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  • The Complete Works

    Handbook, Discourses, & Fragments

    by Epictetus ...
    "This is now the best English translation of Epictetus available . . . a reliable and up-to-date guide to the most influential Stoic in today's world." —Brad Inwood, author of Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction"Some things are up to us and some are not."Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set himself up as a philosophy teacher. After ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meditations

    The Annotated Edition

    by Marcus Aurelius, Robin Waterfield ...
    **For both new and longtime readers, Robin Waterfield’s definitive translation and rich annotations offer everything they need to understand one of the most powerful works of practical philosophy ever written.“A treat (and an eye-opening experience) … If you haven’t read Marcus Aurelius or if you have…you should read this book and then read it again.”―Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Daily ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Histories

    by Robin Waterfield ...
    Translated by Carolyn Dewald ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also entertains us with delightful tales of ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists

    The Presocratics and Sophists

    Edited by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    These first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought. This is a unique and invaluable collection of the works of the Presocratics and the Sophists. Waterfield brings together the works of these early thinkers with brilliant new translation and exceptional commentary. This is the ideal anthology for the student of this increasingly ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The History of the Peloponnesian War

    by Thucydides, Robin Waterfield ...
    A definitive and refreshingly readable new translation of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War, paired with a brilliant introduction on how to read and understand ThucydidesThucydides called his work a “possession for all time,” and his History of the Peloponnesian War has been essential reading for generals and politicians for centuries.Robin Waterfield’s translation of Thucydides’s ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Histories

    by Polybius, Brian McGing ...
    Translated by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'no one else in our times has attempted to write a universal history' Polybius' ambitious goal was to describe how Rome conquered the Mediterranean world in less than fifty-three years. This great study of imperialism takes the reader back to Rome's first encounter with Carthage in 264 and forward to her destruction of that renowned city in 146. Polybius, himself a leading Greek politician of the ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dividing the Spoils:The War for Alexander the Great's Empire

    The War for Alexander the Great's Empire

    by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Ancient Warfare and Civilization
    Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield after battlefield. And while the men fought on the field, the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Republic

    by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary reader, who is carried along by the wit and intensity of the dialogue and by Plato's ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Symposium

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests include the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates. The power, humour, and pathos of Plato's creation engages the reader on every page. This new translation is complemented by full explanatory notes and an illuminating introduction. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Essays

    by Plutarch ...
    Translated by Robin Waterfield ...
    One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of listening, the danger of flattery and the avoidance of anger, alongside more speculative essays on ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives

    A Selection of Eight Lives

    by Plutarch ...
    Translated by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.' In the eight lives of this collection Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures and periods of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Taken at the Flood

    The Roman Conquest of Greece

    by Robin Waterfield ...
    Series series Ancient Warfare and Civilization
    "Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?" --Polybius, Histories The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD