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How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort
$17.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decoration
The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as n- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Vitruvius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691249121
- Language: English
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How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving in
$17.95 Add to cartLively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptation
How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Prudentius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691220344
- Language: English
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The Portable Plato
$26.00 Add to cartWriting in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagi… [more below]
- Series: Portable Library
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0140150404
- Language: English
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Selected Discourses – The Wisdom of Epictetus: The Stoic Classic
$14.99 Add to cartExplore the ancient Stoic way of thinking and the valuable lessons it holds for contemporary life
This new volume contains the Enchiridion and selected Discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epicte
- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0857089951
- Language: English
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The Stoics: The Philosophy of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
$19.99 Add to cartThis luxurious hardback edition brings together four classic essays on Stoic philosophy from the Ancient Greek world, beautifully presented with gold embossing and stenciled page edges.
Is there an a- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1398849103
- Language: English
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Stoicism 101: From Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus to the Role of Reason and Amor Fati, an Essential Primer on Stoic Philosophy
$16.99 Add to cartDiscover all the essential wisdom of the stoics with this engaging, informative, and easy-to-understand guide to all the key philosophers, concepts, and principles of the stoic philosophy.
You’ve seen- Series: Adams 101
- Author: Cloward, Erick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1507223579
- Language: English
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Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEpicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wilson, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 019968832X
- Language: English
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Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito
$11.95 Add to cartThese new translations of the Defence of Socrates, the Euthyphro, and the Crito present Plato’s remarkable dramatizations of the momentous events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 399 BC, on charge… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540500
- Language: English
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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual
$18.95 Read more“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read–it’s a book to return t
- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928242
- Language: English
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How to Live – A Handbook of Stoic Philosophy: Discourses and the Enchiridion
$4.99 Read moreDelve into the profound teachings and timeless wisdom of Epictetus through his discourses and “The Enchiridion,” which offer readers a practical guide for living a fulfilling and virtuous life. In Dis… [more below]
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9358565748
- Language: English
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What to Expect When You’re Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife
$29.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death–and what we might learn from them
A lively story of death, What to Expect When You’re Dead explores the fascinating de- Author: Garland, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0691266174
- Language: English
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What Is Stoicism?: A Brief and Accessible Overview
$16.95 Add to cartAn easy, jargon-free introduction to stoicism that covers the full range of stoic thought in a single compact volume
Divided into short chapters that can be read in brief sittings, What Is Stoicism?- Author: Campbell, Tanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1608689441
- Language: English
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How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers
$17.95 Add to cartExplore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato’s great dramatic work, the Symposium
What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, l- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691256888
- Language: English
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How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go
$17.95 Add to cartInviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion–and why giving it up can free us from suffering
From self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the s- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Garfield, Jay L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691252637
- Language: English
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Gateway to the Stoics: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Epictetus’s Enchiridion, and Selections from Seneca’s Letters
$18.00 Add to cartThe one book you need to master stoic philosophy!
This classic collection, newly revised and with a foreword by classicist Spencer Klavan, includes the famed original introduction by Russell Kirk, the- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514002
- Language: English
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Meditations
$14.99 Add to cartThe Meditations are a set of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius. He writes about the vicissitudes of his own life and explores how to live wisely and virtuously in an unpredictable world.
Part of- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1529015022
- Language: English
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The Nature of Things
$16.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve
“A plague . . . tests us in unique ways. . . . Only if you can face the invisible bullets all around us, a- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140447962
- Language: English
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Meditations
$19.99 Add to cartDelve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Meditationswith an introduction by Pierre Baumann.
The personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from- Series: Timeless Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1577154614
- Language: English
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de Anima (on the Soul)
$17.00 Read moreFor the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 1987
- ISBN10: 0140444718
- Language: English
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The Nature of the Gods
$13.95 Add to cartCicero’s philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540063
- Language: English
