Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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The Echo Chamber: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFrom Michael Bazzett, poet and translator of The Popol Vuh, a collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining.
“Narcissus was never one to see himself
- Author: Bazzett, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1571315381
- Language: English
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Antiguas Civilizaciones: Una Fascinante GuÃa sobre la Historia de los Mayas, Aztecas y el Imperio Inca
$29.99 Add to cartExplore la cautivadora historia y mitolog a de tres civilizaciones antiguas
Tres manuscritos en un libro
- Civilizaci n Maya: Una gu a fascinante de la historia y la mitolog a maya
- Azteca: Una Gu a Fasc
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1647483999
- Language: Spanish
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An Introduction to Japanese Kanji Calligraphy
$24.95 Add to cartThis step-by-step Japanese calligraphy book explains the systems of Japanese language and delves into details of written Japanese characters and techniques of kanji calligraphy.
The word calligraphy l- Author: Takezaki, Kunii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 15 2008
- ISBN10: 4805309253
- Language: English
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Ages in Chaos II: Ramses II and His Time
$38.99 Add to cartIn his book “Ramses II and His Time”, Immanuel Velikovsky continues his reconstruction of ancient history. This volume covers the best-known of old Egypt’s pharaohs, Ramses II. Velikovsky points out h
- Series: Ages in Chaos #2
- Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1906833540
- Language: English
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The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O’Connor
$18.99 Add to cart“Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work i
- Series: Christian Encounters
- Author: Rogers, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1595550232
- Language: English
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The Popol Vuh
$12.95 Add to cartWhen the Spanish took over Central America in the 16th and 17th centuries they made certain to destroy the writings and holy books of the native Mayans in an effort to convert them to Christianity. Fe… [more below]
- Author: Spence, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 1585092363
- Language: English
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The Early Christians: From the Beginnings to Constantine
$70.83 Add to cartThe early Christians were by no means a homogeneous group, let alone a church. This is the fascinating story of the beliefs, practices and experience of individual Christians of antiquity, their relat… [more below]
- Series: Classical Scholarship in Translation
- Author: Leppin, Hartmut
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1316517233
- Language: English
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Enchiridion
$12.95 Add to cartA HANDBOOK FOR LIFE
The Enchiridion, or Handbook of Epictetus, is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice which was compiled by Arrian, who was a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1722503823
- Language: English
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History of Ancient Mexico: An Enthralling Guide to Pre-Columbian Mexico and Its Civilizations, Such as the Olmecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Tolte
$27.99 Add to cartChocolate, bouncy rubber balls, and the “Three Sisters” agricultural system-the people of ancient Mexico invented them all 3,600 years ago.
They also built the world’s largest pyramid by volume and the
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887652191
- Language: English
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Boudicca: The Warrior Queen
$14.99 Add to cartThis is the story of a British icon: Boudicca – humiliated widow of Prasutagus – who led British tribes into rage-fuelled war with the Roman Empire.
Boudicca is a legendary figure today, as the mother
- Author: Trow, M. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1839015373
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics
$63.75 Add to cartThis volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three ways: through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; and… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Hardcover)
- Author: Inwood, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: May 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0521779855
- Language: English
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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568
$63.75 Add to cartThis is a major survey of the barbarian migrations and their role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the creation of early medieval Europe, one of the key events in European history. Unlike previous … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
- Author: Halsall, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 614
- Publish Date: December 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0521435439
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
$38.50 Add to cartA unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar’s Legio X-arguably the most famous legion of its day-from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda an… [more below]
- Author: Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0471095702
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Human Race
$27.99 Add to cartWhy has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role o… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0393326454
- Language: English
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History of the Persian Empire
$33.00 Add to cartOut of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Books
- Author: Olmstead, A. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 670
- Publish Date: February 15 1959
- ISBN10: 0226627772
- Language: English
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Socrates: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSocrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have been u… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, C. C. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198835981
- Language: English
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The Complete Euripides: Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays
$16.98 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Tran… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Burian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0195388690
- Language: English
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The Complete Sophocles, Volume II: Electra and Other Plays
$16.98 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 20 2009
- ISBN10: 0195373308
- Language: English
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Essays
$16.00 Read moreSelections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world
Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selecti- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0140445641
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of the Myths: How Greek Mythology Can Change Your Life
$18.99 Add to cart“A marvelously wise and expansive book. . . . Ferry writes with warmth, wit, and energy; one could call his prose conversational, but it’s rare to have a conversation quite this wonderful.” — Boston
- Series: Learning to Live
- Author: Ferry, Luc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0062215450
- Language: English
