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By: Kristný, Gerður
Bloodhoof
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Bloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem . It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerour Gymisdottir from a land of giants and the subsequ… [more below]
- Author: Kristný, Gerður
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: June 20 2012
- ISBN10: 1908376104
- Language: English
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By: Ovid
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
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Through National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum’s poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from r… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0156001268
- Language: English
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By: Shin, Sun Yung
Unbearable Splendor
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Finalist for the Believer Poetry Award

“[her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning.”-

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- Author: Shin, Sun Yung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1566894514
- Language: English
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By: Catullus
The Poems of Catullus
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Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Catullus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537577
- Language: English
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By: Wilkinson, Toby
Writings from Ancient Egypt
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‘Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away.
But writings make him remembered’

In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and stat

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- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0141395958
- Language: English
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By: Mark Tuitert
The Stoic Mindset: Living the Ten Principles of Stoicism
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A ten-step guide to reaching your peak potential through the wisdom of Stoic philosophy by entrepreneur and Olympic champion speed skater Mark Tuitert.

For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the prin

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- Author: Tuitert, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250325277
- Language: English
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By: Sallust
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic
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An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politician

In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Repub

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- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212368
- Language: English
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By: Plato
Timaeus and Critias
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Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story descri… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0140455043
- Language: English
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By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Living and Dying Well
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Philosophical writings on “the good life” by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation

In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman, and defender of republican valu

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- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455566
- Language: English
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By: Lucretius
The Nature of Things
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One of a major new Classics series – books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.

Lucretius’ poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical

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- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0141396903
- Language: English
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By: Jules Evans
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Problems
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When philosophy rescued him from an emotional crisis, Jules Evans became fascinated by how ideas invented over two thousand years ago can help us today. He interviewed soldiers, psychologists, gangste… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1608682293
- Language: English
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By: Robertson, Donald
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
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The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition-insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in 3… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1473674786
- Language: English
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By: Cousineau, Phil
Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo?
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Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo? is an exhilarating, course-correcting account about one of the most iconic sculptures ever created.

Carved by an obscure Greek sculptor, Alexandros of Antioch,

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- Author: Cousineau, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798868926587
- Language: English
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By: Doré, Gustave
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Gustave Dore’s magnificent engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are among the later works of the great French illustrator. The intensely evocative poem provided Dor with the long-awaited op… [more below]
- Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
- Author: Dor?, Gustave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 77
- Publish Date: June 01 1970
- ISBN10: 0486223051
- Language: English
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By: Sophocles
Oedipus the King
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Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to sav

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- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226768686
- Language: English
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By: Mark Dean Johnson
Chang Dai-Chien: Painting from Heart to Hand
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Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983), one of the most celebrated Chinese painters of the twentieth century, is renowned for his stylistic variety and unparalleled productivity. This book explores three key art

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- Author: Johnson, Mark Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 31 2020
- ISBN10: 0939117878
- Language: English
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By: Tzu, Lao
Tao Te Ching
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The pursuit of power, happiness, and life’s meaning is as old as history itself, as the Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way and Its Virtue) attests. Dating from two and a half millennia ago, this timele… [more below]
- Author: Tzu, Lao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0486841901
- Language: English
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By: Euripides
Trojan Women
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Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides’ Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme t… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0195179102
- Language: English
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By: Epictetus
The Discourses of Epictetus: The Handbook, Fragments
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For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world

The stress on endurance, self-restraint, and power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is

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- Series: Everyman Library
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 02 1995
- ISBN10: 0460873121
- Language: English
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By: Mason, Herbert
Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
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The most widely read and enduring interpretation of the classic Babylonian epic.

One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless th

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- Author: Mason, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0618275649
- Language: English