Ancient and Classical
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The Encyclopedia of Epic Myths and Legends: Extraordinary and Mesmerizing Stories That Will Boggle Your Mind
$19.99 Read moreIn this unique exploration of world mythology, discover how ancient tales across cultures have influenced today’s pop culture, from Beyonc? to Game of Thrones.
Fun and engaging, The Encyclopedia of- Author: Kaplan, Arie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1577154517
- Language: English
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Mythology
$22.99 Add to cartDive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends–perfect for curious readers and academics alike.
Edith Hamilton’s mythology
- Author: Hamilton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 30, 2013
- ISBN10: 0316223336
- Language: English
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Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
$22.50 Read moreThe incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics.
Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why–for better or (sometimes) worse- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0226834247
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation
$25.00 Read moreOriginating nearly four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the epic of Gilgamesh?tells the story of a tyrannical king and his wild counterpart, Enkidu, spawned by the gods to rein in the king’
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496689
- Language: English
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Origin Myths of the Stars: The Handbook of the Greek Zodiac Origin Myths & Their Symbolic Medicine
$15.99 Add to cartHow did a Scorpion become a constellation? Who lifted the Archer into the sky? Which timeless tales gave birth to the twelve zodiac signs-and when did we forget we ever knew their origins?
In ancient t… [more below]
- Author: Michelle, Colby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1038351324
- Language: English
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The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
$25.00 Add to cartChicago’s renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume.
Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844692
- Language: English
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Horace: Poet on a Volcano
$28.00 Add to cartA biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man behind his famous lines
“Peter Stothard is a master of modern writing about ancient Rome, of vividl- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Stothard, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300256582
- Language: English
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Sophocles: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placi- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Hall, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192897802
- Language: English
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The Portable Greek Reader
$26.00 Add to cartIt is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a pe… [more below]
- Series: Portable Library
- Author: Auden, W. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 25 1977
- ISBN10: 0140150390
- Language: English
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War and the Iliad
$16.95 Add to cartWar and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer’s art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and deat… [more below]
- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 31 2005
- ISBN10: 1590171454
- Language: English
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartA worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work
No one knows whether Homer was a rea- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272472
- Language: English
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Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
$39.95 Add to cartTales of Dionysus is the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. By any standard, the Dionysiaca
- Author: Levitan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0472038966
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
$27.95 Read moreThe Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poe
- Author: Hollander, Lee M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0292764995
- Language: English
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On the Nature of the Universe
$13.95 Add to cartThis is a new verse translation of Lucretius’s only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville’s particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially hel… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555141
- Language: English
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Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World
$30.00 Add to cartAn urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history
The roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run d- Author: Hall, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275587
- Language: English
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Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Pelvsinnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roberts, Jennifer T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192855824
- Language: English
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Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World Through the Women Written Out of It
$30.00 Add to cartWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. T- Author: Hauser, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839680
- Language: English
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The Epic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of heroes who are touched by greatne… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Welch, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0198795122
- Language: English
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So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
$19.99 Add to cartThe “Fresh Air” book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby — “The Great American Novel we all think we’ve read, but really haven’t.”
Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who- Author: Corrigan, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0316230065
- Language: English
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
$20.00 Read moreNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.
What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each o- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338166
- Language: English
