Ancient & Classical
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Layli and Majnun
$18.00 Add to cartThe Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton’s unforgettable love song “Layla” and that Lord Byron called “the Romeo and Juliet of the East,” in a masterly new translation
A Penguin Classic The iconic- Author: Ganjavi, Nezami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0143133993
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: A New Translation
$17.95 Read moreOvid’s epic poem–whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages–is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s times to the present day, when writers
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 039332642X
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$16.00 Add to cartE.V. Rieu’s beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer’s Iliad tells the story- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447946
- Language: English
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The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
$17.95 Read moreIn The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca, representative selections from Seneca’s writings offer the reader an excellent introduction to the range of his work.
The selections are drawn from the essays, or di… [more below]
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 1968
- ISBN10: 0393004597
- Language: English
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The Trojan Women: A Comic
$19.95 Read moreHere is a new comic-book version of Euripides’s classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collabora… [more below]
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230791
- Language: English
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The Enneads: Abridged Edition
$21.00 Read moreHere is a highly original synthesis of Platonism, mystic passion, ideas from Greek philosophy, and variants of the Trinity and other central tenets of Christian doctrine by the brilliant thinker who h… [more below]
- Series: Classics S
- Author: Plotinus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 05 1991
- ISBN10: 014044520X
- Language: English
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The Enchiridion: A Stoic’s Guide to Contentment and Tranquility
$12.95 Read moreThis lovely hardcover keepsake offers the timeless precepts of one of the most important Greek Stoic philosophers. Epictetus (ca. 50-ca. 130 CE) was born into slavery and had a permanent physical disa… [more below]
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851958
- Language: English
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Aristotle’s Metaphysics
$34.95 Read moreJoe Sachs has followed up his brilliant translation of Aristotle’s Physics with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs’s translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle’s works, which are f… [more below]
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 365
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1888009039
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Li Po
$15.95 Read moreThere is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: “Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao.” He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the sam… [more below]
- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: May 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0811213234
- Language: English
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Seneca: Selected Letters
$13.95 Add to cartSeneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca’s personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Sto… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199533210
- Language: English
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Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii
$39.95 Read more– Explores the fascinating resonances of landscape scenes as reflections of Roman social and political developments, including the growth of the Empire – Essays by 6 distinguished scholars offering di… [more below]
- Author: Powers, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 188350225X
- Language: English
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Las Meditaciones de Marco Aurelio / Meditations: Todo Mi Ser Se Reduce a Esto: La Carne, El EspÃritu, La Facultad Rectora
$10.95 Read moreIdeas que han cambiado el mundo.
A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los dem?s. Han inspirado el debate,- Author: Aurelius, Marco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 8430601031
- Language: Spanish
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The Comedies
$16.95 Add to cart‘I thought you’d do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son’s having an affair.’
Terence’s comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from cl… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0199556032
- Language: English
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Arabic Poems
$20.00 Add to cartA bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition.
The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep,- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Hammond, Marle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0375712437
- Language: English
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Sobre La Felicidad Y La Brevedad de la Vida: C?mo Alcanzar La Felicidad Atrevi?ndote a Ser Tu Mismo
$8.95 Read moreEl tiempo que tenemos no es corto; es que perdemos mucho.
Si Séneca es un clásico es porque fue capaz de acuñar reflexiones que han interpelado a lectores de todas las épocas hasta nuestros dÃas… [more below]
- Author: S?neca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 6070796217
- Language: Spanish
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Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica)
$13.95 Add to cartThe Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538727
- Language: English
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
$34.00 Add to cart“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, this new editi
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1890951609
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton
$18.95 Add to cartTu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton’s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in Americ… [more below]
- Author: Fu, Tu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 081122838X
- Language: English
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The River of Heaven: The Haiku of Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki
$16.95 Read more“In this, his final work, American senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken lovingly ties together two threads, Zen practice and haiku.” —Spirituality & Health
Known to many as the study of quiet stillness an- Author: Aitken, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437106
- Language: English
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Plato
$19.99 Read moreA surprising intellectual ally to Christians, Plato critiqued the relativism, materialism, and hedonism of his day. However, Talcott shows that he fell short in notable ways–making our discernment vi… [more below]
- Series: Great Thinkers
- Author: Talcott, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1629958697
- Language: English
