Ancient & Classical

  • Meditations (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

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    Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is one of the greatest philosophical works of all time.

    A collection of personal reflections written by Marcus Aurelius during his reign as one of Rome’s greatest empero… [more below]

    • Author: Aurelius, Marcus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 132
    • Publish Date: March 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 1959891472
    • Language: English
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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    The inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel.

    ‘Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;
    Seek faithfully till you find me …’

    A New Year’s feast at King A

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Anonymous
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 30 1959
    • ISBN10: 0140440925
    • Language: English
  • By: Plato

    Phaedo

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    The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato’s masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the… [more below]

  • By: Virgil

    The Aeneid

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    From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil’s great epic

    Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Virgil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: December 28 2010
    • ISBN10: 0143106295
    • Language: English
  • The Poetic Edda: The Heroic Poems

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    Passed down long ago from poet to poet and singer to singer in the great oral tradition of Scandinavia, this collection of heroic sagas explores a mythical world. Incorporating legends of Norse gods a… [more below]

    • Author: Bellows, Henry Adams
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 30 2007
    • ISBN10: 0486460215
    • Language: English
  • How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness

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    Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world

    The second-century Greek physician Galen–the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hi

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    • Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    • Author: Van Schaik, Katherine D.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: January 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 0691206279
    • Language: English
  • Bacchae and Other Plays: Iphigenia Among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus

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    The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Blac… [more below]

  • Troilus and Criseyde

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    Chaucer’s masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This is … [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 0199555079
    • Language: English
  • The Art of War

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    Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.’
    – Sun Tzu

    Written around the 6th century BC, The Art of War is one of the oldest and most famous books on

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    • Series: Arcturus Silkbound Classics
    • Author: Tzu, Sun
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: March 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1398827401
    • Language: English
  • Bathhouse and Other Tanka

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    “Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being,” writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilarating new collection of poetry Bathhouse and Other Tanka…. [more below]

    • Author: Tatsuhiko, Ishii
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0811231348
    • Language: English
  • By: Virgil

    The Aeneid of Virgil

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    Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world–as literature as well. Virgil’s Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arm… [more below]

    • Series: Bantam Classics
    • Author: Virgil
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: September 01 1981
    • ISBN10: 0553210416
    • Language: English
  • By: Plato

    Gorgias

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    One of Plato’s most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosoph… [more below]

  • The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation

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    Anger be now your song, immortal one,
    Akhilleus’ anger, doomed and ruinous,
    that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
    and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
    leaving so many dead men-carrion
    for

    • Author: Fitzgerald, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 640
    • Publish Date: April 03, 2004
    • ISBN10: 0374529051
    • Language: English
  • Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall

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    One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate p… [more below]

    • Series: Plays for Performance
    • Author: Sophocles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 56
    • Publish Date: November 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 1566632110
    • Language: English
  • The Oresteia

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    In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to… [more below]

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Aeschylus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 335
    • Publish Date: February 07 1984
    • ISBN10: 0140443339
    • Language: English
  • The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems

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    Inside A Lover’s Heart There’s Another World, And Yet Another

    Rumi’s masterpieces have inspired countless people throughout the centuries, and Coleman Barks’s exquisite renderings of the thirteenth-ce

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    • Author: Barks, Coleman
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: September 17 2002
    • ISBN10: 0060604522
    • Language: English
  • Classical Tragedy Greek and Roman: Eight Plays with Critical Essays

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    A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: The Oresteia – Aeschylus; Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus; Oedipus the King – Sophocles; Antigone – Sophocles; Medea – Eurip… [more below]

    • Series: Applause Books
    • Author: Various Authors
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 568
    • Publish Date: April 01 2000
    • ISBN10: 1557830460
    • Language: English
  • An Oresteia

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    In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus — A iskhylos’ Agamemnon, Sophokles’ Elektra and Euripides’ Orestes. After the murder

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    • Author: Carson, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 02 2010
    • ISBN10: 086547916X
    • Language: English
  • Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry

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    Across the Islamic world, illuminating Korans from Morocco to Malaysia, and adorning mosques, mausoleums and palaces, are hidden some of the most exquisite geometrical devices ever conceived by man. I… [more below]

  • Meditations

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    A powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius’s timeless book on character, what it takes to be a good leader, and how to live a fulfilling life.

    Marcus Aurelius ruled t

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    • Author: Aurelius, Marcus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1668050803
    • Language: English
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