Category - Literary Collections
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Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn--as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy--wa...
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Terence: Andria
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /As the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after a...
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Peter Abelard was a Medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer, and musician. Heloise was his young stude...
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The Oresteia
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes an...
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The Scarlet Letter: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Jane Eyre. Frankenstein. The Scarlet Letter. You're familiar with these pillars of classic literature. You have seen plenty of Frankenstein costume...
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Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths "This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."--Alexander McCall Sm...
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The Nicomachean Ethics
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the import...
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The Pocket Epicurean
HardcoverOriginal price $12.50 - Original price $12.50Original price $12.50$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /A short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus. As long as there has been human life, we've searched for what it m...
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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /There is much speculation about where and how Jesus spent his twenties. The bible does not tell us anything about his life during this time. This b...
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The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A stunning set of Homer's epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar. Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green's l...
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Crime and Punishment
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!" A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment ...
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three pl...
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The Syriac Legend of Alexander's Gate: Apocalypticism at the Crossroads of Byzantium and Iran
HardcoverOriginal price $83.00 - Original price $83.00Original price $83.00$99.99$99.99 - $99.99Current price $99.99| /The Syriac text entitled Neshana d-Aleksandros (also known as Syriac Alexander Legend) is a seminal text for late Christian and Muslim apocalyptic ...
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History Of Famous Orators: Accomplished Speaker
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Cicero is considered to be Rome's greatest orator and prose writer. His writing is some of the best classical Latin still in existence. Cicero intr...
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The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping h...
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Carmina Latina Epigraphica IV
HardcoverOriginal price $160.99 - Original price $160.99Original price $160.99$194.99$194.99 - $194.99Current price $194.99| /The purpose of this edition is to take up Buecheler's admirable sylloge of Carmina Latina Epigraphica (1895-1926, 3 volumes). Since 1926 many new L...
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Libri I-III.73
HardcoverOriginal price $91.99 - Original price $91.99Original price $91.99$114.99$114.99 - $114.99Current price $114.99| /Athenaeus' Deipnosophists (The Learned Banqueters) is a major Imperial period Greek text in and of itself, but also a source of thousands of fragme...
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The New World of Islam
PaperbackOriginal price $15.96 - Original price $15.96Original price $15.96$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The New World of Islam, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we hav...
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The Georgics: a Chinese translation
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This is a Chinese translation of Vergil's classic Latin poem the Georgics.描绘天地之变,穿越生死之间;向着女神,述说着无尽的爱恋。古罗马诗人维吉尔的不朽诗篇,《农事诗》历经两千年的积淀,终于来到了Seres丝国人的嘴边。...
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Meditations: Complete and Unabridged
PaperbackOriginal price $4.50 - Original price $4.50Original price $4.50$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /Completely unabridged, with a new foreword written by Huffington Post writer Carolyn Gregoire, this publication of Meditations is an all-encompassi...
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The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocle...
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The Annals of Imperial Rome
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and ins...
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheu...
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Medea and Other Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $11.00 - Original price $11.00Original price $11.00$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides' Medea and Other Plays is tra...
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