Lists of Bests: Emily's "Well-Read: Ancient Literature" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/60801 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:18:21 GMT en-us 0 50 53 50 0 The Oresteia (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278564 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/278564"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/019513592X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aeschylus</div> Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307501 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/307501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192840509.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aesop</div> Cupid and Psyche (Penguin Epics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904990 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904990"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141026375.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V51622236_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Apuleius</div> The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60709 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60709"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140435905.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Apuleius</div> De Anima (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82890 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82890"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140444718.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Metaphysics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/392253 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/392253"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446192.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/147406"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449493.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Poetics (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3311"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446362.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristotle</div> Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904815 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904815"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449698.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3328"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140448144.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aristophanes</div> Confessions (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904991 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904991"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044114X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532601_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bishop of Hippo Augustine Saint</div> Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3880058 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3880058"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zOJ-R58iL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius</div> The Bible (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399144 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2399144"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141441518.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3987727 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3987727"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nYf63nVjL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Author Anonymous</div> Selected Works (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53702 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/53702"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140440992.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcus Tullius Cicero</div> The Analects (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3276 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3276"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140443487.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Confucius</div> Bakkhai (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830127 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830127"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195125983.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V35475772_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Children of Herakles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2188892 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2188892"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/019507288X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Ion (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/374556 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/374556"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195094514.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056423745_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> Medea (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1415870 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1415870"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195145666.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Euripides</div> The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3244"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044100X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> The Histories (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3330"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Herodotus</div> Theogony, Works and Days (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843160 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843160"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hesiod</div> The Odyssey of Homer (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1327 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1327"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060931957.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46992552_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richmond Lattimore</div> Homeric Hymns (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1668797 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1668797"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140437827.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Homer</div> The Satires of Horace and Persius (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1144872 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1144872"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140455086.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horace</div> Sixteen Satires: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904984 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904984"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140447040.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056421391_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Juvenal</div> On the Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311786 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/311786"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140446109.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138672784_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lucretius</div> The Epigrams : Dual Language Edition (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/904986 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Martial</div> The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3278 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3278"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140443606.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> Heroides (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337354 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/337354"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140423559.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V60599508_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3324 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3324"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044789X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ovid</div> Early Socratic Dialogues (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/965621 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/965621"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140455035.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V35115893_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52413 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52413"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449280.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> Republic, The (Plato) (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834227 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2834227"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01PKHYRME2L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Symposium (Penguin Great Ideas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535407 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535407"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143037536.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plato</div> The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/260181 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/260181"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140441492.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Plautus</div> The Rope and Other Plays http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/401542 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/401542"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140441360.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.F. Watling</div> Sappho: A New Translation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843253 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/843253"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0520223128.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sappho</div> On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535401 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/535401"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143036327.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Seneca</div> The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 BC (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1552670 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1552670"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192839667.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65743254_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by R. B. Parkinson</div> Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2667482 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2667482"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195061675.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/176785 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/176785"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195049608.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. A. Sophocles</div> Oedipus the King (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284128 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/284128"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195054938.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283838 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/283838"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195135040.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V50046460_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sophocles</div> Essential Talmud: Thirtieth-anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2163494 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2163494"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0465082734.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65777379_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adin Steinsaltz</div> The Comedies (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3158135 <div id="position">47</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Terence</div> The Idylls (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2227045 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2227045"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140445234.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Theocritus</div> The Torah http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274064 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1274064"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805048200.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Conversations of Socrates (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82559 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82559"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044517X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Xenophon</div>