Ancient & Classical
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Iphigeneia at Aulis
$14.99 Add to cartMerwin and Dimock have provided a new translation for this celebrated tragedy, with a comprehensive introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary of mythical and geographical terms.
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 29 1992
- ISBN10: 0195077091
- Language: English
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The Art of Rhetoric
$17.00 Add to cartWith the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils – and even for ordinary… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445102
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$12.95 Add to cartThis prose translation of the The Odyssey is so successful that is has taken its place as on the few really outstanding version of Homer’s famous epic poem. It is the story of the return of Odysseus f… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536783
- 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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Early Greek Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartThe works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy–the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-So… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140448152
- Language: English
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Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny
$35.00 Add to cartAn incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny.
As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politics, tales told in ancient Greek epics and tragedies p
- Author: Anhalt, Emily Katz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1503628566
- Language: English
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
$14.23 Add to cartEpictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, whe… [more below]
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 1615341242
- Language: English
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Antigone: A New Translation
$12.99 Add to cartThe most celebrated plays of ancient Athens–Sophocles’s seven surviving works–in vivid and dynamic new translations. ANTIGONE, translated by award-winning poet Robert Bagg, is one of seven plays Har
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132121
- Language: English
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Fame
$25.00 Add to cartFAME is a book about human affection and disaffection and the unique narrative which presents this perpetual movement. The poems come from India, Greece, the Windward Islands, and New England, places … [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1955194122
- Language: English
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The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library: An Anthology of Ancient Writings Which Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy
$32.95 Add to cartThis anthology, the largest collection of Pythagorean writings ever to appear in English, contains the four ancient biographies of Pythagoras and over 25 Pythagorean and Neopythagorean writings from t… [more below]
- Author: Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0933999518
- Language: English
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes
$13.00 Add to cartThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0374522898
- Language: English
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Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, and the Forging of History
$21.99 Add to cartNot only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern, but Minoan civilization as it has been popularly im… [more below]
- Author: Lapatin, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0306813289
- Language: English
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Iphigenia among the Taurians
$12.00 Add to cartI am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus
Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review
My father killed me- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 10 2014
- ISBN10: 022620362X
- Language: English
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Seneca: The Madness of Hercules
$20.00 Add to cartSeneca was not only Rome’s major Stoic philosopher. He was its great tragic playwright. Classics of Latin literature, Seneca’s dramas also inspired the revival of tragic theater in the Renaissance. Th
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1951319664
- Language: English
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Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery
$39.99 Read moreWith over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art.
Chinese Art: A Guide to Mot- Author: Welch, Patricia Bjaaland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0804843163
- Language: English
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The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation
$13.00 Add to cartA monumental work of moral and political philosophy, a book surpassed only by the Bible in its formative influence on two thousand years of Western thought.
What does it mean to be good? What enables… [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 06 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733876
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius
$18.99 Add to cartAs the world has begun to turn more of its attention toward the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius is more timely than ever.
Written as a personal diary for spir
- Author: Forstater, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0060955104
- Language: English
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Dialogues of Plato
$8.99 Add to cartIn these influential dialogues–Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium–Plato employs the dialectic method to examine the trial and death of his mentor, Socrates, and address the eternal q… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1439169489
- Language: English
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Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 125000232X
- Language: English
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Seneca: The Madness of Hercules
$17.00 Add to cartSeneca was not only Rome’s major Stoic philosopher. He was its great tragic playwright. Classics of Latin literature, Seneca’s dramas also inspired the revival of tragic theater in the Renaissance. Th
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 195131963X
- Language: English
