Ancient & Classical
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
$19.00 Add to cartThis Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne’s great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “The Extasie,” and “A Noctu… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Donne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757341
- Language: English
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The Complete Plays of Sophocles
$16.99 Add to cart“Bagg and Scully’s renderings strike me as the most performable versions of Sophocles I’ve ever encountered…if you’re looking for the translation that best reflects the emotional force and expressiv
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: December 13, 2013
- ISBN10: 006202034X
- Language: English
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The Dragon Within
$34.95 Add to cartThe dragons have played a part in the history of the universe since the beginning. We see them sprinkled throughout ancient traditions, religions and philosophies and yet they always hold an air of pu
- Author: Anra, Araya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1733098305
- Language: English
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Cynicism
$15.95 Add to cartA short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present.
Everyone’s a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today’s cynics excuse themselves half-hear
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Allen, Ansgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0262537885
- Language: English
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The Portable Dante
$25.00 Add to cartThe famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks–The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova–in one volume
A Penguin Classic As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian f- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437549
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$14.00 Read moreOn 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring t… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 30 1957
- ISBN10: 0140440755
- Language: English
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Enchiridion
$6.99 Add to cartAlthough he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus maintained that all people are free to control their lives and to live in harmony with nature. We will always b
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: November 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115868
- Language: English
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Best Tales Yukon
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the f… [more below]
- Author: Service, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0762414596
- Language: English
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Poetics
$4.50 Add to cartAmong the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle’s Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. In it are mentioned not only epic and dithyrambic poetry, but tragedy, comedy, and flute
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 12 1997
- ISBN10: 048629577X
- Language: English
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The Popol Vuh
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018
A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATIONIn the beginning, the world is spoken into existence with one word: “Earth.” There are no inhabitants, and no sun–
- Series: Seedbank #1
- Author: Bazzett, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1571314687
- Language: English
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
$12.00 Add to cartA great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends…. [more below]
- Series: Penguin Epics #01
- Author: Sandars, N. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0141026286
- Language: English
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Greek Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Read moreA striking companion volume to Greek Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Ancient Greek culture, from its tribal beginnings to its foundational impact on modern life.
Gorgeous Collector- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Powell, Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1804175773
- Language: English
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All My Sons
$15.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Kell- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Miller, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0141185465
- Language: English
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Bacchae
$19.99 Add to cartA bold new translation of Euripides’ shockingly modern classic work, from Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson, with a new introduction by bestselling and award-winning writer, critic and trans
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0062319671
- Language: English
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The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments
$11.99 Add to cartEpicureanism is commonly regarded as the refined satisfaction of physical desires. As a philosophy, however, it also denoted the striving after an independent state of mind and body, imperturbability,… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Epicurus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0879758104
- Language: English
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How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers
$19.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero’s influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divine
Most ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods–from Jupite- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0691183651
- Language: English
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Birds and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis new verse translation of Aristophanes’ comedies offers one of the world’s great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes’ plays were p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555672
- Language: English
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Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle’s scientific researches, his discove… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #32
- Author: Barnes, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854089
- Language: English
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Nicomachean Ethics
$11.00 Read moreHailed by Dante as “the master of those who know,” the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) surveyed every field of learning known to the ancient world and pioneered the sciences of psychology a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 1998
- ISBN10: 486400964
- Language: English
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How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land
$16.95 Read moreA delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living–ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agriculture
Whether you farm or garden, live in th- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Usher, M. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691211744
- Language: English
