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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook of philosophical reflections, written by a Roman emperor probably on military campaign in Germany. In short, ...Show more
Myths From Mesopotamia by Stephanie Dalley
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Category: Mythology | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale o ...Show more
Odyssey by Homer
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Category: Mythology | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vy ...Show more
On the Soul - and Other Works by ARISTOTLE
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . 'What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that encompasses not only human beings but all living beings. Its ...Show more
Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Text by William Langland
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Category: Christianity | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This is a new annotated translation of the B-text, Langland's own extensive revision of his original text. One of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, Piers Plowman remains of enduring interest for its vivid picture of the whole life of medieval society, its deeply imaginative religious vision ...Show more
Pocket Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?' Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It is also a highly entertai ...Show more
Poetic Edda (Oxford World Classics) by Carolyne Larrington
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Category: Norse Lore | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
She sees, coming up a second time,earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,over the mountain hunting fish.After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeres ...Show more
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald
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Category: Sufism | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.' In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw ...Show more
Sayings of the Buddha by Rupert Gethin
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Category: Buddhism | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'As if someone were to hold up a lamp in the dark so that those with eyes could see - in exactly the same way Gotama has made the truth clear in various ways.' Gotama the Buddha, who lived the life of a wandering ascetic in northern India during the fifth century BCE, is looked to as the founder of one ...Show more
The Bible: Authorized King James Version by God
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Category: Bibles & Bible Study | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. ...Show more
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics | Reading Level: very good
'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.' In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated what he consid ...Show more
The Law Code of Manu by Patrick Olivelle (Translator)
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Category: Indian Sacred Texts | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for fifteen centuries it still generates controversy, with Manu's verses being cited in support of the oppression of women and members of the lower castes. A seminal Hindu text, the Law Code is importan ...Show more