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Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

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Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

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The Greek Anthology; Volume 5

William Roger Paton

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

Poems and Letters. With an English Translation, Introd., and Notes by W.B. Anderson; Volume 1 — C Sollius Modestus Apollina Sidonius

Poems and Letters. With an English Translation, Introd., and Notes by W.B. Anderson; Volume 1

C Sollius Modestus Apollina Sidonius

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

An Aristotelian Theory of Comedy, With an Adaptation of the Poetics, and a Translation of the ‘Tractatus Coislinianus, ‘ — Lane Cooper

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Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

The Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto With Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Verus, Antoninus Pius, and Various Friends. Edited and for the First Time Translated Into English by C.R. Haines; Volume 1 — Charles Reginald Haines

The Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto With Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Verus, Antoninus Pius, and Various Friends. Edited and for the First Time Translated Into English by C.R. Haines; Volume 1

Charles Reginald Haines

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

A Great Success — HUMPHRY WARD MRS.

A Great Success

HUMPHRY WARD MRS.

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

Essays on Life Art and Science — Samuel Butler

Essays on Life Art and Science

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

Baltromèo Calzolaro — Paolo Ferrari

Baltromèo Calzolaro

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

Paradise Lost With Introduction, Notes, [and] Glossary, Volume 2, Books 7-8 — John Milton

Paradise Lost With Introduction, Notes, [and] Glossary, Volume 2, Books 7-8

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

St. Augustine’s Confessions With an English Translation; Volume 1 — W. h. d. 1863-1950 Rouse

St. Augustine’s Confessions With an English Translation; Volume 1

W. h. d. 1863-1950 Rouse

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

Classic Baptism An Inquiry Into the Meaning of the Word Baptizo As Determined by the Usage of Classical Greek Writers — James Wilkinson 1812-1881 Dale

Classic Baptism An Inquiry Into the Meaning of the Word Baptizo As Determined by the Usage of Classical Greek Writers

James Wilkinson 1812-1881 Dale

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

The Letters of Cicero; the Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order; Volume 4 — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Letters of Cicero; the Whole Extant Correspondence in Chronological Order; Volume 4

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Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

Erasmi Colloquia Selecta Or the Select Colloquies of Erasmus — John Clarke

Erasmi Colloquia Selecta Or the Select Colloquies of Erasmus

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

The First Mate — Harry Collingwood

Harry Collingwood

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

The Fables of Æsop With a Life of the Author; Illustrated With One Hundred and Eleven Engravings From Original Designs by Herrick — Aesop

The Fables of Æsop With a Life of the Author; Illustrated With One Hundred and Eleven Engravings From Original Designs by Herrick

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

The Histories, With an English Translation by W.R. Paton. In Six Volumes 3 — Polybius

The Histories, With an English Translation by W.R. Paton. In Six Volumes 3

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

The Civil Wars; With an English Translation by A.G. Peskett — Arthur George Peskett

The Civil Wars; With an English Translation by A.G. Peskett

Arthur George Peskett

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

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Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

The Sibylline Oracles — Milton Spenser Terry

The Sibylline Oracles

Milton Spenser Terry

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

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Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

In Freedom’s Cause — G. A. Henty

In Freedom’s Cause

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

The Frontier Fort — WILLIAM HENRY GILES. KINGSTON

The Frontier Fort — WILLIAM HENRY GILES. KINGSTON

William Henry Giles Kingston

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

Dwellers in The Hills — Melville Davisson Post

Dwellers in The Hills

Melville Davisson Post

Themes: Ancient & Medieval Literature • Ancient & Classical • Classics

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with King Oedipus by Sophocles. Connected by Ancient & Medieval Literature, Ancient & Classical, Classics. Authors featured include Sophocles, Maurus Servius, William Roger Paton, C Sollius Modestus Apollina Sidonius, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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