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Ancient Egyptian Literature : An Anthology
John L. Foster
Paperback - $35.95
"Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge; approach the unlettered as well as the wise. The summit of artistry cannot be reached, nor does craftsman ever attain pure mastery. More hidden than gems is chiseled expression yet found among slave girl ...
Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France
Marie de France
Paperback - $15.95
Captivating variations on Arthurian myths and other stories of magic and mystery appear in this collection of the best works of the Middle Ages' greatest female author. Two additional famous medieval romances, "A Story of Beyond the Sea" and "The Cha ...
Stratagems. Aqueducts of Rome
Sextus Julius Frontinus
Hardcover - $52.95
Frontinus, Sextus Iulius, ca. AD 35– 103, was a capable Roman civil officer and military commander. Praetor of the city in 70 and consul in 73 or 74, 98 and 100, he was, about the year 76, sent to Britain as governor. He quelled the Silures of W ...
Correspondence, I
Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Hardcover - $52.95
The literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (ca. AD 100-176) first came to light in 1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, discovered that beneath an account of the Acts of the first Council of Ch ...
Mahabharata Book Four : Virata
Kathleen Garbutt
Hardcover - $48.95
"The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance." — Willi ...
Attic Nights Books 14-20
Aulus Gellius
Hardcover - $52.95
Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123- 170) is known almost wholly from his "Noctes Atticae," 'Attic Nights', so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is extant) interesti ...
Books 1-5
Aulus Gellius
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Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123- 170) is known almost wholly from his "Noctes Atticae," 'Attic Nights', so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is extant) interesti ...
Books 6-13
Aulus Gellius
Hardcover - $52.95
Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123- 170) is known almost wholly from his "Noctes Atticae," 'Attic Nights', so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is extant) interesti ...
Homer : The Resonance of Epic
Barbara Graziosi
Paperback - $66.95
Offers interpretations of the main aspects of Homeric epic: the gods and fate, gender and society, death, fame, and poetry
The Fragments of Heracleon
Heracleon
Hardcover - $162.95
Only fragments of the writings of the Gnostic teacher Heracleon, a disciple of Valentinus who flourished around 145-180 A.D, survive and primarily in quotations in Origen's commentary on the Gospel of Saint John. This book gives an edition of the sur ...