 | Plays: "After Darwin", "Credible Witness", "The Ash Girl", "Dianeira" v. 2 (Contemporary classics) by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £6.98 If you can get hold of the radio version of TW's Dejaneira - it's incredible! [Joseph Fiennes as Hyllos!]
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 | The Golden Age of Myth and Legend (Wordsworth Reference) by Thomas Bulfinch
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 INVALUABLE compendium of all Victorian and pre-Victorian classical allusions in poetry - arranged by myth - a GIFT for any Reception student!
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 | War Music: an account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £4.59 Enjoyable and exhilarating reworking of the Iliad by a military veteran.
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 | The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £3.35 Heartrendingly moving version which had a deep cultural and political impact on Ireland during the resolution of the Troubles.
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 | The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.87 Heaney sensitively and deftly brings another masterpiece to life.
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 | The Oresteia: A Translation of Aeschylus' Trilogy of Plays (Faber poetry) by Aeschylus
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £1.67 Hughes' incredibly influential version. An absolute must.
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 | Alcestis: In a Version by Ted Hughes by Euripides
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Hughes' Alcestis is tender and tough by turns. Excellent.
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 | Tales from Ovid: Twenty-four Passages from the "Metamorphoses" by Ted Hughes
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.45 Erotic and erudite - Ovid himself would have enjoyed this.
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 | The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation
Buy new: £36.10 / Used from: £15.55 Always handy to have to hand.
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 | The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £6.78 My preferred Odyssey.
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 | The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £1.73 My preferred Iliad.
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 | The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.52 Suspect this will end up being my preferred Aeneid, too!
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 | Homer's Odyssey by Simon Armitage
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £0.53 A beautifully crafted version: a pleasure to read.
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 | Reception Studies: Greece and Rome (New Surveys in the Classics) by Lorna Hardwick
Buy used from: £32.17 [Academic] The traditional starting-point for Reception students.
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 | Translating Words, Translating Cultures (Classical Inter/faces) by Lorna Hardwick
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £11.50 [Academic] A thought-provoking and useful survey.
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 | Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000 by Lorna Hardwick
Buy new: £38.25 / Used from: £31.98 [Academic] Brilliant!
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 | Medea in Performance 1500-2000 (Legenda) by Edith Hall
Buy new: £35.00 [Academic] Fantastic!
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