Ancient and Classical
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Vergil: The Poet’s Life
$26.00 Read moreA biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid
“Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy ‘ancient’ into our contemporary . . . p- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Ruden, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300256612
- Language: English
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
$22.95 Read more“One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”–Washington Post
Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides link- Series: Nonpareil Books #10
- Author: Davenport, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927777
- Language: English
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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
$16.95 Add to cartNamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library
Anne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bi- Series: Princeton Classics #130
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247935
- Language: English
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Homer and His Iliad
$32.50 Read moreA “compelling and impressive” (Sunday Times) reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful
The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem–heroic- Author: Fox, Robin Lane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600444
- Language: English
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Four Texts on Socrates: Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes’ Clouds
$17.95 Add to cartWidely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and def
- Author: West, Thomas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801485746
- Language: English
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Great Dialogues of Plato
$7.95 Add to cart“Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato.”–Emerson
The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body- Author: Plato
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0451471709
- Language: English
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Antigone
$13.99 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: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0195061675
- Language: English
