PENGUIN GROUP (USA) CLASSICS books for courses MMXVII 2017 PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP CLASSICS BOOKS FOR COURSES 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS/ROBERT FAGLES CLASSICS 2017 Examination and personal copy forms are available at the back of the catalog. For personal service, adoption assistance, and complimentary exam copies, sign up for our College Faculty Info Service at http://www.penguin.com/facinfo ROBERT FAGLES TABLE OF CONTENTS Robert Fagles ............................ 2 Homer Virgil THE ODYSSEY THE AENEID Ancient Greece .......................... 3 Translated by Robert Fagles Translated by Robert Fagles Aristotle................................ 4 Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox Introduction by Bernard Knox Euripides .............................. 6 “Restores the original joys of the performing “Fagles’ new version of Virgil’s epic delicately Plato ...................................... 9 bard.”—Time. “The right blend of sophistica- melds the stately rhythms of the original to a Sophocles .......................... 10 tion and roughness.”—Ted Hughes. “Fagles contemporary cadence....He illuminates the has been remarkably successful in finding a poem’s Homeric echoes while remaining Ancient Rome .......................... 10 style that is of our time and yet timeless, faithful to Virgil’s distinctive voice.”—The New Cicero .................................. 12 dignified and yet animated by the vigor and Yorker. “A majestic achievement. If you look energy essential to any good rendering of up any line in the poem that is particularly Around the Ancient World .... 17 this poem.”—The New York Times Book Review. dear to your heart, chances are that you will The Fertile Crescent ......... 17 Penguin Classics • 560 pp. • 978-0-14-303995-2 • $17.00 forget that you are reading a translation, so PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation; Ancient Egypt ................... 18 high is the quality of Fagles’ English Academy Award in Literature from the poem.”—Louis Begley. “Fagles gives the full Judaic.................................. 19 American Academy of Arts and Letters; a Time range of Virgil’s drama, grandeur, and pathos Hindu/Indian ..................... 19 Magazine Best Book of the Year in vigorous, supple modern English.”—J. M. Ancient Asia ...................... 20 Deluxe Edition Coetzee. “Simply irresistible reading. One Penguin Classics • 560 pp. • 978-0-14-026886-7 • $18.00 Buddhism........................... 21 reads [Fagles’ translation] with the wish of Comparative Mythology........22 THE ILIAD having read it in youth.”—Richard Ford. Translated by Robert Fagles Penguin Classics • 496 pp. • 978-0-14-310629-6 • $17.00 National Humanities Medal Early Christian & Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox Byzantine Eras ......................... 23 “A remarkable tour de force....Better than Deluxe Edition any translator of our time, Fagles catches Penguin Classics • 496 pp. • 978-0-14-310513-8 • $18.00 Bible Studies ............................ 25 the relentless sweep of the original.”—May- Aeschylus General Works ......................... 26 nard Mack. “This should now become the standard translation for a new generation.” THE ORESTEIA —Peter Levi. “More readable than Latti- Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Classics & Science ........... 27 The Eumenides more or Fitzgerald, and more performable... Translated by Robert Fagles Reference ................................. 28 [Fagles’] version is imbued with human- Introduction and Notes by W. B. Stanford ity.”—The New York Times Book Review. The only trilogy in Greek drama which sur- Also of Interest.........................29 Penguin Classics • 704 pp. • 978-0-14-044592-3 • $16.00 vives from antiquity. Also includes an essay Harold Morton Landon Translation Award Index..........................................30 from The Academy of American Poets; The on the ideas and symbolism, notes, geneal- Translation Center of Columbia University ogy, and glossary. College Faculty Award; a New Jersey Humanities Book Award Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-044333-2 • $15.00 Information Service ............... 32 Deluxe Edition Penguin Classics • 704 pp. • 978-0-14-027536-0 • $19.00 Sophocles Examination Copy THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS Order Form............................... 34 Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus Translated by Robert Fagles Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox “I know of no better English version.”— Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Also includes notes, a bibliography, genealogy, and a glossary. Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-044425-4 • $15.00 2 u denotes new or forthcoming title CLASSICS 2017 ANCIENT GREECE ANCIENT GREECE THE GREEK ALEXANDER ROMANCE Aeschylus Aesop Translated with an Introduction THE ORESTEIA AESOP’S FABLES by Richard Stoneman Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, Selected and Adapted by Jack Zipes One of the most influential works of late The Eumenides Introduction by Samuel Pickering classical Greek literature, The Greek Alexan- Translated by Robert Fagles 203 of the enduring and popular fables, der Romance recounts the journeys of Alex- See Robert Fagles, page 2 translated into readable, modern English ander, from his taming of the horse Buceph- THE ORESTEIAN TRILOGY and beautifully illustrated with 50 classic alus to the ascent to heaven in a basket Translated with an Introduction woodcuts by the famous 19th-century borne by eagles. by Philip Vellacott French illustrator J. J. Grandville. Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044560-2 • $14.00 Vellacott’s verse translation is presented with Signet Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-451-52953-4 • $5.95 an introduction to Greek mythology, the THE COMPLETE FABLES background of each play, and the historical THE GREEK SOPHISTS Translated by Olivia and Robert Temple Translated by John Dillon and Tania Gergel context of the trilogy. Also includes notes, Introduction by Robert Temple Introduction by John Dillon bibliography, pronunciation guide, and a This annotated edition of the Fables is the Trailblazing works by Gorgias, Prodicus, Pro- genealogical table of the House of Atreus. first unbowdlerized English translation— tagoras, Antiphon, and other sophists that Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044067-6 • $13.00 and with 358 fables, the most complete col- not only influenced Plato and Aristotle but THE PERSIANS AND OTHER PLAYS lection in translation—restoring Aesop’s also marked European prose style and for- The Persians, Prometheus Bound, sophisticated, bawdy wit to these charming mal oratory. Also includes linking commen- Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants tales, and affording fascinating glimpses of tary, chronologies, and bibliographies. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by everyday life in ancient Greece. Penguin Classics • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-043689-1 • $17.00 Alan H. Sommerstein Penguin Classics • 96 pp. • 978-0-14-044649-4 • $13.00 These new translations of four of Aeschylus’ Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles finest works show how the playwright Caroline Alexander brought epic sweep to the drama of classi- GREEK TRAGEDY THE WAR THAT KILLED ACHILLES Translated by E. F. Watling, Philip Vellacott, cal Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The True Story of Homer’s Iliad Shomit Dutta, and Malcolm Heath Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044999-0 • $15.00 and the Trojan War Edited by Shomit Dutta PROMETHEUS BOUND “Spirited and provocative...a nobly bold even Introduction by Simon Goodhill and Other Plays rousing venture....It would be hard to find a This introductory volume contains Aeschy- Translated with an Introduction faster, livelier, more compact introduction to lus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, by Philip Vellacott such a great range of recent Iliadic explora- and Euripides’ Medea, plus extracts from Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven tions.”—The New York Times. “In her spectac- Aristophanes’ The Frogs and Aristotle’s Poet- Against Thebes, and The Persians, presented ular and constantly surprising new book, ics. Includes a preface, a chronology, further here in verse translation, examine the strug- Caroline Alexander has taken the ‘original’ reading, notes, and genealogical tables. gle between opposing rights or principles. war book and turned it upside down, making Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-143936-5 • $16.00 Lines are numbered to correspond with the it, as all wars are, an excruciating story of Oxford Classical Text. loss....The War that Killed Achilles is a triumph.” Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-044112-3 • $14.00 —Ken Burns. For instructions on requesting permission to Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311826-8 • $17.00 photocopy most Penguin Group (USA) titles for coursepacks and general classroom use, please contact the Copyright Clearance www.penguinspeakersbureau.com Center at http://www.copyright.com. For material not handled by the CCC, please For all inquiries, including speakers’ fees contact Penguin directly at and availability, email permissions.penguinrandomhouse.com [email protected] u denotes new or forthcoming title 3 ANCIENT GREECE CLASSICS 2017 Apollonius of Rhodes uJASON AND THE ARGONAUTS Translated by Aaron Poochigian Introduction and Notes by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s. Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-310686-9 • $15.00 THE VOYAGE OF THE ARGO Translated with an Introduction by E. V. Rieu Apollonius used the manner and matter of epics, but wrote as a critical observer in his Argonautica, the only full remaining account of Jason’s quest for