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M. Tullius Cicero; Ludovicus [Ludwig] Claude Purser (Ed. )
[CICERO] M. TULLI CICERONIS: EPISTULAE VOL. III: Epistulae Ad Quintum Fratrem, Commentariolum Petitionis, Epistulae Ad M. Brutum, Pseudo-Ciceronis Epistula Ad Octavianum, Fragmenta Epistularum. Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit Ludovicus Claude Purser
Light shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Former owner's name to ffep. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxoniensis; Vol. 3; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
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Zosimus; Ronald T. Ridley
ZOSIMUS: NEW HISTORY A New Translation with Commentary
Still wrapped in plastic. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 2; 263 pages
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Beard, Mary & Michael Crawford
ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC
Light rubbin to wraps with a bit of colour loss. Scholar's name to titlepage (Robert Brown). ; 8vo; 106 pages; What were the reasons for the Roman revolution, wherein a republican form of government that had endured for centuries suddenly gave way, after civil war, to a dictatorship, which eventually dissolved under the peaceful sway of an autocratic principate? When did the process of change begin, what were its significant stages, and how are we to make sense of it? These are some of the questions addressed by two able scholars in this remarkably concise and accomplished survey of the history of the late Roman Republic. Setting themselves the challenging goal of making the first century comprehensible in twentieth-century terms, Mary Beard and Michael Crawford outline the factors that must be assessed for a proper understanding of the period-- from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of the state religion to the function of political institutions, and the reasons for imperial expansion. They offer no simple explanations, but instead supply a descriptive framework that clarifies a mass of conflicting and fragmentary evidence. Ideal for both introductory and graduate courses in the later Roman Republic, this book will make stimulating and provocative reading for anyone interested in the history of ancient Rome. From the Index: 1. The Nature of the Problem 2.The Cultural Horizons of the Aristocracy 3. Religion 4. Political Institutions 5. The Working of Politics 6. Rome and the Outside World
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Shotter, David
AUGUSTUS CAESAR
Very Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to titlepage (Robert Brown). Else fine. ; Lancaster Pamphlets; 128 pages; This pamphlet places Augustus Caesar firmly in the context of his own times. It explores the background to his spectacular rise to power, his political and imperial reforms, the creation of the Respublica of Augustus, and the legacy he left to his successors. By examining the hopes and expectations of Augustus' contemporaries and his own personal characteristics of statesmanship and unscrupulous ambition, Shotter reveals that the reasons for Augustus' success lie partly in the complexity of the man himself, and partly in the unique nature of the times in which he lived.
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Shotter, David
THE FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Very Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else fine. ; Lancaster Pamphlets; 128 pages
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M. Tullius Cicero; A. S. Wilkins (Ed. )
M. TULLI CICERONIS [CICERO]: RHETORICA (VOL. II) Tomus II: Brutus, Orator, De Optimo Genere Oratorum, Partitiones Oratoriae, Topica. Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit A. S. Wilkins
Endpapers a bit browned. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). 2 Small tears to cloth of rear board with some rubbing to boards. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxoniensis; Vol. 2; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 260 pages
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius; R. G. Austin (Ed. )
M. TULLI CICERONIS: PRO M. CAELIO ORATIO [Cicero: Pro Caelio]
Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Pencil underlining and notes to some pages. Rubbing to extremities. DJ has tears, creasing and chipping. ; Latin Text with English Commentary and Introduction. ; 180 pages
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M. Tullius Cicero; O. Plasberg & W. Ax (Eds. )
M. TULLI CICERONIS [CICERO]: SCRIPTA QUAE MANSERUNT OMNIA Fasc. 45: De Natura Deorum. Post O. Plasberg. Edidit W. Ax. Editio Stereotypa Editionis Secundae (MCMXXXIII)
Very Light tanning to endpapers. Scholar's blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Light shelfwear. ; Text in Latin; Apparatus in Latin. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 45; 240 pages
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Cicéron (Cicero) ; Jules Martha
CICÉRON: DES TERMES EXTRÊMES DES BIENS ET DES MAUX. TOME I (LIVRES I-II) Texte Établi Et Traduit.
Spine sunned. Chipping and small tears mostly along Along spine. Pages a little age-toned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). ; Parallel text in French and Latin. Xxxi, 129 pp; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; Vol. 1; 129 pages
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Cicéron (Cicero) ; Jean Molager
CICÉRON: LES PARADOXES DES STOÏCIENS Texte Établi Et Traduit.
Spine a bit sunned. Bump with crease through lower corner of book. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). ; Parallel text in French and Latin. ; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; 157 pages
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Cicéron (Cicero) ; Georges De Plinval
CICÉRON: TRAITÉ DES LOIS Texte Établi Et Traduit. Deuxieme Tirage
Spine a bit sunned. Light shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). ; Parallel text in French and Latin. ; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; 157 pages
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Cicéron (Cicero) ; Maurice Testard
CICÉRON: LES DEVOIRS. TOME II: LIVRES II ET III Texte Établi Et Traduit.
Spine a bit sunned and rubbed. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). ; Parallel text in French and Latin. ; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; Vol. 2
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Cicéron (Cicero) ; Maurice Testard
CICÉRON: LES DEVOIRS. TOME I: LIVRE I Texte Établi Et Traduit.
Spine a bit sunned and rubbed. Minor shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). ; Parallel text in French and Latin. ; Collection Des Universités De France. Association Guillaume Budé; Vol. 1
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Hardwick, Lorna
TRANSLATING WORDS, TRANSLATING CULTURES
Faint crease to 1 corner of wraps. Scholar's name to half title (Robert Brown). ; Never have there been so many different types of translations of Greek and Latin literature into English. Most people experience Homer and Greek tragedy for the first time through translations. New versions of Vergil and Ovid have become best sellers. This book examines the literary and cultural environment underlying the various kinds of translation - from 'faithful' and 'equivalent' through 'imitation' to 'adaptation' and 'version' - discussing the extent to which translations have been regarded as creative work in their own right and their impact in the work of modern writers such as Harrison, Heaney, Hughes and Walcott. Key themes include the challenge presented by translations to conventional interpretations of the classical canon; the implications of translating across genres - for example in the staging of epic; and the role of translations in twentieth-century conflicts. Lorna Hardwick suggests that translations from Greek and Latin literature are catalysts in the refiguring of both poetic and political awareness and that in transplanting myths and metaphors into disparate cultures, translations energise new senses of cultural identity. ; Classical Inter/Faces; 128 pages
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Martindale, Charles
JOHN MILTON AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANCIENT EPIC
Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. ; Milton has long been recognised as being among English poets most indebted to ancient literature, but the range and depth of that debt have rarely been explored. Here Martindale examines the use Milton made of other ancient poets, notably Homer, Ovid and Lucan, and finds some surprising elements in the style of "Paradise Lost" - Horace for example. He is primarily concerned with Milton's attitude to the classics and the questions that raises as to his methods. Renaissance views of classical poets and eighteenth-century commentaries on Milton are brought to bear on these questions. Finally the limits of Milton's classicism and the differences between "Paradise Lost" and its predecessors are considered. ; Bristol Classical Paperbacks; 256 pages
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Martindale, Charles & A. B. Taylor (Eds. )
SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICS
Very light shelfwear. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; Compiled by an international team of Shakespeareans and classicists, this study investigates Shakespeare's classicism and demonstrates how he used a variety of classical books to explore such crucial areas of human experience as love, politics, ethics, and history. It offers a comprehensive analysis of Shakespeare's classicism that will also serve as a useful introduction for students and others approaching the subject for the first time. ; 334 pages
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Smith, Eric
A DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL REFERENCE IN ENGLISH POETRY
Small scratch near top of spine. Light shelfwear. ; A Dictionary of Classical Reference comprises a guide to classical names and references in English poetry from Chaucer to the twentieth century. Over eighty poets are covered, and all classical references in their works, with only minor exceptions, are included. The Dictionary is in two parts, the first of which consists of entries by character or event, defining the classical myths or stories attached to the subject in question and giving the original source followed by a list of the references in English poetry. The second part of the book is a reverse index, arranged by poet and works. It is therefore possible to study both the use of, for example, a particular myth in English poetry as a whole, or a particular poet's choice of classical material. The dictionary is particularly welcome at a time when the classical authors are no longer a part of the range of knowledge of most readers. ; 320 pages
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Gillespie, Stuart
THE POETS ON THE CLASSICS An Anthology of English Poets' Writings on the Classical Poets and Dramatists from Chaucer to the Present
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light shelfwear to book. DJ has a couple of small chips and light edgewear. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; A collection of poetic English writing on the classics, providing a first-hand guide to the relations between classical literature and the English poetic tradition. It contains over two hundred entries, ranging from the Middle Ages to today. ; 256 pages
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Sowerby, Robin
THE CLASSICAL LEGACY IN RENAISSANCE POETRY
Light bump to 1 corner. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). DJ has light creasing and shelfwear. ; The formative influence of the Graeco-Roman classics was fundamental to the creation of literary culture in the Renaissance. Through detailed analysis, this book illustrates the classical legacy as it was known in the Renaissance. It then shows how that legacy was received in translation, transformed in imitation and put to creative uses by Renaissance poets working in genres under classical influence. Key Features: Includes detailed analysis of a wide variety of poems from Wyatt to Dryden. Each chapter focuses on one of the major genres: epic, drama, lyric, pastoral and Georgic, Ovidian genres (the epyllion, the love elegy and the heroic epistle) , and satire. Presents the classics in Renaissance translations -wherever possible. Shows Renaissance perspectives through translations and through judgements made by Renaissance commentators, critics and the poets themselves. Introduces broader themes such as the dominating influence of Latin, the difficulty of Greek, the reception of classical texts in a prevailing Christian. Culture, the theory and practice on imitation and the rules of art. Readership: Students of English studying the Renaissance and the 17th Century and classical students interested in the classical tradition. ; Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library; 320 pages
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Whitfield, B. G.
A CLASSICAL HANDBOOK FOR SIXTH FORMS
Slight bow to boards. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). DJ has browning and light soiling and a few tears. ; 77 pages
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Ernout, Alfred
RECUEIL DE TEXTES LATINS ARCHAÏQUES Nouvelle Édition. 3e Tirage.
Tanning to wraps and a bit of creasing. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Former owner's name on ffep. ; Texte en français et latin. ; 289 pages
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Konishi, Haruo
FORMS OF GREEK PLAYS From Aeschylus to Aristophanes
Light shelfwear with faint creasing along foredges of wraps. ; Contents: Introduction; 1. Structural analysis of plays ; Aeschylus: Persians, Seven against Thebes , Suppliants, Agamemnon, Choephoroi, Eumenides, Prometheus bound ; Sophokles: Ajax , Elektra , Oedipos Tyrannos , Antigone , Trachinian Women , Philoktetes, Oedipos at kolonos ; Euripides: Kyklops, Alkestis, Medeia, Herakleidai, Hippolytos, Andromache, Hekabe, Suppliant Women, Herakles, ion , Trojan Women Elektra, Iphigenia among the Taurians , Helen, Phoencian Women, Orestes, Bakkhae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesos. ; Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, Birds, Lusistrate, Thesmophoriazusai, Frogs, Ekklesiazousai, Ploutos, 2. Historical background of ; 3 Beginnings and Center of plays; Beginnings: Aeschylus , Sophokles, Euripides , Aristophanes ; Centers ; : Aeschylus , Sophokles, Euripides , Aristphanes ; 4. Broad outlines of plays ; appendix: The `M’ principles ; Index ; Works cited; Illustrations; Classical and Byzantine Monographs Vol. LXXVIII; 222 pages
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Christ, Matthew R.
THE LIMITS OF ALTRUISM IN DEMOCRATIC ATHENS
Athenians in the classical period (508–322 BC) were drawn to an image of themselves as a compassionate and generous people who rushed to the aid of others in distress, both at home and abroad. What relation does this image bear to actual Athenian behavior? This book argues that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens whom they did not know. Democratic ideology called on citizens to refrain from harming one another rather than to engage in mutual support, and emphasized the importance of the helping relationship between citizen and city rather than among individual citizens. If the obligation of Athenians to help fellow citizens was fairly tenuous, all the more so was their responsibility to intervene to assist the peoples of other states; a distinct pragmatism prevailed in the city's decisions concerning intervention abroad. ; 223 pages
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Poole, Adrian & Jeremy Maule
THE OXFORD BOOK OF CLASSICAL VERSE IN TRANSLATION
Rear hinge tear and cracked but holding. Upper corner of book is bumped with some creasing to pages. Small tear to top corner of DJ and general shelfwear and rubbing. ; 1.72 x 9.28 x 6.32 Inches; 660 pages; A unique anthology of English poetry from all ages translated from the classics. The collection bears witness to the remarkable richness of both poetic traditions, with poets as diverse as Pope and Jonson to Aubrey Beardsley and Ted Hughes.
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Platnauer, Maurice
FIFTY YEARS (AND TWELVE) OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP Being Fifty Years of Classical Scholarship. Revised with Appendices
Former owner's name to ffep has been bleached out. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Faint spotting to boards. ; Sums up the advances in the 62 years of Classics prior to publication in the fields of: Homer, Early Greek Lyric Poetry, Greek Tragedy, Greek Comedy, Greek Philosophers, Greek Historians, Greek Orators and Rhetoric, Hellenistic Poetry, Roman Drama, Late Republican Poetry, Augustan Poets, Roman Oratory, Roman Historians, Silver Latin Poetry; 537 pages
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Treggiari, Susan
ROMAN MARRIAGE Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian
Creasing along spine. Some wear to corners of wraps. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). A few pages corner creased. ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 578 pages; This book explores the practicalities, cultural assumptions, and affective possibilities of marriage during the later Republic and the Principate. It offers a fresh look at the interaction of law and reality within Roman marriage, and builds on the accumulation of legal scholarship in the field, as well as on the the latest insights into Roman society. Treggiari demonstrates that marriage affected a Roman woman's social status, and that while the socio-legal effect on a man was far less striking, marriage did enable a man to father legitimate children, the main object of the institution. The study also addresses the influences on the choice of partner, behavioral norms, and motives for divorce.
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Taplin, Oliver (Ed. )
LITERATURE IN THE GREEK WORLD
Very light shelfwear else fine. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; In this refreshing volume, we are offered a new perspective on Greek literature, based on the conviction that our present appreciation for it should be informed and influenced by how it was originally perceived. From the earliest surviving Greek poetry to the drama, history, and philosophy of Greece under Roman rule, this book focuses on the "receivers" of Greek literature-the readers, spectators, and audiences who first witnessed the works over two thousand years ago. Six contributors map out the lively and provocative surveys, covering the kinds of literature that have shaped Western culture--epic, lyric, tragedy, comedy, history, philosophy, elegy, satire, biography, and panegyric. ; 299 pages
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Hutchinson, G. O.
HELLENISTIC POETRY
Lower corners are bumped. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light shelfwear to DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 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
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Irwin, Eleanor
COLOUR TERMS IN GREEK POETRY
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Book has light shelfwear. Dustjacket has some edgewear with light chipping and a few tear and rubbing. DJ is price-clipped. ; Greek words for colours have long puzzled readers of Greek literary works. Irwin offers that the Greeks saw colour not in terms of spectrum and hue, but in degrees of light and dark, and intensity. ; 242 pages
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Dorey, T. A. (Ed. )
EMPIRE AND AFTERMATH Silver Latin II
Book is fine. DJ has some edgewear with a bit of chipping. DJ is price-clipped. ; Contents: introduction: T. A. Dorey; Velleius paterculus: A. J. Woodman; Valerius Maximus: C. J. Carter; Pliny's Natural History and the Middle Ages: Marjorie Chibnall; Quintilian and Rhetoric: M. Winterbottom; Quintilian on Education: M. L. Clarke; Letters of Pliny: Betty Radice; Latin Prose Panegyrics: Sabine MacCormack. ; Greek & Latin Studies; 222 pages
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Quinn, Kenneth
TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Roman Writers and Their Audience
Scholars' name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light bump to 1 corner. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; The purpose of this book is to identify those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive because of their intrinsic quality and their lasting significance. ; 280 pages
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Konstan, David
ROMAN COMEDY
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Scholar's blindstamp to halftitle (Robert Brown). Else Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has chipping and small tears to top of DJ. A bit of loss to top of DJ spine. ; 0.75 x 9 x 6 Inches; 184 pages; Explores the social institutions, the prevailing social values, and the ideology of the ancient city-state as revealed in Roman comedy. Looks closely at eight plays: Plautus's Aulularia, Asinaria, Captivi, Rudens, Cistellaria, and Truculentus, and Terence's Phormio and Hecyra.
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Hardwick, Lorna & Carol Gillespie (Eds. )
CLASSICS IN POST-COLONIAL WORLDS
Very light shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars, who debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires. ; Classical Presences; 420 pages
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Hardwick, Lorna & Christopher Stray (Eds. )
A COMPANION TO CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS
Light knock to top edge of front board. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light creasing along top edge of DJ with 1 small tear (1/2 cm). ; Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies. Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later centuries, and the fastest growing area in classics Brings together 34 essays by an international group of contributors focused on ancient and modern reception concepts and practices Combines close readings of key receptions with wider contextualization and discussion Explores the impact of Greek and Roman culture worldwide, including crucial new areas in Arabic literature, South African drama, the history of photography, and contemporary ethics; Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World; 560 pages
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Kallendorf, Craig W. (Ed. )
A COMPANION TO THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Else book is fine. DJ has minor creasing along top edge with 1 tiny chip. ; A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory; Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World; 512 pages
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Ludwig, Walther
AUFSÄTZE
Wraps are browned, with small tear to lower edge of rear wrap. Some foxing. Scholar's blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Reprint of articles written by Ludwig on topics including : Plato's Love Epigrams; Die Phainomena Arats als hellenistische Dichtung; Von Terenz zu Menander; Zu Horaz, C. 2, 1-12. ; 192 pages
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Will, Frederic (Ed. )
HEREDITAS. SEVEN ESSAYS ON THE MODERN EXPERIENCE OF THE CLASSICAL Edited with Introduction
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
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Gow, A. S. F. & D. L. Page
THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY [2 VOLUME SET] Hellenistic Epigrams. Volume I: Introduction and Text. Volume II: Commentary and Indexes
Minor shelfwear to books. Light bump to 1 corner. Scholar's name to ffeps (Robert Brown). ; 2 Volume Set COMPLETE; Vol. 1/2/2022; 719 pages
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Bates, William Nickerson
EURIPIDES A Student of Human Nature
Creasing to spine and upper corner of first few pages. Minor rubbing to wraps. Old price sticker to front wrap. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; A Perpetua Book; 315 pages
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Euripides; A. C. Pearson
EURIPIDES: THE PHOENISSAE
Some pencil notes and marginalia to a few pages. Writing in pencil to endpapers. Spine slanted. Slight fraying to spine ends. Mild rubbing to boards. Corners rounded. ; Pitt Press Series; 246 pages
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Lefkowitz, Mary R. & Maureen B. Fant (Eds. )
WOMEN'S LIFE IN GREECE AND ROME A Source Book in Translation
Slight creasing and light wear to corners. Minor shelfwear. Spine a bit sunned. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Old price sticker to front panel. ; 416 pages
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Schmitt Pantel, Pauline & Georges Duby & Michelle Perrot (Eds. ) & Arthur Goldhammer (translated)
A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE WEST I. from Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints
Very light shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (W. G. Slater) ; History of Women in the West; Vol. 1; 572 pages
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Quinn, Kenneth
THE CATULLAN REVOLUTION
Creasing to top corners. Old price sticker to front wrap. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Ann Arbor Paperbacks; 119 pages; Examining the revolution wrought by Catullus in Latin poetry, this volume encapsulates the way in which principles of modern literary criticism could be applied to classical poetry, without ditching the sound philological scholarship of the classical tradition. In its day this book led the way in showing the philogically trained student how to be a critic; equally it can show the critically trained student the importance of a sound philogical base today
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Braund, David C.
AUGUSTUS TO NERO A Source Book on Roman History, 31 BC - AD 68
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Contents: The Imperial Family, The Imperial Household, Senators, Equites, The Armed Forces, The Imperial Administration, Kings, Cities and Towns & Society and Economy. Index of Personal Names ; 352 pages; Inaccessible sources are collected and translated, less well-known literary evidence is included: for example, the significant poetry of Crinagoras and Calpurnius Siculus.
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Watson, G. R.
THE ROMAN SOLDIER
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Spine slightly discolored. ; This book is a study of the life and training of the Roman soldier from enlistment to discharge. Covers the period of the Empire to the accession of Diocletian, and pays especial regard to ranks below the centurionate. Takes account not only of the legions and the auxiliary forces, but also of the praetorian guard and the urban cohorts, the Vigiles, and the imperial fleets. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman life; 256 pages
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Rawson, Beryl
THE FAMILY IN ANCIENT ROME New Perspectives
Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Little has been published on the Roman family, a subject of central importance to political as well as social history. It was the family that determined political power; it was within the family that the distinctive relationships of one citizen to another were forged and exemplified. The Family in Ancient Rome provides an overview of the state of research by presenting some of the most important work being done in this area. In addition to a survey of the literature on all aspects of the Roman family, the book begins with a general picture of the main features of the family. More specialized essays deal with the legal evidence, wills and property rights which were of particular importance for the position of women; with the link between property disposition, dowry, and divorce; with the authority of the male head of the household and its relation to political power; with the status of children born of unions between slaves and citizen; and with the rearing of, and attitudes toward, children. ; 288 pages; Isbn: 0801418739
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Starr, Chester G.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE, 27 B.C.-A.D. 476 A Study in Survival
2 corners chipped/ small tear. Else minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; 224 pages; In this probing study, Starr covers the whole sweep of imperial Roman history, analyzing the binding forces of government and the army as initated by Augustus, the maturing of these forces under subsequent emperors, and the eventual collapse of this network in the western provinces. Not simply a chronological summary, the book explores in piquant, telling detail the elements and institutions that shaped the empire's history.
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Page, Denys L.
SUPPLEMENTUM LYRICIS GRAECIS Poetarum Lyricorum Graecorum Fragmenta Quae Recens Innotuerunt. Edidit Denys Page
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Else very light shelfwear. ; 174 pages
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Bates, William Nickerson
SOPHOCLES Poet and Dramatist
Creasing to lower corner of front wrap and first couple of pages. Minor rubbing to wraps. Old price sticker to front wrap. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; A Perpetua Book; 315 pages
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Kirk, James
HOMER AND THE EPIC A Shortened Version of 'the Songs of Homer'
Minor shelfwear. Spine sunned and a bit creased. Light bump to top of spine. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). ; 243 pages; This is a shortened and rearranged version of The Songs of Homer. The literature of the western world begins with one of its greatest achievements. The stories of the wrath of Achilles and its consequences, and of the wanderings of Odysseus, have been admired from ancient times to the present day. The two great epics can be read and enjoyed, unreflectingly, as tales of adventure; or they can be studied as literature, yielding, as insight and understanding grow, a deeper and more permanent pleasure. Professor Kirk's book is the means to this pleasure. It is a vivid and comprehensive account of the background and development of the Homeric poems and of their quality as literature. The epics are seen primarily as oral poetry, sung for centuries by illiterate singers; and from this view rises discussion of the problems of authorship and transmission. The historical, archaeological and linguistic evidence is also examined; and the possible contributions of the Mycenaean period and of the subsequent Dark Age are shown in a fresh light.
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