The Journey of Odysseus

You are Odysseus, the wiliest hero of ancient Greece. Your love for family is as strong as your quest for adventure. What will you do, when given the choice of immortality? Or when a man-eating monster has you and your men trapped in his cave?

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The Key


  • 5343
  • 978-0-86516-534-2
  • 224

The first volume of a dazzling trilogy, THE KEY shows a world on the verge of collapse through the eyes of its greatest and most passionate poet. Gaius Valerius Catullus, the boy from the provinces who became the lover of the most powerful and beautiful married woman in Rome, is dead at twenty-nine. His friend Marcus Caelius Rufus must search for the meaning of his life in the slums and bloody secret cults, the palaces and law courts of the tottering Roman Republic. Vivid, exciting, carefully researched and beautifully written, THE KEY has been a cult favorite in hardbound for year

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The Labors of Aeneas: What a Pain It Was to Found the Roman Race

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  • 5564
  • 978-0-86516-556-4
  • Paperback
  • 108

This paperback book retells the story of The Aeneid in a light-hearted and understandable manner with humorous insights and asides. This volume makes Books I-XII of Vergil's Aeneid enjoyable and easy to follow and may be used in conjunction with the Latin text of Vergil's Aeneid in high school classrooms.

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The Lighter Side of the Dark Ages

  • Illustrator: William Overton

  • 1928
  • 978-1-84331-192-8
  • Paperback
  • Wimbledon
  • 154

The Early Middle Ages of Western Europe, from AD 400 to 1000, was a boiling cauldron which bubbled over and impacted every corner of the world. Organized both by chronology and by geography, this lively book, with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek, dives fearlessly into that confused and confusing period, tracing the history of each century, beginning in North Africa and then proceeding around the Mediterranean Sea to Spain, Britain, France,Germany and the Low Countries, ending in Italy.

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The Lock


  • 5351
  • 978-0-86516-535-9
  • 304

This historical novel presents the major characters and events in the waning Roman Republic from the point of view of Cicero, the greatest orator and finest statesman of ancient Rome. It depicts the conflict that led to the collapse of the Republic and Cicero’s single-handed struggle which staved off its collapse for 15 years.

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The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon


  • 5106
  • 978-0-86516-510-6
  • Paperback
  • Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
  • 200

Helen's face launched a thousand ships, to say nothing of countless books, dramas, poems, paintings, and operas. She is arguably the most notorious woman in Western culture. What makes her so engaging, so consequential? Like an ancient wall layered with millennia of graffiti, Helen preserves the human record. Her story and our story are not to be plied apart. She is woman as we have idealized, worshipped, slandered, celebrated, constructed and deconstructed her. Helen, for better or for worse, in all her metamorphoses, represents the complex, intact fossil record of woman in Western culture. The story of Helen is the story of woman.

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The Original Dysfunctional Family: Basic Classical Mythology for the New Millennium


  • 6900
  • 978-0-86516-690-5
  • Paperback
  • 72

A very accessible introduction to classical mythology, The Original Dysfunctional Family: Basic Classical Mythology for the New Millennium presents the key stories of the twelve Olympians as well as those of the two gods associated with the fruits of the harvest, Demeter and Dionysus. The Greek version of each Olympian is presented first followed by the Roman adaptation. Chock-full of information, this book provides a sound foundation for the beginning student's further studies in culture, literature, and history. The general reader will find Williams' style engaging.

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The Origins of the Gospel According to St. Matthew


  • 6676
  • 978-0-86516-667-7
  • Paperback
  • Bolchazy-Carducci
  • 158

This book is an exact reprint of the 1950 Oxford University Press edition, with a new foreword by J. K. Elliott and a biography by A. M. Devine (Oxford University Press, 1950).

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The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim: Bilingual Edition

Called by Renaissance humanist Conrad Celtes "the German Sappho," Hrotswitha (ca. 935–1000) was a prolific author who wrote eight legends in verse, two historical epics, and six plays in rhythmic prose. This bilingual edition contains the complete Latin text with facing English translation of her six plays, Gallicanus, Dulcitius, Callimachus, Abraham, Paphnutius, and Sapientia. The Latin text, from the 2001 Teubner edition of Hrotswitha's works, appears with a facing English translation. The translations are adaptations for the stage, and include stage directions, which have been added in order to facilitate reading and performance. Students, historians, and lovers of drama will find much to enjoy.

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The Reckless Heart: Meleager and Atalanta


  • 1739
  • 978-0-86516-173-3
  • Paperback
  • 80

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The Red Flare: Cicero's On Old Age

  • Translator: G.B. Cobbold

  • 7826
  • 978-0-86516-782-7
  • Paperback
  • 118

On Old Age is a gentle text. It has the capacity to soothe us when we read it as much as it must have soothed Cicero to write it. It pleases because of its great good sense and lack of sentimentality; because it deals so straightforwardly with a complicated topic that none of us can avoid; and in the end because it gives an answer which will satisfy most of its readers to the famous question "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" (I Corinthians xv.55).

For anyone interested in Roman history or ancient philosophy, or reading the classics in translation.

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The Right Thing to Do: Cicero's De Officiis

  • Author: G. B. Cobbold

  • 8245
  • 978-0-86516-824-4
  • Paperback
  • Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
  • 320

Cicero's De Officiis is, on its surface, a letter from Cicero to his son Marcus. It was, however, clearly intended for a much wider audience. The essay is about making decisions: how should we distinguish between right and wrong, and how should we determine, in any set of circumstances, how to behave? Cicero's essential message is clear: if we are always kind and considerate of other people, we cannot go wrong, but, if we think only of ourselves, we will always go wrong. This translation of Cicero's work is intended for anyone interested in Roman history or ancient philosophy, in reading the classics in translation, or in contemplating how to do the right thing.

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