 | The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.00 I am a proud disciple of Bloom. Quality should be the determining factor in reading.
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 | The Oxford Classical Dictionary
Buy new: $78.75 / Used from: $20.00 Huge and very handy!
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 | Chapman's Homer: The Iliad by Homer
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $11.81 Great edition of the better of Chapman's two translations of Homer.
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 | The Iliad of Homer by Homer
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.01 Lattimore's translation.
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 | The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Homer
Buy new: $25.95 What would the Iliad be like if John Milton had written it? Probably a lot like this. Not the easiest translation, but I enjoy it.
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 | The Odyssey of Homer by Homer
Buy used from: $1.13 Lattimore's translation.
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 | The Odyssey (Norton Critical Editions) by Homer
Buy new: $14.11 / Used from: $2.91 Cook's translation takes the same approach as Lattimore, but is slightly smoother to my ears.
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 | The AENEID Of VIRGIL. A Verse Translation by Allen Mandelbaum. With Thirteen Drawings by Barry Moser. by Barry - Illustrator]. Virgil [70 BC - 19 BC]. Mandelbaum, Allen - Translator. [Moser
Excellent translation....always with the Mandelbaum!
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 | The Metamorphoses of Ovid by Ovid
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $1.42 Allen Mandelbaum. Excellent modern translation...without being TOO modern.
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 | Ovid's Metamorphoses : The Arthur Golding Translation of 1567 by John Nims
Buy new: $20.65 / Used from: $9.64 Not the easiest, or the most faithful translation, but a worthwhile read.
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 | Civil War (Oxford World's Classics) by Lucan
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $6.95 The most literal translation available, and pretty decent notes make this the best available edition.
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 | Pharsalia (Masters of Latin Literature) by Lucan
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $4.24 A very good and very modern translation, but too often her "translation" slips into "interpretation" or "adaptation." I don't care for the use of modern place names in lieu of the Classical names.
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 | The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition (English and Italian Edition) by Dante
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.25 Also available in a excellent audio version.
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 | Inferno (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Bantam Classics) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $11.80 / Used from: $11.21 Allen Mandelbaum again. Excellent translation (available on-line, too:www.worldofdante.org), notes not as extensive as Musa's, but I prefer the slightly more poetic translation. Prints the Italian.
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 | The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno (Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Reprint Series) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.83 More accurate translation than most, and excellent notes. I initially avoided this because it's prose, but I've come around.
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 | The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $5.00 Great notes.....and a pretty good translation. I'd recommend this for a first-timer, even though it doesn't print the Italian.
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 | The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $4.50 Durling's translation. Excellent notes. I will buy Paradiso when it comes out in 2010.
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 | Purgatorio (Bantam Classics) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.95 Mandelbaum. Excellent.
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 | Paradiso (Bantam Classics) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.94 Mandelbaum.
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 | John Milton: Paradise Lost by John Milton
Buy used from: $4.76 Fantastic old-spelling edition with excellent notes.
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 | Moby-Dick, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions) by Herman Melville
Buy new: $14.01 / Used from: $8.00 I now know everything I need to know about whales....and then some!
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