Ancient & Classical
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Conversations of Socrates
$17.00 Add to cartAfter the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenop… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 03 1990
- ISBN10: 014044517X
- Language: English
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Study of Sorrow: Translations
$22.00 Add to cartIn Study of Sorrow, Shangyang Fang breathes contemporary life into the poems of twenty-nine Song Dynasty Ci poets.
For many years, Song Dynasty Ci poetry has seemed eclipsed by the incandescence of Tan
- Author: Fang, Shangyang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1556597177
- Language: English
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Divine Egypt
$65.00 Add to cartA rare and captivating look at ancient Egyptian deities that demystifies their complex iconography to illuminate three millennia of life and religious practice
Ancient Egyptian religious practice flo- Author: Craig Patch, Diana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1588398048
- Language: English
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How to Be Caring: An Ancient Guide to a Compassionate Life
$17.95 Add to cartA vivid new translation of selections from an inspiring guide to self-transformation through kindness by an eighth-century Buddhist monk
Written by the medieval Indian Buddhist monk Shantideva, The Bo- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Shantideva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 069127407X
- Language: English
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Cymbeline
$14.00 Add to cart“I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is a… [more below]
- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140714723
- Language: English
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Las 48 Reglas de la Disciplina/ The 48 Rules of Discipline
$21.95 Add to cartDescubre las 48 reglas de la disciplina y apl?calas en tu d?a a d?a para alcanzar tu mejor vida.
C?mo mejorar?a tu vida si fueras m?s disciplinado? Te lo puedes imaginar? Qu? no ser?as capaz de int… [more below]- Author: Gallardo, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 8425368103
- Language: Spanish
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The Atlantis Dialogue: The Original Story of the Lost City, Civilization, Continent, and Empire
$19.80 Add to cartThe legend of Atlantis — you’ve heard about it, read about it, seen it in videos, shows, and movies. Now go straight to the source!
Atlantis was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Plato in two
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1620359006
- Language: English
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The Politics
$14.00 Add to cart“Man is by nature a political animal”
In The Politics Aristotle addresses the questions that lie at the heart of political science. How should society be ordered to ensure the happiness of the individu
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 19 1981
- ISBN10: 0140444211
- Language: English
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Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings
$24.95 Add to cart“Unearthing the ancient world’s anarchist cultures, Zeichmann presents a compelling argument that authority may itself have always been the real aberration. Highly recommended” – Alan Moore, writer, a
- Author: Zeichmann, Christopher B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745350399
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatorio
$19.00 Add to cartIn Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to … [more below]
- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140448969
- Language: English
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The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
$25.00 Add to cartChicago’s renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume.
Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844692
- Language: English
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Dante: The Essential Commedia
$35.00 Add to cartThe Commedia, Dante’s epic story of one man’s journey from the darkness and terror of hell to the revelation of divine light in heaven, is one of the greatest works of Western literature, but it can s… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096209
- Language: English
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The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook
$18.95 Add to cart“Remarkable.”–Wall Street Journal
A thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928463
- Language: English
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Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat.
$31.00 Add to cartIn this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.
Of all the stoic virtues – courage, discipline, ju- Series: The Stoic Virtues
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217168941
- Language: English
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Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
$30.00 Add to cartThe life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism–“a rich, engaging portrait of i… [more below]
- Author: Kuin, Inger N. I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606477
- Language: English
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Medea
$8.14 Add to cartAbout Sheila Murnaghan’s translation
“A terrific new translation–Murnaghan’s Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers.”
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- Series: Norton Library (Paperback) #0
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393870847
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse
$30.00 Add to cartA window onto the past, full of fire and life: two immortal traditions as the English language has never seen them before
A Penguin Classic The poets in this book are philosophers and statesmen; pries- Author: Childers, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0141392134
- Language: English
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How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship
$17.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy–a moving classic about facing life’s worst events with courage and hope
What do you do when yo- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Boethius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 069125916X
- Language: English
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Why Plato Matters Now
$22.00 Add to cartProfessor Angie Hobbs proves in this persuasive and intelligent book that Plato is more relevant than ever.
Does Plato matter? An ancient philosopher whose work has inspired and informed countless thi- Series: Interfaces
- Author: Hobbs, Angie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1399403370
- Language: English
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Paradiso
$22.95 Add to cartA new translation of the final part of Dante’s Divine Comedy by a poet and psychoanalyst praised for his previous translation of Dante’s Purgatorio.
Paradiso brings The Divine Comedy to a virtuosic an- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379430
- Language: English
