Ancient and Classical
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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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Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
$16.95 Read moreSeries Summary
The new What Every Catholic Should Know series is intended for the average faithful Catholic who wants to know more about Catholic faith and culture. The authors in this series take a pa
- Series: What Every Catholic Should Know
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1733522123
- Language: English
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Why Read the Classics?
$15.99 Add to cartA posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino’s invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146379
- Language: English
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The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
$19.95 Add to cartA highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author’s work. “Up to the author’s highest standard in a literary form that was m… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book, Hb 294
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 23 1974
- ISBN10: 0156252341
- 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 Prophets
$24.99 Add to cart“This book has monumental stature. It is fresh and vivid. . . aflame with prophetic vision.” –James Muilenburg
From the author of Man is Not Alone and God in Search of Man, comes Abraham Heschel’s 196
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Heschel, Abraham J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: October 16 2001
- ISBN10: 0060936991
- Language: English
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The Roman Way
$16.99 Add to cartIn this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides are Cicero,
- Author: Hamilton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354458
- 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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The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
$21.18 Add to cartOne of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 23 2019
- ISBN10: 520281438
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound
$14.99 Add to cartFor readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0195061659
- 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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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
$15.99 Add to cartItalo Calvino’s brilliant reflection on what makes great literature, from the classics to more contemporary works, punctuated with personal details about Calvino’s own writing processes.
At the time of… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0544146670
- 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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The Oresteia
$17.00 Add to cartIn the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: February 07 1984
- ISBN10: 0140443339
- Language: English
