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📚 Five Vintage Penguin Classics — Ancient Greek & Roman Texts
A collection of five volumes in the iconic Germano Facetti black cover design, introduced 1962.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (Harmondsworth, Middlesex)
Format: Mass Market Paperback — Penguin Classics black series
Date: c.1963–1970 (pre-decimalisation printings; cover prices in shillings)
ISBN: None — pre-ISBN publications
Condition: Variable across the five volumes — see individual notes below.
The five volumes:
1. Aristotle — Ethics (Catalogue No. L55)
Translated by J.A.K. Thomson | Cover price: 5/-
Approx. 384 pages | Condition: Good.
2. Homer — The Odyssey (Catalogue No. L1)
Translated by E.V. Rieu | Cover price: 3/6
Approx. 368 pages | Condition: Good.
3. The Letters of the Younger Pliny (Catalogue No. L3x)
Translated by Betty Radice | Cover price: 5/-
Approx. 320 pages | Condition: Fair. Significant spine peeling and damage.
4. Thucydides — The Peloponnesian War (Catalogue No. L5x)
Translated by Rex Warner | Cover price: 6/-
Approx. 640 pages | Condition: Fair. Spine damage consistent with heavy use.
5. Plutarch — The Rise and Fall of Athens (Catalogue No. L102)
Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert | Cover price: 6/-
Approx. 320 pages | Condition: Fair to Good.
🔍 Synopsis
Five pillars of Western classical literature and thought, gathered in the landmark Penguin Classics black series — the definitive popular editions of antiquity for a generation of students and general readers. Together they encompass the foundational ethics of Aristotle; Homer's great epic of homecoming and cunning; Thucydides' matchless account of the catastrophic twenty-seven-year war between Athens and Sparta; Plutarch's biographical portraits of Athens' nine greatest statesmen from Solon to Alcibiades; and the intimate, sharply observed letters of Pliny the Younger — including his eyewitness account of the eruption of Vesuvius. All five translations remain among the most celebrated English renderings of their respective texts.
💬 Reviews
"These are the books which have formed the Western mind — and the Penguin Classics translations made them accessible to millions of ordinary readers for the first time." — The Guardian
"The black Penguin Classics of the 1960s are among the most beautiful and useful books ever published in paperback." — Penguin Collectors Society
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