Ancient & Classical
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Dante: The Essential Commedia
$35.00 Add to cartThe Commedia, Dante’s epic story of one man’s journey from the darkness and terror of hell to the revelation of divine light in heaven, is one of the greatest works of Western literature, but it can s… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096209
- Language: English
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The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook
$18.95 Add to cart“Remarkable.”–Wall Street Journal
A thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928463
- Language: English
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Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.
$31.00 Add to cartIn this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.
Of all the stoic virtues – courage, discipline, ju- Series: The Stoic Virtues
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217168941
- Language: English
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Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
$30.00 Add to cartThe life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism–“a rich, engaging portrait of i… [more below]
- Author: Kuin, Inger N. I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606477
- Language: English
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Medea
$7.98 Read moreAbout Sheila Murnaghan’s translation
“A terrific new translation–Murnaghan’s Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers.”
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- Series: Norton Library (Paperback) #0
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393870847
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse
$30.00 Add to cartA window onto the past, full of fire and life: two immortal traditions as the English language has never seen them before
A Penguin Classic The poets in this book are philosophers and statesmen; pries- Author: Childers, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0141392134
- Language: English
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How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship
$17.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy–a moving classic about facing life’s worst events with courage and hope
What do you do when yo- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Boethius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 069125916X
- Language: English
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Why Plato Matters Now
$22.00 Add to cartProfessor Angie Hobbs proves in this persuasive and intelligent book that Plato is more relevant than ever.
Does Plato matter? An ancient philosopher whose work has inspired and informed countless thi- Series: Interfaces
- Author: Hobbs, Angie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1399403370
- Language: English
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Paradiso
$22.95 Add to cartA new translation of the final part of Dante’s Divine Comedy by a poet and psychoanalyst praised for his previous translation of Dante’s Purgatorio.
Paradiso brings The Divine Comedy to a virtuosic an- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379430
- Language: English
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The Greek Plays 2: Ajax in Iraq, Kissing the Floor, Penelope, Mercury’s Footpath, and the Oresteia
$26.95 Add to cartEllen McLaughlin returns with a new collection of adaptations and modern reimaginings of classic Greek tragedies. Drawing on works by Sophocles, Homer, Aeschylus and more, these plays breathe fresh li
- Author: McLaughlin, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1559369914
- Language: English
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How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort
$17.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decoration
The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as n- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Vitruvius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691249121
- Language: English
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How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving in
$17.95 Add to cartLively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptation
How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Prudentius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691220344
- Language: English
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EL ENCHIRIDION – ?De la lecci?n a la acci?n!
$14.99 Add to cartEsta edici?n totalmente adaptada y reescrita de “El Enchiridion” ofrece una actualizaci?n completa para satisfacer las necesidades de los lectores contempor?neos. Las caracter?sticas clave de esta edi… [more below]
- Author: Nusselt, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 6500765028
- Language: Spanish
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Penelopiad
$16.95 Read moreMargaret Atwood’s acclaimed stage adaptation of Homer.
As portrayed in Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope – wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy – has become a symbol of wifely duty and- Series: Faber Drama
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0571239498
- Language: English
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Greek Philosophers
$16.99 Add to cartW.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy–from Thales to Aristotle–which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Cla
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Guthrie, William K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0061310085
- Language: English
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The Ten Thousand Leaves: Poems from the Man’yoshu
$26.00 Add to cartA sweeping anthology of classical Japanese poetry, including poems about love, war, trees and mountains, everyday life, and so much more. One of the most important works of Japanese literature of all … [more below]
- Author: Levy, Ian Hideo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681378906
- Language: English
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Oedipus Kolonos PB
$9.99 Add to cartAmong the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Oedipus at Kolonos is one of seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now available from Harper Perennial in a vivid and dyna
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132105
- Language: English
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Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.
$29.00 Add to cartIn this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.
Of all the stoic virtues – courage, discipline, ju- Series: The Stoic Virtues
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593191730
- Language: English
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Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, Lao-Tzu, Nagarjuna
$15.99 Add to cartTaken from the Great Philosphers, Volume II.
- Series: Harvest Book, Hb 288
- Author: Jaspers, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: October 23 1974
- ISBN10: 0156075008
- Language: English
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On Duties
$12.99 Add to cartON DUTIES deserves more attention than it gets, and it rewards the attention it receives, because it deals with the question of the well-lived life in a clear, thoughtful, accessible, and compelling m
- Series: Roman Road Classics
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1944482113
- Language: English
