Ancient and Classical
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Elegies of Chu
$16.95 Add to cartElegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate ex… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Williams, Nicholas Morrow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198818319
- Language: English
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Estate Management and Symposium
$11.95 Add to cartXenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was ap… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198823517
- Language: English
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On Ovid’s Metamorphoses
$14.95 Add to cartOvid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundred
- Series: Core Knowledge
- Author: Williams, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200714
- Language: English
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Why Homer Matters
$25.00 Add to cartComplex, personal, and profound … a brash and brave piece of writing … filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad. –The Wall Street Journal
Why Homer Matters is a magi- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074940
- Language: English
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Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
$20.99 Add to cartWhy should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings–splashed across today’s headlines–that have not only destroyed individual lives b… [more below]
- Author: Das, Gurcharan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199754411
- Language: English
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Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies
$14.00 Add to cartTogether these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leadi- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hésiode
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 26 1976
- ISBN10: 0140442839
- Language: English
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Selected Works (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)
$17.00 Add to cartCollecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome’s finest orators, Cicero’s Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.
Lawyer, philosoph… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 30 1960
- ISBN10: 0140440992
- Language: English
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
$22.99 Add to cartThrough National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum’s poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from r… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0156001268
- Language: English
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Classics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe are all classicists–we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853856
- Language: English
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Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology
$22.95 Add to cartGoddesses, monsters, humans and the semi-divine – whether courageous or meek, gruesome or irresistible, female characters are ever present on the peripheries of the great Greek myths, but rarely do t
- Author: Mackin Roberts, Ellie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1787394921
- Language: English
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Lucian: Selected Dialogues
$14.95 Add to cartThe Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only on the Greek world, but on later E… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Costa, C. D. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555931
- Language: English
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The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
$23.99 Add to cartAdventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this useful, entertaining and informative story of the first great epic (The Washington Post)
Composed in Middle Babylonia around 120- Author: Damrosch, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0805087257
- Language: English
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Classical Literary Criticism
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of literary criticism, including Aristotle’s Poetics, Horace’s Art of Poetry, Longinus’ on Sublimity, Tacitus’ Dialogues, and extracts from Pl… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Russell, D. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549818
- Language: English
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The Masnavi, Book Five
$12.95 Add to cart‘If something else can capture your attention
This is the first ever
Then it’s not love, but just a trivial passion –
Love is that flame which, once it blazes up,
Burns everything but the Beloved up.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2022
- ISBN10: 019285707X
- Language: English
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The Complete Fables
$14.00 Add to cart‘Many people are not in the least disturbed at the harm that befalls them, provided they can see their enemies’ downfall first’
In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of c
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aesop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140446494
- Language: English
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On Obligations: de Officiis
$13.95 Add to cartCicero wrote On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspiring politicians. It has subsequently played a seminal role i
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540713
- Language: English
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Eros the Bittersweet
$15.95 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson’s exploration of the concept of “eros” in both classic
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973862
- Language: English
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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
$16.95 Add to cartNamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library
Anne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bi- Series: Princeton Classics #130
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247935
- Language: English
