Ancient & Classical
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The Symposium
$24.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037536
- Language: English
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Daodejing
$15.99 Add to cartGrounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and informed by careful study of recent archeological discoveries of alternate versions of the text, Brook Ziporyn, one of the preeminent expli
- Author: Laozi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1324097280
- Language: English
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The Portable Plato
$26.00 Add to cartWriting in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagi… [more below]
- Series: Portable Library
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0140150404
- Language: English
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Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ethical Living in Uncertain Times
$28.00 Add to cartA renowned Buddhist teacher turns to two of the most influential figures in history for guidance on how to face the ethical challenges of our time
The Buddha’s revolutionary teachings transformed Asi- Author: Batchelor, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275498
- Language: English
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Paradiso
$25.00 Add to cartMary Jo Bang’s translation of Paradiso completes her groundbreaking new version of Dante’s masterpiece, begun with Inferno and continued with Purgatorio. In Paradiso, Dante has been purified by his cl
- Author: Bang, Mary Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453452
- Language: English
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If a Mountain Lion Could Sing: The Lyric Poems of Xin Qiji
$22.00 Add to cartIf a Mountain Lion Could Sing stands as the first major English translation of poems written by China’s greatest lyric poet, Xin Qiji.
World-renowned translator Red Pine has found a new dance partner.
- Author: Qiji, Xin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1556596863
- Language: English
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Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.
$30.00 Add to cartIn his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, h… [more below]
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0593943066
- Language: English
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Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.
$28.00 Add to cartINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third insta- Series: The Stoic Virtues
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0593191714
- Language: English
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Selected Discourses – The Wisdom of Epictetus: The Stoic Classic
$14.99 Add to cartExplore the ancient Stoic way of thinking and the valuable lessons it holds for contemporary life
This new volume contains the Enchiridion and selected Discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epicte
- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0857089951
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$39.99 Add to cartCrafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil’s Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and profound loss. … [more below]
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096438
- Language: English
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The Stoics: The Philosophy of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
$19.99 Add to cartThis luxurious hardback edition brings together four classic essays on Stoic philosophy from the Ancient Greek world, beautifully presented with gold embossing and stenciled page edges.
Is there an a- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1398849103
- Language: English
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Lamentations of Nezahualc?yotl: Nahuatl Poems
$24.00 Add to cartFrom award-winning author, editor, and translator Ilan Stavans comes a one-of-a-kind retelling of a legendary Aztec ruler’s timeless verses.
A king, a warrior, and a poet, Nezahualc?yotl was a revoluti
- Author: Nezahualc?yotl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1632063867
- Language: English
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Aias
$16.98 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated Greek tragedies, the Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0195128192
- Language: English
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The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts
$10.95 Add to cartKalidasa’s play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly erotic in t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kalidasa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540608
- Language: English
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Stoicism 101: From Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus to the Role of Reason and Amor Fati, an Essential Primer on Stoic Philosophy
$16.99 Add to cartDiscover all the essential wisdom of the stoics with this engaging, informative, and easy-to-understand guide to all the key philosophers, concepts, and principles of the stoic philosophy.
You’ve seen- Series: Adams 101
- Author: Cloward, Erick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1507223579
- Language: English
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Grand Tour: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartElisa Gonzalez’s thrilling debut makes one “feel as if poems have never before been written” (Louise Gl?ck).
Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion- Author: Gonzalez, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0374613990
- Language: English
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Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers
$22.95 Add to cartFor centuries, people have been grappling with life’s biggest questions: Who am I? What’s my purpose? How can I be happy? In modern times, many have found meaningful answers in Stoic philosophy. But t
- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Chinese Symbolism & Art Motifs Fourth Revised Edition: A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages
$18.99 Add to cartWritten with reader accessibility in mind, this comprehensive handbook of symbolism in Chinese art and culture will be an invaluable resource for any student of Eastern art history, Chinese arts and c… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Charles Alfred Speed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0804850070
- Language: English
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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual
$18.95 Read more“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read–it’s a book to return t
- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928242
- Language: English
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How to Live – A Handbook of Stoic Philosophy: Discourses and the Enchiridion
$4.99 Read moreDelve into the profound teachings and timeless wisdom of Epictetus through his discourses and “The Enchiridion,” which offer readers a practical guide for living a fulfilling and virtuous life. In Dis… [more below]
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9358565748
- Language: English
