Ancient & Classical
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$13.00 Add to cartThe inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel.
‘Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;
Seek faithfully till you find me …’ A New Year’s feast at King A- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 30 1959
- ISBN10: 0140440925
- Language: English
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Phaedo
$11.95 Add to cartThe Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato’s masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953893X
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil’s great epic
Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106295
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems
$16.99 Add to cartPassed down long ago from poet to poet and singer to singer in the great oral tradition of Scandinavia, this collection of heroic sagas explores a mythical world. Incorporating legends of Norse gods a… [more below]
- Author: Bellows, Henry Adams
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0486460215
- Language: English
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How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness
$18.95 Add to cartTimeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world
The second-century Greek physician Galen–the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hi- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Van Schaik, Katherine D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691206279
- Language: English
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Bacchae and Other Plays: Iphigenia Among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus
$10.95 Add to cartThe four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Blac… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540527
- Language: English
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Troilus and Criseyde
$10.95 Add to cartChaucer’s masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This is … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555079
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$16.99 Add to cart‘Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.’
– Sun Tzu
Written around the 6th century BC, The Art of War is one of the oldest and most famous books on- Series: Arcturus Silkbound Classics
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1398827401
- Language: English
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Bathhouse and Other Tanka
$17.95 Add to cart“Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being,” writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka…. [more below]
- Author: Tatsuhiko, Ishii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0811231348
- Language: English
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The Aeneid of Virgil
$6.95 Add to cartAeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world–as literature as well. Virgil’s Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arm… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0553210416
- Language: English
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Gorgias
$8.94 Add to cartOne of Plato’s most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosoph… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540322
- Language: English
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The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation
$23.33 Add to cartAnger be now your song, immortal one,
Akhilleus’ anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men-carrion
for- Author: Fitzgerald, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 03, 2004
- ISBN10: 0374529051
- Language: English
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Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall
$14.93 Add to cartOne of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate p… [more below]
- Series: Plays for Performance
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1566632110
- Language: English
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The Oresteia
$17.00 Add to cartIn the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: February 07 1984
- ISBN10: 0140443339
- Language: English
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The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
$17.99 Add to cartInside A Lover’s Heart There’s Another World, And Yet Another
Rumi’s masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks’s exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-ce
- Author: Barks, Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0060604522
- Language: English
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Classical Tragedy Greek and Roman: Eight Plays with Critical Essays
$29.98 Add to cartA collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: The Oresteia – Aeschylus; Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus; Oedipus the King – Sophocles; Antigone – Sophocles; Medea – Eurip… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Various Authors
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557830460
- Language: English
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An Oresteia
$19.00 Add to cartIn An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus — A iskhylos’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Elektra and Euripides’ Orestes. After the murder
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 086547916X
- Language: English
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Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry
$8.95 Add to cartAcross the Islamic world, illuminating Korans from Morocco to Malaysia, and adorning mosques, mausoleums and palaces, are hidden some of the most exquisite geometrical devices ever conceived by man. I… [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Sutton, Daud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1952178053
- Language: English
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Meditations
$10.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius’s timeless book on character, what it takes to be a good leader, and how to live a fulfilling life. Marcus Aurelius ruled t- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1668050803
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
$32.00 Read more“This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history’s greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing exce
- Author: Robertson, Donald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250196620
- Language: English
