Ancient & Classical
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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
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Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming
$22.00 Read moreNavigating the uncertainty of a divided China wracked by warfare and corruption, Tao Yuanming’s poetry–expertly translated by Red Pine–chooses the path walked by China’s ancient sages, finding joy i… [more below]
- Author: Yuanming, Tao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596723
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$38.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 HAROLD MORTON LANDON TRANSLATION AWARD
The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its represe- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 525505997
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King
$6.99 Add to cartThe famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.
A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Fre- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1416500332
- Language: English
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Meditations
$14.99 Add to cartThe Meditations are a set of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius. He writes about the vicissitudes of his own life and explores how to live wisely and virtuously in an unpredictable world.
Part of- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1529015022
- Language: English
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Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments
$39.95 Add to cartRome wasn’t built in a day, but over several centuries and under many different emperors. This story of continual creation and renewal lies at the heart of Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments. Rome’s hist
- Author: Roberts, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 500025681
- Language: English
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How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
$20.00 Read moreNicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past.
What is the nature of things?
What is justice? How can I be myself?
How should we treat each o- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338166
- Language: English
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Meditations
$19.99 Add to cartDelve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Meditationswith an introduction by Pierre Baumann.
The personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from- Series: Timeless Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1577154614
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
$29.99 Add to cartWhen Michael Palma’s translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante’s intricate terza rima form simply could not… [more below]
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095547
- Language: English
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The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World: The Great Monuments and How They Were Built
$16.95 Read moreHow were the ancient wonders of the world built? How many people did it take to build the Great Wall of China or the Sphinx at Giza? The Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World answers these and many mor
- Author: Scarre, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 050029707X
- Language: English
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The Way, the Enemy, and the Key: A Boxed Set of the Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy & Stillness Is the Key
$82.00 Add to cartA timeless trilogy of the extraordinary bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday, now available with the 10th anniversary edition of The Obstacle… [more below]
- Author: Holiday, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217044214
- Language: English
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The Interpretation of Dreams
$13.95 Add to cart‘Dreams are products of the mind, and do not come from any external source’
Artemidorus’ The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica) is the richest and most vivid pre-Freudian account of dream interp- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Artemidorus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0198797958
- Language: English
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de Anima (on the Soul)
$17.00 Read moreFor the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 1987
- ISBN10: 0140444718
- Language: English
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Prisse d’Avennes. Egyptian Art
$29.17 Add to cartA lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Th?dore-?mile Prisse d’Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most influential
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Ikram, Salima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 3836565005
- Language: English
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The Satires
$11.95 Add to cartCommonly considered the greatest of Roman satirical poets, Juvenal is the author of sixteen satires of Roman society, notable for their pessimism and ironic humor. In this new translation of the Satir… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Juvenal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540667
- Language: English
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Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology
$12.95 Add to cart‘Who would you say knows himself?’
In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contempo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0198856091
- Language: English
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The Nature of the Gods
$13.95 Add to cartCicero’s philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest and more generous appreciation, in part because they provide vital evidence of the views of the (largely lost) Greek philosophers of the … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540063
- Language: English
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The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
$14.95 Add to cartAristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Western philosophers developed theories of the world which express simultaneously their sense of wonder and their intuition that the wo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Waterfield, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953909X
- Language: English
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The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
$15.95 Add to cartDrawing on recent advances in Egyptology, R. B. Parkinson’s new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1940-1640 BC). … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Parkinson, R. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555621
- Language: English
