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‎Lasansky, D. Medina‎

‎THE RENAISSANCE PERFECTED Architecture Spectacle and Tourism in Fascist Italy‎

‎Penn State University Press. Very Good. 2005. Softcover. 0271025077 . Very light shelfwear. ; Buildings Landscapes and Societies 4; 10.3 X 9.3 X 1.4 inches; 412 pages . Penn State University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33254 ISBN : 0271025077 9780271025070

‎Levey Michael‎

‎FLORENCE A Portrait‎

‎Harvard University Press. Very Good. 1998. Softcover. 0674306589 . Creasing to corners of wraps. Else minor shelfwear. ; Nestled in the Apennines cradle of the Renaissance home of Dante Michelangelo and the Medici Florence is unlike any other city in its extraordinary mingling of great art and literature natural splendor and remarkable history. Intimate and grand learned and engaging Michael Levey's Florence renders the city in all of its madness and magnificence. ; 9.6 X 7.4 X 1.2 inches; 528 pages . Harvard University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33112 ISBN : 0674306589 9780674306585

‎Raven, Susan‎

‎ROME IN AFRICA‎

‎Routledge. Very Good. 2005. Third Edition. Softcover. 0415081505 . Very light edgewear. ; 254 pages; Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants largely from outside. Carthaginians Romans vandals Byzantines Arabs TUrks French and Italians have all occupied the region in their time. The Romans governed this part of Africa for six hundred cities twelve thousand miles of roads and hundreds of aquaducts some fifty miles long. The remains of many of these structures can be seen today. At the height of its prosperity during the second and third centuries AD the area was the granary of Rome and produced more olive oil than Italy itself. The broadening horizons of the Roman Empire provided scope for the particular talents of a number of Africa's sons: the writers Terence and Apuleius; the first African Roman Emperor Septimius Severus famous Christian theologians like Tertulllian and Saint Augustine - these are just some who rose to meet the challenges of their age. . Routledge paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33155 ISBN : 0415081505 9780415081504

‎Rhodes P. J.‎

‎A COMMENTARY ON THE ARISTOTELIAN ATHENAION POLITEIA‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1993. Softcover. 0198149425 . Minor shelfwear with 1 corner of front wrap a bit chipped. . ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 824 pages; This is the first comprehensive commentary on the Athenaion Politeia since that of J.E. Sandys in 1912. The Introduction discusses the history of the text; the contents purpose and sources of the work; its language and style; its date and the evidence for revision after the completion of the original version; and the place of the work in the Aristotelian school. The Commentary concentrates on the historical and institutional facts which the work sets out to give their sources and their relation to other accounts. Textual and linguistic questions are also addressed. . Oxford University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 33127 ISBN : 0198149425 9780198149422

‎Lucretius; Thomas Creech‎

‎TITI LUCRETII CARI LUCRETIUS: DE RERUM NATURA LIBRI SEX: Quibus Interpretationem Et Notas Addidit Thomas Creech‎

‎Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano Impensis Ab. Swall & Tim. Child. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1695. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in full vellum. Faded red lettering to spine. Different owners' names in ink to ffep including John B. Stearns. Small bookplate to inner cover. Some minor browning to vellum. Endpapers slightly browned. Attractive book. ; 20 367 94 pp; 252 pages . E Theatro Sheldoniano, Impensis Ab. Swall & Tim. Child hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32286

‎Terence; Daniel Heinsius; Charles Cocquelines‎

‎P. TERENTII AFRI TERENCE: COMOEDIAE. VOL. II Ex Recensione Danielis Heinsii Collata Ad Antiquissimos Mss. Codices Bibliothecae Vaticanae. Et Italica Versione. Recensuit Notasque Antiquam Artem Comicam Et Nonnulla Antiquitatum Romanarum Monumenta Illustrantes Addidit Carolus Cocquelines. Tomus II‎

‎Rome: Nicolai Roisechii. Good with no dust jacket. 1767. Hardcover. Ex-university private library no exterior markings. 1/2 vellum boards. Spine chipped with a bit of loss to base binding edgeworn at extremities with some flecking. Fading and browning to boards. Minor moisture stain to rear endpaper and rear inner cover. Former owner's name to titlepage from 1772 Still Attractive. A beautiful and very large book. ; 252pp wonderfully illustrated. Contains Adelphi Phormio Hecyra. ; Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall; 252 pages . Nicolai Roisechii hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 21563

‎Apuleius; Joseph B. Pike‎

‎THE SHORT STORIES OF APULEIUS With Introduction and Notes‎

‎Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Good with no dust jacket. 1918. Hardcover. Binding discolored and mottled with staining. Many pencil and some ink notes in the text. With the bookplate and ownership signature of the Rev. Erwin R. Behrendt. ; Xxxix148pp. ; Allyn and Bacon`s College Latin Series; 148 pages . Allyn & Bacon hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20398

‎Gaius; Eduard Bocking‎

‎GAII GAIUS INSTITUTIONUM. COMMENTARII QUATTUOR. Emendavit Edvardus Böcking. Quarta Editio Prioribus Adcuratior‎

‎Leipzig: Salomonis Hirzelii. Fair with no dust jacket. 1855. Hardcover. An interleaved copy. 1/2 leather boards. Boards detached but present. Cloth tape applied over leather spine but now torn. Sticker on top cover book number from private library . Contents sound and tight. With the ownership signature of Tom Rosenmeyer London 1948. Some ink and pencil notes on the interleaved pages. A bit of ink to text. Fair to good; Xviii 344pp 9 10 folding pages. ; 344 pages . Salomonis Hirzelii hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20526

‎Apuleius; Julien Fleury (Julius Floridus)‎

‎LUCII APULEII LUCIUS APULEIUS MADAURENSIS PLATONICI PHILOSOPHI OPERA Interpretatione Et Notis Illustravit Julianus Floridus. Iussu Christianissimi Regis in Usum Serenissimi Delphini‎

‎Paris: Fredericum Leonard. Fair. 1688. Hardcover. Lacks the title page for volume I. The title page for vol. II is bound at the beginning opposite the frontispiece. Bound in full leather 5 raised bands leather label marbled endpapers. Corners are edgeworn. Joints are cracked. Boards are tooled with gilt design. The binding is intact but rubbed and worn especially to corners. The text is marred by some light foxing and a dampstaining which affects a good portion of the lower half of pages. Fair to Good. ; iv engraved frontispiece title with note to the reader on reverse 44 848pp 254pp indices. 2 volumes bound in one. An important book printed on good paper with a few illustrations. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall . Fredericum Leonard hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20367

‎Apuleius; J. A. Maury‎

‎L'ANE D'OR D'APULÉE PRÉCÉDÉ DU DÉMON DE SOCRATE. APULEI METAMORPHOSEOS SIVE LUSUS ASINI. LES MÉTAMORPHOSES 2 VOLUME SET Nouvelle Traduction Avec Le Latin En Regard Par J. A. Maury. Tome Premier & Tome Second‎

‎Paris: Jean-François Bastien. Good with no dust jacket. 1822. Hardcover. Bound in 1/4 leather marbled boards. Front board of Vol. 1 is rubbed in places some marbling has flecked off. Vol. 1: VG. Backstrip of Vol. II repaired with tape. Front board almost detached; contents near Very Good marred only by a few pencil notes and a small dampstain in the bottom inner margin of the first few leaves of Vol. II. ; 2 volumes. Frontis. xxviii 370pp 22pls; iii 426pp 18pls. Text is in Latin and French. Some illustrations. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1/2/2025; 796 pages . Jean-François Bastien hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 20696

‎Frier, Bruce W.‎

‎LIBRI ANNALES PONTIFICUM MAXIMORUM The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition‎

‎University of Michigan Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0472109154 . Upper corner a bit bumped. DJ spine sunned. Else minor shelfwear. ; The Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. XXVII; 368 pages; Recent years have seen a welcome growth of interest in the history of early Rome. Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum: the Origins of the Annalistic Tradition contributes important information on this period by focusing on the earliest stages of Roman historical writing. The book is once again available with a new Introduction by the author that brings the work up to date and helps place it in its current context. This book remains the starting point for study of the pre-annalistic tradition of Roman history. When first published the volume sparked a lively debate among classicists and historians of the ancient world. Previous scholarship had often assigned the pontifical chronicle a central role not only in preserving the history of the early Republic but also in shaping the form of the annalistic tradition. But the author showed that these assumptions rested on insecure foundations; to a large extent they misrepresented the historiographic development of the annalistic tradition as we know it from above all Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Perhaps the book's most controversial contention was that the final eighty-book edition of the chronicle which previous scholars had dated to the later second century BCE is more probably a massive reworking of materials in the Augustan period. This finding will likely require a considerable revision in our understanding of the development of the annalistic tradition. In the course of making these innovative arguments the author offers extensive information about the origins of the annalistic tradition and about the early history and historiography of Rome. Bruce W. Frier is Professor of Classics and Roman Law and Henry King Ransom Professor of Law University of Michigan. He has published numerous books and articles on classical and legal topics and has won the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association. . University of Michigan Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32296 ISBN : 0472109154 9780472109159

‎Quintus Horatius Flaccus / Horace; Richard Bentley‎

‎Q. HORATIUS FLACCUS HORACE EX RECENSIONE ET CUM NOTIS 2 VOLS IN 1 Atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. Tomus Primus & Secundus‎

‎Gottingen: Theophili Georgi. Good with no dust jacket. 1764. Hardcover. Book rebound in half leather binding with 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt lettering spine label. Gilt tooling to spine. Corners edgeworn with some leather flecked off. 1 cm loss to head of spine. Corners of Ffep have been neatly excised. Foxing to endpapers. Minor browning to endpapers. Small square notch to 1 page of preface 1cm. Creasing to spine. Smart looking book. Binding is tight. Former owner's names in ink to ffep. A few small ink corrections done in a neat hand to a few pages. Good /VG-; Vol. 1: 1764 xviii 572 pp Vol. 2: 1764 192 pp. 300 pp "Index In Q. Horatium Flaccum Olim quidem collectus a Thoma Tretero deinde omnibus editionibus accommodatus a Daniele Aveman Nunc vero Additis etiam V. Cl. Richardi Bentleii variantibus lectionibus pluribus quam mille & quingentis locis auctus & emendatus ab Isaaco Verburgio"; 2 Volumes Bound in 1 Book; 546 pages . Theophili Georgi hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32333

‎Dover, Kenneth James‎

‎LYSIAS AND THE CORPUS LYSIACUM‎

‎University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Book has very minor shelfwear. DJ spine browned. DJ has 1 small tear tear. DJ is price-clipped. ; Sather Classical Lectures 39; 200 pages; The purpose of this book is to examine the extent to which and the means by which the work of the individual Lysias can be distinguished within the total corpus ascribed to him. One part of the examination is an attempt to reconstruct the entire process of transmission from the making of the late Roman selection through the internal arrangement of the corpus in ancient editions to the relation between client and consultant at the time of writing. The other part is an evaluation of criteria of authenticity: chronological ideological and stylistic. . University of California Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32325

‎Mazzolani Lidia Storoni; S. O'Donnell Tr. & Foreword by Michael Grant‎

‎THE IDEA OF THE CITY IN ROMAN THOUGHT From Walled City to Spiritual Commonwealth‎

‎Hollis & Carter. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 037000339X . Tear to DJ along rear lower edge 3 cm. DJ is price-clipped. ; Object of the book is to trace the course of an idea through the history of Roman thought-- the idea of the City considered not as a political or legal institution but rather as a design for a society in which men could live together. Also depicts the inherent contradictions between these two views of the matter. ; 288 pages . Hollis & Carter hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32320 ISBN : 037000339X 9780370003399

‎Almagor, Eran & Joseph Skinner (Eds. )‎

‎ANCIENT ETHNOGRAPHY New Approaches‎

‎Bloomsbury Academic. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 1849668906 . 9.3 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches; 296 pages . Bloomsbury Academic hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32316 ISBN : 1849668906 9781849668903

‎Miller Stephen G.‎

‎ARETE Greek Sports from Ancient Sources. A Second and Expanded Edition‎

‎University of California Press. Very Good. 1991. Second Revised Edition. Softcover. 0520075099 . Light creasing to spine. Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep. ; 239 pages; From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources--Plutarch on boxing Aristotle on the pentathlon Philostratos on clay dust as an anti-perspirant and on the buying and selling of victories Vitruvius on literary competitions Xenophon on female body building. With fully twice as many texts as the highly successful first edition this new version of Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers--the ancients themselves. These sources which Miller himself has translated provide unparalleled insights into ancient athletic practices and competitive festivals. They emphasize the fundamental role of athletics in education and shed light on such issues as the role of women in athletics and the politics and economics of the games. Ultimately they demonstrate that the concepts of virtue skill pride valor and nobility embedded in the word arete and so closely associated in the modern mind with Greek athletics are only part of the story from antiquity. . University of California Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 32363 ISBN : 0520075099 9780520075092

‎Lefkowitz, Mary R.‎

‎THE LIVES OF THE GREEK POETS‎

‎Duckworth. Very Good. 1981. Softcover. 0715617214 . Very light shelfwear. ; Argues that the life stories of Greek poets even though primarily fictional still merit close consideration as they provide modern readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process and the purpose of poetic composition. ; 200 pages . Duckworth paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 32366 ISBN : 0715617214 9780715617212

‎Cornford, Francis Macdonald‎

‎THUCYDIDES MYTHISTORICUS‎

‎University of Pennsylvania Press. Very Good-. 1971. Softcover. 0812210212 . Spine a little discolored. Wraps has some rubbing and discoloration. Faint staining to ffep and front inner cover. Contents a bit shaken. ; The title of this book needs a word of explanation if not of apology; for to any one who is accustomed to think of Thucydides as typically prosaic and nothing if not purely historical the epithet Mythistoricus may seem to carry a note of challenge or even of paradox. But the sense in which the expression has here been used is quite consistent with the historian's much-talked-of `trustworthiness' and indeed with the literal truth of every statement of fact in the whole of his work. It is possible however even for a writer of history to be something much better than trustworthy. Xenophon I suppose is honest; but his honesty makes it none the easier to read him. To read Thucydides is although certainly not easy at any rate pleasant because--trustworthiness and all--he is a great artist. It is the object of this essay to bring out an essentially artistic aspect of his work which has escaped notice partly because the history is so long that it is hard to take it in as a whole and partly because the execution of the effect is imperfect having been hindered by the good intentions with which Thucydides set out. ; Pennsylvania Paperback 1021; 252 pages; Reprint of 1907 Original. . University of Pennsylvania Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 32358 ISBN : 0812210212 9780812210217

‎Boatwright, Mary T.‎

‎HADRIAN AND THE CITY OF ROME‎

‎Princeton University Press. Near Fine. 1987. Softcover. 0691002185 . Very Minor shelfwear. ; Contents: The Princeps and the City; The Campus Martius; Imperial Fora; Forum Romanum Rome's Traditional Center; Imperial Residences; Hadrian's Mausoleum and the Pons Aelius; Missing and Misidentified Buildings; Conclusions. ; 1.25 x 10.25 x 8 Inches; 340 pages . Princeton University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 32372 ISBN : 0691002185 9780691002187

‎Hornsby Roger A.‎

‎READING LATIN POETRY‎

‎University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 0806107413 . DJ has 1 small tear near top of spine. Dustjacket spine is sunned. Former owner's name to inner cover in pen. ; Contains more than one hundred poems by such poets as Vergil ovid Horace Seneca martial Catullus and Sappho. Notes to facilitate reading accompany the poems and individual chapters consider meter language and imagery as well as organization of a Latin poem. Text has latin text and extensive English commentary. ; 272 pages . University of Oklahoma Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32376 ISBN : 0806107413 9780806107417

‎D'Arms, John H.‎

‎ROMANS ON THE BAY OF NAPLES A Social and Cultural Study of the Villas and Their Owners from 150 B.C. to A.D. 400‎

‎Harvard University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0674779258 . Gift inscription from author to ffep in pen. Foxing to top of textblock. DJ spine sunned. DJ has chipping and a few tears. DJ is price-clipped. ; D'Arms examines the role of the towns around the Bay of Naples in ancient Roman society. From around the second century BC until the fourth century AD these Towns and private villas around the bay of Naples became the centre of fashion and decadence for the Roman aristocratic elite. ; 264 pages; Signed by Author . Harvard University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32383 ISBN : 0674779258 9780674779259

‎Campbell, David A.‎

‎THE GOLDEN LYRE The Themes of the Greek Lyric Poets‎

‎Duckworth & Company. Very Good. 1983. Softcover. 071561973X . Faint creasing and rubbing to wraps. ; Examines the most important of the poets' themes-- love wine athletics politics friends and enemies gods and heroes life and death poetry and music--. The texts are all printed in the original with accompanying translations. ; 312 pages . Duckworth & Company paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 32406 ISBN : 071561973X 9780715619735

‎Sullivan, John Patrick‎

‎CRITICAL ESSAYS ON ROMAN LITERATURE Elegy and Lyric‎

‎Routledge Kegan & Paul. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. 0710021623 . Minor shelfwear to book. Endpapers a bit browned. DJ has a couple of small tears. DJ spine browned. Former owner's name in pen to ffep. ; A collection of chapters on the major lyric and elegiac poets of Rome-- Catullus Tibullus Propertius Ovid and Horace. Translations are provided of all the Latin passages quoted. ; 225 pages . Routledge Kegan & Paul hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32414 ISBN : 0710021623 9780710021625

‎Tacitus; A. D. Godley (Ed. )‎

‎THE HISTORIES OF TACITUS: BOOKS III IV AND V With Introduction and Notes.‎

‎MacMillan & Company Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Former owner's name to ffep in pen with additional name deleted. Minor shelfwear. ; Latin text with English commentary and introduction. ; 296 pages . MacMillan & Company , Ltd. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32452

‎Jebb, R. C.‎

‎THE ATTIC ORATORS 2 VOLUME SET From Antiphon to Isaeus. Vol. I & II‎

‎MacMillan & Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1893. Hardcover. Light wear to a couple of corners of boards. A few small tears to cloth along joints of boards. Light Fraying to spine ends. Small ink stain to front board of Vol. 1; a few leaves carelessly opened with some tears. Minor scratches to boards. ; Vol. 1 & 2 1893. Cxxxiii 312 pp 481 pp. ; 2 Volume Set . MacMillan & Co hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 32447