Ancient, Classical & Medieval

  • Constellation Myths: With Aratus’s Phaenomena

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    “Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.”

    The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arrang

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    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Eratosthenes
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: August 01 2015
    • ISBN10: 0198716982
    • Language: English
  • The Art of War

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    The Art of War, by the Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu, is one of the most influential books of military strategy ever written, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clot[more below]

    • Series: Signature Clothbound Editions
    • Author: Tzu, Sun
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 09 2025
    • ISBN10: 1454961988
    • Language: English
  • Sophocles: A Very Short Introduction

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    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring

    This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian.

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    • Series: Very Short Introductions
    • Author: Hall, Edith
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: May 27 2025
    • ISBN10: 0192897802
    • Language: English
  • Demosthenes: Selected Speeches

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    ‘Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.’

    Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was intimately invol

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  • Prometheus Bound

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    Prometheus 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
  • By: Plato

    Phaedrus

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    Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]

  • The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

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    Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You’re familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costumes, watched the film adaptations, and may even be able… [more below]

    • Series: Read and Reflect with the Classics
    • Author: Prior, Karen Swallow
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 424
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 1462796680
    • Language: English
  • Exemplary Stories

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    More popular in their day than Don Quxixote, Cervantes’s Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, the Exemplary Stories defy the conventi… [more below]

  • Meditaciones

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    El emperador y fil?sofo romano Marco Aurelio destac? por su serenidad, su modestia y su b?squeda de la verdad, a la vez que fue un c?sar brillante en el campo de batalla. Solo escribi? una obra: Medit[more below]

    • Series: Pensamiento Ilustrado
    • Author: Aurelio, Marco
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: January 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 8418395206
    • Language: Spanish
  • Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra

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    Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra
    A Penguin Classic

    There is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power. These

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    • Author: McCarter, Stephanie A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 0143136364
    • Language: English
  • By: Homer

    The Odyssey

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    Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to clai… [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Homer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: April 22 2018
    • ISBN10: 0198736479
    • Language: English
  • Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses

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    The stories of the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and strange; lives intertwine and behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from

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    • Author: Menzies, Jean
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: June 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 1529093341
    • Language: English
  • Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines

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    Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun and discover the adventures of Jason and his crew, The Argonauts. Learn about the interplay between mo

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    • Author: Menzies, Jean
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: June 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 1529093368
    • Language: English
  • The Poems of Catullus

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    Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful … [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Catullus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 15 2009
    • ISBN10: 0199537577
    • Language: English
  • By: Plato

    Phaedrus

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    Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato’s most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerot… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Plato
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: December 27 2005
    • ISBN10: 0140449744
    • Language: English
  • By: Homer

    The Iliad & the Odyssey (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)

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    Embark on a literary odyssey through ancient Greece with Homer’s timeless epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey. In The Iliad, witness the ravages of the Trojan War as gods and mortals clash in a tale of

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    • Author: Homer
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 768
    • Publish Date: August 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 9388144295
    • Language: English
  • By: Homer

    The Odyssey

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    Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and fa

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    • Author: Homer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: November 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 0393356256
    • Language: English
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