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Homer: The IliadPenguin Classics One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior champion of the Greeks, who refuses to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles' close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge knowing this will ensure his own early death. E. V. Rieu's

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the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great art forms

Her intricately constructed narrative asks what it is to be lost

while the 'Memoirs of Socrates' also starts with an impassioned plea for the rehabilitation of a wronged reputation

Other works by Procopius are the Anecdota or Secret History—vehement attacks on Justinian

A new introduction sets the poem in the wider context of Greek life

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Mystery and adventure in Ancient Roman times for Flavia Gemina and her friends

A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals

And a moment of violence has devastating consequences

Virgil's Aeneid XI is an important

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