Ancient & Classical
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Etruscan Art
$24.95 Add to cartThe Etruscans were the most powerful force in central Italy until Roman unification of the peninsula. Vestiges of their art, architecture, and unique language have long intrigued scholars, and the sea… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Spivey, Nigel Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: November 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0500203040
- Language: English
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Phaedrus: Letter to M. D’Alembert on the Theatre
$14.95 Add to cartWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato’s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a pr
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801485320
- Language: English
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Aristotle: The Desire to Understand
$35.00 Add to cartThis is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started. He introduces us to the essence of Aristotle’s philosophy and guides us through all the ce… [more below]
- Author: Lear, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: February 11 1988
- ISBN10: 0521347629
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$62.99 Add to cartOvid’s epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s time to the present day, when wr… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 597
- Publish Date: October 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393058107
- Language: English
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Heracles and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartEuripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555095
- Language: English
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The Plays and Fragments
$10.95 Add to cartThe greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Menander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954073X
- Language: English
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
$15.95 Add to cart“The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.” So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard’s Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous narrator, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199214190
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King: Sophocles
$11.99 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: 114
- Publish Date: March 31 1988
- ISBN10: 0195054938
- Language: English
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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author
$22.00 Add to cartThe complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian
“Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic claddi- Author: Helle, Sophus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276761
- Language: English
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Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
$16.00 Add to cartAdvice on achieving a fulfilling old age from one of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
After being advised by his dentist to get tooth implants, Daniel Klein decide- Author: Klein, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126628
- Language: English
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Tablets: Secrets of the Clay
$16.95 Add to cart“A bullet / then a siren / then ruins / then a bird song telling the truth”–Dunya Mikhail
In her marvelous new poetry collection Tablets: Secrets of the Clay, Dunya Mikhail transforms the world’s fir
- Author: Mikhail, Dunya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237974
- Language: English
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The Art and Life of Fukuda Kodojin: Japan’s Great Poet and Landscape Artist
$39.99 Add to cartThe most comprehensive book on Kodojin’s art ever published–beautiful and mysterious–a collection of more than 100 paintings with English translations of the inscribed poems.
The Art and Life of Fuk- Author: Marks, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317779
- Language: English
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Meditations
$9.99 Add to cartMarcus Aurelius, one of the great rulers of the Roman Empire, sets forth a series of self-reflective essays intended as a guide for his own self-improvement. Written during the turning points of his l
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 12 2022
- ISBN10: 9235568390
- Language: English
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Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
$18.00 Add to cartA brand-new translation of the world’s greatest satirist.
With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes re
- Author: Roche, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 715
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0451214099
- Language: English
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Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day
$29.99 Add to cartFeaturing over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the everyday fashions of twenty-first century China.… [more below]
- Author: Garrett, Valery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0804852561
- Language: English
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On the Soul: And Other Psychological Works
$14.95 Add to cart“…the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul…”
What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 019958821X
- Language: English
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The Echo Chamber: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFrom Michael Bazzett, poet and translator of The Popol Vuh, a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining.
“Narcissus was never one to see himself
- Author: Bazzett, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315381
- Language: English
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An Introduction to Japanese Kanji Calligraphy
$24.95 Add to cartThis step-by-step Japanese calligraphy book explains the systems of Japanese language and delves into details of written Japanese characters and techniques of kanji calligraphy.
The word calligraphy l- Author: Takezaki, Kunii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 15 2008
- ISBN10: 4805309253
- Language: English
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Enchiridion
$12.95 Add to cartA HANDBOOK FOR LIFE
The Enchiridion, or Handbook of Epictetus, is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice which was compiled by Arrian, who was a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1722503823
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics
$42.00 Add to cartThis volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three ways: through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; and… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Hardcover)
- Author: Inwood, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: May 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0521779855
- Language: English
