Ancient & Classical
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The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge
$29.95 Read moreOur critically acclaimed bestseller Visual Complexity was the first in-depth examination of the burgeoning field of information visualization. Particularly noteworthy are the numerous historical examp… [more below]
- Author: Lima, Manuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1616892188
- Language: English
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Magic of the Runes: And Spiritual Secrets of Virgil’s Aeneid
$15.95 Add to cartSpiritual development requires enormous amounts of energy, thus those who aspire towards the blossoming of the soul need methods of acquiring and utilizing energy. Hidden in the runes we can find such… [more below]
- Series: Timeless Gnostic Wisdom
- Author: Aun Weor, Samael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1934206296
- 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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Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
$18.95 Read moreThe citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and when one pleased, and to whom, had no more fervent c
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091568
- Language: English
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After
$25.00 Read moreValmiki’s Ramayana provides the inspiration for this vibrant collection of poems, each of which acts as a persuasive encounter between English poetry and Indian myth.
After is a collection of poems in- Author: Narayanan, Vivek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376466
- Language: English
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The Trojan Women and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume of Euripides’ plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy’s survivors are harrowingly depicted. With un… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538816
- Language: English
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Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
$125.00 Read moreFerdowsi’s classic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history-beginning with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history, it contains magical birds and superhuman heroes an… [more below]
- Author: Ferdowsi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1631494465
- Language: English
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Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
$26.95 Read moreStoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. Widely recognized as the most ta
- Author: Fideler, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 039353166X
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Po Chu-I
$17.95 Read moreThe quintessential Chinese poet, translated by David Hinton, recipient of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Chu-I, Po
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0811214125
- Language: English
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Sophocles: The Complete Plays
$7.95 Read moreWith new translations and a new afterword
The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with Paul Roche’s revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, and all-new translations of th- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Sophocle
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531531
- Language: English
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Dantes Inferno
$19.99 Add to cartA new telling of Dante’s Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, and–with all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O’B
- Author: Halpern, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0880013737
- Language: English
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Dual: Poems
$17.00 Read moreA poetry collection examining masculinity, aggression, and violence.
In his fourth poetry collection, Matthew Minicucci examines masculinity and gun violence as he brings to life the grammatical conc- Author: Minicucci, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 194672467X
- Language: English
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Layli and Majnun
$18.00 Add to cartThe Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton’s unforgettable love song “Layla” and that Lord Byron called “the Romeo and Juliet of the East,” in a masterly new translation
A Penguin Classic The iconic- Author: Ganjavi, Nezami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0143133993
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses: A New Translation
$17.95 Read moreOvid’s epic poem–whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages–is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s times to the present day, when writers
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 039332642X
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$16.00 Read moreE.V. Rieu’s beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer’s Iliad tells the story- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447946
- 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 Trojan Women: A Comic
$19.95 Read moreHere is a new comic-book version of Euripides’s classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collabora… [more below]
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230791
- Language: English
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The Enchiridion: A Stoic’s Guide to Contentment and Tranquility
$12.95 Read moreThis lovely hardcover keepsake offers the timeless precepts of one of the most important Greek Stoic philosophers. Epictetus (ca. 50-ca. 130 CE) was born into slavery and had a permanent physical disa… [more below]
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851958
- 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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The Selected Poems of Li Po
$15.95 Add to cartThere is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: “Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao.” He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the sam… [more below]
- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: May 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0811213234
- Language: English
