Ancient & Classical
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How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality
$18.95 Add to cartAn irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and love
Eros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again,
that bittersweet, implacable creature.
—Sappho The idea of sexual fl- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Nooter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691248613
- Language: English
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Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Delaney, Brigid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0063314835
- Language: English
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Early Socratic Dialogues
$17.00 Read moreRich in drama and humour, the Early Socratic Dialogues include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers… [more below]
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0140455035
- Language: English
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Lysistrata
$4.99 Add to cartLysistrata and Other Plays centers a disgruntled woman whose attempt to end a war takes the battle from an open field to the soldier’s bedroom. Wives from both camps deny their husbands basic affectio
- Series: Mint Editions (Plays)
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1513267949
- Language: English
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Legion: Life in the Roman Army
$45.00 Read moreFollow the life of an ordinary Roman soldier–from enlistment to the battlefield–in this intimate look at everyday life in the Roman army.
- Author: Abdy, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1606069187
- Language: English
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How to Make Money: An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management
$18.95 Add to cartAn enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made–and thought about–money
Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Rom- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Grillo, Luca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691239126
- Language: English
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Meditations
$14.99 Add to cartA timeless guide to Stoic philosophy, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius offers invaluable insights into life, virtue, and resilience. This influential work offers a window into the mind of a Stoic philo
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9354407269
- Language: English
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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated British author and historian: a brilliant new book combining historical inquiry and storytelling lan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of c… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1400076013
- Language: English
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Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity
Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conque- Author: Roberts, Jennifer T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0691181470
- Language: English
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How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving on
$19.95 Add to cartA modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Remedies for Love–a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love
Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691220301
- Language: English
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Iphigeneia at Aulis
$15.99 Add to cartMerwin and Dimock have provided a new translation for this celebrated tragedy, with a comprehensive introduction, notes on the text, and a glossary of mythical and geographical terms.
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 29 1992
- ISBN10: 0195077091
- Language: English
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The Art of Rhetoric
$17.00 Add to cartWith the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils – and even for ordinary… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445102
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$12.95 Add to cartThis prose translation of the The Odyssey is so successful that is has taken its place as on the few really outstanding version of Homer’s famous epic poem. It is the story of the return of Odysseus f… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536783
- Language: English
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The Enneads: Abridged Edition
$21.00 Add to cartHere 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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Early Greek Philosophy
$18.00 Read moreThe works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy–the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-So… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140448152
- Language: English
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Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny
$35.00 Add to cartAn incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny.
As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politics, tales told in ancient Greek epics and tragedies p
- Author: Anhalt, Emily Katz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1503628566
- Language: English
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The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
$14.23 Add to cartEpictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, whe… [more below]
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 1615341242
- Language: English
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Antigone: A New Translation
$12.99 Add to cartThe most celebrated plays of ancient Athens–Sophocles’s seven surviving works–in vivid and dynamic new translations. ANTIGONE, translated by award-winning poet Robert Bagg, is one of seven plays Har
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0062132121
- Language: English
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Fame
$25.00 Add to cartFAME is a book about human affection and disaffection and the unique narrative which presents this perpetual movement. The poems come from India, Greece, the Windward Islands, and New England, places … [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1955194122
- Language: English
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The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library: An Anthology of Ancient Writings Which Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy
$32.95 Add to cartThis anthology, the largest collection of Pythagorean writings ever to appear in English, contains the four ancient biographies of Pythagoras and over 25 Pythagorean and Neopythagorean writings from t… [more below]
- Author: Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0933999518
- Language: English
