Ancient and Classical
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Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
$25.00 Add to cart“Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop
Alice Notley, the author of m
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987828816
- Language: English
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The Interpretation of Dreams
$13.95 Add to cart‘Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source’
Artemidorus’ The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Artemidorus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0198797958
- Language: English
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Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology
$12.95 Add to cart‘Who would you say knows himself?’
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contempo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856091
- Language: English
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A Loeb Classical Library Reader
$9.95 Add to cartA paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.
This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity’s major authors includes poetry, dial- Series: Loeb Classical Library
- Author: Loeb Classical Library
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 30 2006
- ISBN10: 067499616X
- Language: English
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The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
$15.95 Add to cartDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson’s new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Parkinson, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555621
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Sappho
$21.95 Add to cartA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translator
Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has bee- Author: Barnstone, Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 1590306139
- Language: English
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Greek Drama
$6.99 Add to cart- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Hadas, Moses
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553212214
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
$14.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0199753636
- Language: English
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Hombres No Son Islas, Los
$20.95 Read moreBased on John Donne’s famous meditation, Nuccio Ordine expands his “ideal library” by inviting us to read–and reread–more selected pages of universal literature. Convinced that a brilliant quote can… [more below]
- Author: Ordine, Nuccio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 8419036129
- Language: Spanish
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading-- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0345806212
- Language: English
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Prophets
$45.00 Read more“A brilliant study of the Hebrew prophets, one of the most penetrating works . . . [of] our time.”– Will Herberg
From the legendary twentieth-century Jewish Theologian and author of Man is Not Alone a
- Author: Heschel, Abraham J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063347962
- Language: English
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Dialogues and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAlain de Botton’s bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy–later made into a six-part TV series–has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offer… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552401
- Language: English
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Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
$25.00 Read more“Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop
Alice Notley, the author of m
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
$28.00 Read moreAn award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves
“Remarkable, brave and compassio- Author: Hall, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273533
- Language: English
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Iphigeneia at Aulis
$14.99 Add to cartMerwin and Dimock have provided a new translation for this celebrated tragedy, with a comprehensive introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary of mythical and geographical terms.
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 29 1992
- ISBN10: 0195077091
- Language: English
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Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny
$35.00 Add to cartAn incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny.
As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politics, tales told in ancient Greek epics and tragedies p
- Author: Anhalt, Emily Katz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1503628566
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King: Sophocles
$11.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New T… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: March 31 1988
- ISBN10: 0195054938
- Language: English
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The Complete Euripides: Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tran… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Burian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388690
- Language: English
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Travels with Odysseus
$16.95 Add to cartTravels with Odysseus retells the earthy and profound adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus as teaching stories which hold insight and guidance for our own present day journey. On his winding odyssey,
- Author: Goldberg, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0976791501
- Language: English
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The Complete Euripides: Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tran… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Burian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388674
- Language: English
