On a Life Well Spent: Cicero's De Senectute with preface by Benjamin Franklin
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
2. The Conquest of Gaul
By: S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
The earliest eye-witness account of Britain and its inhabitants appears in these famous memoirs. Be… read more
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3. Praise of Folly
By: Erasmus , Betty Radice , A.H.T. Levi
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist move… read more
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4. The Early History of Rome (The History of Rome, #1-5)
By: Livy , Aubrey de Sélincourt , Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , None
2.50
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Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first … read more
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5. The Eclogues
By: Virgil , Guy Lee
3.79
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Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contempor… read more
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6. Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
By: Aeschylus , Alan H. Sommerstein
3.85
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Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, th… read more
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"My heart's a dance of fear."-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"Quando dorme la mente scintilla di mille occhi"-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
"ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Onc…"-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
7. The Life of Charlemagne
By: Sidney Painter , Einhard , Samuel Epes Turner
4.37
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8. The Histories
By: Tacitus , Kenneth Wellesley
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Edward Gibbon called The Historiesan 'immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the d… read more
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9. The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)
By: Aeschylus
3.80
Format: 43 pages, None
Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. Many years af… read more
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10. The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
By: Epictetus , Sharon Lebell
3.37
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Epictetus was born into slavery about 55 C.E. in the eastern outreaches of the Roman Empire. Sold a… read more
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12. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
13. The Civil War
By: Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his … read more
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14. L'isola di Arturo
By: Elsa Morante
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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15. The Complete Poems
By: Catullus , Guy Lee
3.37
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Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing … read more
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16. The Agricola and The Germania
By: Tacitus , S.A. Handford , Harold Mattingly
3.94
Format: 229 pages,
The portrait of Tacitus' father-in-law, Agricola, is a eulogistic description of the career of the … read more
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17. The Georgics
By: Virgil , Betty Radice , None
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rus… read more
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18. À la ligne
By: Joseph Ponthus
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
À la ligne est le premier roman de Joseph Ponthus. C’est l’histoire d’un ouvrier intérimaire qui em… read more
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19. O Livro de Cesário Verde e Outros Poemas
By: Cesário Verde
3.94
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
É de 1887 a publicação de um dos mais belos e importantes livros de poesia em língua portuguesa. No… read more
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20. On a Life Well Spent: Cicero's De Senectute with preface by Benjamin Franklin
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
Does every birthday find you a year older? Cicero’s De Senectute wisdom is for youLet’s face it—eve… read more
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21. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
