Ancient & Classical
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Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World Through the Women Written Out of It
$30.00 Add to cartWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. T- Author: Hauser, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839680
- Language: English
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The Odyssey
$39.00 Read moreA landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic by distinguished author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.
In 1961, the University of Chicago Press published Richmond Lattimore’s translation o- Author: Homer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 09 2025
- ISBN10: 022660442X
- Language: English
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The Magpie at Night: The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao (1084-1151)
$18.00 Add to cartA luminous new translation of the greatest woman poet in Chinese history, highlighting Li Qingzhao’s iconoclastic verse and showcasing her visionary portrait of the inner workings of the artist’s mind
- Author: Qingzhao, Li
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0374612757
- Language: English
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On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic
$14.99 Add to cart- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1907312544
- Language: English
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Meditaciones: Marco Aurelio (Edici?n de Regalo) / Marcus Aurelius Meditations (G I FT Edition)
$23.95 Add to cartLa edici?n de lujo, maravillosamente ilustrada, del bestseller m?s estoico.
Una invitaci?n a desprendernosde lo incontrolable y tomar las riendas de lo que s? depende de nosotros para convertirnos e… [more below]- Author: Aurelio, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 8430626956
- Language: Spanish
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What Is Stoicism?: A Brief and Accessible Overview
$16.95 Add to cartAn easy, jargon-free introduction to stoicism that covers the full range of stoic thought in a single compact volume
Divided into short chapters that can be read in brief sittings, What Is Stoicism?- Author: Campbell, Tanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1608689441
- Language: English
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How to Eat: An Ancient Guide for Healthy Living
$17.95 Add to cartA delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well
Today, we’re stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging,- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Bubb, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691256993
- Language: English
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How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers
$17.95 Add to cartExplore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato’s great dramatic work, the Symposium
What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, l- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691256888
- Language: English
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The Flame of Love: Rumi’s 100 Most Passionate Poems
$22.99 Add to cartA smoldering collection of 100 love poems by master poet Rumi that will set fire to even the iciest of hearts. Accompanied by illuminating commentary throughout, The Flame of Love explores the depths… [more below]
- Author: Rumi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887621067
- Language: English
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Ser Justo En Un Mundo Injusto / Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Charac Ter. Good Deeds.
$21.95 Add to cart«Ryan Holiday ha llevado las antiguas ense?anzas del estoicismo a millones de lectores, desde atletas y pol?ticos hasta directores ejecutivos . –Good Morning America
Una poderosa llamada a la ac… [more below]- Series: Las 4 Virtudes Estoicas
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 841799288X
- Language: Spanish
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How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go
$17.95 Add to cartInviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion–and why giving it up can free us from suffering
From self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the s- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Garfield, Jay L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691252637
- Language: English
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The Shadows of Socrates: The Heresy, War, and Treachery Behind the Trial of Socrates
$29.95 Read moreThe death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, revealing for the first time how the philosopher was set … [more below]
- Author: Gatton, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365826
- Language: English
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Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
$17.00 Read moreFresh, new translations of Sophocles’s three Theban plays by acclaimed theater director Bryan Doerries, which emphasize the contemporary relevance of these classic Greek tragedies.
Here are Oedipus th- Author: Sophocle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314956
- Language: English
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
$10.95 Add to cartIn 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or “rub?iy?t”) of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayy?m. If not a true translation–his Omar seems to have read Shakespea… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Fitzgerald, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0199580502
- Language: English
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Gateway to the Stoics: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Epictetus’s Enchiridion, and Selections from Seneca’s Letters
$18.00 Add to cartThe one book you need to master stoic philosophy!
This classic collection, newly revised and with a foreword by classicist Spencer Klavan, includes the famed original introduction by Russell Kirk, the- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514002
- Language: English
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Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartStoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-or… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Inwood, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198786662
- Language: English
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Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation
$23.99 Add to cartFirst appearing around 1400, The Death of King Arthur is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems penned in Middle English. While it is more than six centuries old, this mag… [more below]
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343537
- Language: English
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Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold
$10.95 Add to cartPlautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors and Moliere’s the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus h… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plautus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954056X
- Language: English
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Death and the Maiden
$15.00 Add to cart“Suspenseful, riveting . . . Achieves a universality that is movingly personal.” —The New York Times
The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a tot… [more below]- Series: Penguin Plays
- Author: Dorfman, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140246843
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$9.99 Read moreThe Art of War by general and philosopher Sun Tzu is an influential book of strategy that has found applications in countless situations beyond the war room.
More than 2,000 years old, this classic o… [more below]- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1435171624
- Language: English
