‎Langage‎

‎Williams Gordon‎

‎TECHNIQUE AND IDEAS IN THE AENEID‎

‎Yale University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0300028520 . Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep Robert Brown. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover Robert Brown. Minor pencilling to a couple of pages. Spine slant. DJ has chipping and a few tears. ; 312 pages . Yale University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25248 ISBN : 0300028520 9780300028522

‎Wallace Hadrill Andrew‎

‎HOUSES AND SOCIETY IN POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM‎

‎Princeton University Press. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0691069875 . Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Underlining in pen to pages. Small stain to top of front panel of DJ. A few scratches to back panel of DJ . ; Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social life. Exposing misconceptions derived from contemporary culture he shows the close interconnection of spheres we take as discrete: public and private family and outsiders work and leisure. Combining archaeological evidence with Roman texts and comparative material from other cultures Wallace-Hadrill raises a range of new questions. How did the organization of space and the use of decoration help to structure social encounters between owner and visitor man and woman master and slave What sort of "households" did the inhabitants of the Roman house form How did the world of work relate to that of entertainment and leisure How widely did the luxuries of the rich spread among the houses of craftsmen and shopkeepers Through analysis of the remains of over two hundred houses Wallace-Hadrill reveals the remarkably dynamic social environment of early imperial Italy and the vital part that houses came to play in defining what it meant "to live as a Roman." ; 244 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25261 ISBN : 0691069875 9780691069876

‎Marcus Manilius; A. E. Housman Ed.‎

‎M. MANILII MARCUS MANILIUS ASTRONOMICA Recensuit A. E. Housman. Editio Minor‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1932. Hardcover. Small tear to rear pastedown. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover Robert Brown. Spine slightly sunned. Some minor spotting to rear board. ; Xiv 181 pp ; 181 pages; Marcus Manilius M Manilii 1st century A. D. Roman poet and astrologer. The Astronomicon contains the earliest appearance of astrological systems of Houses. Housman's is considered the authoritative edition. Introduction in English. Latin apparatus. . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25270

‎Ovid; Sir James George Frazer Ed.‎

‎PUBLII OVIDII NASONIS: FASTORUM LIBRI SEX. THE FASTI OF OVID 5 VOLUME SET Edited with a Translation and Commentary. Vol. I: Text and Translation; Vol. II: Commentary on Books I and II; Vol. III: Commentary on Books III and IV; Vol. IV: Commentary on Books V and VI; Vol. V: Indices. Illustrations. Plans‎

‎MacMillan and Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Some foxing/spotting/discoloration to boards of all volumes. Endpapers tanned of all volumes. V2: 1 corner edgeworn and light bump to base of spine V4: lower corners bumped with small chip to head of spine. Else minor shelfwear to volumes. ; 5 Volume Set COMPLETE . MacMillan and Co. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25272

‎Pedroli Lydia Ed.‎

‎FABULARUM PRAETEXTARUM QUAE EXTANT Introduzione Testi Commenti. Edidit Lydia Pedroli‎

‎Istituto Di Filogia Classica. Very Good. 1954. Softcover. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Pages are tanned. Browning to wraps. ; Universit� Di Genova - Facolt� Di Lettere; 243 pages . Istituto Di Filogia Classica paperback‎

Référence libraire : 25298

‎West David‎

‎THE IMAGERY AND POETRY OF LUCRETIUS‎

‎Edinburgh University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 0852240635 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover Robert Brown. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Else minor shelfwear to book. DJ has small tear 2 cm. Else minor shelfwear. ; 142 pages . Edinburgh University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25308 ISBN : 0852240635 9780852240632

‎Sedley David N.‎

‎LUCRETIUS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF GREEK WISDOM‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0521570328 . Very Minor shelfwear to DJ else fine. ; This book studies the structure and origins of De Rerum Natura On the nature of things the great first-century BC poem by Lucretius. By showing how he worked from the literary model set by the Greek poet Empedocles but under the philosophical inspiration of the Greek philosopher Epicurus the book seeks to characterise Lucretius' unique poetic achivement. It is addressed to those interested both in Latin poetry and in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. ; 252 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25316 ISBN : 0521570328 9780521570329

‎Classen Carl Joachim Hrsg.‎

‎PROBLEME DER LUKREZFORSCHUNG‎

‎G. Olms. Good. 1986. Softcover. 3487076608 . Minor Creasing to corners. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep Robert Brown. Light crease to spine. Textblock is broken between pp 130-131. ; The Roman poet Lucretius who lived in the first century BC composed an epic poem De Rerum Natura On the Nature of the Universe whose avowed purpose was to change the way we live our lives to abandon our fear of the gods and of death and to see what real happiness is and how to obtain it. The poem explains the atomic nature of the world and our own place in it examining the microscopic world of atoms and the telescopic world of the universe as well as human life in all its facets - politics pleasure the nature of perception our dreams and sexual behaviour. Here John Godwin explains Lucretius' great poem in its Roman context assessing the literary and philosophical value of the poems and arguing the merits of the poet's claim to change our lives. Lucretius is seen as a writer for our time offering us a text of enormous beauty and artistry which will help us find happiness and serenity in a turbulent world. ; Olms Studien Band 18; 438 pages . G. Olms paperback‎

Référence libraire : 25329 ISBN : 3487076608 9783487076607

‎Catullus Gaius Valerius; Peter Green‎

‎THE POEMS OF CATULLUS A Bilingual Edition. Translated with Commentary‎

‎University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0520242645 . Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. 1 page corner creased. Else book is fine. DJ has small tear 2 cm else light shelfwear. ; Catullus who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic spent his short but intense life 84-54 B. C. E. in high Roman society rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries including Caesar Cicero and Pompey. Catullus's poetry is by turns ribald lyric romantic satirical; sometimes obscene and always intelligent it offers us vivid pictures of the poet's friends enemies and lovers. The verses to his friends are bitchy funny and affectionate; those to his enemies are often wonderfully nasty. Many poems brilliantly evoke his passionate affair with Lesbia often identified as Clodia Metelli a femme fatale ten years his senior and the smart adulterous wife of an arrogant aristocrat. Cicero later claimed she poisoned her husband.; 360 pages . University of California Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25282 ISBN : 0520242645 9780520242647

‎Gale Monica R.‎

‎VIRGIL ON THE NATURE OF THINGS The Georgics Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0521781116 . Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Very light pencil marginalia to a few pages else book is fine. DJ has minor creasing along edges with 1 tiny chip. ; Virgil's agricultural poem the Georgics forms part of a long tradition of didactic epic going back to the archaic poet Hesiod. This book explores the relationship between the Georgics and earlier works in the didactic tradition particularly Lucretius' De Rerum Natura "On the Nature of Things". It is the first comprehensive study of Virgil's use of Lucretian themes imagery ideas and language; it also proposes a new reading of the poem as a whole as a confrontation between the Epicurean philosophy of Lucretius and the opposing world views of his predecessors. ; 336 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25275 ISBN : 0521781116 9780521781114

‎Gale Monica R. Ed.‎

‎OXFORD READINGS IN CLASSICAL STUDIES: LUCRETIUS‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. Hardcover. 0199260346 . Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Else book is fine. DJ has very faint shelfwear. ; This book gathers together some of the most important and influential scholarly articles of the last sixty to seventy years three of which are translated into English here for the first time on the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophical epic the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe c.55 BC seeks to convince its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic thinker Epicurus. The articles collected in this volume explore Lucretius' poetic and argumentative technique from a variety of perspectives and also consider the poem in relation to its philosophical and literary milieux and to the values and ideology of contemporary Roman society. All quotations in Latin or Greek are translated. ; Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; 400 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25332 ISBN : 0199260346 9780199260348

‎Will Frederic Ed.‎

‎HEREDITAS. SEVEN ESSAYS ON THE MODERN EXPERIENCE OF THE CLASSICAL Edited with Introduction‎

‎University of Texas Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. DJ is a bit tattered with tears chipping and creasing. DJ has a bit of shelfwear with acquisition date in pen to ffep. ; 213 pages . University of Texas Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 19509

‎Highet Gilbert‎

‎THE SPEECHES IN VERGIL'S AENEID‎

‎Princeton University Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 069106234X . Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. DJ is in plastic sleeve. ; Highet has classified the speeches; identified their models in earlier Greek and Latin Literature; and discussed their importance in the portrayal of character. . This study shows Vergil to have been a master dramatist as well as an great epic poet. ; 380 pages . Princeton University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25352 ISBN : 069106234X 9780691062341

‎Deutsch Rosamund E.‎

‎THE PATTERN OF SOUND IN LUCRETIUS‎

‎Garland Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. 0824029674 . Upper corners lightly bumped. ; Reprint of Author's thesis Bryn Mawr College 1939 ; The Garland Library of Latin Poetry; 188 pages . Garland Publishing hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25456 ISBN : 0824029674 9780824029678

‎Fitzgerald William‎

‎HOW TO READ A LATIN POEM If You Can't Read Latin Yet‎

‎Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 0199657866 . Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Else book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; Latin is very much alive in the poetry written by the great Latin poets and this book is about their poetry their language and their culture. Fitzgerald shows the reader with little or no knowledge of the Latin language how it works as a unique vehicle for poetic expression and thought. Moving between close analysis of particular Latin poems and more general discussions of Latin poets literature and society Fitzgerald gives the un-Latined reader an insider's view of how Latin poetry feels and what makes it worth reading even today. His book explores what can be said and done in a poetry and a language that are both very different from English and yet have profoundly influenced it. He takes the reader through the whole range of Latin poetry from the trivial obscene and vicious to the sublime the passionate and the uplifting. Individual chapters focus on particular authors such as Vergil and Horace or on themes love hate civil war and together they explain why we should care about what the poets of ancient Rome had to say. ; 288 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25442 ISBN : 0199657866 9780199657865

‎Propertius; L. Richardson Jr. Ed.‎

‎PROPERTIUS: ELEGIES I-IV Edited with Introduction and Commentary‎

‎University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0670021296 . Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep Robert Brown. Small chip to top of spine. Else light shelfwear. ; American Philological Association Series of Classical Texts; 272 pages . University of Oklahoma Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 25467 ISBN : 0670021296 9780670021291

‎Fitzgerald William‎

‎CATULLAN PROVOCATIONS Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position‎

‎University of California Press. Very Good-. 2000. Paperback. 0520221567 . Remainder mark to bottom of textblock black marker line. Laminate lifting to spine. Corners of wraps slightly creased. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. ; Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license. Reading the poetry in relation to the drama of position played out between poet poem and reader the author produces a fresh interpretation of almost all of Catullus's oeuvre. Running through the book is an analysis of the ideological stakes behind the construction of the author Catullus in twentieth-century scholarship and of the agenda governing the interpreter's position in relation to Catullus. ; Classics and Contemporary Thought; 319 pages . University of California Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 25395 ISBN : 0520221567 9780520221567

‎Peradotto John & J. P. Sullivan Eds.‎

‎WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The Arethusa Papers‎

‎State University of New York Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1984. Softcover. 0873957733 . Creasing to spine. Light Edgewear to wraps. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep Robert Brown. ; One of the reasons for the study of the Greek and Roman classics is their perpetual relevance. In no other area can this position be more clearly defended than in the investigation of the feminine condition for it was here that basic attitudes derogatory to the sex were molded by legal and social systems by philosophers and poets and by the thinking of men long since gone. Women in the Ancient World brings together essays that examine philosophy social history literature and art and that extend from the early Greek period through the Roman Empire. Their wide range of critical perspectives throws new light on the personal political socio-economic and cultural position of women; 377 pages . State University of New York Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 25503 ISBN : 0873957733 9780873957731

‎Ovid; Rolfe Humphries‎

‎OVID: THE ART OF LOVE The Loves the Art of Beauty the Remedies for Love and the Art of Love‎

‎Indiana University Press. Good. 1963. Softcover. 0253200024 . Light underlining and notes. Rubbing and a few small tears to wraps. Scholar's name to half-title Robert Brown. ; English translation. ; A Midland Book; 206 pages . Indiana University Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 19740 ISBN : 0253200024 9780253200020

‎Barsby John‎

‎OVID‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Paperback. 0903035081 . Scholar's name to titlepage Robert Brown. Light shelfwear. ; Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics No. 12; 56 pages . Oxford University Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 19741 ISBN : 0903035081 9780903035088

‎Tacitus; R. M. Ogilvie & Sir Ian Richmond Eds.‎

‎CORNELII TACITI: DE VITA AGRICOLAE Tacitus: Agricola‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0198144385 . Light pencilling to a couple of pages. Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has a couple of small tears; with faint browning and 1 small stain to spine. ; 1.18 x 8.5 x 5.75 Inches; 360 pages; Extensive English introduction commentary and Latin Text. . Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 19749 ISBN : 0198144385 9780198144380

‎Petronius; William Arrowsmith‎

‎PETRONIUS: THE SATYRICON Translated with an Introduction‎

‎New American Library. Very Good. 1983. Softcover. 0452006538 . Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Light shelfwear. ; Meridian Classic; 192 pages . New American Library paperback‎

Référence libraire : 19752 ISBN : 0452006538 9780452006539

‎Apollodorus; Michael Simpson Trans.‎

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

‎University of Massachusetts Press. Good. 1976. Softcover. 0870232061 . Wraps have heavy rubbing with creasing. Colour loss along spine. Wraps are worn. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep Robert Brown. ; Drawings; 0.81 x 9.25 x 5.95 Inches; 311 pages . University of Massachusetts Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 19758 ISBN : 0870232061 9780870232060

‎Rayor Diane‎

‎SAPPHO'S LYRE Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece‎

‎University of California Press. Very Good. 1991. Softcover. 0520073363 . Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Creasing and a bit of chipping to corners of wraps. Minor shelfwear. Some pencil notes to text. ; 234 pages; Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets--the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature women's studies mythology and lovers of poetry. . University of California Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 19764 ISBN : 0520073363 9780520073364

‎Rayor Diane‎

‎SAPPHO'S LYRE Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece‎

‎University of California Press. Very Good. 1991. Softcover. 0520073363 . Scholar's name to ffep Robert Brown. Light edgewear to corners of wraps. Minor shelfwear. Tiny stain to foreedges. ; 234 pages; Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric new forms of poetry emerged. In this unique anthology today's reader can enjoy the works of seventeen poets including a selection of archaic lyric and the complete surviving works of the ancient Greek women poets--the latter appearing together in one volume for the first time. Sappho's Lyre is a combination of diligent research and poetic artistry. The translations are based on the most recent discoveries of papyri including "new" Archilochos and Stesichoros and the latest editions and scholarship. The introduction and notes provide historical and literary contexts that make this ancient poetry more accessible to modern readers. Although this book is primarily aimed at the reader who does not know Greek it would be a splendid supplement to a Greek language course. It will also have wide appeal for readers of' ancient literature women's studies mythology and lovers of poetry. . University of California Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 19765 ISBN : 0520073363 9780520073364