Product Description: Robert Meagher presents a new translation of 'Herakles', Euripides' powerful drama about the trauma of war. A decorated veteran, Herakles must face a final enemy, but in his battle rage he murders his own family, unable to tell them apart...read more

Product Description: Meagher (humanities, Hampshire College, Massachusetts) and Neave (Plainville Community Schools, Connecticut) look past the thatched roofs and clay pipes, past Patrick and the saints, past the Celts, to Ireland of the Neolithic, Bronze, and early Iron Ages...read more

Product Description: All five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Life is short. Vacations are shorter. Relax! Trust your trip to Frommer's. Choose the Only Guide That Gives You: Exact prices, so you can plan the perfect trip no matter what your budget. The latest, most reliable information—completely updated every year! Dozens of easy-to-read color maps...read more

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Product Description: Meagher's translation of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis captures the horror of a young girl's lonely struggle against a vast army led by her father. Under the ruse of a betrothal to Achilles, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces in the war with Troy, sends for his daughter Iphigenia as a sacrifice to improve the fortunes of the Greek army...read more

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