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‎Simon, Erika‎

‎DIE GÖTTER DER RÖMER‎

‎Hirmer Verlag. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 3777453102 . Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; 26 römische Gottheiten sind in diesem Band jeweils in einem eigenen Kapitel behandelt: 12 weibliche und 14 männliche darunter so bekannte wie Jupiter Juno und Minerva aber auch weniger prominente wie Mater Matuta Silvanus und Veiovis; 319 pages . Hirmer Verlag hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33557 ISBN : 3777453102 9783777453101

‎Vickers Michael & David Gill & David W. J. Gill‎

‎ARTFUL CRAFTS Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good-. 1996. Softcover. 0198150709 . Some pencil notes and marginalia Jenifer Neils. Some edgewear with laminate lifting along lower edge of rear wrap. Faint creasing. ; This book challenges the widely held view that Greek pottery vases were objects of great value in antiquity commissioned by rich patrons from the greatest artists of the day. Instead they are shown to have been simply low cost versions of tableware originally made in silver and gold. Vickers and Gill demonstrates how Greek pottery first came to be regarded as a high value commodity in the eighteenth century thanks to clever if not fraudulent sales techniques. They explore the ways in which work in gold and silver influenced painted pottery and examine the primary sources both literary and epigraphic to find what materials the ancients did consider to be important. ; 0.58 x 9.67 x 7.46 Inches; 254 pages . Oxford University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33583 ISBN : 0198150709 9780198150701

‎Stillwell, Richard & William L. MacDonald & Marian Holland McAllister‎

‎THE PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLASSICAL SITES‎

‎Princeton University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0691035423 . Light bump to 1 corner. Light wear to base of spine. Front endpaper tanned. Very Minor shelfwear to book. Former owner's name in pencil to ffep. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and small tears. DJ spine slightly sunned. ; One-volume source of information on sites that show remains from the Classical period. Starts from the mid eighth century B. C. Which marks the expansion of Classical culture to the west with the Hellenic colonization of Sicily and South Italy and to the eastern shore of the Aegean. Ends with the Sixth century CE but excludes Early Christian sites of the fourth and fifth centuries. ; 1019 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33609 ISBN : 0691035423 9780691035420

‎Anderson, Michael J.‎

‎THE FALL OF TROY IN EARLY GREEK POETRY AND ART‎

‎Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0198150644 . Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. Review of book by Jenifer Neils- also her copy tipped in. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 0.85 x 8.75 x 5.62 Inches; 304 pages; Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest deceit crime and punishment and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in the archetypal myth - the murder of Priam the rape of Kassandra the reunion of Helen and Menelaos and the escape of Aineias - as witnessed in Archaic Greek epic fifth-century Athenian drama and Athenian black- and red-figure vase painting. It focuses in particular on the narrative artistry with which poets and painters balanced these episodes with one another and intertwined them with other chapters in the story of Troy. The author offers the first comprehensive demonstration of the narrative centrality of the Ilioupersis myth within the corpus of Trojan epic poetry and the first systematic study of pictorial juxtapositions of Ilioupersis scenes on painted vases. . Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33632 ISBN : 0198150644 9780198150640

‎Gebhard, Elizabeth R.‎

‎THE THEATER AT ISTHMIA‎

‎Chicago IL U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0226284646 . Front hinge a bit strained. DJ spine dampstained. Old price sticker to front panel. Minor creasing to DJ. ; Oblong 8vo.; 154 pages . University of Chicago Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33661 ISBN : 0226284646 9780226284644

‎Small Jocelyn Penny‎

‎THE PARALLEL WORLDS OF CLASSICAL ART AND TEXT‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0521815223 . Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Considering the relationship between artists and texts throughout classical antiquity this study systematically applies new and objective criteria to judge the fidelity between picture and text. It becomes clear that artists illustrate stories not texts and Jocelyn Penny Small argues that artistic transmissions follow the model of oral not textual transmission where the variant rules and there is no original. Pictures on vases she demonstrates should not be used to reconstruct lost literary works. ; 10.2 X 7.2 X 0.8 inches; 270 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33743 ISBN : 0521815223 9780521815222

‎Green Richard & Eric Handley‎

‎IMAGES OF THE GREEK THEATRE‎

‎British Museum Publications. Very Good. 1995. Softcover. 0714122076 . Minor shelfwear. ; Classical Bookshelf; 127 pages; Classical Greek theatre survives not only in plays that we still read and perform but also in artistic images. Depictions of performances actors and their masks were frequent in classical times and continued to appear even beyond the fifth and sixth centuries A. D. long after the plays had ceased to be staged. These artifacts together with the remains of actual theatres and the texts of surviving plays give us an idea of how Greek drama must have appeared in its heyday. In this book Richard Green and Eric Handley outline the history of the Greek theatre drawing on the evidence supplied by the theatres themselves the surviving plays and artistic artifacts. They show and discuss painted pottery notably from fifth-century Athens and fourth-century southern Italy that records scenes from plays. Terra-cotta figures mosaics paintings metalware and gems also help them build a picture of Greek theatre. All these artifacts tell the story of Greek drama as seen through the eyes of those admirers who kept its classic moments and traditions alive and who found a place for it in the society of their own times. They help the modern playgoer and reader to imagine what a visit to the theatre in classical Greece might have been like. . British Museum Publications paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33013 ISBN : 0714122076 9780714122076

‎Apollodorus; Michael Simpson (Trans. )‎

‎GODS AND HEROES OF THE GREEKS The Library of Apollodorus. Translated with Introduction and Notes‎

‎University of Massachusetts Press. Good. 1976. Softcover. 0870232061 . Wraps have heavy rubbing with creasing. Colour loss along spine. Wraps are a bit worn. Scholar's name to ffep Jenifer Neils. Some underlining in ink to a few pages. ; Drawings; 0.81 x 9.25 x 5.95 Inches; 311 pages . University of Massachusetts Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33011 ISBN : 0870232061 9780870232060

‎Taplin, Oliver‎

‎COMIC ANGELS And Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1994. Softcover. 0198150008 . Spine is sunned and discolored. Else very light shelfwear. ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 168 pages; This book opens a neglected chapter in the reception of Athenian drama especially comedy and gives center stage to a particularly attractive and entertaining series of vase-paintings which have generally been regarded as marginal curiosities. These are the so-called "phylax vases" nearly all painted in Greek cities of South Italy in the period 400 to 360 B. C. Until now they have been taken to reflect a sort of local folk-theater but Taplin argues that most if not all reflect Athenian comedy of the sort represented by Aristophanes. His bold thesis brings up questions about the relation of tragedy as well as comedy to vase painting the cultural climate of the Greek cities in Italy and the extent to which Athenians were aware of drama as a potential "export." It also enriches appreciation of many key aspects of Aristophanic comedy. The book has assembled 47 photographs of vase-paintings many printed here for the first time outside specialist publications not readily accessible. . Oxford University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33014 ISBN : 0198150008 9780198150008

‎Webster, TBL. T. B.‎

‎POTTER AND PATRON IN CLASSICAL ATHENS‎

‎Methuen & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0416756301 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover Jenifer Neils. Scholar's name to ffep Jenifer Neils. Stapled review of book tipped in. Light pencil marginalia to a few pages. ; 320 pages; Pottery is the one industry in ancient Athens of which we have some detaile knowledge. This book examines the workshops the painted pots and their purchasers over the period 600-400 BC. . Methuen & Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32962 ISBN : 0416756301 9780416756302

‎Gregory Justina Ed.‎

‎A COMPANION TO GREEK TRAGEDY‎

‎Wiley-Blackwell. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 1405107707 . Rear hinge weakening and does not sit square. Very light bumping to top corners. DJ has some edgewar and creasing. ; Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World; 9.7 X 7.1 X 1.7 inches; 572 pages; The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars Pays attention to socio-political textual and performance aspects of Greek tragedy All ancient Greek is transliterated and translated and technical terms are explained as they appear Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter and a generous and informative combined bibliography . Wiley-Blackwell hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33020 ISBN : 1405107707 9781405107709

‎Steiner, Deborah Tarn‎

‎IMAGES IN MIND Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought‎

‎Princeton University Press. Very Good. 2002. Softcover. 0691094888 . Very faint crease through upper corner. Else minor shelfwear. ; In archaic and classical Greece statues played a constant role in people's religious political economic aesthetic and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.' '; 9.2 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches; 384 pages . Princeton University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 32991 ISBN : 0691094888 9780691094885

‎Lewis, D. M.‎

‎SPARTA AND PERSIA Lectures Delivered At the University of Cincinnati Autumn 1976 in Memory of Donald W. Bradeen.‎

‎E. J. Brill. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 9004054278 . Cincinnati Classical Studies New Series Volume I. ; 168 pages . E. J. Brill hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32978 ISBN : 9004054278 9789004054271

‎Bradeen, D. W. , & C. G. Boulter, A. Cameron, J. L. Caskey, P. Toppin, C. R. Trahman & J. M. Vail‎

‎LECTURES IN MEMORY OF LOUISE TAFT SEMPLE First Series 1961-1965‎

‎Princeton University Press for the University of Cincinnati. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. DJ has sunning and some discoloration. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover Jenifer Neils. ; The Mycenaean Age / C. W. Blegen --Prologue to Parmenides / G. Santillana --Greek historical studies / B. D. Meritt --Byzantium and Byzantinism / R. Jenkins --The classical ideal in Greek sculpture / B. Ashmole --Twentieth century approaches to Plato / W. K. C. Guthrie --Ammianus Marcellinus soldier-historian of the late Roman Empire / H. T. Rowell --Homer and the Homeric problem / G. F. Else. ; University of Cincinnati Classical Studies 1; 365 pages . Princeton University Press for the University of Cincinnati hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32988

‎Payne, Alina & Ann Kuttner & Rebekah Smick (Eds. )‎

‎ANTIQUITY AND ITS INTERPRETERS‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0521594006 . Faint shelfwear to DJ. ; Antiquity and Its Interpreters examines how the physical and textual remains of the ancient Romans were viewed and received by writers artists and cultural makers of early modern Italy. The case studies analyze specific texts the archaeological projects that made "antiquity" available the revival of art history and theory and the appropriation of antiquities to serve social ideologies among other topics. ; 11.2 X 8.7 X 1.0 inches; 340 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33061 ISBN : 0521594006 9780521594004

‎Giesecke, Annette L.‎

‎THE EPIC CITY Urbanism Utopia and the Garden in Ancient Greece and Rome‎

‎Center for Hellenic Studies. Very Good. 2007. Softcover. 0674023749 . Very faint shelfwear else fine. ; As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of Troy's wall Hephaistos created a wondrous ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's center lay two walled cities one at war and one at peace surrounded by fields and pasturelands. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal or utopian social order the Shield reveals that restraining and taming Nature would be fundamental to the Hellenic urban quest. It is this ideal that Classical Athens with her utilitarian view of Nature exemplified. In a city lacking pleasure gardens it was particularly worthy of note when Epicurus created his garden oasis within the dense urban fabric. The disastrous results of extreme anthropocentrism would promote an essentially nostalgic desire to break down artificial barriers between humanity and Nature. This new ideal vividly expressed through the domestication of Nature in villas and gardens and also through primitivist and Epicurean tendencies in Latin literature informed the urban endeavors of Rome. ; Hellenic Studies 21; 8.9 X 5.4 X 0.5 inches; 220 pages . Center for Hellenic Studies paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33071 ISBN : 0674023749 9780674023741

‎Walker, Henry John‎

‎THESEUS AND ATHENS‎

‎Oxford University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0195089081 . Review of book tipped in. Dustjacket has faint creasing; 0.85 x 9.32 x 6.32 Inches; 240 pages; Theseus is celebrated as the greatest of Athenian heroes. This work explores what he meant to the Athenians at the height of their city-state in the fifth century B. C. Assembling material that has been scattered in scholarly works Henry Walker examines the evidence for the development of themyth and cult of Theseus in the archaic age. He then looks to major works of classical literature in which Theseus figures exploring the contradictions between the archaic primitive side of his character and his refurbished image as the patron of democracy. His ambiguous nature as outsider flouting accepted standards of behavior while at the same time being a hero-king and a representative of higher ideals is analyzed through his representations in the work of Bacchylides Euripides and Sophocles. This is the only work of scholarship that examines the literary representation ofTheseus so thoroughly. It brings to life a literary character whose virtues flaws and contradictions belong in no less a degree to his creators the people of Athens. . Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33331 ISBN : 0195089081 9780195089080

‎Dalby Andrew‎

‎SIREN FEASTS A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece‎

‎Routledge. Very Good. 1997. Softcover. 0415156572 . Scholar's initial to inner cover Jenifer Neils. Else very faint shelfwear. ; 0.92 x 9.18 x 6.11 Inches; 320 pages; Cheese wine honey and olive oil--four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture- -were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia Greek food diversified and absorbed neighboring traditions yet retained its own distinctive character. In Siren Feasts Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits. Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated scholarly yet immensely readable Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods was fish a luxury item in classical Athens though disdained by Homeric heroes . It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore. . Routledge paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33093 ISBN : 0415156572 9780415156578

‎Tomlinson, R. A.‎

‎ARGOS AND THE ARGOLID From the End of the Bronze Age to the Roman Occupation‎

‎Cornell University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0801407133 . Scholar's name to ffep Jenifer Neils. Minor shelfwear. ; Describes the region & country of Argos; the relationship between the Argives and their neighbours; and the role of the Argives as the leaders of a 'third force' in mainland Greek history where they challenged the supremacy of the Spartans in Peloponnesian affairs. ; States and Cities of Ancient Greece; 289 pages . Cornell University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33130 ISBN : 0801407133 9780801407130

‎Alexander, Alfred (Ed. )‎

‎STORIES OF SICILY Edited and Translated with an Introduction‎

‎Schocken Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0805235922 . 1 small tear to DJ with light chipping. Old price to ffep. ; Stories by Luigi Capuana Giovanni Vega Virgilio Titone luigi Pirandello Vitaliano Brancati Giuseppe di Lampedusa Carmelo Ciccia Gino Raya Danilo Dolci and Leonardo Sciascia. Translated into English from Italian. ; 208 pages . Schocken Books hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33110 ISBN : 0805235922 9780805235920

‎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 : 33125 ISBN : 0472081527 9780472081523

‎Lampedusa, Giuseppe Di & (Trans. by Archibald Colquhoun) & Intro. by E. M. Forster‎

‎TWO STORIES AND A MEMORY‎

‎Pantheon Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. DJ is protected in plastic sleeve. DJ has small tears and chipping. DJ is price-clipped. ; 7.8 X 5.3 X 0.6 inches; 189 pages . Pantheon Books hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33171

‎Richardson, Jr. , Lawrence‎

‎POMPEII An Architectural History‎

‎The Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 080183533X . Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has chipping and minor edgewear. ; Excavations at Popeii have been going on for more than two centuires since 1748 and discoveries there have regularly produced new and important information about ancient Roman life. The site holds a rich concentration of municipal buildings houses of every size and condition villas and tombs. Now in paperback the first book of this century written in English devoted to Pompeian architecture and urban development tells the story of the city and its buildings. With text and illustrations L. Richardson jr portrays Pompeii in context as a keystone in the architectural history of antiquity. Pompeii's life was comparatively short. From its meteoric rise as a seaport and shipbuilding center during the First Punic War until its abrupt destruction with the eruption of Vesuvius in A. D. 79 the city passed through four major building periods. After a general introduction to Pompeii's history and geography the book proceeds through each period discussing its public buildings private buildings and tombs. Each building is described and placed according to its importance in the development of its particular architectural form. Richardson offers new dates and arrives at new conclusions about the development of such important features as the city plan fortifications and the atrium/peristyle house. Fifty ground plans and twenty-five photographs illustrate the text. ; 10.5 x 1.5 x 8 Inches; 480 pages; Excavations at Pompeii have been going on for more than two centuires since 1748 and discoveries there have regularly produced new and important information about ancient Roman life. The site holds a rich concentration of municipal buildings houses of every size and condition villas and tombs. Now in paperback the first book of this century written in English devoted to Pompeian architecture and urban development tells the story of the city and its buildings. With text and illustrations L. Richardson jr portrays Pompeii in context as a keystone in the architectural history of antiquity. Pompeii's life was comparatively short. From its meteoric rise as a seaport and shipbuilding center during the First Punic War until its abrupt destruction with the eruption of Vesuvius in A. D. 79 the city passed through four major building periods. After a general introduction to Pompeii's history and geography the book proceeds through each period discussing its public buildings private buildings and tombs. Each building is described and placed according to its importance in the development of its particular architectural form. Richardson offers new dates and arrives at new conclusions about the development of such important features as the city plan fortifications and the atrium/peristyle house. Fifty ground plans and twenty-five photographs illustrate the text. "There has long been a need for a comprehensive account in English of the architecture and urban development of Pompeii. Richardson's book makes a valiant effort to remedy the deficiency and will be particularly welcome to all students of Roman architecture"-- Classical Review . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33396 ISBN : 080183533X 9780801835339

‎Paine Wesley & Brad Forrister Eds.‎

‎THEATRE PARTHENOS An Introduction to Greek Theatre‎

‎Metro Board of Parks and Recreation. Near Fine. 1996. Softcover. 16 pp pamphlet put out for introducing readers to the Greek Theatre. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 16 pages . Metro Board of Parks and Recreation paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33275

‎Stewart Andrew‎

‎FACES OF POWER Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics‎

‎University of California Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0520068513 . Light edgewear and faint creasing to DJ. ; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 545 pages; Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence on marbles bronzes ivories frescoes mosaics coins medals even painted pottery and relief ware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most famous in history. But can we really know what meaning lies behind these images Andrew Stewart demonstrates that these portraits wildly divergent in character quality type provenance date and purpose actually transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of carefully crafted cliches that mobilize the notion "Alexander" for diverse ends and diverse audiences. Stewart discusses the portraits as studies in power and his original interpretation of them gives unprecedented fullness and shape to the idea and image called "Alexander." . University of California Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 33294 ISBN : 0520068513 9780520068513