaining stuff - great stories and a fascinating insight into a 2500-year-old view of the world."

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(3 customer reviews)

7. The Poems of Catullus (Oxford World's Classics) by Catullus

The list author says:
	"A personal and moving group of poems - sometimes raw, often highly offensive, always from the heart."

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8. The Complete Odes and Epodes (Oxford World's Classics) by Horace

The list author says:
	"Horace wrote with more political awareness and ostensible flourishes, and produced a beautiful set of Augustan poems which have some of Latin's most famous lines - "carpe diem", "dulce et decorum est""

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9. The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics) by Sappho

The list author says:
	"Passionate and sexy, Sappho's poems led to her being called the "Ninth Muse"."

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(1 customer review)

10. Tales from Ovid: Twenty-four Passages from the "Metamorphoses" by Ted Hughes

The list author says:
	"Hughes's translation of Ovid's brilliant poem is magical, and really brings life to the stories of change - strange creatures, gods and humans."