Ancient/ Classical & Medieval

  • Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines

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    Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun and discover the adventures of Jason and his crew, The Argonauts. Learn about the interplay between mo

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    • Author: Menzies, Jean
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: June 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 1529093368
    • Language: English
  • A Hundred and One Nights

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    A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder

    Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabi

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    • Series: Library of Arabic Literature #10
    • Author: Fudge, Bruce
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 05 2017
    • ISBN10: 1479873233
    • Language: English
  • In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

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    Here, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.

    • Series: Original Harvest Book; Hb333
    • Author: Nin, Anaïs
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 180
    • Publish Date: April 01 1976
    • ISBN10: 0156444453
    • Language: English
  • The Poems of Catullus

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    Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful … [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Catullus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 15 2009
    • ISBN10: 0199537577
    • Language: English
  • Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes

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    Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (1916) explores Hawaiian folktales and myths collected by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultures, Westerve

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  • The Art of Rhetoric

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    For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies…

    Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive work

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    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Aristotle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: July 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 019872425X
    • Language: English
  • Trojan Women

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    Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides’ Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme t… [more below]

  • The Pocket Epicurean

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    A short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus.

    As long as there has been human life, we’ve searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, t

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    • Author: Sellars, John
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: March 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 022679864X
    • Language: English
  • The Metaphysics

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    Aristotle’s probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought

    The Metaphysics presents Aristotle

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Aristotle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 528
    • Publish Date: June 01 1999
    • ISBN10: 0140446192
    • Language: English
  • Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers

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    The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of lette… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Various
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 01 1987
    • ISBN10: 0140444750
    • Language: English
  • By: Plato

    Phaedrus

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    Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Plato
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: December 27 2005
    • ISBN10: 0140449744
    • Language: English
  • The Oresteia

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    In 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
  • Letters from a Stoic

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    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

    ‘Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.’

    Lucius Annaeus

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    • Series: Collins Classics
    • Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 0008590141
    • Language: English
  • By: Homer

    The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set

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    A stunning set of Homer’s epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar.

    Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green’s landmark translations of Homer’s timeless epics are no

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    • Author: Homer
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 1145
    • Publish Date: May 31 2019
    • ISBN10: 0520306651
    • Language: English
  • Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers

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    An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths

    “This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.”–Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ser

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    • Author: Johnston, Sarah Iles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: February 7, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0691199205
    • Language: English
  • Medea and Other Plays

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    Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society

    The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, b

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Euripides
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: August 30 1963
    • ISBN10: 0140441298
    • Language: English
  • By: Homer

    The Iliad & the Odyssey (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

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    Embark on a literary odyssey through ancient Greece with Homer’s timeless epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. In The Iliad, witness the ravages of the Trojan War as gods and mortals clash in a tale of

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    • Author: Homer
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 768
    • Publish Date: August 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 9388144295
    • Language: English
  • The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

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    The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.

    Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal fam

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Sophocle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: February 07 1984
    • ISBN10: 0140444254
    • Language: English
  • Meditations: Complete and Unabridged

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    Completely unabridged, with a new foreword written by Huffington Post writer Carolyn Gregoire, this publication of Meditations is an all-encompassing collection of Marcus Aurelius’s works.

    • “Do every de
    • Series: Clydesdale Classics
    • Author: Aurelius, Marcus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: January 02, 2018
    • ISBN10: 1945186240
    • Language: English
  • By: Homer

    The Odyssey

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    Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and fa

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    • Author: Homer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: November 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 0393356256
    • Language: English
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