Ancient & Classical
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The Aeneid of Virgil
$6.95 Add to cartAeneas 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
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Gorgias
$8.94 Add to cartOne 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]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540322
- Language: English
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The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation
$23.33 Add to cartAnger 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
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Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall
$14.93 Add to cartOne 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
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The Oresteia
$17.00 Add to cartIn 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
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The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
$17.99 Add to cartInside 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
- Author: Barks, Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0060604522
- Language: English
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Classical Tragedy Greek and Roman: Eight Plays with Critical Essays
$29.98 Add to cartA 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
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An Oresteia
$19.00 Add to cartIn 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
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 086547916X
- Language: English
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Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry
$8.95 Add to cartAcross 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]
- Series: Wooden Books North America Editions
- Author: Sutton, Daud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1952178053
- Language: English
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Meditations
$10.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
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- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1668050803
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
$32.00 Add to cart“This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history’s greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing exce
- Author: Robertson, Donald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250196620
- Language: English
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
$58.33 Read moreFrom the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0691222363
- Language: English
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The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set
$65.00 Add to cartA stunning set of Homer’s epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar.
Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green’s landmark translations of Homer’s timeless epics are no- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1145
- Publish Date: May 31 2019
- ISBN10: 0520306651
- Language: English
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Love Poems of Catullus
$13.95 Add to cartCatullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting instants of his bare psyche:… [more below]
- Author: Catullus, Gaius Valerius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0811237494
- Language: English
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Majnun and Layla: Songs from Beyond the Grave
$29.99 Add to cartThe classic Persian poem of romance and tragedy captured as a sumptuous and richly colorful graphic novel, inspired by traditional art of the region.
Winner of the prestigious Prix Orange de la bande- Author: Damezin, Yann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1643379488
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: A Dramatic Retelling of Homer’s Epic
$14.95 Read moreIn this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer’s epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Capta… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330818
- Language: English
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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
$19.00 Add to cartA powerful version of the Latin classic by England’s late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.
When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as t- Author: Hughes, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30, 1999
- ISBN10: 0374525870
- Language: English
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The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids
$39.95 Add to cartNoted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy from the ancient world: the thirty-seven teachings an
- Author: Manley, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0500252327
- Language: English
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How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism
$18.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity
The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who sto- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Diogenes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691229856
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$18.00 Add to cart“Fitzgerald’s [translation] is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come.” —New York Review of Books
Virgil’s- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 16 1990
- ISBN10: 0679729526
- Language: English
