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Robert Garland
What to Expect When You're Dead

An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death---and what we might learn from themA lively story of death, What to Expect When You're Dead explores the fascinating death-…

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Pamela Hartshorne
Royal Academy of Dance

A lavishly illustrated volume celebrating the 100-year history of the Royal Academy of Dance, a world-leading dance education institutionOrganized into illuminating sections on music, choreography and cos…

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Cicero,
Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. de Lege Agraria

"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, a…

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Douglas Frame
Hippota Nestor and Beyond

In Hippota Nestor and Beyond: Selected Essays, Douglas Frame revisits the Homeric figure of Nestor, who he argues derives from twin figures in Indo-European myth, and dates the composition and performance…

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Kin Sum Li
Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China

Examines mass production in antiquity Highly decorated mirrors are widely sought by museums with collections of Chinese art and are the most actively exchanged items in the art market of ancient Chinese b…

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Anne Sophie Refskou
Shakespeare's Compassion

This book shows that Shakespeare's dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages a conflicted emotion available to be solicited, manipulated and at times even monop…

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Barhadbeshabba, "The Cause of the Foundation of Schools"

Philosophy and Sciences in the Christian Orient - volume 3

The Cause of the foundation of schools, which has been written around 600 by the East Syriac author Barhadbeshabba, is practically unique in intellectual history by explaining the anthropological phenomen…

available from 15.7.2026.

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Howard Zinn
A People's History of the United States American Classics Edition

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book---a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope fo…

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Epictetus,
Discourses and Selected Writings

A Penguin Classics Hardcover

A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher, now a Penguin Clothbound Classic designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithEpictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving p…

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J H Huang
The DAO de Jing

A groundbreaking and superlatively accurate new translation of Laozi's The Dao De Jing , from the bestselling translator of The Art of War, promising to be the first English edition based on direct transl…

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Pantelis Michelakis
Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sop…

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Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta
The Roman Arch

The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity throughout the Roman Empire, little attention has been paid to the first monuments con…

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Thomas J Nelson, Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani
Pergamon and Rome: Culture, Identity, and Influence

This interdisciplinary volume provides the first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon. It surveys the rich and diverse interactions between these two cities fro…

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Ory Amitay
Alexander the Great in Jerusalem

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History discusses four different stories told in antiquity about the meeting between Alexander the Great and the Judeans of Jerusalem. In history, this meeting p…

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John Mckeane
Sarah Kofman and Ancient Thought

This volume is four books in one: a monograph on Sarah Kofman; an exploration of the 'philosophy in-deed' group she formed with Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; a study of an…

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Marcus Tullius Cicero,
How to Write a Letter

An inviting collection of Greek and Roman advice on letter writing---plus a gathering of illuminating and intimate letters from Cicero, Seneca, and PlinyEmail, texting, and AI appear to be sending the anc…

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Campbell Price
Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt

Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Egyptologist Dr Campbell Price asks us how we kno…

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William Guast
Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire

Re-evaluates a genre that was central to the Greek literature of the high Roman empire. Rejecting traditional conceptions of the genre as 'nostalgic', it explores the significance of Greek declamation's r…

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Benjamin A Saltzman
Turning Away

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our h…

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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 3

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's litera…

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