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The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
1.  The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
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  "The definitive translation of an epic that has lasted 2,800 years. Think Troy, anger, murder, love..."
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The Odyssey of Homer (Perennial Classics)
2.  The Odyssey of Homer (Perennial Classics) by Richmond Lattimore
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  "A great translation of an undimmed epic of the desperate struggle home, and the agonising wait for a loved one..."
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The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
3.  The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil
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  "The Romans' attempt to put out propaganda in the form of a Homeric epic. A great story."
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Republic (Oxford World's Classics)
4.  Republic (Oxford World's Classics) by Plato
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  "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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The Three Theban Plays: 'Antigone', 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus' (Penguin Classics)
5.  The Three Theban Plays: 'Antigone', 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus' (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles
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  "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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The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)
6.  The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus
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  "Full of entertaining stuff - great stories and a fascinating insight into a 2500-year-old view of the world."
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The Poems of Catullus (Oxford World's Classics)
7.  The Poems of Catullus (Oxford World's Classics) by Catullus
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  "A personal and moving group of poems - sometimes raw, often highly offensive, always from the heart."
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The Complete Odes and Epodes (Oxford World's Classics)
8.  The Complete Odes and Epodes (Oxford World's Classics) by Horace
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  "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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The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics)
9.  The Love Songs of Sappho (Literary Classics) by Sappho
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  "Passionate and sexy, Sappho's poems led to her being called the "Ninth Muse"."
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Tales from Ovid: Twenty-four Passages from the "Metamorphoses"
10.  Tales from Ovid: Twenty-four Passages from the "Metamorphoses" by Ted Hughes
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  "Hughes's translation of Ovid's brilliant poem is magical, and really brings life to the stories of change - strange creatures, gods and humans."
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