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| | 4. |  | The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $10.20
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(I'm not sure why amazon has over half of these reviews for Fagels's translation on Rieu's page? But anyway...)
I have spent quite a bit of time comparing versions of "The Odyssey", and out of all of them I settled on Rieu's pioneering translation.
It was originally published in 1946 as... more info
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| | 5. |  | The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
from Pantheon
Price: $29.70
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Having previously read an inexpensive edition of Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War, I understand the difficulty of making one's way through a book of ancient history without the aid of maps or footnotes. When I decided to read Herodotus' Histories, then, I was thrilled to find this one,... more info
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| | 7. |  | Plato: Republic
from Hackett Publishing Company
Price: $9.95
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Of course, Plato's work is nothing short of timeless. However, I recently found a hard-paperback version of this book that I would have liked to have more than this flimsy paperback format.
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| | 8. |  | The Iliad of Homer
from University Of Chicago Press
Price: $11.34
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I love Greek mythology, so this sparked my interest. I had to read it for college and struggled through the first portion of it since it dealt with every man who was dying on the field. A brief description was given for each man. These were not the main characters so I didn't really care, but the... more info
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| | 10. |  | Nicomachean Ethics
from Hackett Publishing Company
Price: $8.21
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Aristotle's ethics is a theory of excellence so it definitely spoke to me as a individual. He starts with the claim that the end of all human action is happiness and he claims that happiness requires virtue. He goes on to look at several different types of virtues and he believes they can be... more info
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