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Rotstein, Andrea
THE IDEA OF IAMBOS
The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies. Andrea Rotstein places research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient genres based on the cognitive sciences, offering an unprecedented study of ancient theories of genres and the way they affected ancient scholarship. Rotstein also examines the possibility of musical performance of iambic poetry as well as the various occasions of public performance, particularly at musical contests and rhapsodic recitals. Finally, she argues that, from the Archaic to the Classical period, there was a shift from the notion of literary class depending primarily on rhythm and on its archetypical representative, Archilochus, towards iambos as a genre defined mainly by invective as its dominant feature. ; 400 pages
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Andersen, Oivind & Matthew Dickie (Eds. )
HOMER'S WORLD Fiction, Tradition, Reality
Small abrasion to front wrap (1 cm) with colour loss. Else minor shelfwear. ; Contents1. CARLA M. ANTONACCIO. Lefkandi and Homer 2. MATTHEW DICKIE. The Geography of Homer's World 3. WOLFGANG KULLMANN : Homers Zeit und das Bild des Dichters von den Menschen der mykenischen Kultur 4. TILMAN KRISCHER: Die Inhomogenität der Troja-Epik 5. PHANIS TH. KAKRIDIS: Odysseus und Palamedes 6. PETER JONES: Poetic Invention: The Fighting around Troy in the First Nine Years of the Trojan War 7. MALCOLM M. WILLCOCK: The Importance of Iliad 8 8. ODYSSEUS TSAGARAKIS: Odyssey 11: The Question of the Sources 9. NANNO MARINATOS: Circe and Liminality: Ritual Background and Narrative Structure 10. J. GORDON HOWIE : The Iliad as Exemplum; Papers from the Norwegian Institute At Athens 3; 173 pages
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Bakker, Egbert & Ahuvia Kahane (Eds. )
WRITTEN VOICES, SPOKEN SIGNS Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text
Faint foxing to textblock. Else minor shelfwear. ; Written Voices, Spoken Signs is a stimulating introduction to new perspectives on Homer and other traditional epics. Taking advantage of recent research on language and social exchange, the nine essays in this volume focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry. These innovative essays by leading scholars of Homer, oral poetics, and epic invite us to rethink some key concepts for an understanding of traditional epic poetry. Egbert Bakker examines the epic performer's use of time and tense in recounting a past that is alive. Tackling the question of full-length performance of the monumental Iliad, Andrew Ford considers the extent to which the work was perceived as a coherent whole in the archaic age. John Miles Foley addresses questions about spoken signs and the process of reference in epic discourse, and Ahuvia Kahane studies rhythm as a semantic factor in the Homeric performance. Richard Martin suggests a new range of performance functions for the Homeric simile. And Gregory Nagy establishes the importance of one feature of epic language, the ellipsis. These six essays centered on Homer engage with fundamental issues that are addressed by three essays primarily concerned with medieval epic: those by Franz Bäuml on the concept of fact; by Wulf Oesterreicher on types of orality; and by Ursula Schaefer on written and spoken media. In their Introduction the editors highlight the underlying approach and viewpoints of this collaborative volume. ; Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia; 320 pages
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Andersen, Oivind & Dag T. T. Haug (Eds. )
RELATIVE CHRONOLOGY IN EARLY GREEK EPIC POETRY
This book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterised by a rather uniform language and many recurring themes, thus making the establishment of chronological priorities a difficult task. The editors have brought together scholars working on these texts from both a linguistic and a literary perspective to address the problem. Some contributions offer statistical analysis of the linguistic material or linguistic analysis of subgenres within epic, others use a neoanalytical approach to the history of epic themes or otherwise seek to track the development and interrelationship of epic contents. All the contributors focus on the implications of their study for the dating of early epic poems relative to each other. Thus the book offers an overview of the current state of discussion. Authors: Richard Janko, Brandtly Jones, Rudolf Wachter, Margalit Finkelberg, Dag T. T. Haug, Georg Danek, Stephanie West, Oivind Andersen, Ian C. Rutherford, Jonathan S. Burgess, Bruno Currie, Wolfgang Kullmann, and Martin West. ; 292 pages
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King, Katherine Callen
ACHILLES Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages
Book and Dustjacket have minor shelfwear. 1 corner lightly bumped. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 355 pages; The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrier Achilles presented in Homer's Iliad around 700 BC imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking "soldier" with "hero" in Western European culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances through periods of Greek, Roman, and Christian imperialism in the works of poets, generals, philosophers, priests, and patriots, Katherine Callen King establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues.
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Boedeker, Deborah Dickmann
APHRODITE'S ENTRY INTO GREEK EPIC
Faint bump to top of spine. Faint dampstaining to spine. ; Contents: introduction. Aphrodite's Origin in an Indo-European Tradition; Names and Epithets of Aphrodite; Aphrodite and the Chorós; Aphrodite and her Mortal Lover ; Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava : Supplementum 32; 97 pages
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Blok, Josine H.
THE EARLY AMAZONS Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth
Front upper corner bumped and a bit creased. Else light shelfwear. ; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 473 pages; The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons.
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Shewan, Alexander
HOMERIC ESSAYS
Book has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light foxing to textblock. DJ is browned and a bit soiled. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Shewan has collected his most important papers on Homeric literature. ; 456 pages
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Austin, Norman
HELEN OF TROY AND HER SHAMELESS PHANTOM
Faint foxing to textblock else book is fine. Slight wear to DJ. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; Contents: Part 1. The Traditional Helen: The Helen of the Iliad, Sappho's Helen & the Problem of the Text; Part 2. The Revised Helen: The Helen of the Odyssey; Stesichorus & his 'Palinode'; Herodotus & Helen in Egypt; Euripides' Helen: The Final Revision. Includes a glossary of greek terms. ; Myth and Poetics; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 223 pages
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Albracht, Franz. translated and edited by Peter Jones, Malcolm Willcock and Gabriele Wright
BATTLE AND BATTLE DESCRIPTION HOMER A Contribution to the History of War
Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 224 pages; Acknowledging that Homer is a poet, not a staff instructor, Albracht works carefully through the Homeric text to produce a persuasive picture of the workings of battle in the Iliad, in two parts: in Part I the council of war, marshalling of the troops, the use of chariots, the advance into battle, the standing fight, the massed attack and defence, retreat, flight and pursuit; in Part II protection in the field, attack and defence of a fortified camp, and the siege and defence of a fortified city. Throughout, he offers the reader fascinating explanations of the details of the battle narrative.
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Anderson, Michael J.
THE FALL OF TROY IN EARLY GREEK POETRY AND ART
Top of textblock has faint foxing. Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 0.85 x 8.75 x 5.62 Inches; 304 pages; Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in the archetypal myth - the murder of Priam, the rape of Kassandra, the reunion of Helen and Menelaos, and the escape of Aineias - as witnessed in Archaic Greek epic, fifth-century Athenian drama, and Athenian black- and red-figure vase painting. It focuses in particular on the narrative artistry with which poets and painters balanced these episodes with one another and intertwined them with other chapters in the story of Troy. The author offers the first comprehensive demonstration of the narrative centrality of the Ilioupersis myth within the corpus of Trojan epic poetry, and the first systematic study of pictorial juxtapositions of Ilioupersis scenes on painted vases.
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Lamberton, Robert & John J. Keaney (Eds. )
HOMER'S ANCIENT READERS The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes
Faint foxing to top of textblock. Light shelfwear to book and DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Although the influence of Homer on Western literature has long commanded critical attention, little has been written on how various generations of readers have found meaning in his texts. These seven essays explore the ways in which the Iliad and the Odyssey have been read from the time of Homer through the Renaissance. By asking what questions early readers expected the texts to answer and looking at how these expectations changed over time, the authors clarify the position of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the intellectual world of antiquity while offering historical insight into the nature of reading. This collection surveys the entire field of preserved ancient interpretations of Homer, beginning with the fictional audiences portrayed within the poems themselves, proceeding to readings by Aristotle, the Stoics, and Aristarchus and Crates, and culminating in the spiritualized allegorical reading current among Platonists of the fifth and sixth centuries C. E. The influence of these ancient interpretations is then examined in Byzantium and in the Latin West during the Renaissance. Contributors to this volume are Robert Browning, Anthony Grafton, Robert Lamberton, A. A. Long, James Porter, Nicholas Richardson, and Charles Segal. ; Magie Classical Publications; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages
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Greenhalgh, P. A. L.
EARLY GREEK WARFARE Horsemen and Chariots in the Homeric and Archaic Ages
Upper Corner is lightly bumped. Light foxing to textblock. DJ has Rubbing and light edgewear. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; 228 pages; A study of the literary and archaeological (especially artistic) evidence for developments in the warfare of early Greece. Greenhalgh considers in particular the military history of the chariot and mounted horse, both as they were represented in poetry and art and as they were used in reality from about 1100 to 500 B. C.
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Podlecki, A. J.
THE EARLY GREEK POETS AND THEIR TIMES
Some spotting to boards. Foxing to top of textblock. DJ a bit browned. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; This book brings a new approach to the study of the early Greek lyric poets. Podlecki has chosen to examine the life and works of the leading poets of the eighth to fifth century B. C. In the context of the military and historical events of the period. ; 1 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 282 pages
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Lintott, Andrew
VIOLENCE, CIVIL STRIFE AND REVOLUTION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY 750-330 BC
Very light shelfwear. ; Gives a conspectus of violence and civil strife in classical society during the most exciting period of its development. Examines first the extent and function of violence in this form of society and then traces the development of civil strife as the cities become more powerful and politically more sophisticated. Major themes are aristocratic rivalry, the tensions between rich and poor, the link between imperialism and civil strife and the causes of constitutional revolution. ; 289 pages
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Hanson, Victor Davis; John Keegan (Intro. )
THE WESTERN WAY OF WAR Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
271 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.
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Hainsworth, J. B.
THE IDEA OF EPIC
Faint foxing to textblock else book is fine. DJ spine sunned and discolored. Dustjacket is protected in plastick sleeve. ; Eidos; 0.75 x 8.75 x 6 Inches; 200 pages; The idea of epic is elusive. The classical tradition of epic poetry emerged from the heroic poetry of one tribe of one people, the Ionian Greeks. The fame of the Iliad and Odyssey inspired emulators and created a genre which remained in high favor throughout the classical epoch and was revived in the Renaissance. Modern literature, however, has neglected it and the word "epic" no longer connotes a literary form. J. B. Hainsworth explores the development of the epic genre, the causes of its success in classical literature, and the reasons for the failure of the genre after its triumphs in the Renaissance. The idea of epic, Hainsworth argues, is composite. As the offspring of a tradition of heroic poetry, it is a narrative of historical or fictional events. However, the Homeric epics try to make sense of events by relating them to some theme, for example heroism, and explaining them in terms of a metaphysical idea such as destiny or the will of God. In the literary epic of the classical period the narrative element divided into historical and mythological forms; authors exploited national, political, and romantic themes. Hainsworth examines the way in which these ideas intersect in classical criticism and in Hellenistic and Roman epic. Hainsworth demonstrates that after its first flowering the epic became an artificial literary form justified by the authority of the Homeric poems. When the poetic form was abandoned the idea of epic dissolved, leaving as its ghost the expression in other forms of the metaphysical ideas of the Greek and Roman epics.
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Fowler, Robert L.
THE NATURE OF EARLY GREEK LYRIC Three Preliminary Studies
Light shelfwear else Fine. ; Contents: homer and the lyric poets; Organization of a Lyric Poem; Elegy and the Genres of Archaic Greece. Appendix: Periodic Structures in Archaic Poetry. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XXI; 162 pages
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Erskine, Andrew
TROY BETWEEN GREECE AND ROME Local Tradition and Imperial Power
Very faint spotting to top of textblock. Else book is fine. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; In this book Andrew Erskine examines the role and meaning of Troy in the changing relationship between Greeks and Romans, as Rome is transformed from a minor Italian city into a Mediterranean superpower. The book seeks to understand the significance of Rome's Trojan origins for the Greeks by considering the place of Troy and Trojans in Greek culture. It moves beyond the more familiar spheres of art and literature to explore the countless, overlapping, local traditions, the stories that cities told about themselves, a world often neglected by scholars. ; 336 pages
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Fenik, Bernard C.
HOMER: TRADITION AND INVENTION
Very faint shelfwear else fine. 1 tiny spot to edge of rear board. ; Contents: Heubeck: Homeric Studies today: Results and Prospects; kirk: Formal Duels in Books 3 and 7 of the Iliad; Hainsworth: Good and Bad Formulae; Hoelscher: Transformation from Folk-Tale to Epic; Fenik: Stylization and Variety: Four monologues in the iliad. ; Cincinnati Classical Studies. New Series; 90 pages
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Fenik, Bernard
ILIAD X AND THE RHESUS The Myth
Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Collection Latomus Volume 73; 63 pages
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Rosen, Ralph Mark
OLD COMEDY AND THE IAMBOGRAPHIC TRADITION
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Else very minor shelfwear. ; American Classical Studies 19; 103 pages
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Georges, Pericles
BARBARIAN ASIA AND THE GREEK EXPERIENCE From the Archaic Period to the Age of Xenophon
Very faint shelfwear to book. Faint soiling to DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Xx, 358pp. In Barbarian Asia and the Greek Experience Pericles Georges explores the ways ancient Greeks viewed and interacted with non-Greeks during the classical period. Through the works of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Xenophon, Georges examines critical episodes in the formation of Greek ideas and attitudes concerning those foreigners of Asia with whom they came into close historical contact and against whom they defined themselves--especially the "barbarians" of Persia and Lydia. He focuses on the Greeks' intramural debates about their own identity--or identities--as people who shared a common language, religious tradition, and way of life, but who differed over issues of origin, custom, culture, and notions of the barbarian "other." ; 385 pages
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Kitts, Margo
SANCTIFIED VIOLENCE IN HOMERIC SOCIETY Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad
Very faint dustsoiling to top of textblock. Else book is fine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritual performance as communication. ; 258 pages
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Malamud, Martha (Ed. )
ARETHUSA. VOLUME THIRTY-TWO [32] / NUMBER ONE [1] / WINTER 1999
Faint crease to first few pages and upper corner of front wrap. ; Ellen Greene on Catullus translating Sappho, Patricia M. Rosenmeyer on Medulla, David Fredrick on Haptic Poetics, Andrew Feldherr on Genre and Geography in Vergil’s Underworld, and Christopher C. Spelman on Propertius 2.3. ; Arethusa. Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter 1999; Vol. 32.1; 148 pages
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Malamud, Martha (Ed. )
ARETHUSA. VOLUME THIRTY-THREE [33] / NUMBER ONE [1] / WINTER 2000
Faint rubbing to rear wrap. 3 small dots to top of textblock. ; Includes articles by Nancy Worman on the discourse of disease in Sophocles’ Philoctetes, by Elizabeth Belfiore on narratological plots and Aristotle’s mythos, by Joy Connolly on Roman erotic elegy, by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer on Seneca and nature, and by Miriam Leonard on Hélène Cixous. ; Arethusa. Vol. 33, No. 1, Winter 2000; Vol. 33.1; 150 pages
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Malamud, Martha (Ed. )
ARETHUSA. VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN [37] / NUMBER TWO [2] / SPRING 2004
Light foxing. Minor shelfwear. ; Pp 141-252. Articles by Brent Hannah on Virgil “manufacturing descent, ” Matthew Pincus on Propertius and “the erotics of influence, ” Richard J. King on “Male Homosexual Readership and the Dedication of Ovid’s Fasti, ” and Marcus Wolson on “Ovidian Silius. ”; Arethusa. Vol. 37, No. 2, Spring 2004; Vol. 37.2; 111 pages
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Malamud, Martha (Ed. ) & Cindy Benton and Trevor Fear
CENTER AND PERIPHERY IN THE ROMAN WORLD Arethusa. Volume Thirty-Six [36] / Number Three [3] / Fall 2003
Very Minor shelfwear. Light creasing to rear wrap. ; Pp 267-396. Includes scholarly articles by Cindy Benton on “Seneca’s Medea and the Anxieties of Imperialism”; Rhiannon Evans on “Landscape, Utopia, and Rome”; David Fredrick on “Sensuous Ambiguity in Roman Dining”; Judith P. Hallett on “Ovid’s Autobiography in Tristia 4.10 and Cornelius Nepos’s Biography of Atticus”; and Saundra Schwartz on “Images and Ideas of Empire in Chariton’s Persia. ”; Arethusa. Vol. 36, No. 3, Fall 2003; Vol. 36.3; 129 pages
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Malamud, Martha (Ed. ) & Trevor Fear
FALLAX OPUS: APPROACHES TO READING ROMAN ELEGY Arethusa. Volume Thirty-Three [33] / Number Two [2] / Spring 2000
Very Minor shelfwear. Very Light foxing and edgewear. ; Pp 151-311. With scholarly articles by Trevor Fear, Duncan F. Kennedy, Parshia Lee-Stecum, Ellen Greene, Alison Sharrock, Mathilde Skoie; Arethusa. Vol. 33, No. 2, Spring 2000; Vol. 33.2; 160 pages
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Apollonius Of Rhodes; Richard Hunter
JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE (THE ARGONAUTICA) Translated, with Introduction and Explanatory Notes
Stamped 'damaged' to titlepage. Light bump to top of spine. Scholar's small bookplate to ffep (R. E. Fantham).1 small tear to top of spine. Dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ spine is sunned. ; 216 pages
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Crawford, Jane W.
M. TULLIUS CICERO: THE LOST AND UNPUBLISHED ORATIONS
Spine and edges of wraps are rubbed with some colour loss. Spine a bit sunned. ; Hypomnemata ; Heft 80; 324 pages
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Ernout, Alfred
RECUEIL DE TEXTES LATINS ARCHAÏQUES Nouvelle Édition
Pen marginalia on a few pages. Pages tanned. Wraps browned. Chipping to spine with some loss to base of spine cover. Last few pages and rear wrap have creasing along bottom edge. ; Texte en français et latin. ; 289 pages
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Leo, Friedrich
GESCHICHTE DER RÖMISCHEN LITERATUR Erster Teil: Die Archaische Literatur
Spine cover has been crudely repaired with cellotape with some loss to spine cover. Some pages unopened. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1913 edition. Unveränderter reprografischer Nachdruck der Ausgabe 1913.; Vol. 1; 496 pages
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Bonnefoy, Yves (compiled by) & Wendy Doniger (Trans. )
GREEK AND EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGIES
First few pages and front wrap are very creased. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Some underlining and notes in pen to a few pages. Reading copy only. ; 294 pages
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Kirk, G. S.
MYTH Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures
Creasing and chipping along spine. Some creasing to wraps. Scholar's name and blindstamp to ffep (Robert Brown). Rear wrap is browned. ; Contents: Myth, Ritual and Folktale; Levi-Strauss and the Structural Approach; Nature of Myths in Ancient Mesopotamia; Nature and Culture: Gilgamesh, Centaurs and Cyclopes; Qualities of Greek Myths; Tales, Dreams, Symbols: Towards a Fuller Understanding of Myths. ; Sather Classical Lectures; 0.9 x 8.8 x 6.4 Inches; 311 pages
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Aurelius Victor; Franciscus [Franz] Pichlmayr
SEXTI AURELII VICTORIS [AURELIUS VICTOR] LIBER DE CAESARIBUS Praecedunt Origo Gentis Romanae Et Liber De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romae. Subsequitur Epitome De Caesaribus.
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Moses Hadas). Extremities slightly edgeworn. First 2 pages torn near gutter but holding. A couple of pages have light underlining in ink- 1 in pencil. Else VG. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 210 pages
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Adcock, F. E
CAESAR As Man of Letters
Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown) , other name struck out. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and textblock. Spine sunned. ; Sir Frank Adcock's aim is to emphasize the literary character of Caesar's writings. He is worth reading, and this small book will help understanding. The Introduction reminds the reader what Caesar was and what he had accomplished when he wrote. In a chapter on "The Military Man" Caesar's literary interpretation of war and generalship is described. This short study gives insight into Roman literature and history as well as into the life and character of one of the world's great men. ; 114 pages
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Meier, Christian; (Mclintock, David Trans. )
CAESAR A Biography
Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Else minor shelfwear. ; 9.75 x 1.75 x 6.5 Inches; 528 pages; For centuries, Julius Caesar has endured in our collective imagination as a favorite among historians and scholars, playwrights and poets. In legend he lives as the great conqueror of Rome's immense empire, a remarkable diplomat and writer, an unrivaled heartbreaker, and a man of relentless determination who met a seemingly tragic end. Caesar examines the riveting story of a complex man within the context of the crisis of the Roman republic. Meier vividly reconstructs the distinctive features of this age by emphasizing the prevalent educational practices that imposed limitations on individual development. Meier clearly shows that Caesar early on established himself as a man whose unique drive, self-confidence, and detachment would bring him into continual conflict with established institutions. What were the political and social forces that shaped and challenged this extraordinary individual? And how did this larger-than-life leader truly affect the fate of the Roman republic and the course of history? Internationally renowned historian Christian Meier explores these questions in the most authoritative and accessible account ot Julius Caesar's life, career, and legacy.
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Jebb, R. C.
SELECTIONS FROM THE ATTIC ORATORS Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus. Being a Companion Volume to 'the Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus
Former owner's name on ffep. Spine sunned. Some pages corner creased. A couple of chips to cloth. ; Reprint of the 1888 2nd ed. ; 434 pages
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Merkelbach, R. & M. L. West
FRAGMENTA HESIODEA
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Else light shelfwear. DJ is price-clipped. Small tear (1 cm) to top of the DJ. Base of DJ a bit stained. ; A complete critical edition of the extant remains of the lost narrative and didactic poems anciently ascribed to Hesiod. Latin preface and critical apparatus. ; 236 pages
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Cairns, Douglas L.
OXFORD READINGS IN HOMER'S ILIAD
1 corner lightly bumped. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; This anthology makes accessible to the reader sixteen of the most important studies of Homer and the Iliad to appear in the last forty years. The essays, by leading Homeric scholars from Great Britain, the United States, and Europe, deal not only with the aesthetics and artistry of the Iliad as a poetic artefact, but with its historical context, its cultural background, and its ethical and political framework. ; Oxford Readings in Classical Studies; 520 pages
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Taylor, Lily Ross
THE DIVINITY OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR
Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep deleted with black marker. Very Faint staining to boards. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1931 Edition. Establishes the context of worship in the Roman state cult, Taylor brings her readers back a couple of centuries prior, to Alexander's time and other Hellenistic rulers. Then she guides the reader through Rome's Republic, Julius Caesar's attempts to make for himself a divine monarchy, his death and apotheosis. And logically the account follows Caesar's son, Augustus (the divi filius) and the founding of the imperial cult in Rome and throughout the empire. Taylor closes her work with Augustus' deification. ; Arno Press Collection. ; 296 pages
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Sophocles; M. A. Bayfield
THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOKLES With Introduction, Notes, and Appendices.
Number stamped to ffep. Small sticker stain to front board. Else very light shelfwear. ; Greek text with English commentary. Xxxii, 174 pp ; 174 pages
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Jenkyns, Richard
THREE CLASSICAL POETS Sappho, Catullus, and Juvenal
Very light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket spine is sunned and discolored. DJ flap a bit creased. ; 0.96 x 9.54 x 6.43 Inches; 254 pages; In a close and sensitive reading of Sappho, Catullus, and Juvenal, Jenkyns delineates the uniqueness of the poet's individual voice in relation to poetic traditions. His book constitutes a challenge to the view that one method will suffice for the interpretation of ancient poetry. He seeks to demonstrate that we can have no substitute for flexible and humane judgment, liberated from critical dogma, if we are to understand the great writers of the past.
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Mosley, Derek J.
ENVOYS AND DIPLOMACY IN ANCIENT GREECE
Light faint browning to wraps. Very Light shelfwear. ; Historia: Einzelschriften, Heft 22; 95 pages; An enquiry into the appointment and role of envoys and into the conditions under which they worked.
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M. Tullius Cicero; Albertus [Albert] Curtius Clark (Ed. )
M. TULLI CICERONIS [CICERO]: ORATIONES VOL. VI: Pro Tullio, Pro Fonteio, Pro Sulla, Pro Archia, Pro Plancio, Pro Scauro. Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit Albertus Curtius Clark
Small waterstain to corner of 1 page. Former owner's name to ffep. Light pencilling to a few pages. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxoniensis; Vol. 6; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 190 pages
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M. Tullius Cicero; Ludovicus [Ludwig] Claude Purser (Ed. )
[CICERO] M. TULLI CICERONIS: EPISTULAE VOL. III: Epistulae Ad Quintum Fratrem, Commentariolum Petitionis, Epistulae Ad M. Brutum, Pseudo-Ciceronis Epistula Ad Octavianum, Fragmenta Epistularum. Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit Ludovicus Claude Purser
Light shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Former owner's name to ffep. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxoniensis; Vol. 3; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall
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Zosimus; Ronald T. Ridley
ZOSIMUS: NEW HISTORY A New Translation with Commentary
Still wrapped in plastic. ; Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Byzantina Australiensia 2; 263 pages
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Beard, Mary & Michael Crawford
ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC
Light rubbin to wraps with a bit of colour loss. Scholar's name to titlepage (Robert Brown). ; 8vo; 106 pages; What were the reasons for the Roman revolution, wherein a republican form of government that had endured for centuries suddenly gave way, after civil war, to a dictatorship, which eventually dissolved under the peaceful sway of an autocratic principate? When did the process of change begin, what were its significant stages, and how are we to make sense of it? These are some of the questions addressed by two able scholars in this remarkably concise and accomplished survey of the history of the late Roman Republic. Setting themselves the challenging goal of making the first century comprehensible in twentieth-century terms, Mary Beard and Michael Crawford outline the factors that must be assessed for a proper understanding of the period-- from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of the state religion to the function of political institutions, and the reasons for imperial expansion. They offer no simple explanations, but instead supply a descriptive framework that clarifies a mass of conflicting and fragmentary evidence. Ideal for both introductory and graduate courses in the later Roman Republic, this book will make stimulating and provocative reading for anyone interested in the history of ancient Rome. From the Index: 1. The Nature of the Problem 2.The Cultural Horizons of the Aristocracy 3. Religion 4. Political Institutions 5. The Working of Politics 6. Rome and the Outside World
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Shotter, David
AUGUSTUS CAESAR
Very Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to titlepage (Robert Brown). Else fine. ; Lancaster Pamphlets; 128 pages; This pamphlet places Augustus Caesar firmly in the context of his own times. It explores the background to his spectacular rise to power, his political and imperial reforms, the creation of the Respublica of Augustus, and the legacy he left to his successors. By examining the hopes and expectations of Augustus' contemporaries and his own personal characteristics of statesmanship and unscrupulous ambition, Shotter reveals that the reasons for Augustus' success lie partly in the complexity of the man himself, and partly in the unique nature of the times in which he lived.
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