ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The story of the Trojan War, an epic tale of men and gods, of the heroes and horrors of war. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important backgrou...

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Aeneas, a Trojan warrior, searches for a new homeland after the fall of Troy. His journey becomes years of wandering. His tales of wars fought, cities built and burned, new kings, and struggling alliances spread the histories of heroes and their willingness to believ...

A stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literature   An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purga...

Homer's Odyssey in translation: the stirring tale of the ever-faithful beleaguered wife

In the first century a.d., Ovid, author of the groundbreaking epic poem Metamorphoses , came under severe criticism for The Art of Love , which playfully instructed women in the art of seduction and men in the skills essential for mastering the art of romantic conq...

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of short poems by Geoffrey Chaucer: The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Parliament of Fowles Truth Gentilesse Merciles Beaute Lak of Stedfastnesse

Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil--author of the Roman epic the Aeniad --Dante encounters mythical, historical, and con...

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The influence on Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer, has been underestimated. Yet, as this book shows, a profound engagement with Hesiod's themes is central to Ovid's poetic world. As a poet who praised women instead of men and opted fo...

An epic of UFO's in Anglo-Saxon times. Wesle the Weakling, a hapless herdsman watching the woman he loves about to become a warrior's wife, seizes a chance for change when star-men come in a shining shield-ship to carry out a cattle-raid. Roswell meets Beowulf? Also ...

A collection of twelve terzanelle poems influenced by Norse mythology, specifically regarding the afterlife. The poems explore key locations and concepts of the Germanic underworld. The terzanelle is French/Italian adaptation of the terza rima to the villanelle for...