Ancient and Classical
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The Pocket Sappho
$14.95 Read moreA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.
Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Barnstone, Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1611806917
- Language: English
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The Republic and the Laws
$12.95 Add to cartCicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019954011X
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians
$16.00 Add to cartAeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punish… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 30 1961
- ISBN10: 0140441123
- Language: English
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From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics
$29.99 Add to cart“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.” –C. S. Lewis In From Achilles to Christ, Louis Markos introduces readers to the great narratives of classical mythology from a Christian p
- Author: Markos, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0830825932
- Language: English
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Enuma Elish
$13.99 Add to cartThe Enuma Elish is widely known as the classic Akkadian creation myth, passed down from the Sumerian, and replete with all the gods one has come to expect from ancient mythology. But is this an accura
- Author: Goudsward, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: January 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1989940390
- Language: English
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Leucippe and Clitophon
$13.95 Add to cartAchilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqu? of the five “Greek novels” of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tatius, Achilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555478
- Language: English
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The Iliad: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the renowned translator of Rilke, Tao Te Ching, and Gilgamesh, a vivid new translation of Western civilization’s foundational epic: The Iliad.
Tolstoy called the Iliad a miracle; Goethe said tha- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1439163383
- Language: English
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Past and Present
$8.94 Add to cartThomas Carlyle’s Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ‘miraculous thunder-voice, from ou… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0198841086
- Language: English
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Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
$23.99 Add to cartWhen the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as a bible an… [more below]
- Author: Krebs, Christopher B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342921
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green
$21.18 Add to cartThe Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapte… [more below]
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0520303369
- Language: English
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Homer: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHomer’s mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, ‘the … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Graziosi, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0199589941
- Language: English
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The Complete Sophocles: Volume 1: The Theban 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: 448
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388801
- Language: English
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Tetrabiblos
$19.95 Add to cartClaudius Ptolemy (c.100 – c.178 AD), of Alexandria, was one of the greatest philosopher/scientists of the ancient world. Among his books are the Almagest, Geography, Optics, Planispherium and Tetrabib… [more below]
- Author: Ptolemy, Claudius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 07 2005
- ISBN10: 1933303123
- Language: English
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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
$25.99 Add to cartFor more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho–the first woman writer in literary history–were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet thos
- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353826
- Language: English
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The Complete Odes
$15.95 Add to cartThe Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pindar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553904
- Language: English
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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
