Ancient & Classical
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes
$13.00 Add to cartThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0374522898
- Language: English
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Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, and the Forging of History
$21.99 Add to cartNot only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern, but Minoan civilization as it has been popularly im… [more below]
- Author: Lapatin, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0306813289
- Language: English
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Iphigenia among the Taurians
$12.00 Add to cartI am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus
Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review
My father killed me- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 10 2014
- ISBN10: 022620362X
- Language: English
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Seneca: The Madness of Hercules
$20.00 Add to cartSeneca was not only Rome’s major Stoic philosopher. He was its great tragic playwright. Classics of Latin literature, Seneca’s dramas also inspired the revival of tragic theater in the Renaissance. Th
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1951319664
- Language: English
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Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery
$39.99 Read moreWith over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art.
Chinese Art: A Guide to Mot- Author: Welch, Patricia Bjaaland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0804843163
- Language: English
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The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation
$13.00 Read moreA monumental work of moral and political philosophy, a book surpassed only by the Bible in its formative influence on two thousand years of Western thought.
What does it mean to be good? What enables… [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 06 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733876
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius
$18.99 Add to cartAs the world has begun to turn more of its attention toward the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius is more timely than ever.
Written as a personal diary for spir
- Author: Forstater, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0060955104
- Language: English
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Dialogues of Plato
$8.99 Read moreIn these influential dialogues–Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium–Plato employs the dialectic method to examine the trial and death of his mentor, Socrates, and address the eternal q… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1439169489
- Language: English
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Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 125000232X
- Language: English
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Seneca: The Madness of Hercules
$17.00 Add to cartSeneca was not only Rome’s major Stoic philosopher. He was its great tragic playwright. Classics of Latin literature, Seneca’s dramas also inspired the revival of tragic theater in the Renaissance. Th
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 195131963X
- Language: English
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Etruscan Art
$24.95 Add to cartThe Etruscans were the most powerful force in central Italy until Roman unification of the peninsula. Vestiges of their art, architecture, and unique language have long intrigued scholars, and the sea… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Spivey, Nigel Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: November 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0500203040
- Language: English
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Phaedrus: Letter to M. D’Alembert on the Theatre
$14.95 Add to cartWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato’s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a pr
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801485320
- Language: English
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Aristotle: The Desire to Understand
$49.58 Add to cartThis is a philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself started. He introduces us to the essence of Aristotle’s philosophy and guides us through all the ce… [more below]
- Author: Lear, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: February 11 1988
- ISBN10: 0521347629
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$62.99 Add to cartOvid’s epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s time to the present day, when wr… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 597
- Publish Date: October 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393058107
- Language: English
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Heracles and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartEuripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199555095
- Language: English
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The Plays and Fragments
$10.95 Add to cartThe greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of o… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Menander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954073X
- Language: English
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
$15.95 Add to cart“The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.” So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard’s Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous narrator, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199214190
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King: Sophocles
$12.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New T… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: March 31 1988
- ISBN10: 0195054938
- Language: English
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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author
$22.00 Add to cartThe complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian
“Helle’s translation feels urgent, incandescent, stripped of academic claddi- Author: Helle, Sophus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276761
- Language: English
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Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
$16.00 Add to cartAdvice on achieving a fulfilling old age from one of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
After being advised by his dentist to get tooth implants, Daniel Klein decide- Author: Klein, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126628
- Language: English
