8 best-selling ancient books like Timaeus by Plato, Peter Kalkavage, Donald J. Zeyl

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Timaeus

By: Plato , Peter Kalkavage , Donald J. Zeyl , None , None

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeusis prese…

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1. Fragments

By: James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years b… read more

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"All is flux"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Character is destiny"

-James Hillman, Fragments

"I went in search of myself."

-James Hillman, Fragments

"Man's character is his fate."

-James Hillman, Fragments

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2. The Way Things Are

By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more

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  • science
"There can be no centre in infinity."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

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3. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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4. Timaeus

By: Plato , Peter Kalkavage , Donald J. Zeyl , None , None

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeusis prese… read more

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  • history
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  • science
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5. Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

By: Sophocles , John Harrison , Shomit Dutta

3.92

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Written in the fifth century B.C., Sophocles' tragedy concerns the shame and death of Ajax, a Greek… read more

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"If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate."

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

"To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul."

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

"Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?"

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

"AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux. ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien."

-Sophocles, Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

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6. Philoctetes

By: Sophocles

3.89

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Philoctetes is a play written by Sophocles, an ancient Greek playwright, that tells the story of Ph… read more

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  • ancient
  • classics
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7. Frogs

By: Aristophanes , Arthur Sidgwick

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Batrakhoi, Batrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristop… read more

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  • classics
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8. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

By: Immanuel Kant , James W. Ellington , Paul Carus

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Paperback

This edition of Prolegomenaincludes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous doc… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. The New Organon

By: Lisa Jardine , Francis Bacon , Michael Silverthorne

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Paperback

Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal phi… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. Euclid's Elements

By: Euclid , None , Dana Densmore

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Green Lion Press has prepared a new one-volume edition of T.L. Heath's translation of the thirteen … read more

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11. The Suppliants

By: Aeschylus

3.41

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

A shrine is stronger than a tower to save, A shield that none may cleave. Step swift thereto, And i… read more

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  • ancient
  • classics
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12. On Interpretation

By: Aristotle , None

5.00

Format: 176 pages,

First we must define the terms 'noun' and 'verb', then the terms 'denial' and 'affirmation', then '… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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13. The Categories

By: Aristotle

1.00

Format: None pages,

Categories (Lat. Categoriae, Greek Kategoriai Kategoriai) is a text from Aristotle's Organon that e… read more

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14. Clouds

By: Aristophanes , None

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and exten… read more

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15. Metaphysics

By: Aristotle , Joe Sachs

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Metaphysics (Greek: ta meta ta phusika) is one of the principal works of Aristotle & the first majo… read more

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16. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

17. De Anima

By: Aristotle , Hugh Lawson-Tancred

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know it… read more

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18. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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19. Birds

By: Aristophanes , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is… read more

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20. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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21. Physics

By: Aristotle , Robin Waterfield , David Bostock

4.50

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

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

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13 must-read classics books like Timaeus by Plato, Peter Kalkavage, Donald J. Zeyl

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Fragments

James Hillman , Heraclitus , Brooks Haxton

4.18

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The Way Things Are

Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

3.97

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Poetics

Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

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Timaeus

Plato , Peter Kalkavage , Donald J. Zeyl , None , None

4.00

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Critias

Plato , Benjamin Jowett

3.78

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Timaeus

Plato , Peter Kalkavage , Donald J. Zeyl , None , None

4.00

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Phaedo

Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind

3.77

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Theaetetus

Plato , Robin Waterfield

4.20

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