Ancient & Classical
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Deluxe Hardcover Edition)
$9.99 Add to cartMeditations offers timeless guidance for troubled times. Renowned for his principled leadership, Aurelius kept private notes detailing his philosophy on life and leadership. Meditations is a collectio… [more below]
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1441337385
- Language: English
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On the Order of Nature: For a Phylosophical Ascesis
$19.80 Add to cartWith PARMENIDES began what is called, in more specific terms, true Philosophy. The Eleatic, and his Poem, constitute a “beacon” whose light illumined Plato and even Aristotle, and consequently all the
- Series: Aurea Vidya Collection #11
- Author: Parmenides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: July 04 2011
- ISBN10: 1931406103
- Language: English
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The Georgics of Virgil (Bilingual Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartJohn Dryden called Virgil’s Georgics, written between 37 and 30 B.C.E., “the best poem by the best poet.” The poem, newly translated by the poet and translator David Ferry, is one of the great songs,
- Author: Ferry, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530319
- Language: English
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The Analects of Confucius
$19.95 Add to cartCompiled by disciples of Confucius in the centuries following his death in 479 B.C.E., The Analects of Confucius is a collection of aphorisms and historical anecdotes embodying the basic values of the
- Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
- Author: Watson, Burton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0231141653
- Language: English
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Propertius: The Poems
$12.95 Add to cartOf all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cy… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Propertius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555923
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0195373286
- Language: English
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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller – One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023 – A New York Times Notable Book
“A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible is humane in approach and, more important,- Author: Bakewell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0735223394
- Language: English
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The Ten Books on Architecture: Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of year… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture #1
- Author: Vitruvius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 1960
- ISBN10: 0486206459
- Language: English
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Selected Satires of Lucian
$27.99 Add to cartLucian, born in Syria in the second century C.E., came to Greece at an early age and mastered its language and literature. He took up law, left it for public speaking, then turned to full-time writing… [more below]
- Author: Lucian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: April 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0393004430
- Language: English
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Piranesi. the Complete Etchings
$100.00 Add to cartThe most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. His startling, chiaroscuro images imbued the city’s archaeological rui
- Author: Ficacci, Luigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 788
- Publish Date: June 24 2022
- ISBN10: 3836587610
- Language: English
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How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
$16.95 Add to cartWhat would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead
If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative exam- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0691193991
- Language: English
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The Pocket Sappho
$14.95 Read moreA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.
Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Barnstone, Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1611806917
- Language: English
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Advice from Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartAristotle knew things about happiness, habits, and human nature. This book is about his book, the Nichomachean Ethics. What this book will NOT do: -Make you feel good. -Make you rich. -Make you a good… [more below]
- Author: Younan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: April 25 2022
- ISBN10: 166673540X
- Language: English
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Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic
$39.99 Add to cartAs chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame derives from his writings on Stoic ideology, in which ph
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1638232482
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$9.00 Add to cartThis excellent prose translation of Homer’s epic poem of the 9th century BC recounts one of Western civilization’s most glorious tales, a treasury of Greek folklore and myth that maintains an ageless
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0486406547
- Language: English
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How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
$16.95 Add to cartTimeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do–but it is also the closest you can come to divinity- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 069119209X
- Language: English
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The Corpus Hermeticum
$22.00 Add to cartThe Corpus Hermeticum are Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from which are mostly presented as dialogues in which a teacher enlightens a disciple. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism. They discuss the d
- Author: Trismegistus, Hermes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 15 2018
- ISBN10: 178724654X
- Language: English
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King Tut. the Journey Through the Underworld. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Read moreBuried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intri
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Vannini, Sandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 3836584239
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Petrarch
$24.00 Add to cart“David Young’s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West’s crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.”
- Author: Petrarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529612
- Language: English
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The Love Songs of Sappho
$17.00 Add to cartCalled the “Tenth Muse” by the ancients, Greece’s greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sapp… [more below]
- Series: Literary Classics
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 157392251X
- Language: English
