Classical Culture

15 books

The Public Physicians of the Greeks cover
Rating 2.4
The Public Physicians of the Greeks Rudolf Pohl Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 4.0
Letters of Pliny Pliny, the Younger, 61-112? Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
I Would Trade for a River of Bright Moonlight cover
Rating 3.4
I Would Trade for a River of Bright Moonlight 远人 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This collection is part of the Guangming Literary Series organized by the Shenzhen Writers Association. It gathers ci poems written by the renowned au…
Culture and Anarchy: Political and Social Criticism (Revised Translation) cover
Rating 4.5
Culture and Anarchy: Political and Social Criticism (Revised Translation) 马修·阿诺德 / 韩敏中 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026 A leading figure of the Victorian era, Matthew Arnold abhorred the machine worship and utilitarianism that pervaded British society in his day, and he…
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Rating 4.8
The Birth of Tragedy Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche / Tian Linian Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2025 A work by Nietzsche and a classic of Western aesthetics and philosophy in its own right. In this book, Nietzsche traces the origins of ancient Greek t…
One Pearl, One Jade, One Poem, One Ci cover
Rating 3.2
One Pearl, One Jade, One Poem, One Ci 许丽虹 / 梁慧 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024 This book endeavors to take the experience of reading classical Chinese poetry a step further, using the pearl and jade elements that appear in classi…
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.6
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture (3 Volumes) 韦尔纳·耶格尔 / 陈文庆 East China Normal University Press · 2024 This volume covers the spirit of Greece and Athens in the Archaic Age; the quest for the sacred center; and the conflict of cultural ideals in Plato's…
Elegance Still Rivals the Ancients: Lectures on Classical China cover
Rating 3.8
Elegance Still Rivals the Ancients: Lectures on Classical China 严凌君 Haitian Publishing House · 2022 The "Youth Reading Course" is a series of humanities readers for secondary school students edited by teacher Yan Lingjun, featuring selected writings …
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Rating 4.5
Post Wave · Classics by Masters of Traditional Culture (4-Volume Set) 李一冰 / Zhong Shuhe / Feng Youlan / Yuan Ke / 赵复三 Post Wave Publishing · 2020 The New Biography of Su Dongpo takes Dongpo's poetry and lyrics as its main thread and draws on more than a hundred sources, including his prose colle…
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Rating 2.8
The Secret Interpretation of Zhuangzi 毕敦一 Thread-Binding Books Publishing House · 2020 Through layers of mist, this book reveals to readers a true Laozi: this is a work that discusses the Way and how to strengthen the body and improve he…
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Rating 4.3
The Essence of Education 阿尔弗雷德·诺思·怀特海 / 刘钥 Beihang University Press · 2025 The Aims of Education is Whitehead's representative work, embodying his educational philosophy. Whitehead holds that the aim of education is to stimul…
Some Researches on the Tomb of Virgil on Mount Posilipo cover
Rating 2.8
Some Researches on the Tomb of Virgil on Mount Posilipo Peignot, Gabriel, 1767-1849 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Fasti cover
Rating 3.9
Fasti Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971, and…
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Rating 3.7
On the Relationship between Anthropology and Classical Studies 克莱德·克拉克洪 Peking University Press · 2025 This book clearly sets out the relationship between anthropology and classical studies. It is the author's 1960 Charles K. Colver Lectures theme addre…
Stories of Famous Chinese Quotations — Chinese Classic Stories cover
Rating 3.9
Stories of Famous Chinese Quotations — Chinese Classic Stories 黄蕊 Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 One volume in the Chinese Classic Stories series, this book selects fifty-eight celebrated quotations from classical Chinese literature to help reader…