Ancient & Classical
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City of God
$19.00 Add to cartSt Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and City of God is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Augustine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0140448942
- Language: English
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The Anthology
$48.00 Add to cartVettius Valens was an astrologer who lived in Alexandria, Egypt in the middle of the second century. His Anthology is a collection of instructional texts on astrology that he wrote for his students in
- Author: Valens, Vettius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 0998588911
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$18.00 Add to cartThe great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles
A Penguin Classic Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly convey- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0140445927
- Language: English
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That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
$14.00 Add to cartPerennial wisdom from one of history’s most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers
“He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond well–bravely, boldly, patiently–to what life threw at us. T- Author: Musonius Rufus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261543
- Language: English
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The Stoic Path: The Golden Sayings
$11.00 Add to cartPotent wisdom from the one of the greatest Stoic philosophers
The Stoic Path is your essential guide to a better life. Countless leaders, athletes, and thinkers have been shaped by the tenants of Sto- Series: Essential Pocket Classics
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 1250803780
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in … [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 014313423X
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$19.00 Add to cartRobert Fagles’s stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line
A Penguin Classic The Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of everyman’s journey through life- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039954
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
$19.00 Add to cartThe classic translation of The Odyssey, now in paperback.
This edition also features a map, a Glossary of Names and Places, and Fitzgerald’s Postscript. Line drawings precede each book of the poem.- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 05, 1998
- ISBN10: 0374525749
- Language: English
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Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
$30.00 Add to cartInstant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller!
A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a “stellar work” by Publishers Weekly From the be- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 052554187X
- Language: English
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The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone
$8.00 Add to cartThe stirring tale of a legendary royal family’s fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Sophocles’ three-play cycle, chronicling Oedipus’s … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 23 2006
- ISBN10: 048645049X
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
$16.00 Add to cartA new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Ro
- Author: Ferry, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0374523835
- Language: English
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Antigone
$13.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New T… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0195061675
- Language: English
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Edda
$9.95 Add to cart“But the king’s heart swells, bulging with courage in battle, where heroes sink down…”
Over a period of twenty years Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose Edda as a textb- Series: Everyman S
- Author: Sturluson, Snorri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 06 1995
- ISBN10: 0460876163
- Language: English
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How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion
$18.95 Add to cartTimeless techniques of effective public speaking from ancient Rome’s greatest orator
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we’re trying to win a trivial- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691164339
- Language: English
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Fragments
$16.00 Add to cartFragments of wisdom from the ancient world
In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein–Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything bec- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Heraclitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 28, 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437654
- Language: English
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Democracy: A Life
$23.99 Add to cartAncient Greece first coined the concept of “democracy”, yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. … [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0190866276
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$15.00 Read moreThe international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich’s sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
“All stories begin with ‘Once upon a time.’ And that’s just what this story is all about: wha- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 030014332X
- Language: English
