Ancient and Classical
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Origin Myths of the Stars: The Handbook of the Greek Zodiac Origin Myths & Their Symbolic Medicine
$15.99 Add to cartHow did a Scorpion become a constellation? Who lifted the Archer into the sky? Which timeless tales gave birth to the twelve zodiac signs-and when did we forget we ever knew their origins?
In ancient t… [more below]
- Author: Michelle, Colby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1038351324
- Language: English
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The Portable Greek Reader
$26.00 Add to cartIt is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a pe… [more below]
- Series: Portable Library
- Author: Auden, W. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 25 1977
- ISBN10: 0140150390
- Language: English
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War and the Iliad
$16.95 Read moreWar and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer’s art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and deat… [more below]
- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 31 2005
- ISBN10: 1590171454
- Language: English
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartA worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work
No one knows whether Homer was a rea- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272472
- Language: English
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Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
$39.95 Read moreTales of Dionysus is the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. By any standard, the Dionysiaca
- Author: Levitan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0472038966
- Language: English
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On the Nature of the Universe
$13.95 Add to cartThis is a new verse translation of Lucretius’s only known work, a didactic poem written in six books of hexameters. Melville’s particularly literal translation of the use of metaphor is especially hel… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555141
- Language: English
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Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World
$30.00 Add to cartAn urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history
The roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run d- Author: Hall, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275587
- Language: English
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Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World Through the Women Written Out of It
$30.00 Add to cartWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. T- Author: Hauser, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839680
- Language: English
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The Epic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The epic is an ancient and universal form of artistic expression. Storytellers around the globe have long told of heroes who are touched by greatne… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Welch, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0198795122
- Language: English
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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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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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A Loeb Classical Library Reader
$9.95 Add to cartA paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.
This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity’s major authors includes poetry, dial- Series: Loeb Classical Library
- Author: Loeb Classical Library
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 30 2006
- ISBN10: 067499616X
- Language: English
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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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Hombres No Son Islas, Los
$20.95 Read moreBased on John Donne’s famous meditation, Nuccio Ordine expands his “ideal library” by inviting us to read–and reread–more selected pages of universal literature. Convinced that a brilliant quote can… [more below]
- Author: Ordine, Nuccio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 8419036129
- Language: Spanish
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Dialogues and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAlain de Botton’s bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy–later made into a six-part TV series–has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offer… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552401
- Language: English
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Homer: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHomer’s mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, ‘the … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Graziosi, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0199589941
- Language: English
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The Complete Sophocles: Volume 1: The Theban Plays
$15.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tran… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Burian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388801
- Language: English
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Tetrabiblos
$19.95 Add to cartClaudius Ptolemy (c.100 – c.178 AD), of Alexandria, was one of the greatest philosopher/scientists of the ancient world. Among his books are the Almagest, Geography, Optics, Planispherium and Tetrabib… [more below]
- Author: Ptolemy, Claudius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 07 2005
- ISBN10: 1933303123
- Language: English
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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
$25.99 Add to cartFor more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho–the first woman writer in literary history–were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet thos
- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353826
- Language: English
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The Complete Odes
$15.95 Add to cartThe Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pindar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553904
- Language: English
