Ancient and Classical
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography
$20.00 Read moreA 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 Add to cartTales 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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The Poetic Edda
$27.95 Add to cartThe Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poe
- Author: Hollander, Lee M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0292764995
- 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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Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Pelvsinnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roberts, Jennifer T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192855824
- 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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So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
$19.99 Add to cartThe “Fresh Air” book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby — “The Great American Novel we all think we’ve read, but really haven’t.”
Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who- Author: Corrigan, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0316230065
- Language: English
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
$20.00 Read moreNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.
What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each o- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338166
- 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 Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
$15.95 Add to cartDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson’s new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Parkinson, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555621
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Sappho
$21.95 Add to cartA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translator
Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has bee- Author: Barnstone, Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 1590306139
- Language: English
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Greek Drama
$6.99 Add to cart- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Hadas, Moses
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553212214
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
$16.98 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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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading-- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0345806212
- Language: English
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Prophets
$45.00 Read more“A brilliant study of the Hebrew prophets, one of the most penetrating works . . . [of] our time.”– Will Herberg
From the legendary twentieth-century Jewish Theologian and author of Man is Not Alone a
- Author: Heschel, Abraham J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063347962
- Language: English
