Ancient & Classical
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Seneca: Selected Letters
$13.95 Add to cartSeneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca’s personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Sto… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199533210
- Language: English
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Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii
$39.95 Read more– Explores the fascinating resonances of landscape scenes as reflections of Roman social and political developments, including the growth of the Empire – Essays by 6 distinguished scholars offering di… [more below]
- Author: Powers, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 188350225X
- Language: English
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Las Meditaciones de Marco Aurelio / Meditations: Todo Mi Ser Se Reduce a Esto: La Carne, El EspÃritu, La Facultad Rectora
$10.95 Read moreIdeas que han cambiado el mundo.
A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los dem?s. Han inspirado el debate,- Author: Aurelius, Marco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 8430601031
- Language: Spanish
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The Comedies
$16.95 Add to cart‘I thought you’d do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son’s having an affair.’
Terence’s comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from cl… [more below]- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0199556032
- Language: English
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Arabic Poems
$20.00 Add to cartA bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition.
The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep,- Series: Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
- Author: Hammond, Marle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0375712437
- 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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Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica)
$13.95 Add to cartThe Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Apollonius of Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538727
- Language: English
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
$36.00 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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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton
$18.95 Add to cartTu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton’s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in Americ… [more below]
- Author: Fu, Tu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 081122838X
- Language: English
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The River of Heaven: The Haiku of Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki
$16.95 Read more“In this, his final work, American senior Zen Roshi Robert Aitken lovingly ties together two threads, Zen practice and haiku.” —Spirituality & Health
Known to many as the study of quiet stillness an- Author: Aitken, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437106
- Language: English
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Plato
$19.99 Read moreA surprising intellectual ally to Christians, Plato critiqued the relativism, materialism, and hedonism of his day. However, Talcott shows that he fell short in notable ways–making our discernment vi… [more below]
- Series: Great Thinkers
- Author: Talcott, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1629958697
- Language: English
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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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Ethics 101: From Altruism and Utilitarianism to Bioethics and Political Ethics, an Exploration of the Concepts of Right and Wrong
$16.99 Add to cartExplore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modern-day issues ranging from business ethics… [more below]
- Series: Adams 101
- Author: Boone, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1507204930
- Language: English
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The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2015 Washington State Book Award in Poetry Translation
“The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse [is] a tough-spirited book of enlightened free verse.”–Kyoto Journal
The Zen master and mountain h
- Author: Pine, Red
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1556594550
- 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
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Inside Pompeii
$125.00 Add to cartA visually stunning, intimate photographic tour of Pompeii’s spaces, including many that have never been seen by the public.
Pompeii, one of the most astonishing and well-preserved sites of classical- Author: Spina, Luigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1606068903
- Language: English
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Bakkhai
$14.95 Read moreAnne Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended con… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0811227103
- Language: English
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Egyptian Art
$23.33 Add to cartThe art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than the works of later centuries, such as stat
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 31 2018
- ISBN10: 3836549174
- Language: English
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The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It
$30.00 Add to cartReady to live your best possible life? It’s time to make it interesting.
Do you know anyone who’s truly living The Good Life? Traditionally, philosophers and psychologists have thought of the Good- Author: Besser, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1538743205
- Language: English
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Catullus: Selected Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries
In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost fo- Author: Catullus, Gaius Valerius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300275293
- Language: English
