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The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired...

The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens-Sophocles's seven surviving...

The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully...

Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate...

Bringing together the masterpieces of classical tragedy in one...

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From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from...

The death of Socrates may be the most famous...

Penguin Classics relaunch. The trial and condemnation of Socrates...

From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson:...

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A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works--Euthyphro,...

A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography...

A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of...

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated...

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition...

Sophie's come a long way since the day she...

Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen...

Euripides V includes the plays "The Bacchae," translated by...

Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can...

New translation of One of Plato's major dialogues, popular...

'Who here can tell what law we owe the...

Penguin Classics relaunch. That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable...