Ancient & Classical
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Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartThis long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi’s Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi’s substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterw
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Alfarabi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0801487161
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems
$12.95 Add to cart“A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.” E. M. Forster’s famous description of C. P. Cavafy–the most widely known and best loved modern Gr… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cavafy, C. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555958
- Language: English
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Lays of Ancient Rome: Epic Poems
$5.50 Add to cart- Author: Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: April 26 2021
- ISBN10: 8027340756
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator whose Iliad was named one of The New Yorker‘s Favorite Books of 2011, comes a vivid new translation of the Odyssey, complete with textual notes and an il… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 145167418X
- Language: English
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism
$13.99 Add to cartThroughout history philosophers have sought to define, understand, and delineate concepts important to human well-being. One such concept is “knowledge.” Many philosophers believed that absolute, cert… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Empiricus, Sextus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0879755970
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh Retold
$20.99 Add to cartJenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1784106143
- Language: English
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Logic: The Ancient Art of Reason
$15.00 Read moreHow do you tell what’s right from what’s wrong? Can you always? What’s the difference between deduction, induction, and abduction? What are the best techniques for making an argument logically sound? … [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books
- Author: Fontainelle, Earl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1632864452
- Language: English
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Planet X and the Kolbrin Bible Connection: Why the Kolbrin Bible Is the Rosetta Stone of Planet X
$12.95 Add to cart“Greg Jenner spent decades connecting the dots for this book. Now you can do the same, in a single evening!”-Marshall Masters
Greg Jenner is one of the top Planet X historians alive today – if not the
- Author: Jenner, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 1597720704
- Language: English
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Poetic Edda – Imperium Press (Western Canon)
$50.00 Add to cartThe Poetic Edda is our main source for the myths of the Norse gods and heroes. Written down in medieval Iceland, this “original storehouse of Germanic mythology” collects 35 narrative poems recounting
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 942
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1922602639
- Language: English
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Parmenides and the Way of Truth
$18.95 Add to cartAn inspiring account gives new life to the Greek philosopher immortalized in his dialogues with Socrates.
- Author: Geldard, Richard G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0976684349
- Language: English
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Presocratic Philosophy
$12.99 Add to cartGenerations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the Presocratics. Part of the fascination stems from the fact that little of what they wrote survives. Here … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Osborne, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 16 2004
- ISBN10: 0192840940
- Language: English
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The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
$28.00 Read moreThe author of How to Be a Stoic asks what might be philosophy’s ultimate question: can we learn to be better people?
Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to te
- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646975
- Language: English
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Anaxagoras and Universal Mind
$16.95 Add to cartRichard Geldard’s volume on Anaxagoras is the third and final volume in his immensely successful account of Pre-Socratic thought. His first two volumes brought Heraclitus and Parmenides vividly alive … [more below]
- Author: Geldard, Richard G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1605854034
- Language: English
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Indian Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Add to cartBeautiful edition with a new introduction to the history of the land and the people, highlighting the origins of myth and folklore.
The story of Ancient India, the vast land that stretches from the Hi- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Dalal, Roshen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1804176176
- Language: English
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
$27.95 Add to cartThe Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classi
- Series: Princeton Classics #33
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181020
- Language: English
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The Metaphysics
$14.00 Read more“All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge,” declared Aristotle. The philosopher’s works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or “first philos… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0486817490
- Language: English
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On Life and Death
$16.95 Add to cartMarcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome’s greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199644144
- Language: English
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The Complete Euripides: Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tran… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Burian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388674
- Language: English
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Antigone
$13.99 Add to cartOedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0195143108
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Hell
$17.00 Read moreThe first volume of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine cir- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 30 1950
- ISBN10: 140440062
- Language: English
