Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
$35.00 Add to cartJean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, the a… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299191
- Language: English
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The Story of Israel: A Biblical Theology
$39.99 Add to cartAmong the several prominent themes in the Bible, the story of Israel is one that has attracted recent attention and study. The biblical story of Israel–in its election, sin, exile and restoration–is
- Author: Pate, C. Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2004
- ISBN10: 083082748X
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Epicurus
$12.00 Read moreDespite its modern-day connotations of hedonism, “Epicureanism” has more to do with living a mindful, uncomplicated life. Epicurus — who was born at Samos, Greece, in 341 BC and died at Athens in 270… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Epicurus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0486833038
- Language: English
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The Metamorphoses
$7.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid’s day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his own … [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531450
- Language: English
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The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher’s Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
$26.95 Add to cartSome people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately this is not the case. Stoicism offers us an alternative approach. Plum
- Author: Irvine, William B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 393652491
- Language: English
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Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes
$13.95 Add to cartAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0192824090
- Language: English
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The Hindus: An Alternative History
$25.00 Add to cart“Don’t miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher.” –The Washington Post
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus- Author: Doniger, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 30 2010
- ISBN10: 014311669X
- Language: English
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Eclogues and Georgics
$29.95 Add to cartJames Bradley Wells combines creative practice and intimate knowledge of contemporary poetry and classical antiquity in this thought-provoking new translation of two early works by ancient Rome’s most… [more below]
- Author: Vergil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0299337405
- Language: English
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Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
$70.99 Add to cartThis outstanding book provides an in-depth historical study of the place of Jesus in the religious life, beliefs, and worship of Christians from the beginnings of the Christian movement down to the la… [more below]
- Author: Hurtado, Larry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0802831672
- Language: English
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The Art and Technique of Sumi-E: Japanese Ink Painting as Taught by Ukai Uchiyama
$15.99 Read moreJapanese Sumi-e brush painting combines the techniques of calligraphy and ink painting to produce compositions of rare beauty.
This art has its roots in the Zen Buddhist practices of mindfulness and m- Author: Thompson, Kay Morrissey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 480531558X
- Language: English
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The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization, Volume II
$44.99 Add to cartThe Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest of Greece. This is the
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 828
- Publish Date: April 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115558
- Language: English
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
$24.95 Read moreConceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on … [more below]
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494406
- Language: English
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The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition
$18.95 Read moreA look at the close resemblance between the creation and structure of matter in both Dogon mythology and modern science
– Reveals striking similarities between Dogon symbols and those used in both the- Author: Scranton, Laird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1594771332
- Language: English
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The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate Volume 5
$23.99 Add to cart“The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth . . . and the ark floated on the face of the waters” (Gen 6:17-18 NRSV).
In
- Series: Lost World #5
- Author: Longman III, Tremper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 083085200X
- Language: English
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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first complete version in English of the “Book of the People” of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient May
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Recinos, Adrien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0806122668
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartThis long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi’s Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi’s substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterw
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Alfarabi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0801487161
- Language: English
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The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs
$14.99 Read moreIt’s the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give read… [more below]
- Author: Hagy, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0761182381
- Language: English
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The History of the Church: A New Translation
$22.43 Add to cartEusebius’s groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianity and stands among the classics of Western literatu… [more below]
- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Eusebius of Caesarea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 520291107
- Language: English
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Divine Comedy
$62.99 Add to cartDescribed as the “fifth gospel” because of its evangelical purpose, this spiritual autobiography creates a world in which reason and faith have transformed moral and social chaos into order. It is one
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 622
- Publish Date: November 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0393044726
- Language: English
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The Art of War: Sun Zi’s Military Methods
$16.95 Add to cartCompiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an
- Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
- Author: Zi, Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0231133839
- Language: English
