Ancient & Classical
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How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet’s Guide for an Age of Excess
$18.95 Read moreWhat the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment
What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome’s greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Horace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0691182523
- Language: English
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Plato: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis lively and accessible book focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato’s writings, drawing the reader into Plato’s way of doing philosophy and the general themes of his thinking. It discusses… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #79
- Author: Annas, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 15 2003
- ISBN10: 019280216X
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus
$14.95 Add to cartOedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. I- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0192806858
- Language: English
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Enchiridion
$5.00 Add to cartAlthough he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus (ca. 50-ca. 130 CE) maintained that all people are free to control their lives and live in harmony with nature…. [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0486433595
- Language: English
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Gorgias: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture
$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: 168
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801485274
- Language: English
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Crow with No Mouth
$14.00 Add to cartNew edition of best-selling Asian title presents the poems of a renowned Zen master.
- Author: Berg, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1556591527
- Language: English
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How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing
$16.95 Add to cartA spirited new translation of a forgotten classic, shot through with timeless wisdom
Is there an art to drinking alcohol? Can drinking ever be a virtue? The Renaissance humanist and neoclassical poet- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Obsopoeus, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0691192146
- Language: English
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The Nicomachean Ethics
$17.00 Add to cartA new translation of one of the most important philosophical works of all time
A Penguin Classic Aristotle’s classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates takin- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0140455477
- Language: English
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The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$39.00 Add to cartGripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1264
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0147712556
- Language: English
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Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
$28.99 Add to cartHow do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob us of what we most value? Drawing on the wisdom of Epictetus, M… [more below]
- Author: Sherman, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0197501834
- Language: English
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Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes
$7.95 Add to cartHow do you build a yurt? A Bedouin tent? What about a kathe? What’s a yaranga? How about a hogan? Can you stay warm in an igloo? Are there secrets to living, thriving and surviving in specific climate… [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Horning, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1952178193
- Language: English
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The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
$21.18 Add to cartOne of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 23 2019
- ISBN10: 520281438
- Language: English
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How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking
$16.95 Add to cartWhat we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times–the ancient Greeks
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are sti- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691213739
- Language: English
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The Pocket Epicurean
$15.00 Add to cartA short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus.
As long as there has been human life, we’ve searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, t- Author: Sellars, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 022679864X
- Language: English
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The Metaphysics
$17.00 Add to cartAristotle’s probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought
The Metaphysics presents Aristotle- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140446192
- Language: English
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Imaginary Sonnets: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn Daniel Galef’s Imaginary Sonnets, a cast of people and objects from mythology, history, the news, and the quotidian parades through a variety of imaginative scenarios. In dialogues, dramatic monolo
- Author: Galef, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1773491288
- Language: English
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Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic
$18.00 Add to cartA selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.
“There is only one course of action that can make you happy. . . . rejoice in what is yours. What- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2021
- ISBN10: 022678293X
- Language: English
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Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
$17.95 Add to cartNow in paperback.
Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172531
- Language: English
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Egypt’s Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
$29.99 Read moreTwo celebrated Egyptologists bring to vivid life the intriguing and controversial reign of King Tut’s parents.
Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. T- Author: Darnell, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250272874
- Language: English
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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra
$9.94 Add to cartThis volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid tra… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537178
- Language: English
