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‎Golden, Mark‎

‎CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN CLASSICAL ATHENS‎

‎DJ spine is sunned and faded. Minor shelfwear to DJ. Pen and pencil underlining and notes to some pages. Else VG. ; Ancient Society and History; 8.75 x 1.25 x 6 Inches; 288 pages; "Mark Golden has produced a superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for comparable studies. "-- American Historical Review. Ancient Society and History.‎

‎Patterson, Cynthia B.‎

‎THE FAMILY IN GREEK HISTORY‎

‎Very minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; The family, Cynthia Patterson demonstrates, played a key role in the political changes that mark the history of ancient Greece. From the archaic society portrayed in Homer and Hesiod to the Hellenistic age, the private world of the family and household was integral with and essential to the civic realm. Early Greek society was rooted not in clans but in individual households, and a man's or woman's place in the larger community was determined by relationships within those households. The development of the city-state did not result in loss of the family's power and authority, Patterson argues; rather, the protection of household relationships was an important element of early public law. The interaction of civic and family concerns in classical Athens is neatly articulated by the examples of marriage and adultery laws. In law courts and in theater performances, violation of marital relationships was presented as a public danger, the adulterer as a sexual thief. This is an understanding that fits the Athenian concept of the city as the highest form of family. The suppression of the cities with the ascendancy of Alexander's empire led to a new resolution of the relationship between public and private authority: the concept of a community of households, which is clearly exemplified in Menander's plays. Undercutting common interpretations of Greek experience as evolving from clan to patriarchal state, Patterson's insightful analysis sheds new light on the role of men and women in Greek culture. ; 286 pages‎

‎Poliakoff, Michael B.‎

‎COMBAT SPORTS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Competition, Violence, and Culture‎

‎Very minor shelfwear to book. Minor pencilling to a couple of pages. DJ has a couple of small tears. DJ has light staining to rear panel. ; Xviii, 202pp, illustrated. A leading authority on classical games here provides a comprehensive study of the practice of combat sports in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Describing and analyzing the sports of boxing, wrestling, stick-fighting, and pankration, Michael B. Poliakoff discusses such topics as the function of competition and violent games in ancient society; on the social background of the participants, showing the broad spectrum of Greek athletic personnel; on the significance of the appearance of combat sport in myth and literature; and on the alleged cultic functions of the ancient combat sports. The book is copiously illustrated with photographs of numerous objects rarely or never before published. ; 202 pages‎

‎Cohen, Ada‎

‎THE ALEXANDER MOSAIC Stories of Victory and Defeat‎

‎Spine slant. Dustjacket spine is sunned. Shelfwear to DJ. Creasing to DJ front flap. DJ has 1 small tear. ; Cambridge Studies in Classical Art and Iconography; 302 pages; The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat focuses on one of the richest, most complex and visually stunning monuments of classical antiquity. Contributing to a vast tradition of scholarship, which dates back to the discovery of the Mosaic in 1831, Cohen here engages with, but departs from, a core of positivist assumptions that characterize this body of literature. In this study, she examines the Mosaic as it may have functioned in two different contexts, first as a Greek painting of the fourth century B.C., and then as a Roman mosaic of ca. 100 B.C.‎

‎Boardman, John‎

‎THE OXFORD HISTORY OF CLASSICAL ART‎

‎Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has minor shelfwear and creasing. ; 1.1 x 10.81 x 8.62 Inches; 444 pages; The art and architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome lies at the heart of the classical tradition of the Western world. Their legacy is so familiar as to have become commonplace. The legacy may appear simple, but the development of classical art in antiquity was complex and remarkably swift. It ran from near abstraction in 8th-century BC Greece, through years of observation and learning from the arts of the non-Greek world to the East and, in Egypt, to the brilliance of the classical revolution of the 5th century, which revealed attitudes and styles undreamt of by other cultures. After Alexander the Great, this became the art of an empire, readily learned by Rome and further developed according to the Romans' special character and needs until it provided the idiom for the imaging of Christianity. In this book, the story of this pageant of the arts is told by five leading scholars. Their aim has been to demonstrate how the arts served very different societies and patrons; the roles and objectives of the artists; the way in which the classical style was disseminated far beyond the borders of the Greek and Roman world; and the splendour and quality of the arts themselves.‎

‎Pomeroy, Sarah B.‎

‎FAMILIES IN CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC GREECE Representations and Realities‎

‎Very light shelfwear. ; With this volume Sarah Pomeroy builds on the groundwork she laid in Xenophon Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary (Oxford, 1994) and provides the first comprehensive study of the Greek family. Knowledge of the family and kin groups is fundamental to understanding the development of the political and legal framework of the polis, a community of oikoi ('families' or 'households') rather than of individual citizens. Pomeroy offers a highly original and authoritative account of the Greek family as a productive and reproductive social unit in Athens and elsewhere during the classical and Hellenistic periods, taking account of a mass of literary, inscriptional, archaeological, anthropological, and art-historical evidence. Despite the unflagging scholarly interest in the development of the polis, until recently little attention has been paid to the history and structure of its smallest constituent, the oikos. Pomeroy seeks to show that the Greek oikos had several versions: a pseudo-kin group restricted to male citizens; a mixed family group oriented toward the public, in which men predominated; and a family group of a more private nature that accommodated women to a greater extent, though without necessarily excluding men. Public legislation and private custom concurred to perpetuate the oikoi, expecting it to endure longer than the lifespan of any individual member and to bear economic and social burdens imposed by the state. ; 272 pages‎

‎Swaddling, Judith‎

‎THE ANCIENT OLYMPIC GAMES‎

‎Minor shelfwear. Small chip to spine. Gift card to R. E. Fantham affixed to titlepage. ; In this revised and all-colour edition of her indispensable guide to the ancient Games, Judith Swaddling traces their mythological and religious origins, and describes the events, the sacred ceremony and the celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival. A large, detailed model based on modern research and excavation reconstructs the site of ancient Olympia, where alongside religious and civic buildings there grew an elaborate sports complex with a stadium for 40,000 spectators, indoor and outdoor training facilities, hot and cold baths, a swimming pool and a race-course. Later chapters cover the diet and medical treatment of athletes, sponsorship, patronage, propaganda and revivals of the Games and a brand new chapter, based on the lateste research discusses the literary sources for the Olympic Games. The expanded final chapter on the modern Games is written in collaboration with Stewart Binns, an expert in this field who has worked closely with the International Olympic Committee over many years, and has been revised to bring the story up to the preparations for the London 2012 Games. Illustrated with gorgeous, full-colour photography and covering thousands of years of Olympic history, this fascinating book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Olympic Games. ; 9.6 X 7.5 X 0.6 inches; 120 pages‎

‎Miller, Stephen G.‎

‎ARETE Greek Sports from Ancient Sources.‎

‎Minor shelfwear. Gift inscription from author to Jenifer [Neils] on titlepage. ; From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity. ; 235 pages; Signed by Author‎

‎Pollitt, J. J.‎

‎THE ART OF ROME. C. 753 B. C. -337 A. D. Sources and Documents‎

‎Creasing to wraps. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; Sources and Documents in the History of Art Series; 252 pages; Collection of the most important ancient texts relating to early Roman art, including numerous references to painting, portrait sculpture and statues, buildings, public works, etc. , with introduction, translations from the Greek and Roman texts, and notes by J. J. Pollitt. Biographical notes on Greek and Roman authors; index of artists; geographical index.‎

‎Gardiner, E. Norman; (Steven G. Miller, Preface)‎

‎ATHLETICS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD‎

‎Light pencilling. Small stain to titlepage. ; Reprint of the 1930 ed. , with a new preface by S. G. Miller. Xviii, 246pp, illustrated. ; 246 pages‎

‎Garland, Robert‎

‎THE GREEK WAY OF LIFE From Conception to Old Age‎

‎Creasing to spine and front wrap. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Pen markings to a few pages with notes in ink to rear endpapers. ; 0.75 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches; 376 pages; Garland's book is a survey of the major life experiences which constituted the social reality of classical Greece. The method of analysis is dense description assembled mostly from classical literary and philosophic sources and broken down into the general topics of conception and pregnancy, birth, childhood, coming of age, early adulthood, and elders and the elderly. What emerges is a conception of the human being as a social animal par excellence whose nature was largely realized in the attainment of paradigmatic social roles: military service for men and childbearing for women. Among the subtopics are Greek medical ideas, the roles of women and children, marriage, care of the elderly, and the role of religious ideas.‎

‎Brunnsaker, Sture‎

‎THE TYRANT-SLAYERS OF KRITIOS AND NESIOTES A Critical Study of the Sources and Restorations‎

‎Creasing along lower edges of wraps. Pages uncut. Appear unread. ; Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Institutet I Athen / Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series in 4°, XVII; 188 pages‎

‎Golden, Mark‎

‎SPORT IN THE ANCIENT WORLD FROM A TO Z‎

‎DJ has creasing along top edge. ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 208 pages‎

‎Hawhee, Debra‎

‎BODILY ARTS Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece‎

‎9.2 X 6.3 X 0.9 inches; 240 pages‎

‎Carratelli, Pugliese G. , Bonacasa, Gullini, Giuidice, Et Al.‎

‎SIKANIE Storia E Civiltà Della Sicilia Grecia‎

‎Text in Italian. Booklet laid in which includes introduction, preface and captions of illustrations in the book, in English, French & German. Very light shelfwear to book. DJ has minor chipping along upper edge of rear DJ. DJ has a couple of tears. DJ flap creased and not sitting square. ; Very heavy book. Extra shipping charges may apply. ; Antica Madre; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 747 pages‎

‎Snodgrass, Anthony M.‎

‎ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE GREEKS‎

‎Minor shelfwear. ; Aspects of Greek & Roman Life Series; 151 pages; Traces the development of Ancient Greek armaments from the Mycenae period to Macedon, and discusses the role that military events played in the history of the Greeks. 60 illustrations.‎

‎Garlan, Yvon; Lloyd, Janet (Tr. )‎

‎SLAVERY IN ANCIENT GREECE Revised and Expanded Edition‎

‎Old price sticker to ffep. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Spine slightly sunned. Tiny stain to base of textblock. ; Emphasizing the variety of systems of servitude, the author surveys the development of chattel slavery and then describes several cases in which entire communities were subjected. Next he considers the theories by which the Greeks justified the enslavement of particular peoples, and points out the absence of slavery in some Greek conceptions of utopia. He also discusses such topics as the condition of slaves in the various poleis, the role played by slaves in political life and in civic defense, the rarity of genuine slave revolts, and the means by which slaves and Helots sometimes reached accommodation with their masters. ; 0.75 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 310 pages‎

‎Snowden, Jr. , Frank M.‎

‎BLACKS IN ANTIQUITY Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience‎

‎Shelfwear to book. Faint creasing to wraps. Spine sunned. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Light pencilling to a few pages. ; Xxii, 364pp, illustrated. The Africans who came to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alien dark- and black-skinned people were of varied tribal and geographic origins, the Greeks and Romans classified many of them as Ethiopians. In an effort to determine the role of black people in ancient civilization, Mr. Snowden examines a broad span of Greco-Roman experience--from the Homeric era to the age of Justinian--focusing his attention on the Ethiopians as they were known to the Greeks and Romans. The author dispels unwarranted generalizations about the Ethiopians, contending that classical references to them were neither glorifications of a mysterious people nor caricatures of rare creatures. Mr. Snowden has probed literary, epigraphical, papyrological, numismatic, and archaeological sources and has considered modern anthropological and sociological findings on pertinent racial and intercultural problems. He has drawn directly upon the widely scattered literary evidence of classical and early Christian writers and has synthesized extensive and diverse material. Along with invaluable reference notes, Mr. Snowden has included over 140 illustrations which depict the Negro as the Greeks and Romans conceived of him in mythology and religion and observed him in a number of occupations--as servant, diplomat, warrior, athlete, and performer, among others. Presenting an exceptionally comprehensive historical description of the first major encounter of Europeans with dark and black Africans, Mr. Snowden found that the black man in a predominantly white society was neither romanticized nor scorned--that the Ethiopian in classical antiquity was considered by pagan and Christian without prejudice. ; 364 pages‎

‎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

‎Webster, T. B. L.‎

‎LIFE IN CLASSICAL ATHENS‎

‎Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; 192 pages‎

‎Worley, Leslie J.‎

‎HIPPEIS The Cavalry of Ancient Greece‎

‎DJ spine a bit sunned. Faint shelfwear to DJ. Lower corners edgeworn. ; History And Warfare; 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 241 pages‎

‎Cartledge, Paul‎

‎SPARTAN REFLECTIONS‎

‎Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear; The complex and distinctive Spartan tradition has been a prominent theme in western thinking from antiquity to today. Sparta is also one of a handful of ancient Greek cities with enough existing evidence for historians to create a realistic social portrait. Over the past quarter-century Paul Cartledge has established himself as the leading international authority on ancient Sparta. Spartan Reflections is a superb collection of his essays—two are published here for the first time, and the rest, often difficult to locate, have been revised and updated for publication in book form. Giving us a real sense of what Sparta was like as a culture, these essays constitute a fascinating introduction to and overview of ancient Spartan history and its reception. This collection, unique in breadth and scope, will be an essential source for anyone interested in this idiosyncratic society. Cartledge brings us up to date on what is known about the most important and intriguing aspects of Sparta: its military development, questions of gender and sexuality, and the difficult problem of artistic and literary aspects of Sparta. We learn about the institutions that distinguished Sparta from other city-states, including its religion, education process, degree of literacy, secret service, unusual system of servitude, and institutionalized pederasty. Throughout, Cartledge also makes important comparisons with Athens, helping us grasp what is really striking about Sparta. Cartledge's writing is clear and engaging as he draws from myriad sources both ancient and modern, as well as from political and cultural theory. These essays, together with their magisterial bibliography, demonstrate his remarkable scholarly and intellectual range. Spartan Reflections will be an important source on the most significant issues in Sparta scholarship today as well as a fascinating look at this culture for general readers. ; 358 pages‎

‎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.‎

‎Powell, Anton‎

‎THE GREEK WORLD‎

‎Light shelfwear. Spine sunned. ; Routledge Worlds; 9.6 X 6.5 X 1.7 inches; 640 pages‎

‎Austin, M. M. & P. Vidal-Naquet‎

‎ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREECE: An Introduction‎

‎Former owner's name on ffep. Light glue stains to spine. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; 416 pages‎