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An exquisite abridged edition of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations by a renowned translator

A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspir...

A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Cl...

Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inqui...

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in...

'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.'Timaeus, one...

These first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the wh...

The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was ...

'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking pl...

From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop’s Fables Aesop’s fabl...

'A definitive new translation of Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesian War'

A definitive and refreshingly readable new translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesi...

The Statesman is Plato's neglected political work, but it is crucial for an understanding of the ...

This new translation is based on the revised Oxford Text of Plato and makes accessible the dialog...

The first English-language biography of the well-known traditionalist metaphysican René Guénon, i...

A readable, authoritative and fascinating history of hypnosis

Starting with the most meagre resources, Philip made his kingdom the greatest power in EuropeThe ...

The Greek myths contain some of the most thrilling, romantic and unforgettable stories in all hum...

In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches,and Lysisinv...

One of Socrates' Athenian disciples in his youth, Xenophon (c. 498-354 bc) fought as a mercenary ...

Translation of: Theological principles of arithmetic.

'One of the most important Stoic philosophers is Epictetus. Epictetus (c. 50 - 135 CE) was a Gree...

Aware of these myths, Robin Waterfield has examined the actual Greek sources and presents here a ...

Covering roughly eight centuries from the age of Homer (8th century BC) to the end of the Helleni...

Covering roughly eight centuries from the age of Homer (8th century BC) to the end of the Helleni...

An exploration of one of the most fundamental human questions: how to lead a good life. Taking th...

For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to...

Alexander the Great conquers the New York Times best-selling Who Was...? series!When Alexander wa...

Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The S...

Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander`I treat ...

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring hi...

A gripping account of one of the great forgotten wars of history, revealing how Alexander the Gre...

Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the f...

In The Expedition of Cyrus, Xenophon told how, in 401 B.C., a band of Greek mercenaries traveled ...

This is the story of one of the great forgotten wars of history - which led to the division of on...

Alexander * Demosthenes* Phocion *Eumenes*Demetrius*Pyrrhus* Agis and Cleomenes*Aratus*Philopoeme...

The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his read...

The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the epic march of the Ten Thousand, an army recruited ...

The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was ...

Alcestis*Heracles*Children of Heracles* CyclopsEuripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendsh...

Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we ...

It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek a...

As a cobbler in Gorlitz, Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) came into contact with many great thinkers who ...

Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father...

'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history'Polybius' ambitious goal was...

'Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to ...