Presents an introduction to Old English language and literature. This title provides a range of helpful pedagogical tools: a map of Anglo-Saxon England, notes, a glossary, and a general introduction to Anglo-Saxon studies. It contains a special 'How to Use this Guide' section, to aid both self-study and classroom use.

An epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must test his bravery and cunning to the full.

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Ovid's witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars.

Presents a poem that conjures up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting Satan and Adam and Eve at the center of this story, the author creates an intense human tragedy on the Fall of Man.

Tells the story of Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal 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 - although knowing this will ensure his own early death.