8 best-selling ancient books like Protagoras by Plato, Stanley Lombardo, Karen Bell

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Protagoras

By: Plato , Stanley Lombardo , Karen Bell

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature o…

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1. The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()

By: Aristophanes

3.67

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender i… read more

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  • classics
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2. 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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  • greece
"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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3. 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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  • classics
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4. 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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  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • ancient history
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5. Protagoras

By: Plato , Stanley Lombardo , Karen Bell

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature o… read more

Similar categories in Plato's Protagoras book and Plato's Protagoras

  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
  • greece
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6. 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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  • nonfiction
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7. Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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8. Wasps

By: Aristophanes , Douglas M. MacDowell

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wasps was first performed at the festival of the Lenaia early in 422 B.C. It is arguably one of Ari… read more

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  • greece

9. 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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10. 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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11. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more

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12. 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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  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • ancient history
  • nonfiction
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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

13. Thesmophoriazusae

By: Aristophanes , S. Douglas Olson

3.93

Format: 152 pages, hardback

Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is amon… read more

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14. 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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15. Works and Days (Academic Monograph Reprint)

By: Hesiod , None

3.60

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hesiod was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. His writings serve… read more

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16. The Art of Rhetoric

By: Aristotle , Hugh Lawson-Tancred

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Few, if any, writers in history have made major contributions to as many fields of knowledge as Ari… read more

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17. 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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18. 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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19. Discourse on Method

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more

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20. Rules for the Direction of the Mind

By: René Descartes , Laurence J. Lafleur

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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21. Parmenides of Elea: Fragments

By: Parmenides

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Par… read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
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  • ancient history
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8 must-read classics books like Protagoras by Plato, Stanley Lombardo, Karen Bell

Transform Your Habits

The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()

Aristophanes

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Philoctetes

Sophocles

3.89

Transform Your Habits

On Interpretation

Aristotle , None

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Protagoras

Plato , Stanley Lombardo , Karen Bell

4.00

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17 best-selling fiction books like The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) () by Aristophanes

Transform Your Habits

Hippolytos

Euripides , Robert Bagg

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Herakles

Euripides , Christian Wolff , Thomas Sleigh

3.88

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Women of Trachis

C.K. Williams , Sophocles , Gregory W. Dickerson

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Ecclesiazusae (or Women in Council) ()

Aristophanes

3.67

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