‎Language‎

‎Rounds Dorothy‎

‎ARTICLES ON ANTIQUITY IN FESTSCHRIFTEN: AN INDEX The Ancient Near East the Old Testament Greece Rome Roman Law Byzantium‎

‎Harvard University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers and pocket. Minor shelfwear and one bumped corner. Former owner's signature classics professor Mary White on fly page. ; An index of names and subjects found in festschriften. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 560 pages . Harvard University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 961

‎Wiedemann Thomas‎

‎THE JULIO-CLAUDIAN EMPERORS AD 14-70‎

‎Bristol Classical Press. Very Good. 1989. Softcover. Former owner's signature on first end-page. Shelfwear. ; Summarises political events during the reigns of Tiberius Caligula Claudius and Nero and the civil wars of the 'year of four emperors'. It considers too the extent to which social factors influenced the imperial household. ; Classical World; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 94 pages . Bristol Classical Press paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 972

‎Witt R. E.‎

‎ISIS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD‎

‎Cornell University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0801406331 . Slight Edgewear to boards. Publisher's ink stamp on top edge. ; Signed by Robert Wilken classicist. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 9 x 1.5 x 6 Inches; 336 pages; Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B. C. And extended at least until the fifth century A. D. Throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in Apuleius's Golden Ass and evidence of its influence has been found in places as far apart as Afghanistan and Portugal the Black Sea and northern England. The first study to document the extent and complexity of the cult's influence on Graeco-Roman and early Christian culture. . Cornell University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 968 ISBN : 0801406331 9780801406331

‎Bennett Florence Mary‎

‎RELIGIOUS CULTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE AMAZONS‎

‎Aristide D. Caratzas Publisher. Fine with no dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0892412046 . Originally published in 1912. Contents: The Amazons in Greek Legend; The Great Mother; Ephesian Artemis; Artemis Astrateia and Apollo Amazonius; Ares; conclusion; Bibliography ; 84 pages . Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 990 ISBN : 0892412046 9780892412044

‎Kovacs David‎

‎THE HEROIC MUSE Studies in the Hippolytus and Hecuba of Euripides‎

‎The Johns Hopkins University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0801835305 . Slight water discoloration to top of textblock-- does not extend into text. Corners are bumped. Moderate rubbing to back cover. Shelfwear; Reconsiders two plays of Euripides without looking at the assumptions of moder Euripidean criticism. ; American Journal of Philology Monographs in Classical Philology No 2; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 176 pages . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 991 ISBN : 0801835305 9780801835308

‎Grandazzi Alexandre; Todd Jane Marie‎

‎THE FOUNDATION OF ROME Myth and History‎

‎Cornell University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 080143114X . Top corners lightly bumped. Light general soiling. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 236 pages; "The Foundation of Rome is one of the few intelligent books on the subject neither hypercritical nor visionary; its particular strength lies in the skillful interweaving of modern historiography and ideology with ancient history. "--Jerzy Linderski University of North Carolina. At once a historical essay and a self-conscious meditation on the writing of history The Foundation of Rome takes as its starting point a series of accounts of Rome's origins offered over the course of centuries. Alexandre Grandazzi places these accounts in their contemporary contexts and shows how the growing sophistication in methodology gradually changed the accepted views of the city's origins. He looks for example at the hypercritical philology of the nineteenth century which cast aside everything that could not be verified. He then explains how the increase in archaeological discoveries and changing archaeological techniques influenced the story of Rome's birth. Grandazzi produces a depiction of Rome's origins that is both up-to-date and provocative. His use of scientific parallels in describing changes in the ways texts were analyzed and his broad familiarity with comparative material make his synthesis particularly illuminating and he writes with clarity verve and wit. . Cornell University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 984 ISBN : 080143114X 9780801431142

‎Ballaira Guglielmo‎

‎CONCORDANTIAE IN PRISCIANI PANEGYRICUM Concordanze Del Panegirico Di Prisciano Concordance of Priscian's Panegyric‎

‎Olms-Weidmann. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 3487110903 . Back cover corner is lightly creased. ; A concordance of Priscian's Panegyric. Priscian Priscianus Caesariensis the celebrated Latin grammarian addressed a laudatory poem panegyric to Anastasius emperor of the East 491�518. Text is in Latin with an Italian preface. ; Alpha-Omega CCX; 169 pages . Olms-Weidmann hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 992 ISBN : 3487110903 9783487110905

‎Starnes DeWitt T‎

‎ROBERT ESTIENNE'S INFLUENCE ON LEXICOGRAPHY‎

‎University of Texas Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and one small tear. Rubbing to DJ. Minor bumping to book. ; Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book. The span of Robert Estienne's life 1503 - 1559 encompassed the historical epochs and events which shaped his career: the Renaissance the Reformation and the invention of printing by movable type. His keen interest in the revival of ancient literatures and languages and his training in the art of printing pointed the road he would travel and the climate of opinion in the Reformation determined his destiny. Robert Estienne promoted classical learning by printing the works of good authors; to spread knowledge of ancient literature he compiled dictionaries and grammars which were adopted by most of the universities of Europe. His dictionary of proper names of Biblical and classical origin the Dictionarium historicum ac poeticum became one of the great source books for later compilers of dictionaries and for authors. Ben Jonson showed familiarity with his texts; Spenser and Milton sometimes set translations of his phraseology directly into their poetry. Perpetuation of the few errors he made is one sure proof that his dictionaries were used and copied. An exemplar of learning in the classics and scripture he searched in ancient manuscripts to avoid repeating the numerous errors that had crept into Bible translations over hundreds of years. ; 136 pages . University of Texas Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1008

‎Perry Ben Edwin‎

‎THE ANCIENT ROMANCES A Literary-Historical Account of Their Origins‎

‎University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Former owner's bookplate. Light browning to textblock and DJ. Dustjacket has a number inked to top corner and bottom of spine. Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears. ; Deals with questions relating to the nature and origin of the ancient novels. It also proposes a new and positive theory of what constitutes a literary form generally and how such forms normally arise. Part I considers the serious or ideal Greek romance as a type of literature produced in quantity in response to a continuous popular demand. Part II explains the origin and rationale of the comic romances of Petronius Lucian and Apuleius each in a different manner with respect to the author's purpose his intellectual outlook and the circumstances that impelled him to write his book. ; Sather Classical Lectures; 407 pages . University of California Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1009

‎Forbes Robert James‎

‎BERGBAU STEINBRUCHT�TIGKEIT UND H�TTENWESEN‎

‎Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Very Good. 1967. Softcover. 3525254091 . Light soiling. A few pages are uncut. ; Band II Kapitel K. Contents: Bergwerke und Steinbruche; Die vorklassische Entwicklung des Huttenwesens; Metalle; Weiterverabeitung der Rohmetalle; Zusammenfassung; Bergmannische und metallurgische Fachausdrucke; Literatur. ; Archaeologia Homerica: Die Denkm�ler Und Das Fr�hgriechische Epos. ; 43 pages . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 868 ISBN : 3525254091 9783525254097

‎Vermeule Emily Townsend‎

‎G�TTERKULT‎

‎Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Very Good. 1979. Softcover. 3525254210 . Light soiling. ; Band III Kapitel V. Contents: Einfuhrung; Minoische Einflusse in der spathelladischen religiosen Tradition; Der mykenische Kult nach den archaologischen Zeugnissen; Der mykenische Kult nach den Linear B-- Dokumenten; Das Dunkle Zeitalter eine Ubergangsphase; Der G�tterkult bei Homer; Kultdenkmaler des homerischen Zeitalters; Zusammenfassrung; Literatur ; Archaeologia Homerica; 205 pages . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 867 ISBN : 3525254210 9783525254219

‎Collins Christopher‎

‎AUTHORITY FIGURES Metaphors of Mastery from the Iliad to the Apocalypse‎

‎Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0847682382 . Reveals how certain strategic metaphors embedded in the early Western literary canon have promoted--and continue to promote--systems of inequality and social control. Collins examines texts ranging from the Homeric epics and the Platonic dialogues to Virgil's "Aeneid" and the "Book of Revelation". Drawing on the linguistic and documentary evidence of usages in early societies chiefly Greek and Hebrew Collins has produced a penetrating examination of social and personal structures in those worlds. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 196 pages . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 769 ISBN : 0847682382 9780847682386

‎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

‎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

‎Rabel Robert J.‎

‎PLOT AND POINT OF VIEW IN THE ILIAD‎

‎University of Michigan Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0472107682 . Light discoloration to spine. Light edgewear to one corner of DJ. ; Plot and Point of View in the Iliad argues that Homer the poet of the Iliad may be fully distinguished from the narrator of Homeric poetry who is the Muse and also from the heroes and heroines who live within the world of the story. The Iliad is a poem with a particularly rich and complex structure of perspectives and as point of view as an element of storytelling has garnered tremendous interest in this century critical attention has taken up this question in relation to Homer's poem. Robert Rabel argues that in different ways both the Muse-narrator and the poet manipulate point of view in order to discover and define the meaning of the Iliad placing various ways of thinking in competing and complementary relationships with one another. In the process the Muse-narrator produces a sophisticated and compelling analysis of the tragic limitations of life in accordance with the heroic ethic. In the end the poet provides a demonstration of the extent to which reality can only be grasped and apprehended in epic poetry through images that are constructed from various individual perspectives. This volume will be of interest to students of comparative and classical literature philosophers and readers of Homeric epic. All Greek passages are translated and discussions of technical language are kept to a minimum. ; 1.04 x 9.31 x 6.34 Inches; 251 pages . University of Michigan Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 744 ISBN : 0472107682 9780472107681

‎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

‎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. Mason�s monograph offers exactly that for readers of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey. " More particularly he presents a persuasive argument for reading Alexander Pope�s translation his accompanying notes and his "Essay on Criticism. " These merit careful study for they illuminate Pope�s 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. Mason�s 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

‎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

‎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

‎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

‎Gay Federico Ferro‎

‎LOS FIL�SOFOS PRESOCR�TICOS De Homero a Dem�crito‎

‎Secretaria De Educacion Publica. Very Good. 1987. Softcover. Shelfwear; In Spanish/ En Espanol; 8vo; 149 pages . Secretaria De Educacion Publica paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 882

‎Farnell Lewis R.‎

‎OUTLINE HISTORY OF GREEK RELIGION‎

‎Ares Publishers Inc. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. 0890050252 . Light soiling to covers. Light general wear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1921. Looks at the Origin of ancient Greek religion its rites its influence on society and culture as well as the origins of the gods and myths From Prehistoric Times until after the death of Alexander the Great ; 9 x 0.5 x 6 Inches; 160 pages . Ares Publishers Inc. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 885 ISBN : 0890050252 9780890050255

‎Hall Wade H. Bullock‎

‎THE ROMANS ON THE RIVIERA AND THE RHONE A Sketch of the Conquest of Liguria and the Roman Province‎

‎Ares Publishers Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0890050228 . Light foxing to textblock. Spine slightly cocked. Minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1898. Looks at the history of the Romans on the Italian and Roman Rivieras. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 0.65 Inches . Ares Publishers Inc. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 896 ISBN : 0890050228 9780890050224

‎Kenyon Frederic G.‎

‎BOOKS AND READERS IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME‎

‎Ares Publishers Inc. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0890053405 . Light soiling. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1932. Although the subject of the book is primarily bibliographical namely the methods of book making from the date of Homer until the supersession of papyrus by vellum in the fourth century CE one of its main objects has been to show the bearings of the material and form of books on literary history and criticism and to consider what new light has been thrown by recent research on the origin and growth of the habit of reading in ancient Greece and Rome. Contents: 1. The use of books in ancient Greece. 2.The papyrus roll. 3. Books and reading at home. 4. Vellum and the codex. ; 8.5 x 0.75 x 5.75 Inches; 136 pages . Ares Publishers, Inc. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 899 ISBN : 0890053405 9780890053409

‎Tozer Henry F.‎

‎LECTURES ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF GREECE‎

‎Ares Publishers Inc. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0890050244 . Light rippling to front cloth board. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1882. Looks at the geography of Greece including an etymology of place-names and connections to greek Mythology. ; 405 pages . Ares Publishers Inc. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 897 ISBN : 0890050244 9780890050248