Ancient & Classical
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The Shadows of Socrates: The Heresy, War, and Treachery Behind the Trial of Socrates
$29.95 Add to cartThe death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, revealing for the first time how the philosopher was set … [more below]
- Author: Gatton, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365826
- Language: English
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Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
$17.00 Read moreFresh, new translations of Sophocles’s three Theban plays by acclaimed theater director Bryan Doerries, which emphasize the contemporary relevance of these classic Greek tragedies.
Here are Oedipus th- Author: Sophocle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314956
- Language: English
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
$10.95 Add to cartIn 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or “rub?iy?t”) of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayy?m. If not a true translation–his Omar seems to have read Shakespea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fitzgerald, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199580502
- Language: English
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Gateway to the Stoics: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Epictetus’s Enchiridion, and Selections from Seneca’s Letters
$18.00 Add to cartThe one book you need to master stoic philosophy!
This classic collection, newly revised and with a foreword by classicist Spencer Klavan, includes the famed original introduction by Russell Kirk, the- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514002
- Language: English
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Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartStoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-or… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Inwood, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198786662
- Language: English
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Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
$23.99 Add to cartFirst appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle English. While it is more than six centuries old, this mag… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343537
- Language: English
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Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold
$10.95 Add to cartPlautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Moliere’s the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus h… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plautus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954056X
- Language: English
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Death and the Maiden
$15.00 Add to cart“Suspenseful, riveting . . . Achieves a universality that is movingly personal.” —The New York Times
The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a tot… [more below]- Series: Penguin Plays
- Author: Dorfman, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140246843
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$9.99 Add to cartThe Art of War by general and philosopher Sun Tzu is an influential book of strategy that has found applications in countless situations beyond the war room.
More than 2,000 years old, this classic o… [more below]- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1435171624
- Language: English
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Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming
$22.00 Add to cartNavigating the uncertainty of a divided China wracked by warfare and corruption, Tao Yuanming’s poetry–expertly translated by Red Pine–chooses the path walked by China’s ancient sages, finding joy i… [more below]
- Author: Yuanming, Tao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596723
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$38.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARD
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its represe- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 525505997
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King
$6.99 Add to cartThe famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.
A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Fre- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1416500332
- Language: English
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Meditations
$14.99 Add to cartThe Meditations are a set of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius. He writes about the vicissitudes of his own life and explores how to live wisely and virtuously in an unpredictable world.
Part of- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1529015022
- Language: English
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Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments
$39.95 Add to cartRome wasn’t built in a day, but over several centuries and under many different emperors. This story of continual creation and renewal lies at the heart of Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments. Rome’s hist
- Author: Roberts, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 500025681
- Language: English
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
$20.00 Read moreNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.
What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each o- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338166
- Language: English
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Meditations
$19.99 Add to cartDelve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Meditationswith an introduction by Pierre Baumann.
The personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from- Series: Timeless Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1577154614
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
$29.99 Add to cartWhen Michael Palma’s translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante’s intricate terza rima form simply could not… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095547
- Language: English
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Legion: Life in the Roman Army
$45.00 Read moreFollow the life of an ordinary Roman soldier–from enlistment to the battlefield–in this intimate look at everyday life in the Roman army.
- Author: Abdy, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1606069187
- Language: English
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The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How They Were Built
$16.95 Read moreHow were the ancient wonders of the world built? How many people did it take to build the Great Wall of China or the Sphinx at Giza? The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World answers these and many mor
- Author: Scarre, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 050029707X
- Language: English
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The Way, the Enemy, and the Key: A Boxed Set of the Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy & Stillness Is the Key
$82.00 Add to cartA timeless trilogy of the extraordinary bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday, now available with the 10th anniversary edition of The Obstacle… [more below]
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217044214
- Language: English
