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Silvagni Umberto
GIULIO CESARE
Torino: Fratelli Bocca Editori. Very Good. 1930. Hardcover. English marginalia on some pages. Former classics scholar's name on ffep W. P. Wallace. Spine is discolored. Rubbing to boards. Italian stamp affixed to titlepage as issued foxing to endpapers. Tanning to pages. ; Italian language biography of Julius Caesar; 438 pages . Fratelli Bocca Editori hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4186
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Beckby Hermann Ed.
ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA Griechisch-Deutsch. I: Buch I-VI; II: Buch VII-VIII; III: Buch IX-XI; IV: Buch XII-XVI Mit Namen- Und Sachverzeichnis Und Anderen Vollst�ndigen Registern
Ernst Heimeran. Very Good. 1957. Hardcover. Overall set is Near Fine with former owner's name and crest of arms stamped to ffeps of each volume. Volume 1 has a publisher's error where 178-9 &182-3 are blank. Former owner has numbered blank pages in red ink. Overall set is Near Fine. ; 1: 675 pp. 2: 608 pp. 3: 834 pp. 4: 748 pp. ; 4 Volume Set COMPLETE . Ernst Heimeran hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4190
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D'Alton J. F.
HORACE AND HIS AGE A Study in Historical Background
Russell & Russell Inc. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Very minor shelfwear. Light browning to ffeps. ; Attempts to illustrate the background of Horace and the movements that affected his writings. ; 296 pages . Russell & Russell Inc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4191
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Hyams Edward
DIONYSUS A Social History of the Wine Vine
MacMillan Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Slight brown lines to front board. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and pocket. ; 128 illustrations 8 in colour. Looks at the history of the grape-vine Vitis vinifera from its prehistoric origins in Western Asia to its spread around the world. Also looks at its relation to religion. ; 381 pages . MacMillan Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4208
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Ferguson John
A COMPANION TO GREEK TRAGEDY
University of Texas Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0292710003 . Former classics scholar's name on ffep Nanci DeBloois. Rubbing to extremities. Very small tear to cloth at heel of spine 1cm . Solid book. ; Introduces readers to the plays. ; 623 pages . University of Texas Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4210 ISBN : 0292710003 9780292710009
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Marsh Frank Burr
THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS
Oxford University Press : Humphrey Milford. Good with no dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Spine cover is torn halfway on one side. Fraying to spine ends. Edgeworn corners. Former classics scholar's name on ffep W. P. Wallace. Pencil underlining in text. A couple of pages have pencil notes in margins. Book is still solid. ; Essential biography of Tiberius. ; 335 pages . Oxford University Press : Humphrey Milford hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4212
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Plato; Harold Williamson Ed.
PLATO'S APOLOGY OF SOCRATES Edited with Introduction and Notes.
MacMillan & Co. & St. Martin's Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Pencil notes to inner cover. Pencil underlining throught greek text. Pen notes to back inner cover. English commentary is clean. ; Greek Text with English Introduction and Commentary. ; 115 pages . MacMillan & Co. & St. Martin's Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4255
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Catullus; Francis P. Simpson
SELECT POEMS OF CATULLUS Edited with Introductions Notes and Appendices
Macmillan & Company Ltd. & St. Martin's Press. Good. 1922. Hardcover. Shelfwear with boards slightly cocked. Light edgewear to spine ends. Boards are stained with ink stain to back board. Former owner's name on ffep. Light pencil notes on some pages. ; Latin Text with Extensive Commentary in English. ; 208 pages . Macmillan & Company , Ltd. & St. Martin's Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4250
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Plautus; Archibald R. S. Hallidie Ed.
THE CAPTIVI OF T. MACCIUS PLAUTUS With Introduction and Notes
MacMillan & Company Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Former institution stamps on ffep and back cover. ; Latin text with English commentary and introduction. ; 215 pages . MacMillan & Company , Ltd. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4254
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Jebb R. C.
SELECTIONS FROM THE ATTIC ORATORS Antiphon Andocides Lysias Isocrates Isaeus. Being a Companion Volume to 'the Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus
MacMillan & Company Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Former classics scholar's name on ffep J. M. Bigwood. Boards faded and worn with ring-stain. Pencil underlining and notes passim In text. ; Reprint of the 1888 2nd ed. ; 434 pages . MacMillan & Company , Ltd. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4248
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Shackleton Bailey D. R.
PROFILE OF HORACE
Duckworth & Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0715615912 . Dustjacket spine shows discoloration. Light shelfwear. Former owner's name on ffep. ; In this concise analysis written with elegant wit the greatest living textual critic of Latin authors offers new insight into the poetry of Horace. Horace is best known for his four books of Odes cherished for their lyric grace. His amiable persona is displayed more intimately in the moralizing verses of the Satires and Epistles. In a reading of all the poetry but focusing especially on problematic areas Shackleton Bailey examines Horace's art of self-presentation. A variety of themes are elucidated from the poet's relations with his patron to Roman sexual attitudes. Close scrutiny is given to about thirty passages which he argues have been misread. An appended essay on a notable predecessor the textual scholar Richard Bentley is especially revealing on the art of classical scholarship. ; Classical Life and Letters; 0.67 x 8.81 x 5.68 Inches; 142 pages . Duckworth & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5088 ISBN : 0715615912 9780715615911
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Dunston A. J.
ESSAYS ON ROMAN CULTURE The Todd Memorial Lectures
A. M. Hakkert. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0888665601 . Very light rubbing to DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Contents: Augustus the Patrician--E. T. Salmon; Lucius Sulla: the Deadly Reformer--E. Badian; On Reading a Horatian Satire: An Interpretation of Sermones 2.6--C. O. Brink; The Character of the Romans in their History and their Literature--F. Adcock; The Initiation of Aeneas--J. Sheppard; A Roman Post Mortem: An Inquest on the Fall of the Roman Republic--R. Syme; The Emperor and his Clients--Harold Mattingly; The Aristocratic Epoch in Latin Literature--R. E. Smith. ; 223 pages . A. M. Hakkert hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2727 ISBN : 0888665601 9780888665607
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Scholten Joseph B.
THE POLITICS OF PLUNDER Aitolians and Their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era 279-217 B. C.
University of California Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0520201876 . Small black marker to bottom of textblock-- remainder Else fine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Between 279 and 229 B. C. the Aitolian koinon a federation of mountain cantons in west central Greece expanded to incorporate many of the neighboring lands and peoples lying between the Adriatic and Aegean Seas. This new political configuration contributed to the development of modern systems of federal democracy based on proportional representation. Despite these institutional advances the Aitolians and their polity are reviled in the ancient historical tradition which views them as backward semi-barbarous brigands. The Politics of Plunder is the first English-language book in over a century to examine the political history of the Aitolian koinon in its era of expansion. Joseph Scholten presents a chronological reconstruction of the koinon's course of expansion synthesizing a number of recent studies covering Aitolian topography epigraphy and institutional development that help to compensate for deficiencies in the ancient narrative record. His study is the first to ask how a people and a polity so detested by their contemporaries succeeded in making such fundamental contributions to their regional political culture. Scholten's careful investigation charts a middle course that neither whitewashes the Aitolians nor credulously accepts the biased ancient tradition. This balanced approach provides a much-needed fresh perspective on the Aitolians and their koinon. Discussing the history of the ancient Aegean Greek world and the political economic and social history of the Hellenistic Era this book will interest anyone concerned with those subjects or fascinated by the development of ancient Greek political institutions and theories particularly federalism. ; Hellenistic Culture and Society; 2.72 x 9.31 x 7.94 Inches; 339 pages . University of California Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5089 ISBN : 0520201876 9780520201873
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Snodgrass Anthony M.
EARLY GREEK ARMOUR AND WEAPONS From the End of the Bronze Age to 600 B. C.
Edinburgh University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Dustjacket has chipping and tears along top and bottom edges. Corners are bumped. Former owner's name on ffep. Edgewear along heel of spine. ; 280 pages . Edinburgh University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2717
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Jones A. H. M.
THE GREEK CITY FROM ALEXANDER TO JUSTINIAN
Oxford University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Inner hinges are slightly cracked but still holding. Mild foxing to textblock. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Contents: The Diffusion of the City: Work of Kings Hellenization roman Republic Principate Byzantine age; Relations with the Suzerain; Internal Politics; Civc Services: education religion and games public works and records finance byzantine age; Achievement of the Cities: Economic Political and Administrative Cultural. ; 393 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5078
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Feenstra R.
COLLATIO IURIS IVRIS ROMANI �tudes D�di�es � Hans Ankum � L�occasion De Son 65e Anniversaire
J. C. Gieben. Fine. 1995. Hardcover. 9050634974 . Unwrapped in Plastic. 2 volume set. ; 2 Volume Set. Studia Amstelodamensia Ad Epigraphicam Ius Antiquum Et Papyrologicam Pertinentia 35; 746 pages; Contributors : M. Amelotti G. G. Archi P. Birks Y. Bongert C. A. Cannata J. De Churucca A. Corbino R. Feenstra J. Gaudemet Th. Gim�nez Candela W. M. Gordon A. S. Hartkamp A. M. Honor� M. Humbert G. Klingenberg R. Kn�tel Chr. Krampe L. Labruna J. -Ph. L�vy D. Liebs J. H. A. Lokin G. MacCormack A. D. Manfredini J. M�l�ze Modrzejewski Th. Mayer-Maly J. Menner R. Mentxaka A. Metro J. -H. Michel J. Miquel P. L. N�ve D. N�rr A. D�Ors �G. Pugliese J. M. Rainer H. -A. Rupprecht B. Santalucia H. C. F. Schoordijk E. J. H. Schrage P. J. Sijpesteijn J. E. Spruit P. G. Stein F. Sturm M. Talamanca L. Vacca R. Verstegen R. Vigneron A. Wacke L. Waelkens W. Waldstein H. J. Wieling L. C. Winkel W. Wolodkiewicz K. A. Worp F. B. J. Wubbe R. Yaron K. -H. Ziegler J. Zlinszky. . J. C. Gieben hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2374 ISBN : 9050634974 9789050634977
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Gruen Erich S.
THE HELLENISTIC WORLD AND THE COMING OF ROME Volume I & Volume II
University of California Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0520045696 . The DJs of Volume 1 and 2 have minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; In little more than a century Roman power and authority spread through the Greek world and irrevocably altered the course of its history. Previous studies have regularly approached the subject from the Roman point of view interpreting the period of expansion as a shaping of the Greek East to the needs of Rome. In this book Gruen endeavours to look at the topic from another angle considering the Hellenistic context within which Roman Expansion took place. Volume 1-- 356 pgs. Volume 2-- 862 pgs. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 1 & 2; 9.5 x 2.25 x 6.5 Inches; 862 pages . University of California Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5071 ISBN : 0520045696 9780520045699
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Jones A. H. M
ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
Basil Blackwell. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Plate on front page from Preston Grammar School. DJ is priceclipped. DJ is soiled. DJ has small piece missing at top foreedge back corner and top of spine. Edgeworn DJ. ; Five essays: The Economic Basis of the Athenian Democracy; The Athens of Demosthenes; Athenian Democracy and its Critics; Social Structure of Athens in the Fourth Century B. C. ; How did the Athenian Democracy Work ; 198 pages . Basil Blackwell hardcover
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Hutchinson G. O.
HELLENISTIC POETRY
Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0198140401 . Very light creasing to bottom edge of DJ. Light shelfwear and rubbing to DJ. ; Special Edition for Sandpiper books -- reprint of 1988 edition. In this study of the Hellenistic poets of the third century B. C. Hutchinson provides a much-needed picture of the poetry of the period while demonstrating its quality and vitality. The work of the Hellenistic poets in the third century BC has not only an important place in Greek literature but also a particular significance for Latin poetry. Hutchinson explores the works of such writers as Theocritus Callimachus and Apollonius of Rhodes--developing a generalconception of poetry that centers around the poets' handling of tone level and form--and offers a fresh analysis of the influence of Hellenistic poetry on the city of Rome. Despite much technical work on the texts and language of these authors - Theocritus Callimachus Apollonius Rhodius and others - previous literary criticism on most of the major figures is limited in quantity and scope. He explores the work of the individual writers in turn while developing a general conception of the poetry as a whole centred around the poets' handling of tone level and form. The book concludes with a fresh approach to the influence of Hellenistic poets in Rome. All quotations in Greek or Latin have been translated by the author. ; Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints; 392 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5072 ISBN : 0198140401 9780198140405
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Wyatt William F.
THE GREEK PROTHETIC VOWEL
Western Reserve University. Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0829502181 . Looks at the Greek Prothetic Vowel in the light of Indo-European linguist theories. ; Philological Monographs of the American Philological Association 31; 124 pages . Western Reserve University hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5064 ISBN : 0829502181 9780829502183
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Robinson T. M. Ed. ; Mary E. White
STUDIES PRESENTED TO MARY E. WHITE On the Occasion of Her Sixty-Fifth Birthday
University of Toronto Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. Contents: Archilochus and Apollo A. J. Podlecki ; Phormion and Peisistratos Malcolm F. McGregor ; Herodotos and Euboia M. B. Wallace ; Houses of Classical Athens J. Walter Graham ; Perdiccas and Athens Cole ; Greek Historians and Greek Critics G. M. A. Grube ; Toward knowing Thucydides John Grant ; Fairness and Kindness in Thucydides Jacqueline de Romilly ; The Theramenes Myth Phillip Harding ; Arginousai Trial A. Andrewes ; Ephoros Fragment 76 and Diodoros on the Cypriote war Catherine Reid ; Phoenix Journal of the Classical Association of Canada Volume XXVIII Number 1; 143 pages; Signed by Mary E. White: "With all best wishes Mary White"; Signed by Author . University of Toronto Press hardcover
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Russell D. A
PLUTARCH
Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0684133512 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. Minor bumping to one corner. ; More perhaps than any other single writer Plutarch has been responsible for transmitting to Europe the central historical and moral traditions of classical antiquity. His books have been a formative influence in western civilisation; they retain a direct appeal to which it is easy to respond. Mestrius Plutarchus ca. 46- 127 was a Greek historian biographer and essayist. Born in the small town of Chaeronea in the Greek region known as Boeotia probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world including twice to Rome. Due to his parents' wealth after 67 Plutarchus was able to study philosophy rhetoric and mathematics at the Academy of Athens. He had a number of influential friends including Soscius Senecio and Fundanus both important Senators to whom some of his later writings were dedicated. He lived most of his life at Chaeronea and was initiated into the mysteries of the Greek god Apollo. However his duties as the senior of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries of the Pythia or priestess/oracle apparently occupied little of his time - he led an active social and civic life and produced an incredible body of writing much of which is still extant. ; Classical Life and Letters; 183 pages . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5087 ISBN : 0684133512 9780684133515
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Garland Robert
THE GREEK WAY OF DEATH
Cornell University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0801418232 . Minor edgewear to DJ top corners. ; Hardly any aspect of Greek culture of its religious and philosophical bases proves as revealing as its way of confronting human mortality and its observances in relation to the dead. Using both historical and anthropological approaches and sources both visual and written Garland describes the extensive and elaborate funerary rituals performed by the Greeks for their dead from the time of Homer to the fourth century BC. The book attempts to revive and re-live the complex texture of feelings provoked in the living by the dead as moment by moment the two shifted their ground in relation to one another. Death for the Greeks was not an instantaneous event rather a process or passage which required strenuous efforts on the part of the living to ensure that the dead achieved full and final transfer to the next world. The central questions which this book attempts to answer are: the extent to which death was a preoccupying concern among the Greeks; the feelings with which the individual may have anticipated his death; the nature of the bonds between the living and the dead; and the light shed by burial practices upon characteristic elements of Greek society. While the beliefs of ordinary Greeks about their ordinary dead from the book's central focus there is also a chapter on "special dead" - the unburied murderers and their victims children and suicides. ; 192 pages . Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5045 ISBN : 0801418232 9780801418235
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Sienkewicz Thomas J.
CLASSICAL EPIC An Annotated Bibliography
Salem Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0893566632 . Spine ends have light wear. ; 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 : 940 ISBN : 0893566632 9780893566630
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Legon Ronald P.
MEGARA The Political History of a Greek City-State to 336 B. C.
Cornell University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0801413702 . Dustjacket has a few small tears along top edge now protected in mylar. Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. ; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 344 pages; Traces the political history of Megara from its founding to its conquest by Philip and Alexander of Macedon in the fourth century BC. . Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5020 ISBN : 0801413702 9780801413704
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Nairn J. A. & Blackwell B. H. Ed.
J. A. NAIRN'S CLASSICAL HAND-LIST
Basil Blackwell. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1939. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Former classics scholar's name on ffep W. P. Wallace. Light chipping to head of spine. Minor shelfwear. Light pencil marginalia on 4-5 pages. ; Bibliography of books in classics. Contents: General Works of Reference; Classical Studies and Traditions; History of Greek Literatire; and the history of Latin Literature. ; 266 pages . Basil Blackwell hardcover
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Augustus; Rogers Robert Samuel & Kenneth Scott & Margaret M. Ward
CAESARIS AUGUSTI AVGVSTI CAESAR AUGUSTUS: RES GESTAE ET FRAGMENTA With Introduction Notes and Vocabulary
D. C. Heath & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1935. Hardcover. Former owner's name on ffep. Pen writing and underlining in latin text of Res Gestae. ; Latin text with english commentary and dictionary at back. . D. C. Heath & Company hardcover
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Adam Alexander & David Patterson
ADAM'S LATIN GRAMMAR With the Following Additions: the Ancient and Modern Pronunciation of the Latin Language; Observations on the Declinable Parts of Speech Rules the Government of the Subjuctive Mood; and with Various Improvements and Corrections
Collins and Hannay. Fair with no dust jacket. 1833. Hardcover. Corners are bumped. Edgewear to extremities. Front free endpaper has been torn out leaving small strip. Front hinge is weak and cracked but still attached. Foxing throughout with heavy foxing on a few pages. ; 276 pages . Collins and Hannay hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1716
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Curran John R.
PAGAN CITY AND CHRISTIAN CAPITAL Rome in the Fourth Century
Oxford University Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198152787 . Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; This book is a study of the transformation of the landscape civic life and moral values of the pagan city of Rome following the conversion of the emperor Constantine in the early fourth century. It examines the effects of the rise of Christianity and the decline of paganism in the later Roman empire. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 416 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4271 ISBN : 0198152787 9780198152781
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Debiasi Andrea
L'EPICA PERDUTA Eumelo IL Ciclo L'Occidente
L'Erma Di Bretschneider. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Softcover. 8882653129 . Hesperia 20; 311 pages . L'Erma Di Bretschneider paperback
Bookseller reference : 4283 ISBN : 8882653129 9788882653125
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Hillen Michael
STUDIEN ZUR DICHTERSPRACHE SENECAS Abundanz. Explikativer Ablativ. Hypallage
Walter De Gruyter & Co. Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 3110117983 . Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte; 345 pages . Walter De Gruyter & Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4276 ISBN : 3110117983 9783110117981
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Harder Annette
EURIPIDES' KRESPHONTES AND ARCHELAOS Introduction Text and Commentary
Brill Academic Publishers. Very Good. 1985. Softcover. 9004075119 . Small tear to head of spine ~1cm . Soiling and rubbing to wraps. ; A new study of both plays with commentary includes the fragments in Greek. ; 307 pages . Brill Academic Publishers paperback
Bookseller reference : 4282 ISBN : 9004075119 9789004075115
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Rossetti Livio Ed.
GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN THE NEW MILLENIUM Essays in Honour of Thomas M. Robinson
Academia Verlag. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 3896652052 . Minor knock along back upper board else Fine. ; While appearing to be a conventional Festschrift in honour of a reputed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto this book includes a unique collection of essays by a number of distinguished scholars from an impressive number of countries on current changes in the field of ancient philosophy some might say resistance to change as globalization profoundly affects local culture and the education of new generations seems likely to be transformed in significant ways. The essays have been organized largely in geographical order starting with Professor Robinson's adopted country Canada and ending with the linguistic community and geographical area more strictly linked with what we have become accustomed to call "ancient philosophy": modern Greece. Through our journey which takes us through the Americas the Pacific area Australia Japan China and Europe readers will be pleased to discover how a widening interest in ancient philosophy has recently spread to a remarkable number of "new" countries some of which have traditionally been thought of as on the margins of if not strictly outside the established scholarly community. Although this work is a tribute to a well-known and admired scholar it is also meant to interest the entire scholarly community of ancient primarily Greek philosophy philosophers and classicists alike: readers wanting to inform themselves about the status of ancient philosophy in a changing and multi-faceted world will find here very much to discover. ; Studies in Ancient Philosophy 6; 352 pages . Academia Verlag hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3788 ISBN : 3896652052 9783896652058
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Carney Elizabeth
OLYMPIAS Mother of Alexander the Great
Routledge. Fine with no dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0415333164 . Women of the Ancient World; 221 pages; Modern conventional wisdom knows Olympias as a pitiless and savage woman practitioner of barbaric Dionysian rites compelled by jealousy and ruthless ambition to the murder of her rivals in order to secure her son's succession to the throne of Macedon. In this way she is credited for Alexander the Great's unprecedented achievements-yet the scale of her son's epic story has obscured her own. Such critical accounts of Olympias' actions have made unforgiving and often unfounded judgments of her motivations. This myth however originates from later Hellenic texts to which her strength and tenacity represented an abhorrent contradiction to contemporary gender roles. Later historians have all too often perpetrated this ancient sexual stereotyping by failing to question these sources. In this the first modern biography of Olympias Elizabeth Carney penetrates myth fictional and sexual politics to reveal a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure. Through a close and critical assessment of the sources Olympias is humanized as she is placed in the context ofhen own brutal political world. Looking separately at: � The role of Greek religion in Olympias' life � Literary and artistic traditions about Olympias found throughout the later ancient periods and� Varying representations of Olypias found in the major ancient sources . Routledge hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3797 ISBN : 0415333164 9780415333160
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Slings S. R. Simon Roelof
A COMMENTARY ON THE PLATONIC CLITOPHON
Academische Pers. Near Fine. 1981. Softcover. Minor shelfwear. ; Text is in English and ancient Greek with Greek text insert included. The first comprehensive commentary on Clitophon or Cleitophon. ; 400 pages . Academische Pers paperback
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Caldelli Maria Letizia & Cecilia Ricci
MONUMENTUM FAMILIAE STATILIORUM Un Riesame
Edizioni Quasar. Very Good. 1999. Softcover. 8871401603 . A couple of lines on front wrap in pen. Minor shelfwear. Text is clean of any marks. ; Text is in Italian. ; Libitina I; 143 pages . Edizioni Quasar paperback
Bookseller reference : 3784 ISBN : 8871401603 9788871401607
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Green Peter
THE YEAR OF SALAMIS 480-479 BC
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. 0297001469 . A couple of small chips to DJ at head of spine. Minor lifting of DJ laminate in a few places. Minor shelfwear to book ; Contents: Darius and the West; Legacy of Marathon; Waiting for the Barbarian; Corner-Stone of Freedom; Wooden Wall; Doors of the Peloponnese; The Last Enemy. ; 326 pages . Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3851 ISBN : 0297001469 9780297001461
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Austin Norman
HELEN OF TROY AND HER SHAMELESS PHANTOM
Cornell University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 0801429552 . Contents: Part 1. The Traditional Helen: The Helen of the Iliad Sappho's Helen & the Problem of the Text; Part 2. The Revised Helen: The Helen of the Odyssey; Stesichorus & his 'Palinode'; Herodotus & Helen in Egypt; Euripides' Helen: The Final Revision. Includes a glossary of greek terms. ; Myth and Poetics; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 223 pages . Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3847 ISBN : 0801429552 9780801429552
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Millar Fergus
THE EMPEROR IN THE ROMAN WORLD 31 BC - AD 337
Cornell University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0715609513 . DJ is price-clipped. Scholar's bookplate on Malcolm Todd. Foxing to top of textblock. Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Reassesses the emperor's function over the three centuries from Augustus to Constantine and probes the social realities behind his exercise of power. ; 10.25 x 1.75 x 6.75 Inches; 657 pages . Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3853 ISBN : 0715609513 9780715609514
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Jones Christopher P.
PLUTARCH AND ROME
Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 019814363X . DJ is price-clipped. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Part I: Life; Part II: Works. The first reviews the evidence for Plutarch's life and society. In the second those of his writings that reveal his attitude to Rome are considered. ; 158 pages . Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3856 ISBN : 019814363X 9780198143635
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Campbell J. B.
THE EMPEROR AND THE ROMAN ARMY 31 BC-AD 235
Oxford Clarendon Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0198148348 . Former owner's bookplate on ffep. ; The Roman world in the Imperial period was ruled by a succession of autocrats for whom the army remained the single most important source of political power. But how could one man win the loyalty and affection of an army which numbered up to to half a million Although financial benefits and legal privileges had the most direct impact on the soldiers every emperor sought some kind of additional bond through a personal association and identification with them. ; 468 pages; Special edition for Sandpiper Books. Reprint of 1984 Edition. . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3852 ISBN : 0198148348 9780198148340
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Borroff Marie
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT A Stylistic and Metrical Study.
Yale University Press & Shoe String Press Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. 0208013814 . Former owner's name on ffep. Light bumping to top corners. Minor shelfwear. Light tanning to pages. ; Yale Studies in English.; 295 pages . Yale University Press & Shoe String Press Inc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3874 ISBN : 0208013814 9780208013811
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Boehner Philotheus
THE TRACTATUS DE SUCCESSIVIS ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM OCKHAM Edited with a Study on the Life and Works of Ockham
The Franciscan Institute. Very Good-. 1944. Softcover. Light browning to spine and textblock. Former owner's name on ffep. Former owner has neatly written title on spine. Underlining in pen/red pencil on about a dozen pages of English commentary only. ; Commentary in English Text is in Latin. ; Franciscan Institute Publications No. 1; 122 pages; William of Ockham also Occam c. 1285 - c. 1347 was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher from Ockham a small village in Surrey near East Horsley. He is considered along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus one of the major figures of medieval thought and found himself at the center of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. Although commonly known for Ockham's Razor the methodological procedure that bears his name William of Ockham also produced significant works on logic physics and theology. . The Franciscan Institute paperback
Bookseller reference : 3873
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Jones A. H. M.
THE CRIMINAL COURTS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND PRINCIPATE With a Preface by John Crook
Basil Blackwell. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0631139001 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. ; 143 pages; Provides a massive reinforcement for Livy's Cicero's and Mommsen's view of the early Roman criminal courts-- namely that they were indeed the assembly of the people acting as a court of appeal against a magisterial sentence. Also describes minutely the working of the quaestiones the standing jury courts of the age of Cicero and considers how satisfactory was the justice they provided. Lastly he describes the developments in criminal justice under the emperors of the Principate. . Basil Blackwell hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3869 ISBN : 0631139001 9780631139003
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Plutarch; J. R. Hamilton
PLUTARCH: ALEXANDER A Commentary
Oxford Clarendon Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 0198141777 . Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and light soiling. Minor shelfwear to book. Foxing to top of textblock. ; Provides an extensive commentary on Plutarch's "Life of Alexander". ; 302 pages . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3956 ISBN : 0198141777 9780198141778
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Humphrey John
ROMAN CIRCUSES Arenas for Charioteers
University of California Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0520049217 . Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Minor shelfwear. ; 2.25 x 10.25 x 8 Inches; 717 pages; This magisterial work the first full study to be devoted to Roman circuses presents the archaeological and historical evidence for the buildings designed for chariot racing. . University of California Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3962 ISBN : 0520049217 9780520049215
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Roisman Joseph
THE GENERAL DEMOSTHENES AND HIS USE OF MILITARY SURPRISE
Franz Steiner Verlag. Near Fine. 1993. Softcover. 3515062777 . Minor shelfwear else Fine. ; Historia. Einzelschriften 78; 84 pages; Focuses on Demosthenes' campaigns the factors that led to their different results and the general's use of military surprise toward a reevaluation of this important commander who is executed after the Athenian disaster in Sicily in 413 BC. . Franz Steiner Verlag paperback
Bookseller reference : 3960 ISBN : 3515062777 9783515062770
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Barnes Timothy D.
CONSTANTINE AND EUSEBIUS
Harvard University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0674165306 . Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing. Light edgewear to extremities of DJ. Former owner's bookplate on ffep else Fine. ; This study of the Roman Empire in the age of Constantine offers a thoroughly new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries. Mr. Barnes gives the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He analyzes Constantine's rise to power and his government demonstrating how Constantine's sincere adherence to Christianity advanced his political aims. He explores the whole range of Eusebius' writings especially those composed before Constantine became emperor and shows that many attitudes usually deemed typical of the "Constantinian revolution" were prevalent before the new Christian empire came into existence. This authoritative political and cultural history of the age of Constantine will prove essential to students and historians of the ancient world. ; 464 pages . Harvard University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3982 ISBN : 0674165306 9780674165304
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Salmon E. T.
SAMNIUM AND THE SAMNITES
Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. 0521061857 . DJ is price-clipped. Top corners bumped. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. Small black 'J' stamped to titlepage. DJ has minor rubbing and shelfwear. ; Samnites were a tribe or group of Italian tribes related to the Latins the primary ethnic group in the city of Rome. They occupied the more mountainous inland areas of the peninsula and at one time rivaled the Romans in their power--Their defeat and eventual assimilation into a Romanized peninsula was one of the earliest and most significant steps in the establishment of what was to be the Roman Empire. ; 460 pages . Cambridge University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3979 ISBN : 0521061857 9780521061858
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Rufinus; Denys Page
THE EPIGRAMS OF RUFINUS Edited with an Introduction and Commentary
Cambridge University Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0521217679 . Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; 124 pages; Nothing is known of the Greek poet Rufinus other than that he was the author of a collection of thirty-nine epigrams. In fact he is such an insubstantial figure that his date has been placed at various points within nearly half a millennium. Professor Page here presents a text of Rufinus' poems and a concise commentary on them. In his introduction he considers the criteria by which a date may be established and finds evidence in favour of the fourth century AD. . Cambridge University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3978 ISBN : 0521217679 9780521217675
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