Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
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Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
$24.95 Read moreAlready a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the… [more below]
- Author: Gottlieb, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 30 2016
- ISBN10: 393352986
- Language: English
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A Summer Greek Reader: A Workbook for Maintaining Your Biblical Greek
$14.99 Add to cartA Summer Greek Reader is the first practical text specifically designed to help students of introductory Greek strengthen their grasp of the essentials over the summer.
By spending just twenty minutes
- Series: Workbook for Maintaining Your Biblical Greek
- Author: Goodrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 12 2001
- ISBN10: 0310236606
- Language: English
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Greek Lyric Poetry
$13.95 Add to cartThe Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.–greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides–produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. Their poetry was … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: West, M. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 019954039X
- Language: English
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The Oxford History of the Biblical World
$24.99 Add to cartIn this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts–the Bi… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0195139372
- Language: English
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Rome and a Villa
$19.99 Add to cart“These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water.” — The New Yorker
“Perhaps the
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Clark, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062363409
- Language: English
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Travels with Odysseus
$16.95 Add to cartTravels with Odysseus retells the earthy and profound adventures of the Greek hero Odysseus as teaching stories which hold insight and guidance for our own present day journey. On his winding odyssey,
- Author: Goldberg, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 30 2009
- ISBN10: 0976791501
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Commentaries: On The Gallic War and On The Civil War
$21.95 Add to cartThis complete edition of Caesar’s Commentaries contains all eight of Caesar’s books on the Gallic War as well as all three of his books on the Civil War masterfully translated into English by W. A. Ma
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0976072610
- Language: English
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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
$35.00 Add to cartJean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, the a… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299191
- Language: English
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The Story of Israel: A Biblical Theology
$39.99 Add to cartAmong the several prominent themes in the Bible, the story of Israel is one that has attracted recent attention and study. The biblical story of Israel–in its election, sin, exile and restoration–is
- Author: Pate, C. Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2004
- ISBN10: 083082748X
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Epicurus
$12.00 Add to cartDespite its modern-day connotations of hedonism, “Epicureanism” has more to do with living a mindful, uncomplicated life. Epicurus — who was born at Samos, Greece, in 341 BC and died at Athens in 270… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Epicurus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0486833038
- Language: English
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The Metamorphoses
$7.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid’s day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his own … [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0451531450
- Language: English
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The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher’s Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
$26.95 Add to cartSome people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately this is not the case. Stoicism offers us an alternative approach. Plum
- Author: Irvine, William B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 393652491
- Language: English
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Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes
$13.95 Add to cartAristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0192824090
- Language: English
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The Hindus: An Alternative History
$25.00 Add to cart“Don’t miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher.” –The Washington Post
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus- Author: Doniger, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 30 2010
- ISBN10: 014311669X
- Language: English
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Eclogues and Georgics
$29.95 Add to cartJames Bradley Wells combines creative practice and intimate knowledge of contemporary poetry and classical antiquity in this thought-provoking new translation of two early works by ancient Rome’s most… [more below]
- Author: Vergil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0299337405
- Language: English
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Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
$70.99 Add to cartThis outstanding book provides an in-depth historical study of the place of Jesus in the religious life, beliefs, and worship of Christians from the beginnings of the Christian movement down to the la… [more below]
- Author: Hurtado, Larry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0802831672
- Language: English
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The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization, Volume II
$44.99 Add to cartThe Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest of Greece. This is the
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 828
- Publish Date: April 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115558
- Language: English
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How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
$24.95 Read moreConceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on … [more below]
- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1631494406
- Language: English
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The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition
$18.95 Read moreA look at the close resemblance between the creation and structure of matter in both Dogon mythology and modern science
– Reveals striking similarities between Dogon symbols and those used in both the- Author: Scranton, Laird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1594771332
- Language: English
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The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate Volume 5
$23.99 Add to cart“The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth . . . and the ark floated on the face of the waters” (Gen 6:17-18 NRSV).
In
- Series: Lost World #5
- Author: Longman III, Tremper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 083085200X
- Language: English
