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Aeschylusby Aeschylus, Herbert Weir SmythISBN 0674991605 (0-674-99160-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus'Book summary:Aeschylus (ca. 525456 BCE), author of the first tragedies existing in European literature, was an Athenian born at Eleusis. He served at Marathon against Darius in 490, and again during Xerxes' invasion, 480479. Between 478 and 467 he visited Sicily, there composing by request Women of Aetna. At Athens he competed in production of plays more than twenty times, and was rewarded on at least thirteen occasions, becoming dominant between 500 and 458 through the splendour of his language and his dramatic conceptions and technique.
Of his total of 8090 plays seven survive complete. The Persians (472), the only surviving Greek historical drama, presents the failure of Xerxes to conquer Greece. Seven against Thebes (467) was the second play of its trilogy of related plays on the evil fate of the Theban House. Polyneices tries to regain Thebes from his brother Eteocles; both are killed. In Suppliant Maidens, the first in a trilogy, the daughters of Danaus arrive with him at Argos, whose King and people save them from the wooing of the sons of their uncle Aegyptus. In Prometheus Bound, first or second play of its trilogy about Prometheus, he is nailed to a crag, by order of Zeus, for stealing fire from heaven for men. Defiant after visitors' sympathy and despite advice, he descends in lightning and thunder to Hell. The Oresteia (458), on the House of Atreus, is the only Greek trilogy surviving complete. In Agamemnon, the King returns from Troy, and is murdered by his wife Clytaemnestra. In Libation-Bearers, Orestes with his sister avenges their father Agamemnon's death by counter-murder. In Eumenides, Orestes, harassed by avenging Furies, is arraigned by them at Athens for matricide. Tried by a court set up by Athena, he is absolved, but the Furies are pacified.
We publish in Volume I four plays; and in Volume II the Oresteia and some fragments of lost plays.
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Aeschylus IIby AeschylusISBN 0674991613 (0-674-99161-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus II'Book summary:Aeschylus (ca. 525456 BCE), author of the first tragedies existing in European literature, was an Athenian born at Eleusis. He served at Marathon against Darius in 490, and again during Xerxes' invasion, 480479. Between 478 and 467 he visited Sicily, there composing by request Women of Aetna. At Athens he competed in production of plays more than twenty times, and was rewarded on at least thirteen occasions, becoming dominant between 500 and 458 through the splendour of his language and his dramatic conceptions and technique.
Of his total of 8090 plays seven survive complete. The Persians (472), the only surviving Greek historical drama, presents the failure of Xerxes to conquer Greece. Seven against Thebes (467) was the second play of its trilogy of related plays on the evil fate of the Theban House. Polyneices tries to regain Thebes from his brother Eteocles; both are killed. In Suppliant Maidens, the first in a trilogy, the daughters of Danaus arrive with him at Argos, whose King and people save them from the wooing of the sons of their uncle Aegyptus. In Prometheus Bound, first or second play of its trilogy about Prometheus, he is nailed to a crag, by order of Zeus, for stealing fire from heaven for men. Defiant after visitors' sympathy and despite advice, he descends in lightning and thunder to Hell. The Oresteia (458), on the House of Atreus, is the only Greek trilogy surviving complete. In Agamemnon, the King returns from Troy, and is murdered by his wife Clytaemnestra. In Libation-Bearers, Orestes with his sister avenges their father Agamemnon's death by counter-murder. In Eumenides, Orestes, harassed by avenging Furies, is arraigned by them at Athens for matricide. Tried by a court set up by Athena, he is absolved, but the Furies are pacified.
We publish in Volume I four plays; and in Volume II the Oresteia and some fragments of lost plays.
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Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Boundby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812216717 (0-8122-1671-7)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound'Book summary:The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander.
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This final volume of the tragedies of Aeschylus relates the historic defeat and dissolution of the Persian Empire on the heels of Xerxes disastrous campaign to subdue Greece, the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the throne of Thebes, the story of fifty daughters who seek asylum from their uncle, the king of Egypt, because of his demand that they marry his sons, and the well-known tale of the proud and unrepentant Prometheus, who is chained to a massive rock for revealing fire and hope to humankind.
Translations are by David Slavitt (Persians), Stephen Sandy (Seven Against Thebes), Gail Holst-Warhaft (The Suppliants), and William Matthews (Prometheus Bound).More editions of Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliants, Prometheus Bound:
Age of Fableby Thomas BulfinchISBN 0804900809 (0-8049-0080-9)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Age of God-Kings: Time Frame--3000-1500 Bcby Time-Life BooksISBN 0809464004 (0-8094-6400-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Age of God-Kings: Time Frame--3000-1500 Bc'Book summary:Magazine Size Hardcover without dustjacket as issued. 176 pages. Contains: The Kingdom on the Nile, The Ziggurats of Ur, Master Builders in the Indus Valley, Lords of the Labyrinth, Yellow River Dynasties, and The Sacred Megaliths. Maps, Color Illustrations, and Photographs throughout. [via]
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Alexander the Greatby Robin Lane FoxISBN 071390500X (0-7139-0500-X)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander the Great'Book summary:Robin Lane Fox's accessible and erudite life of Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on the living actuality of the man and his experience--'It is tempting', he concludes, 'to see in Alexander the romantic's complex nature for the first time in Greek history.' Beautifully written perceptive and fluent, it is a superb example of historical scholarship and psychological insight. [via]
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Ancient Egyptby Robert Nicholson, Claire WattsISBN 0791027287 (0-7910-2728-7)
Softcover, Facts on File
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The Annals & the Histories: And the Historiesby Cornelius Tacitus, Moses Hadas, Shelby Foote, Alfred J. Church, Jackson BrodribbISBN 0812966996 (0-8129-6699-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Annals: And The Historiesby Cornelius Tacitus, Alfred John Church, William Jackson BrodribbISBN 0760770220 (0-7607-7022-0)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Arabian Knightsby Rene BullISBN 0685168646 (0-685-16864-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi, Mahdi MushinISBN 0679413383 (0-679-41338-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.
The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based. [via]More editions of Arabian Nights:
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The Arabian Nightsby Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora A. Smith, Maxfield ParrishISBN 0684195895 (0-684-19589-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights'Book summary:For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories of O. Henry, to be illustrated by some of the finest artists of our generation, including Wendell Minor, Ed Young, and Trina Schart Hyman. [via]
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Jack David Zipes, Richard Francis BurtonISBN 061321126X (0-613-21126-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, " "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, " and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]More editions of The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights:
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nightsby Richard Francis Burton, A. S. ByattISBN 0812972147 (0-8129-7214-7)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights'Book summary:Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.
This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.
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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Or, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Nightby Bennett Alfred Cerf, Richard Francis BurtonISBN 0679602356 (0-679-60235-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Or, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night'Book summary:Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp," "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]More editions of The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Or, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night:
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The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Versionby EuripidesISBN 0803251947 (0-8032-5194-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Version'Book summary:[via]This new translation of The Bacchaethat strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesseis an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406 B.C. The achievement of this aim involves a restoration of the "great lacuna" at the climax and the discovery of several primary stage effects very likely intended by Euripides. These effects and controversial questions of the composition and stylistics are discussed in the notes and the accompanying essay.
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Best Selections from the Arabian Nights Entertainmentsby Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole, William HarveyISBN 0805502440 (0-8055-0244-0)
Hardcover, Hart Pub Co
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 0670194646 (0-670-19464-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Catullusby Douglas F.S. ThomsonISBN 080208592X (0-8020-8592-X)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catullus'Book summary:This work contains a major revision of Douglas Thomson's Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978), with the addition of a full commentary and a wholly new introduction. For the introduction and for each of the poems there is an extensive and current bibliography.
In the introduction, apart from sections on the life of Catullus, on the arrangement of the poems, and on their literary background, there is a lengthy discussion of the history of the text, as well as a review of the progress of Catullan studies from the editio princeps to the present day.
There are about seventy changes from the previous edition in the text of the poems. The critical apparatus has also been extensively revised. In addition, the Table of Manuscripts, which has come to be regarded as standard, has been updated without alteration to the numbering sequence.
Though this is not primarily intended as a 'school edition,' the commentary includes, in addition to critical judgments, translations and interpretations of words and phrases that may help to illuminate readings in the text.
Catullus offers readers a new text of the poems, with a commentary, a codicology of the manuscript tradition, and a thorough review of Catullus scholarship.
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Catullusby G.P. Goold, Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0715614355 (0-7156-1435-5)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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Catullusby Gaius Valerius Catullus, Elmer T. MerrillISBN 0674103505 (0-674-10350-5)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Venerisby Gaius Valerius CatullusISBN 0674990072 (0-674-99007-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris'Book summary:Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 8454 BCE), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. His surviving poems consist of nearly sixty short lyrics, eight longer poems in various metres, and almost fifty epigrams. All exemplify a strict technique of studied composition inherited from early Greek lyric and the poets of Alexandria. In his work we can trace his unhappy love for a woman he calls Lesbia; the death of his brother; his visits to Bithynia; and his emotional friendships and enmities at Rome. For consummate poetic artistry coupled with intensity of feeling Catullus's poems have no rival in Latin literature.
Tibullus (Albius, ca. 5419 BCE), of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. Three books of elegies have come down to us under his name, of which only the first two are authentic. Book 1 mostly proclaims his love for 'Delia', Book 2 his passion for 'Nemesis'. The third book consists of a miscellany of poems from the archives of Messalla; it is very doubtful whether any come from the pen of Tibullus himself. But a special interest attaches to a group of them which concern a girl called Sulpicia: some of the poems are written by her lover Cerinthus, while others purport to be her own composition.
The Pervigilium Veneris, a poem of not quite a hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honour of the goddess of love, is remarkable both for its beauty and as the first clear note of romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literature. The manuscripts give no clue to its author, but recent scholarship has made a strong case for attributing it to the early fourth-century poet Tiberianus.
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Chapman's Homer: The Iliadby Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691002363 (0-691-00236-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Iliad'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."
This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman's translation of the Iliad, making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction and a glossary. Garry Wills contributes a preface, in which he explains how Chapman tapped into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the Iliad's warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.
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Chapman's Homer: The Odysseyby Homer, Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691048916 (0-691-04891-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Odyssey (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction, textual notes, a glossary, and a commentary. Garry Wills's preface to the Odyssey explores how Chapman's less strained meter lets him achieve more delicate poetic effects as compared to the Iliad. Wills also examines Chapman's "fine touch" in translating "the warm and human sense of comedy" in the Odyssey.
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That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
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The Children's Homer: Library Editionby Padraic ColumISBN 0808572857 (0-8085-7285-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children's Homer: Library Edition'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A retelling of the events of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus. Based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. [via]
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The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troyby Willy PoganyISBN 0689868839 (0-689-86883-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy'Book summary:Travel back to a mythical time when Achilles, aided by the gods, waged war against the Trojans. And join Odysseus on his journey through murky waters, facing obstacles like the terrifying Scylla and whirring Charybdis, the beautiful enchantress Circe, and the land of the raging Cyclôpes. Using narrative threads from The Iliad and The Odyssey, Padraic Colum weaves a stunning adventure with all the drama and power that Homer intended. [via]
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The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translationby Jonathan BarnesISBN 0691099502 (0-691-09950-2)
Hardcover, Bollingen Foundation
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The Consolation of Philosophyby BoethiusISBN 0672602733 (0-672-60273-3)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Constantine the Great: The Man and His Timesby Michael GrantISBN 0684195208 (0-684-19520-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 067943593X (0-679-43593-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:"It was Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amid the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind," recorded Edward Gibbon with characteristic exactitude. Over a period of some twenty years, the luminous eighteenth-century historian--a precise, dapper, idiosyncratic little gentleman famous for rapping his snuff-box--devoted his considerable genius to writing an epic chronicle of the entire Roman Empire's decline. His single flash of inspiration produced what is arguably the greatest historical work in any language--and surely the most magnificent narrative history ever written in English. "Gibbon is one of those few who hold as high a place in the history of literature as in the roll of great historians," noted Professor J.B. Bury, his most celebrated editor.
This three-volume Modern Library edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire--with Gibbon's notes--is edited with a general introduction and index by Bury, along with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin. The volumes are illustrated with reproductions of etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi.
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Early Greece:the Bronze and Archaic Ages: The Bronze and Archaic Agesby M.I. FinleyISBN 0701114363 (0-7011-1436-3)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilusby EusebiusISBN 0801033063 (0-8010-3306-3)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius Pamphilus'Book summary:Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History is one of the classics of early Christianity and of equal stature with the works of Flavius Josephus. Eusebius chronicles the events of the first three centuries of the Christian church in such a way as to record a vast number of vital facts about early Christianity that can be learned from no other ancient source. When Eusebius wrote his Ecclesiastical History, his vital concern was to record facts before they disappeared, and before eye-witnesses were killed and libraries were burned and destroyed in persecutions by Rome. He faithfully transcribed the most important existing documents of his day so that future generations would have a collection of factual data to interpret. Thus Eusebius (c. A.D. 260-340) richly deserves the title "father of Church history."
"More readable." This is the only full edition of "Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History" that has been retypeset in modern, easy-to-read type. Archaic words have been modernized and the punctuation has been updated according to contemporary standards.
"Easier to use." The Loeb numbering system (now the standard way to cite "Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History)" has been added to make it easier to locate passages referred to in other reference works. Also, all citations and cross-references have been updated from Roman numerals to the modern form of citation.
"More complete." The complete text of all ten books of Eusebius is included. Also included is "Historical View of the Council of Nicea" as well as translations of related documents. [via]
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Engineering in the Ancient Worldby John G. LandelsISBN 0701122218 (0-7011-2221-8)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Eusebius: Ecclesiastical Historyby OultonISBN 0674992938 (0-674-99293-8)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History'Book summary:Eusebius of Caesarea, ca. 260340 CE, born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's persecution. He was himself imprisoned in Egypt, but became Bishop of Caesarea about 314. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 he sat by the emperor, led a party of moderates, and made the first draft of the famous creed.
Of Eusebius's many learned publications we have Martyrs of Palestine and Life of Constantine; several apologetic and polemic works; parts of his commentaries on the Psalms and Isaiah; and the Chronographia, known chiefly in Armenian and Syriac versions of the original Greek. But Eusebius's chief fame rests on the History of the Christian Church in ten books published in 324325, the most important ecclesiastical history of ancient times, a great treasury of knowledge about the early Church.
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The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greekby Barry CunliffeISBN 0802713939 (0-8027-1393-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Following Hadrian: A Second-Century Journey Through the Roman Empireby Elizabeth SpellerISBN 0747270317 (0-7472-7031-7)
Hardcover, Review
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Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito and Aristophanes' Cloudsby Thomas West, Grace WestISBN 0801492823 (0-8014-9282-3)
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Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Cloudsby Thomas G West, Grace Starry WestISBN 0801485746 (0-8014-8574-6)
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The Gnostic Gospelsby Elaine PagelsISBN 0679724532 (0-679-72453-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gnostic Gospels'Book summary:Gnosticism's Christian form grew to prominence in the 2nd century A.D. Ultimately denounced as heretical by the early church, Gnosticism proposed a revealed knowledge of God ("gnosis" meaning "knowledge" in Greek), held as a secret tradition of the apostles. In The Gnostic Gospels, author Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon. Without a doubt: Gnosticism celebrates God as both Mother and Father, shows a very human Jesus's relationship to Mary Magdalene, suggests the Resurrection is better understood symbolically, and speaks to self-knowledge as the route to union with God. Pagels argues that Christian orthodoxy grew out of the political considerations of the day, serving to legitimize and consolidate early church leadership. Her contrast of that developing orthodoxy with Gnostic teachings presents an intriguing trajectory on a world faith as it "might have become." The Gnostic Gospels provides engaging reading for those seeking a broader perspective on the early development of Christianity. --F. Hall [via]
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Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shieldby Apostolos Athanassakis, Apostolos N. AthanassakisISBN 0801879841 (0-8018-7984-1)
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Historical Atlas of World Mythology, Vol II Part 1: The Sacrificeby Joseph CampbellISBN 0792445651 (0-7924-4565-1)
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History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded Historyby Samuel N. KramerISBN 0812212762 (0-8122-1276-2)
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History Begins at Sumer is the classic account of the achievements of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq during the third millennium B.C. They were the developers of the cuneiform system of writing, perhaps their greatest contribution to civilization, which allowed laws and literature to be recorded for the first time.More editions of History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine "Firsts" in Recorded History:
History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Man's Recorded Historyby Samuel Noah KramerISBN 0812278127 (0-8122-7812-7)
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A History of Ancient Egyptby Nicolas Grimal, Ian ShawISBN 0631193960 (0-631-19396-0)
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The History of the Church from Christ to Constantineby EusebiusISBN 0806615095 (0-8066-1509-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine'Book summary:[via]"Could I do better than start from the beginning of the dispensation of our Saviour and Lord, Jesus the Christ of God?"
Bishop Eusebius (c. AD 260339), a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tracing the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century and ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, his aim was to show the purity and continuity of the doctrinal tradition of Christianity and its struggle against persecutors and heretics, and he supported his account by extensive quotations from original sources.
This edition of G. A. Williamsons clear, fluid translation is accompanied by an introduction by Andrew Louth discussing the life and works of Eusebius, together with notes, bibliography, map of the world of Eusebius and brief biographies of the figures who appear in the work.
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0613642880 (0-613-64288-0)
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Homeric Hymnsby Apostolos N. AthanassakisISBN 0801879833 (0-8018-7983-3)
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Homeric Hymnsby HomerusISBN 0801817927 (0-8018-1792-7)
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The Homeric Hymnsby N. Athanssakis ApostolasISBN 0801817919 (0-8018-1791-9)
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Horace, The Odes: New Translations By Contemporary Poetsby Robert Bly, Horace, J.D. McClatchyISBN 069104919X (0-691-04919-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The thirty-five contemporary poets assembled in this outstanding volume include nine winners of the Pulitzer prize for poetry as well as four former Poet Laureates. Their translations, while faithful to the Latin, elegantly dramatize how the poets, each in his or her own way, have engaged Horace in a spirited encounter across time.
Each of the odes now has a distinct voice, and Horace's poetic achievement has at last been revealed in all its mercurial majesty. In his introduction, J. D. McClatchy, the volume's editor and one of the translators, reflects on the meaning of Horace through the ages and relates how a poet who began as a cynical satirist went on to write the odes. For the connoisseur, the original texts appear on facing pages allowing Horace's ingenuity to be fully appreciated. For the general reader, these new translations--all of them commissioned for this book--will be an exhilarating tour of the best poets writing today and of the work of Horace, long obscured and now freshly minted.
The contributors are Robert Bly, Eavan Boland, Robert Creeley, Dick Davis, Mark Doty, Alice Fulton, Debora Greger, Linda Gregerson, Rachel Hadas, Donald Hall, Robert Hass, Anthony Hecht, Daryl Hine, John Hollander, Richard Howard, John Kinsella, Carolyn Kizer, James Lasdun, J. D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, W. S. Mervin, Paul Muldoon, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Marie Ponsot, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Charles Tomlinson, Ellen Bryantr Voigt, David Wagoner, Rosanna Warren, Richard Wilbur, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, and Stephen Yenser.
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Iliad and Odyssey Gift Setby HomerISBN 0670779644 (0-670-77964-4)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad and Odyssey Gift Set'Book summary:This is a boxed gift edition of Fagles's two widely acclaimed translations of Homer.
The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to call it a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the 10th and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. The Odyssey is, quite simply, the story of Odysseus, who wants to go home. But Poseidon, god of oceans, doesn't want him to make it back across the wine-dark sea to his wife, Penelope, son, Telemachus, and their high-roofed home at Ithaca. The story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry; the characters speak naturally, the action happens briskly. Even the gods come across as real people, despite the divine powers they exercise constantly. Both works have been hailed by scholars and the public for the powerful language that brings clashing, pulsing life to these ancient masterpieces. [via]
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Iliad and the Odysseyby HomerISBN 0681452447 (0-681-45244-7)
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Iliad and the Odysseyby Marcia Williams, Homer Iliad, Homer OdysseyISBN 0763600539 (0-7636-0053-9)
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The Illustrated Tao Te Ching: A New Translation and Commentaryby Lao Tze, Stephen Hodge, LaoziISBN 0764121685 (0-7641-2168-5)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Journal, Eighteen Eighty-Seven to Nineteen Tenby Jules RenardISBN 0685349640 (0-685-34964-0)
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Kama Sutra: The Arts of Loveby Zek Halu, Misha Halu, Jane Graham-MawISBN 0722532377 (0-7225-3237-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Kamasutraby Wendy Doniger, Sudhir KakarISBN 0762416084 (0-7624-1608-4)
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Lao Tzu's Tao Te Chingby Timothy Freke, LaoziISBN 0749919663 (0-7499-1966-3)
Softcover, Piatkus Books
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Larry Conick's the Cartoon History of the Universe, Book 1by Larry GonickISBN 0688010113 (0-688-01011-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Lucan the Civil Warby LucanISBN 0674992423 (0-674-99242-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucan the Civil War'Book summary:Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, 3965 CE), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In 60 CE at a festival in Emperor Nero's honour Lucan praised him in a panegyric and was promoted to one or two minor offices. But having defeated Nero in a poetry contest he was interdicted from further recitals or publication, so that three books of his epic The Civil War were probably not issued in 61 when they were finished. By 65 he was composing the tenth book but then became involved in the unsuccessful plot of Piso against Nero and, aged only twenty-six, by order took his own life.
Quintilian called Lucan a poet "full of fire and energy and a master of brilliant phrases." His epic stood next after Virgil's in the estimation of antiquity. Julius Caesar looms as a sinister hero in his stormy chronicle in verse of the war between Caesar and the Republic's forces under Pompey, and later under Cato in Africaa chronicle of dramatic events carrying us from Caesar's fateful crossing of the Rubicon, through the Battle of Pharsalus and death of Pompey, to Caesar victorious in Egypt. The poem is also called Pharsalia.
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Pharsaliaby Lucan, Jane Wilson JoyceISBN 0801481376 (0-8014-8137-6)
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Plato Phaedrusby Plato, James H. NicholsISBN 0801485320 (0-8014-8532-0)
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Pliny: Letters, Books Viii-X Panegyricusby Pliny the YoungerISBN 0674990668 (0-674-99066-8)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Pliny started his career at the Roman bar at the age of eighteen. He moved through the regular offices in a senator's career, held two treasury appointments and a priesthood, and was consul in September and October 100. On this occasion he delivered the speech of thanks to the Emperor Trajan which he afterwards expanded and published as the Panegyricus. After his consulship he returned to advocacy in the court and Senate, and was also president of the Tiber Conservancy Board. His hopes of retirement were cut short when he was chosen by Trajan to go out to the province of Bithynia and Pontus on a special commission as the Emperor's direct representative. He is known to have been there two years, and is presumed to have died there before the end of 113. Book X of the Letters contains his correspondence with Trajan during this period, and includes letters about the early Christians.
Pliny's Letters are important as a social document of his times. They tell us about the man himself and his wide interests, and about his many friends, including Tacitus, Martial and Suetonius. Pliny has a gift for description and a versatile prose style, and more than any of his contemporaries he gives an unprejudiced picture of Rome as he knew it.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Pliny the Younger is in two volumes; the first contains Books IVII of his Letters and an Introduction.
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The Poems of Catullusby Charles MartinISBN 0801839262 (0-8018-3926-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Portby Neil MathiesonISBN 0785810595 (0-7858-1059-5)
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Readings in the Classical Historiansby Michael GrantISBN 0684192454 (0-684-19245-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Roman Republicby Michael Hewson CrawfordISBN 0674779274 (0-674-77927-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Roman Sex: 100 Bc-Ad 250by John R. Clarke, Michael LarveyISBN 0810942631 (0-8109-4263-1)
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Sophocles: Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannusby Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-JonesISBN 0674995570 (0-674-99557-0)
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Sophocles: Antigone, the Women of Trachis, Philoctetes Oedipus at Colonusby Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-JonesISBN 0674995589 (0-674-99558-9)
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Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War).
Of his other plays, only fragments remain; but from these much can be learned about Sophocles' language and dramatic art. The major fragmentsranging in length from two lines to a very substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchersare collected in Volume III of this edition. In prefatory notes Lloyd-Jones provides frameworks for the fragments of known plays.
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Sophocles: Fragmentsby Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-JonesISBN 0674995325 (0-674-99532-5)
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Many of the Sophoclean fragments were preserved by quotation in other authors; others, some of considerable size, are known to us from papyri discovered during the past century. Among the lost plays of which we have large fragments, The Searchers shows the god Hermes, soon after his birth, playing an amusing trick on his brother Apollo; Inachus portrays Zeus coming to Argos to seduce Io, the daughter of its king; and Niobe tells how Apollo and his sister Artemis punish Niobe for a slight upon their mother by killing her twelve children. Throughout the volume, as in the extant plays, we see Sophocles drawing his subjects from heroic legend.
This is the final volume of Lloyd-Jones's new Loeb Classical Library edition of Sophocles. In volumes I and II he gives a faithful and very skilful translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, and Electra. Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, and Philoctetes. [via]More editions of Sophocles: Fragments:
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Sophocles: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby David R. Slavitt, Palmer BovieISBN 0812216660 (0-8122-1666-0)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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The Spartans: An Epic Historyby Paul CartledgeISBN 0752265237 (0-7522-6523-7)
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The Story of Civilization Pt. A: Caesar and Christby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671115006 (0-671-11500-6)
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Tales from the Arabian NightsISBN 0721417590 (0-7214-1759-0)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd
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Tales from the Arabian Nights Selected from the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Nightby Richard BurtonISBN 0671808036 (0-671-80803-6)
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The Tao of the Tao Te Ching: A Translation and Commentaryby Michael LarfargueISBN 0791409864 (0-7914-0986-4)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Tao Te Chingby Lao-Tzu, Jane English, Gia-Fu FengISBN 0679724346 (0-679-72434-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Written during the golden age of Chinese philosophy, and composed partly in prose and partly in verse, the Tao Te Ching is surely the most terse and economical of the worlds great religious texts. In a series of short, profound chapters it elucidates the idea of the Tao, or the Wayan idea that in its ethical, practical, and spiritual dimensions has become essential to the life of Chinas enormously powerful civilization. In the process of this elucidation, Lao-tzu both clarifies and deepens those central religious mysteries around which our life on earth revolves.
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Tao Te Chingby Feng, Jane English, Gia-Fu FengISBN 0679776192 (0-679-77619-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tao Te Ching'Book summary:Scholars say that the original Tao Te Ching is a poem. Like a poem, this version of the Tao Te Ching is not meant to be read in one breath from front to back, but is to be at intervals internalized and contemplated. Jane English's haunting black-and-white photos that undulate in and out on every page act as glycerin elixirs, helping the words slide into our souls for patient digestion. The photographs--of a glistening spider web, cloud-enveloped mountain tops, reflections on water, leaves in the sunlight--are as serenely lyrical as the ancient text, itself. [via]
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Tao Te Ching: The Way of Vitrueby Lao Tzu, Patrick M. ByrneISBN 0757000290 (0-7570-0029-0)
Softcover, Square One Pub
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Tao Teh King: Nature and Intelligenceby Lao TzuISBN 0804463875 (0-8044-6387-5)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Te-Tao Chingby Lao-Tzu, Robert G. Henricks, LaoziISBN 0679600604 (0-679-60060-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Terence: The Comediesby Terence, Palmer Bovie, Constance Carrier, Douglass ParkerISBN 0801843545 (0-8018-4354-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Theogony ; Works and Days ; Shieldby Hesiod, Apostolos N. AthanassakisISBN 0801829984 (0-8018-2998-4)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Thousand Nights and One Nightby E. Powys Mathers, MardrusISBN 0710208693 (0-7102-0869-3)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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Travel in the Ancient Worldby Lionel CassonISBN 0801848083 (0-8018-4808-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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What Is Ancient Philosophy?by Pierre Hadot, Michael ChaseISBN 0674013735 (0-674-01373-5)
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