Ancient & Classical
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The Interpretation of Dreams
$13.95 Add to cart‘Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source’
Artemidorus’ The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Artemidorus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0198797958
- Language: English
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de Anima (on the Soul)
$17.00 Read moreFor the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 1987
- ISBN10: 0140444718
- Language: English
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Prisse d’Avennes. Egyptian Art
$25.00 Add to cartA lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Th?dore-?mile Prisse d’Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most influential
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Ikram, Salima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 3836565005
- Language: English
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The Satires
$11.95 Add to cartCommonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satir… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Juvenal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540667
- Language: English
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Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology
$12.95 Add to cart‘Who would you say knows himself?’
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contempo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856091
- Language: English
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The Nature of the Gods
$13.95 Add to cartCicero’s philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540063
- Language: English
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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
$14.95 Add to cartAristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the wo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953909X
- Language: English
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The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
$15.95 Add to cartDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson’s new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Parkinson, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555621
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Sappho
$21.95 Add to cartA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translator
Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has bee- Author: Barnstone, Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 1590306139
- Language: English
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Inferno
$17.00 Add to cartTranslated by Anthony Esolen
A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that repro
Illustrations by Gustave Dor- Series: Divine Comedy #1
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0812970063
- Language: English
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Aeneid
$15.95 Add to cartFrederick Ahl’s new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil’s ancient hexa… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199231958
- Language: English
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The Love Poems of Rumi
$15.00 Add to cartBorn Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi (named after the city where he lived) composed works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless… [more below]
- Author: Chopra, Deepak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0609602438
- Language: English
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How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
$30.00 Add to cartHow can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life?
Socrates is the quintessential Athenian philosopher, the source of the entire Western philosophical tradition, and God- Author: Robertson, Donald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250280508
- Language: English
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Greek Drama
$6.99 Add to cart- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Hadas, Moses
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553212214
- Language: English
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Simple Shelters: Tents, Tipis, Yurts, Domes and Other Ancient Homes
$14.00 Read moreThe need for shelter is one of mankind’s most basic, and mankind has been inventive in creating homes to fill this need. This book looks at the principal types of wooden and stick frame structures bui
- Series: Wooden Books
- Author: Horning, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 080271773X
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$9.99 Read more‘Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.’
– Sun Tzu
Written around the 6th century BC, The Art of War is one of the oldest and most famous books on- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1398827428
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound
$15.95 Read morePrometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows … [more below]
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1590178602
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$13.00 Read moreOn 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring t… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 1990
- ISBN10: 0140445323
- Language: English
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The Laws
$18.00 Read moreIn The Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449841
- Language: English
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Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
$21.00 Read moreAnthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg’s Stealing Rembrandts is a spellbinding journey into the high-stakes world of art theft
Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the wo- Author: Amore, Anthony M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0230339905
- Language: English
