 | The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £3.21 Start here. There are MANY translations of the Iliad, but 50 years on this is still an excellent rendition. See also Hammond and Fagels if it really tickles your fancy! THE book to read before you die
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 | The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.53 The ORIGINAL Penguin Classic that kicked off this invaluable series.
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 | Hesiod and Theognis (Classics) by Hesiod
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £0.97 Titans and practical tips from a man of the soil in the eighth century BC
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 | The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus
Buy used from: £4.49 The 'father' of history. His 'equiries' cover the formation of the Persian Empire and of course the Persian Wars - Go Sparta!. Did he really go to Egypt? Do we care? Check out the Gold Digging Ants!
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 | The Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.74 Athenian General Thucydides' picks up almost where Herodotos left us but their styles could not be any more different. Athens and Sparta turn on each other to devastating effect.
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 | The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.04 Corunna of the Ancients: 10,000 mercenaries escape the Persians after their failier to help Price Cyrus overthrow his brother for the Persian throne.
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 | Hellenica: History of My Times (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £5.66 Turn-coat Xenophon's completion of the work of Thucydides. Coloured by his contempt for the treatment of his former tutor Socrates
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 | The Rise and Fall of Athens (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £1.54 1/2C AD Historian/Biographer Plutarch on Theseus, Aristides, Themistocles, Solon, Cimon, Pericles, Niceas, Alcibiades and Lysander
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 | On Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch
Buy new: £6.25 / Used from: £4.39 Worth every penny. Lives and actions of Lycurgus, Agesilaus, Agis and Cleomenes and super 'Spartan Sayings' as well as a discourse on Sparta attributed to Xenophon
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 | Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: The Suppliants; Seven Against Thebes; The Persians (Classics) by Aeschylus
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.45 The first of the real Tragedy writers used recent events as the subject matter for Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes and the Persians
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 | The Birds and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Aristophanes
Buy new: £6.10 / Used from: £3.18 Vulgar, but still funny after two and a half millenia. Aristophanes landed himself in hot water for his lampooning of Athen's finest.
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 | The Three Theban Plays: 'Antigone', 'Oedipus the King', 'Oedipus at Colonus' (Penguin Classics) by Sophocles
Buy used from: £0.99 Perhaps the most famous of all Greek tragedies.
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 | The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £2.00 The 'cornerstone of Western philosophy' presented as a dialogue. Soctrates rips fourth on the meaning of justice et al.
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 | The Politics (Classics) by Aristotle
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.49 Aristotle evaluates contemporary constitutions, and considers the nature of man in this essential reading for and student of Politics.
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 | The Campaigns of Alexander (Classics) by Flavius Arrianus Xenophon / Arrian
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.07 Alexander has arrived: follow him across the known world. It's like riding with him.
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 | The History of Alexander (Classics) by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.17 Coloured but nonetheless entertaining account writen by a Roman for Romans
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 | The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Classics) by Plutarch
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £2.13 ... and Plutarch takes us as far as King Pyrrhus. Then onto the domination of Rome...
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