Tao Te Ching
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Printed throughout in two colors is this new, definitive version of one of the great books of world literature--comparable in its sales and influence to the Bible, the Bhagavad Ghita, and the Koran.
Stanley Lombardo Books
Stanley F. Lombardo crafts translations of classical epics with a distinctive vernacular style, prioritizing conversational English over formal tones. His work is intentionally designed for oral performance, aiming to recreate the experience of ancient Greek recitations. Lombardo's approach breathes new life into foundational texts, making them accessible and engaging for contemporary readers through dynamic and performative renditions.
Tales of Dionysus
The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
Provides the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. The Dionysiaca is by far the longest poem surviving from the classical world, a massive mythological epic stretching to over 20,000 lines, written in the tradition of Homer.
Iliad: Homer
- 516 pages
- 19 hours of reading
"Gripping... Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task... (He) manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic." — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review