‎Language‎

‎Garnsey, Peter & C. R. Whittaker (Eds. )‎

‎TRADE AND FAMINE IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY‎

‎Cambridge Philological Society. Very Good. 1983. Softcover. 0906014042 . Pages a bit tanned. Tiny faint stain to rear wrap. Else very light shelfwear. ; A theme of the volume is that a combination of natural and artificial shortages made inevitable the bulk movement of staples between regions in all periods of antiquity. Novel contributions are offered in addition in relation to the cost of shipping the extent of long-distance trade in wine the relative demand for wheat and barley the incidence and gravity of food crises the efficiency of famine-relief measures and the part played by food shortages in the collapse of the late Roman frontier system. ; Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Vol 8; 126 pages . Cambridge Philological Society paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26638 ISBN : 0906014042 9780906014042

‎Phillimore, Johannes Swinnerton (Ed. )‎

‎INDEX VERBORUM PROPERTIANUS‎

‎Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. Light edgewear to extremities. Minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged reprint of 1905 edition. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 111 pages . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26616

‎Crawford, Michael‎

‎THE ROMAN REPUBLIC‎

‎Harvard University Press. Very Good. 1978. Softcover. 0674779312 . Pencil underlining and notes to some pages. Minor shelfwear. ; During the centuries of its history the republic burst its city-state shell. Wars rural impoverishment the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few families civil discord the increase in number of slaves and robbery of overseas provinces caused irreversible changes. This is the material of Crawford's study. He handles its complexities with acuteness and balance. He is sophisticated about political motives and economic causes. Crawford's readable book is a fine contribution to the understanding of this important period. Times Higher Education Supplement ; 224 pages . Harvard University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26606 ISBN : 0674779312 9780674779310

‎Harris William V.‎

‎RESTRAINING RAGE The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity‎

‎Harvard University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0674006186 . Very faint bump to 1 corner else book is fine. DJ has light edgewear with a bit of creasing. ; The angry emotions and the problems they presented were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church fathers of the fourth century A. D. the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans. Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts and on recent work in anthropology and psychology Restraining Rage explains the rise and persistence of this concern. W. V. Harris shows that the discourse of anger-control was of crucial importance in several different spheres in politics--both republican and monarchical--in the family and in the slave economy. He suggests that it played a special role in maintaining male domination over women. He explores the working out of these themes in Attic tragedy in the great Greek historians in Aristotle and the Hellenistic philosophers and in many other kinds of texts. From the time of Plato onward educated Greeks developed a strong conscious interest in their own psychic health. Emotional control was part of this. Harris offers a new theory to explain this interest and a history of the anger-therapy that derived from it. He ends by suggesting some contemporary lessons that can be drawn from the Greek and Roman experience. ; 480 pages . Harvard University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26259 ISBN : 0674006186 9780674006188

‎Martial‎

‎THE EPIGRAMS OF MARTIAL. Translated Into English Prose.‎

‎G. Bell & Sons Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1914. Hardcover. 1 corner bumped. Tiny chip to 1 corner. White correction fluid to ffep. A few leaves carelessly opened. 1 page is torn and repaired with staples ! . Else VG. ; Bohn's Classical Library; 660 pages . G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26276

‎Bowman, Alan K. & Edward Champlin & Andrew Lintott (Eds. )‎

‎THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY Volume X: the Augustan Empire 43 B. C. - A. D. 69‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1996. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0521264308 . 1 page untrimmed else book is fine. DJ has some tears and chipping. ; The period described in this volume begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of Nero. Its main theme is the transformation of the political configuration of the state to a dynastic monarchy and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Central to the period is the achievement of the first emperor Augustus. ; Cambridge Ancient History Series; Vol. 10; 1193 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26288 ISBN : 0521264308 9780521264303

‎Cicero; Mary Siani Davies‎

‎MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO: PRO RABIRIO POSTUMO Translated with Introduction and Commentary‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good. 2001. Softcover. 0199240965 . Scholar's small bookplate to ffep R. E. Fantham. Minor shelfwear. ; Clarendon Ancient History Series; 282 pages . Oxford University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26300 ISBN : 0199240965 9780199240968

‎Latte, Kurt‎

‎SALLUST Sonderausgabe MCMLXII‎

‎Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Very Good. 1962. Hardcover. Scholar's name to ffep R. E. Fantham. Very light shelfwear. ; Text is in German; 60 pages . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26320

‎Morel Willy Eds.‎

‎FRAGMENTA POETARUM LATINORUM EPICORUM ET LYRICORUM POETARVM LATINORVM EPICORVM ET LYRICORVM Praeter Ennium Et Lucilium Ennivm Et Lvcilivm. Iterum Edidit Willy Morel. Editio Stereotypa Editionis Alterius MCMXXVII‎

‎B. G. Teubner. Very Good. 1975. Second Edition. Softcover. 3519013711 . Rubbing and colour loss to spine. Else Minor shelfwear. ; Text in latin; Apparatus in Latin. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana; 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.6 Inches; 190 pages . B. G. Teubner paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26330 ISBN : 3519013711 9783519013716

‎Ausonius ; Rudolfus [Rudolf] Peiper. (Ed. )‎

‎DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS DECIMI MAGNI AUSONII BURDIGALENSIS OPUSCULA Recensuit Rudolfus Peiper‎

‎Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. Light soiling to wraps. ; Latin text with editorial matter in Latin as well. Cxxviii 556 p; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 556 pages . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26332

‎Wiseman T. P.‎

‎CINNA THE POET And Other Roman Essays‎

‎Leicester University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0718511204 . Small stain to foreedge of last few pages. Else very light shelfwear. ; 212 pages; Consists of twelve separate but inter-connected essays on poetry and personalities in late-republican Rome. Contents: The two worlds of Titus Lucretius; Cinna the Poet; Structural Patterns in Catullus; Catullus 'poem 68'; Lesbia and her Children; Who was Gellius The Good Goddess; The Go-Between; Two friends of Clodius in Cicero's Letters; Clodius at the Theatre; Pyxis Caeliana; The Last of the Metelli. . Leicester University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26342 ISBN : 0718511204 9780718511203

‎Habinek Thomas N.‎

‎THE POLITICS OF LATIN LITERATURE Writing Identity and Empire in Ancient Rome‎

‎Princeton University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0691068275 . From the library of R. E. Fantham. Pen notes to 1 pages. A few pages with pencil and underlining. Light rubbing and faint soiling to DJ. ; This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows however that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as Cato Cicero Horace Ovid and Seneca. He shows that from its beginnings in the late third century b. C. To its eclipse by Christian literature six hundred years later classical literature served the evolving interests of Roman and more particularly aristocratic power. It fostered a prestige dialect for example; it appropriated the cultural resources of dominated and colonized communities; and it helped to defuse potentially explosive challenges to prevailing values and authority. Literature also drew upon and enhanced other forms of social authority such as patriarchy religious ritual cultural identity and the aristocratic procedure of self-scrutiny or existimatio. Habinek's analysis of the relationship between language and power in classical Rome breaks from the long Romantic tradition of viewing Roman authors as world-weary figures aloof from mundane political concerns--a view he shows that usually reflects how scholars have seen themselves. The Politics of Latin Literature will stimulate new interest in the historical context of Latin literature and help to integrate classical studies into ongoing debates about the sociology of writing. ; 248 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26353 ISBN : 0691068275 9780691068275

‎Dominik, William J. (Ed. )‎

‎ROMAN ELOQUENCE Rhetoric in Society and Literature‎

‎Routledge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Softcover. 0415125456 . Pencilling and underlining to a few pages. ; 1.02 x 8.43 x 5.59 Inches; 268 pages; Rhetoric is once again becoming valued as an essential element in the exploration of the ancient world. This volume is part of a general renaissance in the study of rhetoric and draws together established and newer scholars in the field to produce a probing and innovative analysis of the role played by rhetoric in Roman culture. Utilizing a variety of critical approaches and methodologies the contributors examine not only the role of rhetoric in Roman society but also the relationship between rhetoric and Rome's major literary genres. Roman Eloquence emphasizes the theory and practice of rhetoric in a variety of social political and literary contexts and reveals the important role played by rhetoric in the formation of the various genres of literatures. . Routledge paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26351 ISBN : 0415125456 9780415125451

‎Vasaly, Ann‎

‎REPRESENTATIONS Images of the World in Ciceronian Oratory‎

‎University of California Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0520077555 . Book is fine. Dustjacket has minor edgewear and rubbing. ; Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu--social political topographical--is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience ancient oratory becomes performance art. Vasaly investigates the way Cicero represented the contemporary physical world--places topography and monuments both those seen and those merely mentioned--to his listeners and demonstrates how he used these representations to persuade. Her exceptionally well-written study deftly recaptures the immediacy of Cicero's oratory and makes a trenchant contribution to an important new area of inquiry in Classical Studies. ; 301 pages . University of California Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26358 ISBN : 0520077555 9780520077553

‎Ovid; Elaine Fantham (Ed. )‎

‎OVID: FASTI Book IV‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0521445388 . Light bumping to 2 corners. Scholar's name to ffep Elaine Fantham. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 304 pages; Book IV of Ovid's celebration of the calendar and the associated legends of the Roman year treats the month of April a particularly happy phase of the Augustan ceremonial year. Around the festival of Venus and the anniversary of the foundation of Rome Ovid retells the legends of Rome's royal founder Romulus and the Trojan hero Aeneas. The introduction and commentary pay special attention to Ovid's art as a poet but aim to provide both the general background and specific explanations of his historical and religious material.; Signed by Editor . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26360 ISBN : 0521445388 9780521445382

‎Von Albrecht, Michael‎

‎SILIUS ITALICUS Freiheit Und Gebundenheit Römischer Epik‎

‎P. Schippers. Very Good. 1964. Hardcover. 9060321375 . Scholar's small bookplate to ffep R. E. Fantham. Minor shelfwear. 1 corner lightly bumped. ; Text is in german. ; 237 pages . P. Schippers hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26389 ISBN : 9060321375 9789060321379

‎Harrison, S. J.‎

‎APULEIUS A Latin Sophist‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0198140533 . Bottom corner is very lightly bumped. Else very light shelfwear to book. Scholar's name to DJ flap R. E. Fantham. DJ has very minor shelfwear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages; This book is a response to the literary pleasures and scholarly problems of reading the texts of Apuleius most famous for his novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass. Living in second-century North Africa Apuleius was more than an author of fiction; he was a consummate orator and professional intellectual Platonist philosopher extraordinary stylist relentless self-promoter and versatile author of a remarkably diverse body of work much of which is lost to us. This book is written for those able to read Apuleius in Latin and Apuleian works are accordingly quoted without translation although where they exist suitable translations have been indicated. In this book Dr Harrison has provided a literary handbook to all the works of Apuleius as well as the Metamorphoses and has set his works against their intellectual background: not only Apuleius' career as a performing intellectual a sophist in second-century Roman North Africa but also the larger contemporary framework of the Greek Second Sophistic. While focusing primarily on the texts as literature and literary-historical the book also deals with Apuleius' works of didactic philosophy and his consequent connection with Middle Platonism. . Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26394 ISBN : 0198140533 9780198140535

‎Pollitt J. J.‎

‎THE ART OF ROME. C. 753 B. C. -337 A. D. Sources and Documents‎

‎Prentice-Hall Inc. Very Good-. 1966. Softcover. Gift inscription to titlepage from author to Alan Samuel. Ffep is priceclipped. Spine creased. ; Sources and Documents in the History of Art Series; 252 pages; Collection of the most important ancient texts relating to early Roman art including numerous references to painting portrait sculpture and statues buildings public works etc. with introduction translations from the Greek and Roman texts and notes by J. J. Pollitt. Biographical notes on Greek and Roman authors; index of artists; geographical index. ; Signed by Author . Prentice-Hall, Inc. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26399

‎Knight, Donald W‎

‎SOME STUDIES IN ATHENIAN POLITICS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C.‎

‎Franz Steiner Verlag. Good. 1970. Softcover. Writing in pen to some pages. Some pencil. Rubbing to wraps. ; Essays on: The Foreign Policy of Pericles 446 to 431 BC; Athenian Politics 510 to 478 BC: Some Problems; Themistokles Aristeides and some ancient anecdotes. ; Historia : Einzelschriften ; Heft 13; 44 pages . Franz Steiner Verlag paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26126

‎Merrill, Elmer Truesdell (Ed)‎

‎CATULLUS‎

‎Ginn & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1893. Hardcover. Extremities have a bit of wear with a bit of chipping. Spine slightly darkened. Former owner's name on ffep. ; English Introduction and notes with Latin Text. ; College Series of Latin Authors; 273 pages . Ginn & Company hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26151

‎Tarn, William Woodthorpe‎

‎ANTIGONOS GONATAS King of Macedonia 276-239 BC‎

‎Argonaut Inc. Publishers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Some foxing to textblock. Former owner's name to ffep. ; The first of the modern biographies of great Hellenistic kings is surely W. W. Tarn's Antigonos Gonatas originally published in 1913. Tarn's book is biography on a grand scale; he aims not only to recount Antigonos' political career but to bring to life the man and his times and there is no missing his genuine admiration for his subject. ; 501 pages . Argonaut Inc. , Publishers hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 26133

‎Livy; E. D. C. Lake & F. S. Porter‎

‎LIVY: HANNIBAL THE SCOURGE OF ROME‎

‎Bristol Classical Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1984. Paperback. 0862921317 . Crease through upper corner of book. Some minor foxing. ; BCP Classical Latin and Greek Texts; 120 pages . Bristol Classical Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 26124 ISBN : 0862921317 9780862921316

‎Du Bois, Elizabeth Hickman‎

‎THE HUNDRED RIDDLES OF SYMPHOSIUS Translated Into English Verse with an Introduction and Notes‎

‎Elm Tree Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1912. Hardcover. Corners somewhat edgeworn. Minor fraying to top of spine. Possible rebind Marbled boards with green cloth spine. Spine label browned. ; Includes Latin Text. ; 86 pages . Elm Tree Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 25986

‎Cicero; David Stockton‎

‎THIRTY-FIVE LETTERS OF CICERO Selected and Edited with Introductions and Notes‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1988. Softcover. 0199120056 . Former owner's name to titlepage. Light shelfwear. ; These letters have been selected to show Cicero in his mature years from 65 to 44 B. C. They have not been chosen to illustrate details of social life and manners though such details inevitably occur in them : the main emphasis is political and the linking commentary that precedes each letter is designed to set it against the political background. The commentary is intended to supply not merely assist with the translation of the Latin and understanding of the syntax but more particularly the indispensable background of social and historical information without which the study of Cicero’s letters would be largely wasted labor. The introduction too while sketching the career of Cicero also clarifies the political background of the period. In general this edition will serve not merely as an introduction to Cicero’s letters but as giving some substance and immediacy to the study of the history of the late Republic. The text is that of the Oxford edition but care has been taken to produce a ‘clean’ text and occasionally different readings have been admitted from those printed in the Oxford text though these are generally noted and justified in the commentary. There are two appendices on the Roman calendar and on Roman money an index of proper names and of subject-matter and a select vocabulary. David Stockton 1925-2012 attended the Emanuel School and in 1943 was conscripted into the Royal Navy and worked on Japanese codes at Bletchley Park. A colleague at Brasenose observed that this experience may have honed his formidable skills at solving crosswords a devotion to which was shared by Inspector Morse author Colin Dexter. After the war Stockton won an open scholarship to read Classics at Magdalen College and went onto become a Fellow and Tutor at Brasenose College. His wide-ranging body of work includes what is widely regarded as the leading study on Cicero published in the 20th century.; 241 pages . Oxford University Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 25978 ISBN : 0199120056 9780199120055

‎Ogilvie, Robert Maxwell‎

‎THE ROMANS AND THEIR GODS IN THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS‎

‎Chatto & Windus. Good. 1969. Softcover. 0701114967 . Some underlining in red to some pages. A bit of pencilling. Minor yellowing to wraps. ; Ancient Culture and Society Series; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 135 pages; A picture of religious life in Rome during the period between 80 BC and AD 69. He discusses the various Roman gods and their spheres of activity the manner and kinds of prayer forms of sacrifice the belief of divination the calendar of religious year private religion and its role in Roman family life priests and their part in the complicated procedure of Roman religion and the powerful religious revival in the time of Augustus. . Chatto & Windus paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 25980 ISBN : 0701114967 9780701114961