Ancient & Classical

  • The Pocket Stoic

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    To counter the daily anxieties, stress, and emotional swings caused by the barrage of stimuli that plagues modern life, many people have been finding unexpected solace in a philosophy from a very diff… [more below]

    • Author: Sellars, John
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: October 06 2020
    • ISBN10: 022668296X
    • Language: English
  • Poetics

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    Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, and equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature

    In the Poetics, his near-contemporary account of classical Greek traged

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Aristotle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: March 01 1997
    • ISBN10: 0140446362
    • Language: English
  • Antigonick

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    Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles’ luminous and disturbing tragedy is h… [more below]

    • Author: Carson, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 51
    • Publish Date: May 29 2015
    • ISBN10: 0811222926
    • Language: English
  • By: Seneca

    How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly

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    How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others–and ourselves–more fairly and mercifully

    There are times when we’ve all felt that we haven’t been treated as we deserve–that we’ve been misju

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  • The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno

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    An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original

    A Penguin Classic

    This vigorous translation of Inferno

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    • Series: Divine Comedy
    • Author: Alighieri, Dante
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: December 31 2002
    • ISBN10: 0142437220
    • Language: English
  • Medea and Other Plays

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    Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society

    The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, b

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Euripides
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: August 30 1963
    • ISBN10: 0140441298
    • Language: English
  • Wrong Norma

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    Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris R[more below]

    • Author: Carson, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 0811230341
    • Language: English
  • By: Seneca

    How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

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    Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca

    “It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,” wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counsele

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  • By: Ovid

    Metamorphoses

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    Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn

    In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transforma

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Ovid
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 768
    • Publish Date: August 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 014044789X
    • Language: English
  • By: Homer

    The Iliad

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    THE WORLD’S GREATEST WAR NOVEL

    Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amid devastation and destruction. Perhaps the Western world’s first and best storyteller, Ho

    • Author: Homer
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: December 01, 2015
    • ISBN10: 0451474341
    • Language: English
  • Stoic Foundations: The Cornerstone Works of Stoicism

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    An essential guide to the core texts of Stoic philosophy, featuring a new introduction from Massimo Pigliucci, author of How To Be A Stoic

    Stoicism is a philosophy, a worldview, and a transformationa

    • Author: Aurelius, Marcus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: November 14, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0306834731
    • Language: English
  • Stoicism for Dummies

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    The philosophy that will help you become more resilient in the face of life’s challenges

    Stoicism For Dummies will teach you the basic principles of stoic philosophy and show you how it can help you n

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    • Author: Morris, Tom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: January 11 2024
    • ISBN10: 1394206275
    • Language: English
  • Politics

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    The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human socie… [more below]

  • Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic

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    As 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… [more below]

    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions
    • Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: December 14 2016
    • ISBN10: 0486811247
    • Language: English
  • How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor

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    Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience

    Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was t

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    • Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
    • Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 328
    • Publish Date: March 30 2021
    • ISBN10: 0691206163
    • Language: English
  • By: Plato

    The Symposium

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    A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever

    In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. F

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Plato
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: April 29 2003
    • ISBN10: 0140449272
    • Language: English
  • The Art of War

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    • Author: Tzu, Sun
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 18 2022
    • ISBN10: 144133985X
    • Language: English
  • How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers

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    An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle’s complete Poetics–the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories

    Aristotle’s Poetics is the most importa

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  • The Mahabharata

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    A new selection from the national epic of India

    Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata-with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse-is one of the longest p

    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Anonymous
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 912
    • Publish Date: July 01, 2009
    • ISBN10: 0140446818
    • Language: English
  • First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

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    “Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country.” — James Mattis, General, U.S.

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    • Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: November 9, 2021
    • ISBN10: 0062997467
    • Language: English
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