Ancient & Classical
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
$14.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0199753636
- Language: English
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Physics
$11.00 Read moreWritten in the fourth century BCE by Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle, Physics set out to define the principles and causes of change, movement, and motion. For 2,000 years ― until disco… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0486813517
- Language: English
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The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
$8.95 Read moreRather than converting base metals into gold, Hermetic alchemists focused on elevating their mental forces to a higher level. The precepts of their philosophy remained shrouded in secrecy for more tha… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy
- Author: Three Initiates
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0486471411
- Language: English
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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive sequel to New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World is a magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the… [more below]
- Author: Herman, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0553385666
- Language: English
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Cathay
$15.95 Read moreFirst published in 1915, Cathay, Ezra Pound’s early monumental work, originally contained fourteen translations from the Chinese and a translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem “The Seafarer.” Over time, th… [more below]
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0811223523
- Language: English
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Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
$32.50 Read moreIn the tradition of Logicomix, Donald J. Robertson’s Verissimus is a riveting graphic novel on the life and stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius.
Marcus Aurelius was the last famous Stoic of antiquity- Author: Robertson, Donald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1250270952
- Language: English
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Pompeii: An Archaeological Guide
$25.95 Read moreThe resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets which re-emerged, mi… [more below]
- Author: Wilkinson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1350129399
- Language: English
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Art History for Dummies
$34.99 Read moreReady to discover the fascinating world of art history? Let’s (Van) Gogh!
Fine art might seem intimidating at first. But with the right guide, anyone can learn to appreciate and understand the stimula
- Author: Wilder, Jesse Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1119868661
- Language: English
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The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge
$29.95 Read moreOur critically acclaimed bestseller Visual Complexity was the first in-depth examination of the burgeoning field of information visualization. Particularly noteworthy are the numerous historical examp… [more below]
- Author: Lima, Manuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1616892188
- Language: English
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Magic of the Runes: And Spiritual Secrets of Virgil’s Aeneid
$15.95 Read moreSpiritual development requires enormous amounts of energy, thus those who aspire towards the blossoming of the soul need methods of acquiring and utilizing energy. Hidden in the runes we can find such… [more below]
- Series: Timeless Gnostic Wisdom
- Author: Aun Weor, Samael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934206296
- Language: English
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The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation
$17.00 Read more“To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary–is this not me?”
Confucius is recognized as China’s firs
–Confucius- Series: Classics of Ancient China
- Author: Ames, Roger T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0345434072
- Language: English
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Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
$18.95 Add to cartThe citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent c
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091568
- Language: English
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After
$25.00 Read moreValmiki’s Ramayana provides the inspiration for this vibrant collection of poems, each of which acts as a persuasive encounter between English poetry and Indian myth.
After is a collection of poems in- Author: Narayanan, Vivek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376466
- Language: English
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The Trojan Women and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume of Euripides’ plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy’s survivors are harrowingly depicted. With un… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538816
- Language: English
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Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
$125.00 Read moreFerdowsi’s classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes an… [more below]
- Author: Ferdowsi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1631494465
- Language: English
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Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
$26.95 Read moreStoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. Widely recognized as the most ta
- Author: Fideler, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 039353166X
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Po Chu-I
$17.95 Read moreThe quintessential Chinese poet, translated by David Hinton, recipient of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Chu-I, Po
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0811214125
- Language: English
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Sophocles: The Complete Plays
$7.95 Read moreWith new translations and a new afterword
The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with Paul Roche’s revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, and all-new translations of th- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Sophocle
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531531
- Language: English
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Dantes Inferno
$19.99 Add to cartA new telling of Dante’s Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, and–with all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O’B
- Author: Halpern, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0880013737
- Language: English
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Dual: Poems
$17.00 Read moreA poetry collection examining masculinity, aggression, and violence.
In his fourth poetry collection, Matthew Minicucci examines masculinity and gun violence as he brings to life the grammatical conc- Author: Minicucci, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 194672467X
- Language: English
