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The Lusiads (William Atkinson and Luis Vaz de Camões)
First published in 1572, this work describes Portugal's voyages of discovery. It describes Vasco da Gama's pioneer voyage via southern Africa to India in 1497-98. It reflects the novelty and fascination of that original encounter…
€ 18,⁶⁰
Early Christian Lives
This selection of early saints' lives, full of vivid incidents and astonishing miracles, consists of classics of hagiography that were all written in the second half of the 4th century.
€ 14,⁶⁰
Alfred The Great ( Asser)
Alfred The Great ( Asser)
€ 13,³⁰
The Campaigns Of Alexander ( Arrian)
Discusses Alexander's violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, his defeat of Persia and campaigns through Egypt and Babylon - establishing new cities and destroying others in his path. This title presents an objective portrait…
€ 13,³⁰
Culture And Anarchy And Other Selected Prose (Matthew Arnold)
Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England condemned an industrial society in 'bondage to machinery' and argued instead that the wonder and joy of culture - in particular the 'sweetness…
€ 14,⁶⁰
Classical Comedy (Terence Plautus Menander Aristophanes)
Brings together the works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' "Birds", and Menander's "The Girl from Samos"; and two Roman comic plays: Plautus' "The Brothers Menaechmus" and Terence's double love-plot,…
€ 13,³⁰
Orlando Furioso (Ludovico Ariosto)
Over a period of 27 years, the author created in this poem a world situated between fantasy and reality: a kaleidoscope of fabulous adventures, monsters, barbaric splendour and romance, all tempered by the unifying personality of…
€ 23,⁹⁵
Orlando Furioso (Ludovico Ariosto)
Over a period of 27 years, the author created in this poem a world situated between fantasy and reality: a kaleidoscope of fabulous adventures, monsters, barbaric splendour and romance, all tempered by the unifying personality of…
€ 23,⁹⁵
The Portable Hannah Arendt (Hannah Arendt)
The Portable Hannah Arendt (Hannah Arendt)
€ 17,³⁰
Eichmann And The Holocaust (Hannah Arendt)
Inspired by the trial of a bureaucrat who helped cause the Holocaust, this radical work on the banality of evil stunned the world with its exploration of a regime's moral blindness and one man's insistence that he be absolved all…
€ 6,⁶⁵
Eichmann In Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt)
Eichmann In Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt)
€ 14,⁶⁰
Selected Writings (Thomas Aquinas)
Presents reflections on Christianity that forges a synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. This title contains influential statements of fundamental Christian doctrine, as well as observations on topics such as…
€ 19,⁹⁵
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her…
€ 14,⁶⁰
The Civil Wars (Appian)
Covering the period from the rise of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC to the eve of the Battle of Actium, this book offers a narrative of this crucial phase of Roman history, making the conflict "within" the Roman state to the…
€ 14,⁶⁰
Jason And The Argonauts ( Apollonius Of Rhodes)
Jason And The Argonauts ( Apollonius Of Rhodes)
€ 13,³⁰