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Last Days of Socrates

By: Plato

Price: $2.50

Publisher: December 2013

Seller ID: 47207

ISBN: 0140440372

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The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro; The Apology; Crito; Phaedo (Penguin Classics)

By: Plato,

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: December 1993

Seller ID: 75450

ISBN: 014044582X

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Socrates spent a lifetime analyzing ethical issues, and the Euthyphro finds him outside the court-house, still debating the nature of piety with an arrogant acquaintance. The Apology is both a robust rebuttal to the charges of impiety and corrupting young minds and a definitive defence of the philosopher's life. Later, condemned and imprisoned in the Crito, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. And finally, in the Phaedo, Plato shows him calmly confident in the face of death, skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul. Such works, as Harold Tarrant ex...
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Pot of Gold and Other Plays

By: Plautus

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Publisher: April 2011

Seller ID: 370955

ISBN: 0140441492

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Plautus's broad humor, shown in some of the earliest surviving Latin plays, reflects Roman manners and contemporary life. This briliant collection includes: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus), and Pseudolus.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and ...
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Lives of the Noble Greeks

By: Plutarch

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Publisher: October 2009

Seller ID: 47904

ISBN: 44006938125

Binding: Unknown

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Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives

By: Plutarch

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2013

Seller ID: 242105

ISBN: 0140441026

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander.

The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives (Penguin Classics)

By: Plutarch,

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Publisher: Penguin Classics: October 1965

Seller ID: 123283

ISBN: 0140441581

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Nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen

The lives of the statesmen featured in this collection span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include prominent figures who achieved fame for their pivotal roles in Roman history, such as soldierly Marcellus, eloquent Cato and cautious Fabius. Here too are vivid portraits of ambitious, hot-tempered Coriolanus; objective, principled Brutus and open-hearted Mark Anthony, who would l...
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Art & Experience Classical Greece

By: Pollitt, Jerome Jordan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: March 1972

Seller ID: 371114

ISBN: 0521096626

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An account of the development of Greek art in the Classical period (about 480-320 BC) which places particular emphasis on the meaning and content of Greek sculpture, architecture and painting. Professor Pollitt reminds us that the visual arts in Greece, as elsewhere, were primarily vehicles of expression. He does not ignore formal development but always relates this to social and cultural history, which it reflected and from which it grew. While his subject is art, he refers frequently to the literature and philosophy of the period which were shaped by the same influences.
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Rise of the Roman Empire

By: Polybuis

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Seller ID: 351887

ISBN: 0140443622

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The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal and the final destruction of Carthage. An active participant of the politics of his time as well as a friend of many prominent Roman citizens, Polybius drew on many eyewitness accounts in writing this cornerston...
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Exploring Exodus: The Heritage of Biblical Israel

By: Sarna, Nahum M.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2011

Seller ID: 167634

ISBN: 0805208305

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Applies aspects of contemporaneous Middle Eastern cultures and languages and recent archaeological discoveries in an examination of the Book of Exodus and its originality as a text of religious imagination.
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Four Tragedies and Octavia (Penguin Classics)

By: Seneca,

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Publisher: Penguin Classics: October 1966

Seller ID: 363070

ISBN: 0140441743

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra portrays a woman tormented by fatal passion for her stepson. In The Trojan Women, the widowed Hecuba and Andromache await their fates at the hands of the conquering Greeks, and Oedipus follows the downfall of the royal House of Thebes. Octavia is a grim commenta...
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As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History, 2nd Edition

By: Shelton, Jo-Ann

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: 405209

ISBN: 019508974X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from personal letters, farming manuals, medical texts, and recipes to poetry, graffiti, and tombstone inscriptions. Each selection has been translated into readable, contemporary English. This edition includes more than 50 additional selections that introduce new topics and expand coverage of existing topics...
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Literature of Ancient Egypt, The: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetry

By: Simpson, William Kelly

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Seller ID: 399651

ISBN: 0300017111

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the texts as well as some twenty-five new entries, including writings from the late literature of the Demotic period at the end of classical Egyptian history. The book also includes an extensive bibliography.
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Mysteries of Egypt: Secret Rites and Traditions, The

By: Spence, Lewis

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Seller ID: 399643

ISBN: 0486443698

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This outstanding study examines the origin and philosophy of Egyptian rituals, their transplantation to other cultures, and their surviving vestiges. Among the topics covered: funerary rites intended to help equip departed souls for a higher, more exalted spiritual existence; transmigration of the soul; and the rites of rebirth.
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Spartacus Road A Journey Through Ancient Italy

By: Stothard, Peter

Price: $5.50

Seller ID: 360443

ISBN: 1590203232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Today, his struggle is widely perceived as the fight for freedom, but this hasn t always been the case; the ancient Romans were embarrassed by Spartacus s victories over them; the Greeks admired him; and others viewed his uprisings as the embodiment of cruelty. In this fascinating and original work, Stothard retraces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels, taking us back to an ancient world which confronted similar issues to those we face today
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The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)

By: Suetonius,

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Publisher: Penguin Classics: June 1957

Seller ID: 47001

ISBN: 0140440720

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Covering the Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, this remains one of the richest and most fascinating of all Latin histories. Suetonius gathered much of his information from eye-witnesses, checking his facts carefully and quoting conflicting evidence without bias. But his history is also the most vivid and the raciest account we have of scandalous and amusing incidents in the domestic lives of the first Caesars.
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The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)

By: Suetonius,

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Publisher: Penguin Classics: May 2003

Seller ID: 154858

ISBN: 0140449213

Binding: Trade Paperback

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As private secretary to the Emporer Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye-witness accounts ) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero, and the recovery and stability that came with his successors. A masterpiece of anecdote, wry observation and detailed physical description, this text present...
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How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

By: Suetonius,

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Princeton University Press: February 2020

Seller ID: 442169

ISBN: 0691193991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lea
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Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

By: Suetonius/Bird, H.M.

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Seller ID: 379678

ISBN: 185326475X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Translated by H.M. Bird With an Introduction by Tamsyn Barton.

Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detail a great range of aspects illuminating the emperor's characters, their habits, from table to bedchamber - their intrigues, their loves and their deaths.

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Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Tacitus

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Seller ID: 395875

ISBN: 019282421X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Here is a lively new translation of Cornelius Tacitus' timeless history of three of Rome's most memorable emperors. Tacitus, who condemns the depravity of these rulers, which he saw as proof of the corrupting force of absolute power, writes caustically of the brutal and lecherous Tiberius, the weak and cuckolded Claudius, and "the artist" Nero. In particular, his gripping account of the bloody reigns of Tiberius and Nero brims with plots, murder, poisoning, suicide, uprisings, death, and destruction. The Annals also provides a vivid account of the violent suppression of the revolt led...
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History of the Peloponnesian War (Translated by Richard Crawley)

By: Thucydides

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Seller ID: 377846

ISBN: 1420956418

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Commonly acknowledged as one of the earliest first-hand written accounts of history, this classic work chronicles the war between Athens and Sparta during the fifth century B.C. Its author, Thucydides, dispassionately and accurately describes the events of this ancient Greek war in a strict chronology which includes the causes of the conflict, descriptions of battlefield strategy, political opinions, and all other aspects of the war in the brilliant detail of an intellectual and observant eyewitness. Himself an Athenian general who served in the war, Thucydides relates the invasions, treach...
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Category: Ancient History