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Hammond, Mason
THE ANTONINE MONARCHY
Minor edgewear. Light discoloration to spine. Classics scholar's name on ffep and front wrap (F. A. Lepper). Minor foxing. Very light pencil marginalia (by Lepper? ). ; Study of the Constitutional aspects of the Antonine monarchy and looks at how the nature of the Roman imperial government changed from the Augustan concept of a Restored Republic under a princeps to an overt monarchy under an emperor. ; Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome Volume XIX; 527 pages
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Hammond, N. G. L.
A HISTORY OF GREECE TO 322 B.C.
Former owners' names to ffep. Tape stains to front inner cover and ffep. Pen underlining on some pages. Spine a little sunned. ; General Contents: Early Civilizations of Greece and the Great Migrations (c. 3000-850) ; The Renaissance of Greece (850-546) ; The Triumph of Greece (546-466) ; The great Wars between Athens and Spart (466-404) ; The period fo Transient Hegemonies (404-354) ; Rise and expansion of Macedon; 689 pages
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Hammond, N. G. L.
EPIRUS The Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and the Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Tape stains to ffeps and boards. DJ is in plastic sleeve. Inner hinges have been reinforced ; 847 pages
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Hammond, N. G. L.
MIGRATIONS AND INVASIONS IN GREECE AND ADJACENT AREAS
Tiny chip and light bump to head of spine. Small bump to back upper board. Very light shelfwear. ; Contents: Part One: the Historic Period: I. The Geographical setting; II. The Nomadic Peoples: Vlachs and Sarakatsani; III. The Settled Peoples: Albanians, Slavs, Bulgars, Turks and Greeks. Part Two: the Prehistoric Period: comparative Chronologies c. 4000-1500 BC; IV. The first impressions made by Man on the Southwest Balkans; V. Trade, Power and Conquests; VI. Destruction and Migration in the So-Called Dark Age of the Southwest Balkans. ; 187 pages
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Hammond, N. G. L.
MIGRATIONS AND INVASIONS IN GREECE AND ADJACENT AREAS
One corner very slightly bumped else fine. ; Contents: Part One: the Historic Period: I. The Geographical setting; II. The Nomadic Peoples: Vlachs and Sarakatsani; III. The Settled Peoples: Albanians, Slavs, Bulgars, Turks and Greeks. Part Two: the Prehistoric Period: comparative Chronologies c. 4000-1500 BC; IV. The first impressions made by Man on the Southwest Balkans; V. Trade, Power and Conquests; VI. Destruction and Migration in the So-Called Dark Age of the Southwest Balkans. ; 187 pages
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Hammond, N. G. L.
THE CLASSICAL AGE OF GREECE
Pages tanned. DJ has a couple of small tears and chipping. ; 308 pages
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Hammond, N. G. L.
THE GENIUS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Book is fine. DJ spine very slightly sunned now in plastic. ; 9.75 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 220 pages
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Hammond, N. G. L.
THE GENIUS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Former owner's name on ffep. One small bump to top corner. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 9.75 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 220 pages
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Hammond, N. G. L.
THE GENIUS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Former owner's name on ffep. One small bump to top corner. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; 9.75 x 1 x 6.5 Inches; 220 pages
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Hammond, N. G. L.
THE MACEDONIAN STATE The Origins, Institutions, and History
Top corner of wrap has slight tear. ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 0.97 x 9.23 x 6.24 Inches; 440 pages; In 338 BC Philip II of Macedon established Macedonian rule over Greece; he was succeeded in 336 by his son Alexander the Great, whose conquests in the twelve years that followed reached as far as the Russian steppes, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, and created the Hellenistic world. The study of Macedonia is now a growing point in ancient history. The first ever history of ancient Macedonia has now been completed in three volumes by N. G. L. Hammond, helped by G. T. Griffith and F. W. Walbank. On the basis of that work Professor Hammond now provides in one volume a history of the Macedonian state and its institutions both in Europe and in the Hellenistic kingdoms in Asia and Egypt, on which much new light has been shed by epigraphic and archaeological discoveries. Those institutions have had a profound influence on subsequent history. Full references are given to the ancient sources of information and to archaeological, numismatic, and epigraphic articles.
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Hammond, N. G. L.
THE MACEDONIAN STATE The Origins, Institutions, and History
Bottom corner is slight bumped. ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 0.97 x 9.23 x 6.24 Inches; 440 pages; In 338 BC Philip II of Macedon established Macedonian rule over Greece; he was succeeded in 336 by his son Alexander the Great, whose conquests in the twelve years that followed reached as far as the Russian steppes, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, and created the Hellenistic world. The study of Macedonia is now a growing point in ancient history. The first ever history of ancient Macedonia has now been completed in three volumes by N. G. L. Hammond, helped by G. T. Griffith and F. W. Walbank. On the basis of that work Professor Hammond now provides in one volume a history of the Macedonian state and its institutions both in Europe and in the Hellenistic kingdoms in Asia and Egypt, on which much new light has been shed by epigraphic and archaeological discoveries. Those institutions have had a profound influence on subsequent history. Full references are given to the ancient sources of information and to archaeological, numismatic, and epigraphic articles.
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Hammond, N. G. L. & G. T. Griffith
A HISTORY OF MACEDONIA Volume II: 550-336 B.C.
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Minor shelfwear. ; Deals with the development of the Macedonian State and the struggle for survival as well as the Reign of Philip the Second. Includes 10 maps, 3 plates. ; Volume 2 Only; 780 pages
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Hammond, N.G.L.
STUDIES IN GREEK HISTORY A Companion Volume to a History of Greece to 322 B. C.
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Tape residue on the front and back covers. ; 590 pages; Contents: The Origins of some Mycenaean rulers; The Arrival of Greek Speech in the southern Balkans; The Impulses which Started the Dorian Invasion; The Creation of Classical Sparta; Land and Society in the Athens of Solon; The Chronological Basis of Solon's Reforms; The Campaign and the Battle of Marathon; The Battle of Salamis; The Organization of the Athenian alliance against Persia; Problems of Command in fifth-Century Athens; Personal Freedom and its Limitations in Aeschylus' Oresteia; The Main road from Beoetia to the Peloponnese; Naval Operations off Corcyra; Military Operations in Amphilochia; Diodorus' Narrative of the Third Sacred War; The Victory of Macedon at Chareronea;
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Hammond, N.G.L.
The Allied Military Mission and the Resistance in West Macedonia
Based on signal books and otherdocuments relating to the Allied Military Mission in Macedonia. It covers: Part I. Macedonia in 1943: the Background to the Documents of 1944. Part II. Macedo nia in January to June 1944, with citations of the documents.Part III. Disruption due to the German drive and recovery in West Macedonia. Part IV. Noah's Ark and the aftermath. It also reveals the nationalistic and political schisms of the local participants that resulted in the Greek Civil War that followed. 214p. illus. index.. Book
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Hampe (Roland) - Simon (Erika)
Un millénaire d'art grec 1600-600
Office du livre, SFL 1980 In-4 relié. In-4 relié. 306 pages, 469 illustrations dont 59 en couleurs et 35 dessins. Très bon état d’occasion. Poids sans emballage : 2550 grammes.. Jaquette en bon état. 306 pages. Très bon état d’occasion. Poids sans emballage : 2550 grammes.
Riferimento per il libraio : 11315
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HAMPE Roland et SIMON Erika
Un millénaire d'art grec (1600-600).
Fribourg, Office du Livre/Paris, Société Française du Livre, 1980. 25 x 31, 306 pp., 469 illustrations (dont 59 en couleurs), 35 dessins, reliure d'édition pleine toile + jaquette, sous étui carton gris, très bon état.
Riferimento per il libraio : 61534
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Hampe Roland, Simon Erika
Un millénaire d'art grec, 600-1600.
1980, Office du Livre/ Société française du livre. In-4, relié avec jaquette. 306 pp. Nombreuses images en n&b
Riferimento per il libraio : ART7289M
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Hampe, Roland & Erika Simon (foreword by John Boardman)
THE BIRTH OF GREEK ART From the Mycenaean Period to the Archaic Period
book has very minor shelfwear. Small sticker stain to ffep. DJ is a bit tatty with small tears and creasing. ; With 504 Illustrations, 60 in colour. Looks at various types of art (architecture and painting, metalwork, weapons, stone vessels, pottery, engraving, jewelry and ornament, ivory, bone, and wood, sculpture) ; 316 pages
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Hampe, Roland & Erika Simon (foreword by John Boardman)
THE BIRTH OF GREEK ART From the Mycenaean Period to the Archaic Period
book has minor shelfwear. Gift inscription to ffep. Small sticker stain to ffep. DJ has minor edgewear with small tears and creasing. ; With 504 Illustrations, 60 in colour. Looks at various types of art (architecture and painting, metalwork, weapons, stone vessels, pottery, engraving, jewelry and ornament, ivory, bone, and wood, sculpture) ; 316 pages
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HAMPE,R.-
TAINIA. Roland Hampe zum 70. Geburtstag am 2. Dezember 1978 dargebracht von Mitarbeitern, Schülern und Freunden. Herausgegeben von H.A. Cahn & E. Simon.
Mainz, Philipp von.Zabern, (1980).
Riferimento per il libraio : 152551
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HANDBOOK OF GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY, A.
By H.N. Fowler, J.R. Wheeler & G.P. Stevens.
N.Y. etc., American Book Co., (1909).
Riferimento per il libraio : 72520
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Handley, E. W. & John Rea
THE TELEPHUS OF EURIPIDES
Some browning and very light foxing to wraps. Some creasing. Pages a bit tanned. ; Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin Supplement 5; 50 pages
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Handley, E. W. (Ed. )
MÉNANDRE [OFFPRINT] I. the Conventions of the Comic Stage and Their Exploitation by Menander
Pages tanned. Former owner's name in pen to front wrap. ; Offprint only 42 pp. ; Entretiens Sur L'Antiquité Classique Tome XVI; 42 pages
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Handley, E. W. ; Walther Ludwig, F. H. Sandbach, Fritz Wehrli, Christina Dedoussi, Cesare Questa, Lilly Kahil
MÉNANDRE Sept Exposés Suivis De Discussions. Entretiens Préparés Et Présidés Par E. G. Turner
Light tanning to pages. Else book is fine. DJ spine is browned with small stain. A couple of small chips and 1 tear (1 cm) to top edge of DJ. ; Contents: Handley: Conventions of the comic stage and their exploitation by menander; Ludwig: Die Cistellaria und das Verhältnis von Gott und Handlung bei Menander; Sandbach: Menander's Manipulation of Language for dramatic Purposes; Wehrli: menander und die Philosophie; Dedoussi: The Samia; Qesta: alcune strutture sceniche di Plauto e Menandro; Kahil: Remarques sur l'iconographie des pièces de Ménandre. ; Entretiens Sur L'Antiquité Classique Tome XVI; 266 pages
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Handley, E. W. ; Walther Ludwig, F. H. Sandbach, Fritz Wehrli, Christina Dedoussi, Cesare Questa, Lilly Kahil
MÉNANDRE Sept Exposés Suivis De Discussions. Entretiens Préparés Et Présidés Par E. G. Turner
Light tanning to pages. Bottom corners bumped with light bump to upper edge. DJ is lightly browned. DJ is price-clipped. ; Contents: Handley: Conventions of the comic stage and their exploitation by menander; Ludwig: Die Cistellaria und das Verhältnis von Gott und Handlung bei Menander; Sandbach: Menander's Manipulation of Language for dramatic Purposes; Wehrli: menander und die Philosophie; Dedoussi: The Samia; Qesta: alcune strutture sceniche di Plauto e Menandro; Kahil: Remarques sur l'iconographie des pièces de Ménandre. ; Entretiens Sur L'Antiquité Classique Tome XVI; 266 pages
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Handley, E. W. ; Walther Ludwig, F. H. Sandbach, Fritz Wehrli, Christina Dedoussi, Cesare Questa, Lilly Kahil
MÉNANDRE Sept Exposés Suivis De Discussions. Entretiens Préparés Et Présidés Par E. G. Turner
Light tanning to pages. Light bump to edge of boards. Book has minor shelfwear. DJ is tatty with tears and chipping and small pieces missing. ; Contents: Handley: Conventions of the comic stage and their exploitation by menander; Ludwig: Die Cistellaria und das Verhältnis von Gott und Handlung bei Menander; Sandbach: Menander's Manipulation of Language for dramatic Purposes; Wehrli: menander und die Philosophie; Dedoussi: The Samia; Qesta: alcune strutture sceniche di Plauto e Menandro; Kahil: Remarques sur l'iconographie des pièces de Ménandre. ; Entretiens Sur L'Antiquité Classique Tome XVI; 266 pages
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Handley, E. W. ; Walther Ludwig, F. H. Sandbach, Fritz Wehrli, Christina Dedoussi, Cesare Questa, Lilly Kahil
MÉNANDRE Sept Exposés Suivis De Discussions. Entretiens Préparés Et Présidés Par E. G. Turner
DJ spine is browned. A couple of small chips and 1 tear (1.5") to back panel of DJ. Light tanning to pages. Former classics scholar's bookplate on ffep (John H. Betts). ; Contents: Handley: Conventions of the comic stage and their exploitation by menander; Ludwig: Die Cistellaria und das Verhältnis von Gott und Handlung bei Menander; Sandbach: Menander's Manipulation of Language for dramatic Purposes; Wehrli: menander und die Philosophie; Dedoussi: The Samia; Qesta: alcune strutture sceniche di Plauto e Menandro; Kahil: Remarques sur l'iconographie des pièces de Ménandre. ; Entretiens Sur L'Antiquité Classique Tome XVI; 266 pages
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Hands, A. R.
CHARITIES AND SOCIAL AID IN GREECE AND ROME
Very Light stain to base of spine (white). Else book is fine. DJ is price-clipped. DJ has very light edgewear to spine ends. ; Comprehensive study of Greek and Roman philanthropy and social aid. ; Aspects of Greek & Roman Life; 222 pages
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Handslip, Carole
Mediterranean Cooking
International Cooking Collection series. A small book but with a wide selection of tasty recipes from all around the Mediterranean from Spain to Morocco with detailed instructions.. 88p. illus. Book
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Hanfmann, George M. A.
FROM CROESUS TO CONSTANTINE The Cities of Western Asia Minor and Their Arts in Greek and Roman Times
Book has minor bumping to corners. Dustjacket has a few small tears (mostly to top of spine) and some chipping. ; 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 Tenth Series; 127 pages
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Hanfmann, George M. A.
FROM CROESUS TO CONSTANTINE The Cities of Western Asia Minor and Their Arts in Greek and Roman Times
Book is fine. Dustjacket has sunning to spine and minor shelfwear. ; 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 Tenth Series; 127 pages
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Hanfmann, George M. A.
ROMAN ART A Modern Survey of the Art of Imperial Rome
Light bumping to corners. Minor shelfwear to book. DJ is price-clipped. DJ has a few tears (now in plastic sleeve). ; 52 full page colour plates, and 145 black and white illustrations; 7.25 x 0.75 x 6.25 Inches; 328 pages
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Hanfmann, George M. A.
ROMAN ART A Modern Survey of the Art of Imperial Rome
Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Spine slant. ; 52 full page colour plates, and 145 black and white illustrations; 7.25 x 0.75 x 6.25 Inches; 328 pages
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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
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
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Hanfmann, George Maxim Anossov
ROMAN ART A Modern Survey of the Art of Imperial Rome
Corners are no longer sharp. Closed tear (1") on back cover near spine. ; 52 full page colour plates, and 163 gravure illustrations; 7.25 x 0.75 x 6.25 Inches; 328 pages
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Hangard, J. (Ed. )
SCHOLIA IN ARISTOPHANEM. PARS II: SCHOLIA IN VESPAS; PACEM; AVES ET LYSISTRATAM Fasc. IV: Continens Scholia in Aristophanis Lysistratam
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Else fine; Scholia in Aristophanem II 4; 58 pages
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Hannay, Barbara
Dyo aprothymoi Kleronomon
Harlequin romance - Syllogi series # 2929 Book
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Hannestad, Niels
ROMAN ART AND IMPERIAL POLICY
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. 2 small tears to cloth at head and heel of spine. ; A look at the Architecture, coins, friezes, statuary and frescoes and how the Romans cleverly used these forms to disseminate their ideals and how this influenced Rome's development from republic to an empire. ; Jutland Archaeological Society publications; 485 pages
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Hannestad, Niels
ROMAN ART AND IMPERIAL POLICY
Book has some edgewear and rubbing. ; A look at the Architecture, coins, friezes, statuary and frescoes and how the Romans cleverly used these forms to disseminate their ideals and how this influenced Rome's development from republic to an empire. ; Jutland Archaeological Society publications; 485 pages
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Hansen, Mogens Herman; (translated by J. A. Crook)
THE ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF DEMOSTHENES Structure, Principles, and Ideology
Creasing to spine. Light creasing to wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; The Ancient World; 410 pages; When democratic rule was ended by the conquering Macedonians in 322, the Athenians had evolved principles and practice of democratic ideology that became the direct inspiration of those liberal ideas cherished by the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mogens Hansen examines Athenian democracy both as a political system and as an ideology. In describing the former he distinguished between the three major decision-making organs - the Assembly, the Legislators and the Peoples Courts, and the magistrates who were responsible both for preparing the agenda for the legislature and for carrying its decisions into effect. In discussing Athenian democratic ideology Dr Hansen also makes the important distinction between the ideals held by the democrats themselves and those imputed to them by the critics of democracy, principally (and ironically, given that they would barely have survived under any other system) the philosophers. The Athenians conceived liberty both as the ability to participate in the decision-making process, and as the right to live without oppression from the state or other citizens. Equality was conceived not as an equality of nature, but as an equality of opportunity. "The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes" is based on more than 30 years sustained research.
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Hansen, Peter Allan
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DANISH CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO 1970
Faint pen mark to front board. Some rubbing to boards. Minor shelfwear. ; Danish Humanist Texts and Studies Volume 1; 335 pages
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Hansen, Peter Allan
A LIST OF GREEK VERSE INSCRIPTIONS DOWN TO 400 B. C. An Analytical Survey
Faint yellowing to wraps. 1 small stain to front wrap. ; Opuscula Graecolatina (Supplementa Musei Tusculani) Vol. 3; 53 pages
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Hansen, William
THE CONFERENCE SEQUENCE Patterned Narration and Narrative Inconsistency in the Odyssey
Minor scuffing and sunning to wraps. ; University of California Publications: Classical Studies, Volume 8; 61 pages
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Hanson, John Arthur
ROMAN THEATER-TEMPLES
Bumping to upper corners. Faint bump to head of spine. DJ is present but missing rear panel. DJ is in poor condition. Scholar's name to ffep (G. M. Paul). ; Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology XXXIII; 112 pages
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Hanson, Victor
A WAR LIKE NO OTHER How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Very Light shelfwear. Faint creasing to rear upper corner. ; One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. ; 416 pages
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Hanson, Victor Davis
WARFARE AND AGRICULTURE IN CLASSICAL GREECE
Faint sunning to spine. ; The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a comprehensive modern study of the relationship between agriculture and warfare in the Greek world. In this completely revised edition of Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Victor Davis Hanson provides a systematic review of Greek agriculture and warfare and describes the relationship between these two important aspects of life in ancient communities. With careful attention to agronomic as well as military details, this well-written, thoroughly researched study reveals the remarkable resilience of those farmland communities. ; 0.87 x 9.25 x 6.12 Inches; 281 pages
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Hanson, Victor Davis
WARS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS
Very Light shelfwear. ; This brilliant account covers a millennium of Greek warfare. With specially commissioned battle maps and vivid illustrations, Victor Davis Hanson takes the reader into the heart of Greek warfare, classical beliefs, and heroic battles. This colorful portrait of ancient Greek culture explains why their approach to fighting was so ruthless and so successful. Development of the Greek city-state and the rivalries of Athens and Sparta. Rise of Alexander the Great and the Hellenization of the Western world. Famous thinkers—Sophocles, Socrates, Demosthenes—who each faced his opponent in battle, armed with spear and shield. Unsurpassed military theories that still influence the structure of armies and the military today. ; Smithsonian History of Warfare; 240 pages
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Hanson, Victor Davis (Ed. )
HOPLITES The Classical Greek Battle Experience
Minor shelfwear with creasing to spine. ; 304 pages; Incorporating research found in ancient literary, iconographic, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, this book explores the experiences of the soldiers who conducted battle on the small plains of ancient Greece. The volume, which draws on the accumulated expertise of nine American and British scholars, emphasizes the actual techniques of fighting and practical concerns as the use of commands, music in warfare, the use of "dog-tags", and ritual on the battlefield.
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Hanson, Victor Davis; John Keegan (Intro. )
THE WESTERN WAY OF WAR Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
271 pages; Second Edition. The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, maneuver, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks of the fifth century b. C. Devised a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men of all ages. In this bold, original study, Victor Davis Hanson shows how this brutal enterprise was dedicated to the same outcome as consensual government--an unequivocal, instant resolution to dispute. The Western Way of War draws from an extraordinary range of sources--Greek poetry, drama, and vase painting, as well as historical records--to describe what actually took place on the battlefield. It is the first study to explore the actual mechanics of classical Greek battle from the vantage point of the infantryman--the brutal spear-thrusting, the difficulty of fighting in heavy bronze armor which made it hard to see, hear and move, and the fear. Hanson also discusses the physical condition and age of the men, weaponry, wounds, and morale. This compelling account of what happened on the killing fields of the ancient Greeks ultimately shows that their style of armament and battle was contrived to minimize time and life lost by making the battle experience as decisive and appalling as possible. Linking this new style of fighting to the rise of constitutional government, Hanson raises new issues and questions old assumptions about the history of war.
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Hanson, Victor Davis; John Keegan (Intro. )
THE WESTERN WAY OF WAR Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has a couple of small tears and very light chipping. ; 244 pages; Second Edition. The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambush, skirmish, maneuver, or combat between individual heroes, the Greeks of the fifth century b. C. Devised a ferocious, brief, and destructive head-on clash between armed men of all ages. In this bold, original study, Victor Davis Hanson shows how this brutal enterprise was dedicated to the same outcome as consensual government--an unequivocal, instant resolution to dispute. The Western Way of War draws from an extraordinary range of sources--Greek poetry, drama, and vase painting, as well as historical records--to describe what actually took place on the battlefield. It is the first study to explore the actual mechanics of classical Greek battle from the vantage point of the infantryman--the brutal spear-thrusting, the difficulty of fighting in heavy bronze armor which made it hard to see, hear and move, and the fear. Hanson also discusses the physical condition and age of the men, weaponry, wounds, and morale. This compelling account of what happened on the killing fields of the ancient Greeks ultimately shows that their style of armament and battle was contrived to minimize time and life lost by making the battle experience as decisive and appalling as possible. Linking this new style of fighting to the rise of constitutional government, Hanson raises new issues and questions old assumptions about the history of war.
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