My favourite Classics

A Listmania! list by lexo1941 (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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The Iliad
1.  The Iliad by Homer
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  "Superb translation of the grandest poem ever written"
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The Odyssey (Vintage Classics): Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
2.  The Odyssey (Vintage Classics): Translated by Robert Fitzgerald by Homer
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  "Unbelievably cheap edition of a masterly translation of the other great poem by the above guy who may not have existed"
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The Three Theban Plays: 'Antigone', 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus' (Penguin Classics)
3.  The Three Theban Plays: 'Antigone', 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus' (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles
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  "The story of a tragic life, told in plays written decades apart from each other.  IMO the zenith of Greek drama"
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The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) Classics S.
4.  The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) Classics S. by Aeschylus
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  "The only surviving trilogy of Greek tragedy - awesome, terrifying and beautifully translated"
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides Vol 1 (Euripides)
5.  The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides Vol 1 (Euripides) by Richard Grene
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  "Very fine translations of these sometimes very strange plays"
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The Peloponnesian War (Classics)
6.  The Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides
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  "Gripping history, translated with commendable simplicity"
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The Poems of Catullus
7.  The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
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  "Racy, sexy, passionate, rude, offensive, mean-minded - Latin poetry at its most intimate"
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Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics)
8.  Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Ovid
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  "Ambitious, expansive, fantastic, luxuriant, ironic - Latin poetry at its most sophisticated, and in some ways unsurpassed by anyone"
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The Aenid (Vintage Classics)
9.  The Aenid (Vintage Classics) by Virgil
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  "Latin poetry at its most, well, Roman.  As Borges once said, one of the very few times someone set out to write a masterpiece and succeeded"
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The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)
10.  The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus
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  "Full of great stories, and more reliable as history than is sometimes believed.  Nice translation too"
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Poems and Fragments
11.  Poems and Fragments by Sappho
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  "Mmm...steamy.  Greek lyric poetry written by herself of Lesbos.  Fragmentary but beautiful"
£5.96   Used & New from: £1.50

Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library)
12.  Juvenal and Persius (Loeb Classical Library) by Juvenal
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  "Bad-tempered, snobbish and cruel, but very funny.  Good translation too"
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On Sparta (Penguin Classics)
13.  On Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
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  "The strangest society in Greece as interpreted centuries later by someone who had never been there in its heyday.  Not totally reliable but fascinating"
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The Rise and Fall of Athens (Penguin Classics)
14.  The Rise and Fall of Athens (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
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  "Probably more reliable than the above.  Capsule biographies of the men who made Athens"
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The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)
15.  The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius
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  "The nutcases who ruled Rome.  Fascinating and appalling reading"
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