History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical
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What to Expect When You’re Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife
$29.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death–and what we might learn from them
A lively story of death, What to Expect When You’re Dead explores the fascinating de- Author: Garland, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0691266174
- Language: English
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What Is Stoicism?: A Brief and Accessible Overview
$16.95 Add to cartAn easy, jargon-free introduction to stoicism that covers the full range of stoic thought in a single compact volume
Divided into short chapters that can be read in brief sittings, What Is Stoicism?- Author: Campbell, Tanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1608689441
- Language: English
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How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers
$17.95 Add to cartExplore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato’s great dramatic work, the Symposium
What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, l- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691256888
- Language: English
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How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go
$17.95 Add to cartInviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion–and why giving it up can free us from suffering
From self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the s- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Garfield, Jay L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691252637
- Language: English
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Gateway to the Stoics: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Epictetus’s Enchiridion, and Selections from Seneca’s Letters
$18.00 Add to cartThe one book you need to master stoic philosophy!
This classic collection, newly revised and with a foreword by classicist Spencer Klavan, includes the famed original introduction by Russell Kirk, the- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514002
- Language: English
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Meditations
$14.99 Add to cartThe Meditations are a set of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius. He writes about the vicissitudes of his own life and explores how to live wisely and virtuously in an unpredictable world.
Part of- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1529015022
- Language: English
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The Nature of Things
$16.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve
“A plague . . . tests us in unique ways. . . . Only if you can face the invisible bullets all around us, a- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140447962
- Language: English
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Meditations
$19.99 Add to cartDelve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Meditationswith an introduction by Pierre Baumann.
The personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from- Series: Timeless Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1577154614
- Language: English
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de Anima (on the Soul)
$17.00 Read moreFor the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 1987
- ISBN10: 0140444718
- Language: English
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The Nature of the Gods
$13.95 Add to cartCicero’s philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540063
- Language: English
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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
$14.95 Add to cartAristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the wo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953909X
- Language: English
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The Laws
$18.00 Read moreIn The Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449841
- 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 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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The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
$17.95 Read moreIn The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca, representative selections from Seneca’s writings offer the reader an excellent introduction to the range of his work.
The selections are drawn from the essays, or di… [more below]
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 1968
- ISBN10: 0393004597
- Language: English
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The Enneads: Abridged Edition
$21.00 Read moreHere is a highly original synthesis of Platonism, mystic passion, ideas from Greek philosophy, and variants of the Trinity and other central tenets of Christian doctrine by the brilliant thinker who h… [more below]
- Series: Classics S
- Author: Plotinus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 05 1991
- ISBN10: 014044520X
- Language: English
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Aristotle’s Metaphysics
$34.95 Read moreJoe Sachs has followed up his brilliant translation of Aristotle’s Physics with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs’s translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle’s works, which are f… [more below]
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 365
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1888009039
- Language: English
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Sobre La Felicidad Y La Brevedad de la Vida: C?mo Alcanzar La Felicidad Atrevi?ndote a Ser Tu Mismo
$8.95 Read moreEl tiempo que tenemos no es corto; es que perdemos mucho.
Si Séneca es un clásico es porque fue capaz de acuñar reflexiones que han interpelado a lectores de todas las épocas hasta nuestros dÃas… [more below]
- Author: S?neca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 6070796217
- Language: Spanish
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
$34.00 Add to cart“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, this new editi
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1890951609
- Language: English
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Sayings and Anecdotes: With Other Popular Moralists
$15.95 Add to cartDiogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit and eccentric behavior were legendary, and it was by means of his renowned aphori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Diogenes the Cynic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0199589240
- Language: English
