Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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Praying with the Church
$18.99 Add to cartScot McKnight, best-selling author of The Jesus Creed, invites readers to get closer to the heart of Jesus’ message by discovering the ancient rhythms of daily prayer at the heart of the early church…. [more below]
- Author: McKnight, Scot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1557254818
- Language: English
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Advice from Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartAristotle knew things about happiness, habits, and human nature. This book is about his book, the Nichomachean Ethics. What this book will NOT do: -Make you feel good. -Make you rich. -Make you a good… [more below]
- Author: Younan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: April 25 2022
- ISBN10: 166673540X
- Language: English
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Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic
$39.99 Add to cartAs chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame derives from his writings on Stoic ideology, in which ph
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1638232482
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$12.00 Read moreProbably composed in the eighth century B.C. and based on an actual historical event of the thirteenth century B.C., Homer’s Iliad is one of the great epics of the Western world. The poem unfolds near
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0486408833
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$9.00 Add to cartThis excellent prose translation of Homer’s epic poem of the 9th century BC recounts one of Western civilization’s most glorious tales, a treasury of Greek folklore and myth that maintains an ageless
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0486406547
- Language: English
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How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
$16.95 Add to cartTimeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do–but it is also the closest you can come to divinity- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 069119209X
- Language: English
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Egyptian Yoga Volume 1: The Philosophy of Enlightenment
$19.99 Add to cart1. EGYPTIAN YOGA: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENLIGHTENMENT An original, fully illustrated work, including hieroglyphs, detailing the meaning of the Egyptian mysteries, tantric yoga, psycho-spiritual and physic… [more below]
- Author: Ashby, Muata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1884564011
- Language: English
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The Corpus Hermeticum
$22.00 Add to cartThe Corpus Hermeticum are Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from which are mostly presented as dialogues in which a teacher enlightens a disciple. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism. They discuss the d
- Author: Trismegistus, Hermes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 15 2018
- ISBN10: 178724654X
- Language: English
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In Search of Ancient Ireland: The Origins of the Irish from Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English
$25.43 Add to cartThe history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age, to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought … [more below]
- Author: McCaffrey, Carmel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2003
- ISBN10: 156663525X
- Language: English
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Sparta and the Commemoration of War
$39.99 Add to cartThe tough Spartan soldier is one of the most enduring images from antiquity. Yet Spartans too fell in battle – so how did ancient Sparta memorialise its wars and war dead? From the poet Tyrtaeus inspi… [more below]
- Author: Sears, Matthew A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1316519457
- Language: English
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Greek Mythology for Teens: Enthralling Tales and Myths from Ancient Greece
$26.99 Add to cartDid you know that Zeus was considered to be both the youngest and the oldest brother?
Thanks to their enthralling narratives and relatable characters, Greek myths have captured our imagination for mill
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651859
- Language: English
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Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece
$27.00 Add to cartFrom fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexha… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Schwab, Gustav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0375714464
- Language: English
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The Republic and the Laws
$12.95 Add to cartCicero’s The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019954011X
- Language: English
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The Celts: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSavage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. From the ancient Romans to the present day, their re… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #94
- Author: Cunliffe, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0192804189
- Language: English
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Rome: An Empire’s Story
$22.99 Add to cartRome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within Italy, then around the Mediterranean world and finall… [more below]
- Author: Woolf, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0190687452
- Language: English
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In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
$23.99 Add to cartIn just over a hundred years–from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750–the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Afri… [more below]
- Series: Ancient Warfare and Civilization
- Author: Hoyland, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190618574
- Language: English
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King Tut. the Journey Through the Underworld. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Read moreBuried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intri
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Vannini, Sandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 3836584239
- Language: English
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History of the World Christian Movement: Volume I: Earliest Christianity to 1453
$45.00 Add to cartThis first comprehensive account of Christianity as a world religion is a landmark, offering the work of five years of a team of 43 international scholars and consultants. For the first time, the peop… [more below]
- Author: Irvin, Dale T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 17 2001
- ISBN10: 1570753962
- Language: English
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The Art of War: An Illustrated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartA delightfully illustrated version of Sunzi’s classic The Art of War by bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai
C. C. Tsai is one of Asia’s most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics- Series: Illustrated Library of Chinese Classics #3
- Author: Sunzi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0691179786
- Language: English
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The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends
$25.95 Read moreThis survey of Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the creation and evolution of the world and the reigns of the gods on earth, be… [more below]
- Series: Myths #1
- Author: Shaw, Garry J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0500251983
- Language: English
