Category: Greek & Latin Classics

Heavy wear and creasing to covers, binding firm, text unmarked. Previous owner's name and some scribbling written on first free endpaper, old price is stamped on top textblock edge.
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Antigonick (New Directions Paperbook)

By: Carson, Anne

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New Directions : May 2015

Seller ID: 212574

ISBN-13: 9780811222921

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

With text blocks hand-inked on the page by Anne Carson and her collaborator Robert Currie, Antigonick features translucent vellum pages with stunning drawings by Bianca Stone that overlay the text.

Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her first attempt at making translation into a combined visual and textual experience. Sophokles luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. Thoroughly delightful."
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Two Novels from Ancient Greece: Callirhoe and An Ephesian Story: Anthia and Habrocomes

By: Chariton, Ephesos,Xenophon of

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co. : March 2010

Seller ID: 208733

ISBN-13: 9781603841924

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Here in one convenient volume are the two earliest examples of the ancient Greek novel.

The Republic and The Laws (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Cicero,

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : July 2009

Seller ID: 210178

ISBN-13: 9780199540112

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek political theory, the work embodies the mature reflections of a Roman ex-consul on the nature of political organization, on justice in society, and on the qualities needed in a statesman. Its sequel, The Laws, expounds the influential doctrine of Natural Law, which applies to all mankind, and sets out an ideal code for a reformed Roman Republic, already half in the realm of utopia. This is the first complete Engl...
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Cicero: Second Philippic Oration (Classical Texts) (Latin Edition)

By: Cicero, Lacey,W. K.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Aris & Phillips : December 1986

Seller ID: 122767

ISBN-13: 9780856682544

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Fine copy in white jacket showing expected soil darkening and a small tear at bottom rear edge.
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On Living and Dying Well (Penguin Classics)

By: Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : November 2012

Seller ID: 193303

ISBN-13: 9780140455564

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Philosophical writings on "the good life" by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse and trenchant topics as friendship, religion, death, fate, and scientific inquiry. This lucid and lively new translation renders the great Roman's writings accessible to modern readers as never before. Cicero was a pragmatist at heart, but his philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but from care...
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Selected Works (Penguin Classics)

By: CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : September 1960

Seller ID: 192500

ISBN-13: 9780140440997

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: New

Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics.Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical style and strict sense of morality have been a powerful influence on European literature and thought for over two thousand years in matters of politics, philosophy, and faith. This selection demonstrates the diversity of his writings, and includes letters to friends and statesmen o...
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Selected Political Speeches of Cicero on the Command of Cnaeus Pompeius Against Lucius Sergius Catilina

By: CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS, GRANT, MICHAEL

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Group USA Inc : June 1977

Seller ID: 193304

ISBN-13: 9780140442144

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

As the Roman Republic lurched to its close, amid corruption, ruthless power struggles and gross inequality, Cicero produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches ever written. Whether he is quashing the Catiline conspiracy, defending the poet Archais or railing against Mark Anthony in the Philippics - The magnificent speeches in defense of liberty that cost him his life - cicero vividly evokes for us the cut and thrust of the Roman assembly, Senate and court rooms. This excellent modern translation also enables readers to understand why Cicero was for centuries a major influence on p...
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Catiline

By: DaviesSallust, A. T. (edited by)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Oxford Univ Press : December 1966

Seller ID: 137253

ISBN-13: 9780198317692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A very clean, sturdy copy unmarked text. Ex-library with usual treatments.
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The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes

By: Demosthenes, KENNEDY,CHARLES RAUN

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N/A : January 1899

Seller ID: 20080828146885

ISBN: B001B8MX9Q

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

good/good, No marks to text, tight binding. Cover is somwhat worn. v=8o
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The Olynthiacs of Demosthenes, with Notes for Schools and Colleges By W. S. Tyler

By: Demosthenes, Tyler,W.S.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon : January 1875

Seller ID: 96020

ISBN: B002C03JPE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very good to near fine copy, few ex-library marks, no marks in text, and little cover wear. Binding sound. Our copy dated 1890. Previous owner's signature beautifully inscribed on front endpaper.
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Libellus De Sublimitate. Dionysio Longino. Fere Adscriptus.

By: Dionysios, Prickard Arthur

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Clarendon : January 1906

Seller ID: 122990

ISBN: B00281P1D0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Very rubbed and worn flex covers, binding still firm, extensive pencil notations throughout the text.
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Companion to Literature: Classicial & Byzantine, Oriental & African Literature

By: Dudley, D.R., Land, D.M.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin : May 1969

Seller ID: 220516

ISBN-13: 9780140510379

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Good

Firm binding, toned pages, owner name, price marked out on cover.
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The Delian Aretalogy of Sarapis.

By: Engelmann, Helmut

Price: $65.00

Publisher: E.J. Brill : January 1975

Seller ID: 122649

ISBN: B00I1Q7K9E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

No jacket as published. Near fine copy with just a very light scratch on front cover. Previous owner's name inside front cover. Contents pristine.
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Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

By: EPICTETUS,

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : November 2008

Seller ID: 193299

ISBN-13: 9780140449464

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher

DESPITE BEING BORN into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus became one of the most influential thinkers of his time. Discourses and Selected Writings is a transcribed collection of informal lectures given by the philosopher around AD 108. A gateway into the life and mind of a great intellectual, it is also an important example of the usage of Koine or ?common? Greek, an ancestor to Standard Modern Greek.
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Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae (Easton Press Collector's Edition)

By: Euripides

Price: $35.00

Publisher: The Easton Press : January 1980

Seller ID: 212867

ISBN: B000R1981O

Binding: Leather (Bonded)

Condition: Used - Very Good

Near fine leather Collector's Edition, crisp gilt decoration, one small streak on lower edge of gilt textblock, otherwise flawless. Ribbin in its original position.
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Category: Greek & Latin Classics