Ancient & Classical
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
$58.33 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0691222363
- Language: English
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The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set
$65.00 Read moreA stunning set of Homer’s epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar.
Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green’s landmark translations of Homer’s timeless epics are no- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1145
- Publish Date: May 31 2019
- ISBN10: 0520306651
- Language: English
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Love Poems of Catullus
$13.95 Add to cartCatullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting instants of his bare psyche:… [more below]
- Author: Catullus, Gaius Valerius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0811237494
- Language: English
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Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave
$29.99 Add to cartThe classic Persian poem of romance and tragedy captured as a sumptuous and richly colorful graphic novel, inspired by traditional art of the region.
Winner of the prestigious Prix Orange de la bande- Author: Damezin, Yann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1643379488
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic
$14.95 Read moreIn this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer’s epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Capta… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330818
- Language: English
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Socrates’ Children: An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers: Volume I: Ancient Philosophers Volume 1
$19.95 Read morePeter Kreeft, esteemed philosophy professor and author of over eighty books, has taught college philosophy for sixty years. Throughout those decades, he yearned for a beginner’s philosophy text that
- Series: Socrates’ Children
- Author: Kreeft, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1685780067
- Language: English
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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
$19.00 Add to cartA powerful version of the Latin classic by England’s late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.
When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as t- Author: Hughes, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30, 1999
- ISBN10: 0374525870
- Language: English
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The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids
$39.95 Add to cartNoted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy from the ancient world: the thirty-seven teachings an
- Author: Manley, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0500252327
- Language: English
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How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism
$18.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity
The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who sto- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Diogenes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691229856
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$17.00 Add to cart“Fitzgerald’s [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come.” —New York Review of Books
Virgil’s- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 16 1990
- ISBN10: 0679729526
- Language: English
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Medea/Hippolytus/Electra/Helen
$9.94 Add to cartEuripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register an… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537968
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
$14.00 Add to cart‘Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just’
Plato’s account of Socrates’ trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and th- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0140455493
- Language: English
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
$29.95 Add to cartA landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth century
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enem- Series: Princeton Classics #115
- Author: Popper, Karl R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 808
- Publish Date: September 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210845
- Language: English
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The Oresteia of Aeschylus: A New Translation by Ted Hughes
$18.00 Add to cartIn the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine’s Phedre, Euripedes’ Alcestis, and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia, a family story o
- Author: Hughes, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 4, 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527059
- Language: English
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How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely
$18.95 Add to cartA vibrant new translation of Seneca’s “On the Shortness of Life,” a pointed reminder to make the most of our time
Who doesn’t worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691219125
- Language: English
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Symposium
$8.94 Add to cartIn his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests–including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato’s mentor Socrates–each deliver a … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540195
- Language: English
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Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life
$22.99 Add to cartIf we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it?
Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus rolled these two strikin- Series: Guides to the Good Life
- Author: Austin, Emily A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197558321
- Language: English
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A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control – 52 Week-By-Week Lessons
$22.95 Add to cartStress often comes from situations that are beyond our control–such as preparing for a meeting, waiting for test results, or arguing with a loved one. But we can control our response to these everyda… [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1615195335
- Language: English
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The Emperor’s Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations
$25.00 Add to cartA powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, an essential book on character, leadership, and how to live a fulfilling life.
Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire at its hei- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0743233832
- Language: English
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The Pocket Stoic
$15.00 Add to cartTo counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very diff… [more below]
- Author: Sellars, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 022668296X
- Language: English
