The Complete Greeks and Romans (Penguin Classics Complete Collections) [Paperback]

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The epics of Homer; the great dramas of Aristophanes and Aeschylus; the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates; Thucydides' magnificent account of the Peloponnesian War; the fables of Aesop; and many other works of the ancient Greeks and Romans are represented in this extraordinary collection. From art and literature to mythology, science, history, and politics, all of the great works that are the foundation of Western civilization are included in this complete collection of award-winning translations from the editors of the Penguin Classics Library.

With 102 titles, The Complete Greeks and Romans is the most comprehensive collection of its kind. Included are:

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
The Complete Fables by Aesop
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anonymous
The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes
The Civil Wars by Appian
The Golden Ass by Apuleius
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
The Metaphysics by Aristotle
Poetics by Aristotle
De Anima by Aristotle
The Politics by Aristotle
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
The Civil War by Julius Caesar
The Poems of Catullus by Catullus
Selected Works by Cicero
On Government by Cicero
Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
On the Good Life by Cicero
Murder Trials by Cicero
The Nature of the Gods by Cicero
The Roman History by Cassius Dio
Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
Heracles and Other Plays by Euripides
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
The Histories by Herodotus
Hesiod and Theognis by Hesiod
Homeric Hymns by Homer
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
The Complete Odes and Epodes by Horace
The Jewish War by Josephus
The Digest of Roman Law by Justinian
Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
Rome and the Mediterranean by Livy
The War with Hannibal by Livy
Rome and Italy by Livy
The Early History of Rome by Livy
Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches by Lucian
On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius
The Later Roman Empire by Ammianus Marcellinus
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Plays and Fragments by Menander
Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Erotic Poems by Ovid
Fasti by Ovid
Heroides by Ovid
The Satyricon; The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius by Petronius
The Odes by Pindar
Gorgias by Plato
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
Timaeus and Critias by Plato
The Symposium by Plato
The Republic by Plato
Theatetus by Plato
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
The Laws by Plato
Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII by Plato
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
Natural History by Pliny the Elder
The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger
The Enneads by Plotinus
The Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
The Rise and Fall of Athens by Plutarch
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
Makers of Rome by Plutarch
Essays by Plutarch
Plutarch on Sparta by Plutarch
The Rise of the Roman Empire by Polybius
The History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus
The Jugurthine War and The Conspiracy of Catiline by Sallust
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
Dialogues and Letters by Seneca
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus
The Histories by Tacitus
The Agricola and the Germania by Tacitus
The Comedies by Terence
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Georgics by Virgil
The Eclogues by Virgil
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
A History of My Times by Xenophon
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
Early Greek Philosophy
The Greek Sophists
Hippocratic Writings
Classical Literary Criticism

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Penguin Classics (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0147503205
• ISBN-13: 978-0147503206
• Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 18.6 x 12.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 62 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth the discounted money, December 5, 2007

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I bought this collection about six month ago and I love it. I am an ancient history student so I work with many of these texts all the time and you have no idea how great it is to have the ancient works that I want just sitting on my bookshelf. For $800 it is ABSOLUTELY worth it. It is a great collection.