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  The Epic of Gilgamesh

  by Stephen Mitchell, David Ferry, Herbert Mason, A. R. George

  Gilgamesh is the first known piece of literature in the world. It is located in the Mesopotamian land. Translated with an Introduction by Andrew George.
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  The Aeneid

  by Virgil

  Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.
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  The Iliad

  by Homer

  "Each new generation is bound to produce new translations. <Lattimore> has done better with nobility, as well as with accuracy, than any other modern verse translator. <In> our age we do not often find a fine scholar who is also a genuine poet and who takes the greatest pains over the work of translation."--Hugh Lloyd-Jones, New York Review of Books