‎Langage‎

‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

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‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25980 ISBN : 0701114967 9780701114961

‎Sellar W. Y.‎

‎THE ROMAN POETS OF THE AUGUSTAN AGE: HORACE AND THE ELEGIAC POETS With a Memoir of the Author by Andrew Lang‎

‎Oxford At the Clarendon Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1892. Hardcover. Spine cloth has tear along 1 side 5 cm. Spotted boards. Some rubbing to boards. Corners a bit edgeworn. Scholar's name to ffep W. Dale. Foxing to endpapers. ; 362 pages . Oxford At the Clarendon Press hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 26018

‎Bornemann, Eduard‎

‎ODYSSEE INTERPRETATIONEN Zugleich Eine Einführung in Die Sprachlichen Und Sachlichen Probleme Des Epos‎

‎Frankfurt: Verlag Moritz Diesterweg. Very Good. 1953. Softcover. Minor Shelfwear with small tear to rear wrap. Pages are tanned. Wraps are a bit browned. Foxing. ; 8vo; 171 pages . Verlag Moritz Diesterweg paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 26036

‎Heubeck Alfred‎

‎SCHRIFT‎

‎Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Very Good. 1979. Softcover. 3525254237 . Light creasing and edgewear to wraps. ; Band III Kapitel X. Contents: Voralphabetische Schriftsysteme des ägäisraumes; Das griechische Alphabet; Homer und die Schrift; Fachausdrücke; Literatur und Abkürzungen. ; Archaeologia Homerica Band III Kapitel X; 205 pages . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 26057 ISBN : 3525254237 9783525254233

‎Augustine; Wilhelm M. Green‎

‎STROMATA II: AURELII AUGUSTINI CONTRA ACADEMICOS DE BEATA VITA NECNON DE ORDINE LIBRI. Quos Ad Fidem Codicum Recensuit Prolegomnis Notisque Instruxit Wilhelmus M. Green‎

‎Spectrum. Good. 1955. Softcover. 3 pages with pencil notes and light pen. Wraps are a bit browned. Former owner's name to ffep. ; Latin Text. ; Stromata Patristica Et Mediaevalia II; 148 pages . Spectrum paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25962

‎Euripides; K. H. Lee (Ed. )‎

‎EURIPIDES: TROADES Edited with Introduction and Commentary‎

‎MacMillan & Co. & St. Martin's Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0333178912 . Scholar's name to ffep Sam Scully. Light Pencil notes to rear endpaper. ; Greek Text with english introduction and Commentary. ; 299 pages . MacMillan & Co. & St. Martin's Press hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25946 ISBN : 0333178912 9780333178911

‎Warden, John‎

‎ORPHEUS The Metamorphoses of a Myth‎

‎University of Toronto Press. Very Good. 1985. Softcover. 0802065937 . Minor wear; 238 pages; The Myth of Orpheus shaman and teacher musician and lover is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ Eleanor Irwin ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians Patricia Vicari ; Orpheus and Ficino Warden ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art 1400-1600 Scavizzi ; Orfeo and Euridice the first two operas Timothy J. McGee ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 Pedro Leon ; Triumph of Art of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton Vicari. . University of Toronto Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25968 ISBN : 0802065937 9780802065933

‎Lucretius; E. J. Kenney Ed.‎

‎LUCRETIUS: DE RERUM NATURA Book III‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0521081424 . Very light to book else fine. DJ has minor shelfwear with 1 small tear and light edgewear. DJ is price-clipped. ; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; 272 pages; The De Rerum Natura of Lucretius is a sustained and impassioned protest against religious superstition and irrationality. The poem takes the form of a detailed exposition of Epicurean physical theory - an extreme materialism designed to remove and discredit popular fears of the gods death and an afterlife. Book III is generally accepted to be the finest in the whole poem; Lucretius argues there that the soul is as mortal as the body and shows that human response to the fact of mortality and death can be at once rational dignified and liberating. Professor Kenney's commentary is the first to give proper critical emphasis to the techniques and intentions of Lucretius' poetry; it can be read with profit by all students of Latin from senior school level upwards. . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25909 ISBN : 0521081424 9780521081429

‎Thomas, Rosalind‎

‎ORAL TRADITION AND WRITTEN RECORDS IN CLASSICAL ATHENS‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Near Fine. 1992. Softcover. 0521425182 . Very minor shelfwear else Fine. ; Despite its written literature ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. This is the first serious attempt to study the implications of this view. Dr Thomas stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition in Greece and examines their character and interaction. Concentrating on the plentiful evidence from Classical Athens she shows how the use of writing developed only gradually and under the influence of the previous oral communication. Drawing on anthropological discussion the author isolates different types of Athenian oral tradition building up a picture of Athens' traditions about its past and examining why they changed and disappeared. This study provides crucial insights into the methods and achievements of the Greek historians. It also has major implications for the interpretation of ancient literacy. ; Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 321 pages . Cambridge University Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25935 ISBN : 0521425182 9780521425186

‎Horace; Michele Lowrie (Ed. )‎

‎HORACE: ODES AND EPODES‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good. 2009. Paperback. 0199207704 . Scholar's name to half-title Robert Brown. Light shelfwear. Minor creasing to spine and corners of a few pages. ; This collection of recent articles provides convenient access to some of the best recent writing on Horace's Odes and Epodes. Formalist structuralist and historicizing approaches alike offer insight into this complex poet who reinvented lyric at the transition from the Republic to the Augustan principate. Several classic studies in French German and Italian are here translated into English for the first time. A thread linking many of the pieces is the recurring debate over the performance of Horace's Odes. Fiction Literal reality A figurative appropriation of Greek tradition within the bookish culture of late Hellenism Arguments both for and against gain a hearing. Michele Lowrie's introduction surveys the state of current scholarship and offers guidance on the seminal issues confronting the interpretation of Horatian lyric today. Suggestions for further reading and a consolidated bibliography open avenues for more extensive research. ; Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; 560 pages . Oxford University Press paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25682 ISBN : 0199207704 9780199207701

‎Johnson, W. R.‎

‎LUCRETIUS AND THE MODERN WORLD‎

‎Duckworth. Very Good. 2000. Paperback. 0715628828 . Scholar's name to half-title Robert Brown. Minor creasing to wraps. ; Lucretius' "On the Nature of Things" one of the glories of Latin literature provides a vivid poetic exposition of the doctrines of the Greek atomist Epicurus. The poem played a crucial role in the reinvention of science in the seventeenth century its influence on the French Enlightenment was powerful and pervasive and it became a major battlefield in the wars of religion with science in nineteenth-century England. But in the twentieth century despite its vital contributions to modern thought and civilisation it has been largely neglected by common readers and scientists alike. This book offers an extensive description of the poem with special emphasis on its cheerful version of materialism and on its attempt to devise an ethical system that suits such a universe. It surveys major relevant texts form the eighteenth and ninetheenth centuries Dryden Diderot Voltaire Tennyson Santayana and speculates on why Lucretius and the ancient scientific tradition he championed has become marginalised in the twentieth century. It closes with a discussion of what value the poem has for students of science and technology in the new century: what advice it has to offer us about how to go about reinventing our machines and our morality. ; Classical Inter/Faces; 128 pages . Duckworth paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25677 ISBN : 0715628828 9780715628829

‎Scarcia, R. & G. D'Anna & E. Paratore‎

‎RICERCHE DI BIOGRAFIA LUCREZIANA‎

‎Edizioni Dell'ateneo Roma. Very Good-. 1964. Softcover. Tear to base of spine. Light browning to wraps. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover Robert Brown. ; Quaderni Della Rivista Di Cultura Classica E Medioevale 7; 159 pages . Edizioni Dell'ateneo Roma paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25815

‎Grilli, Alberto‎

‎LUCREZIO‎

‎Cisalpino-Goliardica. Very Good. 1970. Softcover. Pages lightly tanned. Minor pencil marginalia. Errata page tipped in. ; 177 pages . Cisalpino-Goliardica paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25820

‎Buchner, Karl‎

‎STUDIEN ZUR RÖMISCHEN LITERATUR BAND I: LUKREZ UND VORKLASSIK‎

‎Franz Steiner Verlag. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover Robert Brown. Light pencil marginalia. Else book has minor shelfwear. DJ has scuffing chipping and a few tears. ; Text is in German. ; Studien Zur Römischen Literatur; Vol. 1; 211 pages . Franz Steiner Verlag hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25825

‎Wisse, Jakob‎

‎WELSPREKENDHEID EN FILOSOFIE BIJ CICERO Studies En Commentaar Bij Cicero De Oratore 319-37a; 52-95‎

‎Very Good. 1994. Softcover. Faint creasing to wraps. Light shelfwear. ; Proefschrift Diss. ; 298 pages . paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25833