Greek Fiction
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Iliad
by Homer
Dating to the ninth century BC, Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb Introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace....
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Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek is a novel written by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorbas. The novel was adapted into a successful 1964 film of the same name as well as a 1968 musical, Zorba.
The Fratricides
by Nikos Kazantzakis
Against the background of the Greek civil war of the late 1940s, Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, has taken to the mountains with a group of villagers and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world.
Forever Ulysses
by C P Rodocanachi
Picaresque novel of poor boy from Cephalonia, Greece, who made his fortune in Africa. First published in the UK as "No Innocent Abroad"
Sophocles
by Sophocles
With new translations and a new afterword The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with Paul Roche's revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, and all-new translations of the remaining plays.
Greek Fiction Books & Ephemera
The Iliad
by Homer
Paperback / softback. New. Features Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, Achilles storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death.
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CA$23.49
The Iliad
by Homer
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; One of the epics in Western literature, "The Iliad" recounts the story of the Trojan wars. In his introduction, the author observes that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it co-exists with both images
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CA$29.79
The Iliad - A New Translation By E V Rieu
by Homer
Penguin Books, 1954. Paperback. Good. 1954. 469 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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CA$10.44
The Photographs
by Vassilis Vassilikos
Sphere, 1971. First Thus. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 156 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No inscriptions. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Fiction; . ISBN: 0722187394. ISBN/EAN: 9780722187395. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 028190. . 9780722187395
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CA$8.69
Greek Tragedy in Action
by Oliver Taplin
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Top edge of text block displays foxing, with milder foxing to fore edge. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/203 pages.
"Greek tragedy has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet rarely have the plays been studied as works to be seen and heard. The idea, stemming... Read more about this item
"Greek tragedy has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet rarely have the plays been studied as works to be seen and heard. The idea, stemming... Read more about this item
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CA$48.43
Forever Ulysses
by C.P. Rodocanachi
Viking, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Very Good. Stated First Edition, First Printing (January 1938). Published by Viking, 1938. Octavo. Black cloth over red boards stamped in gold with black topstain. Book is like new; clean and crisp with some light offsetting to endpapers. Sharp corners and spine straight. No writing or names. Dust jacket is very good, price-clipped with some shelf/edge wear and several small nicks/tears along edges. Translated by Patrick Leigh-Fermor. Author's...
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CA$276.75
Aeschylus, Volume 1: Suppliant Maidens. Persians. Prometheus. Seven Against Thebes (Loeb Classical Library, No. 145) (Greek and English Translation).
by Aeschylus. With an English Translation by Herbert Weir Smyth
Aeschylus, Volume 1: Suppliant Maidens. Persians. Prometheus. Seven Against Thebes (Loeb Classical Library, No. 145) (Greek and English Translation). With an English Translation by Herbert Weir Smyth. 1996 by Harvard University Press. Hardover, 464 pages.
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CA$150.83
A COMPANION TO HOMER
by Alan J.B. Wace and Frank H. Stubbings
London: Macmillan, 1970. 4th printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 595p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Bottom edge of spine barely faded. Owner's name stamp on fronmt endpaper. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is worn and lightly tanned along the top, but otherwise intact. Illustrated with black and white plates and drawings.
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CA$138.38
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
by Homer
Paperback / softback. New. Dealing with western literature, this poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. It captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers.
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CA$28.63
Iliad
by Homer
Homeri Opera graece et latine. Graeca ad principem H. Stephani, ut & ad primam omnium Demetrii Chalcocondylae editionem... Curante Jo. Henr. Lederlino, Stephano Berglero. 619 pp + Index in Iliadem + one engraving and one engraved map (Ab. Ortelii) h.t.. 14,7x8 cm. Ex Officina Wetsteniana, Amstelaedami, 1707.
--- The Iliad of Homer (complete). Leather binding (pigskin), very tight. Name written on frontispiece. No foxing. Text in ancient greek and latin. Introduction and Index in latin.
--- The Iliad of Homer (complete). Leather binding (pigskin), very tight. Name written on frontispiece. No foxing. Text in ancient greek and latin. Introduction and Index in latin.
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CA$1,784.04
The Iliad
by Homer
Hardback. New. Poet and Homeric scholar Barry B. Powell offers a major new translation of this timeless epic poem
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CA$52.12
HELLENISTIC POETRY
by HUTCHINSON G.O
Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, 1990. 0198147481. 8vo. Orignal printed card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. xii + 374 (no inscriptions).
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CA$20.85
THREE CLASSICAL POETS Sappho Catullus and Juvenal
by JENKYNS Richard
Harvard University Press, 1982. 0674888952. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (top edge very lightly dust stained - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (spine and edges of covers faded - in protective cover). Pp. ix + 243 (publisher's neat pencil inscription on front endpaper).
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CA$20.85
Plato Opera Vol. II
by Edited by J Burnet
Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; (Par., Phil., Symp., Phdr.; Alc. I, II, Hipp., Am.) Edited by J. Burnet.
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CA$63.36
Iliad
by Homer
Paperback / softback. New. This volume presents a selection from Pope's celebrated translation of Homer's Iliad, edited and arranged so as to concentrate on the central core of the story and thus to be readable as a continuous narrative. Also included is a section of the best of Pope's noties to his own translation.
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CA$69.28
Sophocles: An Interpretation
by R. P. Winnington-Ingram
Paperback / softback. New. Professor Winnington-Ingram interprets seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and explores his tragic vision of the world. Students of Greek drama will find that this detailed study provides invaluable insights and the Greek in the text is translated or paraphrased, so that the book will also be of interest to students of the literature and drama of other cultures.
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CA$89.35
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
by N. N. Richardson
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
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CA$266.47
Greek Prose Style
by J. D. Denniston
Oxford University Press, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1952. No Edition Remarks. 139 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Hinges are lightly cracked with slightly exposed netting, but boards remain firmly attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping...
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CA$35.93
The Iliad
by Homer (trans.by Stephen Mitchell)
New York: Free Press, 2011. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 466pp.; HB quarter-bound; burntyellow w/blk.&silver; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ blk.w/white spine-pic.cover; fine. Homer's epic poem about Troy. isbn 978-14391-6337-5
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CA$69.19
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom (Myth and Poetics)
by Austin, Norman
NCROL, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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CA$42.98
The Iliad (Classics)
by Homer
Penguin Books Ltd, 1969. Paperback. Good. 1969. Reprinted. 365 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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CA$6.25
