 | Virgil: v.2: Aeneid bks. 7-12; Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library): WITH Appendix Vergiliana Bks. 7-12 by Virgil
Buy new: £12.86 / Used from: £15.95 Any student of Rome has to start with the Aeneid, and Loeb is the most reliable edition. Irritatingly it's in two volumes so double the price.
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 | The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil
Buy new: £5.65 / Used from: £3.15 A cheaper prose version that is less accurate but more flowing.
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 | The Aeneid (Classics) by Virgil
Buy used from: £0.50 Also cheap but the best verse translation of Vergil.
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 | Metamorphoses: Bks.1-8, v. 3 (Loeb Classical Library) by Ovid
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £12.55 Another must read, but also in two volumes.
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 | The Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) by Ovid
Buy new: £10.49 My favourite translation of Ovid: witty, textured and playful - better than the Oxford edition.
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 | Reading Ovid: Stories from the Metamorphoses by Peter Jones
Buy new: £16.19 / Used from: £9.89 Ovid glossed - perfect for the intermediate Latin student.
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 | Works: WITH Works AND Pervigilium Veneris (Loeb Classical Library) by Catullus
Buy new: £14.00 / Used from: £10.00 Witty, urbane, obscene, tender, playful, funny and heart-breaking. Catullus writes passion (in all its guises) like no-one else and also paints a vivid picture of Roman society in the late C1st bce.
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 | Civil Wars (Loeb Classical Library) by Caesar
Buy new: £13.39 / Used from: £15.95 Caesar in his own words: self-aggrandising, deprecating, defensive and aggressive all at once, this charts the end of the Republic.
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 | Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics) by Suetonius
Buy used from: £0.49 The gossipy, scurrilous, witty and irreverent Suetonius yet has an important story to tell about the first twelve Caesars, from Julius Caesar to Domitian. A better translation than the old Penguin one
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 | Reading Latin: Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises by Peter V. Jones
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £8.00 Not everyone rates this but I think it's brilliant. You must buy the 'Text' volume and possibly the study guide too if you're not in a class.
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