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Fenik, Bernard
HOMER AND THE NIBELUNGENLIED Comparative Studies in Epic Style
Harvard University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0674406087 . Bumping to corners. Light soiling to boards. ; A sturyd of certain kinds of artistic design shared by the ancient Greek and medieval European epic. Also looks at Chanson de Roland and Rolandslied. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 0.87 x 9.64 x 6.45 Inches; 230 pages . Harvard University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 740 ISBN : 0674406087 9780674406087
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Fenik, Bernard
HOMER AND THE NIBELUNGENLIED Comparative Studies in Epic Style
Harvard University Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0674406087 . A sturyd of certain kinds of artistic design shared by the ancient Greek and medieval European epic. Also looks at Chanson de Roland and Rolandslied. ; Martin Classical Lectures; 0.87 x 9.64 x 6.45 Inches; 230 pages . Harvard University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 871 ISBN : 0674406087 9780674406087
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Nisetich, Frank J.
PINDAR AND HOMER
The Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0801838207 . Light shelfwear and rubbing. ; Considers four odes which demonstrate how Pindar has borrowed and creatively transformed mythological figures religious ideas and epic diction from Homer or the epic cycle. ; AJP Monographs in Classical Philology No. 4; 9.5 x 0.5 x 6.5 Inches; 112 pages . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 734 ISBN : 0801838207 9780801838200
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Clark Matthew
OUT OF LINE Homeric Composition Beyond the Hexameter
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0847686973 . Very light shelfwear ; Building upon the groundbreaking work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord "Out of Line" presents a new theory of Homeric composition focusing upon patterns that extend beyond the boundary of the line and the clause. Matthew Clark takes enjambment as a starting point analyzing the techniques used by the poet to complete a line that begins with a runover. Clark proceeds to propose two levels of analysis a "deep-structure" level which describes the associations of words and ideas before they take metrical form and a "surface-structure" level which describes the words as they are employed on any particular occasion. "Out of Line" combines formulaic and metrical analysis expanding the study of Homeric meter both in practice by taking into account larger compositional structures such as entire scenes and in theory by using the results to test models of formulaic composition. This book is important for students and scholars of Homer epic and oral literature. ; 0.83 x 9.29 x 6.19 Inches; 264 pages . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 736 ISBN : 0847686973 9780847686971
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Stewart, Douglas J
THE DISGUISED GUEST Rank Role and Identity in the Odyssey
Bucknell University Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0838716474 . Bottom edge of back board shows indentations. DJ is slightly soiled. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. ; Attempts to find the meaning of the Odyssey in its entirety. ; 221 pages . Bucknell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 755 ISBN : 0838716474 9780838716472
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King, Katherine Callen
HOMER
Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 081530482X . Light shelfwear. Light discoloration to bottom of boards. Ex-library copy with a few stamps. Pocket has been removed. ; Three essays written for and two others translated for the collection are among the 19 studies of the impact of the Iliad and the Odyssey on succeeding ages since the fifth century BC. Among the writers considered are George Chapman who first translated Homer into English in 1598 Pope Milton Kafka Goethe Racine Keats Tolstoy Joyce and recent Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott . Looks at Homer's influence from Antiquity to the twentieth century. ; Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; 9 x 0.75 x 6 Inches; 330 pages . Garland Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 720 ISBN : 081530482X 9780815304821
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Mason Harold Andrew
TO HOMER THROUGH POPE An Introduction to Homer's Iliad and Pope's Translation
Barnes & Noble Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0064946347 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; As fewer and fewer people learn to read ancient Greek there is a need for a critical study of the most influential translations that have been made from the major works of ancient Greek literature. Masons monograph offers exactly that for readers of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey. " More particularly he presents a persuasive argument for reading Alexander Popes translation his accompanying notes and his "Essay on Criticism. " These merit careful study for they illuminate Popes principles as a translator and constitute one of the most intelligent and penetrating commentaries on the poetic qualities of the epics ever written in English. Masons new insights along with his stringent and lively comments will bring readers closer to a real understanding of Homer whether they read him in the original or come to him in translation for the first time. They will also find here a masterly appreciation of Pope. ; 216 pages . Barnes & Noble Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 759 ISBN : 0064946347 9780064946346
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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. Very Good. 1990. Softcover. 0801840198 . Light bump to bottom of spine. ; 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 : 745 ISBN : 0801840198 9780801840197
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Lord, George De Forest
HEROIC MOCKERY Variations on Epic Themes from Homer to Joyce
University of Delaware Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0874131170 . Dustjacket is price-clipped and rubbed. ; 8.75 x 0.75 x 5.75 Inches; 162 pages . University of Delaware Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 874 ISBN : 0874131170 9780874131178
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Sienkewicz, Thomas J.
CLASSICAL EPIC An Annotated Bibliography
Salem Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0893566632 . Bibliography of Greek and Roman epic including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid; Magill Bibliographies; 1.09 x 9.18 x 6.46 Inches; 265 pages . Salem Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 752 ISBN : 0893566632 9780893566630
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Vivante Paolo
THE EPITHETS IN HOMER A Study in Poetic Values
Yale University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0300027087 . Light soiling to textblock and boards. Former owner's name on ffep; Looks at the noun-epithet phrases in Homer. ; 222 pages . Yale University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 786 ISBN : 0300027087 9780300027082
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Clarke, Howard W.
THE ART OF THE ODYSSEY
Bristol Classical Press. Very Good. 1989. Softcover. 0865162360 . Bottom corner of pages are creased else NF. ; Provides criticism sound scholarship and systematic explication of the characters action events and artistic devices of the Odyssey. ; 0.29 x 9.03 x 6.01 Inches; 120 pages . Bristol Classical Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 741 ISBN : 0865162360 9780865162365
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Nagy Gregory
PINDAR'S HOMER The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past
The Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine. 1994. Softcover. 0801848474 . Light soiling to textblock. Light crease to corner. ; Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. ; 1.35 x 9.04 x 6.04 Inches; 414 pages . The Johns Hopkins University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 733 ISBN : 0801848474 9780801848476
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Bornemann, Eduard
ODYSSEE INTERPRETATIONEN Zugleich Eine Einführung in Die Sprachlichen Und Sachlichen Probleme Des Epos
Frankfurt: Hirschgraben-Verlag. Very Good. 1953. Softcover. Shelfwear. Pages are yellowed. ; 8vo; 171 pages . Hirschgraben-Verlag paperback
Bookseller reference : 878
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Gay, Federico Ferro
LOS FILÓSOFOS PRESOCRÁTICOS De Homero a Demócrito
Secretaria De Educacion Publica. Very Good. 1987. Softcover. Shelfwear; In Spanish/ En Espanol; 8vo; 149 pages . Secretaria De Educacion Publica paperback
Bookseller reference : 882
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Webster, Graham
THE ROMAN IMPERIAL ARMY Of the First and Second Centuries A. D.
Barnes & Noble Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Second Edition. Hardcover. 006497507X . Light discoloration to spine. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. Corners are bumped. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. ; First general survey of the development of Roman Army deals with its organisation equipment camps forts and frontier works as well as its battle and siege tactics. ; 334 pages . Barnes & Noble Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 556 ISBN : 006497507X 9780064975070
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Craik E. M.
OWLS TO ATHENS Essays on Classical Subjects Presented to Sir Kenneth Dover
Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0198144784 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Essays on Greek literature especially Old Comedy contributed by Sir Kenneth Dover's colleagues and former pupils in honour of his 70th birthday. ; 1.13 x 9 x 6 Inches; 432 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 566 ISBN : 0198144784 9780198144786
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Schofield, Malcolm & Myles F. Burnyeat & Jonathan Barnes
DOUBT AND DOGMATISM Studies in Hellenistic Epistemology
Oxford University Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0198246013 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. Former owner's signature on fly page. One chip to front panel of DJ. Book has notes in pen on about 30 pages and pencil underlining throughout. Otherwise book is NF. ; 1.06 x 8.8 x 5.8 Inches; 356 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 535 ISBN : 0198246013 9780198246015
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Doherty, Paul C.
THE HOUSE OF DEATH A Mystery of Alexander the Great
Carroll & Graf Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0786708530 . In 334 B. C. Alexander the Great has decided to add Persia to his conquests but finds his inner circle beset with intrigue and his own divine personage in peril as spies and murderers stalk the tents of his army in this fast-paced page-turner. The young ruler summons his childhood friend Telamon to ferret out the identity of the mysterious Naihpat suspected to be the force behind the wave of deaths. A physician who learned deductive reasoning studying with Aristotle Telamon reluctantly accepts the duty. Freeing the spunky redhead Cassandra from the slave pens to act as his assistant he quickly encounters killings accomplished by Celtic knife and club poison and pushes from cliffs even two deaths that occur in "locked rooms " that is tightly sewn tents with Alexander's guards posted at the only entrance. And with each victim is found a scrap of parchment bearing cryptic warnings taken from the Iliad and Euripides. The prolific Doherty author of The Mask of the Ra and the sizable historical mystery series about Hugh Corbett and Brother Athelstan deftly handles the period details from day-to-day life in the camp to the inner courts of the Persian King of Kings bringing in a vast cast many soon to die as Alexander moves across the Hellespont toward the epic battle of the Granicus. Fans of ancient historical mysteries will find themselves in superbly practiced hands. ; 1.07 x 9.54 x 6.37 Inches; 320 pages . Carroll & Graf Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 531 ISBN : 0786708530 9780786708536
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Watson, George Ronald
THE ROMAN SOLDIER
Thames & Hudson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 0500400083 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ has light yellowing to top. Soiling to top of textblock. ; This book is a study of the life and training of the Roman soldier from enlistment to discharge. Covers the period of the Empire to the accession of Diocletian and pays especial regard to ranks below the centurionate. Takes account not only of the legions and the auxiliary forces but also of the praetorian guard and the urban cohorts the Vigiles and the imperial fleets. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 256 pages . Thames & Hudson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 579 ISBN : 0500400083 9780500400081
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Chance, Jane & Jane Chance Nitzsche
THE GENIUS FIGURE IN ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
Columbia University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0231038526 . Light Fading to letters on spine. Top corner is lightly bumped. ; Genius appears in major Latin and vernacular works of the late Middle Ages. Originally a spirit or god that survived in Roman religion for at least seven centuries its history and significance - religious philosophical and literary - have not previously been examined in detail; 0.79 x 9.23 x 6.23 Inches; 201 pages . Columbia University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 407 ISBN : 0231038526 9780231038522
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Cokayne Karen
EXPERIENCING OLD AGE IN ANCIENT ROME
Routledge. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0415299144 . Former owner's bookplate on flypage. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. Top Corners and spine ends are very lightly bumped. ; Old age today can be seen as a demographic timebomb or as a resource of wisdom and experience to be valued and exploited. With a unique emphasis on both the individual and society's responses Karen Cokayne explores how ancient Rome dealt with the physical intellectual and emotional implications of the ageing process and asks how the Romans themselves experienced and responded to old age. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary material - written sources inscriptions and visual evidence - the study brings into focus universal concerns including geriatric illness memory loss and senility; the status and role of the old sexuality and family relationships. ; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 240 pages . Routledge hardcover
Bookseller reference : 414 ISBN : 0415299144 9780415299145
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Woodward, Jocelyn M.
PERSEUS A Study in Greek Art and Legend
Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. Corners are lightly bumped. ; 98 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 410
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Huxley, George Leonard
GREEK EPIC POETRY From Eumelos to Panyassis
Harvard University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 057108298X . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Poetry of the Hellenic epic tradition in the three centuries from the epoch of Homer to the ascendancy of Athens. ; 213 pages . Harvard University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 411 ISBN : 057108298X 9780571082988
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Trypanis, Constantine Athanasius
THE HOMERIC EPICS
Aris & Phillips. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1977. Softcover. 0856680850 . Pages are slightly yellowed. ; Contents: Poet Homer and the Homeric Question; Structure of the Iliad and the Odyssey; The date of the Homeric Epics and their form; Epic Narrative Technique; Men and gods in the Homeric epics; Poetic Achievement of the Homer epics; Influence of the Homeric epics. ; 8.5 x 0.75 x 6 Inches; 114 pages . Aris & Phillips paperback
Bookseller reference : 421 ISBN : 0856680850 9780856680854
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Whitley, James; Renfrew, Colin & Wendy Ashmore & Clive Gamble & John O'Shea
STYLE AND SOCIETY IN DARK AGE GREECE The Changing Face of a Pre-literate Society 1100-700 BC
Cambridge University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0521373832 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; In this innovative study James Whitley examines the relationship between the development of pot style and social changes in the Dark Age of Greece 1100-700 BC. He focuses on Athens where the Protogeometric and Geometric styles first appeared. He considers pot shape and painted decoration primarily in relation to the other relevant features - metal artefacts grave architecture funerary rites and the age and sex of the deceased - and also takes into account different contexts in which these shapes and decorations appear. A computer analysis of grave assemblages supports his view that pot style is an integral part of the collective representations of Early Athenian society. It is a lens through which we can focus on the changing social circumstances of Dark Age Greece. Dr Whitley's approach to the study of style challenges many of the assumptions which have underpinned more traditional studies of Early Greek art. ; New Studies in Archaeology; 10.25 x 1 x 7.5 Inches; 245 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 447 ISBN : 0521373832 9780521373838
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Ginsberg, Warren
THE CAST OF CHARACTER The representation of personality in ancient and medieval literature
University of Toronto Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0802055966 . No DJ as issued. Very light staining-- otherwise Fine condition. ; Concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in medieval and ancient narrative fiction. Looks at Ovid Gottfried's Tristan Dante 's Farinata Chretien 's Yvain as well as Boccaccio and Chaucer. ; 202 pages . University of Toronto Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 457 ISBN : 0802055966 9780802055965
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Russell, D. A.
CRITICISM IN ANTIQUITY
University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0520044665 . Top corner of book is bumped. General shelfwear and rubbing to DJ. Book has former owner's signature. ; Identifies and analyses the main themes of classical literature against their historical background. Study of Ancient criticism in English. ; 219 pages . University of California Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 448 ISBN : 0520044665 9780520044661
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Lang, D. M. & D. R. Dudley
THE PENGUIN COMPANION TO CLASSICAL ORIENTAL & AFRICAN LITERATURE
Mcgraw-Hill. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 0070492816 . Useful Reference for Classical Byzantine Oriental and African Literature and History. ; The Penguin companion to world literature; 360 pages . Mcgraw-Hill hardcover
Bookseller reference : 462 ISBN : 0070492816 9780070492813
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Hanfmann, George Maxim Anossov
FROM CROESUS TO CONSTANTINE The Cities of Western Asia Minor and Their Arts in Greek and Roman Times
University of Michigan Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0472084208 . Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. Corners are lightly bumped. ; Richly illustrated with more than 200 photographs drawings and maps this book offers an original and informed interpretation of a major cultural synthesis and a panoramic view of the crucial zone of creative contact between the cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East. ; Jerome lectures; 127 pages . University of Michigan Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 471 ISBN : 0472084208 9780472084203
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Bonavia-Hunt, Noel A
HORACE THE MINSTREL A Practical and Aesthetic Study of His Aeolic Verse
Roundwood Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 0900093056 . Textblock shows evidence of light foxing. Light edgewear. Dustjacket has a few closed tears and soiling. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Contents: Horace and his Lyre; Was Horace a Musician; The Aeolic Odes: Sapphic ode Alcaic ode Asclepiad ode; Composing in horatian Metres; A Demonstration; An Anthology. ; 268 pages . Roundwood Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 478 ISBN : 0900093056 9780900093050
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Guiette, Robert
LANCELOT DE DANEMARK
La Renaissance Du Livre. Near Fine. 1974. Softcover. Very Light yellowing at top of pages. ; 14th Century Drama in French. ; 8vo . La Renaissance Du Livre paperback
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Welles, C. Bradford
ALEXANDER AND THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
A. M. Hakkert. Very Good-. 1984. Softcover. 0888665024 . Former owner's signature on fly page. Adhesive stain on inner cover from removed bookplate. Wraps show evidence of water damage causing slight rippling effect. Table of Contents has pen checkmarks to three pages. Rest of text is unmarked. ; 265 pages . A. M. Hakkert paperback
Bookseller reference : 484 ISBN : 0888665024 9780888665027
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Bright, David F. & Edwin S. Ramage
CLASSICAL TEXTS AND THEIR TRADITIONS Studies in Honor of C.R. Trahman
Scholars Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 089130729X . Table of contents contain light pen check marks about four in margin. Rest of book is clean and would be considered to be in Fine condition otherwise. ; Collection of essays dealing with a variety of subjects some of which include: Pseudolus as Socrates; Encolpius and Asianism; Wrath of Aeneas; Clodia in Cicero's Pro Caelio; Historical development in Livy; Cicero's Pro Sestio; Statilius-subscription and editions of late antiquity; Phaedra's isolation and self-consciousness; Similes in Lucretius; chora Basilike of Alexander the Great; Vergilian manuscripts; reconsideration of Cicero's princeps civitatis; Images of Crete in Aeneid; and others. ; Homage Series; 9.5 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 251 pages . Scholars Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 475 ISBN : 089130729X 9780891307297
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Staten, Henry
EROS IN MOURNING From Homer to Lacan
The Johns Hopkins University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0801849233 . Dustjacket has light rubbing. ; Eros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad that shows how Homer not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence analyzes the structure of unassuageable mourning in a way that is as up-to-date as the latest poststructuralism. Then in readings of Dante Hamlet La Princess de Clèves Heart of Darkness and Lacan Staten depicts the "thanato-erotic" hysteria that is set off by the specter of the dead and decomposing body that is also the body of sexual love and which in the "transcendentalizing" tradition is more female than male. Yet St. John certain troubadours and Milton offer glimpses of a more affirmative relation to "eros in mourning. " ; 9.5 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 248 pages . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 487 ISBN : 0801849233 9780801849237
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Harriott, Rosemary M.
ARISTOPHANES Poet & Dramatist
The Johns Hopkins University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0801832799 . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Light shelfwear. ; Book focuses on five plays: Acharnians Knights Clouds Wasps and Clouds. Harriott compares elements and compositions of different plays to demonstrate illuminating similarities and distinctions. ; 8.75 x 1 x 6 Inches; 200 pages . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 485 ISBN : 0801832799 9780801832796
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Curchin Leonard A.
THE LOCAL MAGISTRATES OF ROMAN SPAIN
University of Toronto Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0802058418 . Slight soiling to text block. ; Local aristocracies were crucial to the administrative and social assimilation of provincial communities in the Roman world. Curchin focuses on local political elites in the Iberian peninsula providing the first comprehensive and up-to-date prosopographical catalogue of all known local magistrates in Roman Spain. Volume includes statistical tables as well as maps. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume; 9.5 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 276 pages . University of Toronto Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 512 ISBN : 0802058418 9780802058416
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Santirocco, Matthew S.
UNITY AND DESIGN IN HORACE'S ODES
University of North Carolina Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0807816914 . Sunning to dustjacket's spine. ; Horace's first three books of Odes published together in 23 BC are a masterpiece of Augustan literature and the culmination of classical lyric. Matthew Santirocco provides the first new critical approach to them in English in more than two decades. ; 0.98 x 9.28 x 6.3 Inches; 261 pages . University of North Carolina Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 516 ISBN : 0807816914 9780807816912
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Gerson, Lloyd P.
PLOTINUS The Arguments of the Philosophers
Routledge. Fine with no dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 041520352X . Still wrapped in plastic; Plotinus ca. 205270 is widely considered the father of Neoplatonism. Much of our biographical information about Plotinus comes from Porphyry's preface to his edition of Plotinus' Enneads. ; 10 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 338 pages . Routledge hardcover
Bookseller reference : 568 ISBN : 041520352X 9780415203524
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Goff, Barbara
THE NOOSE OF WORDS Readings of Desire Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytos
Cambridge University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0521363977 . This book is a new reading of Euripides' Hippolytos a central play for the study of both Euripides and Greek tragedy. Professor Goff approaches the play through the techniques of modern literary criticism including deconstruction and feminism bringing new light to this influential text through her analysis of the play's language. She organizes her study around five critical issues: gender desire violence language and the status of poetry and drama. Throughout she takes care to situate the play within the historical and cultural context of fifth-century Athens. This provocative book will interest classicists and students of drama and literary theory; transliteration of Greek words and a glossary of key terms make it accessible to all. ; 154 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 90 ISBN : 0521363977 9780521363976
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Graham A. J.
COLONY AND MOTHER CITY IN ANCIENT GREECE
Sandpiper Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0719057396 . The subject of scholarly investigation since Valesius in 1634. This book focuses on relations between colony and mother city from the eighth to the fourth century BC and also subsequent relations using archaeological and especially epigraphical & literary evidence discussing the cities of Thasos Miletus Corinth Argos and Athens. ; Reprint Editions of Manchester University Press; 259 pages . Sandpiper Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 77 ISBN : 0719057396 9780719057397
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Tandy, David W. & University of California Press
WARRIORS INTO TRADERS The Power of the Market in Early Greece
University of California Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0520202694 . Very light shelfwear. ; The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century and the role that poetry played in this upheaval. Using tools from political and economic anthropology David Tandy argues that between about 800 and 700 B. C. a great transformation of dominant economic institutions took place involving wrenching adjustments in the way status and wealth were distributed within the Greek communities. Tandy explores the economic organization of preindustrial societies both ancient and contemporary to shed light on the Greek experience. He argues that the sudden shift in Greek economic formations led to new social behaviors and to new social structures such as the polis itself a by-product of economic change. Unraveling the dialectic between the material record and epic poetry Tandy shows that the epic tradition mirrored these new social behaviors and that it portrayed the stresses that economic change brought to the ancient Aegean world. Tandy brings in comparative evidence from other small-scale communities beset by changes spotlighting the specific plight of one community Ascra in Boeotia on whose behalf Hesiod sang his Works and Days. The result is a lively moving account of a human dilemma that many centuries later is all too familiar. ; Classics and Contemporary Thought; 9.5 x 1.25 x 6.5 Inches; 296 pages . University of California Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 79 ISBN : 0520202694 9780520202696
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Lord George De Forest
HEROIC MOCKERY Variations on Epic Themes from Homer to Joyce
University of Delaware Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0874131170 . Dustjacket is price-clipped and rubbed. ; 8.75 x 0.75 x 5.75 Inches; 162 pages . University of Delaware Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 74 ISBN : 0874131170 9780874131178
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Moorman, Charles
EDITING THE MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT
University Press of Mississippi. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0878050639 . Soiling to Dustjacket. ; 107 pages . University Press of Mississippi hardcover
Bookseller reference : 44 ISBN : 0878050639 9780878050635
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Bowers, John M. & TEAMS (Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages)
THE CANTERBURY TALES Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions: Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes Ploughman's Tale Cook's Tale Beryn
Medieval Institute Publications. Very Good. 1992. Softcover. 1879288230 . Spine is sunned. ; TEAMS Middle English Texts; 10.25 x 0.75 x 7.25 Inche; 200 pages . Medieval Institute Publications paperback
Bookseller reference : 97 ISBN : 1879288230 9781879288232
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Aristotle; Immanuel Bekker (ed.)
ARISTOTELIS DE REPUBLICA LIBRI VIII Ex Recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri
London: Lowe & Brydone. Very Good. 1837. Hardcover. Former owner's name on ffep in pencil. Underlining on a few pages in pencil. Notes in pencil on a few pages and extensive pencil notes on back free end-page. Brown boards with chipped label on spine. ; Text is in ancient Greek. . Lowe & Brydone hardcover
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Edwards, Robert R.
ART AND CONTEXT IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NARRATIVE Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank Jr.
D. S. Brewer. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0859914070 . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Moderate bump to top of spine of both DJ and book. Otherwise this would be NF; A collection of essays offering original arguments in a number of areas. Papers cluster around two topics: the writing of Langland and Chaucer and writing as historical process. These reflect Frank's own wide-ranging work. The papers contain a refreshing ideological diversity while maintaining coherence of intellectual concerns. There is a discussion of the working of memory in The Knights Tale. On debt on Langland's Christology and on revelry some very interesting ideas are put foward. In addition literary contexts for the two major poets are usefully and thoroughly mapped out and three papers illustrate how historical events and processes may be perceived in stimulatingly different ways. Included is an introduction from the editor and bibliography of Robert Worth Frank Jnr. Contributors: ELIZABETH KIRK C. DAVID BENSON ANNA BALDWIN M. TERESA TAVORMINA MONICA McALPINE MARY CARRUTHERS KATHRYN L. LYNCH CAROLYN P. COLLETTE MARY HAMEL PAUL STROHM THOMAS J. HEFFERMAN PEGGY KNAPP; 219 pages . D. S. Brewer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 175 ISBN : 0859914070 9780859914079
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Shepherd Geoffrey Ed.
ANCRENE WISSE Parts Six and Seven
University of Exeter Press. Fine. 2000. Softcover. 0859892565 . Ancrene Wisse also Ancrene Riwle or Guide for Anchoresses is a monastic rule or manual for anchorite nuns written in the early 13th century; Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies; 192 pages . University of Exeter Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 197 ISBN : 0859892565 9780859892568
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Molinaro Julius A.
PETRARCH TO PIRANDELLO Studies in Italian Literature in Honour of Beatrice Corrigan
University of Toronto Press Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0802052711 . Soiling to text block. Dustjacket has a couple of tears and is price-clipped. ; Studies in Italian Literature in honour of Beatrice Corrigan HB/DJ A translation of Petrarch's Bucolicum Carmen I: Parthenias; Petrarch and the art of literature and a bibliography of the published works of Beatrice Corrigan are among this collection of 13 studies in Italian literature. ; 276 pages . University of Toronto Press Inc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 132 ISBN : 0802052711 9780802052711
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Aers David
CHAUCER LANGLAND AND THE CREATIVE IMAGINATION
Routledgean Imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 071000351X . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket has some shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. Book has some crumpling to boards. ; Aers aims at a literary critical response which moves from close reading of particular texts notably Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales to the relevant contexts social theological ecclesiastical. The reader is thus able to return to the texts with an enriched and sharpened understanding of his world and an increased appreciation of the literature at the heart of this book. ; 248 pages . Routledge,an Imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 187 ISBN : 071000351X 9780710003515
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