Ancient & Classical
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The Lais of Marie de France
$17.00 Add to cartThe leading edition of the work of the earliest known French woman poet–the subject of Lauren Groff’s bestselling novel Matrix
Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: France, Marie de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140447598
- Language: English
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The Prophet: Bilingual Spanish and English Edition
$10.00 Add to cartA bilingual Spanish and English edition of The Prophet, with Gibran’s original drawings, in t te-b che format. The book follows Gibran’s original 1923 first edition, complete with his drawings, and ha
- Author: Gibran, Khalil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1734114215
- Language: English
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Defending Socrates
$35.00 Read moreThe modern world began with a critique of ancient philosophy as unscientific and in a decisive attempt to progress beyond it. Over time, however, the promises of the early modern philosophers have bec
- Author: Priou, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 0881469149
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green
$21.18 Read moreThe Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapte… [more below]
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0520303369
- Language: English
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The Essential Marcus Aurelius
$15.00 Add to cartThis inaugural-and all new-Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius,… [more below]
- Series: Tarcher Cornerstone Editions
- Author: Needleman, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 10 2008
- ISBN10: 1585426172
- Language: English
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La Llamada del Coraje / Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
$21.95 Read moreLA LLAMADA DEL CORAJE NOS LLEGA A CADA UNO DE NOSOTROS UNA VEZ EN LA VIDA. SI NO RESPONDES T?, QUI?N LO HAR?? SI NO ES AHORA, CU?NDO?
Nada es posible sin la virtud del coraje. Desde los antiguos es- Series: Las Cuatro Virtudes Estoicas
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 6073815263
- Language: Spanish
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The Republic: The Influential Classic
$15.00 Add to cartThe newest deluxe edition in the bestselling Capstone Classics Series
This ancient classic has had a make-over. In recent years these Capstone Classic deluxe editions have caught the book buying publi
- Series: Capstone Classics #16
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0857083139
- Language: English
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The Complete Sophocles: Volume 1: The Theban Plays
$16.98 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tran… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Burian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388801
- Language: English
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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
$25.99 Add to cartFor more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho–the first woman writer in literary history–were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet thos
- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353826
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$12.95 Add to cartTwenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to clai… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198736479
- Language: English
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Bloodhoof
$15.49 Add to cartBloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem . It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerour Gymisdottir from a land of giants and the subsequ… [more below]
- Author: Kristný, Gerður
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: June 20 2012
- ISBN10: 1908376104
- Language: English
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
$22.99 Add to cartThrough National Book Award-winning translator Allen Mandelbaum’s poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature — classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from r… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0156001268
- Language: English
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Unbearable Splendor
$17.95 Add to cartFinalist for the Believer Poetry Award
“[her] work reads like redactions, offering fragments to be explored, investigated and interrogated, making her reader equal partner in the creation of meaning.”-
- Author: Shin, Sun Yung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1566894514
- Language: English
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The Poems of Catullus
$13.95 Add to cartOf all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal tone exerts a powerful … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Catullus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537577
- Language: English
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Writings from Ancient Egypt
$18.00 Read more‘Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away.
In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and stat
But writings make him remembered’- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0141395958
- Language: English
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The Stoic Mindset: Living the Ten Principles of Stoicism
$22.00 Read moreA ten-step guide to reaching your peak potential through the wisdom of Stoic philosophy by entrepreneur and Olympic champion speed skater Mark Tuitert.
For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the prin- Author: Tuitert, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250325277
- Language: English
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How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic
$16.95 Read moreAn energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politician
In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Repub- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212368
- Language: English
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Timaeus and Critias
$14.00 Add to cartTimaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story descri… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0140455043
- Language: English
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On Living and Dying Well
$18.00 Read morePhilosophical writings on “the good life” by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation
In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman, and defender of republican valu- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455566
- Language: English
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The Nature of Things
$22.00 Add to cartOne of a major new Classics series – books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.
Lucretius’ poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0141396903
- Language: English
