My favourite Classics

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	"Superb translation of the grandest poem ever written"

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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 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 only surviving trilogy of Greek tragedy - awesome, terrifying and beautifully translated"

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	"Very fine translations of these sometimes very strange plays"

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	"Gripping history, translated with commendable simplicity"

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	"Racy, sexy, passionate, rude, offensive, mean-minded - Latin poetry at its most intimate"

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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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	"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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	"Full of great stories, and more reliable as history than is sometimes believed.  Nice translation too"

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	"Mmm...steamy.  Greek lyric poetry written by herself of Lesbos.  Fragmentary but beautiful"

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	"Bad-tempered, snobbish and cruel, but very funny.  Good translation too"

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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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	"Probably more reliable than the above.  Capsule biographies of the men who made Athens"

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	"The nutcases who ruled Rome.  Fascinating and appalling reading"