The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
By: Marcel Detienne
4.14
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of “truth,” Aletheia, from mythoreligious…
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1. Antigone
By: Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre
3.78
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Eu… read more
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"My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part."-Jean Anouilh, Antigone
"It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me"-Jean Anouilh, Antigone
"Antigone — Et serre moi. Plus fort que tu ne m'as jamais serrée. Que toute ta force s'imprime dans moi. Hémon — Là. De toute ma force."-Jean Anouilh, Antigone
"ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you―do you have the feeling that―that a great empty spa…"-Jean Anouilh, Antigone
2. 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
3. The Origins of Greek Thought
By: Jean-Pierre Vernant
3.78
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural… read more
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4. 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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5. Medea
By: Christa Wolf
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Medea is among the most notorious women in Greek tragedy - a woman who sacrifices her own children … read more
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6. The Eclogues
By: Virgil , Guy Lee
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contempor… read more
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8. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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9. Memoirs of Hadrian
By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick
4.23
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more
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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
10. The Courage of Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984
By: Michel Foucault , Arnold I. Davidson , Graham Burchell
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The Courage of the Truthis the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France.… read more
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11. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more
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12. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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13. La Bête humaine
By: Émile Zola , Henri Mitterand
3.03
Format: 234 pages, Mass Market Paperback
<< L'essentiel de La Bete humaine, c'est l'instinct de mort dans le personnage principal, la felure… read more
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14. What Is Ancient Philosophy?
By: Pierre Hadot , Michael Chase
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A magisterial mappa mundiof the terrain that Pierre Hadothas so productively worked for decades, th… read more
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15. Bel-Ami
By: Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power,… read more
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"In fact living is dying."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!"-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"The only certainty is death."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
16. The Kalevala
By: Anonymous , Elias Lönnrot , Keith Bosley
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich or… read more
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17. La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
By: Larousse , Jean Giraudoux
3.50
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Written in 1935, an exploration of the looming threat of World War II, set against the backdrop of … read more
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18. The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
By: Marcel Detienne
4.14
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of “truth,” Aletheia, from mythoreligious… read more
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19. De vulgari eloquentia I
By: Dante Alighieri
3.00
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
In dieser Schrift begründet Dante die Priorität der Volks- und Muttersprache vor der lateinischen G… read more
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20. The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography (Sather Classical Lectures) (Volume 54)
By: Arnaldo Momigliano
4.05
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigl… read more
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21. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
By: Moses I. Finley
4.00
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
In this thought-provoking study of slavery in ancient Greece and Italy, Sir Moses Finley discusses … read more
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