‎Greek‎

‎Olender, Maurice & Arthur Goldhammer (Trans. )‎

‎THE LANGUAGES OF PARADISE Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century‎

‎Former owner's name in pencil and blindstamp to ffep. Else book is fine. DJ spine sunned. ; The comparative study of languages was inspired by Renaissance debates over what language was spoken in the Garden of Eden. By the eighteenth century scholars were persuaded that European languages shared a common ancestor. With the adoption of positivist, “scientific” methods in the nineteenth century, the hunt for the language of Eden and the search for a European Ursprache diverged. Yet the desire to reconcile historical causality with divine purpose remained. Because the Indo-European languages clearly had a separate line of descent from the biblical tongues, the practitioners of the new science of philology (many of whom had received their linguistic training from the Church) turned their scholarship to the task of justifying the ascendance of European Christianity to the principal role in Providential history. To accomplish this they invented a pair of concepts? Aryan and Semitic? That by the end of the century had embarked on ideological and political careers far outside philology. Supposed characteristics of the respective languages were assigned to the peoples who spoke them: thus the Semitic peoples (primarily the Jews) were, like their language, passive, static, and immobile, while the Aryans (principally Western Europeans) became the active, dynamic Chosen People of the future. Olender traces the development of these concepts through the work of J. G. Herder, Ernest Renan, Friedrich Max Müller, Adolphe Pictet, Rudolph Grau, and Ignaz Goldziher. He shows that, despite their different approaches, each of these men struggled more or less purposefully “to join romanticism with positivism in an effort to preserve a common allegiance to the doctrines of Providence. ”; 228 pages‎

‎Safarewicz, Jan‎

‎LINGUISTIC STUDIES‎

‎Foxing to top of textblock else book has very minor shelfwear. DJ has chipping and small tears along top edge. DJ spine sunned. DJ has a few small scratches with colour loss. ; Janua Linguarum. Studia Memoriae Nicolai Van Wijk Dedicata. Series Maior, 76; 395 pages‎

‎Nesselrath, Heinz-Günther (Hrsg. )‎

‎EINLEITUNG IN DIE GRIECHISCHE PHILOLOGIE‎

‎Faint smudging to textblock. Else fine. DJ very slightly yellowed. ; xvi, 773pp, 3 charts and maps in pocket.; Einleitung in Die Altertumswissenschaft; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 773 pages‎

‎Publius Ovidius Naso [Ovid]; R. [Rudolf] Merkel (Ed)‎

‎P. OVIDIUS NASO [OVID] VOL. II: METAMORPHOSES. Ex Iterata R. Merkelii Recognitione. Cum Emendationis Summario. Editio Stereotypa‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Former owner's name to titlepage. Light edgewear to corners. ; Xlvi, 329 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; Vol. 2; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 329 pages‎

‎Stillwell, Richard & William L. MacDonald & Marian Holland McAllister‎

‎THE PRINCETON ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLASSICAL SITES‎

‎Light bump to 1 corner. Light wear to base of spine. Front endpaper tanned. Very Minor shelfwear to book. Former owner's name in pencil to ffep. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and small tears. DJ spine slightly sunned. ; One-volume source of information on sites that show remains from the Classical period. Starts from the mid eighth century B. C. Which marks the expansion of Classical culture to the west, with the Hellenic colonization of Sicily and South Italy, and to the eastern shore of the Aegean. Ends with the Sixth century CE but excludes Early Christian sites of the fourth and fifth centuries. ; 1019 pages‎

‎Euripides; Gilbertus [Gilbert] Murray, G.‎

‎[EURIPIDES] EURIPIDIS: FABULAE. TOMUS I Insunt Cyclops, Alcestis, Medea, Heraclidae, Hippolytus, Andromacha, Hecuba. Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit Gilbertus Murray‎

‎Former owner's name to ffep. Some rubbing to boards. Very light bump to head of spine. Minor shelfwear. ; Greek Text with Latin apparatus and introduction. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis); Vol. 1‎

‎Jowett, Benjamin‎

‎THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO. VOLUME 1 Translated Into English with Analyses and Introductions. Volume I.‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Small stain to spine. Some rubbing to boards. Some pencil and pen underlining and marginalia to a few pages. Front inner hinge cracked but holding. ; Volume 1 Only. ; Vol. 1; 696 pages‎

‎Jowett, Benjamin‎

‎THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO [5 VOLUMES] Translated Into English with Analyses and Introductions. Vol. I, II, III, IV, V‎

‎All volumes have chipping and tears to spine ends. A few corners of V1 and 3 are bumped with light edgewear. Foxing to textblocks and to endpapers- light foxing to text. Spines sunned and discolored. Small tear to joint of spine cover of V3. Tear to joint of V1. Light dampstaining to boards of V5. Front inner hinge of V5 cracked but holding. Good to VG- overall set. Still solid. ; 5 Volume Set COMPLETE; Vol. 1/5/2022; Set of 5 volumes with dark red boards and gilt lettering. Extra postage charges may apply.‎

‎Pfuhl, Ernst & (J. D. Beazley, translated by & Foreword)‎

‎MASTERPIECES OF GREEK DRAWING AND PAINTING‎

‎Foxing to some pages. Upper corners lightly bumped. ; A Collection of Greek painting and Drawing. 152pp + 126pls with 160 ill. Reprint of 1955 edition. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 152 pages‎

‎Peter, Carl‎

‎ZEITTAFELN DER GRIECHISCHEN GESCHICHTE ZUM HANDGEBRAUCH Und Als Grundlage Des Vortrags in Höheren Gymnasialklassen, Mit Fortlaufenden Belegen Und Auszugen Aus Den Quellen‎

‎Light Foxing. Pages tanned. Book has been rebound in brown and red marbled boards with brown cloth spine and gilt lettering. Some rubbing and edgewear to boards. Scholar's name to ffep (Christian Habicht) with other names stamped to titlepage. ; 166 pages‎

‎Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia‎

‎UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR STRUKTUR DES REICHES VON PYLOS Die Stellung der Ortschaften im Lichte der Linear B-Texte‎

‎Small chip to head of spine. Tiny stain to front wrap. ; C. 300pp. ; Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature. Pocket-Book 77; 300 pages‎

‎Southern, Pat‎

‎AUGUSTUS‎

‎Book is fine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear ; Roman Imperial Biographies; 0.95 x 9.43 x 6.38 Inches; 271 pages; Augustus, the heir to Julius Caesar, was the guiding light in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. In this biography, Pat Southern traces the life and works of the emperor chronologically, presenting idealogy and events as they occurred from Augustus' point of view, including his transition from heir and successor of Julius Caesar to head of the new Principate and his development of the Roman Empire. Augustus did not have a master plan of politics and legislation, but instead, he had to wait and occasionally change course before he settled on a version of government that the Senate and people found acceptable. While there have been many books covering the political, social, and aesthetic culture of the Augustan Age, this is the first book to present the life of Augustus, the man.‎

‎Barrett, Anthony A.‎

‎LIVIA First Lady of Imperial Rome‎

‎Book is fine. DJ has 1 small closed tear now in mylar. ; 1.23 x 9.46 x 6.36 Inches; 464 pages; Livia (58 B.C.-A.D. 29)-the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius-wielded power at the center of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been portrayed as a cunning and sinister schemer, but in this biography (the first in English devoted to her) Livia emerges as a much more complex individual. Achieving influence unprecedented for a woman, she won support and even affection from her contemporaries and was widely revered after her death. <P>Anthony A. Barrett, author of acclaimed biographies of Caligula and Agrippina, here examines Livia's life and her role in Roman politics. He recounts the events of her life, from her early days as a member of the wealthy and powerful Claudian family through her final conflicts with the new Emperor Tiberius. Barrett also considers how Livia helped shape the pattern of Roman government that prevailed for the next four centuries.‎

‎Bradeen, Donald William & Malcolm Francis McGregor, (Eds. )‎

‎PHOROS: TRIBUTE TO BENJAMIN DEAN MERITT‎

‎Scholar's name to ffep (Kenneth Dover). Very light shelfwear. ; Contents: A. ANDREWES, The Survival of Solon's Axones; DONALD W. BRADEEN, An Athenian Peltast? PAUL A. CLEMENT, L. Kornelios Korinthos of Corinth; GEORGES DAUX , Notes d'Epigraphie Attique; C. W. J. ELIOT, A Mason's Mark on the Parthenon? DANIEL J. GEAGAN, Ordo Areopagitarum Atheniensium; MARGHERITA GUARDUCCI, L'offerta di Xenokrateia nel santuario di Cefiso al Falero; MICHAEL H. JAMESON, A Treasury of Athena in the Argolid {IG IV, 554) ; L. H. JEFFERY, IG I2, 1007: An Aiginetan Grave-Inscription; MABEL L. LANG, Again the "Marathon" Epigram; DAVID M. LEWIS, Entrenchment Clauses in Attic Decrees; HAROLD B. MATTINGLY, Athens and Eleusis: Some New Ideas; MALCOLM F. MCGREGOR, The Join in IG I2, 55; FORDYCE W. MITCHEL, Three Bars or Four? T. B. MITFORD, A Note from Salamis; MARKELLOS TH. MITSOS, Some Lists of Athenian Ephebes: VI; WERNER PEEK, Epigramme von der Agora; DINA PEPPA-DELMOUSOU, Three Inscriptions from the Epigraphical Museum; ANTONY E. RAUBITSCHEK, Kolieis ; O. W. REINMUTH, The Ephebic Dedications to Hermes; WESLEY E. THOMPSON, Tot Atheniensibus Idem Nomen Erat; JOHN S. TRAILL, Some Revisions in the Late Roman Archon List; EUGENE VANDERPOOL, The Date of the Pre-Persian City-Wall of Athens; MICHAEL B. WALBANK, Criteria for the Dating of Fifth-Century Attic Inscriptions; A. GEOFFREY WOODHEAD, West's Panel of Ship-Payers; R. E. WYCHERLEY, Poros: Notes on Greek Building-Stones; 187 pages‎

‎Berkowitz, Luci & Karl A. Squitier‎

‎THESAURUS LINGUAE GRAECAE: CANON OF GREEK AUTHORS AND WORKS‎

‎Upper corners bumped. Minor shelfwear to DJ now protected in mylar. ; With technical assistance from William A. Johnson ; 341 pages; A unique bibliography of literary works that survive from Greek antiquity, this Canon is a register of all the information stored in the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a vast computerized database of Greek literature whose coverage is now being extended to the end of the Byzantine empire (c. 1453). The book encompasses nearly 3,200 authors, representing over 8,000 individual works and some 64,000,000 words of Greek text. It includes invaluable information on each writer's dates and geographical origins, their works, the genre to which each work belongs, the form in which each work survives, and the number of words each contains. Of particular usefulness is information on the standard or best textual edition of each work, as recommended by a special committee of the American Philological Association.‎

‎Loraux, Nicole & (translated by Alan Sheridan)‎

‎THE INVENTION OF ATHENS The Funeral Oration in the Classical City‎

‎A couple of Corners are lightly bumped. Very light pen notes to ffep and 1 page (word crossed out) with pencil notes and underlining to a couple of pages. Dustsoiling to top of textblock. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear. DJ spine is a little browned. ; 512 pages; How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become the occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux traces the different rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations--epitaphioi--from Thucydides, Gorgias, Lysias, and Demosthenes to Plato. Arguing that the ceremony of public burial began circa 508-460 BCE, Loraux demonstrates that the institution of the funeral oration developed under Athenian democracy. A secular, not a religious phenomenon, a literary genre with fixed rhetoric effects, the funeral oration was inextricably linked to the epainos--praise of the city--rather than to a ritualized lament for the dead as is commonly assumed. Above all, the funeral oration celebrated the city of Athens and the Athenian citizen. Loraux interprets the speeches from literary, anthropological, and political perspectives. She explains how these acts of secular speech invented an image of Athens often at odds with the presumed ideals of democracy. To die in battle for the city was presented as an act of civic choice--the "fine" death that defined the citizen-soldier's noble, aristocratic ethos. At the same time, the funeral oration cultivated an image of democracy at a time when there was, for example, no formal theory of a respect for law and liberty, the supremacy of the collective and public over the individual and the private, or freedom of speech.‎

‎Busolt, Georg & Heinrich Swoboda & Franz Jandebeur‎

‎GRIECHISCHE STAATSKUNDE Dritte, Neugestaltete Auflage Der Griechischen Staats - Und Rechtsaltertümer. Zweite Hälfte. Darstellung Einzelner Staaten Und Der Zwischenstaatlichen Beziehungen Bearbeitet Von Heinrich Swoboda. Register Bearbeitet Von Franz Jandebeur.‎

‎A couple of corners lightly bumped. Else book is fine. DJ has 2 very small tears and light shelfwear. ; 1972 reprint of the 1926 ed. Pp 631-1657 ; Handbuch Der Altertumswissenschaft. Abt. 4; Teil 1, Bd. 1; Vol. 4:01:01 AM; 1026 pages‎

‎Meyer, Eduard‎

‎BLÜTE UND NIEDERGANG DES HELLENISMUS IN ASIEN‎

‎Nicley bound in 1/4 cloth, with decorative boards. Former owners' names to ffep (incl. Christian Habicht). Much scattered foxing and pencil underlining & marginalia in the text. ; 82 pages‎

‎May, James M.‎

‎TRIALS OF CHARACTER The Eloquence of Ciceronian Ethos‎

‎Very light bump to 1 corner. Else book is fine. Sticker residue to front panel of DJ. ; 0.88 x 9.48 x 6.38 Inches; 224 pages; By its very nature, the art of oratory involves character. Verbal persuasion entails the presentation of a persona by the speaker that affects an audience for good or ill. In this book, James May explores the role and extent of Cicero's use of ethos and demonstrates its persuasive effect. May discusses the importance of ethos, not just in classical rhetorical theory but also in the social, political, and judicial milieu of ancient Rome, and then applies his insights to the oratory of Cicero. Ciceronian ethos was a complex blend of Roman tradition, Cicero's own personality, and selected features of Greek and Roman oratory. More than any other ancient literary genre, oratory dealt with constantly changing circumstances, with a wide variety of rhetorical challenges. An orator's success or failure, as well as the artistic quality of his orations, was largely the direct result of his responses to these circumstances and challenges. Acutely aware of his audience and its cultural heritage and steeped in the rhetorical traditions of his predecessors, Cicero employed rhetorical ethos with uncanny success. May analyzes individual speeches from four different periods of Cicero's career, tracing changes in the way Cicero depicted character, both his own and others', as a source of persuasion, changes intimately connected with the vicissitudes of Cicero's career and personal life. He shows that ethos played a major role in almost every Ciceronian speech, that Cicero's audiences were conditioned by common beliefs about character, and finally, that Cicero's rhetorical ethos became a major source for persuasion in his oratory.‎

‎Millar, Fergus‎

‎THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND ITS NEIGHBOURS‎

‎Very small tear just starting to joint of rear board else very light shelfwear to book. DJ is tatty and worn with tears, chipping and rubbing. ; Book traces the process by which a pagan Empire ruled from Rome developed into a Christian Empire ruled from Constantinople. This process came to fulfilment in the fourth and fifth centuries. It is the primary thesis of this book that the fundamental social and administrative changes which made it possible had taken place before the end of the third century. ; Delacorte World History VIII; 362 pages; Contributions by Richard N. Frye, D. Berciu, Tamara Talbot-Rice, Georg Kossack‎

‎Campbell, J. B.‎

‎THE EMPEROR AND THE ROMAN ARMY, 31 BC-AD 235‎

‎Bumping to corners. Small bump to top corner of textblock with creasing to a few pages. DJ has creasing along edges with a couple of tiny chips. ; The Roman world in the Imperial period was ruled by a succession of autocrats for whom the army remained the single most important source of political power. But how could one man win the loyalty and affection of an army which numbered up to to half a million? Although financial benefits and legal privileges had the most direct impact on the soldiers, every emperor sought some kind of additional bond through a personal association and identification with them. ; 468 pages; Special edition for Sandpiper Books. Reprint of 1984 Edition.‎

‎Gomme, A. W.‎

‎THE POPULATION OF ANCIENT ATHENS IN THE FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES B.C.‎

‎Top of textblock has dustsoiling. Sticker with author's name attached to backstrip, else Minor shelfwear. ; Unchanged reprint of 1933 Edition. Looks at the population of Athens in order to answer some fundamental questions as: How was the population distributed? How did it fluctuate? What was the net loss due to the Peloponnesian War? Did the population increase again during the fourth century, between 400 and 322, and how quickly did it decline after that? If the assertion of the oligarchs in 411 that no more than 5000 ever attended the ecclesia, what proportion was that of the whole number? ; Glasgow University Publications XXVIII; 87 pages‎

‎Grant, John N.‎

‎STUDIES IN THE TEXTUAL TRADITION OF TERENCE‎

‎Very light rubbing to extremities else fine. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XX; 272 pages; Lays the foundation for a new edition of the plays of Terence.‎

‎Euripides; Henricus Van Herwerden (Ed. )‎

‎EURIPIDIOU: ELENE [EURIPIDES: HELEN] Ad Novam Codicum Laurentianorum Factam A. G. Vitellio Collationem Recognovit Et Adnotavit Henricus Van Herwerden. Accedunt Analecta Tragica‎

‎Book has been rebound in 1/4 cloth with marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Blindstamp to titlepage. Some edgewear to boards. ; Greek text with Latin apparatus and appendix. ; 107 pages‎

‎Meisterhans, Konrad & Eduard Schwyzer‎

‎GRAMMATIK DER ATTISCHEN INSCHRIFTEN Dritte Vermehrte Und Verbesserte Auflage, Besorgt Von Eduard Schwyzer‎

‎Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and traces of removed pocket. . Rebound in now worn 1/2 cloth, marbled boards. Tears to spine ends. Corners and boards edgeworn. A wonderful association copy. The book was dedicated to A. Kaegi, and this is his copy, inscribed to him "vom Bearbeiter [Schwyzer]." Some ink notes by Kaegi in the text and many on the endpapers (blanks inserted at end). Sound and tight. ; Unchanged reprint of 1900 edition. ; 288 pages; Signed by Editor‎