‎Greek‎

‎Beye, Charles Rowan‎

‎ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE AND SOCIETY‎

‎Very faint shelfwear and dustsoiling. ; 9.2 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches; 332 pages‎

‎De Romilly, Jacqueline & Lillian Doherty‎

‎A SHORT HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE‎

‎Creasing to spine. Binding broken between pps 142-143 ; 308 pages‎

‎Apollodorus; Michael Simpson (Trans. )‎

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

‎Wraps have heavy rubbing with creasing. Colour loss along spine. Wraps are a bit worn. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Some underlining in ink to a few pages. ; Drawings; 0.81 x 9.25 x 5.95 Inches; 311 pages‎

‎Green, Richard & Eric Handley‎

‎IMAGES OF THE GREEK THEATRE‎

‎Minor shelfwear. ; Classical Bookshelf; 127 pages; Classical Greek theatre survives not only in plays that we still read and perform, but also in artistic images. Depictions of performances, actors, and their masks were frequent in classical times and continued to appear even beyond the fifth and sixth centuries A. D. , long after the plays had ceased to be staged. These artifacts, together with the remains of actual theatres and the texts of surviving plays, give us an idea of how Greek drama must have appeared in its heyday. In this book, Richard Green and Eric Handley outline the history of the Greek theatre, drawing on the evidence supplied by the theatres themselves, the surviving plays, and artistic artifacts. They show and discuss painted pottery, notably from fifth-century Athens and fourth-century southern Italy, that records scenes from plays. Terra-cotta figures, mosaics, paintings, metalware, and gems also help them build a picture of Greek theatre. All these artifacts tell the story of Greek drama as seen through the eyes of those admirers who kept its classic moments and traditions alive and who found a place for it in the society of their own times. They help the modern playgoer and reader to imagine what a visit to the theatre in classical Greece might have been like.‎

‎Pickard-Cambridge, Arthur W.‎

‎THE DRAMATIC FESTIVALS OF ATHENS‎

‎Scholar's name to inner cover (Cedric Boulter). Spine sunned. Inner covers foxed. ; discusses the organization of the dramatic festivals, describes the acting style, actors, costumes, dancing, music, and audiences' tastes and behavior, and provides a full presentation of the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence on which any discussion of the dramatic festivals is based, such as the difficulties of interpretation. ; 1.23 x 9.53 x 6.39 Inches; 334 pages‎

‎Gregory, Justina (Ed. )‎

‎A COMPANION TO GREEK TRAGEDY‎

‎Rear hinge weakening and does not sit square. Very light bumping to top corners. DJ has some edgewar and creasing. ; Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World; 9.7 X 7.1 X 1.7 inches; 572 pages; The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of Greek tragedy All ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and a generous and informative combined bibliography‎

‎Tzanetou, Angeliki‎

‎CITY OF SUPPLIANTS Tragedy and the Athenian Empire‎

‎Very faint shelfwear. Gift inscription from author to Jenifer Neils on ffep. ; After fending off Persia in the fifth century BCE, Athens assumed a leadership position in the Aegean world. Initially it led the Delian League, a military alliance against the Persians, but eventually the league evolved into an empire with Athens in control and exacting tribute from its former allies. Athenians justified this subjection of their allies by emphasizing their fairness and benevolence towards them, which gave Athens the moral right to lead. But Athenians also believed that the strong rule over the weak and that dominating others allowed them to maintain their own freedom. These conflicting views about Athens' imperial rule found expression in the theater, and this book probes how the three major playwrights dramatized Athenian imperial ideology. Through close readings of Aeschylus' Eumenides, Euripides' Children of Heracles, and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, as well as other suppliant dramas, Angeliki Tzanetou argues that Athenian tragedy performed an important ideological function by representing Athens as a benevolent and moral ruler that treated foreign suppliants compassionately. She shows how memorable and disenfranchised figures of tragedy, such as Orestes and Oedipus, or the homeless and tyrant-pursued children of Heracles were generously incorporated into the public body of Athens, thus reinforcing Athenians' sense of their civic magnanimity. This fresh reading of the Athenian suppliant plays deepens our understanding of how Athenians understood their political hegemony and reveals how core Athenian values such as justice, freedom, piety, and respect for the laws intersected with imperial ideology. ; 206 pages; Signed by Author‎

‎Foley, Helene P. (Ed. )‎

‎THE HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER Translation, Commentary, and Interpretative Essays‎

‎Pencil Underlining or marginalia to some pages; 1 page with pen marginalia (line). Else minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 320 pages‎

‎Baldry, H. C.‎

‎THE GREEK TRAGIC THEATRE‎

‎Minor shelfwear to book. Creasing to spine. ; Ancient Culture and Society; 143 pages‎

‎Tracy, Stephen V.‎

‎THE STORY OF THE ODYSSEY‎

‎Very faint shelfwear. ; 8.4 X 5.4 X 0.4 inches; 176 pages‎

‎Buxton, Richard‎

‎IMAGINARY GREECE The Contexts of Mythology‎

‎Minor pencilling to a few pages. ; Reprint of the 1994 ed. Xiv, 250pp. This is a study of Greek myths in relation to the society in which they were originally told. It does not re-tell the myths; rather, it offers an analysis of how myths played a fundamental role in the lives of the Greeks. The relation between reality and fantasy is discussed by means of three case studies: the landscape, the family, and religion. Most of all, this book seeks to demonstrate how the seemingly endless variations of Greek mythology are a product of its particular people, place, and time. ; 250 pages‎

‎Frantz, Alison‎

‎THE ATHENIAN AGORA. VOLUME XX: THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES‎

‎Upper corners slightly rounded. Minor shelfwear. ; 40 pl. ; The Athenian Agora. Volume XX; 44 pages‎

‎Nelson, Stephanie A.‎

‎GOD AND THE LAND The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil‎

‎In this pathbreaking book, which includes a powerful new translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by esteemed translator David Grene, Stephanie Nelson argues that a society's vision of farming contains deep indications about its view of the human place within nature, and our relationship to the divine. She contends that both Hesiod in the Works and Days and Vergil in the Georgics saw farming in this way, and so wrote their poems not only about farming itself, but also about its deeper ethical and religious implications. Hesiod, Nelson argues, saw farming as revealing that man must live by the sweat of his brow, and that good, for human beings, must always be accompanied by hardship. Within this vision justice, competition, cooperation, and the need for labor take their place alongside the uncertainties of the seasons and even of particular lucky and unlucky days to form a meaningful whole within which human life is an integral part. Vergil, Nelson argues, deliberately modeled his poem upon the Works and Days, and did so in order to reveal that his is a very different vision. Hesiod saw the hardship in farming; Vergil sees its violence as well. Farming is for him both our life within nature, and also our battle against her. Against the background of Hesiods poem, which found a single meaning for human life, Vergil thus creates a split vision and suggests that human beings may be radically alienated from both nature and the divine. Nelson argues that both the Georgics and the Works and Days have been misread because scholars have not seen the importance of the connection between the two poems, and because they have not seen that farming is the true concern of both, farming in its deepest and most profoundly unsettling sense.; 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 272 pages‎

‎Dalby, Andrew‎

‎SIREN FEASTS A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece‎

‎Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Else very faint shelfwear. ; 0.92 x 9.18 x 6.11 Inches; 320 pages; Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil--four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture- -were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighboring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character. In Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits. Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated, scholarly yet immensely readable, Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods (was fish a luxury item in classical Athens, though disdained by Homeric heroes? ). It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore.‎

‎ANCIENT CORINTH A Guide to the Excavations‎

‎Some browning and light creasing to wraps. ; 126 pages; Includes fold out map of the excavation site.‎

‎Romilly, Jacqueline de‎

‎THE RISE AND FALL OF STATES ACCORDING TO GREEK AUTHORS‎

‎Jerome Lectures 11; 108 pages; A survey of how Greek historians explained the conditions of a state's success and the dangers of power.‎

‎Tomlinson, R. A.‎

‎ARGOS AND THE ARGOLID From the End of the Bronze Age to the Roman Occupation‎

‎Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Minor shelfwear. ; Describes the region & country of Argos; the relationship between the Argives and their neighbours; and the role of the Argives as the leaders of a 'third force' in mainland Greek history, where they challenged the supremacy of the Spartans in Peloponnesian affairs. ; States and Cities of Ancient Greece; 289 pages‎

‎Glotz, Gustave‎

‎ANCIENT GREECE AT WORK An Economic History of Greece from the Homeric Period to the Roman Conquest‎

‎Light yellowing to spine and rear wraps. Minor shelfwear. ; The Norton Library; 402 pages; This book gives an account of the workaday world which lay behind the political, religious, intellectual, and artistic life of ancient Greece.‎

‎Bury, J. B. & (Rev. by) Russell Meiggs‎

‎A HISTORY OF GREECE To the Death of Alexander the Great‎

‎Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Jenifer Neils). DJ is price-clipped. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and a couple of small tears. ; 925 pages‎

‎Vidal-Naquet, Pierre; Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew (Tr. )‎

‎THE BLACK HUNTER Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World‎

‎Dustjacket has edgewear with minor chipping and a couple of small tears. Minor discoloration to DJ spine. Slight spine slant. ; With a foreword by Bernard Knox. ; 392 pages; The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood, of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that pervaded Greek culture and society: cultivated and wild, citizen and foreigner, real and imaginary, god and man. Organizing his discussions around four principle themes -- space and time; youth and warriors; women, slaves, and artisans; and the city of vision and of reality -- Pierre Vidal-Naquet focuses on the congruence of the textual and the actual, on the patterns that link literary, philosophical, and historical works with such social activities as war, slavery, education, and commemoration. The Black Hunter probes the interplay of world view, language, and social practice "to bring into dialogue that which does not naturally communicate according to the usual criteria of historical judgement.‎

‎Dover, K. J.‎

‎GREEK POPULAR MORALITY In the Time of Plato and Aristotle‎

‎Faint waviness to lower edges of about 5 pages. Small piece torn off to 1 page (1/2 cm). ; 349 pages; In ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life.‎

‎Raven, Susan‎

‎ROME IN AFRICA‎

‎Very light edgewear. ; 254 pages; Nearly three thousand years ago the Phoenicians set up trading colonies on the coast of North Africa, and ever since successive civilizations have been imposed on the local inhabitants, largely from outside. Carthaginians, Romans, vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, TUrks, French and Italians have all occupied the region in their time. The Romans governed this part of Africa for six hundred cities, twelve thousand miles of roads and hundreds of aquaducts, some fifty miles long. The remains of many of these structures can be seen today. At the height of its prosperity, during the second and third centuries AD, the area was the granary of Rome, and produced more olive oil than Italy itself. The broadening horizons of the Roman Empire provided scope for the particular talents of a number of Africa's sons: the writers Terence and Apuleius; the first African Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, famous Christian theologians like Tertulllian and Saint Augustine - these are just some who rose to meet the challenges of their age.‎

‎Sternberg, Rachel Hall‎

‎TRAGEDY OFFSTAGE Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens‎

‎Tiny stain to ffep. Gift inscription from author to Jenifer Neils on ffep in ink. ; Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves and their city during the classical period. Tragic plays, which formed a part of civic education, often promoted pity and compassion. But it is less clear to what extent Athenians embraced such ideals in daily life. How were they expected to respond, emotionally and pragmatically, to the suffering of other people? Under what circumstances? At what risk to themselves? In this book, Rachel Hall Sternberg draws on evidence from Greek oratory and historiography of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE to study the moral universe of the ancient Athenians: how citizens may have treated one another in times of adversity, when and how they were expected to help. She develops case studies in five spheres of everyday life: home nursing, the ransom of captives, intervention in street crimes, the long-distance transport of sick and wounded soldiers, and slave torture. Her close reading of selected narratives suggests that Athenians embraced high standards for helping behavior—at least toward relatives, friends, and some fellow citizens. Meanwhile, a subtle discourse of moral obligation strengthened the bonds that held Athenian society together, encouraging individuals to bring their personal behavior into line with the ideals of the city-state. ; 9.3 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches; 250 pages; Signed by Author‎

‎Cacouri, Athina & Robert McCabe & (A New Play by John Guare) & Commentaries by Lisa Wace French‎

‎MYCENAE From Myth to History‎

‎The extraordinary story of the loss and rediscovery of the city that fought Troy, told through archaeology, literature, and poetic black-and-white photographyThe Mycenaean civilization flourished more than 800 years before the classical Greeks, with a complex society, strong artistic tendencies, and a distinct system of writing. Famous for its lion gate and citadel, Mycenae was long believed to be the city that fought Troy in Homer’s epic, the Iliad. But after flourishing nearly three thousand years ago the society vanished, becoming nothing more than a legend. Mycenae: From Myth to History brings readers into the heart of this mystery, as it was being solved, through lively text, stunning photographs, and an original take on Greek history and mythology. ; 10.8 X 8.8 X 1.3 inches; 288 pages‎

‎Pandermalis, Dimitrios; Bernard Choremis, Christina Vlassopoulos‎

‎THE NEW ACROPOLIS MUSEUM Design and Original Exhibits from the Acropolis Collection.‎

‎Minor shelfwear. ; Exhibit at Onassis Cultural Center, New York, March 6 - April 9, 2003; Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 31 pages‎