10 best-selling ancient books like The Laws of Plato by Plato, Thomas L. Pangle

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The Laws of Plato

By: Plato , Thomas L. Pangle

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exp…

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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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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
"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. Women of Trachis

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

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Mutability; uncertainty; a universe of precipitous these themes are at the heart of Sophocles' tra… read more

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  • ancient
  • classics
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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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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4. The Laws of Plato

By: Plato , Thomas L. Pangle

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exp… read more

Similar categories in Plato's The Laws of Plato book and Plato's The Laws of Plato

  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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5. 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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6. 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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  • ancient
"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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7. The Persian Expedition

By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , None , George Cawkwell

4.18

Format: None pages,

In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides… read more

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  • ancient
  • classics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Conversations of Socrates

By: Xenophon , Robin Waterfield , Hugh Tredennick

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him … read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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9. The Athenian Constitution

By: Aristotle , P.J. Rhodes

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Probably written by a student of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is both a history and an anal… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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10. 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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11. 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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  • classics
  • history
  • philosophy
  • ancient
  • nonfiction
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12. The Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The truth brings no man a fortune"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

13. 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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14. The Discourses

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Bernard Crick , None

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. … 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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  • history
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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. Organon

By: Aristotle , Giorgio Colli

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Studiato e interpretato, parafrasato e commentato infinite volte, l'Organon (in greco <>) e il libr… 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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Michael Hofmann , Ernst Jünger

3.50

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S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

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