‎Rome‎

‎Johnson, Walter Ralph‎

‎MOMENTARY MONSTERS: LUCAN AND HIS HEROES‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. DJ is in plastic sleeve and taped down to boards. ; A lively and provocative reading of the Roman poet Lucan which casts new light on the Pharsalia, his epic poem and only surviving work. Contents: Erictho and Her Universe; Cato: The Delusions of Virtue; Pompey: The Illusions of History; Caesar: the Phantasmagoria of Power. ; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; 0.75 x 8.75 x 5.5 Inches; 160 pages‎

‎Rawson, Elizabeth‎

‎INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN THE LATE ROMAN REPUBLIC‎

‎Bumping to upper corners. Small tape stain to front inner cover. A few pages with pencil and pen marginalia. DJ has tears with adhesive tape repairs to upper edge. ; 0.94 x 9.13 x 6.14 Inches; 355 pages; Explores the opportunities for intellectual endeavor as well as the constraints placed on it, with a special focus on the socioeconomic background of writers and their audiences and on the availability and use of written materials. Covers both Greek and Latin writing and examines activity in Rome as well as in other parts of Italy.‎

‎Bradley, Mark & Kenneth Stow (Eds. )‎

‎ROME, POLLUTION AND PROPRIETY Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity‎

‎Book is fine. DJ has very light edgewear along top edge. ; Rome, Pollution and Propriety brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to examine the historical continuity of dirt, disease and hygiene in one environment, and to explore the development and transformation of these ideas alongside major chapters in the city's history, such as early Roman urban development, Roman pagan religion, the medieval Church, the Renaissance, the Unification of Italy, and the advent of Fascism. This volume sets out to identify the defining characteristics, functions and discourses of pollution in Rome in such realms as disease and medicine, death and burial, sexuality and virginity, prostitution, purity and absolution, personal hygiene and morality, criminality, bodies and cleansing, waste disposal, decay, ruins and urban renovation, as well as studying the means by which that pollution was policed and controlled. ; British School at Rome Studies; 342 pages‎

‎Reiter, William‎

‎AEMILIUS PAULLUS Conqueror of Greece‎

‎The Aim of this study is to build up an accurate picture of the soldier and politician by scrutiny of the main sources -- Livy, Plutarch and Polybius (the last of whom worked under the direct patronage of Paullus). Contents: Polybius and the Image; Livy and the Image; Plutarch and the Image; Another Look. ; 8vo; 171 pages‎

‎Salmon, E. T.‎

‎SAMNIUM AND THE SAMNITES‎

‎DJ is price-clipped. DJ is taped down to boards. Former owner's name bookplate on inner cover and ffep. DJ protected in plastic sleeve. ; Samnites were a tribe, or group of Italian tribes, related to the Latins, the primary ethnic group in the city of Rome. They occupied the more mountainous inland areas of the peninsula and at one time rivaled the Romans in their power--Their defeat and eventual assimilation into a Romanized peninsula was one of the earliest and most significant steps in the establishment of what was to be the Roman Empire. ; 460 pages‎

‎Sherwin-White, A. N.‎

‎ROMAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE EAST 168 B. C. to A. D. 1‎

‎1 small chip to DJ now protected in mylar. Former owner's name on ffep. ; Histories of Roman Imperialism generally ignore the course of wars, the strategies of commanders, and the fortunes of the contending peoples. Similarly, they give little thought to the size of military forces available to Rome when its commitments were outstripping its resources. Furthermore, for more than thirty years, studies of the later Republic have focused on the European zone, generally neglecting Roman policy and expansion eastward. In this book, A. N. Sherwin-White redresses the balance. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages‎

‎Braund, David‎

‎ROME AND THE FRIENDLY KING The Character of the Client Kingship‎

‎DJ is protected in mylar sleeve. Blank white sticker to ffep to cover former owner's name. ; 226 pages; First major study of the relationship between Rome and the kings of her world. It covers the whole of that world over a period of six centuries from the third century BC. It aims to give a functional definition of what is usually called client kingship-- to show what a client king (or friendly king to use the Roman term) was in practice.‎

‎Manilius, Marcus; A. E. Housman (Ed. )‎

‎M. MANILII ASTRONOMICON Liber I Primus. Recensvit Et Enarravit A. E. Housman‎

‎Slight sunning and fading to boards. Previous scholar's ink inscription on ffep (H. J. K. Usher). Light browning to ffeps. ; Second Edition with Addenda. ; 125 pages; Marcus Manilius (M Manilii) , 1st century A. D. Roman poet and astrologer. The Astronomicon contains the earliest appearance of astrological systems of Houses. Housman's is considered the authoritative edition. Introduction in English. Latin apparatus.‎

‎Reiter, William‎

‎AEMILIUS PAULLUS Conqueror of Greece‎

‎Very minor shelfwear else Fine/Fine. ; The Aim of this study is to build up an accurate picture of the soldier and politician by scrutiny of the main sources -- Livy, Plutarch and Polybius (the last of whom worked under the direct patronage of Paullus). Contents: Polybius and the Image; Livy and the Image; Plutarch and the Image; Another Look. ; 8vo; 171 pages‎

‎Brauer, George C.‎

‎THE AGE OF THE SOLDIER EMPERORS Imperial Rome, A.D. 244-284‎

‎DJ is very discolored with light chipping and edgewear. Book has very light shelfwear with slight bumping along bottom edge of boards. ; Noyes Classical Studies; 288 pages; Looks at the history of the Roman Empire in the middle part of the third century A. D. From the reign of Philip the Arab to Carus and his dynasty before the reign of Diocletian. Book is heavily illustrated with pictures of coins of the period.‎

‎Publius Cornelius Tacitus [Tacitus]; Carolus [Karl] Halm & Georgius [Georg] Andresen & Ericus [Erich] Koestermann (Eds. )‎

‎P. CORNELII TACITI [CORNELIUS TACITUS] LIBRI QUI SUPERSUNT. POST C. HALM- G. ANDRESEN DENUO CURAVIT ERICUS KOESTERMANN [II: HISTORIAE ET LIBRI MINORES] Tomus Posterior: Historiarum Libri. Germania. Agricola. Dialogus De Oratoribus‎

‎Edgewear to extremities. Slight fraying to spine ends. Foxing passim. Scholar's name in ink to ffep and titlepage (R. Ten Kate). Very light pencil marginalia. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 435 pages‎

‎Bloomer, W. Martin‎

‎VALERIUS MAXIMUS AND THE RHETORIC OF THE NEW NOBILITY‎

‎Very minor shelfwear to DJ Fine. ; Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Valerius Maximus' Memorable Deeds and Sayings was the most widely read prose after the Bible, but the work's vision of ancient history and its author's literary style have since fallen into disrepute. Bloomer (classics, Stanford U. ) revives the classic to examine how, why, and for whom Maximus composed this collection of rhetorical examples. ; 1.25 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 296 pages‎

‎Balsdon, J. P. V. D.‎

‎THE EMPEROR GAIUS (Caligula)‎

‎Scholar's name on ffep (A. J. Marshall). Light shelfwear to book. Top edge of DJ has been crudely reinforced with cellotape with a few small tears. ; 1964 reprint of 1934 edition. Contents: Tiberius and his Successor; The first Three years at Rome; Gaius in Germany and Gaul; Conspiracies, Murder- -and the Succession; Gaius and the Jews; The Government of Gaius; The Character of Gaius. ; 184 pages‎

‎Stevenson, G. H.‎

‎ROMAN PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION Till the Age of the Antonines. With a Map‎

‎Scholar's name to ffep (A. J. Marshall). Fraying to top of spine with 3 cm tear to cloth along one side. Light rubbing to boards. ; Contents: Character and growth of the Roman Empire; The Client Princes; Provincial Administration under the Republic; Provincial Administration under the Early Principate; Provincial Taxation; Municipal System in the Provinces. ; 182 pages‎

‎Ramage, Edwin S.‎

‎URBANITAS Ancient Sophistication and Refinement‎

‎Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Light shelfwear to book. Small tears to ends of DJ spine. Minor rubbing to DJ spine. ; University of Cincinnati Classical Studies, 3; 226 pages; An examination of urbanitas that begins with the Greek background of the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. As well as the late Hellenisitic period and ends with Pliny the Younger, roughly the end of the classical era in Rome.‎

‎Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew‎

‎SUETONIUS The Scholar and His Caesars‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps and traces of removed pocket (to ffep). No call numbers to spine. ; Seutonius, a Roman historian, was the author of "The Lives of the Caesars". This biography sets the historian's career and his method of dealing with his subject matter in the context of Roman society in the early Empire, and draws a picture of the coherence of Suetonius's life, appointments, scholarship and literary activities. Seutonius is presented as a man of learning, rather than as a failed narrative historian. This portrait takes account of evidence concerning his life and seeks to clarify the character of "The Lives of the Caesars" as a description of emperors and Roman imperial society by a scholarly biographer who himself was in the service of a scholarly Caesar; Classical Life and Letters; 216 pages‎

‎Gaius Plinius Secundus [Pliny The Elder]; Ludovicus Ianus [Ludwig Von Jan] & Carolus [Karl] Mayhoff (Eds. )‎

‎C. PLINI SECUNDI [GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS / PLINY THE ELDER] NATURALIS HISTORIAE LIBRI XXXVII. POST LUDOVICI IANI OBITUM... EDIDIT CAROLUS MAYHOFF [5 VOLS (OF 6) ] Vol. II: Libri VII-XV; Vol. III: Libri XVI-XXII; Vol. IV: Libri XXIII-XXX; Vol. V: Libri XXXI-XXXVII; Vol. VI: Indices.‎

‎Former owner's bookplates to inner covers (William Mode Spackman) with scholar's name written in ink below (W. P. Wallace). Spines are lightly browned. Light rubbing. Minor shelfwear. V4 & 6: front inner hinges starting to crack but holding. ; V. 2: (1875) xxxviii, 424 pp; V. 3: (1892) xiv, 496 pp; V. 4: (1897) X, 500 pp; V. 5: (1897) X, 512 pp & V. 6: (1898) iv, 462 pp. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 2/6/2022‎

‎Athanassiadi, Polymnia‎

‎JULIAN An Intellectual Biography‎

‎Light creasing to spine. Minor shelfwear. ; Classical Lives; 8.75 x 1 x 5.75 Inches; 249 pages‎

‎Cornell, Tim; Boris Rankov, & Philip Sabin (Eds. )‎

‎SECOND PUNIC WAR: A REAPPRAISAL‎

‎Very light edgewear to base of spine else fine. ; Contents: John Rich: the origins of the Second Punic War; John Lazenby: Was Maharbal Right?; Boris Rankov: The Second Punic War at Sea; Philip Sabin: the Mechanics of battle in the Second Punic War; Louis Rawlings: Celts, Spaniards, and Samnites: warriors in a soldier's war; Tim Cornell: Hannibal's Legacy: the effects of the Hannibalic War on Italy. ; Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 67; 117 pages‎

‎Staples, Ariadne‎

‎FROM GOOD GODDESS TO VESTAL VIRGINS Sex and Category in Roman Religion‎

‎Scholar's name to ffep (R. E. Fantham). Else book is fine. 1 small closed tear to DJ (1 cm). Else Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; 0.79 x 8.43 x 5.67 Inches; 207 pages; The role of women in Roman culture and society was a paradoxical one. They enjoyed social, material and financial independence yet they were denied basic constitutional rights. Although Roman history is not short of powerful female figures, such as Agrippina and Livia, their power stemmed from their associations with great men and was not officially recognized. Ariadne Staples' book examines how women in Rome were perceived both by themselves and by men through women's participation in Roman religion, as Roman religious ritual provided the single public arena where women played a significant formal role. From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins argues that the ritual roles played out by women were vital in defining them sexually and that these sexually defined categories spilled over into other aspects of Roman culture, including political activity. Staples provides an arresting and original analysis of the role of women in Roman society, which challenges traditionally held views and provokes further questions.‎

‎Wardman, Alan‎

‎RELIGION AND STATECRAFT AMONG THE ROMANS‎

‎Scholar's small bookplate to ffep (R. E. Fantham). Small correction done by Fantham to 1 page in ink. Light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. 1 corner slightly chipped. ; The philosophical and practical nature of the changes in religion and its relationship with the Roman state are discussed with particular emphasis on the influence of oriental cults and the momentous success of Christianity, of the one exclusive God who inherited the accommodating world of the pagan state religion. ; 217 pages‎

‎Grant, Michael‎

‎THE ANTONINES The Roman Empire in Transition‎

‎Some edgewear to wraps. Shelfwear. ; 0.87 x 9.21 x 6.22 Inches; 210 pages; The Roman Empire was an achievement of startling proportions. In its size alone, it extended from the Atlantic to the Euphrates and from the Rhine to Danube all the way to the Sahara. In many ways, as the global question of emerging national identities persists, and attempts at multinational unity fail, Rome's vast empire becomes an extremely relevant historical lesson. In The Antonines, the eminent historian of classical history, Michael Grant, examines the vital role played by the Antonines in the development and expansion of the Roman Empire. He surveys that period's renowned contributions to the arts, discussing at length Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, perhaps one of the greatest literary products of the classical world. He suggests that the Antonines occasioned a major transition in Roman life politics, and that the period over which they presided witnessed extraordinary changes that heralded a new epoch to many. The Antonines, he argues, were singularly responsible for ushering the Roman Empire from the ancient world to the early Medieval. Grant examines the political dynamics that brought about these changes, analyzing such issues as the role of "adoption" (the policy of choosing Emperors who were not direct descendants of the throne). He profiles the individuals who made up the Antonines: of Antoninus Pius, an altogether understudied figure, who curiously bequeathed his position to two men particularly unfit to rule his vast and efficacious regime; Marcus Aurelius, an avid militarist who could oddly find the time to write one of the best works of Roman literature known to date; Commodus and his abandonment of imperial ambitions in what is presently Germany and the implications it had on the decline of the Empire, as well as his emphasis on monotheism within the terms of Roman religion. Grant's historical analysis provides a thorough and, above all, high-minded look at this often neglected yet critical period in the Roman Empire--a period that not only illuminates the processes of dramatic transformation, but presents a point of comparison to the current historical circumstance as well.‎

‎Balsdon, J. P. V. D.‎

‎THE EMPEROR GAIUS (Caligula)‎

‎Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Mary E. White). Light dust-soiling to top of textblock. Chipping and small tears to spine ends with one small piece missing to bottom edge. Light chipping to DJ corners. ; 1964 reprint of 1934 edition. Contents: Tiberius and his Successor; The first Three years at Rome; Gaius in Germany and Gaul; Conspiracies, Murder- -and the Succession; Gaius and the Jews; The Government of Gaius; The Character of Gaius. ; 184 pages‎

‎Potter, T. W.‎

‎ROMAN ITALY‎

‎Minor shelfwear to book. Some edgewear to DJ. Tiny chip to head of spine. Phone number written in pen to rear panel of DJ. ; Exploring the Roman World; 248 pages; This is the first general survey of Roman Italy that brings together the wealth of evidence available from literary sources, inscriptions, and the exciting recent discoveries in Roman archaeology. Written in a lively prose with the lay reader as well as the scholar in mind, Potter's account is one of the few to cover the whole period of Roman Italy.‎

‎Adcock, F. E.‎

‎ROMAN POLITICAL IDEAS AND PRACTICE‎

‎Wraps are a little browned. Spine lightly faded. ; Jerome Lectures; 120 pages; Adcock describes the growth and decline of political institutions from the early Roman kings, through the Republic, to the dictatorships when decay implicit in military absolutism became apparent.‎