Ancient & Classical
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How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders
$16.95 Add to cartWhat would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead
If recent history has taught us anything, it’s that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative exam- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0691193991
- Language: English
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The Pocket Sappho
$14.95 Read moreA vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet by the prize-winning poet and translator.
Sappho’s lyric love poems, composed in the seventh century B.C.E., transcend time and place- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Barnstone, Willis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1611806917
- Language: English
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Advice from Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartAristotle knew things about happiness, habits, and human nature. This book is about his book, the Nichomachean Ethics. What this book will NOT do: -Make you feel good. -Make you rich. -Make you a good… [more below]
- Author: Younan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: April 25 2022
- ISBN10: 166673540X
- Language: English
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Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic
$39.99 Add to cartAs chief advisor to the emperor Nero, Lucius Annaeus Seneca was most influential in ancient Rome as a power behind the throne. His lasting fame derives from his writings on Stoic ideology, in which ph
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1638232482
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$9.00 Read moreThis excellent prose translation of Homer’s epic poem of the 9th century BC recounts one of Western civilization’s most glorious tales, a treasury of Greek folklore and myth that maintains an ageless
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0486406547
- Language: English
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How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
$16.95 Add to cartTimeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do–but it is also the closest you can come to divinity- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 069119209X
- Language: English
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The Corpus Hermeticum
$22.00 Add to cartThe Corpus Hermeticum are Egyptian-Greek wisdom texts from which are mostly presented as dialogues in which a teacher enlightens a disciple. The texts form the basis of Hermeticism. They discuss the d
- Author: Trismegistus, Hermes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 15 2018
- ISBN10: 178724654X
- Language: English
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King Tut. the Journey Through the Underworld. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Add to cartBuried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intri
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Vannini, Sandro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 3836584239
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Petrarch
$24.00 Add to cart“David Young’s version of Petrarch will refresh our images of the West’s crucial lyric poet. We are given a Petrarch in our own vernacular, with echoes of Wyatt, Shakespeare, and many who come after.”
- Author: Petrarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0374529612
- Language: English
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The Love Songs of Sappho
$17.00 Add to cartCalled the “Tenth Muse” by the ancients, Greece’s greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sapp… [more below]
- Series: Literary Classics
- Author: Sappho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 157392251X
- Language: English
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On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
$8.99 Add to cartOn the Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians, also known as the Theurgia and under its abbreviated Latin title De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum, is a work of Neoplatonic philosophy primarily co
- Author: Iamblichus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1960069543
- Language: English
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Medea
$14.99 Add to cartThe Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrate… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0195145666
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians
$16.00 Add to cartAeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punish… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 30 1961
- ISBN10: 0140441123
- Language: English
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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
$24.95 Add to cartThe Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of “truth,” Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne’s starting point is a simple observation… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vidal-Naquet, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299868
- Language: English
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Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman: Six Plays
$29.98 Add to cartRich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight – varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions…exciting variety of translations…enlightening essays from some of the mos… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Corrigan, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 936839856
- Language: English
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Oresteia
$11.95 Add to cartThe Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy–the inexorable natur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953781X
- Language: English
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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphas- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Annas, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0198805888
- Language: English
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20 Poemas de Amor Y Una Canción Desesperada
$9.95 Add to cartThis book, originally published in 1924, occupies a privileged place within the vast and always current work of Pablo Neruda. It is not only one of his most popular works, but also the one that best r… [more below]
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 6074003696
- Language: Spanish
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Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
$29.95 Add to cartIt is not events that disturb us, but what we believe about them.
In ancient Greece, a group of philosophers developed highly effective techniques to change our thoughts for the better, allowing practi
- Author: Bates, Douglas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1896559565
- Language: English
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The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartAcclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thin… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Beachy-Quick, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1571315446
- Language: English
