Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


john penwill

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “john penwill
Skip side bar filters
  • Greek Fiction

    Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion

    In this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells of a boy and girl abandoned at birth, who grow up to fall in love and battle pirates. Greek Fiction - also containing 'Letters of Chion', an early ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Good Book

    A Humanist Bible

    Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, thebreadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity toconceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that isexactly what A.C. Grayling has done by creating a non-religious Bible,drawn from the wealth of secular literature and philosophy in bothWestern and Eastern traditions, using the same techniques ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Life of Alexander the Great

    by Plutarch ...
    Translated by John Dryden ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father’s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfilling the soothsayer Aristander’s prediction that the new king “should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dialogues and Essays

    Translated by John Davie ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote exercises in practical philosophy that draw upon contemporary Roman life and illuminate the intellectual concerns of the day. They also have much to say ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cynic Philosophers

    from Diogenes to Julian

    'Poverty does not consist in the want of money,' I answered, 'nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through violent means if necessary'From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the Cynic philosophers sought to cure humanity of greed and vice with their proposal of living simply. They guaranteed happiness to their adherents ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea. The only extant Greek epic poem to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, it is a major product of the brilliant world of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, written by Apollonius of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC. Apollonius explores many of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Selected Poems of Cavafy

    by C. P. Cavafy ...
    Translated by Avi Sharon ...
    C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria’s ancient past. Figures from antiquity speak with telling interruptions from the author in such poems as ‘Anna Comnena’ and ‘You did not ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Life Of Apollonius Of Tyana

    The Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus is a fascinating work! It's a blend of biography and philosophical exploration, recounting the life of Apollonius, a philosopher and miracle-worker often compared to Jesus.The Complete Works - Books 1-8 ... Read more

    Was $6.45 USD Now $2.45 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Classical Education

    The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School

    Series Book 6 - I Used to Know That
    How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A Classical Education provides all of these classical facts that modern schooling leaves out and many more. Perfect ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization

    Series series Brief Histories
    A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire.The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth and Epic in Homer's Iliad & Odyssey; gives an outline of Greek history in the 5th & 4th Centuries BC; looks at Greek social life and the alternative ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • In Bed with the Ancient Greeks

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    Series series In Bed with the ...
    From what the Ancient Greeks might have talked about in bed to women’s health and the intricacies of Greek marriage, Paul Chrystal shines a much-needed light on sex and sexuality in ancient Greece, one of the world’s most influential civilizations. This is a balanced, comprehensive and well-researched analysis of the many aspects of sexual desire and activity in the various Greek societies – from ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • Memento Mori

    What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death

    by Peter Jones ...
    In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago. Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus