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Greek TragedyPenguin Classics Agamemnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to discover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge

His chief interest was in monuments of art and architecture

Dora is intrigued by her uncle's suspicious behaviour and enlists the help of Edward Lawrence

introduced a gruelling regime of military training for boys

In The War with Hannibal

and a pivotal text in the history of Roman satire

The volume starts with an introduction to ancient Greek history and culture

how completely it came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom

Presents an absorbing study of an island steeped in tradition and antiquity

The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s

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How to Be a Bad Emperor is a delightfully enlightening guide to the dangers of power without character

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