The Old Language

Ancient echoes from a time and place far from our own but whose reverberations form the foundations of our souls—when humanity communicated with the gods.

The Old Language

Crow with No Mouth - Ikkyū Sōjun
$20.00
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
$10.00
The Greek Myths 1 - Robert Graves
$6.00
The Portable Greek Historians
$18.00
War and the Iliad - Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
$15.00
Four Tragedies - Euripides
$10.00
The Mabinogion
$15.00
History of the Islamic Peoples - Carl Brockelmann
$10.00
Selected Poems - Tu Fu
$20.00
Four Tragedies - Euripides
$10.00
The Histories - Herodotus
$10.00
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony - Roberto Calasso
$8.00
The Narrow Road to the Interior - Matsuo Bashō
$10.00
Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri
$20.00
The Vikings - Johannes Brøndsted
$8.00
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life - Karl Kerényi
$45.00
The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
$10.00
The Interpretation of Dreams - Artemidorus
$10.00
The Ramayana - R.K. Narayan
$10.00
The Nag Hammadi Library
$10.00
A Little Primer of Tu Fu - David Hawkes
$28.00
Lives of the Later Caesars
$9.00
The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction - Miri Rubin
$7.00
Poems From the Sanskrit
$7.00
A Middle English Anthology - Ann S. Haskell, ed.
$9.00
The Homeric Hymns
$15.00
Sagas of Warrior-Poets
$6.00
Monkey: Folk Novel of China - Wu Ch'êng-Ên
$10.00
Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest - Jack Nisbet
$9.00
Haiku - Peter Washington, ed.
$8.00
Japan: An Illustrated History - Shelton Woods
$7.00
University of Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus II Four Tragedies - Aeschylus
$10.00
University of Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus I Oresteia - Aeschylus
$10.00
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays - Helene P. Foley, ed.
$20.00
University of Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles II Four Tragedies - Sophocles
$9.00
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
$14.00
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness - Epictetus
$5.00 $10.00
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Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization - Graham Hancock
$12.00
Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity - An Illustrated History - Liang Jieming
$12.00
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The Nibelungenlied - A.T. Hatto, trans.
$9.00
Mencius - Mencius
$10.00
Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend - Reimund Kvideland & Henning K. Sehmsdorf
$14.00
100 Characters from Classical Mythology - Malcolm Day
$9.00
The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux - Joseph Epes Brown, ed.
$9.00
University of Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles I Three Tragedies - Sophocles
$8.00
Three Tragedies - Euripides
$8.00
The Iliad - Homer
$6.00 $12.00
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Heretics in the Middle Ages - Martin Erbstösser
$12.00 $25.00
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The Greeks - H.D.F. Kitto
$5.00 $10.00
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt
$9.00
The Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot
$9.00
Beowulf - Burton Raffel, trans.
$4.00 $7.00
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Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart - Chrétien de Troyes
$7.00
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho - Anne Carson
$9.00
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Ancient Iraq - Georges Roux
$10.00
Orestes and Other Plays - Euripides
$10.00
Medea and Other Plays - Euripides
$12.00
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The Oresteia - Aeschylus
$14.00
The Arabian Nights Entertainments Vol 1
$16.00
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno
$7.00
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio
$7.00
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso
$7.00
The Odyssey - Homer
$12.00
The Iliad - Homer
$12.00
Aeneid - Virgil
$12.00
The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
$7.00
Works and Days - Hesiod
$9.00
Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus
$8.00
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Dictionary of Classical Mythology - J.E. Zimmerman
$4.50 $8.00
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Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths - Bernard Evslin
$4.50 $7.00
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Oedipus and Akhnaton - Immanuel Velikovsky
$10.00
Grief Lessons: Four Plays - Euripides
$10.00
An Oresteia - Anne Carson, Trans.
$10.00
Confessions - Saint Augustine of Hippo
$8.00
Metamorphoses - Ovid
$12.00
The Pillow Book - Sei Shōnagon
$10.00
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Shilappadikaram (The Ankle Bracelet) - Ilangô Adigal
$7.00
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
$4.50 $7.50
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The Greek Myths 2 - Robert Graves
$7.00
The Greek Myths 1 - Robert Graves
$7.00
Japanese Ghost Stories - Lafcadio Hearn
$12.00
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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese - Kenneth Rexroth
$12.00
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One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese: Love and the Turning Year - Kenneth Rexroth
$10.00
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The Voyage of Argo - Apollonius of Rhodes
$10.00
The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles
$10.00
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes - Edith Hamilton
$4.50 $8.00
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Medieval Epics
$20.00
The Divine Comedy I: Inferno - Dante
$10.00
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory - Dante
$10.00
The Divine Comedy III: Paradise - Dante
$10.00
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
$10.00
La Vita Nuova - Dante
$7.00
Medieval Myths - Norma Lorre Goodrich
$4.50 $7.00
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Arthurian Romances - Chrétien de Troyes
$8.00
Egil's Saga
$12.00
Selected Folktales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
$10.00
Grendel - John Gardner
$4.50 $7.00
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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu
$75.00
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
$4.00 $7.00
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One Hundred Poems from the Japanese - Kenneth Rexroth
$10.00
One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese - Kenneth Rexroth
$10.00
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches - Bashō
$7.00
The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
$10.00
The Nature of Things - Lucretius
$10.00
The Nature of the Universe - Lucretius
$7.00
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The Histories - Herodotus
$12.00
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony - Roberto Calasso
$9.00
Symposium - Plato
$14.00
Protagoras and Meno - Plato
$10.00
The Last Days of Socrates - Plato
$10.00
Alcestis - Euripides
$10.00
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Poems from the Greek Anthology
$12.00
Oedipus the King - Sophocles
$9.00
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Antigo Nick - Sophocles
$5.00 $10.00
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The Bacchae and Other Plays - Euripides
$4.50 $7.50
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The Koran Interpreted
$12.00
The New Testament
$14.00
Italian Folktales - Italo Calvino
$12.00