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Hornblower, Simon
THUCYDIDES
Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0801835291 . Very light pencilling. Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Hornblower presents an overall picture of Thucydides' art showing that his originality lay not only in fidelity to fact but in his remarkable psychological understanding of art and events. ; 230 pages . Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38985 ISBN : 0801835291 9780801835292
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Sissa, Giulia & Marcel Detienne; Lloyd, Janet
THE DAILY LIFE OF THE GREEK GODS
Stanford University Press. Very Good. 2000. Softcover. 0804736146 . Very light corner creasing to first few pages. ; Despite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book the authors find in Homer s Iliad material for exploring the everyday life of the Greek gods: what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished the organization of their society and the sort of life they led both in Olympus and in the human world. The gods are divided in their human nature: at once a fantasized model of infinite joys and an edifying example of engagement in the world they have loves festivities and quarrels. In the second part the authors show how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods and those who would become the Olympians inviting them to reside with humans organized in cities. At the heart of rituals and of social life the gods were omnipresent: in sacrifices at meals in political assemblies in war in sexuality. In brief the authors show how the gods were indispensable to the everyday social organization of Greek cities. ; Mestizo Spaces; 0.71 x 8.5 x 5.56 Inches; 287 pages . Stanford University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 38989 ISBN : 0804736146 9780804736145
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Romilly, Jacqueline de
THE RISE AND FALL OF STATES ACCORDING TO GREEK AUTHORS
University of Michigan Press. Near Fine. 1991. Softcover. 0472081527 . Jerome Lectures 11; 108 pages; A survey of how Greek historians explained the conditions of a state's success and the dangers of power. . University of Michigan Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 38988 ISBN : 0472081527 9780472081523
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Propertius; Rudolf Helm
PROPERZ: GEDICHTE Lateinisch Und Deutsch Von Rudolf Helm
Akademie Verlag. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. Light tanning to pages. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Schriften und Quellen der Alten Welt; 291 pages . Akademie Verlag hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38997
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Green, J. R.
THEATRE IN ANCIENT GREEK SOCIETY
Routledge. Near Fine. 1996. Softcover. 0415143594 . 240 pages; The author examines the social setting and function of Ancient Greek theatre through 1000 years of its performance history. Instead of using written sources which were intended only for a small educated section of the population Green draws most of his evidence from a wide range of archaeological material. This includes cheap mass-produced vases and figurines as well as elegant silverware produced for the dining tables of the wealthy. . Routledge paperback
Bookseller reference : 38992 ISBN : 0415143594 9780415143592
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Nagy, Blaise
HERODOTUS READER Annotated Passages from Books I-IX of the Histories
Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company. Very Good-. 2011. Softcover. 1585103047 . Pen notes to a few pages. ; Focus Classical Commentary; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages; My target audience are students who have acquired a reasonable familiarity with the fundamentals of ancient Greek grammar and who have also amassed a working vocabulary in the language but who still need help with verb forms and with certain constructions like the genitive absolute. Such students will usually have finished two years of secondary school instruction or one year of college instruction in ancient Greek. It is also my hope that this Reader will be a suitable textbook in a more advanced type of a coursewe call them "author level courses" at the College of the Holy Crosson Herodotus Histories where some help with the grammar is still a major desideratum and where there is also a significant focus on topics in literary criticism and on historiographical issues. . Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 38996 ISBN : 1585103047 9781585103041
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Lissarrague, Francois & Andrew Szegdy-Maszak (Trans. )
THE AESTHETICS OF THE GREEK BANQUET Images of Wine and Ritual Un Flot D'Images
Princeton University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0691035954 . Very faint shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. ; In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B. C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine poetry music games flirtation and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors particularly that of wine as sea all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture. ; 9.9 X 6.9 X 0.3 inches; 160 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38994 ISBN : 0691035954 9780691035956
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Loraux, Nicole
THE EXPERIENCES OF TIRESIAS The Feminine and the Greek Man
Princeton University Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0691029857 . Pen and Pencil marginalia and underlining to some pages. Else very minor shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has light shelfwear. ; In The Experiences of Tiresias its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body Nicole Loraux explores the ambivalence in how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine. In these essays Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates however she insists on a logic of an inclusiveness between the genders which casts a shadow over their clear officially defined borders. "Nicole Loraux documents with delicate sensitivity to text and context the mobility of the contrast between 'man' and 'the feminine. '. Her readings of tragedy are particularly compelling. "--Mary Margaret McCabe The Times Literary Supplement "Loraux is a pioneer in the analysis of gender difference and sexuality in classical Greece. Strongly opposed to polarized interpretations of 'masculine' and 'feminine ' she illuminates the complex and often contradictory interrelationship of the sexes in real life and in the Greek/Athenian social 'imaginary. '; 9.75 x 1 x 6.75 Inches; 336 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 38991 ISBN : 0691029857 9780691029856
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Grethlein, Jonas & Antonios Rengakos (Eds. )
NARRATOLOGY AND INTERPRETATION The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature
Walter De Gruyter. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. 3110214520 . Very light bump to head of spine. ; Trends In Classics - Supplementary Volumes 4; 6.1 X 1.45 X 9.06 inches; 637 pages . Walter De Gruyter hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39008 ISBN : 3110214520 9783110214529
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Goody, Jack
THE THEFT OF HISTORY
Cambridge University Press. Good. 2007. Softcover. 0521691052 . Light pen marginalia to about 10 or so pages. ; 5.75 X 0.75 X 8.75 inches; 352 pages . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39000 ISBN : 0521691052 9780521691055
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Gentili, Bruno; Cole, A. Thomas
POETRY AND ITS PUBLIC IN ANCIENT GREECE From Homer to the Fifth Century
The Johns Hopkins University Press. Good. 1990. Softcover. 0801840198 . Light yellowing to wraps. Some pen markings to a few pages. ; This superb and fascinating book insists upon trying to place the poetry of Sappho Alcaeus Pindar Archilochus and others within its social and ritual contexts: oral performance patron/poet relationship and religious or communal function. Considering the evidence such efforts must at times rely upon inspiration but the close textual readings of individual poems judicious use of anthropological method and inclusion of many of the recently discovered fragments creates a vivid picture. ; 0.97 x 8.94 x 6.08 Inches; 408 pages . The Johns Hopkins University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39003 ISBN : 0801840198 9780801840197
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Sullivan, J. P. & Irene J. F. De Jong (Eds. )
MODERN CRITICAL THEORY AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
E. J. Brill. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 9004095713 . Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; In recent decades the study of literature in Europe and the Americas has been profoundly influenced by modern critical theory in its various forms whether Structuralism or Deconstructionism Hermeneutics Reader-Response Theory or Rezeptionsästhetik Semiotics or Narratology Marxist feminist neo-historical psychoanalytical or other perspectives. Whilst the value and validity of such approaches to literature is still a matter of some dispute not least among classical scholars they have had a substantial impact on the study both of classical literatures and of the mentalité of Greece and Rome. In an attempt to clarify issues in the debate the eleven contributors to this volume were asked to produce a representative collection of essays to illustrate the applicability of some of the new approaches to Greek and Latin authors or literary forms and problems. The scope of the volume was deliberately limited to literary investigation broadly construed of Greek and Roman authors. Broader areas of the history and culture of the ancient world impinge in the essays but are not their central focus. The volume also contains a separate bibliography offering for the first time a complete bibliography of classical studies which incorporate modern critical theory. ; Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum; 6.75 X 1 X 10 inches; 304 pages . E. J. Brill hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39017 ISBN : 9004095713 9789004095717
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Woodhead A. Geoffrey
THUCYDIDES ON THE NATURE OF POWER
Harvard University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0674891368 . Browning to spine of DJ. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. DJ is price-clipped. Scholar's name to ffep Carolyn Dewald. Lettering to spine a bit faded. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 234 pages . Harvard University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39015 ISBN : 0674891368 9780674891364
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Lateiner, Donald
THE HISTORICAL METHOD OF HERODOTUS
University of Toronto Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0802057934 . Gift inscription from author to Carolyn Dewald on titlepage. Minor pencilling. Pages lightly tanned. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XXIII; 336 pages; Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often conflicting data of history ethnology and culture. The Historical Method of Herodotus explores the intellectual habits and the literary principles of this pioneer writer of prose. Donald Lateiner argues against the perception that Herodotus' work seems amorphous and ill organized that the Histories contain their own definition of historical significance. He examines patterns of presentation and literary structure in narratives speeches and direct communications to the reader in short the conventions and rhetoric of history as Herodotus created it. This rhetoric includes the use of recurring themes the relation of speech to reported actions indications of doubt stylistic idiosyncrasies frequent reference to nonverbal behaviours and strategies of opening and ending. Lateiner shows how Herodotus sometimes suppresses information on principle and sometimes compels the reader to choose among contending versions of events. His inventories of Herodotus' methods allow the reader to focus on typical practice not misleading exception. In his analysis of the structuring concepts of the Histories Lateiner scrutinizes Herodotean time and chronology. He considers the historian's admiration for ethnic freedom and autonomy the rule of law and the positive values of conflict. Despite these apparent biases he argues the text's intellectual and moral preferences present a generally cool and detached account from which an authorial personality rarely emerges. The Historical Method of Herodotus illuminates the idiosyncrasies and ambitious nature of a major text in classics and the Western tradition and touches on aspects of historiography ancient history rhetoric and the history of ideas. ; Signed by Author . University of Toronto Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39016 ISBN : 0802057934 9780802057938
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Vansina, Jan M.
ORAL TRADITION AS HISTORY
University of Wisconsin Press. Very Good. 1985. Softcover. 0299102149 . Scholar's name to ffep Carolyn Dewald. Small word in ink to rear endpaper. ; 8.52 X 5.57 X 0.68 inches; 272 pages . University of Wisconsin Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39019 ISBN : 0299102149 9780299102142
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Plato; Harvey Yunis (Ed. )
PLATO: PHAEDRUS
Cambridge University Press. Fine. 2012. Softcover. 0521612594 . Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 5.51 X 0.71 X 8.51 inches; 284 pages . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39024 ISBN : 0521612594 9780521612593
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Juvenal; J. D. Duff (Ed. ) & Michael Coffey (Intro. )
D. IVNII IVVENALIS IUNII IUVENALIS / JUVENAL: SATIRES SATVRAE SATURAE XIV Fourteen Satires of Juvenal.
Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0521073707 . Very minor shelfwear. Light pencilling to a few pages . ; Pitt Press Series; 473 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39022 ISBN : 0521073707 9780521073707
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Lucan; R. J. Getty (Ed. )
M. ANNAEI LUCANI LUCAN: DE BELLO CIVILI Liber I
Cambridge University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers. Pocket removed from front inner cover. Pages browned. ; Latin Text with English Notes. ; Pitt Press Series; 155 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover
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Funari, Rodolfo (A Cura Di)
UN CICLO DI TRADIZIONE REPUBBLICANA NEL PALAZZO PUBBLICO DI SIENA Le Iscrizioni Degli Affreschi Di Taddeo Di Bartolo 1413-1414
Accademia Senese Degli Intronati. Near Fine. 2002. Softcover. Fonti Di Storia Senese; 99 pages . Accademia Senese Degli Intronati paperback
Bookseller reference : 39032
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Havelock, Eric A.
THE MUSE LEARNS TO WRITE Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present
Yale University Press. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0300037414 . Scholar's name to ffep Bonnie Maclachlan née Ward. ; 8.1 X 5.4 X 0.6 inches; 160 pages . Yale University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39026 ISBN : 0300037414 9780300037418
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Hornblower, Simon
THUCYDIDES
Johns Hopkins University Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0801835291 . Underlining and notes in red ink to some pages. VEry light shelfwear to DJ. ; Hornblower presents an overall picture of Thucydides' art showing that his originality lay not only in fidelity to fact but in his remarkable psychological understanding of art and events. ; 230 pages . Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39052 ISBN : 0801835291 9780801835292
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Badian, E.
FROM PLATAEA TO POTIDAEA Studies in the History and Historiography of the Pentecontaetia
The Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0801844312 . Very light pencilling to about 3 pages or so. Else fine. DJ is sunned and discolored in places. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages; From the Greek victory over Persian forces on the field of Plataea to the Athenian blockade of the rebel city of Potidaea--key events in the Persian and Peloponnesian wars respectively--the half-century of Greek history known as the pentecontaetia is an era for which sources are few and interpretation is controversial. Historian E. Badian brings together six essays--one new and five revised for this edition--that shed new light on this key period. . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39053 ISBN : 0801844312 9780801844317
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Cohen, David
LAW SEXUALITY AND SOCIETY The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens
Cambridge University Press. Near Fine. 2001. Softcover. 0521466423 . Very light shelfwear. ; Centering on the examination of the social and legal context of adultery homosexuality impiety and the public-private dichotomy in Athenian society this book attempts to examine the problems of social control and the regulation of sexuality in a way that will be of interest to a broad readership. It uses a comparative approach to show how the examination of such issues can deepen our understanding of classical Athens particularly in regard to the role of law in society. Further it argues that this historical investigation can in turn enrich our general appreciation of the relation of social and legal norms and the roles they play in regulating complex social practices such as those associated with sexuality morals and the family. This illuminating book develops a view of classical Athenian society that emphasizes the study of social control as the dynamic interplay of legal and social norms within the context of ideology and practice. ; 0.87 x 9.33 x 6.22 Inches; 271 pages; Digitally reprinted. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39045 ISBN : 0521466423 9780521466424
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Selden, Daniel L. & Ralph Hexter (Eds. )
INNOVATIONS OF ANTIQUITY
Routledge. Very Good. 1992. Softcover. 0415901294 . Very minor shelfwear to wraps. Scholar's name to ffep Rachel Kitzinger. ; Philosophy Of Education Research Library; 6 X 1.39 X 9 inches; 616 pages . Routledge paperback
Bookseller reference : 39038 ISBN : 0415901294 9780415901291
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Thompson, Norma
HERODOTUS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE POLITICAL COMMUNITY Arion`s Leap
Yale University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0300062605 . Faint shelfwear to DJ. Gift inscription from author to ffep. ; 208 pages; Claiming for Herodotus the "father of history" a position in the canon of political thought this work finds modern validity in his fundamental perceptions about the importance of stories to the coherence of political communities.; Signed by Author . Yale University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39041 ISBN : 0300062605 9780300062601
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Hawley, Richard & Barbara Levick (Eds. )
WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY New Assessments
London: Routledge. Near Fine. 1997. Softcover. 0415113695 . Very light shelfwear. ; From 'daily life' to 'demography' / Beryl Rawson --Ideology and 'the status of women' in ancient Greece / Marilyn A. Katz --Approaching women through myth : vital tool or self-delusion / Ken Dowden --Signifying difference : the myth of Pandora / Froma I. Zeitlin --The cults of Demeter and Kore / Lucia Nixon --Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens / Lin Foxholl --Women's identity and the family in the classical polis / Sarah B. Pomeroy --Some Pythagorean female virtues / Voula Lambropoulou --Self-help self-knowledge : in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology / Helen King --Women who suffer from a man's disease : the example of satyriasis and the debate on affections specific to the sexes / Danielle Gourevitch --Re-reading Vestal virginity / Mary Beard --Male power and legitimacy through women : the domus Augusta under the Julio-Claudians / Mireille Corbier --Women and elections in Pompeii / Lisa Savunen --A women's voice - Laronia's role in Juvenal Satire 2 / S. H. Braund --Aemilia Pudentilla : or the wealthy widow's choice / Elaine Fattham --Female sancity in the Greek calendar : the Synaxarion of Constaninople / Anna Wilson. ; 271 pages . Routledge paperback
Bookseller reference : 39051 ISBN : 0415113695 9780415113694
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Wilamowitz-Moellendorf, Ulrich Von (Ed. ) & Walther Abel
EURIPIDES: HERAKLES Zweite Bearbeitung: Zweiter Abdruck Der Ausgabe Von 1909. Besorgt Von Walther Abel
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. Ink notes to about 2-3 pages. Endpapers tanned. Former owner's name on ffep. Spine lettering a bit dulled. Creasing to about 3 pages. ; Xv 505 pp Text in Ancient Greek with German commentary and notes. ; 505 pages . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover
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McClure, Laura K. (Ed. )
SEXUALITY AND GENDER IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD Readings and Sources
Blackwell Publishers. Good. 2002. Paperback. 0631225897 . Writing in pen or pencil to about 20 pages. 1 corner a bit edgeworn. ; This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women gender and sexuality in the ancient world; 336 pages . Blackwell Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 39050 ISBN : 0631225897 9780631225898
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Kirk, James
HOMER AND THE EPIC A Shortened Version of 'the Songs of Homer'
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1965. Softcover. 0521093562 . Light edgewear to spine. Old price deleted. Former owner's name on inner cover. ; 243 pages; This is a shortened and rearranged version of The Songs of Homer. The literature of the western world begins with one of its greatest achievements. The stories of the wrath of Achilles and its consequences and of the wanderings of Odysseus have been admired from ancient times to the present day. The two great epics can be read and enjoyed unreflectingly as tales of adventure; or they can be studied as literature yielding as insight and understanding grow a deeper and more permanent pleasure. Professor Kirk's book is the means to this pleasure. It is a vivid and comprehensive account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and of their quality as literature. The epics are seen primarily as oral poetry sung for centuries by illiterate singers; and from this view rises discussion of the problems of authorship and transmission. The historical archaeological and linguistic evidence is also examined; and the possible contributions of the Mycenaean period and of the subsequent Dark Age are shown in a fresh light. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39070 ISBN : 0521093562 9780521093569
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Forrest, W. G.
A HISTORY OF SPARTA 950-192 B.C
W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good. 1968. Softcover. 0393004813 . Pages lightly tanned. Scholar's name to ffep Carolyn Dewald. ; Begins with the foundation of the city in the tenth century B. C and covers gradual expansion of Spartan authority in the Peloponnese until her collapse and eventual Roman Roman conquest of 195 BC. ; 160 pages . W. W. Norton & Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 39067 ISBN : 0393004813 9780393004816
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Duchemin, Jacqueline
PINDARE: POÈTE ET PROPHÈTE
Société D'Édition- Les Belles Lettres. Very Good. 1955. Softcover. Spine browned. Pages uncut. Light tanning to pages. ; Collection D'Études Anciennes; 290 pages . Société D'Édition- Les Belles Lettres paperback
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Crawford, Michael (Ed. )
SOURCES FOR ANCIENT HISTORY With Contributions from Emilio Gabba Fergus Millar Anthony Snodgrass
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1983. Paperback. 0521289580 . Wraps have yellowing. Upper corner of rear wraps creased. Scholar's name to ffep Carolyn Dewald. ; If a scholar wishes to create a picture of a topical society in all its aspects there is little of what he needs to know that he cannot know although there may still be much that he cannot understand. For the history of Greece and Rome there is a great deal that is simply unknowable. From the end of the archaic age of Greece there is an unbroken sequence of works by Greek and later Roman historians down to the end of antiquity. Their vision and range of interest were often limited and much of what they produced has been lost. Some help may be derived from the documentary material supplied in antiquity material that was the product of officials organising public activities or heads of families organising their affairs or individuals leaving their mark on the world. Beyond this the evidence of archaeology and numismatics may also be helpful. The four essays in this book set out to characterise the nature of the ancient literary tradition the inscriptional material the archaeological and numismatic evidence and to explain how and for what purposes they may be used. Chapters on Literature Epigraphy Archaology and Numismatics. ; The Sources of History - Studies in the Uses of Historical Evidence; 252 pages . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39084 ISBN : 0521289580 9780521289580
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Clarke, Howard W.
THE ART OF THE ODYSSEY
Prentice-Hall Inc. Very Good-. 1967. Softcover. Wraps slightly yellowed. Some pencilling and a tiny amount of pen. Scholar's name to ffep Carolyn Dewald. ; Provides criticism sound scholarship and systematic explication of the characters action events and artistic devices of the Odyssey. ; A Spectrum Book; 0.29 x 9.03 x 6.01 Inches; 120 pages . Prentice-Hall, Inc. paperback
Bookseller reference : 39079
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Crawford, Michael H. & David Whitehead
ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation
Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1986. Softcover. 0521296382 . Minor edgewear to wraps. ; 660 pages; The aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation with commentary on the history institutions society and economy of the Greek world from c. 750 to 338 BC - that is the period best known and most important for the evolution of the polis a form of political community which combined the aspects of city and state in a physical and psychological unity unparalleled either before or since. For us the inheritors of much that the Greeks created there is an inherent interest in the way in which they organised their society during these centuries. Although this book assumes no knowledge of Greek the reader is introduced to a range of key Greek words and concepts which offer a direct insight into the mentality both collective and individual of the times. The sources themselves all of which have been translated by the authors are supported by introductory commentary notes bibliographies chronological tables and maps. All students and teachers of the history of ancient Greece or of classical civilisation generally will find this book an invaluable tool. . Cambridge University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39085 ISBN : 0521296382 9780521296380
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Rose, Peter G.
SONS OF THE GODS CHILDREN OF EARTH Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece
Cornell University Press. Very Good. 1992. Paperback. 0801499836 . Very minor shelfwear. ; In this ambitious and venturesome book Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence--beliefs about descent from gods or heroes--is elaborated and challenged. Rose offers subtle and penetrating new readings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Pindar's Tenth Pythian Ode Aeschylus's Oresteia Sophokles' Philoktetes and Plato's Republic. ; 412 pages . Cornell University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39086 ISBN : 0801499836 9780801499838
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Bury, J. B. & Russell Meiggs
A HISTORY OF GREECE To the Death of Alexander the Great
St. Martin's Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 0312379404 . Front hinge cracked. Ex-library copy with stamps markings have been covered. Scholar's name to ffep Carolyn Dewald. Rubbing and some wear to boards. Spine is sunned. Minor pencilling to a couple of pages. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 577 pages . St. Martin's Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39098 ISBN : 0312379404 9780312379407
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Vernant, Jean Pierre
MYTHE ET SOCIÉTÉ EN GRÈCE ANCIENNE
François Maspero. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. Minor shelfwear. Spine sunned. ; Textes a L'Appui; 255 pages . François Maspero paperback
Bookseller reference : 39100
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Nagy, Gregory & Nicole Loraux & Laura M. Slatkin (Eds. )
ANTIQUITIES
The New Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 1565843762 . Upper corners bumped. Else minor shelfwear. ; Postwar French Thought Vol. III; 6.43 X 1.5 X 9.46 inches; 481 pages . The New Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39103 ISBN : 1565843762 9781565843769
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Ovid; Hermann Breitenbach (Ed. )
PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO: METAMORPHOSEN. LATEINISCH UND DEUTSCH Epos in 15 Büchern / Metamorphoseon Libri XV
Artemis Verlag. Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Front hinge cracked else VG. DJ has tears chipping and rubbing ; Die Bibliothek Der Alten Welt; 1222 pages . Artemis Verlag hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39113
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Marincola, John
AUTHORITY AND TRADITION IN ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
Cambridge University Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0521480191 . Pen markings to about 10 or so pages. Signed by author to titlepage. DJ has some rubbing and minor creasing along top edge. ; 6.5 X 1 X 9.5 inches; 380 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39105 ISBN : 0521480191 9780521480192
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Pucci, Pietro
ODYSSEUS POLUTROPOS Intertextual Readings in the Odyssey and the Iliad
Cornell University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0801418887 . Scholar's name to ffep Carolyn Dewald. DJ has some browning. DJ has some chipping and tears. ; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology Vol. 46; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 272 pages; Drawing on traditional philology and contemporary critical theory Pucci demonstrates that although the same diction and some of the same narrative principles are to be found in both poems the two works belong to very different poetic traditions. In addition he addresses the concepts of orality and writing which in his view are not antithetical. . Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39118 ISBN : 0801418887 9780801418884
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Howell, Wilbur Samuel
POETICS RHETORIC AND LOGIC Studies in the Basic Disciplines of Criticism
Cornell University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0801409454 . Faint sunning to spine. Scholar's name to ffep Carolyn Dewald. ; 267 pages . Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39121 ISBN : 0801409454 9780801409455
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Rist, John M. (Ed. )
THE STOICS
University of California Press. Very Good. 1978. Softcover. 0520036751 . Spine is sunned. Minor shelfwear. ; Contents: introductiont to Stoic Logic Ian Mueller ; principles of Stoic Grammar Michael Frede ; Stoic Theory of Meaning Andreas Graser ; Dialect and the Stoic Sage A. A. Long ; What does the Wise Man Know G B Kerferd ; Monism and Immanence: Foundations of Stoic Physics Robert B. Todd ; Stoic Cosmology Michael Lapidge ; Necessity and Fate in Stoic Philosophy Margaret E. Reesor ; Stoic Determinism and Moral Responsibility Charlotte Stough ; Emotion and Decision in Stoic Psychology; A C Lloyd ; Moral actions and Rules in Stoic Ethics I G Kidd ; Stoic Concept of Detachment John M Rist ; Zeno on Art: Anatomy of a Definition F E Sparshott. ; Major Thinkers Series; 304 pages . University of California Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39116 ISBN : 0520036751 9780520036758
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De Blois, Lukas & Van Der Spek, R. J.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT WORLD
Routledge. Good. 2003. Softcover. 0415127742 . Some notes in ink. Minor edgewear. ; 6.85 X 0.8 X 9.69 inches; 352 pages . Routledge paperback
Bookseller reference : 39139 ISBN : 0415127742 9780415127745
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Skinner Marilyn B.
SEXUALITY IN GREEK AND ROMAN CULTURE
Wiley-Blackwell. Near Fine. 2005. Paperback. 0631232346 . Very faint shelfwear. ; Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture is the first comprehensive survey of ancient Greek and Roman sexuality. Covers a wide range of subjects including Greek pederasty and the symposium ancient prostitution representations of women in Greece and Rome and the public regulation of sexual behavior. Introduces readers to the bitter theoretical debates that have been fought about gender and sexuality in the classical world. The material is ordered chronologically. Draws parallels between ancient sexual ideology and contemporary culture. Draws on literary artistic and archaeological sources as well as secondary scholarly sources. Theoretically sophisticated and skillfully argued yet accessible. ; 376 pages . Wiley-Blackwell paperback
Bookseller reference : 39141 ISBN : 0631232346 9780631232346
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Press, Gerald A.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF HISTORY IN ANTIQUITY
McGill-Queen's University Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0773510028 . Mcgill-Queens Studies in the History of Ideas 2; 152.4 X 0.2 X 228.6 inches; 176 pages . McGill-Queen's University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39148 ISBN : 0773510028 9780773510029
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Lacey W. K.
THE FAMILY IN CLASSICAL GREECE
Cornell University Press. Near Fine. 1989. Softcover. 0801492742 . Very Minor shelfwear. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 342 pages; In this well-researched and coherent introduction to family life in classical Greece Mr Lacey explains the structure of the family the social and economic pressures that affected it and the complicated legal measures that were devised to regulate and protect it. Even though the family has always been a fundamental institution in Greek society this is the first study in English devoted to it. This book deals in detail with the family in the archaic and classical ages -- the great era of the city-states. It was during this period that a close and complex relationship existed between the family and the city-state. Each city-state was in fact the sum total of the households contained in it and each household resembled a miniature kingdom with its own gods and lands and the head of the house exercised almost royal powers over his children. So powerful and close-knit was the family group that it was regarded by politicians and philosophers including Plato and Aristotle as damaging to their ideals of personal detachment and public service and even as a menace to the unity of the state. Mr Lacey supports his views of family life by quoting and discussing relevant writings of the Greek philosophers and by citing contemporary literature especially the comedies. He analyzes also the valuable evidence supplied by inscriptions vase paintings sculpture terracottas and coins many of which are presented in black-and-white photographs. From ancient times until today the most pervasive force in Greek life has been the family. This study of its influence in classical Greece makes possible a better understanding of greek history literature and art. . Cornell University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39147 ISBN : 0801492742 9780801492747
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Loraux, Nicole
THE EXPERIENCES OF TIRESIAS The Feminine and the Greek Man
Princeton University Press. Very Good. 1997. Softcover. 0691017174 . Minor shelfwear. ; In The Experiences of Tiresias its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body Nicole Loraux explores the ambivalence in how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine. In these essays Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates however she insists on a logic of an inclusiveness between the genders which casts a shadow over their clear officially defined borders. "Nicole Loraux documents with delicate sensitivity to text and context the mobility of the contrast between 'man' and 'the feminine. '. Her readings of tragedy are particularly compelling. "--Mary Margaret McCabe The Times Literary Supplement "Loraux is a pioneer in the analysis of gender difference and sexuality in classical Greece. Strongly opposed to polarized interpretations of 'masculine' and 'feminine ' she illuminates the complex and often contradictory interrelationship of the sexes in real life and in the Greek/Athenian social 'imaginary. '; 9.75 x 1 x 6.75 Inches; 348 pages . Princeton University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 39161 ISBN : 0691017174 9780691017174
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Scanlon, Thomas F.
GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY
Wiley-Blackwell. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2015. Hardcover. 1405145226 . Gift inscription from author to Carolyn Dewald on ffep. ; Blackwell Introductions To The Classical World; 160 X 22.4 X 238.8 millimeters; 352 pages; Signed by Author . Wiley-Blackwell hardcover
Bookseller reference : 39172 ISBN : 1405145226 9781405145220
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Simon, Erika (translated by C. E. Vafopoulou-Richardson)
THE ANCIENT THEATRE
Methuen & Company. Good. 1982. Softcover. 0416325300 . Ink notes underlining to about 4 pages. Scholar's name to half -title Rachel Kitzinger. ; University Paperbacks 766; 50 pages . Methuen & Company paperback
Bookseller reference : 39160 ISBN : 0416325300 9780416325300
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