Reveries
An illuminated manuscript by the modern poet, SOWIZDOM; with art taken from the 18th century mystic, William Blake.
100 original poems in full premium color printing
From the Back:
Reveries [rev-uh-reez]
Loose musings; daydreams;
The random thoughts of a poet.
Cardinal Points
In an age which has declared that "God is dead", SOWIZDOM gives the sages of the ages a new voice-in verse form-with a moral compass for the young, in forty Cardinal Points.
Elementals: The Essential Philosophy Compilation
A philosopher's dream come true — all of the essential wisdom texts in one volume; including:
- Cebes: the disciple of Socrates
- Lucretius: the Latin poet who versified the doctrines of Epicureanism
- Solomon: the wisest man ever to live
- Aristotle: "The Father of those who know"
- Confucius: the Chinese Master
- Cato: "second only to Solomon in wisdom"
- Aesop: the sage fabulist
- Ptah-Hotep: the oldest author in the world
- Washington: the Father of his nation
- Gracián: the Jesuit instructor in the art of worldly wisdom
- Buddha: the enlightened one
- Epictetus: Caesar's preceptor
- Descartes: the masterful doubter
- Epicurus: the "bright star of the Greek race"
- Plato: the divine
- Plutarch: the hierophant and prince of biographers
- Franklin: whose Poor Richard shows The Way to Wealth
- & Cowley: the English essayist who leads us back to the fields in his piece On Agriculture
The Works, Days, and Theogony of Hesiod
The rustic poet and inculcator of work ethic; who first brought us the Greek myths of Pandora's Box, the birth of Venus, Cronus devouring his children, Prometheus bound; and the wars of the Titans; translated into easy-to-read poetic prose; with illustrations taken from the great William Blake.
The Complete Works of Xenophon
With an Introduction and a Sketch of Xenophon's life.
Contents:
Cyropaedia, The Education of Cyrus
The Anabasis
Hellenica
The Apology of Socrates
The Memorabilia
The Symposium
The Economist
Hiero
Ways and Means
The Constitution of the Athenians
The Polity of the Lacedaemonians
On Horsemanship
The Cavalry General
Hunting With Dogs
Plutarch's Morals
Five volumes unabridged in one. With an introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Plutarch is the genius the most naturally moral that ever existed." (from the back cover)
The inventor of the essay; "Prince of Biographers" (according to Dr. Johnson); and ancient Greek mystery-cult high priest; Plutarch is a compendium of Classical wit and a never-ending buffet of food for thought, who will be perpetually rediscovered from time to time as long as books last.