‎Folklore‎

‎Hudson Wilson & Maxwell Allen Eds.. Texas Folklore Society‎

‎THE SUNNY SLOPES OF LONG AGO‎

‎SMU Dallas 1966 1966. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st edition. Cloth. 204pp. Illustrated with photos of the great J. Frank Dobie. Essays by many of Texas' & the Southwest's finest writers. This TFS item #33 as published soon after Dobie's death. Fine in moderately worn dj with a 1" x 1" sized piece torn from the top edge of the front panel. SMU, Dallas, 1966 Hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 9005044

‎Frazer Sir James George‎

‎FOLK-LORE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Studies in Comparative Religion Legend and Law Abridged Edition‎

‎MacMillan and Co. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. Edgewear to boards. Corners a bit bumped. Chipping to head of spine. Small chip to rear board. ; 476 pages . MacMillan and Co. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 31182

‎Bremmer Jan N. & N. M. Horsfall Eds.‎

‎ROMAN MYTH AND MYTHOGRAPHY‎

‎University of London Institute of Classical Studies. Good. 1987. Softcover. 0900587539 . Creasing and tear to lower edge of front wrap. Waviness to lower section of book moisture/dampstaining. ; Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 52; 127 pages; Contents: Myth and Mythography at Rome; The Aeneas Legend from Homer to Virgil; Romulus Remus and the Foundation of Rome; Caeculus and the Foundation of Praeneste; From History to Legend: M. Manlius and the Geese; Myth and Ritual in Ancient Rome: the Nonae Capratinae; Corythus Re-Examined; Slow Cybele's Arrival. . University of London Institute of Classical Studies paperback‎

Référence libraire : 30546 ISBN : 0900587539 9780900587535

‎Shive David‎

‎NAMING ACHILLES‎

‎Oxford University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0195048601 . Light shelfwear. Foxing to textblock. ; 0.75 x 8.56 x 5.63 Inches; 204 pages; F. A. Wolf set the "Homeric Question" nearly two centuries ago when he argued convincingly that "Homer" was a non-literate bard incapable of composing and performing the monumental Iliad and Odyssey as we have them. In the long debate that has followed one of the most prominent figures has been Milman Parry who argued that there was great economy and extension of formulaic diction in the Homeric poems that the poet was in effect highly constrained by this formulaic diction and by the strict metrical requirements of the oral tradition. He concluded that only a non-literate bard could have composed such epics under these constraints. In Naming Achilles David Shive takes issue with Parry's findings. Engaging in a close analysis of the hero Achilles as he is named in all the grammatical cases he has concluded that Parry's thesis does not hold that there is more extension and less economy than Milman Parry claimed to find. Homer's poetry can be seen as more creative less restricted and in fact does not differ markedly from subsequent literary work. . Oxford University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 30586 ISBN : 0195048601 9780195048605

‎Stanford W. B. & J. V. Luce‎

‎THE QUEST FOR ULYSSES‎

‎Phaidon Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0714816167 . Boards bowed. Scholar's name to ffep G. P. Goold. DJ has some creasing chipping and tears. ; 9.6 X 8.3 X 1.1 inches; 256 pages . Phaidon Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 30672 ISBN : 0714816167 9780714816166

‎Freeman C. E. & W. D. Lowe‎

‎A GREEK READER FOR SCHOOLS Adapted from Aesop Theophrastus Lucian Herodotus Thucydides Xenophon Plato. Edited with Introduction Notes and Vocabularies.‎

‎Oxford Clarendon Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. Pen notes and underlining to some pages. Former owner's bookplate on ffep. ; 142 pages; A reader adapted from Aesop Theophrastus Lucian Herodotus Thucydides Xenophon and Plato. . Oxford Clarendon Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 30319

‎Campbell Joseph‎

‎THE MASKS OF GOD: PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY‎

‎Penguin Books. Good. 1987. Paperback. 0140043047 . Wraps creased. Small tears to head of spine. ; 504 pages . Penguin Books paperback‎

Référence libraire : 30318 ISBN : 0140043047 9780140043044

‎Kirk G. S.‎

‎THE NATURE OF GREEK MYTHS‎

‎Penguin Non-Classics. Very Good. 1974. Softcover. 0140135367 . Remainder mark to bottom of textblock. Minor shelfwear. ; A General analysis of the nature of myth is followed by a splendid account of the Greek myths. ; Penguin Religion; 336 pages . Penguin (Non-Classics) paperback‎

Référence libraire : 30502 ISBN : 0140135367 9780140135367

‎Gaster Theodor H. Foreword by Gilbert Murray‎

‎THESPIS Ritual Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East‎

‎Harper & Row. Good. 1966. Softcover. Yellowing to wraps. Shelfwear. 3 cm tear to front wrap. ; Harper Torchbooks; 512 pages . Harper & Row paperback‎

Référence libraire : 29894

‎Ellis Robinson‎

‎THE FABLES OF AVIANUS Edited with Prolegomena Critical Apparatus Commentary Excursus and Index‎

‎Georg Olms Verlag. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Softcover. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. ; Xlii 151 pp. Unchanged Reprint of 1887 ed. ; 151 pages . Georg Olms Verlag paperback‎

Référence libraire : 29781

‎Frazer Sir James G. & Theodor H. Gaster‎

‎THE GOLDEN BOUGH A New Abridgement of the Classic Work by Sir James George Frazer. Edited and with Notes and Foreword‎

‎Criterion Books. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. Minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. DJ has been repaired with cellotape along edges and which has not yellowed. Some yellowing to DJ. ; 738 pages; The Golden Bough describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship sex practices strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic taboos and superstitions. Revealed here is the evolution of man from savagery to civilization from the modification of his weird and often bloodthirsty customs to the entry of lasting moral ethical and spiritual values. . Criterion Books hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29794

‎Kallich Martin & Andrew MacLeish & Gertrude Schoenbohm Eds.‎

‎OEDIPUS Myth and Drama‎

‎Odyssey Press. Good. 1968. Softcover. Creasing and minor rubbing to wraps. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. Underlining and a few notes in pen to some pages. ; 404 pages . Odyssey Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 29634

‎Sanderson James L. & Irwin Gopnik Eds.‎

‎PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLYTUS Myth and Dramatic Form‎

‎Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good. 1966. Softcover. Minor creasing and some rubbing to wraps. ; 338 pages . Houghton and Mifflin paperback‎

Référence libraire : 29630

‎Sanderson James L. & Everett Zimmerman Eds.‎

‎MEDEA Myth and Dramatic Form‎

‎Houghton and Mifflin. Good. 1967. Softcover. Creasing and some rubbing to wraps. Corner creasing to first few pages. Pen marking to front wrap. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. ; 337 pages . Houghton and Mifflin paperback‎

Référence libraire : 29632

‎Whitbread Leslie George‎

‎FULGENTIUS THE MYTHOGRAPHER Translated from the Latin with Introductions‎

‎Ohio State University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. Faint dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ spine browned. DJ is price-clipped. ; Isbn: 0814201628; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.1 inches; 258 pages . Ohio State University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29691 ISBN : 0814201628 9780814201626

‎Hunter Richard‎

‎THE ARGONAUTICA OF APOLLONIUS Literary Studies‎

‎Cambridge University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0521413729 . Minor Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. Minor edgewear along lower edge of DJ. ; 216 pages; In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius' Argonautica have been better appreciated but in Dr Hunter's view the purposes and aesthetic of the epic are still not readily understood and much basic analysis remains to be done. The present book seeks to offer some of that analysis and to place the Argonautica within its social and intellectual context. A series of studies deal with notions of heroism; with eros and the suffering of Medea; the role of the divine; poetic voice and literary self-consciousness; and the Ptolemaic context of the poem. A pervasive theme of the book is Apollonius' creative engagement with Homer and a final chapter sketches out an approach to Virgil's use of Apollonius in the Aeneid. The Argonautica emerges as a brilliant and original experiment. This book is the only advanced study of the Argonautica currently available. All Greek is translated. . Cambridge University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29701 ISBN : 0521413729 9780521413725

‎Quinn Kenneth‎

‎VIRGIL'S AENEID A Critical Description‎

‎Routledge & Kegan Paul. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. 0710029683 . Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Light shelfwear to book. DJ has chipping and small tears; A detailed analysis of the twelve books is preceded by a preliminary exploration of the poem's central purpose a careful reconstruction of the historical and artistic circumstances and a description of the main outlines of the poem's structure. ; 460 pages . Routledge & Kegan Paul hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29546 ISBN : 0710029683 9780710029683

‎Leaf Walter‎

‎TROY A Study in Homeric Geography. with Maps Plans and Illustrations‎

‎MacMillan and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. Hardcover. Inner hinges cracked. Endpapers browned. Chipping and tears along spine joints. ; 406 pages . MacMillan and Co. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29476

‎Sykes Egerton; Alan Kendall Ed.‎

‎WHO'S WHO IN NON-CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY‎

‎Oxford University Press. Near Fine. 1993. Softcover. 0195210328 . Most books on mythology are primarily concerned with the Greek and Roman tradition giving the equally vibrant myths of other cultures short shrift. Providing a much-needed solution to this problem this unique guide offers wide-ranging and thorough coverage of non-classical mythological figures from the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas to Zu the lion-headed Sumerian storm bird. With its global multicultural perspective Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology presents exciting and readable accounts of the gods heroes and myths of Europe including the Celts Teutons Slavs and Basques the Americas Africa Australia China Japan and Indonesia. For those interested in a fresh approach to world mythology it is indispensable; for lovers of the classical tradition it will open up a whole new world. ; 235 pages . Oxford University Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 22319 ISBN : 0195210328 9780195210323

‎Preller Ludwig & Carl Robert‎

‎GRIECHISCHE MYTHOLOGIE 4 VOL SET: VOLS. 1 2.1 2.2 2.3 Erster Band: Theogonie Und Goetter. Zweiter Band: Die Heroen Die Griechische Heldensage II 1: Landschaftliche Sagen; II 2: Die Nationalheroen; II 3 Abt: Die Argonauten. Der Thebanische Kreis‎

‎Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very minor shelfwear to all volumes except vol. 1 which has bumped corners and bumping to lower edge of front board. ; V1: 1964 964 pp; vol. 2.1 1966 : xii 419 pp; vol. 2.2 1967 : viii 421-756 pp; Vol. 2.3: 1967 VI 757-1532 ; Vol. 1-2.3; 2496 pages . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 29074

‎Warden John‎

‎ORPHEUS The Metamorphoses of a Myth‎

‎University of Toronto Press. Good. 1985. Softcover. 0802065937 . Textblock cracked between pp 144-145. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; 238 pages; The Myth of Orpheus shaman and teacher musician and lover is the subject of this study. Contents: Orpheus of Virgil and Ovid: flebile nescio quid. W. S. Anderson; Songs of Orpheus and the New song of Christ Eleanor Irwin ; Sparagmos: Orpheus among the Chrisitians Patricia Vicari ; Orpheus and Ficino Warden ; Myth of Orpheus in Italian Renaissance Art 1400-1600 Scavizzi ; Orfeo and Euridice the first two operas Timothy J. McGee ; Orpheus and the Devil in Calderon's El Divino Orfeo c. 1634 Pedro Leon ; Triumph of Art of Death: Orpheus in Spenser and Milton Vicari. . University of Toronto Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 28960 ISBN : 0802065937 9780802065933

‎Nagy Gregory‎

‎THE ANCIENT GREEK HERO IN 24 HOURS‎

‎Belknap Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. Hardcover. 0674073401 . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; The ancient Greeks� concept of �the hero� was very different from what we understand by the term today Gregory Nagy argues�and it is only through analyzing their historical contexts that we can truly understand Achilles Odysseus Oedipus and Herakles. In Greek tradition a hero was a human male or female of the remote past who was endowed with superhuman abilities by virtue of being descended from an immortal god. Despite their mortality heroes like the gods were objects of cult worship. Nagy examines this distinctively religious notion of the hero in its many dimensions in texts spanning the eighth to fourth centuries bce: the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey; tragedies of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides; songs of Sappho and Pindar; and dialogues of Plato. All works are presented in English translation with attention to the subtleties of the original Greek and are often further illuminated by illustrations taken from Athenian vase paintings. ; 752 pages . Belknap Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 28670 ISBN : 0674073401 9780674073401

‎Lowenstam Steven‎

‎AS WITNESSED BY IMAGES The Trojan War Tradition in Greek and Etruscan Art‎

‎The Johns Hopkins University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 0801887755 . Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 248 pages; What informed and inspired the visual artists who depicted the Trojan War on vases on walls and in sculpture Scholars have debated this question for years. Were Greek painters simply depicting the stories of Achilles and Odysseus as recounted in Homer's epics Or did they work independently following their own traditions without regard to the Iliad the Odyssey and other poetry of their time Steven Lowenstam offers here an alternative theoretical framework arguing that Greek artists and poets interacted with each other freely always aware of what the others were producing. As Trojan War myth was the common inheritance of all Greek storytellers verbal and visual depictions of heroic myth were not created in isolation but were interdependent responses to a centuries-old tradition. As Witnessed by Images investigates visual depictions of Achillean and Odyssean myth from ca. 650-300 BCE and traces the many messages that the stories of Achilles and Odysseus inspired. Lowenstam identifies a variety of images and interpretations -- some regarded Achilles as a hero others believed him to be a cruel bully -- that reflect and directly respond to the ancient heroic tradition from which the Iliad and Odyssey evolved. . The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 28725 ISBN : 0801887755 9780801887758

‎Mandel Oscar‎

‎PHILOCTETES AND THE FALL OF TROY Plays Documents Iconography Interpretations‎

‎University of Nebraska Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 080323063X . Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock and to DJ flaps. Light edgewear to DJ. ; Omnibus of the legend. Includes four Philoctetes plays: Philoctetes of Sophocles the symbolist Philoctete; ou Le traite des trois morales by Andre Gide; The Summoning of Philoctetes by Oscar Mandel and Philoktet by Heiner Muller. ; 258 pages . University of Nebraska Press hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 28774 ISBN : 080323063X 9780803230637

‎Edmunds Lowell Ed.‎

‎APPROACHES TO GREEK MYTH‎

‎The Johns Hopkins University Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2014. Second Edition. Softcover. 1421414198 . Minor shelfwear else fine. ; Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990 interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance Can myth be separated from its context What did myths mean to ancient Greeks and what do they mean today Here Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether exploring myth from a historical comparative or theoretical perspective each contributor lucidly describes a particular approach applies it to one or more myths and reflects on what the approach yields that others do not. Edmunds's new general and chapter-level introductions recontextualize these essays and also touch on recent developments in scholarship in the interpretation of Greek myth. Contributors are Jordi P�mias on the reception of Greek myth through history; H. S. Versnel on the intersections of myth and ritual; Carolina L�pez-Ruiz on the near Eastern contexts; Joseph Falaky Nagy on Indo-European structure in Greek myth; William Hansen on myth and folklore; Claude Calame on the application of semiotic theory of narrative; Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood on reading visual sources such as vase paintings; and Robert A. Segal on psychoanalytic interpretations. ; 470 pages . The Johns Hopkins University Press paperback‎

Référence libraire : 28167 ISBN : 1421414198 9781421414195