Ancient & Classical
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Stoicism for Dummies
$24.99 Read moreThe 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
- Author: Morris, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1394206275
- Language: English
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Politics
$12.95 Add to cartThe 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]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 15, 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538735
- Language: English
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Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic
$17.00 Add to cartAs 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
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How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor
$19.95 Add to cartTimeless 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- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0691206163
- Language: English
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The Symposium
$11.00 Add to cartA 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- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449272
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$9.99 Add to cart- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 144133985X
- Language: English
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How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers
$19.95 Add to cartAn 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- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691205272
- Language: English
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The Mahabharata
$21.00 Add to cartA 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
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First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
$19.99 Read more“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.
- Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 9, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062997467
- Language: English
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Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
$16.95 Add to cartStoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. Widely recognized as the most ta
- Author: Fideler, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036605
- Language: English
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The Nicomachean Ethics
$16.00 Add to cart“One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy”
Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle’s The Nicom- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0140449493
- Language: English
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Letters from a Stoic
$22.00 Add to cartA new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0141395850
- Language: English
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Medea
$5.00 Add to cartOne of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 19, 1993
- ISBN10: 0486275485
- Language: English
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Meditations
$25.00 Add to cartChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world’s finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and be
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1914602137
- Language: English
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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
$24.99 Add to cartOne of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the … [more below]
- Author: Irvine, William B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0195374614
- Language: English
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On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It
$15.00 Add to cartThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves–and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, ou… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036327
- Language: English
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Meditations: With Selected Correspondence
$9.94 Add to cartThe Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is one of the best-known and most popular works of ancient philosophy, offering spiritual reflections on how best to understand the universe and one’s place within i… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Marcus Aurelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0199573204
- Language: English
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How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well
$19.95 Add to cartAristotle’s essential guide to human flourishing–the Nicomachean Ethics–in a lively new abridged translation
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever wr- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0691238626
- Language: English
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The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartFrom 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- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105132
- Language: English
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
$15.00 Add to cartN. K. Sandars’s landmark translation of one of the first and greatest works of Western literature
A Penguin Classic
Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survive- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sandars, N. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 30 1960
- ISBN10: 014044100X
- Language: English
