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
New York: Barnes & Noble Classics. 2005. First Edition Thus; Sixth Printing. Softcover. 1593082320 . Very Good+ in wraps. "1/23" inked on FEP. Light wrinkling on bottom front panel. ; 8.4 X 5.5 X 1.6 inches; 560 pages .
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NZ$83.32
The Iliad
by HOMER
Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bookstore bookplate otherwise unmarked-The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to say the Iliad is a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the tenth and final year of the Greek siege of Troy.
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Iliad
by Homer
Hardback. New. Gripping...Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task...[He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic. --Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review
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NZ$94.63
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis
London: Faber & Faber, 1977. Reprint . Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. this copy dated 1977,paprback,315 pages,name to flyleaf,pages browned otherwise very good.shelf 330.
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NZ$4.26
THE BIRDS
by ARISTOPHANES
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a Fine chemise and lightly soiled slipcase. Marian Parry. Quarto (7-7/8" x 11") bound in classic parchment with decorations in ochre and blue with a polished black calf spine; 72 double-folded pages. Translated from the Greek and with an introduction by Dudley Fitts. Illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings by Marian Parry. Copy #39 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
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NZ$127.66
THE ILIAD OF HOMER
by HOMER
Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Small owner name on front endpaper, hinges intact; spine lightly soiled and faded, as usual. Very Good or better in an intact, lightly soiled Very Good yellow slipcase. Tall quarto (8" x 12") bound in full red linen, gold-stamped. Translated with an introduction by Alexander Pope. Copy #594 of 1500 printed by Joh. Enschede and designed by Jan van Krimpen and SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page. Both this title and THE ODYSSEY were not illustrated...
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NZ$638.32
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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NZ$326.62
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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NZ$109.52
Hellenistic Poetry
by G. O. Hutchinson
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Hellenistic Poetry.
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NZ$135.12
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6, Books 21-24
by Homer
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 6, Books 21-24.
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NZ$97.04
Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo: A Commentary
by Frederick Williams
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo: A Commentary.
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NZ$339.55
The Iliad
by Homer
Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2014. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$11.23
THE ILIAD
by Homer
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931. Limited to 925 copies for England and 525 for the U.S. (this no. 1281). Spine with just a little of the usual darkening, a rather nice copy in the original slipcase. Limited to 925 copies for England and 525 for the U.S. (this no. 1281). Quarto. 925p. Bound in full niger morocco with marbled endpapers and cloth reinforced inner joints, gilt spine titles and double rules around the covers, t.e.g., bottom and fore-edge untrimmed. Printed by Johannes Enschede en Zonen in...
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NZ$1,702.20
Iliad
by Homer
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Homer is a much-debated figure traditionally considered to have composed the two great oral poems <i>The Odyssey</i> and <i>The Iliad</i> in eighth or seventh-century-BC Greece
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NZ$27.02
The Iliad (Collins Classics)
by Homer
Paperback / softback. New. HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
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NZ$13.59
Greek Anthology: v. 5
by W. R. Paton
Hardback. New. "The Greek Anthology" ("Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection over many centuries of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. Meleager of Gadara (first century BCE), an outstanding contributor, also assembled the "Stephanus "("Garland"), a compilation fundamental to the Anthology.
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NZ$60.92
Lyra Graeca: Being the Remains of all the Greek Lyric Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus excepting Pindar, in Three Volumes (Complete)
by J. M. Edmonds (ed. & trans.)
Heinemann, London, 1945. Vols 1 & 3: Reprints, Vol 2: 1st. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 16mo <6 3/4". xx + 493 / x + 476 / xii + 719pp. 3-volume set (complete). Text is in English / Greek. Front hinge cracked, vol 2. Chips to spine ends. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges browned and marked. Top edge gilt in good condition. This set is published over the period 1924-45. Loeb Classical Library. Frontispiece to vol 1. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2...
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NZ$85.18
The Iliad
by Homer
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. Paperback. 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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NZ$10.45
POLITICS & POETICS
by ARISTOTLE
Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Leonard Baskin. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard Baskin and printed at Meriden Gravure. Copy #473 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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NZ$159.67
THE ILIAD - COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
by Homer
New York: Barnes & Noble Collector's Library. 2011. Barnes and Noble Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0760750823 . Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light bumping at spine crown. ; Collector's Library; 6.0 X 3.7 X 1.1 inches; 542 pages .
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NZ$83.20
PROMETHEUS BOUND and PROMETHEUS UNBOUND
by AESCHYLUS & SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe
Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. John Farleigh. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 11") bound in two shades of fine linen buckram-- ivory and powder-blue--divided horizontally, with two rows of decorative ornaments stamped in gold along the joint, and with spine labels of the same shades of buckram applied to the contrasting areas. Printed by the Joh. Enschede en Zonen printing house in Holland on paper made in Holland specially for this edition. Translated and with an...
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NZ$170.22
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by Vassilikos, Vassilis
Buenos Aires.: Sudamericana., 1977.. Hardcover. Sobrecubierta deslucida. Good. 21 cm. 438 p., 3 h. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Colección 'Narrativas contemporáneas'. Vasilikos, Vasiles 1934-. Traducción del francés de Aurora Bernárdez . Sobrecubierta deslucida. ISBN: 8435001598 Literatura francesa. Novela. Siglo XX. (840-31"19") [[821.133.1-3]]
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NZ$41.77
POLITICS & POETICS
by ARISTOTLE
Lunenburg, VT: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine a little darkened. Near Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Leonard Baskin. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cream buckram with blue cloth belt, stamped in gold. Designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with 20 portraits drawn by Leonard Baskin and printed at Meriden Gravure. Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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NZ$191.50
The Photographs
by VASSILIKOS, Vassilis
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Translated from the Greek by Mike Edwards. Octavo. 181pp. Fine in a moderately worn, very good or better dust jacket with the spine rubbed. Inscribed to author Mary McCarthy and her husband on the front flyleaf in year of publication: "For Mary and Jim, from their friend, Vassilis, 14.1.71.
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NZ$340.44
