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An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals--and our vital relationships with them How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them. Drawing on ancient writers f... Read More about How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of polit... Read More about How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

A delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living--ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agriculture Whether you farm or garden, live in the country or long to move there, or simply enjoy an occasional rural retreat, you will be delighte... Read More about How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

Born in 4 b.c., Seneca lived during one of the most turbulent times in Roman history. He served as tutor and then adviser to the emperor Nero, witnessing firsthand many crimes and debaucheries. His experiences led him to turn away from public life and retreat into philosophical contemplation. A lead... Read More about A Student's Seneca: Ten Letters and Selections from De Providentia and De Vita Beata

Apuleius's comic masterpiece, originally composed in the second century A.D., traces the hilarious misadventures of a young man a tad too curious about magic for his own good. Hoping to change himself into an owl, he turns himself into a donkey instead, and in this guise is sold, stolen, or otherwis... Read More about The Golden Ass: Of Lucius Apuleius