Ancient and Classical
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The Complete Sophocles: Volume 1: The Theban Plays
$16.98 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
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Elegies of Chu
$16.95 Add to cartElegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate ex… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Williams, Nicholas Morrow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198818319
- Language: English
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Estate Management and Symposium
$11.95 Add to cartXenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was ap… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198823517
- Language: English
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On Ovid’s Metamorphoses
$14.95 Add to cartOvid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundred
- Series: Core Knowledge
- Author: Williams, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200714
- Language: English
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Why Homer Matters
$25.00 Add to cartComplex, personal, and profound … a brash and brave piece of writing … filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the Iliad. –The Wall Street Journal
Why Homer Matters is a magi- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074940
- Language: English
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Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
$21.99 Add to cartWhy should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings–splashed across today’s headlines–that have not only destroyed individual lives b… [more below]
- Author: Das, Gurcharan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199754411
- Language: English
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Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies
$14.00 Add to cartTogether these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leadi- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hésiode
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 26 1976
- ISBN10: 0140442839
- Language: English
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Selected Works (Cicero, Marcus Tullius)
$17.00 Read moreCollecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome’s finest orators, Cicero’s Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.
Lawyer, philosoph… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 30 1960
- ISBN10: 0140440992
- Language: English
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
$22.99 Add to cartThrough National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum’s poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from r… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0156001268
- Language: English
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Classics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe are all classicists–we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0192853856
- Language: English
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Heroines of Olympus: The Women of Greek Mythology
$22.95 Add to cartGoddesses, monsters, humans and the semi-divine – whether courageous or meek, gruesome or irresistible, female characters are ever present on the peripheries of the great Greek myths, but rarely do t
- Author: Mackin Roberts, Ellie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1787394921
- Language: English
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Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
$16.95 Read moreSeries Summary
The new What Every Catholic Should Know series is intended for the average faithful Catholic who wants to know more about Catholic faith and culture. The authors in this series take a pa
- Series: What Every Catholic Should Know
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1733522123
- Language: English
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Why Read the Classics?
$15.99 Add to cartA posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino’s invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0544146379
- Language: English
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The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
$19.95 Add to cartA highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author’s work. “Up to the author’s highest standard in a literary form that was m… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book, Hb 294
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 23 1974
- ISBN10: 0156252341
- Language: English
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The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
$23.99 Add to cartAdventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this useful, entertaining and informative story of the first great epic (The Washington Post)
Composed in Middle Babylonia around 120- Author: Damrosch, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0805087257
- Language: English
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Classical Literary Criticism
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of literary criticism, including Aristotle’s Poetics, Horace’s Art of Poetry, Longinus’ on Sublimity, Tacitus’ Dialogues, and extracts from Pl… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Russell, D. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199549818
- Language: English
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The Masnavi, Book Five
$12.95 Add to cart‘If something else can capture your attention
This is the first ever
Then it’s not love, but just a trivial passion –
Love is that flame which, once it blazes up,
Burns everything but the Beloved up.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2022
- ISBN10: 019285707X
- Language: English
